| CollectiveCynic said: No respect for Western music composers I see. |
Respect? Who said we didn't respect them just because some of us didn't list western composers. I respect them, but I'm not particularly interested in their music. I'm a fan of soundtrack music, but imo the music from western VGM composers sounds too similar to modern movie music and none of their compositions can compete with the works of the best Hollywood/European movie composers (and with best movie composers I mean certainly not modern muzik fabrikants like J. Horner or J. Newton Howard, more legends like Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone or Nino Rota).
For example, I like Michael Z. Land's music for my all-time favourite series Monkey Island, but I don't like it enough to listen to it every day or outside of the game. On the other hand, I love Herrmann's brilliant works for Hitchcock, Scorsese and other directors enough to listen to it constantly.
My favourite western VGM score atm is the one for Flower composed by Vincent Diamante, which was fortunately released on PSN recently.
