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A collection of my favorite videogame music. Note that most of them are from games I played so I might miss some great ones from games I never played.
Dreamcast / Gamecube
Skies of Arcadia
Kingdom of Ixa'taka
2:02 This part goes so fuckin hard my dudes.
This game has so much charisma. A true piece of art on every level.
Love this game
Must get this on game cube
Listening in 2020
😭🎵♥️
NOTHING has given me the same feeling Skies of Arcadia gave me the first time (and many subsequent times) I played it through. I still do a playthrough once every year or so just to reimmerse myself in the world of Arcadia. I have been playing video games 28 years and never came across anything like it, the sense of being an explorer and discovering the world. This one theme, every time I hear it, makes me want to remake Horteka in Unreal or Godot and show it to Sega and say "come on guys, the world is ready for an HD remake."
Toujours aussi bon, ça ne vieillit pas.
Un juego que siempre llevo en mi corazón, sin duda. Y esta melodía es grandiosa... ❤️
My teenagehood, so far gone..
This game.... this music.... omg !!!! FF6 best J-RPG. 2DSoA best J-RPG. 3D
One of the best jRPGs ever made in history
Ich habe Tage in Ixa'taka verbracht nur weil ich dieses Lied so mochte. 🤗
Ich liebe es
Sega need to get back into hardware
2017!
Wish I could play this game on a portable system it would be the perfect portable RPG
More than a game. Remind me the alter life, another world and a different face of mankind. They shaped the world like they want it. The deepest and emotional story i had ever heard and seen.
I love it ^^
Favourite song from my favourite game <3
Ich kann nicht mehr still sitzen !!! Es hört sich sooo gut an !!! Ich liebe es !
I just got up to this area today- how far into the game am I? I'm already at 20 hours and 40 minutes into the game and it's my first time playing it!
You are still only in the first half of the game. All I'll say is you won't reach the "Half way point" until you get something called Delphinus.
this game means so much to me I wish they would remake it
I just want a rerelease of the gamecube port. Since I am searching for a copy.
We still waiting. But we do have an official soundtrack getting released by Wayo
Would love for Sega to re-release this game onto modern day consoles or even a sequel.
would be fucking amazing
Better yet, Steam release. It needs to happen! We've got Nights and Jet Set Radio already, why not this one?
On the Switch :D
I'd be all for an HD remake of this, something along the lines of what they did for Crash and Spyro, but they probably won't. Sega is the god of not giving a shit about their franchises outside of basically Sonic, Yakuza, and Valkyrie Chronicles
@Colin McGlynn Which is funny cause the main characters appear in Valkyria Chronicle. THERE'S STILL A CHANCE!
Still the greatest song ever...what a game!!!
Oh my god... I remember this song... 12 years without playing this game (Q_Q)
every time i see these arts, i remember how good this game is, and no matter what most may say, i can say this is the best and most involving rpg game i've ever played.
You can really tell this game was a labor of love.
@Lucky NoDice Agreed... I played this for the first time when I was 13 (2001) years old and it blew me away. The airship battles/upgrades, all of the port and character designs, and especially the music tracks like this! One of my favorite games to this day (even if the story is basically Star Wars... which, come to think of it, is admittedly by George Lucas actually point-for-point Joseph Campbell's "The Hero's Journey" so...)!
Omg, says 100 000 views even. Thats special just like this song :)
Why does this remind me of the ending celebration in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi?
I was going respond with this exact comment
+Damon Cassada I actually just finished watching Return of the Jedi, and came straight here xD
In the original theatrical version of the movie the music actually sucked. You were lucky to see a later re-do.
:')
They need to make a remake of this for multiplatforms. Such a good game everyone deserves a chance to play it.
Sadly as the intellectual property of Sega it will never happen. there are very few games from Sega now days that get made if they have nothing to do with Sonic
I had such a crush on Aika! who am i kidding i still do !
Happy Slap Comedy too bad she and Vyse died for Gallia
@French Fry not in my playthrough. not on my watch.
Sounds like Wild Arms, you just can't play through the whole game without whistling.
Very reminiscent of Wild Arms!
Very good observation! This sorta has the melody of Port Timney's theme in it, doesn't it?
who's the composer???? it's not listed
If I'm not mistaken, they were two composers working on the Eternal Arcadia soundtrack, and it would be Yutaka Minobe and Tatsuyuki Maeda !
lol, I know both are inspired by the music of Peru, but every time I hear this I can't help but think of the ending from Return of the Jedi and picture a bunch of ewoks dancing around.
....yes, Ewoks were eating the remains of dead storm troopers, true story.
elNingyou actually I think this was inspired by the Mayans.
