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  • I want this video on my GM210 unit.

  • You guys don't seem to understand how powerful this theme is. This is the grandfather of all battle themes.

  • For it's time this battle theme is absolutely fuckin' AWESOME. It makes no sense to compare it to any RPG afterwards since the modern JRPG format can be traced back to the first three DragonQuest games. Look at it for what it is.

  • Is this dragonball the game? I see Gohan, Master Roshi, Android 17, 18, and Chiaotzu all the way in the back...yep...this is dragonball all right

  • ¿This is the better music? LOL!

  • Just listen to the one for Dragon Quest 9! IT was killer!

  • What!?? I was expecting a really epic song at the end...this is good song but not fantastic :/

  • One Zoma appears!

    

  • For being a 2 D FF fanboy since I was young, lately I've been getting on DQ 1-3-4-5 and I like them even better than FF at times. Hating one of these two awesome series is stupid.

  • Wow 381 FF fanboys.

    You should open the eyes, pals, FF never was the best RPG, and now it really sucks

  • @Bangy88 FF is not the only RPG out there

  • God this is awesomeness

  • @LordXemus Well.... At first I thought just like you, BUT! if you play the game with this music, well.. see for yourself : 3

  • 666 likes... I'm outta here

  • @frostare 667 now, I've saved the world.

    Even though I dont agree with this being #1

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  • Theeeeeeres my dragon quest 3. Why isn't the main battle theme on here?

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  • True...

  • I'm happy for ya Final Fantasy, and imma let you finish in a minute, but Dragon Quest was one of the best rpgs of all time!

  • Incidentally, every time I play a Dragon Quest-based game made using RPG Maker, this is ALWAYS the last boss theme... it truly is the most epic Dragon Quest Final Boss music.

  • More than 300 Final Fantasy fanboys hated this video :)

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  • I think I love them in this order DS, NES, Orchestrated, SNES and GBC

  • I played this game probably more than 10 years ago on the GBA remake, hearing this music just made a big fat nostalgia bomb fall over me

  • This song and the battle are both epic D:.

  • I really dont like this song, I am sorry

  • @Xelights Don't be, I mean I love this song, but everyone's entitled to their opinions!

  • What's done is done, however I am surprised though not to have seen Godsibb from Xenosaga 3 in the top nor battle themes from Saga Frontier.

  • Dragon Quest > Final Fantasy

  • @DragonAkaSora Normally I'd disagree, but lately it seems FF in going WAAAAAAAAAAAY downhill and DQ keeps getting better! DQ is awesome! Old FF games are awesome too.

  • how did tales of the Abyss' main theme song not become # 1, just ain't right. -.-

  • @LTJustin514 Uhhhh, because it's Top 1000 RPG BATTLE themes perhaps?

  • @frostare It is not that i don't understand that getting first out of 100 is difficult, i was just expressing my opinion about how i think the main theme song for Tales of the Abyss is better than this. Its number 80 on this count down and of course it isn't the exact main theme because the instruments are different in this version. But it is still a "RPG BATTLE theme". (P.S. take time to erase mistakes if u notice them. It is 100, not 1000)

  • @LTJustin514 Oops my bad. But yeah, that should only be if its truly a battle theme.

  • I say... you should put in the boss battle theme AND the last boss battle theme from the snes game Arcana. If you'd only use one of them, use the last boss battle theme, its a better remix of the boss battle theme. They're both good though. Thumbs up for anyone thats played that game til the end and knows what I mean.

  • every time you make top 100 lists, you know number 1 will get lots of hate ALWAYS

  • @BinaryDood depends on how good it is. clearly you havent seen the few great number ones in top 100 lists.

  • mmm... in my opinion, dancing mad is much better than this...

    it is interesting to see other people's tastes though!

  • I disagree with not seeing SaGa Frontier 1, although I'm glad to see Kenji Ito's work shown here with Romancing SaGas.

  • if a FF fan think what the DQ gohan cant beat sephirot then say it to me right here, so i can have a reason for KICK YOUR ASS!

  • @samusmex Sephiroth would win.

  • Koichi Sugiyama>Nobuo Uematsu

    And this is a fact since Nobuo himself named Sugiyama as Big boss of game music.

  • @Volviert The fact is only that Nobuo acknowledges it.

    Me? I like Sugiyama better too, but I figured I'd point that out.

  • @Volviert And the fact that Uematsu himself is willing to admit there better composers than himself means that he has a sense of honor.

  • @AjiraCtelin1993

    More like sense of humor.

