When it comes to pure videogame music, personally it's Japanese games that do it for me, ranging from retro chiptunes to synthesized or real orchestras to vocal music.
Couple of my personal examples to show off the range.
^ Why am I not surprised? LOL!!! Anyway, I probably am the same, here's my list:
* Anything from the Tekken games except for that silly sheep stage in T6
* Anything from CV Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night
* SF Alpha and EX series
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When it comes to Tekken, I really like "Karma" from Tekken 6 and "Abyss of Time" from Tekken Tag 2. Akitaka Tohyama's Goa Trance-like style is quite catchy and it's the same for "BGM1" in Pac-Man DX CE which he also did.
Warriors Orochi 3 and Dynasty Warriors 7 music is like AHMAZING.
Final Fantasy XIII/XIII-2 music is like AHMAZING.
Tomb Raider music is like AHMAZING.
Batman Arkham City/Asylum music is like AHMAZING.
Tekken music is like AHMAZING.
Dead or Alive music is like AHMAZING.
And so on and so on, its all AHMAZING.
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Yeah Tecmo Koei's Musou series has great music and each series has a style that really seems to fit very well.
Dynasty Warriors = Rock music mixed with Chinese instruments. (The old theme/Lu Bu's is just too epic)
Samurai Warriors = Electronic/Techno with Japanese instruments.
Warriors Orochi = Tracks from both series plus it's own original stuff.
^ I really loved the remixed Ayane and Ryu themes in WO3, they were just............ omgepic.
All I wanna do, is come runnin' home to you, come runnin' home to you.
And all my life I promise to, keep runnin' home to you, keep runnin' home to you.