Your favorite video game composer

[PunkicCyborg]

Shinji Hosoe. He composed some of the greatest OSTs for Namco like Metal Hawk, Dragon Spirit, Dragon Saber. His newer stuff is also awesome from Ibara and Under Defeat

 

[wataru330]

Anarchy Takapon. CPS composer extraordinaire!! Dem synths...

http://youtu.be/hMnmj6fAqPc

 

[Magician]

80s - Yuzo Koshiro, for Ys Book I & II
90s - Hitoshi Sakimoto, for Radiant Silvergun
00s - Yasunori Mitsuda, for Chrono Cross
10s - Jeremy Soule, for Skyrim

 

[famicommander]

Yasunori Shiono, composer for the original Lufia games.

Lufia II, aside from being the best game ever in the general sense, also has the best soundtrack ever.

Here's the full soundtrack:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6BB4862ADAA12E48

Some of my favorites:
Peace of Mind
Battle Theme 1
Battle Theme 2
Battle Theme 3
The Prophet
Final Battle

 

[Splitt442]

Masafumi Takada for Killer7 and God Hand

 

[Pretty Amy]

How can you guys mention Jeremy Soule without mentioning Secret of Evermore?

My personal fave is Masashi Hamauzu:

 

[Mac91]

Paul Ruskay. End of thread.

This makes me shit my pants every time I hear it.

 

[Domino-chan]

I have quite a few favorites. Overall, I'd go with Daisuke Ishiwatari followed closely by Nobuo Uematsu. My others would probably be ZUN and Kenji Ito.

 

[SNKorSWM]

A lot of Koei's earlier titles

Nagao Jun:



Takayuki Hattori:

 

[Taiso]

I tried to think about the classics like Koshiro, Uematsu, Kondo, etc.

I have heard their music so much that it no longer really moves me. I still enjoy it and it's still all very good, but familiarity has bred a bit of contempt in me for that stuff. Whenever I'm taken with listening to a game soundtrack, I tend not to pick anything by them because I've heard it a million times now,.

My current faves would have to be:

Hitoshi Sakimoto

Keiichi Okabe-Nier and Drakengard 3 both have amazing soundtracks.

Hedeyuki Fukasawa-Street Fighter IV series, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 series, and especially fucking Chaos Legion and Shin Onimusha, which are two of the greatest soundtracks of all time.

 

[neojedi]

Motoi Sakuraba - He's been around a long time and worked on numerous RPGs including the Tales series, but he gets my vote because of Valkyrie Profile 1 & 2.

 

[ballzdeepx]

If anything this thread has shown how diverse we are when it comes to music, I haven't heard a lot of these so it's nice to hear some new stuff thanks for sharing thus far.

 

[Opethian]

fuck yea Dice-k!


Tatsuya Uemura


Atsuhiro Motoyama


Go Sato

 

[Renmauzo]

Yasunori Mitsuda. his work on the Xeno titles will always be among the best for me.

 

[evil wasabi]

Hitoshi Sakimoto.