OK, this thread might be very popular or it might go down it flames...

OK the idea is to use videogame's music fan's knowledge to help find videogame soundtrack's that those of us that are musically challenged might like based on some of our preferences, be they musicals, games, films, tv shows etc...

Ok I'll go first, I'm a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan and really like the first soundtrack sold several years ago. I also tend to prefer female musicians and singers but by no mean does that mean I do not like male artists as my favorite band is The Who. I also love the violon and similar instruments. I think I have everything Vanessa Mae and Bond published.

Well... how about the soundtrack for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night?

It's performed by a female musician Michiru Yamane, it has a gothic feel to it, kind of like Buffy, as for The Who, I can't make a connection there, but it does include Violin like insturments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oquad3rnZSI

if you like vanessa mae check out lindsay sterling, definately worth listening to, for clean female vocals i tend to prefer kamelot, dark tranquility, lacuna coil and deadlock, when it comes to male vocalists i prefer disturbed, five finger death punch, avenged sevenfold, celldweller and the orchestral stuff apocalyptica, two steps from hell and brand x music

Thank you for the Lindsay Sterling reference, I got a $50 debit card for a music store (Archambault) for my 50th Birthday in December and now I know what some of it will buy me after checking her out on youtube. I haven't checked out your other suggestions yet but I can only hope they are as good as that. With that said I think I saw her before, didn't she did some covers for some genre music? Maybe "Game of Thrones"? That was nice, unfortunately I am not a big piano fan. There are exceptions there also like who does not like Beethoven or Jerry Lee Lewis?

yep game of thrones, mission impossible, starship (original by nikki minage), radioactive and other songs but she also made her own with a lot of dubstep influences, shes really good
as for the others well lacuna coil and kamelot are pretty much gothic rock, dark tranquility is melodic death metal, deadlock, disturbed, avenged sevenfold, five finger death punch are more the black metal area, celldweller is pretty much industrial but not as hardcore industrial as for example eisenfunk (their songs pong and jericho are great btw), apocalyptica is metal played on orchestral instuments (cello), two steps from hell and brand x music are the kind of epic music tracks from the big action movies (two steps from hell is responsible for the transformers soundtrack, their song arrival to earth)
and my all time favourite i missed to mention, shame on me, van canto metal without instruments (except for the drums and their voices ofc) they made awesome covers or well known tracks from alice cooper, over metallica to blind guardian and grave digger (the latest cover was europes final countdown) but they also have awesome songs of their own