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dtewi on 28 March 2010

For me, Nobuo Uematsu is incredible. Definitely one of the best composers out there. Just about every good Final Fantasy song was composed by him. Some of his best works can be heard in this video:

Yoko Shimomura is great as well. She composed the music for the Kingdom Hearts series.



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Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

I will never leave you

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priteshmodi on 28 March 2010

Martin O'Donnel (Halo, Mr. Clean!), Jesper Kyd (Hitman series, Assassin's Creed) and Kō Ōtani (Shadow of the Colossus).

Oops, forgot Amon Tobin for his work with Jesper Kyd on Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.



mitsuhide on 28 March 2010

Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy series) and Harry Gregson-Williams (Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 and 4)



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Fab_GS on 28 March 2010

Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy), Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono series & Xenogears) and Kō Ōtani (Shadow of the Colossus).



mitsuhide on 28 March 2010

@dtewi
that video was awesome! thank you for showing me that

and

to any fans of Nobuo Uematsu check out his band The Black Mages, they are amazing :D



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okr on 28 March 2010

Nobuo Uematsu, Koji Kondo, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoko Kanno, Kentaro Haneda, Masami Ueda, Masato Koda, Ko Otani (sorry, if I spelled one or two names incorrectly).

Western game composers: None
(some of them are really good, but most of their works sound too similar to MOVIE scores imo, i.e. if I compare their works to the works of my favorite Japanese game composers or my favorite movie composers such as Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Joe Hisaishi, Georges Delerue, Miklos Rosza, Nino Rota, Thomas Newman..., they don't stand a chance).



dtewi on 28 March 2010

No one likes music?



Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita

Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

I will never leave you

dtewi on 28 March 2010
Soriku said:
Uematsu, Shimomoura, Sakuraba (Baten Kaitos, Tales, Star Ocean, etc.), Shoji Meguro (Digital Devil Saga/Persona/Shin Megami Tensei games in general), Takeharu Ishimoto (TWEWY), Koji Kondo, Yasumi Fukuda (composed Mute City in SSBB...lvoe that song), Tsukasa Tawada (Pokemon Colosseum) and the various composers from Paper Mario: TTYD and Zelda: TWW.

You like someone for making one song?



Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita

Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

I will never leave you

atma998 on 28 March 2010

Koichi Sugiyama (Dragon Quest) is simply the best.



griffinA on 28 March 2010

Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura, Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono series), Hiroki Kikuta (Mana series), Koichi Sugiyama (Dragon Quest).

I must say, more people should listen to Dragon Quest music. Sugiyama isn't as flashy as Uematsu but he's made some very memorable tracks.

 

EDIT: Oh, and the VERY underated Kenji Yamamoto (Metroid Prime series)



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