[0rph3u5]

No particular order:
Homeworld
Homeworld: Cataclysm
Homeworld 2
Divine Divinity
SpellForce
Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance

anyone got a clue if and where to get the HW soundtracks?

EDIT: You may add Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War + Winter Assault

[Flipside]

Thing about the Star Wars games though is that you are comparing the work of John Williams with people who write game music, admittedly, Williams wasn't nearly as famous when he wrote the Star Wars themes, but he'd still got Lost in Space and, I think, a few series of Star Trek under his belt.

Edit : My bad on the Star Trek, however, he did music for Heidi, Goodbye Mr Chips, Jaws, Earthquake and the Poseidon Adventure as well as a host of other TV and Films before Star Wars

[Sandwich]

...Command and Conquer's soundtrack...

Frank Klepacki - "Full Stop"... yeah, baby, yeah!!

[starbug]

lets see,

Primal, wish i could get hold of the orchestra stuff, think its really good.
The silent hill series
Chaos Gate
Freespace 1 and 2
Dawn of War Winter Assault(i just think it fits the 40K uni better the tha Dawn of War)
the babylon project
the orchestra stuff in Black and White 2

and the 2 very best in my opinions and i play these with the volume on full are, World of Warcraft soundtrack and Total Annihilation, i never liked orchestra music until i played Total Annihilation

[Shade]

Tie Fighter's music was actually something like 80% custom written and had nothing to do with John Williams. It just fits so well with the Star Wars theme that it sounds like it's John Williams For most of the newer games I'd agree though, they too often just toss the whole SW score on the CD and play random tracks, though there are exceptions.

[Cobra]

you know, i didn't know that. i just thought it was John William's music spliced together like a picasso painting.

oh, and no one say you hate the Medal of Honor soundtracks.

[Flipside]

I didn't know that either, in that case, Kudos to whoever wrote that stuff, they really managed to catch the Imperial feel of John Williams' work

[redsniper]

Yeah, I'm replaying Tie Fighter right now and it has a lot of upbeat remixes of the good old Empire theme. I think it's to make you feel proud of fighting for the Empire rather than it just being a gimmick or something, "Oooh, look at me! I'm one of the bad guys!" That's what makes that game great; it makes the Imperials seem like the good guys (sort of). Staying on topic, Neverwinter Nights has some great music as well as the other stuff already mentioned.

[Nix]

I like the soundtracks made by the following artists and in order:

Dan Wentz
Eric Brosius
Frank Keplacki
Bobby Prince

Favorite games's sountracks though, Freespace 1 and 2 still blow me away today.  I keep the entire soundtrack of FS2 on my shuffle, and FS1 on my PPC.  I liked the MIDI creations as well for Descent 2.  The Redbook tracks were quite good as well, prefer the first version of Descent 2 though, the one that included "haunted" by Type O-Negative, over the Definitive Collection version.   
As for Brosius, System Shock 2's soundtrack, hands down the best I've heard from him.  The upbeat tekky parts get you in the mood, but the low, creepy tracks really enhance the freak-out factor of that game.  As for his MIDI's, I'm tied up between SS1 and Terra Nova, but I tend to like SS1's tracks, because there are a few in Terra Nova that are downright annoying. 
Keplacki for C&C:Tiberium Dawn had a kick-ass soundtrack, my favorite of the C&C series.  Even in Tiberian Sun, he did a good job with the atmospheric tracks.
Who can forget Bobby Prince, who made the MUS tracks for Doom?  Hey, for MIDI created way back then, it was pretty darn good, and whoever did the remixes for the Doom Remake, did a decent job as well.  (Dj Redlight?)

Star Wars music.. gah, I am so sick of it all, wether it be John Williams or not, I can't stand it anymore.  Any new game I play that's even related to Star Wars, instantly, if the music can be muted in-game or switched off, it's OFF.  I've heard John Williams's stuff so much that I cant really enjoy the music done for other films he has composed for, like Saving Private Ryan, and such.  It's almost TOO much the same from piece to piece.  Slowly skittering off topic, Hans Zimmer does a better job in making music for films, being able to make different types of music and still sound fresh enough to not say "oh, another Zimmer track". Just in comparison to John Williams.  I guess this all means that I'm not a big Star Wars fan.  Eh?

Though it's probably technically considered a port, though it's build is different than the PS2's version, Final Fantasy 7's midis, still very very well done.  My favorite RPG-style soundtrack by far though over any other RPG I've played. 

[Singh]

In no special order:

Simcity 3000
EVE-online
Freespace 2
Red Alert 1 and 2 - Some of Frank Klapecki's best works were in these games. he did well in the music for the other C&C Titles, but personal preference is for the tracks in these.
Halo 1 and 2

[Falcon]

Age of Empires (Both 1 and 2)
Guild Wars
NFS: Most Wanted
Battlezone 2
Rise of Nations
Freespace 1 & 2

Not in any order. If I had to pick one it would be Battlezone 2.

[Grug]

No particular order:
Homeworld
Homeworld: Cataclysm
Homeworld 2
Divine Divinity
SpellForce
Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance

anyone got a clue if and where to get the HW soundtracks?

Google:
http://www.bysmitty.com/Soundtracks/Homeworld/Homeworld.htm
http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/585 (very good site....)
?

Otherwise if you've got the games you can rip them straight out of there.

Might I add to my list, Ecco the Dolphin. That was one kick arse game in its time, with amazing music to boot.

[Cobra]

Ecco the Dolphin? please. sure, the music was good, but the gameplay went nowhere fast.

[Roanoke]

Quite liked the DC version.

[WeatherOp]

In no order

FS
FS2
FF2(SNES) that had some awesome music, and the most awesome boss theme ever invented
Rainbow Six
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
Yoshi's Island
SSBM
Super Metroid
Metroid Prime
Super Mario Bros 3

[Martinus]

Nice one weatherop,  was wondering when a few SNES/NES titles would get a foot in the door.

The themes from Mario games, the absolutely wonderful music from Starwing on the SNES, almost every track in Super Mario Kart, a good chunk of music from Super Probotector and lest we not forget, Street Fighter 2.

The music from Soul Calibur was also fantastic.

[deftonesmx17]

Descent 1 with its wonderful midi tracks

[Sandwich]

Ooh, the CosmoTank intro track, on the GameBoy!!!

[CP5670]

Descent 1 with its wonderful midi tracks

I liked those a lot too. D2 and Vertigo had some very nice CD tracks, but I thought the midi tracks were not quite as good as the D1 ones (and there were way too few of them), except maybe the fourth one.

By the way, I was searching around for the Fate of Atlantis music and ran into this on the way:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/computer/microsoft/windows/freespace-battle-m2.mid

[Cobra]

i'll be damned, that's a pretty god rendition of March.