Best Theme songs of the year, so far

my top 5 :

1- Ori and the Blind Forest, Gareth Coker – Main Menu Theme feat. Aeralie Brighton

2-Batman: Arkham Knight , Nick Arundel, David Buckley - Evening the Odds

3-The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt , Marcin Przybyłowicz - Silver for Monsters …

4-Undertale, Main Theme

5-Fallout 4 , Inon Zur – Trailer Main Theme

.... what's yours ?

So menu music or main theme?

MGSV: Sins of the Father - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9utXoWkE-w It's no Snake Eater, but lots of things aren't.

The Witcher 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOn1xdGkyHY The music in general for the game is badass.

Hotline Miami 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChXU-OYPhy0 There are way better tracks in Hotline Miami 2 though.

But yeah I like those the most out of anything this year that I've played.

Witcher 3's main theme is just badass. TBH, entire trilogy has amazing soundtracks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIlp3XL4oYc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhSBSjbwEZs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOn1xdGkyHY

(Sorry if it makes page a bit laggy, but couldn't resist).

Just a great soundtrack, overall.

@jg4xchamp: witcher 3s soundtrack gets really fucking old after a few hours. The open world song and combat music are just so overbearing and not subtle at all.

Bloodborne has some pretty epic tracks.

Main Menu theme is amazing.

Final Boss music is up there with Gwyn too.

Its pretty much between TW3, MGS5 and BB. Just like the GOTY itself.

Sins of the Father

All music , even the great ones get boring after a while, when you overplay them. the main score by Marcin Przybylowicz is really good sure it’s not the “Last of the Mohicans” but mix of traditional “bard” type of music and vocals is pretty kewl

@the_master_race: witcher 3 has great music but I'm saying that the open world and combat music is too hard and in your face. It always feels ramped up to 11, there's never a moment to just breath.

there's a solution for that ....Mute the music volume !

BB and Ori.

@the_master_race: yea but that cuts off the music during cutscenes

Mems is right, that is it can get stale and repetitive very quickly. This is especially applicable to that bland Skellige combat track that was actually probably the only combat musical cue there. Hearing that one over and over again was extremely nauseating. Apart from that it was a solid folk collection, bordering on pagan folk at times and reminding me of a Polish band Atman (I know their vocalist and I've seen the band they formed after the disbandment of Atman - Magic Carpathians). However, I think the best tracks were to be found in taverns, especially this ludic one:

and the one at the beginning of this mix:

By the way, I'd have to go with Halo 5: Guardians. The game has very memorable musical moments, even more so than the previous couple of games. Oh and by the way one musical cue is very reminiscent of The Witcher 3's eerie/spooky moment musical cue (I'm not sure if you know which one I mean). I wonder if this was a real influence :P In the film-making soundtrack is actually usually one of the very last things to do (I know one film that is an exception and the entire film was edited according to music that was recorded before actual filming began, though), I wonder about video games...

For me this is the best theme song this year so far. Its the perfect mix of old halo and halo 4 music

also love the fact that "117" from Halo 4 starts exactly at 1:17 in the video. great touch.

@yourdeadgrandpa: Didn't Pawel Blaszczak also do Dying Light soundtrack?

+1

Love The Witcher 3 soundtrack. Love the Ori and the Blind Forest soundtrack.

Grey Goo has some really great music as well, made by Frank Klepacki

@R4gn4r0k: I love Frank Klepacki, he's an industry legend :) I haven't seen him mentioned on SW too often TBH :c

Ori and the Blind Forest would be my top pick, as far as original scores go.

Agree with all of this (though Witcher 3's combat music is fucking annoying after a short while).

I really love HM2's opening theme though, because of how deceptively tranquil it is. I can see that game running away with having the best licensed soundtrack of the year, with Ori and the Blind Forest having the best original score.

These are two of my personal favorites:

That guitar is freakin' amazing!

Steins Gate - Gate of Steiner

Everything I've heard from Rodea the Sky Soldier so far sounds amazing:

As a bonus, I'll post some Sonic Runners' music. Even if it's a phone game, Sonic consistently has good soundtracks.

So addicting, love the distortion.

I still enjoy the great Kirby and the Rainbow Curse soundtrack. Always some good tunes going around in the industry.

Music Starts at 0:39. Danny Baranowsky is the shit

Bloodborne. A thousand times Bloodborne.

Nothing so far. Still waiting.

Just heard this recently, and it's some of the most epic power-metal/rock music I've heard in a while (gaming or otherwise)...

Tales of Zestitia - Opening