Music for menus that is so good you spend more-than-necessary time in said menu (or other non-main game screen). A particular flavor of “good game music.” Share your favorites!
Parasite Eve map music
https://youtu.be/xtrp96J9yZ0
Sonic R options menu
https://youtu.be/kJ4oEukqG0A
Descent main menu (Mac cd audio version)
https://youtu.be/1UkT1f-TqMc
Descent 2 main menu (redbook audio)
https://youtu.be/thd1BnuvWzA
Here's one that always felt of a pair with that sonic R menu music to me
https://youtu.be/gCnh0ZDqpEU
Back in the day I left my PS2 on the DOA2 menu all day because this track is a banger.
https://youtu.be/NLlv0aCIiE4
kind of basic addition but also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ae0TGSvGFg&t=506s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkPrrD1FR4w
I get down hard to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRnpBqkoI6U
Christ almighty, this game would take the world absolutely by storm if it were ported to modern consoles—with a proper localization of *Kero Kero King* included, please!!
Oh also, it's a short loop but I always loved the MML2 title theme so I had to let it play out at least twice before starting the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqx5JVJ5J7M
Let us not forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95QocHb2sM
Mad chill hangout music for the main room of the game. Catch me saving my game every 10 minutes for this jam 😎
Yesterday I sampled all the games by PolyGram and found out they‘re all the tightest shit in the world (though they peaked early with Twin Goddesses). These guys ruled so insanely hard. Each game’s soundtrack was insane and their title screens forced me to sit my ass down and bathe it in
https://youtu.be/5EWBnqzF0WI
https://youtu.be/0ihvJkzY9vQ
https://youtu.be/3Z8zQGzL4sY
(Unfortunately I couldn't find footage of _Soreike no Kokoroji_'s title screen without some internet personality talking over it, so accept this collection of FMVs instead. You'll get the idea)
https://youtu.be/DWL_YwW4yzo
Oh what a great idea for a thread…I had like six examples of this playing simultaneously in my head when I read the title (actually, that might just be my brain’s normal resting state…). Here’s a few that come to mind:
https://youtu.be/gTNps70O21o
https://youtu.be/LK8igls1kis
https://youtu.be/8rEDyQCqJTA
https://youtu.be/J7tBmNvwaNg
https://youtu.be/A7lLHJ6yfH0
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>!When I hear this I think, boy, maybe I should try Xenoblade again (I did not like Xenoblade)
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Shimomura is a master of title tracks
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>!https://youtu.be/dkWsllQ_Gl4
>!(would've liked it if they kept the vocal for this but I understand the decision)
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more recently I spent a good amount of time in these menus:
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[holy moly!](https://youtu.be/Q6T4KGrqM9g)
https://youtu.be/tGpSXwTOLaE
https://youtu.be/hbl2NaFUm_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXitpzzWjsQ
also i can't believe that metroid prime has an absolute killer start screen track, that somehow evokes creepy crawly insects _and_ broken technology glitching/sparking, while quoting the original metroid title theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kezGIr1AxDA
...then it's got this one just for the save file screen! nuts! almost as nuts as R4 using that slap bass song for the "press x to continue" screen lmao
>!https://youtu.be/ah6HIfzNayA
lol why didn't I think to put this in here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RYszQ_2zow
This is 50% cheating, but it could be done in the context of the game too.
I've also dropped this on IC during every 3DS discussion. The menu music for my custom policenauts 3DS theme had me spending more time in the home menu than I did playing 3DS games, for real
https://youtu.be/JEzf_q2pT30
@"connrrr"#p104730 is it just nostalgia or is there nothing like Mega Man Legends 2?
I'll think of more legit ones... uhh... gimmie a minute
@“Chopemon”#p104711 Bomb Factory was definitely a part of my daily plays when I was in college.
Maybe not exactly what is being asked but vita homescreen music absolutely slaps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2mvXaqpUxY
so good they used it for three games in a row!
https://youtu.be/_junhS6c-A4
@“mtvcribs”#p104771 100%. >!We're inching dangerously close to someone posting the 3DS wifi config music.!<
The *Atelier Firis* PS4 static theme has been my default for the system from day one (or day two). I don't know how I found it though as I am not an *Atelier* game player.
This theme reminds me of housesitting in Parkdale, and of playing *Let it Die* and *Infamous First Light* completely without the context of *Second Son* or rest of the series just to see what then-current gen graphics looked like. Great track to just leave on in the room while noodling with something else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGHHSnd5yA8
@“treefroggy”#p104772 I see your giant robot game and raise you another giant robot game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTXYPKaCvw
(Also that Calbania Island theme in MML2 makes me want to go live in the alps forever.)
if map themes count…. (aka the baten kaitos enjoyer has logged on)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIAnkWRfJDE
similarly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it3H38FZz1M
ssx 3's soundtrack was maybe my introduction to electronic music? this shit sounded so cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4GU9rmkNTY