Whats your favorite Main Menu music?
Whats your favorite Main Menu music?
I'll start it off - Legend of Dragoon has my heart with this one
Morrowind, hands down
Kingdom Hearts main menu theme. It's absolutely a nostalgia hit for me. That game was one of my "get-away" games while in a rough situation. Hearing that music always makes me feel a little safer, like I'm just one step away from a completely different life.
Civ 4: Baba Yetu
I’ll go with Mass Effect, the music in the first 3 games is incredible. Especially in the first game I think. This particular piece is called Vigil.
Skyrim for sure, nothing gets you more prepared to start a new adventure than that.
Honorable mention to the Last of Us after you've completed the game and are just sitting there, staring at the screen and wondering what to do next.
Unreal Tournament 2004:
Probably Metroid Prime. Both the Title Theme and the Menu Theme are fantastic.
Xenoblade games also have brilliant title themes. Here's the one for the first game.
Now, for some spice, let's branch into a type of game I think most people here won't have played - Visual Novels often have great title themes.
- Muv-Luv Alternative's "Crash" is pure hype
- Both Steins;Gate's "Gate of Steiner" and Steins;Gate 0's "Messenger" are great themes too.
- I also love VA-11 HALL-A's "Hopes and Dreams".
Mass Effect
Yeah, there are newer versions, but I deliberately found the original.
Payday 2 really sets the mood with it's music
Elden Ring's main theme is literally the only video game song I have in my normal music rotation.
But only because Lunar Silver Star Story's Wings isn't on Spotify.
Metroid Prime. I only played it for the first time this year when the remaster came out and the music blew me away.
Definitely the original main menu music for Dragon's Dogma.
I remember booting it up on the PS3 back in the day and was like "Wha-?" but after playing the game so many times it's definitely become a favorite. Both for how out of place it is but also how perfect it fits after all the context of the game.
Sad they replaced it for the Dark Arisen version but luckily there is a mod for PC that restores it in all its glory. :P
Rocket Jump Waltz -- TF2
Cadence of Hyrule, for sure. So damn good.
The correct answer is Civilization V Gods and Kings.
Super Mario Bros. 2
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Dark Souls 3
Even years later, having completed the game many times, that opening song still gives me the chills! So haunting, so beautiful!
Skyrim has to be on the list for the pure joy of it
Duke Nukem 3D Gets me pumped to this day.
Bloodborne
Arcanum's main theme gets my vote.
It's weird. It's terrible as music - just random strings with almost no recognizable tune outside of the first few seconds - but it sets a mood better than any other. It's distilled melancholy in music form.
Super Metroid.
Spooky AF
Morrowind
Final Fantasy XII
Gotta be Into Free which was the original main title music from Dragon's Dogma.
It was removed for Dark Arisen for reasons I am unsure of, so it isn't even something you can experience without mods.
It is wildly different from the rest of the game's music but still connected in a way, and sets a very different vibe. Great game, great music.
Crusader: No Remorse / No Regret
https://youtu.be/wwG5BJtZBCU?si=aMMbMveu0s6KltoQ
So many great remixes of it too.
Dragon's Dogma.
THE WIND IS PUSHING MEEE
The whole collection of music from Stellaris and Cyberpunk are both excellent.
Papers please
Ori and the Blind Forest has a great track throughout, but the menu is definitely a highlight.
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.
The BF1942 theme/title music is the most epic to me.
Metroid Prime or Mass Effect
I always loved the Legally Distinct Massive Attack - Angel from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Rik Schaffer was on fire for that whole soundtrack.
Baowaowaowaowaowaowaowao
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.
Fallout 3. Gives me frission every time I hear it.
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.
I use the F-Zero start screen tune as my alarm clock.
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 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.
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.
Many good ones here already. Another memorable one for me is Metal Gear Solid 3.
Uncharted 2 main theme for me... So short but so damn good.
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.
Final fantasy 4
Sayonara Wild Hearts, not surprising since the entire game is full of beautiful music
Xenoblade Chronicles!
Sm64 file select, lol
Also atelier iris 3 the grand phantasm has a great intro
IXION is definitely mine. If you skip through that video a bit, you can hear some more music when the Prologue begins to play. Such an amazing game!
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"I had a dream that I could fly"
Ron don don
Watch dogs 2
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....
Need for speed underground 2
PHOENIX MAINS REPORT IN https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=aGC7PB3BVFI
Haven - The Beginning of Something.
Whole OST is pretty good.
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.
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. 🤷♂️
Watch dogs 2
Let me introduce people here to "life is strange : Before the Storm" main menu music !
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Watch dogs 2
Need for speed 2 from 1997 has an amazing soundtrack https://youtu.be/69-J2m_GyhI?si=WkJGAFCphXHxusPe
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.
Watch dogs 2
Watch dogs 2
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Lagoon (SNES), Premonition, such a banger.
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Baldur's Gate II
(honorable mention - Civ IV)