A game with a great soundtrack always enhances the gaming experience, and is capable of reflecting the emotions and setting of the game. A great soundtrack makes for great memorable moments.

The soundtrack of games have always been important to me. I love music and whenever I play a game that has great music it always makes me extremely happy. A soundtrack that is able to reflect the atmosphere (be it sad or total badass-ness) is very important to me, and I know that lots of you feel the same way.

So what are some video game soundtracks that you've enjoyed? Music that will give you instant nostalgia and great memories when you hear them. The soundtracks don't have to be universally recognised as awesome, the important thing is that they are/were awesome to you. I'm mostly looking for games with music composed for it, but if you enjoyed a game with a soundtrack compilation of music from different artists/bands that is okay aswell.

Some great and memorable soundtracks I enjoyed are:

- Goldeneye 007. I remember playing this game as a kid, and whenever I hear a song from the game it makes me happy. The game had some awesome music in it in my opinion.
- The Monkey Island series. I don't know how many of you that have played it, but the music composed for it is amazing. The remastered soundtracks from the SE edition brings even more awesomeness to the music-pieces.
- The music of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask. I still listen to some of the songs occasionally, and they give me shivers. Koji Kondo is a genius, and the songs he made for these two games will stick with me for the rest of my life. He was resonsible for alot of the songs I heard as a kid when gaming. His songs from the Mario related games are awesome aswell.
- Mario Kart games. Their soundtracks are usually great.
- Gears of War (all of them). I really enjoyed the instrumentals in these games, very good pieces that really set the atmosphere for the game.
- Skyrim. Jeremy Soule is a genius and he made amazing ambient music and other fitting music for the game.
- Pokemon. I will never forget the songs from the Gameboy, and the anime versions of the songs are great aswell.
- Street Fighter. I love the themes designed for all of the characters, they are awesome.
- Red Dead Redemption. Incredible atmospheric and emotional music.

I know I'm probably forgetting alot of games (which I always do when I make lists like these), but these are atleast some of the games that have soundtracks I found amazing.

Now I'm curious to hear about which soundtracks you guys enjoy/enjoyed!

Final Fantasy 6 (GBA) has in my opinion the best soundtrack ever made, with the most diverse collection of songs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Uematsu is a genius.

I'm personally a fan of the Red Dead Redemption OST. I love how it all fits so perfectly together when it shouldnt.
I also love the L.A. Noire and Fallout 3 sountracks. They really introduced me into swing music which is now one of my prefered genres.
The Brütal Legend sountrack was pretty good too mind
But overall, TES sountracks are my favorite. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim all have completely different styles, but are all perfect.

Mirror's Edge. So great, it stands on it's own as awesome electronic music.

TES III, IV, V heaven to my ears, the reason one day I decided I have to play the piano again after a veeeery long break
Gothic 3 raw and rustic, very appropriate
Thief 1,2,3 fantastic atmosphere support
Deus Ex 'nough said, epic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlY9yxXuT9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH5LHzHi3Ic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdRNN9idJ0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujWMV0FTAtQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdz-ElNTYUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NYPvrGX1cY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpjEm5KjCyI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TKV_90aYgI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIKT7wkkthA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ZhcFwIzXQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cXsoRRYf5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ELFxB-tGhE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pZYcuk3Fik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8PsrvjihdE

Final Fantasy IX
Chrono Cross and Trigger
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Deus Ex
Lufia II
Megaman series in general(X's series had some really rockin tracks)
Super Metroid
Daggerfall
Iji
Cave Story
Tales series
Timesplitters series

TES III - V (gets annoying after 300+ hours of playing)
Thief I - III (very atmospheric)
GTA IV (I don't remember a specific soundtrack, but I have no negative memory and THAT alone is a good thing)

Gitaroo Man has an awesome OST.

SSF4AE, SFxTekken

Straight dope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr41TDaA7Sc

Damn right
Can't say I was fond of Skyrims music.

Halo soundtrack is amazing.
Final Fantasy XIII has some good songs - Leona Lewis' "My Hands" was probably the most fitting song for that game.

Ermm, can't really think of anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7F3OXtMc9Q - Highly underrated soundtrack. It's a jewel though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=922ScdS-VSU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH3Zlmoe8so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjKctPewO7Y - To re-live the nostalgia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6YJ05t5iRs


I expected to find gold.

Aside from these.....hmmm....

- Golden Sun & Golden Sun: The Lost Age
- Fallout 3
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Flower
- Harvest Moon series
- L.A. Noire
- Hitman series

If you mean ingame radio:

- Fallout 3 (GNR)
- Fallout New Vegas (RNV)
- Godfather ll
- GTA Vice City (Fever 105)
- GTA Vice City Stories (Paradise FM)
- GTA IV (JNR/Journey/The Vibe)
- Saints Row ll (Ezzzy 105)
- Saints Row the Third (K12)
- LA Noire
- GTA lll (Rise FM)
- Mafia ll (Empire Classic Radio)

Surprisingly, I've found the Final Fantasy XIII-2 soundtrack to be absolutely marvelous. It has such a perfect blend of electronic and symphonic styles, I fell in love instantly. I haven't even played the game yet, which is even more impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhw_zP0Rxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPEzumonJv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgBrITRlaMU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J5vsL0A-EY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DERirlhZ7NU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Pr2BTiATo (It's a damn shame this isn't in the Western releases)

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Chrono Cross
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Diablo II
Borderlands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq2LbxjwGzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_QYIkd5wz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5RsgMo_i3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP2kMWANwmw

Minecraft
Fallout 3
Total War Shogun 2

Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3+Knuckles
Megaman 1-4
Goldeneye 007 (N64)
Super Mario Kart
Super Metroid
Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross
FFVII / FFVIII / FFIX / FFX
NHL 98, 99 2000, 2001, 2003
NHL Faceoff 98
Brave Fencer Musashi
GTA 3 (talk only), GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, GTA 4
Quake 2, Quake 3
Resident Evil 2
Starcraft
Tekken 2
Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom
Mario Party 3 (N64)
Hellgate: London
Willow (NES)
Mario 2, Mario 3 (NES)
Super Mario World
Tetris (GB/NES)
Castlevania Lament of Innocence

and some others but not gonna spend too long on this topic since it gets re-made so often.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_lHWjLLCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejafLR6jb0g&list=FLIlBvik0P60u0dIzudwKWYw&index=8&feature=plpp_video and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6_Vq5sOBV0&list=FLIlBvik0P60u0dIzudwKWYw&index=6&feature=plpp_video both have great soundtracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-gI_pFog0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aPMo7TcR8

And http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkLn1WiyL00 has no quote.

Halo 1 and Halo 3. Don't care for the other ones.

I'm surprised you didn't pick No Mercy.

Despite my dislike towards the Halo series, I quite like the soundtracks for them.

Nothing else really comes to mind, but there's others..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNiOeRVdGI. That is all, you don't need to post anything else.