[Mr. Vega]

Thief: The Dark Project (Eric Brosius=awesome)
The Longest Journey
Oblivion

[Grug]

Well, Samuel Barber wrote Adagio for Strings, the Karak is Burning theme from Homeworld is a choir version of it by Quire of Voyces, however, I actually prefer the Turanic raiders music and Homeworld 2 tracks by Paul Ruskay

I don't mind the Homeworld 2 tracks either, but I don't think I'd ever put it over Homeworld 1's music. It just doesn't seem as natural. Some parts are really out of place in the game. Otherwise it is fairly nice music, just perhaps not utilized in game as well as the original did.

[Col. Fishguts]

FreeSpace
Halo
Monkey Island I (it was MIDI, but it's still awesome)

[Shade]

Outlaws had some really nice Sergio-Leoneish tunes. Set the perfect mood for a western shooter.

[Deepblue]

Limited to games released as retail on PCs (or Macs...) only, and no, ports don't count (as console gamers tend to get tons of quality music with their games).

My vote goes to Myth 2: Soulblighter. Damn, Marty O'Donnel understands music.

Runner up is Homeworld.

Righto, have fun with the voting and all that!

I would have said Halo until I read the qualifiers... But you got Marty O'Donnel anyway so I second this vote.

My runner up:

Total Annihilation.

EDIT:

http://www.bungie.net/images/news/inlineimages/unforgotten_snippet.mp3

For those that need convincing that Marty O'Donnel is a musical genius.

[Flipside]

Yup, O'Donnell is a damned good composer, I wish I could get the same depth to my orchestra stuff

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/Mix1.mp3

That's about the closest I got to that sort of thing.

[Goober5000]

King's Quest VI, Freespace 1 and 2, Myst and Riven, Master of Magic, The 7th Guest are the ones I can think of offhand.

[IPAndrews]

Currently I am listening to "Room of Angel" from Silent Hill 4. When I say "am listening to" I mean "an listening to a lot". It's a truly astonishing piece of music that really gets under your skin. It's a shame it's stuck on a game soundtrack. Here's hoping they use it in the Silent Hill movie somewhere so it gets more exposure.

[IPAndrews]

Master of Magic

The Rob Hubbard track?

[Deepblue]

Yup, O'Donnell is a damned good composer, I wish I could get the same depth to my orchestra stuff

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/Mix1.mp3

That's about the closest I got to that sort of thing.

I like it.

[Ransom]

Here's hoping they use it in the Silent Hill movie somewhere so it gets more exposure.

The Silent Hill movie is going to have a completely original score by Yamaoka in it, IIRC. And besides, considering how context sensitive Silent Hill's music tends to be I don't think it would work if they stuck a song that was designed for Silent Hill 4's story into the film.

[CP5670]

Monkey Island I (it was MIDI, but it's still awesome)

You should hear that on the Mac version. It sounds 10x better than the dos version, as does the sequel. That seems to be the general trend for all the really old games.

[SadisticSid]

Freespace 1 and 2 of course, that style of music really befits space warfare. Almost anything by Inon Zur (think the Baldur's Gate games, Klingon Academy, the latter two Prince of Persias), most of Jeremy Soule's stuff, although I never thought that well of Total Annihilation's soundtrack, or Morrowind's.

Best MIDI music has to go to TIE Fighter. I think it actually sounded better on an OPL2/3 sound card than on General MIDI, personally. All of the early LucasArts games really did have the best music, for that matter.

[Slasher]

TIE Fighter

[NGTM-1R]

Well, Samuel Barber wrote Adagio for Strings, the Karak is Burning theme from Homeworld is a choir version of it by Quire of Voyces, however, I actually prefer the Turanic raiders music and Homeworld 2 tracks by Paul Ruskay

Kadeshi and Imperial Battletracks...and Garden of Kadesh/Garden View. Turanic Battletrack was good too, but not quite superb the way the others were.

[Col. Fishguts]

Monkey Island I (it was MIDI, but it's still awesome)

You should hear that on the Mac version. It sounds 10x better than the dos version, as does the sequel. That seems to be the general trend for all the really old games.

That's possible, never heard the Mac version, although it always depends on the soundcard/MIDI fonts used.

You can get the whole Monkey Island soundtrack in mp3 format at the SCUMM Bar btw.

[Cobra]

No order here:

Mechwarrior 4
Freespace: The Great War
Pharoah (i think the full name is Pharoah and Cleopatra, i'm not sure)
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Star Wars: Battlefront 1 & 2
Age of Empires 2
Homeworld 1 & 2
and, like, tons of others

[EDIT] and if i could i would put Ace Combat 5 as best console soundtrack.

[MicroPsycho]

FreeSpace 1/2
Unreal 2
UT 2004

Although I'm not sure if Doom 3 had much in the way of a soundtrack, but the main theme was damn cool!

[MrBig101]

Freespace 1/2
Halo
Sacrifice


and it's not PC, but God Of War .

[Goober5000]

Master of Magic

The Rob Hubbard track?

I dunno who wrote it; I just liked it.  Not as much as the others, but it had a certain charm.  There were other ones I probably should have included over that, such as TIE Fighter.