Vidya Composers

he's really good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponx7VYSrh4

I'm partial to Nobuo Uematsu and Tsuyoshi Sekito myself.

Scars of Time is probably the greatest video game opening song of all time. The only one that comes close for me is Xenoblade's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgPcl1WJ98Y

>>389336304

I really like Akira Yamaoka

can't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDslx2n7tEw

Ryu Umemoto

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>>389336304
i like kida a lot and also yamaoka but you have solid picks OP

Hirokazu Ando and Jun Ishikawa are pretty good damn good

>>389336304
Koichi Sugiyama

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>>389337150
>Hirokazu Ando
my fucking african american, you're pretty good

>>389336304
keigo hoashi

I'm partial to Marty but he's an artist who went into the wrong industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWh9l8RSkPk&list=RDAQRH6kLMa1k&index=18

>>389336304
Sadly, Mitsuda never topped those 2 games.

>>389336304
Any big name composer who can complete an OST without almost dying.
ZING

Except for Sakuraba, he's pretty bad in spite of his ability to not almost die writing music

>>389337398
I have high hopes for Xenoblade 2, Uraya's theme is fantastic and I'm pretty sure that's him

>>389337443
>I'm pretty sure that's him

inb4 it's like Xenoblade 1 ost where he contributes one song and the rest is ACE+ (who all did a damn fine job of it)

>>389337581
nah he's said on twitter each musician has an equal amount of songs, meaning he's done 1/4 or 1/5 of the OST

Classic JRPG music makes me sad

>>389337581
ACE+ did 29 out of 91 tracks, Sm4shfags like you need to be gassed.

>>389337581
>the rest is ACE

most of the OST was minami kiyota

/v/ is gonna shit on me but
keiichi okabe

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>Has worked on 50+ OSTs
>Less than five are regularly brought up

>>389338267
not my fault plebs can't appreciate the soundtrack of mario party 1

>>389336304
Shikata Akiko
Hiroyuki Sawano
Keichii Okabe
Yoko Kanno

There are a lot of amazing composers out there, oddly most of them are from Japan.

Masafumi Takada

>>389336304
Maybe not better but Darren korb has done some good work with bastion and transistor (haven't played pyre so can't comment on that).

Also wanted to add some western composers to this thread.

>>389338552
This shit is my jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqIyH91aX20

>>389336304
xenogears ost is really not that great. there's maybe 3 good songs on it. the rest is just leitmotifs

>>389336304
I can't. Okabe, Koshiro, and Gust Sound Team are close though.

>>389339775
Hoashi's work was much better on Automata than Okabe's.

Motoi Sakuraba > Mitsuda

Writes way catchier stuff, although Mitsuda has more range and depth, Sakuraba's the dude you want to jam out to.

>>389336304
I've never liked his music desu, it just doesn't sit well with me.


Masashi Hamauzu is good. You can tell SE is going to have him replace Nobuo.

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>>389339695
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdbVoIRqUx4

>>389339813
I can only hope you're a desperate tales fag, liking sakuraba, let alone liking him more than Mitsuda, is downright embarrassing

>>389339906
No, actually I consider Valkyrie Profile his magnum opus, the stuff he did in Tales is okay to good at best, few outliers here and there, but VP1 is his best work.
>>389339831
Hamauzu's magnum opus would be SaGa Frontier 2 imo. Full of german-named songs like his ancestry, you can tell that he put his heart into them.

Nothing beats that.

>>389339906
I don't think Sakuraba is as good as Mitsuda but to say he hasn't done good stuff is equally false flagging. This song is GOAT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6sOhQan9Y

>>389340060
congrats, you posted one of maybe a dozen songs out of hundreds he's done that are memorable

>>389339812
I haven't really listen to Automata OST, so I can't comment on that, but judging from MONACA's more recent anime OSTs, I can agree that some of Hoashi's tracks are better than Okabe's. I guess you can just replace "Okabe" with "MONACA" in my post.

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>>389339813
>Motoi Sakuraba > Mitsuda

>>389340134
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=mSQspWsGRCY

They are CATCHY.

>>389340031
I think Hamauzu's best stuff is from Final Fantasy X honestly, although SaGa Frontier 2 is really good but his stuff on X was just god like. His music really made the game for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxJE6SSX-aw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF-XlIS3keY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGOLjgXCJaE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGe60H59yIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_PjUvwHBs4

He's not everyone's cup of tea, but I adore Hitoshi Sakimoto.

https://youtu.be/jiy5uhxnGeA
https://youtu.be/hjEigh9C02E
https://youtu.be/DXrEnItacPM
https://youtu.be/vUMY3HsmyeU
https://youtu.be/oXpJymMVILM

Here's some lesser known tracks of his, but some of my favorites.