This is one of the best games.
I used to work as a dancing cell phone (in a suit) mascot for a wireless company in my area, 6 or 7 years ago now, and I listened to this song on my mp3 player and dance to it. Gave me inspiration, making me the best cell phone dancer they ever had, in their words.
Just imagining this makes me grin widely.
Everything you're imagining is probably exactly the way it happened. That is, if you're imagining a guy in a smiley cell-phone suit grooving on the corner of a busy street in a small town, spinning around and waving merrily to passers-by... I also danced to the Paya-Paya song from Radiata Stories. Look it up and indulge your imagination further for continued hilarity. I'm drunk as fuck. Okay.
Thanks for the story )) Can I ask where you danced? In which country?
I believe it was in the USA... Head's a bit foggy though. May have been Brazil.
yours is such a beautiful story :)
It's the American Dream.
You have made my day.
This is one of my favorite things I've ever pictured in my head. I imagine you doing a awesome shift up in your dance during the breakdown. Stomping your feet like a skies of Arcadia mad man. People must have thought you were nuts. I love it.
Would pay money to see
Best comment lol
Everytime i hear this songs 2 things come to my mind Skies of Arcadia and your story :)
l'un des meilleur
I want to eat some psilocybin mushrooms and dance around the campfire with a tribe to this all night.
for those who doesn't have possibility to play this anymore, i would suggest checking out 100% complete let's play from batman9502 if you feel nostalgic. i watched it while ago and it was awesome! here is a link for the first episode, /watch?v=9vZiDv3nUoU
Wonderful. I love this game and this is a good song choice
My perfect dream RPG on console would be Skies Of Arcadia airship battle mechanics combined with Grandia Extreme's ground battle mechanics.
Loved Grandia 2, man that world is so depressing, especially when you find out that Grandia was the one that got....
No you wouldn't :P
jade cocoon . how under rated.
VYSE ON LADDERS!
This game was released to Dreamcast and after to GameCube.
Go ahead and guess what my favorite game of all time is. Skies of Arcadia is a genre-defining RPG. Few games could hope to grace it's brilliance.
man just picked this game up recently. cost a fortune, but worth every single cent of it
Its a damn shame that the quality of the music in Legends is awful, this one was ruined in the GC version
Impossible not dancing with this. IMPOSSIBLE.
Aika: Let me tell you why that's bullshit~
nice one, although I was 18 when I played this
Seems like an amazing game Skies of Arcadia, wish I had more than a N64
Me too my friend...me too, do not forget Suikoden 1 & 2, many of the 'Tales of' series titles, FF 1-9, Chrono Trigger and Cross. Star Ocean 1 & 2, Baten Kaitos...I could go on forever. *Sigh* the Golden Days of rpg's seems to be over.
sky native Americans! sweet!
i swear, everytime i listen to the music from this game it reminds me just how much yutaka minobe and tatsuyuki maeda outdid themselves with the composition of its music
im the 66,666th viewer!! what the devil!
dat bass
2:02 I love that part, gives me chills.
*.* Grandia
Reminds me of Star Wars VI ending :)
sega >> microsoft :(
moons give me strength!
Hell yeah, this is fine music.
I absolutely loved the Dreamcast and this game in particular! Brings back a lot of good memories hearing this music. I wish Sega would have another go at hardware...and actually market it right!
I would be happy if they just brought back Skies of Arcadia personally. Well at least from the Dreamcast era.
:'( it is a shame, games like these were brilliant. If only the COD fad would end and games like xenogears, lunar, wild arms, secret of mana and skies of arcadia could come back
I heard its because few people outside Japan likes JRPGs so they are not interested in releasing most of them in other countries anymore. :(
Never found an rpg that gave a similar experience to this, one of my favorite games of all time. Played through it twice and look forward to playing it a third time after the experience of it is faded in my memory for some time.
ikr, the japanese rpg industry has turned quite stale now :'(
It was on Dreamcast first. On GC, it's a remake, with less latence, called "legends"
Wild Arms and Arcadia ftw!
I wish I could like this 10000000 times
Well second hand DC stuff is fairly cheap, if not theres always the Emulators...
your right, it make sense :D
More south, its Incan from Peru and Boliva, music from the Andes.
Yes the golden age... :(
Also available on Gamecube. "Skies of Arcadia Legends" There were some minor changes...
I'd love to have played this game, but to my knowledge, it was exclusive to Dreamcast.
Why cant there be a sequel to this game? its not fair...
To all my WoW nerd friends: This song + Stranglethorn Vale. Win.
