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Favorite musical moment in a crpg?

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Mark Morgan's Smoldering Corpse and Annah theme,
Faye Wong's ffVIII 'eyes on me',
Ben Houge's Tarant.
 
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Dark Elf said:
Another example that may not fit entirely into what is generally known as RPG's is Warlords Battlecry. Probably the most amazing soundtrack ever found in an RTS:

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

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That is if you don't take Frank Klepacki's in the Command & Conquer series into account:

Bigfoot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcT9sILgBGw

Hellmarch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QyQ9PsOj6A

Crush - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmSqOBNOvqs

Thang - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVimLoYduYw&feature

Just Do It Up - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lCD0Syzdhs

March to Doom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_4ZuLZWRiU

Prepare for Battle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfZ7QBJ-2A

Grinder - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7jSig5_N3o

Destroy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBW7fb8R9a0

Hell March 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WqwFhX6Cqg (though I like the first one more)

Power - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpENX8gZiTU

Brain Freeze - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGa0Dfwu0Kk

Trance L. Vania - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSMBVyFV9JE
 

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Not in any way an RPG, but the last musical moment in gaming to blow me away was the end of chapter 2 in World of Goo.
 
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It's incredible how people almost instantly forgot that this thread was about musical moments in rpgs and just started posting these lists without specifying why they like the music.
 

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Winter outdoors theme from M&MVI, creepy gregorian chorus from Blood, character creation theme from RoA - Star Trail, entire Age of Wonders soundtrack and earth theme from Age of Wonders - Shadow Magic.

And race themes from MoO series, sorceress theme from HoMMII and fortress theme from HoMMIII.:love:





 
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Propably some songs from the Witcher 3:

the children song about Gaunter o'Dimm, truelly chilling everytime I hear eat,

Dandellion's song about Geralt and Yennefer, sounds great and really different in every language,

Lullaby of woe from one of the trailers.

Also, Arcanum had great music during exploration. And Diablo too.
 

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Fallout 2's intro music

Reaching Varant for the first time in Gothic 3

Not a rpg, but the music score of Homm3 perfectly fits the game

Planescape, the title music
 

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Diablo 1's entire OST is stellar, the Hell track in particular is my favourite. It just sounds well and truly fucked. Starts off ominous, goes into this march-like drumming, transitions into this demonic wailing and finishes by upping the horror portion it began with. The Cathedral is also great, but I think it's at the height of awesome when you first run into Archbishop Lazarus. The game cuts into FMV mode, has the music start up along with bell tolls and you get a slow close-up of him standing over an altar with a dead child on it and looking straight at you. People often list The Butcher as what scared the shit out of them, but that's because they never got to Lazarus.

A recent game that has a really great OST is Darkest Dungeon. There is not a weak musical composition in that game, period. I also enjoy how it amps up in feeling threatening depending on your torchlight situation. The ones that nail it for me are The Weald with no torchlight, hearing that intense music with the wolves howling in the distance, the Darkest Dungeon music itself with that those booming drums and the Courtyard which nails that vampire-insect aesthetic perfectly.
 
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Witcher 1's main menu song is pretty good. It starts off with a bang and then escelates as the voices become loader and loader, kinda like people screaming for help, but then they are gone, maybe saying that the witcher came too late or something? Whatever. Then it just continues this gritty theme with a pinch of folklore-ism.
 
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The GSNOW_B.MID track that plays in The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall when it is snowing, especially wonderful in the city of Daggerfall itself.

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The music box in Skara Brae in Ultima VII. The one that is used to bring ghostly Rowenna to her senses for a brief time.



 
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Fallout 1, when you first enter the Cathedral
Atmospheric as shit and it sets the mood for the final confrontation with the big bad guy perfectly.
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Also The Witcher 1 has a comfy as fuck soundtrack that fits the mood nicely.
 
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Surprised 9 years going ans nobody mentioned arcanum.

I like the first opening song and the worldmap song. Perfect for the setting. It feels melancholic, almost like a wail of a beautiful, but sad old and tired world on the verge of being taken over by a new world.
 
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Maybe sounds a bit of strange, but for me is the main theme of NWN2: SOZ.
When I firsrt heard this music, I just finished my NWN2 OC + MoTB adventures.
The music is fantastical and peaceful, let me think of my hero who has been through a lot and ready to come back home, and it is time for him to relax or live peacefully,some sort of things...
 
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Theres a quiet moment in Severance when you have fought past all the invaders of the mines of kelbegen and are bathed in sunlight as you approach the ancient dwarrowdelves hidden entrance, a lovely melodic tune plays and you just stand around and enjoy the contrast to the excellent combat and peril you've endured. Its good pacing, something many games forget.
 
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Walking out of the boat for the first time into Seyda Neen accompanied by that Morrowind soundtrack. Epic shit.
 
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