  • @Volviert Or maybe due to Japanese culture, he was showing honor and respect to a fellow composer. It's not a FACT one is better than the other, they're both amazing composers. Everything doesn't need to be pitted in a VS. matchup. This modern culture always feels the burning desire to do it though :/

  • @Volviert Obviously Nobuo's not gonna be a douche and name himself big boss of game music. Just because he praised another composer does not mean that composer is > Nobuo. There is nothing factual about that statement at all.

  • This is an amazing final boss song.

  • It's not Goku guys what drug are you on?!

    It's Gohan 100% sure of it!

  • So many haters on both this game and final fantasy... sure final fantasy fanboys are annoying and are dumbasses but hey! who says final fantasy sucks??? it is one of the most awesome games ever made... well from 1 to 10 because the 11 12 13 14 suck

  • Son goku get out of this body ^^

    I hate this sound , this is the first time im heard it , but i dislike a lot :/

  • Very catchy tune this is, Thanks for uploading!

  • @KeyboardKrazy49 Not really catchy, I don't think I can remember the whole tune......

  • @dawnoftheguitar I quite liked it, especially when the brass kicks in at 0:45 and at 1:32

  • This and Dancing are both pretty good (though I'd personally not put either near the top echelon). Is it really that hard to judge on a song's artistic and psychological merit rather than which protagonist has the most absurd hairstyle? Really, guys?

  • World Revolution from CT easily tops this in adrenaline, epicness and determination.

  • what the fuck phantasy star 4 has the best battle theme all he shows you is the boss theme fuck this look it up

  • Lol this is the worst song out of the list wowwwwwwwwwwwwww

  • hey!

    what happened to one of the best rpg?

    Terranigma?

  • Is taht Goku?

  • Koichi Sugiyama <3

  • Fuck yea! This game took me literally YEARS to beat!

  • @MudDragon723 Did you take a pause from playing it O-o

  • @AbhorrentSin That's only in FF7, also Dragon Quest was also made by Square enix, so enough about trolling FF. I myself hate that FF7 is so Overrated while the rest of the games, which are pretty good in my opinion, are forgotten while FF7 gets all the glory and haters. Dragon Quest is an awesome series as well. :D

    @tiveqcriarcontanova Yea, that's what I thought when I saw him. XD

  • FF fanboy here.

    Never heard this song before today.

    Its good. Really good. Has several themes that run with each other well enough. Would like to hear an orchestration.

    To all the other FF fanboys out there, I dont think this should have beat Dancing Mad either, but its still a really nice sounding work. Easily worthy of a top 10 spot.

    The closer numbers are just opinions, popular opinions speak for themselves.

    Liked.

  • Last night I jailbroke my itouch and downloaded a gameboy emulator just to play the original Dragon Warriors and the Monster's and I'm loving every bit of the Old school RPG feel

  • Could they make him look anymore like Goku? Yeah, just add the power pole and you're all set.

  • Toriyama, while a gear artist, admittedly wasn't very versatile.

  • Every time I go to listen to any song, I always see a war going on in the comments, and it ALWAYS has something to do with Final Fantasy. STOP WHINING, IT'S A WASTE OF TIME. Nobody's going to change their opinion over what you say.

    Though... I suppose the same is true of this post as well.

  • Was this song really on the game? I love NES music but I can't imagine the NES actually producing music of this quality. This is SNES qualtiy.

  • @85ihateposeurs It's not. It's from the SNES remake.

  • Dude you forgot castlevania's themes

  • This song sucks D:

    I thought It was gnna be something amazing lol

    This should of been like 30th

  • @bestmuirhead Well all these are based on the Underworld23's opinion. It's his favorite song so it would only make sense. Some people can't seem to understand this.

  • @Dallahan yea i know that man and i totaly understand that but theres just soooooooooo many people who would agree when i say that this shouldnt be number 1 you know

    I just wish someone would make a ''actual'' top 100 not based on there own preferences

    And i dont wanna sound like a broken record to all the trolls but a ff song ''should'' be number 1 just based on the fact of how good they are, sure there over played but theres a reason for that.

  • @bestmuirhead When you say "actual" top 100, you mean 100 songs picked to be the best by the masses? That would be rigged badly. The biggest fan bases will have a huge priority over the list since their voices will be heard the most. You can probably expect tons of Final Fantasy, and Pokemon music. I think it's impossible to make an unbiased top 100 list that everyone could agree with. Everyone just has their own opinion and like to enforce the "MY opinion > YOUR opinion rule" with music.

