best musical games ?

[tusar]

this is the list of best musical games of my life -
1. Golden Sun (GBA)
2. Golden Sun -the lost age (GBA)
3. Castlevenia (all)
4. Final Fantasy (all)
5. Dance Dance Revolution (all)
6. Baten Kaitos 1 & 2 (GC)
7. tales series (all)
8. Xenoblade Chronicles (wii)

[ZuNinja]

If by "music" you mean gameplay, I Have to go with any or all of the games from the DJ Max series for the psp! They also have really good songs in them depending on what you're into.
Soundtrack-wise, I Wholeheartedly agree with you for the golden sun games!!! I love golden sun!!! Best RPG in my opinion for the GBA!

[Fugsnarf]

I'm definitely with you on Golden Sun 1&2 (Except I think Lost Age had a far superior soundtrack than Golden Sun 1). The soundtracks of those games were absolutely astounding.

I would put those on my list as well, but some of my other favorite video games soundtracks are:
Chrono Trigger
Megaman X1-3 (X3 being my favorite, but I just have to include the first two)
Dragon Quest 8
Super Metroid
Tales of Phantasia (ORIGINAL SNES. The remakes for both playstation and GBA's music is subpar compared to the original SNES soundtrack)
Final Fantasy 6 (My favorite FF game, and my favorite FF soundtrack)

Just to name a few of my favorites of games I've played.

[IPITYTHEFOOLZ]

So you are talking about the game's soundtrack? I'd give props to Chrono Cross for it's uniqueness. Some other great ones would be Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Mario Galaxy, and the Persona series.

[Busterthefox]

I don't know about anyone else, but I really liked Pokemon Black and White's soundtrack. It's much less whimsical and crazy compared to Diamond and Pearl, but it still keeps with traditional Pokemon sound... While also making it totally different. I love it! X3

I also liked the music in Meteos and Advance Wars, while I'm on DS games.

HOWEVER, I'm a big music/rhythm game player, so I now must list my favorite rhythm games!
Elite Beat Agents (and the Ouendan games)
Dance Dance Revolution (It's a good way to lose weight if you do it every day. Kinda.)
Rock Band (Of course, this had to come up sometime in this topic, right? It's especially awesome since you can download so many new tracks with RB3. They'll never need a RB4! XD Especially since they already killed off guitar hero...)

Surprisingly enough for me, that's all I can list right now... I didn't really like Rhythm Heaven. Not because I'm a hater, it just seemed a little... hard, I guess? Couldn't tell ya why it didn't appeal to me that much. :p

[tusar]

thanks for reminding chrono trigger's soundtrack.the music of DS remake was superb.to tell u a truth i am a crazy fan of video game music & i listened chrono trigger's song for 40 minutes non-stop & the song is called "corridor of time". its so soothing,calm that gives peace to ur mind. yasunori mitsuda san is great

[Dr. Ivo Robotnik]

Chrono Trigger comes to mind very quickly, as do Final Fantasy VI, VII, and IX. But, frankly, the list goes on and on and on.
The Sonic series has had some fantastic music as well. Sonic 3D, while a mediocre game, had some FANTASTIC music (in the Mega Drive/Genesis version, that is).
Golden Sun, as mentioned earlier, also had a great score.
I'd also like to nominate Breath of Fire III for having some great tracks.
Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 in the US, I believe) also had some brilliant pieces.
Hell, even the Mario RPG's had some fantastic pieces.
Also, while we're on the list of Square's RPGs - Kingdom Hearts also wins many points.

Well, that was lengthier than expected. Whoo, I posted again.

[ToneDeafPalmMute]

1.Final Fantasy 8, The main theme when your on the map its simple I know, Ellones lullaby theme. classic.
2.Final Fantasy 7, I don't need to justify this, but The main theme. nuff said.
3.Saga Frontier, all the 7 Last bosses have their own music and their each epic.
4.Unlimited Saga, all the music is original, and awesome.
5.Final Fantasy X, when your fighting seymour!!! That's is my favorite boss music of all time, topping the over the top guitar theme of ff7 and one Winged melody
6.Revolution X (Aerosmith themed songs) =D
7.Super Mario RPG, The forest theme, Mario's Pad, Bowsers Keep, D,= memories
8.The Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time. Bolero of fire, my favorite
9.Chrono Cross, music was good I still love the game.
10.Devil May Cry. get you pumped maybe?
11.Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Blanka's Stage, Ryu's Stage, Character Select.

[jmcd]

Earthbound had an awesome soundtrack, love the music in Nier too.

This has a distinct favourite feel to it.

[luffy4]

misleading title... should be something like "best music in games" or "best games for music"

your title makes people think guitar hero and rockband rhythm games

[lizard81288]

I was thinking, Rhapsody: The Musical Adventure, when i read the title. As for Best Music in a Game (that people haven't mentioned), I'd say:

Spoiler warning:

Thats all i can think of, for now.

[yyhung317]

rhythm heaven for ds and wii
final fantasy and kingdom hearts series
dj max series
taiko no tatsujin series
last story , xenoblade chronicles and pandora tower

oh xenoblade chronicles is only exclusive for wii

[HeavyMetalGamer]

Guitar Hero
Rock Band


oh wait.....

Any old game usually has pretty good music. I would say 75% of them at least.

[frenchfries]

im an oddball and love the music from all kinds of games. here's some memorables for me

king of fighters 95 playstation version (it's different)
tempest x3 and tempest 2000
wipeout xl
REZ
ocarina of time version 1.0 (some of the music is different in 1.1)
pandemonium (it's a nostalgia thing)
did anybody mention any streets of rage games yet?.
streets of rage 2
streets of rage remake
final fantasy 7
einhander
tobal series
tekken 3
dirge of cerberus
starfox 64
mario 64
castlevania indeed. any of them. particularly tho sotn and dracula x on turbo cd.
bionic commando (the nes one)
shadow of the ninja
strider (nes version)
f-22 interceptor (genesis)
crash bandicoot 1
RIDGE RACER
jumping flash
street fighter 3 3rd strike
mercury meltdown remix


ok i'll stop there. and no thats not just my favorite games. thats games with music that i like in them

just as the first poster posted his favorites... not just dj games.

[Busterthefox]

OMG. How could I forget TWEWY and SSBB!? They certainly do have some of the best music!

I've seen some people mentioning these, but... Actually, Super Mario RPG for the SNES had the same musical composer as Kingdom Hearts (Yoko Shimomura). You can totally see the similarities in a lot of the tracks.

I liked the soundtrack of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. A lot of the songs sound like they could be on Advance Wars. It wouldn't surprise me if it was the same composer since both games are made by Intelligent Systems.

Just a little tidbit before I leave: Both Pokemon Stadium (one AND two) and Pikmin (likewise, one AND two) had the same musical composer : Hajime Wakai.