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Leliel
2008-12-22, 07:32 PM
What kind of BBEG?

Any kind of BBEG!

I give you: Metatron's Theme! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09t3EFCsq_o&feature=related)

DoomHat
2008-12-22, 08:10 PM
Try this on for size! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5S0dkLZoTg)

Starscream
2008-12-22, 08:17 PM
Give this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Ryxgs7oj0) one a chance. It'll be stuck in your head forever.

ShneekeyTheLost
2008-12-22, 08:20 PM
I give you the (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ios6zLDR8AI) ultimate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MRGt_PvyT8) BBEG theme song ever written.

Dogmantra
2008-12-22, 08:26 PM
This (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XbtqmAOwfS0) is suitably epic.

starwoof
2008-12-22, 08:36 PM
I recently used this music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ_OQAtgDQ) for a fight with an Ultraloth who rode a Purple Worm. The fight was appropriately slow and annoying.:smallannoyed:

Winged One
2008-12-22, 08:40 PM
There's a reason it's a cliche (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_MW65XxS7s).

Heliomance
2008-12-22, 08:51 PM
Something a bit different (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M_YSEbAWA0Y)

Yukitsu
2008-12-22, 08:58 PM
See if you can fit in a 5 minute pause where no one does anything. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTi2eCKy06I&feature=related)

Dacia Brabant
2008-12-22, 09:47 PM
Yasunori (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbEoTownSrA) Mitsuda (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBn6-ID7-E) For The Win (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3sErgVX25w).

Man I'd forgotten just how awesome the Xenogears soundtrack is; you could just put it on random and you'd have a pretty good chance of getting something awesome and fitting for whatever you need.

Oh and I just found this remix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57DH1jzNUrI&feature=related) of the final boss themes from FF IV and Chrono Trigger, they fit together really well.

Assassin89
2008-12-22, 10:01 PM
Retrieving music from the Final Fantasy Series:

Battle against Chaos (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=hRu8cqe-d1w&feature=related) from Final Fantasy
both (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-uzRz5frS-E&feature=related) themes (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=x_bNGJu7_NY&feature=related) for the elemental fiends from Final Fantasy
The final boss theme (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WZwYb5MP5Kc&feature=related) from Final Fantasy II
Dark Cloud theme (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=RvwxYYGbxRE&feature=related) from Final Fantasy III
Zeromus (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=jUGoPBQmVVs&feature=related) from Final Fantasy IV
Decisive battle (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6PkNirSetQc&feature=related) from Final Fantasy V
The theme against Neo-Exdeath (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2kgy5w6redk&feature=related) from Final Fantasy V
clash on the big bridge (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=EtdQl6WuFeI) from Final Fantasy V
Battle to the death (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3_1_dKYiEqk&feature=related) from Final Fantasy VI
Dancing (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ios6zLDR8AI&feature=related) Mad (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-MRGt_PvyT8&feature=related) from Final Fantasy VI
Jenova absolute (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=uYQJj0Y1-6U&feature=related) from Final Fantasy VII
J-E-N-O-V-A (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXiVBA7svc&feature=related) from Final Fantasy VII
Birth of a God (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=NGHkjLhIpU8&feature=related) from Final Fantasy VII
One-Winged Angel (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=BTxhh1Ins5I&feature=related) from Final Fantasy VII
Esper battle (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=oqD1GsdnHBk) from Final Fantasy XII
final boss theme (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_BL_rsPiQP8&feature=channel_page) From Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Ring of Fates

Asema
2008-12-22, 10:01 PM
The music in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8VUJ_qvJvY) video.

UserClone
2008-12-22, 10:26 PM
C'mon people, no-brainer. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWnJyKQACXA):smallamused:

Even better, the sing-along version. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ0fFgU22ls)

Mando Knight
2008-12-22, 11:03 PM
For when they're hanging on the edge of tomorrow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB7bMZpdrO8)...
...and need to show the BBEG what they're made of. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzK-OjlwwI)

Various (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T08oWYjwlSY) versions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvJkKwk8qYE&fmt=18) of the Dreadful (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UbdPnkDw98) Fight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG1Zn6yk2NE) from FFIV also work.

Agrippa
2008-12-22, 11:26 PM
There's a reason it's a cliche (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_MW65XxS7s).

Not bad but this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB8De8DsqiQ) song fits that type of villian rather well too. Hey guys, who'd like to see to see a Sephiroth and Kurgan meet up? They could even join forces! Add in the Dark Knight Joker and they'd have one hell of a time.

Choco
2008-12-23, 12:41 AM
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAerLYctZCk&feature=related) has always been my personal favorite

Glyde
2008-12-23, 12:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUO1df-URBI


Then again, a LOT of Therion would be suitable.

Malacode
2008-12-23, 02:57 AM
Anything from a decent RPG videogame. Even some platform games would work. Just don't play the Bowser (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=j4dkzb-QuI8) fight music, or your player will think you are nuts


Edit: And Bach. Bach's Fuges rock for BBEG fight sequences

vanyell
2008-12-23, 03:11 AM
I like using this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0)

Random NPC
2008-12-23, 03:54 AM
And Now for Something Completely Different (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6kx4u0gLNw)

Starsinger
2008-12-23, 04:49 AM
I find these songs from Lost Odyssey to be nice. Roar of the Departed Souls (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DbeGTgt0RWQ&feature=PlayList&p=85900B2B86E19EC4&index=50) Dark Saint (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bv6_bDfnHGc)

Klose_the_Sith
2008-12-23, 06:20 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55qnVWhNCJw&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0VgSKRpxTg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbEmHssozac&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzsD4g-pZg&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_iFxfCh2B8&feature=channel (Betrayal)

Just a touch of a sampling

Tengu_temp
2008-12-23, 07:05 AM
No SRW yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsTvThYgfwQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcoAmfRbYd0

Note: as expected from SRW, these tracks work only from the moment when the heroes feel that they're going to kick the BBEG's ass. When does this moment happen varies from hero to hero, depending on their determination and emo-ness (or lack thereof).

Drascin
2008-12-23, 08:35 AM
I think it depends on the kind of BBEG and the kind of encounter.

For example, if the thing is going to be an straight-up fight to the death with a rather direct BBEG, something like Nuclear Fusion (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=IxrQIOoRiI0) might very well work to give a sense of danger but still get the players in the mood of "time to kick some ass!".

On the other hand, if the idea is to give some sense of foreboding, things like the aforementioned Dancing Mad, some of the Org. XIII battle musics (this one linked at random) (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=mTK0vFL_3qc&feature=related), or stuff like the ever-classic Dark Omen from Chrono Trigger (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ntkan7F_Qw) can be better.

Tengu_temp
2008-12-23, 08:37 AM
For example, if the thing is going to be an straight-up fight to the death with a rather direct BBEG, something like Nuclear Fusion (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=IxrQIOoRiI0) might very well work to give a sense of danger but still get the players in the mood of "time to kick some ass!".


Heh, I thought you meant this Nuclear Fusion (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=7u107vJFlFg) when I clicked the link. Which is a great battle theme but not really for a BBEG.

AslanCross
2008-12-23, 08:56 AM
Queen of the Dark Horizons. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QP6EeEGeOc)
Erian's Mystical Rhymes. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUHTeSICi24)
U.B. (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyJWz5xj2A)

woodenbandman
2008-12-23, 09:03 AM
Are You Dead Yet? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBaYbOnp7hU)

Why Not? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX8sW8xZ0rk)