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A couple more from the first game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiN6t7K7txw Yup, only two main themes. Only two games in that series, you know.

Also, MGS4 and Fallout 3 coming out in the same year with marketing all over the place pushing the opposing viewpoints of "War has changed" and "War never changes". That still cracks me up, it was like an election debate.

" ."That game starts out so hopeful and optimistic, and just wham. The barely contained emotion in the line delivery sells it so hard.

I don't think Dark Souls is actually set in the King's Field fiction. My understanding of it is that while there are tons of allusions in Dark Souls to From's previous RPGs, including Demon's Souls, King's Field, and others, nothing quite lines up enough to be able to say it's definitively a shared universe. It might be something like Bungie flooding Halo with narrative allusions to Marathon, a bunch of wink and nod gestures for the fans to geek out over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4vCEHpv6Hg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p45gdP2OKmU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phqV8MqOfxs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweRl4LZlmo

Hell yeah! I still think his TA score is some of his very best work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP2spT0TwCw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CBTZqO83WQ

The way Dark Souls plays around with the rules of the online stuff is really, really brilliant too. I mean, like the forest covenant teleporting in active members from wherever they are in the game to go hunt down unaffiliated humans wandering into that forest area. So as a player unaffiliated with that covenant, i remember going into that forest as a human hoping to be able to find co-op summon signs to help with the area boss. I hung around the main door to that boss encounter for a while, just looking for summon signs, and ended up being invaded i think like three times in a row for my trouble. (Once on the way there, twice after i arrived.) Decided to stop tempting fate and just fought the boss alone and managed to pull out a victory regardless. Fought off three player invasions and beat a boss all without dying, with a whole lot of souls and humanities on the line. I'm pretty sure i was shaking. Dark Souls might be one of the scariest games i've ever played because of things like that. You get that alert message while you're in the middle of a dark forest that is completely open on all sides to you, no corner to back yourself into. You're being hunted by an intelligent opponent, and you actually have something to lose. Holy shit, guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYvQ8pDTseQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL3m1izjzHY

Also, 3 pages in and no Megaman tunes? This must be fixed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_IVbuC1ZSs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5QUTlgZ3Y

I still have a big soft spot for Ridge Racer, even in light of Namco's lazy, effortless treatment of the series. Part of it is that literally nobody else is making this style of arcade racer, and the other part is the incredible, eclectic, and totally chill ost's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wViDc3Q6nMk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8RFhL4w1ZU

This is a real thing that is being sold, people can buy these.

I play a lot of BlazBlue, i think it has a pretty awesome ost. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oitgkvlNaSc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv_9UjaBLTg

I have decided that there need to be more C&C tunes in this thread, and for the purposes of keeping it interesting, here's a couple from the Red Alert expansion packs that i presume a lot of people probably haven't played.

Fan remixes, eh? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_lwE505xM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9LWQWOWEaA

System Shock 2! (A game that i would still say is my personal all-time favorite.) ^ I still love the awesome drum and bass combat themes, even if they weren't always appropriate for the tone. ^ But the real stars are the just phenomenally, pants-wettingly creepy ambient themes.

The MW2 soundtrack is one that has been completely indelible for me.

Absolutely love the Crusader: No Remorse OST No Regret had some great songs too. The people behind these soundtracks have quite a history too. (Went on to do Unreal, UT, Deux Ex and more.) All great soundtracks, all heavily steeped in demoscene sounds.

Two more because i love the SNES so damn much. ^ Oh my god, this game. Listen to that! Axelay is awesome! ^ The Genesis version of this game, Thunder Spirits III, is almost unquestionably a better game, but i always preferred the SNES remixes of these tunes.

I love the music produced by some of the soundchips in the classic consoles, but the SNES stands above the rest for me personally.

The Silent Hill series did indeed have amazing music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjw70QwiccQ Akira Yamaoka is incredible.