Favorite Video Game Music Composers

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dystopia on 17 May 2010

Yasunori Mitsuda takes the cake.

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CollectiveCynic on 17 May 2010

No respect for Western music composers I see.

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thelifatree on 17 May 2010

Koji, Uematsu, Harry Gregson-Williams (tho he's mostly a movie composer) with Konami's inhouse team... (basically whoever writes the music for metal gear solid.

Other than that, All the artists in little big planet, All the artists in that get assembled for wipeout soundtracks

sorry for not listing them all out... I'm lazy

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okr on 17 May 2010

Yoko Shimomura for her brilliant arrange album "drammatica",
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqqMSKDDNJU or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HpkYcTjqY
and for lots of other great compositions such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQcZbQ6UEew
She's my favourite VGM composer at the moment.

Masami Ueda/Hiroshi Yamaguchi/Rei Kondoh for Okami,
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0CbB-G9MXY (Kondoh) or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPsYCyZlGs (Ueda)

Hitoshi Sakimoto and his 7 colleagues for Oboromuramasa,
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwllSL46Grg (Sakimoto)

Takahito Eguchi & Noriko Matsueda for my favourite VGM Piano collection - Final Fantasy X-2,
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6MBv-4ocT4 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4xRCCz5ZWM&feature=related

Naoki Kodaka for Albert Odyssey Gaiden,
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7wIu0aDk5Q and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-SFIEhoKT0

Kentaro Haneda for his Wizardry compositions,
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKQQjfgCmEM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNCi0ccAddA

Hiroki Kikuta for Seiken Densetsu,
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2tniOMDPLs or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaaIBwlFG5U

Shunsuke Tsuchiya for his contributions to Arc Rise Fantasia (his compositions on this OST are better than Mitsuda's and Shimomura's),
e.g.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yE6pIB2eGg or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdaUfIUXV4U

Masato Koda for his brilliant Monster Hunter Main Theme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5kUdEpqewE

Yasunori Mitsuda of course for Chrono Trigger (I'm currently discovering his Xeno works) and more recently for his wonderful Soma Bringer tunes,
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl-0ymKTtlI or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWUWxOoCKZc or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H64pW_jKQYs

Yoko Kanno for her work on Nobunaga's Ambition and Uncharted Waters,
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETqCEGBowHA or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsreFA5KjYE

Michiru Yamane & Yasuhiro Ichihashi - whoever of those two composed the following fantastic tune for Castlevania-Order of Ecclesia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPiQm6-K2kM

Ko Otani for Shadow of the Collossus. I'm not convinced of the OST as a whole, but I love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_s3BGLu0s

Kondo & colleagues for Zelda, Uematsu and colleagues for FF.

Lots of more to discover and import from otaku.com, my search for great music will never end...

Sorry for all those direct links, but my 2 machines (PC/MAC) and 3 browsers seem to be cursed whenever I enter VGC. I can't embed any links.

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okr on 17 May 2010

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.

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griffinA on 17 May 2010

Western:

Matt Uelmen (Diablo series)
Derek Duke (Blizzard games)

Eastern:

Koji Kondo
Yasunori Mitsuda
Nobuo Uematsu
Koichi Sugiyama (Everyone should listen to his stuff, very under-appreciated)

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