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[zmet]

Shadow of the Colossus
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
Mushihimesama
Homura
Chrono Cross
Final Fantasy 4
Silent Hill 3
Xenogears
Batman (Mega Drive)
Streets of the Rage

 

[DieNgamers]

Jet Force Gemini (awesome soundtrack!)
Banjo Kazooie & DK64 (nice friendly music)
Perfect Dark
Metroid Prime 1 and Super Metroid
Zelda Majoras Mask (the best Zelda!!!)

 

[Hitman]

SHEN MUE.

Greatest game soudntrack ever.. would have been one of the greatest movie soundtracks too if it was a movie.

 

[BuckRobotron]

Sticking with 3, these are the lucky ones pulled today from a larger list:

Panzer Dragoon
Halo
Einhander

 

[User 406]

Tenchu
Soukaigi
Wipeout XL
Silent Hill
Parappa the Rapper
Um Jammer Lammy
Certain tracks from the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series

 

[Mallrat83]

Off the top of my head:

Jet Force Gemini (any wonder?)
Ocarina of Time

 

[pollo]

Zelda 2.
Red Dead Revolver.

 

[sammy]

hard to pick just 3 ......

1. Panzer Dragoon
2. ICO
3. Donkey Kong Country

 

[ghibli99]

Beyond Good & Evil The game nobody plays that everyone loves, and one of the major drawing points is its soundtrack. Containing some of the most touching themes in recent memory right alongside some of the strangest and more imaginative songs in a game. Another one that gets the vocals right. It is a real shame so few people picked up the game, since I'm sure this soundtrack would get more mainstream attention had it been more popular.

I found many parts of the soundtrack to be highly derivative of Joe Hisaishi's work on Hayao Miyazaki's films, but then again, Michel Ancel credits Miyazaki's films as one of the principal influences for BG&E, so I guess it's not a big surprise. BG&E's soundtrack was still quite good, though.

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

Also, some of you have very interesting interpretations of the concept of "3".

lol, aint that the truth. But I guess with so Many good game soundtracks, its hard to limit yourself to just three in a post sometimes.

 

[dark10x]

Man, there are just too many good ones out there.

I'll name off my favorites from 2005...

Shadow of the Colossus
Tales of Legendia
Ys The Oath in Felghana
Musashiden II
Senko no Ronde
Drag-on Dragoon 2
OZ
Indigo Prophecy
CV-Curse of Darkness
Tengai Makyou III
Chaos Theory

Out of those, I've never played Tengai Makyou III or Curse of Darkness, so I am judging only from their stand alone soundtracks. If you haven't heard them, I would recommend doing so.

Picking just three of them, I would choose...

Shadow of the Colossus
Tales of Legendia
Ys The Oath in Felghana

 

[boutrosinit]

For recent games I'd pick Shadow of the Colossus and Kameo. Both OST are awesome.

Hell fuck YEAH. Add:

F Zero GX
Castlevania SOTN
Perfect Dark Zero
Guilty Gear XX
Fable
Zelda: SNES one
Tekken 2 (Devil Kazuya track)