I love Dungeon Fighter Online's music.

I have to say that, in general, MMO music hasn't been very memorable for me. It certainly doesn't hold a candle against many of the SP games I've played over the years. In terms of MMOs though, I found the editorial accurate with identifying the games with the best music (SotNW & FFXI).

Of course, everyone loves to add their two cents. Here are some oldschool SP RPGs with awesome music.

- Chrono Trigger
- Chrono Cross
- Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
- Lufia 1 & 2
- FF6 through FF12, with my favorite music being in FF6 followed by FF8

Well, since the article is so inviting; I am absolutely in love with a number of game soundtracks, and luckily enough for myself I posted them up in a thread on another forum not too long ago. Let me share with you the best tunes to games I know;

The Water theme from Heroes of Might & Magic 4. There was a lot of hate for that game, but in its own non-Heroes of Might & Magic way, it was a brilliantly great game nevertheless. That song just makes me want to play it again and have great adventures with my heroes sailing the great oceans, meeting monsters and beauty alike.

Next, there's this, which will need no further explanation to any proper gamer reading this. Skip to 4:30 for the recognizable bit.

And to stick to the Blizzard repertoire - any fan of the company of 18 years or older will remember this one and this one. In a completely different fashion, I am also completely in love with Warcraft 3's Human theme song, which illustrates just exactly what music can do in a game. Warcraft 3, from Human perspective, was all about the fall of Lordaeron and this song does a jaw-dropping stunning job of letting you hear the sadness of the both metaphorical and literal autumn that has come to Lordaeron - while still showing those hints of the proud and strong Human culture that the game shoes as well. Doomhammer's Legacy does exactly the same thing for the Orcs and every time I hear that song I reminisce of the day that I first played Warcraft 3's Orc campaign. I don't think I'll ever forget the first moments of that first level again and the music has attributed to that.

That said, hitting the ball closer to home, I don't think anybody who'se ever gotten into WoW will forget the first few notes of this, regardless of whether they turned the in-game music down lateron or not. I can literally safely say that EVERY song on the WoW soundtrack brings shivers to my spine, but I'll stick to linking this one for the epicness and "The Sin'dorei" to once again make my point about how well the eerily beautiful music fits in so well with the culture it's describing - a culture which is also eerily beautiful.

That said, I think that even if nine out of ten people turn the game music off, what it does to that last person is so strong it evens out in the end. I have such an overload of memories and feelings attached to the songs of pretty much all games I've played that it has become impossible for me to forget them. I too turned down WoWs game music, but I can safely say that the composers' hard work is definitely not wasted on me. And as Cataclysm hits, I will turn the music back on until the point where I know all those new songs by heart as well.

It's good to take a good look at the music when thinking of MMO's. Nothing spurs my imagination more than the tracks from the game.

Mr. Uematsu's music makes me leave my seat, and pace for minutes at a time, thinking about things that have happened, and wondering how things will go. It inspires me to try and think of as many different possible outcomes to the characters as possible, as each individual is but a part of the whole, and the whole can move in so many ways.

The difference between a one month burnout and a 5 year addiction is the score.

You can say anything you want bout what makes some games great, but bottom line, if the music didn't inspire you to look at the events around you and think about how the characters feel because of them, you'd not care at all.

The music, especially in games without voices, is all that the producers can use to speak to us, and in that sense, Uematsu truly has a way with the words of the universal language called music.