Best Orchestral Soundtrack for a Game

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#1 DCaff117
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Feel free to pick obscure games too, just wanna know the game with the best orchestral soundtrack. Was Martin O Donnel's Score for Halo your favourite? Or Akira Yamaoka's haunting music for Silent Hill 2? Feel free to shout it out!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FPz7yklWrA

this

every other song sucks in comparison

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Of recent memory, Skyrim is f'ing amazing. Guild Wars 2 will be mind-blowing as well, but as good as Skyrim's? We'll see.

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World of Warcraft

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#5 SPYDER0416
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Mass Effect has a pretty great sweeping soundtrack.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Red Dead Redemption don't exactly have orchestral soundtracks, but I want to give them a mention since the soundtracks for them are amazing.

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#6 campzor
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god of war trilogy
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#7 RR360DD
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Has to be the Halo soundtracks, in particular ODST.
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Modern Warfare 2.

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Any of the Metal Gear Solid Games, God of War, or Journey.
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MGS2, perfect blend of electronica nad orchestral score.

Harry Gregson-Williams is a fantastic composer and we cant forget Norihiko's work aswell.

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any GOW game
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the halos and mass effects
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dragon quest 8

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Halo 3 and Skyrim.
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Ocarina of Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qp-ypYp6rQ&feature=related

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#17 shadow_hosi
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your all stupid Doom had the best orchestral soundtrack
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Rayman Origins and Beyond Good and Evil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kk5p-lUPzw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTdcJWDNsao

Just awesome... Christophe Heral is a genius and has limitless range

p.s. people need to read the OP better. He asked for ORCHESTRAL soundtracks.

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#19 NodakJo2010
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Nobuo Uematsu

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Metal gear and Halo
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#21 milannoir
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Heroes of Might and Magic III... Pick any one you wish... That games has the best music I've ever heard in a video game :

Stronghold town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmCwz9zf01I

Dungeon town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ2WOnnekW4&feature=relmfu

Fortress town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsYjN4wFw4o&feature=relmfu

Necropolis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXGBh_3J25g&feature=relmfu

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In recent memory, Journey had nice music, although I wasn't too big of a fan of the actual game

Ocarina of Time is king though. Its been 13 years since I played that game and I still will randomly whistle the Lost Woods theme when I'm doing mundane tasks

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Mass Effect 3 as of recent games.

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Heroes of Might and Magic series.

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Bethesda games and Star Wars games.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftvpi-6Z6qw&list=PLC5F42A265865EA93&index=13&feature=plpp_video

This is it for me.

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World of Warcraft

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Radiant Historia, Silent Hill 2, silent Hill3, Silent Hill Homecoming, Silent Hill Shattered Memories, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Wind Waker... all incredible soundtracks.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FPz7yklWrA

this

every other song sucks in comparison

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YES! The music is great in every pokemon game. The originals had such memorable music. Gold and Silver expanded on that and made some even better music with just beeps and boops to work with. Ruby and saphire blew us away with the awesome music. Those game have their own style, Dat brass. Diamond Pearl had decent music, but nothing that exciting. Black and white blew me away again with those great orchestrated tracks.
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Zelda is the answer. Anything else is wrong.

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Super Mario Galaxy 1

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FF8, ME1, Killzone 2/3, Halo CE, MGS2, Einhander
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Nobody has mentioned Medal of Honor yet? They all, particually Allied Assualt, have fantastic orchestral soundtracks (excluding maybe the newest one).

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#34 GusTheJanitor
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"Ace Combat 6: Liberation of Gracemeria" is my favorite.

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#35 brucecambell
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Oblivion. ANy Elder Scrolls game really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kkurXgkkfg&feature=plcp&context=C439f5a7VDvjVQa1PpcFPuCTh2PKE-OFR-eVQHp48ljgfODlY726k%3D

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#36 aknbad23
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What ya'll smokin'?

Nobuo Uematsu's Distant worlds is forever the only answer. Listen to the samples from these two CD's

Distant Worlds
Distant Worlds II

Examples:

Fisherman's Horizon(FFVIII)
Don't Be Afraid (FFVIII)
One Winged Angel (FFVII)

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#37 biscuits3
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Nobody has mentioned Medal of Honor yet? They all, particually Allied Assualt, have fantastic orchestral soundtracks (excluding maybe the newest one).

The_Stand_In

I'm also a bit surprised. The first time I played Frontline I got chills listening to the music during the Arnhem Knights mission. Can't say it's the best, but it's darn good and still in my head years later.

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#38 aknbad23
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Rayman Origins and Beyond Good and Evil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kk5p-lUPzw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTdcJWDNsao

Just awesome... Christophe Heral is a genius and has limitless range

p.s. people need to read the OP better. He asked for ORCHESTRAL soundtracks.

Pikminmaniac

Christophe Heral is great. Almost up there with Nobuo Uematsu in my opinion.

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It is a fact that Shoji Meguro produces the best videogame music.

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Metal Gear Solid (especially 3), Uematsu in general and Elder Scroll games.
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1. "Roar of the Earth" (Shadow of the Colossus) 2. Lament of Innocence OST 3. NIER OST
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#42 Cherokee_Jack
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Orchestral is mostly boring. Morrowind's was good though.
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Mass Effect 3 IMO had the best orchestral soundtrack this gen, especially these songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5JvbD2Zc9I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxEBhE833ec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzdKil3j5jw&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CHyFqB3eqg&feature=relmfu

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[QUOTE="shadow_hosi"]your all stupid

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#45 lightleggy
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Shadow of the colosus had a good orchestral soundtrack. MGS games as well. and lets not forget okami.
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world of warcraft

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Nier and Final Fantasy. More people need to play Nier.

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#49 lightleggy
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Are the people saying WoW actually buying it? :lol:
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Crysis 2

Lost Planet 2

Resistance 3

Halo: Reach

Mass Effect 3

Batman: Arkham City

God of War Trilogy

Uncharted Trilogy

Shadow of the Colossus

Guild Wars 2