Your Favorite Video Game Track

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#1  Edited By mattdragn

So I've always been a big fan of video game music, and have a somewhat hefty playlist on Youtube to prove it http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEF543D447DA8191D. Now for me the best video game music helps a great game incite emotion from the player, be it excitement, fear, sadness or confidence. To that end I would say that my favorite ever piece of game music is Atolm Dragon from Panzer Dragoon Saga:

It may not be technically amazing by todays standards but at the time it was almost in a league of it's own. Not only is it a very good track but it would also only play in a select few places in game. First it played in the intro of the game as shown above, which at least for my young self got me real excited to play the game, but second it would play during fights against Atolm Dragon, one of the more significant bosses in the game, in which it invoked a sense of fear and anticipation as you fought against your nemesis.

All of which brings me to my question. What is your single favorite video game track and why? Is it because it elicits an emotional response as I detailed above, or simply because it was a piece of music that blew your mind?

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#2  Edited By UnrealDP

The GTA4 soundtrack is pretty amazing, it's even amazing without the game.

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#3  Edited By crusader8463

Whatever I posted in the million other threads made about this topic.

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#5  Edited By WickedCestus

  These threads are dumb, but I still want to post this.

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#6  Edited By beckley205

The Siege of Madrigal. Im to lazy to embed

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#7  Edited By FancySoapsMan

I thought this was a thread about racing games.

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#8  Edited By Mr_Skeleton

Best one I can think of right now. Inon Zur is a genius.

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#11  Edited By takua108

I could listen to this on loop for the rest of my life:

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#12  Edited By Justin258

Eh. The Halo soundtrack, I guess. I never have paid much attention to the music in video games. 
 
Actually, I really like it when a developer knows when to turn the music off. This isn't as much of a problem nowadays but I used to turn the music off of many older games because I wanted some nice quiet peace as I blew my more pixelated enemies into oblivion. 
 
Speaking of Oblivion, its soundtrack is really good. OK, it's seemingly always on, but the volume on it is really low and it sets the mood for wherever you are really well. Plus it serves as a nice "alert, mudcrab nearby" thing because the music abruptly changes when enemies come along. And even stopping to listen to the outdoors music feels really good. 
 
Saints Row 2 picked out some good metal and rock songs. Don't much care for the rap, but oh well. 
 
Also, I like the intros for Kingdom Hearts 1, 2, and Birth By Sleep. I would never admit that in person, but I thought they were nice little tunes. 
 
Bioshock's soundtrack really set the mood quite well. Too bad the level design and stupid camera broke it.

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  c'mon son 
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 Just a great, god damn piece of music.
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  2:20 is when my favourite part starts.  the guy in the comment section has the right idea....   I also like the soundtrack in GTA IV because of the radio, I mean, they got DJ Premier for the Classic radio station.  that was my favourite
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#20  Edited By mordukai

Highly disappointed no one posted this yet.  
  

  This piece mirrored perfectly the essence of BioShock. 
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#21  Edited By firewrkninja

Rainbow Road.
Oh wait, not that kind of track.

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Turnin' this thread on its head.
  

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#23  Edited By NoCookiesForYou

Let's just get this out of the way.

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#27  Edited By advocatefish

Anything from Donkey Kong Country.

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#30  Edited By ItBeStefYo
@MooseyMcMan: Damn ninja!
Well then it has to be this   
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#31  Edited By guanophobic

Hearing the lower Afterlife-music in Mass Effect 2 for the first time gave me some hardcore goosebumps. That and the trailersoundtrack of Human Revolution:

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#32  Edited By ryno9881

The Witcher 2 menu/trailer theme. Awesome.

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#33  Edited By TehFlan

@LordXavierBritish said:

Turnin' this thread on its head.

That was magical.

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#34  Edited By wafflez

SERIOUSLY?!

Also

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#35  Edited By glots

Oh, it's a thread like this...but hey, I haven't posted in a thread like this before, not on these forums at least!

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#36  Edited By apoptosis61