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Posted November 19, 2020
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ResidentLeever: Previous winners:
1987: Ys 1 followed by The Last Ninja 1
1988: Last Ninja 2 and Ys 2 followed by IK+
1989: Ys 3 followed by Quest for Glory
1990: Secret of Monkey Island followed by Lost Patrol
1991: MI2 followed by Turrican 2
1992: Ultima VII followed by Monkey Island (CD ver.)
1993: Doom followed by Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
1994: Beneath a Steel Sky & Colonization (tie) followed by Warcraft 1
1995: Crusader: No Remorse and Warcraft II (tie) followed by Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Tyrian, C&C and DreamWeb CD ver. (tie)
1996: C&C: Red Alert followed by Quake
Did you skip 1997 or forget to add it? I don't see it in the list.
Post edited November 19, 2020 by Green_Hilltop
Posted November 19, 2020
Ah yes, Anno 1602, very nice soundtrack, nice classical pieces. I remember I hated one or two pieces of it. You have all ofthis nice music with strings and pianos and then suddenly a piece with a drum kit D: It just never fitted with the other songs very much.

Putting FF7 on this list is kinda questionable. Nobue Uematsu made one good soundtrack after another back in the day, but I am not sure how I feel about the midi soundtrack for FF7. It's not bad, but it kinda lacks the instrumental variation that was possible with the psx. I mean One winged Angel without vocals? Highly questionable.

Commandos had some nice tracks - you can really feel the Call beyond Duty - but overall sounds very samey.

Half Life has a pretty good OST, but I am sure most of it only plays at very specific sections. But Hazardous Environments



All this raving about Unreal makes me remember that I wanted to play Unreal this year.
Post edited November 19, 2020 by Acriz
Posted November 19, 2020
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Acriz: All this raving about Unreal makes me remember that I wanted to play Unreal this year.
Odd though that I don't recall Unreal music being that exceptionally good or unforgettable or anything...

I mainly remember it from apparently using some kind of tracker-type music (a bit like Deus Ex did after it), which was different from other games from the same era which used either General MIDI, audio CD tracks or fully digitized music streams (like I think Starcraft and Baldur's Gate did).
Posted November 19, 2020
Between FF7 & BG, i went with BG.
Posted November 19, 2020
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Ghorpm: Not a FPS fan so I've never played Unreal which seems to be winning here
Unreal engine games of the era used "tracker" based files for their music, so game play could turn on or off certain layers at different times (not sure any games ever USED IT that way though?), but also their loops could be specified to have an intro, a loop sequence, and a finale, within the tiny file. It could theoretically do hot-swaps of certain instrument samples (again, I'm not sure any games *used* this). It's a shame games have largely moved to prerendered music. Maybe we'll again return to that sometime; graphics have largely returned to in-engine cutscenes rather than pre-rendered ones.

Sample of what could be done: SNES' Super Mario World, on-Yoshi/off-Yoshi. Riding yoshi adds a drum track. That kind of thing.

But beside that technical detail though, Unreal's soundtrack was pretty fun to listen to.
Posted November 19, 2020
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timppu: Odd though that I don't recall Unreal music being that exceptionally good or unforgettable or anything...
What made it so exceptionally unforgettable for me personally was the fact that few games had/have so many unique tracks that fits so well with the level design, and the whole mood and atmosphere, and the little story there is (besides surviving a literally hellish and hostile alien planet, twice).

F.ex. WarCraft 2 and StarCraft had great gameplay and some unique OST, but they where very few and they always repeated and you started to just focus on the game instead of having the OST adding more to the gameplay. It was just in the background. That, and they are totally different games, of course...

As with Tyrian, Half-Life, Fallout (and others), they made the music fit the changes the character went though very deeply, whether it was a walking lonely scene or a more action filled scene:
Unreal Soundtrack Remastered
Unreal Gold - Soundtrack (UMX)