@Lonestargamer3 DUDE, JADE COCOON FTW. But Skies of Arcadia still beats all of them by far. xD Legend of Dragoon was awesome too
@Lonestargamer3 I have got the HUGEST grin on my face right now reading this comment. Dragoon... Legaia... Wild ARMs... GOD I loved those games.
This is more epic than anyone who hasn't played this game can possibly understand.
This makes me wanna go play my SOA game~
@revolutiongamestar if they were to make it it would have to exceed expectations, and expectations are really high for this game, even if it was anywhere near as good as this it would be awesome
@revolutiongamestar thumbed but i really wish they did make a sequel and spent alot of time on it
3 people didn't have a proper childhood :P
I'm here because of Batman9502, he is Let's playing SoAL, and he is doing a great Job intro'ing me to this game! Love this song!
@Andreas0424 like!
excelent song
@Andreas0424 i would give up interntet just to bring games like this back......like legend of dragoon,grandia, legend of legaia, jade cocoon, wild arms, xenogears, ect.....
sounds central america :D like aztec or mayan. in a way
Once in a year I play this game. Why were the games in the past better then the games of today :(
Skies is a quite the delicacy to be sure. The story will leave you drooling for more, but the battle system will leave you clambering for a white map. (=P kudos if you know what I'm talking about- legends fans) Skies has got to be probably one of my all-time favorites, but it's one of those RPG's that get to be just a little too much work to play-through for through umpteenth time. Music is perfect though, better even then TOS even IMO. thumbs up if you want a remake!
@NerdyKidNickerson I promise you...you won't regret it. One of the best Rpgs ever made.
Que pena não ter podido terminar este jogo! Lamento até hoje! =( Maravilhoso!!! ♥ Adoro essas músicas de ciganada nos RPG's!!!
@77cleetus this wasnt sonic team. they had nothing to do with this .this was made by overworks, which i dont know still exists or not.
my second all time favorite rpg.also reiko kodama worked on this. i enjoy her work no question.just listening to this makes me want to crack this game and play it. if not a sequel then at least a remake!!
@NexusofAvalon dude they must make an anime from it
@uglypinkmoose do u mean with extra Piastol and Maria's quests?
Played the GC version, one of the best ever games for me. Remember being sick for 4 days off school and playing this 24/7. I wasent really sick btw :D
@dravenroughnecks ya that would be cool
@uglypinkmoose It's tragic that sega didn't stay in the line of consoles, they would be ontop like they always were in the past. The problem was that everytime they put out a console they would get one-upped By Nintendo or Sony. :/ I really wish sega would Either a: Make a sequel to this, Or B: Relaunch this game on the ps3 or somethin so we could play this game and all its glory with a pretty new look.
@dravenroughnecks oh didn't know DC had downloads..... DC was pretty amazing.... it's really to bad how things turned out
@uglypinkmoose They werent even extras, Everythign on the GC was available for Download ON the DC :D they did change a few things though.
@BULLTRONHERO Don't forget Super Mario Bros. Koji Kondo created its legendary theme song.
If Gerudo Valley from LoZ:OoT and Red XIII's Theme from FF7 made love this song would be the baby.
Glad I'm not the only one who loves this song. :) There are so many beautiful, happy, positive underlying meanings, feelings, and emotions in it. The composers in this game rank up there with koji kondo, the maestro of Zelda.
this soundtrack and the eastern air pirate themes are surely the most epic town BGMs I ever heard. Make you feel like in a lively place
@AkimaTV I'd do the same thing! awsome game with awesome music!!
@Maxiemax The place you were thinking of is called Yafutoma
@Maxiemax Yeah I remember having to sail to Ixa'Taka, it took such a long time. Then all of a sudden you start to see green leaves in the air and you knew land could not be too far away.
Man, Ixa'Taka was so amazing when you got there. Skies of Arcadia somehow managed to feel epic, like an entire WORLD to explore, Ixa'Taka was my favourite for the music, although I liked the chinese area (how can i forget the name!) with the ships which can sail above the clouds
soooooooo many memories ^_^
This is one of the themes, where you just want to sit back and listen for hours. It's certainly one of the most catching songs in the game.
@Elc22 lower quality music however
I reckon Ixa Takans are a fit bunch having to climb ropes and gliding down slides in order to get around. Certainly wouldn't be the best place for my grandmother!
Best track in the game!
@creepynut not all of them, I believe there were a couple of items and sidequests, but most of the wanted pirates and piastol sidequests are exlusives to the cube
I wonder how a vocaloid version of this would sound...
Love this game! (:
Best theme in this game, the entire song lasts 3 minutes before it starts again ! Rare in OSTs.
