Are Game Soundtracks worth listening to?

[imported_rusty]

Well as the gaming industry is progressing & trying to be professionals in evry area -> the sound department of the games is also developing
Orchestras are being conducted for games and Music industries are booming.
Its even opened up a new career: MUSIC DESIGNER for games

So is the music worth it?
Even digit has given OSTs of the Chronicles of Riddick, Disney & Tarzan & PoP SoT....

Which Game OST u enjoy? How many of u & which soundtracks are enlisted in your playlists?
List em

[enoonmai]

Dont know about the career part but yes, I like in-game music too. I just have the music from Max Payne, Max Payne 2, NFSUG, NFSUG2, PoP:SoT, DN3D and some others. My favorites happen to be the music from the Unreal/UT series, the end title song for PoP:SoT, "Late Goodbye" by Poets of the Fall in Max Payne 2 and my all time favorite, the "A Million Dollar Question" soundtrack from Max Payne 2.

[sanolution]

cmon man havent u played HALO the track of that is like dyin stuff and believe me i was addicted seriously if u r **** in intrested listen to those

[fnatic@play]

oh yeah.. UT rocks in the field too.. check out the tracks man.. they are awesome... (obviously all techno)... n then NFS UG2... OH YEAH...

[anshul_sood]

Have any of you played final fantasy-X?
It has rocking Music, although most of it is actually Japanese.

[vysakh]

POP SOT has good music and i vote that POP WW has better. Of course they are worth listening to if u really like western music. Even NFS U and U2 have greaaaaaat music

[tarey_g]

i have a full section dedicated to gamemusic in my music collection, which has over 80+ favorite game soundtracks incl of tracks frm resident evil series, ridge racer , doom3 , pop sot, nfsu, maxpayne, enter the matrix, deus ex, final fantasy ,tenchu,freedom fighters,halo,vampire the masqurade bloodlines,nolf,etc etc etc, too much of them ..............
and i like them all.

[dOm1naTOr]

Hey most game musics are irritating. The music from Riddick nd POP were not upto the mark.
Only the soundtracks from UT04 was fairly enough.

[GameAddict]

Hi,

I loved listening to creepy OSTs of Silent Hill series.They were good! Anybody got the collection?

Bye!

GA

[NikhilVerma]

I am surprised no one mentioned...
"Freedom Fighters" a great orchestral soundtrack...

And LOTR:ROTK altough the track is from the movie itself... But still it can called as the game's...

Other I like are Fifa 2003's songs especially "Complicated Remix" and MP2 and Mafia...

[bharathbala2003]

Originally Posted by enoonmai

Dont know about the career part but yes, I like in-game music too. I just have the music from Max Payne, Max Payne 2, NFSUG, NFSUG2, PoP:SoT, DN3D and some others. My favorites happen to be the music from the Unreal/UT series, the end title song for PoP:SoT, "Late Goodbye" by Poets of the Fall in Max Payne 2 and my all time favorite, the "A Million Dollar Question" soundtrack from Max Payne 2.

m8 how did u get the OST of NFS ug n UG2?? i need em too..

[Ethan_Hunt]

@bala....ding ding ding Let me give ya a small hint....Torrent!!!!!!!!

Ut And all its Version soundtracks are the ultimate piece of High Adrenaline Action Push ups for me.....So "die B1tch"

Soundtracks are the Most vital parts of the game's today....The Final fantasy Series soundtrack was a whole Orchestra Type experience Also they had a serparate Live concert of some of its tracks 8)

[bharathbala2003]

ok m8 got the hint never thought of it at all ok lemme go grab sum nice hot music..

btw jus kurious r these soundtracks developed esp for the game or they get rights from sum one who already sang it.. cos in us u got a lotta rappers who perform at club levels..

[rachitboom2]

Well most of the games have irritating music like the radio station of GTA VC, but some games like NFS UG and UG2 have some HOT tracks !!!

[enoonmai]

@bharathbala2003/allwyndlima: Actually, no Torrent or P2P. Just started playing them via EA trax on one computer while ran an audio cable out to Audacity on another computer in recording mode. You CANNOT rip the tracks. MP2 and others were easily ripped, but NFSUG2, uh-huh, no way! They're extremely secure.

