Who is your favorite video game composer?

[Castle Bleck 19,377]

Seconding David Wise and Koji Kondo:

 

 

[CastletonSnob 3,078]

Yoko Shimomura. She did an AMAZING job on the soundtrack for Super Mario RPG, which is part of the reason it's one of my favorite games of all time.

[Blue Moon 6,341]

Here is a list of my favorites:

 

Austin Wintory - Known for Journey

Danny Baranowsky - Known for The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy

Tomohito Nishiura - Known for the Professor Layton series

Normand Corbeil - Known for Heavy Rain

Gustavo Santaolalla - Known for The Last of Us

 

Some of my favorites:

 

 

http://youtu.be/pDyLuKaNKo8

 

I would put more, but I'm only allowed two videos.

[Blue Moon 6,341]

Here is a list of my favorites:

 

Austin Wintory - Known for Journey

Danny Baranowsky - Known for The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy

Tomohito Nishiura - Known for the Professor Layton series

Normand Corbeil - Known for Heavy Rain

Gustavo Santaolalla - Known for The Last of Us

 

Some of my favorites:

 

 

http://youtu.be/pDyLuKaNKo8

 

I would put more, but I'm only allowed two videos.

[Nuke87654 1,849]

One of my personal favorites is Daisuke Ishiwatari of Guilty Gear and Blazblue fighting game series fame. Not only is he a composer but he's also a musician, voice actor (original voice for Sol Badguy), illustrator, and a video game developer. Seriously he's a renaissance man when it comes to video games.
 
Here are some examples of his musical awesomeness for you to enjoy:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqfH99Hnxrc

 

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

 

Apparently I'm limited to two youtube vids. I had many more to share.
 

 

Edited February 25, 2014 by Nuke87654

[Discordian 6,015]

Shoji Meguro. I always, always, always love his work.

 

 

I'm also a fan of Tenpei Sato (who composes for the Disgaea games and such; I love his style and instrument choice)

 

 

and Masashi Hamauzu (mostly for his work on the Final Fantasy XIII games). Blinded by Light

Definitely gotta say that this guy is pretty amazing. The SMT series easily has some of my favorite video game music of all time and I've only played about four games in the series so far!

 

Nocturne being my favorite so far I've had high hopes for SMTIV. According to a friend of mine SMTIV is pretty much better than Nocturne in every way...and he loves Nocturne more than I do!

 

 

One of my personal favorites is Daisuke Ishiwatari of Guilty Gear and Blazblue fighting game series fame. Not only is he a composer but he's also a musician, voice actor (original voice for Sol Badguy), illustrator, and a video game developer. Seriously he's a renaissance man when it comes to video games.

 

Here are some examples of his musical awesomeness for you to enjoy:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqfH99Hnxrc

 

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

 

Apparently I'm limited to two youtube vids. I had many more to share.

I definitely love the music from these franchises. Used to have some Guilty Gear music on my MP3 Player. Baiken and Dizzy's themes from GGXXACP were the ones I listened to most often.

 

I can't wait for Xrd Sign.

[-D1SCORDANT- 1,080]

Frank Klepacki, hands down.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-gI_pFog0

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TkgmHWptVc

 

Especially the second song, It fits the setting of Tiberian Sun perfectly.

 

Though, Steve Jablonsky's work on CnC 3, and Inon Zur's work with the fallout franchise, are also amazing.

[Doc. Volt 2,561]

@,

 

HELL YEAH fellow brother of NOD! shall frank be Kane's right arm! all hail Kane, all hail frank! peace trough power!

[Rokkurin 214]

My favorite video game composer will be Hideki Naganuma. He was the one behind the Jet Set Radio Future Sound Track.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrTVg5-oSM

[Khaoios 1,970]

Martin O'Donnell, the Halo soundtrack is beyond amazing.

 

YES!!!!  I concur 100%.  Marty O'Donnell is legend at this point.  I have all the Halo OST's (the ones he composed) and still listen to them literally everytime im in my car..  So nostalgic and epic at the same time,

[~Silver Essence~ 2,625]

Kow Otani from shadow of he colossus!

 

That is the best piece of orchestrated music I have ever heard in video games based on ambiance and adventure.

 

[Guest]

Michael Giacchino and Christopher Lennertz, the guys who made the Medal of Honor score. I just can't pick between the two.

 

 

Edited July 23, 2014 by Guest

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,713]

I need to look into more video game composers, there are a lot of great ones out there.

 

The two that immediately come to my for me though are Dave Wise (Famous the the music of the Donkey Kong Country series) and Nobuo Uematsu (Famous for the amazing Final Fantasy music, from 7 to 10 I believe).

 

Those are just a couple of really good examples. I listen to a lot of their music. Aquatic Ambience and Stickerbrush Symphony are my favorites from Wise and my favorites from Uematsu, too many to list.

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,303]

Jeremy Soule, definitely. He's the genius that composed the soundtracks for Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim

Before he composed for Elder Scrolls, Jeremy Soule composed the soundtrack for a (perhaps underappreciated) SNES action-RPG called "Secret of Evermore":

 

Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu, and Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka (he and Keiichi Suzuki are responsible for my favorite video game soundtrack) are among my faves.  David Wise impresses, as well.

[IceeBrony 251]

So many excellent choices, so rather than pick a favorite I'll add to the list

Yasunori Mitsuda of Chrono Cross / Trigger

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Noriyuki Iwadare, known for the Langrisser, Lunar, and Grandia series.

 

 

[rarity1 461]

Jeremy Soule for Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,162]

Jeremy Soule is easily tops for me. His work on Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim is just...genius.

 

I also love Stuart Chatwood (Prince of Persia), Stewart Copeland (Spyro the Dragon), Inon Zur (Prince of Persia, Dragon Age), Adam Skorupa (Witcher), Ko Otani (Shadow of the Colossus), and others.

 

I just love game music. XD

[Shadowking58 1,137]

Whoever composed the soundtrack to this trilogy of games:

I apologize as I do not know the composer at this very moment. Edited July 24, 2014 by Shadowking58

[Khaoios 1,970]

I don't remember posting however, besides Martin O'Donnell, I gotta say Stephen Barton. 

[Poncebora 91]

Koji Kondo, Hes the one responible for almost every mario games soundtrack!