  • @Dallahan Atleast that way ppl cant go ''Ooooh your bias thats the only reason this is first''

    Cause its what the majority chose rather than just one guy who likes a specific song.

    I mean yea i get where your coming from that it would be bias, but honestly if ppl heard them first then chose the results would be good to see you know, A couple of the tunes i heard in here i really did like, and i personaly would vote for something like hmmm Skies of arcadia ''even tho im a big ff fan''

  • Zoma > Sephiroth, Kefka, Artemisa, Necron, Exdeath but NOT Zeromus

  • @frostare Why are you comparing Dragon Quest to FF? They're 2 totally different games. And Zeromus came out of nowhere just like Necron. They should be on the same level.

  • I love how everyone comments on how much the characters look like DBZ, like the Dragon Quest artist plagiarized it or something. Akira Toriyama DOES do other things you guys.

  • great list :)

  • I don't believe there can ever be a perfectly accurate top 100 rpg battle themes playlist, because everyone seems to be more opinionated on the games than any actual music. Also, the music itself invokes movement in the soul in different ways. Though all songs are different, can one truly be called better or worse than another and be correct in everyone's eyes?

    So please stop your dang *****ing, I'm sick of it,

  • far to be EPIC like many other Battle theme....

  • i dunno why, but the beginning kinda remind me of Yu-Gi-Oh for ps1!

  • imo Lufia would deserve #1 :( whatever, this one is good aswell. :P

  • Some of you younger people probably don't think it's that epic but to people that actually played the game it is. Fighting Zoma with this playing in the background is just awesome and of you want it to be even more epic don't use the Sphere of Light.

    I suggest you do that at Level 50+ of not then you should be able to beat him at Level 35-40.

  • Hahahahah look at all the FF fanboys crying. Zoma would crush your skinny, long haired shemale bosses.

  • @AbhorrentSin

    wow wow wow did you just say your a shemale? wtf

  • @MegaZeldaking ...What? I'm pretty sure he was calling the antagonists of FF shemales.

  • @Andruth34 ok well we don't know that for sure so lets just say hes a dumbass lol

  • @Andruth34 He was, MegaZeldaking is so obsessed with shemales that the sheer mention of the word spikes his fascination for them and automatically assumes the person is one.

    A real closet homo, it figures that that's why he's so fixated on link. Thinks he is actually a female.

  • @AbhorrentSin HA! Zoma ..Now that was a boss. I remember he beat me a few times. Had a lot of HP and btw, not all bosses in FF are humans or humanoids.

    Take for example FF 10, the boss right after you leave that city bevelle, was a real nasty dragon, that son of a bitch had an area attack that did a shit load of damage, killed me many times.

    Not all FF games are too bad...but most of them now are just made for idiotic fanboys. That's why I like the SNES emulators, old school FF ftw.

  • @AbhorrentSin Yeah,provocating the FF Fanboys is a great way to promote just how awesome Dragon Quest is.  Grow up up,please.

  • @DiogoJ1Pretty funny that he got many thumbs up, considering he may just have been trolling. Not promoting anything

  • @AbhorrentSin really? did you just make a comment like that lol... why does this main character look like Goku..

  • @AbhorrentSin That's only Sephiroth, Kefka is obviously not a shemale lol Good battle music, but I still prefer DQVI's final boss music

  • @AbhorrentSin Zoma ALONE could slaughter most Final Fantasy antagonists - and Zoma's not even the strongest. Nimzo and Mortamor are far stronger, and even Mortamor is weaker than Nokturnus (granted, Nokturnus is an optional boss).

  • @AbhorrentSin well...technically, final fantasy bosses are more powerful than zoma because they deal alot more damage in the thousands...zoma only deals damage in the hundreds :)

  • @AbhorrentSin Who, Sephy the mama's boy? He can't do anything but obsess over his mothers head. XD

  • @AbhorrentSin Um... Psaro is also a skinny long haired...

    Aw screw this! We all agree Sephiroth is overrated.

  • @frostare For some reason Psaro's misanthropy seems more genuine to me. That and his transformations are more beastly!

  • @AbhorrentSin Heh, he transforms like a real man!

  • @AbhorrentSin

    I Really wanted a one of the themes from Chrono series, atleast Xenogears.

  • Final Fantasy VIII - Boss Battle Theme!

  • @xXKrajisnikXx Fuck that new FF bullshit. The bosses look like total shemales.

  • Not only is it great sounding in and of itself, it most likely paved the way for at least one other tune in this list. So if we're going by significance and not purely sound, I would say this deserves to be in at least the top five if not where it currently stands.