@rachitboom2: One man's meat is another man's poison. I personally loved the radio on GTA-VC. I still laugh at the antics on VCPR.

[neo_reloaded]

my favourite is prince of persia warrior within especialy "i stand alone" and ?Straight Out of Line? by godsmack

[ctrl_alt_del]

I love music composed by Jespyr Kyd. So Hitman series soundtrack and Freedom Fighters soundtrack are at top. So are the "Poets of The Fall" from Max Payne 2. The Late Goodbye song is just too good!

[moshel]

POP music from the digit dvd was gr8. Songs in fifa 2003 are the ones i liked the most. even nfs UG had good songs. Lord of the rings soundtrack is the best in all of its versions. ]

OK how to get these soundtracks into our playlists. EA sports games songs are in .asf format and so thats not a problem. but in some games there are songs in one file for eg. sounds.dat now i come to know that songs are coming from this file. so how to open that or if there is some other extension. or any other way to rip music?

[tarey_g]

Originally Posted by NikhilVerma

I am surprised no one mentioned...
"Freedom Fighters" a great orchestral soundtrack...

i did mention it.........this one can not be missed

have a full section dedicated to gamemusic in my music collection, which has over 80+ favorite game soundtracks incl of tracks frm resident evil series, ridge racer , doom3 , pop sot, nfsu, maxpayne, enter the matrix, deus ex, final fantasy ,tenchu,freedom fighters,halo,vampire the masqurade bloodlines,nolf,etc etc etc, too much of them ..............
and i like them all.

[enoonmai]

@moshel: I had a long post somewhere on the forums here on ripping NFSU/U2 music. Take a look at how its nearly impossible to rip them straight from the files containing them.

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/view...=136282#136282

EA has started using such extreme protection systems since they figured everyone was ripping their music from the game CDs. Ripping other game tracks are relatively easy.

[Ashis]

After I complit playing a game....I usally save its Sound Track..It works like a charm

........aaaahhhaaa...How good it feels to listing to those old Memories...Nostalgia ..n all those adventure comes alive in the mind

Iii... I dont know how u guys feel about it. :roll:
But it means a lot to me

[abhijeet_ghosh]

IMO Halo has one of the best soundtrack for games ever.

[Nemesis]

i just got the Half Life 2 soundtrack...it's made up of like 45 tracks....most r les than a minute long...a lil disappointed bcoz of that....but i thought HL2 had a gr8 soundtrack...of course, nothing beats the NFS games when it comes 2 peppy soundtracks...even the EA sports titles have gr8 music trax...

[VampireBat]

I just absolutely love listening to Game OSTs. Its as gud as movie OSTs.

[Ethan_Hunt]

@enoo....well u had ur way and i had my way of obtaining the tracks....i feel the torrent way was the easiest and no fuss no pain downloadin the whole exclusive list of tracks

[ctrl_alt_del]

Doesn't matter where you get the soundtrack from as long as you get to hear it. Prof ripped it, Allwyn used torrent and me downloaded it from some links!

Btw, when one pays for the game, isin't one entitled to get the songs as well? So is EA's encryption of the songs justified?

[moshel]

Originally Posted by ctrl_alt_del

Btw, when one pays for the game, isin't one entitled to get the songs as well? So is EA's encryption of the songs justified?

I think it is justified. Cos EA pays for these songs, and if they are easily available in the market, then EA wont get the price back which it paid. so i think it is ok for EA to encrypt the songs.

And also these songs are made for the game, u have to buy the game and play it to listen to these songs.

[ctrl_alt_del]

Ofcourse if EA pays for these songs, I am sure the cost of procuring these songs too is passed onto us. So if we are paying for the game, aren't we in essence, paying for the songs as well?

[tarey_g]

really dosent matter if ea gives the songs of the games we pay for . we finally get them the other way . u can't stop a fan from gettin his favorites . "i got riders on the storm" frm p2p.

[vysakh]

Originally Posted by enoonmai

Just started playing them via EA trax on one computer while ran an audio cable out to Audacity on another computer in recording mode.

i did this way, using audacity but with one difference. I changed my audio input from the micorphone to the speakers to get perfect quality and so i was able to do it on the same computer.