What are the best main menu themes of all time?

Combat kind a sucks in SoM and the companion AI is dreadful, but the music is really, really nice. Outside nostalgia i never understood the praise tho, same goes for mediocre shit like UN Squadron and Knights of the Round.

Terranigma is a great game for sure. My favorite action - RPG on the system. Ilusion of Gaia is decent as well, tho not nearly as good or polished.

how can it not be the MGS4 main menu ?? i dont even like the game too much,but damn that menu

Monkey Island

of course..

Also

Uncharted series

Elder Scrolls

Soul Sacrifice

and the

Super Mario

is a classic

Fur Fighters

Little Big Adventure 2

Resident Evil : Code Veronica

Timesplitters 2

Sonic Adventure

Sonic Adventure 2

Duke Nukem 3D

Toy Commander

Age of Empires 2

Sonic 3D

I'm a big fan of Phantasy Star 2's main menu theme.

It's so lonely and mysterious sounding. This is one rare case in which I like that the song sounds dated.

I love Mega Turrican; very rarely do I see anyone ever mention it. 1-2 is my favorite piece of music from it.

Metroid Prime is probably my favorite.

Worth mentioning Final Fantasy IX and the Halo games, Gears of War 1 (that one sends shivers down my spine), World of Warcraft, Pokemon Gold/Silver, and Super Mario World...

Uncharted series

Metroid Prime

The Zelda series.

Obviously Brawl since you can choose which of the many great songs you want to hear.

What? no one said Crysis 2? Maybe the game is just that hated....

seriously great theme song wasted.. makes you feel like shit about to get serious......

Vanilla World of Warcraft
Guild Wars Nightfall
Guild Wars Factions (Sadly none of these themes are no longer the theme played in the main menu, this replaced them, and I dont like it nearly as much as the other 2)
Xenoblade (title screen makes for an excellent Screen Saver too)
Sid Meier's Civilization 4
Morrowind

Yeah they do have the same songs being redone for the series. I just think it works perfectly for FF7.

I am extremely partial to FF7 though. Still is my fav game of all time and there is a butt-ton of nostalgia there.

I do think the soundtrack is pretty objectively the best of all-gaming. Uematsu's work with that game was just so God damn incredible!

I don't think FF7's soundtrack has aged particularly well. I think the "instruments" sound quite unnatural and the overall effect is somewhat tinny (not in that awesome retro way) and leaves me kind of cold. Don't get wrong. Many of the compositions are solid and some are even excellent (particularly Aeris's Theme and One Winged Angel), but I think that many FF soundtracks are much stronger in a melodic sense (especially that of FF6,8,9,10). I think FF7's soundtrack would really benefit from rearrangement. It sounds way too mechanical and dated to compete with some of the other FF soundtracks IMO.

It does have somewhat of a more computerized sound. Wonder if it was because it was their first foray into putting music on a PS1 FF game.

My dream is for them to remake the game and I would LOVE them to re-record that soundtrack for a remake.

Probably.

The closest we can get to a redone soundtrack is some of the rearrangements on YouTube, but I find that most of them lose the atmosphere of the original game. The ideal rearrangement would be to take the the same basic sound of the original tracks but beef them up and make them sound warmer.

Original need for speed underground was good

The lack of Chrono Cross and The Witcher makes me sad for this forum.

Ah. Forgot about the Witcher. Glad they're bringing that theme back for TW3, dunno why they left it out of 2.

How have there been 118 posts in this thread without mention of FFXII's theme? I know it is kind of a rehash of previous games in the series, but it really sticks with me for some reason, especially the last 45 seconds.

Plus another vote for Halo (great mix) and FFX, so much nostalgia.

only correct answers are:

Deus Ex: HR

Oblivion

Mass Effect

TLOU

Dragon's Dogma

Metroid Prime, hands down. It's also one of the best looking intros. Also, Mafia and STALKER. Amazing themes right there.