The way it makes 'ya feel..

[Joel007]

Final fantasy series! I still love the good old Red Alert soundtrack, the music from Baldur's Gate 2; and more recently, Prey has had a great soundtrack

Worms has to be my all time favourite for the voices and sound effects though. Civilization 2 came close

[Rahl Windsong]

The thing that bugs me about game music is that it never changes, the songs are always the same songs. Now especially in MMO's there is really no excuse for this, why can't they change up the music via patches? We have to download them anyway. Why do they fire the music department as soon as the game goes out the door? That I don't get.

[Quokka]

Good point about MMO's Rahl, particuarly as with non-online games people would tend to only play them constantly for a few weeks or months at most and then more occassionly, whereas people much more frequently spend years playing MMO's. Do any of them alter the music? I don't play them anymore because I'd spend years on them

and back on topic and going way back, does anyone remember Wizard of Wor, Simple music that was really just a beat that got faster and faster. Actually Wizball (one of my favourite Commadore64 games) also had great music now I think of it, including a little electric guitar riff when you died.

[Grimblade]

Good point, Windsong. Let's firebomb the designers!

I don't remember it Quokka, but that reminds me of Rollerball! That had some damn good music on it..

[Quokka]

Considering it was 1987 and had to be loaded onto the C64 via tape it had cool music. Here's a youtube link to a guy recreating a section of it and Grim you might get a laugh out of the second one (though the video quality's not great).

YouTube - Wizball theme electric guitar

YouTube - Press Play on Tape - Ghost 'n' Goblins


And speaking of being able to change the music, how about Outrun being able to select the music on the cars radio was a real novelty.

[Grimblade]

Hah, that's wicked. Thanks for the link, Quokka. They even do Megaman. ;-)

The whole car radio thing still is somewhat original, which suprises me. Need for Speed and a couple of others did it, on Saints Row you can buy music for your IPOD, which is pretty groovy. But apart from that it never really took.