@tarkeke ya same here
@WhoFlungPoop2 sigh....let's hope that happens=) at least we will always have it for dreamcast and gamecube^^ skies of arcadia ftw <3
@uglypinkmoose I play the gamecube version over the dreamcast any day.. it would be sad missing out on those wanted pirates, moonfishes and piastol =( and the music is still great wtf? Xd
Thumbs up if you would leave behind the internet, video games, and everything else this world has to offer to be an air pirate in Arcadia.
Well, I've gotta say the OST from this games was so-so, with many repetitive themes... save for that one! I mean, what's not awesome with this Indian-inspired song full of flutes and drums? It makes me wanna ride Ixa-Taka again, just to get lost in its maze... and enjoy that game, over and over again... I can't describe the feelings I have when playing this game, so as when I'm playing Chrono Trigger. INSTANT CLASSIC!
I love this game more than I love my life.
@uglypinkmoose im glad they released Legends, since there were some things that needed fixing in the game. they fixed the stupidly high encounter rate, that way you could at least somewhat enjoy the music before you have to beat up more baddies...
T_T
i love that picture
Шедевр ^ ^
great song for a great game ! thanks dude !
@wweebu cool cool :D
great song to a great game
one of my best favorites in this game :D does it make u feel your in a ancient civilization like mayans, aztecs, etc.? south American ancient civilizations :P
Another kool piece of music.
1:53 = incredible.
I remember the first time I heard this song, I actually wanted to get up and dance :P This game shows how a generic RPG can be turned into something truly magical. Most other producers are just plain doing it wrong.
I remember when I stay a long hours in Ixa Taka just for this song :( .Absolutly great game
STILL MY MOST FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao im so hyper right now xD
Stupid thing to mess up in, since music is so important.
Horrible? The Gamecube version's music was indeed downgraded, but it wasn't rendered awful. It was still great. Just not Dreamcast great. Both Dreamcast and Gamecube versions music was good. Just because one sounds better doesn't mean the other sounds crappy. Oddly though, I ended up prefering one Valuan theme in it's GC version.
Wow, cool-sounding! I wanna play :D
yeah i like the extras they added in the GC version though so i think they are both worth playing
I said it's better in every other respect, I hardly completely dismissed the Gamecube version. Of course it's still a great game, it's just that the soundtrack was easily one of the best things about the game. While the superb composition remained, a significant part of the 'epic' feeling the game held had been dilluted. As a result, despite the enhancements of the Gamecube version, when reccomending this game, I always point towards the Dreamcast version as the definitive experience.
gamecube version wasn't much worse... it was still a great game.. you make it sound ruined but thats bullshit
I was told that the reason the GC soundtrack was so mangled was due the compression used. They had to compress the data (video and audio) from two discs into one. This is why Gamecubes soundtrack sounds so horrible.
Damn. :(
This is taken straight from the Dreamcast version- Despite being better in almost every other respect, the Gamecube release had a butchered soundtrack.
Wow, how come this YouTube version sounds better than the version I play on my GameCube? It's almost like the Lavender Town effect, it sounds better here than in the actual game!
oh really, is that why? i kept wondering why this sounded so much cooler than when i played it on the GC
Well, it's all on one disc. They had to compress it. Playing Legends first, some music I like better, some I don't.
Mannnn this is the few things I hated about the GC remake. The sound quality from the DC version is absolutely orgasmic, but the GC version cut a lot of the audio.
I love this game. It has a lot of charm that a lot of RPGs lacked
top 1
wish I had a ps3... rave reviews for Valkyria chronicles
A sequel would be killer. I played Valkyria Chronicles for PS3 recently and it gave off a really similar vibe to SoA (it even has Aika and Vyse in it.) A true sequel would be amazing though.
lol it would be awesome to have a sequel to skies of arcadia but i would use this version of the Kingdom of Ixa'taki and have all the other tracks be from the dream cast version
Same except for soundtrack. I played the GC version first and personally prefer its music. I know its supposed to have the "inferior" version of music, but its just different IMO.
Man, I love this song. It makes me sad I can't play Skies since my Dreamcast has pretty much kicked the can. ;_; After hearing the soundtrack for Legends, no way. D: A sequel? I myself wouldn't mind a remake of this game. Same things just better graphics and Dreamcast soundtrack. But the Dreamcast version alone still had wonderful graphics.
I love the beats around 2:00
Yep its true... We should hear more about it in 2009 I think. This was one heck of a game! One of the 2 RPGs (With Grandia 2) that ruled the Dreamcast.
This is one of my all time favorite video game songs. 10 thumbs up for posting it~!
more skies of arcadia = epic win
I heard they're making a sequel, hope it's true...
Sucks that it wasn't... :(
Cool tune! This would also fit a Wild Arms game really well.