EDIT: Also, even though I wouldn't mind that the source got released so people can start modding it, let's not forget this game was released 22 years ago and it still both sounds and looks good!
Post edited November 19, 2020 by sanscript
Posted November 19, 2020
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sanscript: Unreal Soundtrack Remastered
Had no idea somebody was doing this. Although the original UMX still win out for me, this actually sounds pretty good.
Post edited November 19, 2020 by idbeholdME
Posted November 19, 2020
While I loved the remade soundtrack of Dune 2000 (many tracks were remixes of Dune II'ones), I'll support Starcraft by an inch.
Posted November 19, 2020
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ResidentLeever: Previous winners:
1987: Ys 1 followed by The Last Ninja 1
1988: Last Ninja 2 and Ys 2 followed by IK+
1989: Ys 3 followed by Quest for Glory
1990: Secret of Monkey Island followed by Lost Patrol
1991: MI2 followed by Turrican 2
1992: Ultima VII followed by Monkey Island (CD ver.)
1993: Doom followed by Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
1994: Beneath a Steel Sky & Colonization (tie) followed by Warcraft 1
1995: Crusader: No Remorse and Warcraft II (tie) followed by Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Tyrian, C&C and DreamWeb CD ver. (tie)
1996: C&C: Red Alert followed by Quake
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Green_Hilltop: Did you skip 1997 or forget to add it? I don't see it in the list.
Neither, I intentionally delay posting the results.

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Huinehtar: While I loved the remade soundtrack of Dune 2000 (many tracks were remixes of Dune II'ones), I'll support Starcraft by an inch.
For some reason I forgot that this was not from the year 2000. :P
Post edited November 19, 2020 by ResidentLeever
Posted November 19, 2020
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Green_Hilltop: Did you skip 1997 or forget to add it? I don't see it in the list.
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ResidentLeever: Neither, I intentionally delay posting the results.
Oh, I thought you open up new threads when the old one's poll is over. Why?
Post edited November 19, 2020 by Green_Hilltop
Posted November 19, 2020
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ResidentLeever: Neither, I intentionally delay posting the results.
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Green_Hilltop: Oh, I thought you open up new threads when the old one's poll is over. Why?
I do, yeah. Winner announcement is delayed to allow for more votes.

It's easier to keep track of everything with separate threads.
Posted November 20, 2020
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sanscript: Unreal Soundtrack Remastered
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idbeholdME: Had no idea somebody was doing this. Although the original UMX still win out for me, this actually sounds pretty good.
Too bad he left out an important part of Shared Dig.

Speaking of remixes; I won't be surprised if Alexander Brandon himself will make his own remix of Unreal not too far into the future, hopefully...

https://alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.com/album/conspiravision-deus-ex-remixed
Posted November 20, 2020
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burbigo5: I never played Starcraft, is it good ?
Absolutely, it's one of the best RTS's out there, if not THE best, besides C&C. Since then RTS games have for the most part gone downhill.

It was even so popular that South Korea made it their national esport game and went absolutely bonkers, along with creating their own Starcraft-clone; Atrox. There were many clones, but only this one was relatively good, probably because they re-used/copied much of Starcrafts assets. :D
Post edited November 20, 2020 by sanscript
Posted November 20, 2020
I know people like to bully me but what about

METAL GEAR SOLID

BALDUR'S GATE

Also Fallout
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sanscript: Fallout had excellent gameplay but its soundtracks are mostly ambient, same with Half-Life (HL2 changed that), and since Unreal has that tracker music, no game can match those. That kind of atmosphere the ost creates are unmatched.

But then again, StarCraft had some epic tunes. Hmmm.

EDIT: Yeah, no, Blizzard was kinda lazy with OST on their games. Again, for pure creativity et cet, and another OST/game made by Alexander Brandon et al, I choose Unreal.
Don't tell me you don't experience a breakdown when you hear "a kiss to build a dream on"

But i chose BG. Never played Unreal

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burbigo5: I never played Starcraft, is it good ?
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sanscript: Absolutely, it's one of the best RTS's out there, if not THE best, besides C&C. Since then RTS games have for the most part gone downhill.

It was even so popular that South Korea made it their national esport game and went absolutely bonkers, along with creating their own Starcraft-clone; Atrox. There were many clones, but only this one was relatively good, probably because they re-used/copied much of Starcrafts assets. :D
Age of empires 2? Stronghold? Company of Heroes? Dungeon Keeper? Warcraft 3? The settlers?
Post edited November 20, 2020 by GeraltOfRivia_PL
Posted November 20, 2020
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GeraltOfRivia_PL: I know people like to bully me but what about

METAL GEAR SOLID

BALDUR'S GATE

Also Fallout
MGS - PC version is from 2000

BG - It's in the list

Fallout 1 - 1997
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