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What is your favourite game track and why?

Post by Vegeta Jr » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:51 pm

Any Dragonball related game, any single track.

For me it's Embrace the Blue Sky from Budokai 3 (I think it's in the previous Budokai games but cannot remember where).

It just feels so adventurous and happy, however it has a kind of meloncholic feel to it which gives it some depth. For example I could see it used both when someone is flying around Earth with no care in the world but also reminiscing someone's death like when they try and bring Goku back after the Cell games.

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Re: What is your favourite game track and why?

Post by xzero » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:04 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=468yUWZr_qU

As for why, I guess it's probably because it didn't have the jazzy feeling that a lot of the other tracks in that game had. As a big Faulconer fan, it felt like the closest thing stylistically to the Faulconer music that I'd hear in the games (until popping in Legacy of Goku 2, Buu's Fury, and at least 1 other GBA game actually arranged Faulconer tracks for their scores).

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Post by Codarik » Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:48 am

Budokai: The Man Called "C"

Budokai 1 was my very first DBZ related game years ago, so not only is this track nostalgic but it's just awesome.

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Re: What is your favourite game track and why?

Post by Dr_SLUMP » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:07 pm

Dragon Ball Z Legends - Fear

Back in the mid 90s, while I was discovering anime with the help of foreign magazines, I was lucky enough to pick the imported DBZ Legends for the Sega Saturn.

Its music to this day, is more connected to Dragon Ball Z than the actual soundtrack in my mind.

Bad memory banks? Who cares, I love that soundtrack and especially the track "Fear" after 1:40.

I really wish there would be an anime release without BGM so I could actually edit and replace it with Legends' OST.

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Re: What is your favourite game track and why?

Post by Ringworm128 » Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:08 am

Its a toss up between Evolution from Sparking Meteor (US Version) and the Big Gete Star theme from SSW2.

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Post by Akumaito Beam » Sat Sep 10, 2011 3:25 am

Having to pick just one is pretty tough for me. Hell I'd literally have trouble picking one song from Budokai Tenkaichi 2's English soundtrack alone. I find Dragon Ball game OST's are all pretty solid dating back to the Famicom days. I enjoy

Assault! The Saiyan's Boss Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt6YoHpp ... re=related

just as much as I do

Raging Blast 2 Solder's Sorrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCh3Q6eOziE

Say what you want about the games themselves but I feel the music is pretty much always really enjoyable.

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Post by DarkPrince_92 » Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:14 pm

Sky Battle Budokai 3. It gets me hype, I play on the Cell games map just for the song. I really bumped this old thread...
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Re: What is your favourite game track and why?

Post by Gonstead » Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:17 pm

That track sounds an awful lot like News of The Cell Games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKbFoWCKvM0
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Post by dbgtFO » Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:54 am

@Gonstead
Not surprising considering Yamamoto composed both of those tracks and he also drew inspiration from "A Man called C" in another Kai track IIRC.

The Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi games are the only DB games, I've had more than a slight interest in and BT 2's soundtrack just sucks IMHO. Since I haven't played BT 3 and BT 1 just contains tracks from the Budokai games, it's not surprising that my favourite track comes from one of the Budokai games.

It's Flight in the Dark Side, which was heard in Vegeta's story mode early on IIRC, probably because you were playing with the main villain and in Broly's story mode.

It just fits so good(flying around as the bad guy :arrow: Flight in the Dark Side) and I really like these kinds of evil tracks, that give the idea of ruthless villains who wholeheartedly embraces that ruthlessness as being part of them.

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Re: What is your favourite game track and why?

Post by dbboxkaifan » Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:31 am

1) Burst Limit: http://youtu.be/zgriel8HGUA
2) Raging Blast: http://youtu.be/ZVzjgN9wdiY
3) Dragon Ball Z 1: http://youtu.be/DxzMI7JGkk0
4) Ultimate Blast International: http://youtu.be/Zhd8F47Rtbc
5) Sparking Meteor International: http://youtu.be/TaZAqIQ30H4

All these tracks are great n' all, but I'd much prefer the Japanese soundtrack (Shunsuke Kikuchi and may also feature Kenji Yamamoto BGMs) than the international's, :P
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Post by Saiyajin no Tatsujin » Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:03 pm

Here are some of my favorites...because of either the instruments used or the tempo of the track.

- Shin Butouden/Ultimate Battle 22, "Super Buu Theme" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY9fuYC3v78
"SSJ3 Goku Theme" > http://youtu.be/seissvtFWOE
"Gohan Theme" > http://youtu.be/JXtIyc12qcc
"Vegeta Theme" > http://youtu.be/hMWUmKxiTi4
- Idainaru DragonBall Densetsu/Legends, "Chapter 1 BGM" > http://youtu.be/YfC7nAN_spE
"Chapter 2 BGM" > http://youtu.be/UwnoHWAHdKQ
- Final Bout, "Majin Buu Theme" > http://youtu.be/Hgs8NhRCDiE
- Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku, "Polluted Town" > http://youtu.be/nRHDi5YLqpM
"Planet Darkness" > http://youtu.be/vcNMlRmbO6A

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Re: What is your favourite game track and why?

Post by samuraix123 » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:11 pm

Budokai 3 When you obtain a capsule :)
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