  • Is this truly a greater accomplishment than Dancing Mad? Yes, this was first, but does that mean nothing beyond it is allowed to surpass it?

  • No offense, but why the SNES version? The GBC version is 100x more sinister :D

  • doesnt really sound as epic as allot of the other songs in the list...

  • Just to counteract all of the retarded dipshits posting here: this is the grandest of all final boss themes and the archetypal one in my mind.

  • If this is number one, FFXIII's Eidolon music is number 0,5

  • Classic, epic, fuckin metal. The sheeple don't understand greatness when it's right in front of them.

  • wow.... I was excepted to this have atleast a catchy tune, but nothing here seems to have any reason for this to be #1 RPG Battle Theme. Come on! Chrono Trigger had a way better soundtrack than this garbage. WTF!

  • lufia should've won

  • I dont get why people are so annoyed by this being number one. I mean, yes it isn't what you would expect but it is a personal opinion. Besides, the theme kicks ass! And the battle too! It was one of the longest and most fun final boss battles i have gone through.

  • This just means music is not just about the quality, but also emotions.

    I didn't play the game, but after hearing it several times, I think I understand why it's #1, even if it's not for me.

    A final boss is always epic, and if on top of that, the music is also epic, then it wins a place in you.

    And "feeling the epicness" is an unrivaled emotion !!

  • This is #1? HA~! HAHAHA!

  • LOL at the dislikes... the little fanboy pieces of shit can't tolerate when someone doesn't like their favorite game

    GO SUCK A DICK, SHITHEADS

  • i do kinda like it. I also believe that there are better battle themes but still. Its original i guess. Usually its an dramatic-savetheworld-fightfor­yourfriends song that i heard way too much of.

  • il est naze se theme sa svoit trop le vieux casual qui fais genre ouai jprefere psk c vieux

  • I remember when I beat Dragon Quest 3 when it hit 0:31 that is when the music finally sunk in to me that this was the final boss and a game that took me roughly 10 years to beat was finally about to come to an end. (Mind you guys but I start playing this when I was around 6 and went on and off and made new files on the way)

  • Big fan of DQ3 but your list of "greatest" themes is pretty terrible. I'm sure alot of ppl would agree with me, this belongs around number 90 or so imho

  • oh hai, I just wanted to let you know that you named this video best battle theme #1, It seems to be the wrong theme, fix it please.

  • main char looks like Dai from dragon quest manga :3

  • This is horrible in comparison to most.

  • Gohan..san?

  • character designer is Toriyama Akira(Dragon Ball)

  • This is number one? Meh, wouldn't make my top 100. Goes to show just how subjective music is.

  • @HylianSwordsman1

    subjective ? no. this theme IS crap.

  • @CaptainObvious0000 Well, I was trying to be nice, but yeah, that's what I was trying to say. But go ahead and point out the obvious, CaptainObvious.

  • wah i went through all the top 100 and there was no song whatsoever from langrisser 2 on the sega genesis? Man, almost all the battle/theme songs were awesome to the max!

  • @versale86

    Langrisser 2 is definitely epic about its game and music

  • Dragonball 4 ever :D

  • Sees the main character of Dragon Quest III, Son-goku from dragon ball very very similar ^ ^

  • AND YOU DARE PUT ONE FUCKIN WINGED ANGEL HIGHER? FINAL FANTASY 7 WAS THE GODDAMM WORST RPG EVER!!!! I'd rather play Contra with a single life! And at least you had the brains to put Dancing mad on this list.

  • @hidood5th Worst RPG ever? How many RPG's have you played? =/

  • @MrBalfazaar

    FF7 is definitely good. But it doesn't deserve a higher spot than Dancing Mad.

    Google: Critical analysis of dancing mad.

  • Ok, seriously?!?! You put a Fuckin Pokemon song at #94!?!? What the hell is your problem?! Pokemon is an awesome game with awesome music goddammit! Plus, Lance's theme from Gold and Silver was the best! Do you have no taste in music?

  • @hidood5th Most of the pokemon games had terrible music. Though this new white and black version had a couple good tracks.

  • Great game.

    Still, the music wasn't that great. D:

  • son...goku?

  • @tiveqcriarcontanova lol it's the same artist! But funny! ;D

  • @tiveqcriarcontanova they do look very much alike, after all it's Akira Toriyama who's the character artist

  • @tiveqcriarcontanova

    Every hero, designed by Akira toriyama looks like son goku somehow.

