Whats your favorite Main Menu music?

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I'll start it off - Legend of Dragoon has my heart with this one

https://youtu.be/jFtxom0RGI0?si=3aU7Vn0k-pr-xMWJ

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Morrowind, hands down

I liked the music from Morrowind so much, I found the audio files in the game's install folder, burned them to a CD, and printed out my own cover art to make a soundtrack album. I was 11 years old; I probably still have it in a box somewhere, haha.

The entire discography is on YouTube I remember ripping off there years ago.

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.

Dearly Beloved and the variations on it are the best. I'm partial to the version for Kingdom Hearts 2 but they're all great

Skyrim, by a longshot. That theme never failed to get me cranked to get my Nordic adventuring on.

HAH. HUAH. HAHH.

HAH. HUAH. HAHH.

OOOhhhh OHHHHH OUHHHHHH!!!! AUHHHHHHH!!!

Saw this pop up in my replies before I noticed the context and was very confused... lol

Really deep lyrics. A masterpiece of poetry.

Civ 4: Baba Yetu

Such a fantastic song. Not at all surprising that it was the first piece of music from a video game to not only be nominated for but to win a Grammy.

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.

Here’s the not hour long version haha.

Dude, I only just played the games for the very first time earlier this year and I absolutely feel what you mean. It's the very first piece of music you hear when you start the game, is used throughout the trilogy in pivotal moments, and is the very last theme that plays in the third game. So awesome

Oh yeah. Leitmotifs are very effective at tying a story together and really help add some punch to those emotional moments.

I absolutely adore Mass Effect. It’s probably my favorite game ever. Top 3 at least.

I do see that the narrative and the gameplay have some flaws, but overall, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the games and the ~100h it took me to finish the trilogy. The Citadel DLC was probably my favourite part of the entire series. I'd also probably put the games in my top x favourite games.

Unreal Tournament 2004:

https://youtu.be/uTFfxtb7q4M

It wasn't great. It was just good in sense of it's time. Some of those music still instantly wakes me up and turns into hunting machine

I have the entire soundtrack in my music library, Hyperblast 2 Redeux is awesome.

I also regularly play UT2004 online, DM-Deck17 is my favourite original map, amazing flow, it just goes hard.

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.

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.

I cannot get over how good the Metroid Prime menu theme is. It's both chill vibes and an absolute banger at the same time.

Skyrim and RuneScape 2 (pre-audio update) are both pretty damn iconic

At my wedding we had the DJ play Skyrim and Witcher 3 music during dinner and it worked way better than it had any business working

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

Literally the first thing that came to kind. Any time I go to start anything im excited about my brain just starts up the piano.

One of the best fighting games

One Must Fall 2097

A little bit of nostalgia always helps too

Woah, wasn't expecting to see this answer here! OMF is my favorite one hands down.

A close second would be the music for Jazz Jackrabbit.

That one was so good.

Haven't played this game in decades but instantly started hearing the song in my head when I saw your post.

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

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.

Syndicate (2011)

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.

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.

The whole collection of music from Stellaris and Cyberpunk are both excellent.

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.

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.

Fallout 3. Gives me frission every time I hear it.

I use the F-Zero start screen tune as my alarm clock.

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.

Sm64 file select, lol

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....

Let me introduce people here to "life is strange : Before the Storm" main menu music !

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.

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!

Baldur's Gate II

(honorable mention - Civ IV)