Games with actual theme songs.

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#1  Edited By Castiel

Inspired by the CD-I livestream and the "amazing" theme song to Inca it got me thinking that there really aren't that many games with an actual song written specifically for the game. And just to make it clear I mean songs, as in pieces of music with lyrics. I'm not interested in instrumental pieces.

So what games are there with a song, or songs, written specifically for the game? It can be terrible or amazing, heck even a combination of both, but what are some of your favorite video game songs?

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I love me some Snake Eater.

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only one I can think of at the moment.

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Dragon's Dogma. Not gonna try and embed from my phone, but do yourself a favor and look it up if you don't already know it.

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I believe that most Metal Gear Solid games have a theme written specifically for them.

This link is a bit muddled, but it has every major song written for the games, including the theme for each game.

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Pretty much every Japanese game since 1998 has had a vocal theme of some kind

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'Splosion Man. Wonderful 101. NeverDead.

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Dragon's Dogma. Not gonna try and embed from my phone, but do yourself a favor and look it up if you don't already know it.

The song is called "Into Free" by B'z. It's pretty amazing.

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Sensible World of Soccer and Cannon Fodder.

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#13  Edited By domowoj

Boiling Point: Road to Hell had the dumbest/coolest install music ever

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also The Fall: Last Days of Gaia had this hot buttmetal tune

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weird half-localized european games are a goldmine for this stuff

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#14  Edited By penguindust

I could be wrong, but I think "Hikari"/"Simple and Clean" was for Kingdom Hearts. According to Wikipedia, Utada Hikaru's album came out a week before the game's release, and she produced the song for the game.

I've always assumed "Wishing for an Eternal Sky" was written for the underrated PS2 gem SkyGunner. I can't say for sure since I can't find any documentation on the song online.

One I'm sure has is the complete soundtrack for Rhapsody A Musical Adventure, the PS1 game which is basically a Broadway style musical in a fantasy RPG. It comes in Japanese or English. The DS version didn't include the English soundtrack, which is sad because it is laughably bad in the best way possible.

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EDIT: Oh, I forgot that No One Lives Forever has a sparsely lyrical opening.

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Snoop Dogg's "Gran Turismo" and the Snake Eater theme jump to mind.

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I can't believe you all forgot the DK Rap

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Bureau 13 had an whole album attached to the game. I remember actually putting this into my CD player just to listen to the music.

Doesn't really sound that bad though. What?

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The theme to Psycho Soldier, from 1986:

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And here's a higher quality, extended version that was released on a special cassette with the Famicom version of Athena:

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@yummylee: That reminded me of this:

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Gaming for me is a religion...

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Blind Guardian recorded a song for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. About 5-6 hours into the game, you meet Hansi Kursch (the lead singer of Blind Guardian) on the side of the Goddamn road, and he gives you a quest to collect the band's enchanted magical fucking musical instruments from orcs or goblinoids or some shit. After you collect it, they put on a Goddamn concert in a bar full of monsters and then you get the microphone stand as a two-handed weapon and it's incredible and it makes feedback noises on every strike. THOROUGHLY RIDICULOUS

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When it comes to recent games Awesomenauts springs to mind for me:

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I was real into nu metal and also THE DEVIL when I was like 14, so, this remains one of my favorites. Nostalgia, yo.

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Pffff, that's not even the best example from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

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#31  Edited By 71Ranchero

Scud for the Saturn(great dumb game)

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Also Skullmonkeys.

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I don't really have anything to add other than what's already been posted, but I love this topic.

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#33  Edited By mrcraggle

Does this count?

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Can't believe no one has mentioned this one yet:

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This song is pretty much the only reason I even got interested in the game to start with, and I still listen to it every now and then.

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#35  Edited By donchipotle

Dammit, guys, none of you posted the BEST ONE.

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I popped this in my PS2 and as soon as this played I knew I had made a terrible mistake.

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MAN, MACHINE, THE FUSION.

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#37  Edited By chaser324  Moderator
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Surely someone's mentioned Persona already, right?

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Can't believe no one's posted this big block of cheese yet:

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Oh man, just remembered this gem:

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I know this barely qualifies as "lyrics" but whatever, it's too awesome to not include.

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Actually, I just remembered this one, which is actually quite good

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But I don't know if it fits the theme of the thread. Anyways.

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Oh, F-Zero GX has custom themes for every pilot, and a lot of them have lyrics. They are AMAZING.

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Think this qualifies. Kanye didn't know it at the time but he was writing Power specifically for this game

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Aside from Trials Fusion (which TheHT already posted), this one is the only thing that comes to mind.

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No Silent Hill love?!? So many awesome tracks, but this one has to be my fave:

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And just to make it clear I mean songs, as in pieces of music with lyrics

You don't need lyrics to qualify as a song. I don't know, you've just worded this as if you feel like a song is incomplete without lyrics. Some of my favorite songs, or favorite parts of songs, have no lyrics.

Anyway, that song at the end of Gears of War 3. It's really terrible. It's a Bodycount song. Here's a link. That this is what first came to my mind makes me feel terrible.

Surely someone's mentioned Persona already, right?

I think I feel worse that I didn't immediately think of Persona.

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And Digital Devil Saga

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#47  Edited By Yummylee

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FUCKIN' A

Also, not to turn this thread into even more of a nightmare to load, but

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Midway man... dems were the days.

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Hey, it's still better than a lot of KoRn's other modern stuf.

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