  • @tiveqcriarcontanova It's the same guy who drawed Dragon Ball series who also design characters for Square.

  • @DarthAlphaTheGreat Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger only so far, I think. He designed Blue Dragon Characters for a different one.

  • @tiveqcriarcontanova my comment still on the top? lol let's try again:

    son...gohan? XD

  • @tiveqcriarcontanova GO SUCK YOUR MOTHER

  • Makes me want to make my own 100 rpg town theme ; but this time is my version. That way, I can indirectly shoving my agenda down to the viewers throat about my own taste. Too bad, I'm too lazy to do that. I disagree with uploader opinion 100% about everything he claimed as a top rpg town themes, and also battles. The only good thing was he archieved those songs into one packet. His opinion about rank? I don't give a damn.

  • Excellent choice for the #1 spot. Must hold some nostalgic value for you too.

  • Your list isn't very original, I see you taking the overrated pieces from the underrated games, the ones that everyone already has on their list. Other than this song, this one is pretty original. But I see things like One Winged Angel and The Battle with Magus, and I'm thinking, maybe he got his music off of the other guys' lists. Now, that doesn't have to be the case, but it seems you all just keep putting up the same songs that frankly, aren't really that good.

  • I thought that was kid gohan for a sec

  • whats gohan doing on the cover...

  • @Alexgeneseo

    I don't know if anyone told you yet, but the Dragon Quest games have all been animated by Akira Toriyama, the same animator who worked on the Dragonball animes. That's why there's such a big resemblance.

  • @KwasiMounsou thanks

  • I'd have to agree to this song being one of the coolest rpg fight themes ever. It's build-ups and all the bloops and blips that put the song together really create a more "poppy" sense every time another instrument is introduced. The orchestrated version is a feast for your ears.

  • how does this beat sephiroths theme?!

  • @CobraAssassin94

    Believe me, One Winged Angel was overhyped. Now everyone knows it's overhyped, so it's underhyped. But regardless, OWA doesn't have as much sheer musical value. It's an awesome song, granted, but still. Also, this is all based on Underworld's opinion I believe.

  • This was a classic, defining piece in the history of battle music. However, it's point was to allow progression, not to be the pinnacle. There are far better choices for #1 in my opinion, though if it were based on nostalgia and musical value, this would definitely have a fair run.

  • Still my favorite Dragon Quest game to date, really wish they would remake it again. A GBC version is too old!

  • honestly... lufia is better... my opinion

  • 334 people forgot to use the orb of light to break zomas berrier

  • its your countdown i guess....

  • I am following along this song in Dragon Quest IX. For anyone that owns that game for the DS (it came out in the american continent around 2010) and you want to listen to a cool arrangement of this song WHILE battling DQIII's final boss YOU CAN! Just download mission #167 at Patty's tavern, for free! As easy as getting Victini!

  • This one is pretty amazing! This one deserves #1, for me personally, I'm at a tie between this and Grandia II.

  • This is SO not the #1 RPG battle theme. Really good though.

  • Wait, does this guy have TWO top 100 RPG battle theme lists?! O_o

  • how does this beat one winged angel?

  • @OgZikkyC1 How does this beat "Howl of the Departed" for that matter? LOL

  • Ohwait, actually I did like the song so nm about that.

  • @falconriffle

    Shippuuden is completely the same.

    Same characters, same storyline (well, I should say CONTINUING the same storyline), same process of kicking ass, etc. And no, it is not that easy to tell it came from DBZ. Anyways, to end this argument unless you troll over it again, this song sucks TO ME and the game sucks TO ME period. And that is my opinion good day sir and or ma'am.

  • @falconriffle

    You tell everyone to mind their grammar? Lol, fucking grammar nazis trying to pull a fast one.

    But what I'm saying is that it's not similiar enough to KNOW it was mainly based on DBZ, unless you closely study each one like a closetfag. Yeah, chi system, though it works way differently, and yeah, Naru could do a lot less hero-izing, but at least it isnt 24/7 battling. ACTUALLY, the transformations are no longer key anymore, thanks to Shippuuden and a master key on his seal.

  • @ShadowbaneOverload

    You don't need to study to see it because it's that obvious and sorry that you are not able to capture everything at a single glance since it's a nice thing to know.

    Oh and shippueden is a totally different thing when naruto tried to be more unique.

  • ....Did anyone who has done a comment bother to fucking tell the more ignorant people that Akira Toriyama does the art for Dragon Ball, as well as Dragon Quest?

    That's why they look the same.