Which game has the best music (FF not included)

I vote for Akira Yamaoka's Silent Hill I, II, and III soundtracks.

These are the games I feel have the best music (Final Fantasy included)

Castlevania Series - By far the Castlevania series has the best music of any video game series. It has so many great tracks such as Richter's Theme (Bloodlines I believe it is called), Bloody Tears, The Prince of Darkness, and of course, my two favorites: The Theme of Simon Belmont and VAMPIRE KILLER! The music hasn't waned over time as proven by the wonderful soundtrack in Lament of Innocence. Castlevania always delivers when it comes to top quality music. After all, a series that relies on musical subtitles should damn well have incredible music, shouldn't it?

Breath of Fire 2- The Decadence of God is easily one of my favorite songs ever put in a game. Other great tracks from this game are More than Words (I THINK this is Nina's theme), A Crisis (The Barubary Battle Theme), and the final battle with Deathevn. This game also has 2 different battle tracks that play at different points in the game and 3 different world map tunes so it never gets stale.

SaGa Frontier- Whoever did the music to this game sure got it right. What is really awesome about SaGa Frontier is the final boss themes. All 7 of them are incredible. My favorite without a doubt is the Boss X battle theme. I also like Asellus' final boss as well as Emilia's. The regular battle music is great too.

Gauntlet: Dark Legacy- People might not notice the wonderful music in this game due to the incredibly loud and annoying sound effects. If you turn down the sound effects in the options menu, you will see how wonderful the music to this game really is. Everything feels so medieval. The best tracks in this game are the one that plays Sumner's Tower, the Valkyrie's Castle, and the Desecrated Temple. The Battle with Skorne in the Desecrated Temple is my favorite music track of all time. Unfortunately, due to having almost no popularity, none of these great tracks are listed in the vgmusic.com archives.

Wizards & Warriors- Quite possibly the coolest title song of all time. It's also got this awesome track that plays when you're near death.

Phantasy Star Online: Episode 1 & 2- Awesome tracks. Not only is the music fantastic, but the song names are damn cool. My favorite track in the game is the 1st form of the final boss "IDOLA have the Immortal Feather" other great tracks from the game are Growl from the Digital Haze, Cry for IDOLA the Holy, Pray for IDOLA the Distorted, Revolution to the Origin, Mother Earth of Dishonesty, and From Seeing of the Rough Wave. Alas, just as Guantlet, none of these incredible tracks are listed on vgmusic.com.

Yeah that pretty much wraps up my favorites. I really wanted to add Secret of Mana, but aside from "Oracle" the Dark Lich battle theme and the Mana Fortress, it didn't really have much else.

Symphony of the Night or Chrono Cross.

CT.

Chrono Trigger or Illusion of Gaia.

Xenogears!

Lufia, and FF6

chronotrigger, most definately.

after that, i would say. . .

aw crap i know the game but cant remember the name! it's the sequel to illusion of gaia, w/ the advancement of the world and crap.

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Hmm... Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Illusions of Gaia (yeah! I'm not the only one who liked that soundtrack), Breath of Fire II, SaGa Frontier... Lufia II had some nice tracks too if I recall well. Those are all the other games I can think of right now.

My favorite track from Illusion of Gaia was the Larai Cliffs. I also liked the boss battle music and the final boss music.

I think it's predecessor, Soulblazer has even better music. Deathtoll's theme kicks my ass every time I hear it.

Chrono Trigger.

There are other games with very good soudtracks, too...
Super Castlevania IV
Megaman 3
Megaman X
Actraiser
Lufia
R-Type
Destiny Of An Emperor
Golden Axe
EVO - Search For Eden

Baldurs gate 2
starcraft
warcraft 2
the suffering (scariest game ever)
Command and Conqure
unreal tournamet
tekken 1-4 (includeing tag tournament)

Chrono Cross or Xenogears. Chrono Cross has more outstanding singles, but Xenogears is a more solid soundtrack.

KH for the One winged angel, there even if ff games can't be suggested one winged angel still is the best