20 Best "MUST HAVE" CD Soundtracks for Gaming?


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Liberty's Edge

So ...

I finally managed to get my hands on most of these great soundtracks. I went through and picked the most appropriate tracks from each to put into iTunes so I now have a 6 volume set of GREAT D&D music!

Thanks all !!!

A few new movies have come out in the last week or so that I'm thinking will have pretty good soundtracks. Has anyone heard the soundtracks for these new movies yet:

Robin Hood
Prince of Persia
Clash of the Titans

Also, did anyone see the recent preview of the Gamemasters Guide? Looks like a list similar to what we came up with will be in there. Maybe Paizo even used this thread for ideas, who knows? ;)


As I've said in other threads, I generally use Video Game music as I do own a ton of OSTs but don't have much as far as movie soundtracks like it seems you guys have :P

Thus, my selection is widely different:

Breath of Fire (all five)
Castlevania (64, Aria of Sorrow, Circle of the Moon, Rondo of Blood, Harmony of Dissonance, Lament of Innocence, Symphony of the Night, Chronicles, Judgement)
Chrono Cross
Chrono Trigger
DotHack Outbreak
Fire Emblem (4, Rekka No Ken, The Sacred Stones)
Final Fantasy (I-XI, Dissidia, Mystic Quest, Tactics, Tactics Advance)
Front Mission (1-3)
Golden Sun (both)
Ikaruga
Illusion of Gaia
Kingdom Hearts (all three)
Legend of Legaia
Live-A-Live
Lufia (both)
Lunar (both)
Mana (Sword, Secret, Legend, Seiken Densetsu 3)
Metroid (3, Fusion, Zero Mission)
Romancing SaGa (1-3)
SaGa Frontier (both)
Star Ocean (1 and 2)
Suikoden 2
TerraNigma
Tales (Destiny, Eternia, Phantasia)
Vagrant Story
Vanguard Bandits
Valkyrie Profile
XenoGears

Liberty's Edge

Well, my gaming soundtrack adventure is more or less concluded. I purchased (for the most part) or otherwise acquired (library etc) some great soundtrack CDs. I then went through each one and picked out the individual songs that I felt worked well as music to play during a game.

These songs then went into iTunes. I manually organized the songs so music from the same soundtrack did not play after each other and then burned them all to CD.

We now have a 12 volume set! 12 CDs filled with more than 200 great gaming tracks - over 14 hours ... not to mention really fun to listen to LOUD in the car :)

Here are the main soundtracks that make up the 12 disc set. By main, I mean there was a LOT of great stuff on these and I ended up choosing a significant number of tracks from each one. There are assorted single songs from a number of other soundtracks as well to round the collection out, but these CDs served as my primary sources:

Conan the Barbarian
Braveheart
The Cell
300
Lord of the Rings (all three)
Gladiator
Lost (TV show)
The DaVinci Code
King Kong (new one)
The Last of the Mohicans
Pirates of the Caribbean (all three)
Last of the Mohicans
Alexander
Kingdom of Heaven
King Arthur
The 13th Warrior
Excalibur
Troy
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Clash of the Titans
Prince of Persia
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (Kevin Cosner version)
Robin Hood (new one)
Star Trek (new one)
The Tudors
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

A LONG and involved project, but it was worth it!

Of course, I'll still continue to pick up sountracks, so I can't rule out a Vol. 13 and 14 at some point ... :)


Any of the CDs by Two Steps From Hell. While they aren't soundtracks their music is used in trailers for many movies and video games.


No mention of Silent Hill? For shame ;p

Alternately, just about anything Yoko Kanno has done.


ProfessorCirno wrote:

No mention of Silent Hill? For shame ;p

Alternately, just about anything Yoko Kanno has done.

I thought I bumped Silent Hill the last time we did this thread.

Unfortunately the opening music has become too familiar...

Sovereign Court

Great list, I'll add Glory and Saving Private Ryan.


Prince That Howls wrote:
Any of the CDs by Two Steps From Hell. While they aren't soundtracks their music is used in trailers for many movies and video games.

NICE! I hadn't heard of them before, so thanks to your recommendation I checked them out and downloaded one of their albums from Amazon!

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