Papers please
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Crusader: No Remorse / No Regret
https://youtu.be/wwG5BJtZBCU?si=aMMbMveu0s6KltoQ
So many great remixes of it too.
Syndicate was a really niche entry into the Cyberpunk genre that flopped commercially but had some interesting ideas about corp-ocracy and the way businesses of the future would wage warfare against each other like nations used to.
That main menu music has echoed in my brain for years. Deus Ex: Human Revolution would have been first but Syndicate is less well known and I figured someone already mentioned DE:HR at some point here.
Max Payne. It sets the tone of the game at once.
Sayonara Wild Hearts, not surprising since the entire game is full of beautiful music
Not main menu but the MGS V deployment music while you're picking out your gear really gets you amped for your next mission. (from 1:10)
The theme to the original Tomb Raider: https://youtu.be/fIWLT0QVPzw?feature=shared
I hope they keep this for the remaster, for the full nostalgia effect.
Fallout 3. Gives me frission every time I hear it.
I don't remember if it was in the main menu/what the main menu was, but if you walked onto your balcony in the PC game version of Blade Runner, Vangelis' Blade Runner Blues would play, mixed in with the rain and the sounds of the city. I spent a lot of time just standing on that balcony and letting the music play.
I always loved the Legally Distinct Massive Attack - Angel from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Rik Schaffer was on fire for that whole soundtrack.
Baowaowaowaowaowaowaowao
The Elden Ring Main Menu theme has always impressed. It sets the stage very well.
If I think of main menu music only one other game cones to my mind and that's Doom Eternal. I'm not sure if it's necessarily a "good" main menu theme, but the whistling definitely stuck with me.
Xenoblade Chronicles!
Sm64 file select, lol
Metroid Prime or Mass Effect
The Ghost Recon theme has been stuck in my head off and on ever since it came out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwLIHqkqHcw
I didn't even play the game that much -- I think I beat it once, played the multiplayer a little, and moved on. But the music is catchy.
Definitely the kind of game where you stay too long in each menu because you don't want to cut off the music
Depends on what mood I'm in.
Currently I'd like to chill, I'm pretty tired, maybe eat an edible if I had one.
So right now I'd have to say the Mass Effect 1 menu music: https://youtu.be/3GXVXYl3_8c?feature=shared
There used to be a mix I would fall asleep to several years ago. It was the engine humming mixed with the occasional beeping and status tones like a computer on the bridge, and the main menu music would play very softly every few minutes. Can't find it anymore, although there are several of those each individually in hour long mixes.
If I want to get pumped though, doom 3 is a good one:https://youtu.be/rs0cSUIKKew?feature=shared although for actual main menu looping music, I'm going to have to agree with GONADS125, battlefield 1942 never fails to get me up and moving. It's a very driving song.
I use the F-Zero start screen tune as my alarm clock.
"I had a dream that I could fly"
Also atelier iris 3 the grand phantasm has a great intro
Body Harvest on N64 was great, and doesn't get the usual praise. Used to just leave this playing on loop back in the day
I couldn't get the piped link to work. 🤷♂️
Need for speed underground 2
Maybe not my all-time favorite (there are too many to choose from), but I will never forget the first time I launched Rocket League during a Steam free weekend. Back then they had Breathing Underwater as the main theme and the way the logo appeared in sync with the music was such a beautiful sight.
I linked the high quality song above, but if you want to experience exactly what I did, here's a link to a video with the intro captured from the game. Still gives me goosebumps when I see it.
Needless to say, I bought the game.
Probably the sting in the original Street Fighter II
Though there's a sort-of full version in MvC as Ryu's theme
A lot of games don't even have menu music anymore, or it's ambient and not really noticeable....
Off the top of my head, either Ecce Valde Generous Ale (Behold the Precious Wings) from Panzer Dragoon Saga or the one in Trails from Zero.
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