Top Ten favorite game soundtracks?

[Ragnar]

I haven't played a DQ game since #4 on the NES

BUT THOU MUST!

...sorry, just a little bit of Dragon Quest humor there.
I am enough of a DQ geek to have bought the Symphonic Suite Dragon Quest 7 CD box set by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and it honestly rocks my socks off. I thought 4 and 3 had some of the best music, myself, and I have to agree with Drac on Homeland~Wagon's Wheels March and Unknown World.

Other than that:

-Super Mario RPG
-Katamari Damacy
-Earthbound

While not fantastic, I also have to give props to the Street Fighter 2 music for sticking in my head for so many long years.

[Sierra]

Drac: Sakimoto also did Vagrant Story. He is generally cool. I didn't really dig FFXII's music, though. Most of the time it just sank into the background unnoticed (in fairness, it probably had to just to avoid becoming irksome, thanks to the tremendous amount of time you spend in some overworld areas, but that's another issue).

I ignored FFXIII and i try to pretend Vagrant Story never happened.  I dislike that crew's work as my memory serves.

Dracos

Couldn't tolerate Vagrant Story's combat? Personally, I think the game has just about the best writing I've seen in a console game (kudos to the localization team for not screwing this up) and it's a shame that so many people are put off by the gameplay.

FFXII, however, is thoroughly worth ignoring.

[gia]

Dunno if I could think of ten, but I would definitely have...

- Katamari Damacy
- We <3 Katamari
- Final Fantasy VII
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Parasite Eve
- Kingdom Hearts I

...I'm playing DQ8 right now (finally) and there's this one part in the main running-around music that ALWAYS makes me think of the Gone with the Wind theme...O_o

FFXII, however, is thoroughly worth ignoring.

Thoroughly agreed.

[Dracos]

I don't remember the fighting putting me off.  I just never could get a hold on it.  I'd end up playing an hour or two and not having enough given to me to care who I was or what dark brown texture I was looking at, and putting it down not caring.  The hook never seizes me and given all I'm going by usually is a vague 'this is supposed to be really good', that  only holds out so long.  It doesn't help that it's usually a year or two between retries.

[Dracos]

I haven't played a DQ game since #4 on the NES

BUT THOU MUST!

...sorry, just a little bit of Dragon Quest humor there.
I am enough of a DQ geek to have bought the Symphonic Suite Dragon Quest 7 CD box set by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and it honestly rocks my socks off. I thought 4 and 3 had some of the best music, myself, and I have to agree with Drac on Homeland~Wagon's Wheels March and Unknown World.

Other than that:

-Super Mario RPG
-Katamari Damacy
-Earthbound

While not fantastic, I also have to give props to the Street Fighter 2 music for sticking in my head for so many long years.

I know Yoko did SMPRG and.  Who did Earthbound?  

Dracos

[Sierra]

I don't remember the fighting putting me off.  I just never could get a hold on it.  I'd end up playing an hour or two and not having enough given to me to care who I was or what dark brown texture I was looking at, and putting it down not caring.  The hook never seizes me and given all I'm going by usually is a vague 'this is supposed to be really good', that  only holds out so long.  It doesn't help that it's usually a year or two between retries.

It's something of an acquired taste, yes. At least you tried!

Randomly, also going to take this opportunity to hype the soundtrack for Romancing Saga: Minstrel Song (composed by Kenji Ito and Tsuyoshi Sekito). Haven't played the game, don't intend to, but damn there are some excellent battle themes lurking in the OST.

[Dracos]

Kenjo Ito is quite good, yes.

Dracos

[gia]

I know Yoko did SMPRG and.  Who did Earthbound?  

Dracos

Hirokazu Tanaka, quoth Wikipedia.

[thepanda]

I can't believe I forgot FFVI. One of my all-time favorites easily if for no other reason than the whole opera house performance.

[Dexie Oblivion]

I don't remember the fighting putting me off.  I just never could get a hold on it.  I'd end up playing an hour or two and not having enough given to me to care who I was or what dark brown texture I was looking at, and putting it down not caring.  The hook never seizes me and given all I'm going by usually is a vague 'this is supposed to be really good', that  only holds out so long.  It doesn't help that it's usually a year or two between retries.

I got put off by the fact I was only doing 1 damage per hit to bosses. <_<;

That, and stupid block puzzles. BLOCK PUSHING IS BAD. X_x

[Dracos]

The smash brothers 3 soundtrack is seeming to come along pretty nicely.

Dracos

[Ragnar]

Earthbound was Koji Kondo, Tomoko Kataoka, and Kimitaka Matsume, according to the MOTHER 1&2 CD that I have.

EDIT: And DQ, of course, is Koichi Sugiyama.

[Dracos]

I would be stunned to know more than two tracks on earthbound were Koji.  It is completely different than I'm used to hearing out of him.

Dracos

[Dexie Oblivion]

Last I checked, Earthbound was composed by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka.

Ragnar: Those three on your CD are probably ones who redid the music for the GBA versions, I'm guessing?

[Bjorn]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Chrono Cross; I thought it was famous for an incredible score, and certainly I feel that way.

The soundtrack to Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles was also wonderful.  Both these games are things that I would (and have!) start up simply to hear the music.