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A question for the VG music fans out there!

What is the best video game music concert you've either listened to or been to see in person?

I've been fortunate enough to attend one of the very first Distant Worlds Final Fantasy concerts when it came to the San Francisco Symphony back in 2009, which was incredible. I got within an arms reach of Nobuo Uematsu when he passed through the aisle. I've also seen Video Games Live, which was a lot of fun, but perhaps a bit too... showy, and didn't quite have the same reverence for the music that Distant Worlds had.

But for my money, the very best concert I've ever heard has to be Score, a televised celebration of games music performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

This concert has some very cool deep cuts, and manages to give well-known games incredibly unique renditions (those Zelda and Mega Man medleys!!). also the host is by far the nord-est viking man I've ever seen

I love hearing new VG music I've yet to find, so please share what you like!



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I didn't even know this was a thing.



Mystro-Sama said:
I didn't even know this was a thing.

Definitely! Recently, game OST orchestrations have been gaining in popularity as the gaming populace ages. It's quite something to hear NES music revised for a full orchestra haha



Haven't been to one myself, but these two immediately come up in mind:

https://youtu.be/tane0rN6lak

https://youtu.be/wxkKUbNnXKE



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

I like the Mega Man speed run concert, went to one during PAX some years ago and it was pretty sweet.



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I haven't been to it, but I really like the Orchestral arrangements for the Zelda 25th Anniversary



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Been to a few (one while at either C2E2 or Gencon, that was an unexpected & fun sidetreck). If you like game music, you owe it to yourself to go see at least one such concert.



Ultrashroomz said:

Haven't been to one myself, but these two immediately come up in mind:

https://youtu.be/tane0rN6lak

https://youtu.be/wxkKUbNnXKE

Wow those are both pretty great, had no idea they happened!



Platina said:
I haven't been to it, but I really like the Orchestral arrangements for the Zelda 25th Anniversary

I do regret never seeing the Zelda concert series. Looks like its coming to my city in November so maybe I'll have to get tickets... >.>



Been to the Zelda symphony and The Pokemon symphony hard to say which I enjoyed more lol. Planning on going to the Updated Zelda one with Breath of the wild music. One I really want to go to is Video games live