games you replay because of the soundtrack

[K.B.]

So, like... video game music is pretty cool, ja? But can it carry a game? Yes!

I've actually gone back and replayed games simply because the music was so awesome I couldn't leave it alone. Simply listening to the soundtrack wouldn't cut it... I HAD to replay the game, where otherwise I would have left it in a closet shoebox.

I have a few that torment me so...

Top Gear 2 (which is still awesome)

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (which is not still awesome)

Sky Shark (which I still cannot beat)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles In Time (which... I guess outgrew the fighting game thing... sad, really.)

Anyone else suffer from this disease? What games ail you?

No doubt this has been done before, but I didn't see it in the thread history, so BAM! here it is (again).

[Xac]

i ahve had this b4 but normally I dont end up playing through the game again even though I want to. The main reason is that after i beat a game if it has good replay value to me ill go through and maybe beat it again. Most of the vg music i listen to is not while playing unless its while im playin the game.

lets c the most recent game i loved the music ingame would prob have to beeither SSX:Blur, MP3:C, or some of the songs from Super Mario Galaxy

The songs from thse game are much better while playing the game although SUper Mario Galaxy is still awsome ingame

[Fishy]

Toejam and Earl.

The game could suck to quite a high degree and I would still play it.

[Gollgagh]

I'll occasionally retry FFX to hear some of its better tracks

but then never get past the first ten minutes because tidus is a fag

[PhiJayy]

Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask

Soundtrack, gameplay, etc.

Overall this game has an awesome epic feel to it. Priceless...simply priceless

[OverCoat]

both Toejam & Earl games

Sub-Terrania

Marble Madness

inb4 "favourites thread in disguise"

[Gollgagh]

inb4 "favourites thread in disguise"

hardly

look at my post

[K.B.]

inb4 "favourites thread in disguise"

Oh man nooooo!!! Bad, naughty Zut! Mine were neither my favorite soundtracks nor my favorite games. Far, far from either.

hardly

look at my post

True-ed.

[TheHands]

When I was young I'd play Road Rash 3D just so I could hear the music. Now I still do that for Dungeon Explorer on TG16

[RoeTaKa]

I used to play Operation Winback over just to hear the music, and the gameplay was alright for N64 but got tiring after 2 completions of it. I couldn't find the music anywhere on the internet so I kept going back to hear the cool infiltration music.

[Sindra]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Silent Hill 2

Alisia Dragoon

[Malaki-LEGEND.sys]

Final Fantasy VIII, Eternal Sonata, Soul Blazer, Wild Arms 2, Majora's Mask, Guilty Gear X2(does this count?), Lost Odyssey.

[tweex]

Two words:

Advent Rising

That is all.

[SoulinEther]

I don't think the game really sucks, but I'm about to keep replaying Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia because I like the music so damn much.

And I dislike the arrangement of An Empty Tome. Gr..

I kind of started playing Lineage 2 again because the Intro theme was spontaneously stuck in my head. Then I quit. So the music isn't everything obviously for me.

[Toadofsky]

I agree with the above, Advent Rising had an INCREDIBLE soundtrack, that honestly boosted the game even further for me. Although I had kept track of it even before it came out.

Beyond Good and Evil. It wasn't until the moment you head to your first assignment that the music finally hit me. That piano tune,hit me hard, with the eels jumping out of the water. Or when you go through the mines, where that creature is hiding in a conch shell. I must have stayed there for about 5 or 10 minutes listening to that music.

For some reason, that game still hits me that way. I just hope the sequel will actually come out.

PLOK! The Follin brothers best Super Nintendo soundtrack. Speaking of the Follins...

I wish I could play Ecco Defender of the Future, I've listened to it's soundtrack and absolutely love the main theme, and a few others from it.

Mario Galaxy was one I have been going back through to experience the soundtrack. I believe it's one of Nintendo's best in the soundtrack department.

In the meantime, I've gotta rent Prince of Persia, saw some videos with the actual music, and it sounds like a winner to me.

[linkspast]

SSF2THDR, I mean really.

[AkumajoBelmont]

Cyber Speedway, but the Euro/Jap version with the BRILLIANT Koji Hayama soundtrack, Skeleton Warriors, Street Racer, (any) Toshinden & Formula Karts... all on the Saturn. I really, really miss the days of Redbook audio.

EDIT: I don't think any of these games suck... I love them all dearly... but these are games that I will play purely out of need for the soundtrack... the soundtracks make them better by half.

[anosou]

Jade Cocoon - not ONLY because of the soundtrack, it's still one of the prettiest and most unique PSX RPGs to date.. but the soundtrack is just.. wow.

[EvilHorde]

I often play the old NES games for nostalgia, and the music is a big part of the whole nostalgia experience. And yeah, I used to hang out in the Flameman stage in Megaman 6 for many extra minutes just so I can groove to the music.

[WillRock]

Battle Area Toshinden 2

It was crap, but the music was so good I played it all time, damn video game composers

[AkumajoBelmont]

Battle Area Toshinden 2

It was crap, but the music was so good I played it all time, damn video game composers

Hells yeah! Some brilliant tracks in that game.

[Palpable]

Aero the Acrobat is the big one, for me. The gameplay is decent but I really only play it to hear the awesome soundtrack. There's several other games where I play it half for the game, half for the soundtrack. Also, I bought Lemmings 3D only for the soundtrack, but ended up enjoying the game more than I thought I would.

[Blue123]

Traffic Department 2192

[Gollgagh]

Traffic Department 2192

haha wow

I need to replay that

Also, I guess you could say I replay Tyrian all the time for the kickass sounds track

but I also love blowing shit up

[joe_cam]

EarthBound.

Without a single doubt in my mind, EarthBound

(Gee, who woulda guessed?)