Some of his work can sound samey but overall his style of composition is probably the single most influential on my own. Sorely underrated imo.

Mitsuda is great too though.

>>389338932
Which games has Kanno composed for? I was under the impression that she only used to do Nobunaga's Ambition and Uncharted Water in the 90s and randomly the Ragnarok Online 2 soundtrack. Still one of my favorite composers.

>>389340317
the problem with his music is its great the first time, then you hear another OST and it's the fucking same shit. >>389340060 is one of the few exceptions

Mitsuda and Yoko Shimomura are both my jam.

I think Yoko has less range but obviously excels at piano and violin usage, whereas Mitsuda is more of a musical halloween, he can capture the essence of a locale extremely effectively.

What's Kikuta up to these days?

Shoji Meguro for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJf7jnRQsdE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7zvmq24Sck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6LWQhvzRw

And especially https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go0JWfE9nEw

>>389340576
Apparently working on the soundtrack for Indivisible, the upcoming not-Valkyrie Profile from the Skull Girls devs.

>>389340576
>>389340885
What's he done besides Secret of Mana? Only game I've played that's scored by him but the OST was really good.

>>389340805
Fucking finally someone mentions him.

>>389340365
I grew up with vagrant story's soundtrack. Phenomenal.

I can't think of any other video game composer that sounds like him.

>>389339813
Motoi Sakuraba has some good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Fza4rznqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG77HTdreh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_zLitqH1o

>>389340805
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=fOYwChN0tfM

>>389341369
Vagrant Story is definitely one of his greatest works, and probably the most dissimilar to the rest of his oeuvre as well. He said his greatest influence were the soundtracks of the Batman movies.

https://youtu.be/6Qj4PZEw1T0
https://youtu.be/6Qj4PZEw1T0
https://youtu.be/cWuJjNycL8Y
https://youtu.be/2xP0dFTlxdo

Some of my faves from the VS OST, fucking amazing game.

>>389341593
>posting the shitty isaac battle theme

cmon now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyL74_FzQcM

>>389340805
This, no one beats Meguro in how consistently good he is and how versatile his style is

>>389342018
The SMTIV OST utterly destroys anything he's ever done.

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Go Shiina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bckgyhCo7Lw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_gEATNuTRo

Find me a more unique and catchy tune than The Birds Chirp, I Sing.

>>389342043
Never listened to it so I can't judge
My point still stands however

>>389336304
I wouldn't go as far as calling them better because they are different music genres, but definitely "on the same level".

Yamane Michiru from Castlevania
Keiki Kobayashi from Ace Combat

>>389341859
That's interesting.
I'll have to listen to the musical scores for the old batman movies then.

>>389342058
They need to give him better games to make music for.

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>>389343337
Legendia is best game though.

Has it been announced that he's doing the OST for Code Vein?

>>389343410
I don't think so, but he also has whatever the new GE is to deal with. His music is the best thing about those games, followed by wacky bullets.

>>389343643
I hope that he is. They said he was working on new music aside from GE. That said, I wish I could get into that series, but for some reason it's just not my thing. Obviously the OST is a treat though.

He also did a crazy OST for Mr. Driller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8EhgyJbces

>>389339813
I only like his GBA and 64 stuff.

>>389339813
Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

>>389336304
Falcom Sound Team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlBD2-2zmAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNuIgx7huw8

Can we get some western composers in here?

>>389346832
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXwhcOClbk (Marty O'Donnell)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQZNNajxOk (Alexander Brandon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95HuSMQSUVo (David Wise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSr2Aj3RtaA (Jeremy Soule)

And last but definitely not least https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J0H5ah1G7A (Tim 'The Absolute Madman' Folin)

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>>389336304
There ya go.

sampling masters MEGA
sampling masters AYA
sampling masters SNDG
sampling masters j99

>>389336304
Yoko Shimomura's percussion is god tier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0mwOjhsDgY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E_bKobrC_o

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>>389346832
Austin Wintory is a fucking genius that gets far too little recognition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAJIU9nMbYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iqEkqkbSzU&feature=youtu.be&t=35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOVvU4t06c