Listening to the Final Fantasy songs throughout all of the series (#8 on list) makes me want to fucking cry.

btw why is there no download link for the top 10 (for video ipods etc.), the other ones have them.

SonuvBob

Aiur21550 Posts

April 02 2008 01:18 GMT

#22

Haji's post quality sure has declined lately.

Ecael

United States6703 Posts

April 02 2008 01:42 GMT

#23

Haji, need a hand with translating? Not sure how much I can do to help though.

That said, first appearance of a visual novel track is Air? Go figure, I guess, though I have to say I am more partial to Clannad in terms of music.

EDIT - Also surprised at how low the first Touhou track popped up considering how it is 2ch.

Oh, also, the second screen of track list is repeated with the first.

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

April 02 2008 01:47 GMT

#24

These songs are just amazing. Some people never accept that game music can be great as well though. It is a sad truth.
BTW, thanks a lot for this, must have taken a lot of work and time.
Very much appreciated.

P.S. It is giving me something to listen to while I browse ^_^.

ShadowDrgn

United States2497 Posts

April 02 2008 02:08 GMT

#25

One Symphony of the Night song and it's tied for 98th? That's a travesty.

maditalian

United States29 Posts

April 02 2008 02:10 GMT

#26

I find it surprising that with all the FF love on that list, One Winged Angel didn't make the cut.

For all of Chrono Cross' faults, the game really did have some of the sexiest music ever put into a game. I know many non-gamers that love Scars of Time.

[X]Ken_D

United States4650 Posts

April 02 2008 02:13 GMT

#27

NES Ninja Gaiden 1 wasn't on the list. *RIGGED*

MyLostTemple

United States2921 Posts

April 02 2008 02:17 GMT

#28

this isnt' really 'game music'... it's a category of game music that's mostly classical.

Fishball

Canada4788 Posts

April 02 2008 02:18 GMT

#29

On April 02 2008 05:39 Jibba wrote:
Uh... I've been a Nintendo fanboy my whole life and I think it's a travesty that MGS2 isn't up there.

Also, I know the list is all Japanese, but Lineage 2 had/has AMAZING music, better than some of those.

I used to play Lineage II 5 years ago, and yeah you reminded me how good the music was.
I was able to find some on youtube but not much, and I couldn't find any torrents to OSTs as well.

You have any links to share? I don't want to download the 10gb+ game client from Korea's official homepage just to get the soundtracks

Ecael

United States6703 Posts

April 02 2008 02:23 GMT

#30

Well, Tasteless, there is obviously a bias from selections from 2ch, it simply can't be helped. Whereas us American gamers might have attachments to some things like, say, Doom, it simply doesn't quite apply there.

Also...well, that there are regularly orchestrated and remixed versions of these classic game musics to be found in Japan probably also contributes. Something like that is simply not quite likely to be found with more modern games. Take FF4's Theme of Love, I've heard at least three unique orchestral versions of that song alone, and that is not counting fan works.

snowbird

Germany2044 Posts

April 02 2008 02:26 GMT

#31

some great tunes there, my top 10 would look differently though (maybe because i don't know 70% of those tracks).

just listened to the top 10, it's amazing to see how "8. FINAL FANTASY - FF Series" evolved from FF1 to FFXII, magnificent tune.

prOxi.swAMi

Australia3091 Posts

April 02 2008 02:33 GMT

#32

On April 02 2008 05:55 coulthard[pR] wrote:
1st one is secret of mana,its ridiculous it hasnt got any SEGA titles,they had pretty much the best music imo

QTF
Sagaia, Quartet and Wonder Boy III on the Master System had some of the best music ever

d.arkive

United States843 Posts

April 02 2008 02:42 GMT

#33

Almost every SSBB remix song should be up there :3

._.

1133 Posts

April 02 2008 02:43 GMT

#34

I love that donkey Kong soundtrack best ever!
Can't believe they put a non-japanese title on that list too :>

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B2D8OpcEey4(super smash version.)

WTF only 1 zelda song..
fucking A what about ocarina of time holy fucking shit.

Myrmidon

United States9452 Posts

April 02 2008 02:45 GMT

#35

Another nice find Haji, still like the midi animation vids the best though.

Chrono Cross was super hit and miss IMO, with some great plot music at times, some nice tunes here and there, and some epic failures like the battle musics. Time's Scar is definitely not among my picks from CC though. Anyhow we all obviously disagree with most everything on the list so I'm not going to bother filing most of my grievances about much of anything. But there's a huge lack of Sakuraba in general, only the Baten Kaitos battle music at #41 and the last overworld theme from Tales of Phantasia at #94. You'd expect more Tales stuff from how popular the series is, and aside from that Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean (I'll grant Golden Sun is less popular in Japan, etc.).

Btw, for the sake of correct translation, the game in #5 is Okami. #41, #50, and #76 "The Creation of Heaven and Earth" is known as "Terranigma", the Enix action RPG spiritual successor to Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia. Nice work translating though. I'll see if I can find any more games I recognize that you might have gotten wrong.

edit: btw all of the "Secret of Mana 2" you have is Seiken Densetsu 2 = Secret of Mana (1), not SD3.

Oh yeah, I know "the creation of heaven and earth" is the proper literal translation, but there's the actual translated name in Europe and Australia. =)

edit2: "Secret of Mana - Final Fantasy Side Story" is a SD game too, but we call it Final Fantasy Legend (on GB, later remade into Sword of Mana on GBA). But I think anybody who knows what Final Fantasy Side Story or FF Gaiden refers to knows that it's FFL anyway.

edit3: Oh wtf I just noticed it was you that bothered reuploading to YouTube? Much appreciated. Now stop distracting me dammit I have work to do. -_-;;

HotZhot

Colombia677 Posts

April 02 2008 02:47 GMT

#36

Tales of phantasia ruled.

dronebabo

10866 Posts

April 02 2008 03:21 GMT

#37

--- Nuked ---

Ecael

United States6703 Posts

April 02 2008 03:23 GMT

#38

Okami's O has a bar across it, Japanese romanization will usually either ignore the long vowel or add a h, but yeah, I guess in terms of US it is more commonly seen as Okami.

fusionsdf

Canada15390 Posts

April 02 2008 03:59 GMT

#39

I saw chrono trigger

was sad it wasnt