Top 10 Video Game Music Themes of All-Time

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I am just curious as to what your favorite ten music themes in video games are.

Here is mine (from #1 to #10):

#01: Pokemon Gold/Silver - Battle with Red
#02: F-Zero - Mute City
#03: Punch Out Wii - Minor Circuit
#04: Chrono Trigger - Final Battle with Lavos
#05: Halo - Main Theme
#06: Super Smash Bros Brawl - Battle with Tabuu
#07: Gears of War 3 - Main Theme
#08: Mario Party 9 - Final Battle with Bowser
#09: Super Mario RPG - Culex Battle
#10: Mass Effect - Saren Theme

All of my favorite music comes out of the Elder Scrolls series and the Legend of Zelda games.

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Extremely hard for me to choose, having played so many games with excellent or at least very good overall soundtracks. Actually in the middle of trying to make an Awesome Video Game Music playlist on my new youtube channel. So instead of picking just ten favorites, I think I'll try to pick ten games or series(in no particular order) and give a few links to pieces from each...

1.Ico & Shadow of the Colossus
Ico - Shadow
Shadow of the Colossus - Full OST

2.NieR
Full OST

3.Okami
Ryoshima coast
Tribe of heavenly kami
Emperor of eternal darkness
Reset

4.Zelda series
Majora's Mask - Credits
The Wind Waker - Great Sea
Skyward Sword - Crimson Loftwing
Skyward Sword - The Imprisoned

5.Suda51's games
Killer7 - Sweet blue flag
No More Heroes - Pleather for breakfast
No More Heroes 2 - Psycho soldier
Shadows of the Damned - Different perspectives
Lollipop Chainsaw - Josey

6.Final Fantasy series
FF6 - Celes' theme
FF6 - Forever Rachel
FF10 - To Zanarkand

7.Chrono Trigger
Kingdom trial
Frog's theme
Corridors of time(would probably be somewhere in my top ten if I had one)

8.Mario series
Paper Mario 2 - Magnus Von Grapple
Paper Mario 2 - Grodus
Paper Mario 2 - Shadow Queen
Super Mario Galaxy - Full OST(the second is in there, too, but haven't listened to it myself)

9.Jet Set Radio series
Jet Set Radio - Miller ball breakers
Jet Set Radio - Everybody jump around
Jet Set Radio - Electric toothbrush
JSR Future - Concept of love
JSR Future - Fly like a butterfly

10.Banjo-Kazooie series
Banjo Kazooie - Click Clock Wood
Banjo Tooie - Cloud Cuckooland
Banjo Toooie - Hag 1
BK Nuts & Bolts - Banjoland

So as you can see I've got far too many.

Ice Cap Zone music from Sonic 3.

1. MDK 2
2. Battlefield 1942
3. Doom 3
4. Quake III: Arena
5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
6. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
7. Beyond Good & Evil
8. Planescape: Torment
9. FEAR
10. Halo

I have a fondness for N64 game music, it seems. These aren't really ranked by quality as much as they are by whichever ones popped into my mind first.

1. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- (a) Fire Temple Redux (Z.R.E.O. reorchestrated)
- (b) Gerudo Valley
- (c) Temple of Time / Song of Time
- (d) Windmill / Song of Storms
- (e) Spirit Temple
- (f) Forest Temple
- (g) Kakariko Village

2. Perfect Dark
- (a) Crash Site
- (b) dataDyne Central: Defection
- (c) Carrington Villa
- (d) Area 51: Infiltration
- (e) dataDyne Research
- (f) Maian Tears

3. Goldeneye 007
- (a) Facility
- (b) Silo
- (c) Surface 1
- (d) Train
- (e) Control

4. Civilization IV (main theme and in-game music)

5. Timesplitters Future Perfect
- (a) Scotland the Brave

6. Timesplitters 2
- (a) Astrolander
- (b) Wild West
- (c) Atomsmasher
- (d) Aztec Interior
- (e) Neotokyo
- (f) Robot Factory

7. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Main Theme

8. Halo: Combat Evolved - Main Theme

9. Deus Ex - Whole Soundtrack

10. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - Main Theme