Yes, the subject is obvious. We've had at least three soundtrack and music threads before, all of which were rather succesful and seemed to appeal to all kinds. With that thought in min; I'm not restricting this topic to discussing mere favs or why Soule just sucks the big one, rather; I'd like to see different views on game music as a whole. Do you mind the grand scores fps' seem to need nowadays? Do you tend to turn music off when you play or change it to something else? Minimalism or orchestra? Does the quality matter?
And to get this thing going; recently, I've become more and more a sucker for simple ambient tracks and sounds of blowing wind, not grand scores, but PoP3: The Two Thrones' soundtrack's contrast to it's predecessor, Warrior Within, took me by suprise. True, it's reaching for the same old movie sountrack-like ochestral symphonies like any other fantasy game, with some persian flavor thrown in, but while Warrior Within's music reached from annoying to decent(certain ambient comes to mind), Two Thrones is a solid work. I wouldn't call it masterpiece, but it takes the cake, so to say. Very very enjoyable after the metal-variant they called soundtrack in WW.