I’ll start it off - Legend of Dragoon has my heart with this one
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.
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
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.
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.
Sm64 file select, lol
Need for speed underground 2
I always loved the Legally Distinct Massive Attack - Angel from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Rik Schaffer was on fire for that whole soundtrack.
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Baldur’s Gate II
(honorable mention - Civ IV)
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)
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.
Outer Wilds takes the cake for me.