Your favorite video game music composers.

[Dr. Peach]

This thread is all about talking about your favorite video game music composers.

Let me start it off with my favorites.

#1: Michiru Yamane

Well, what can I say? She is a total genius. She is a skilled musical composer. Her music pieces sound very distinct and far apart from anything I've heard other composers do. She does mixed styles in some of her work. She knows how to mix styles together and make things sound nice.

#2: Tim Follin

This guy's work is absolutely brilliant. He has composed so many awesome renditions of songs of the many home computer ports of famous Capcom arcade classics in the 80s in Europe. He also is well skilled in pushing the limits of the sound chips of all the various retro home computers of the 80s. I am very impressed with his work on the Amiga and Commodore 64.

#3: Simon Viklund

I am very impressed with this guy's work in Bionic Commando Rearmed. This guy knows how to remix songs and make them sound really awesome. He really is a total genius when it comes to remixing things.

#4: Chris Huelsbeck

This guy is well known for composing the music for the Giana Sisters series and some other video games. I think he does a fantastic job in his compositions.

 

[Red Barchetta]

Grant Kirkhope.

 

[Ray Trace]

Christophe Herale and Billy Martin of Rayman Origins/Legends are probably my favorite video game composers

Also, whoever did Persona's soundtracks are great too.

 

[freakworld]

Composer	Known for	Personal Favorite
Nobuo Uematsu	Final Fantasy I-X, XIV, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The Last Story	Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad
Yoko Shimomura	Mario & Luigi Series, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy XV	Mario & Luigi: Dream Team - Adventure's End
Yasunori Mitsuda	Chrono Series	Chrono Cross - Scars of Time
Jeremy Soule	The Elder Scrolls Series, Warhammer Series	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Main Theme
Motoi Sakuraba	Baten Kaitos, Dark Souls, Tales of ...	Baten Kaitos Origins - The Valedictory Elegy (Never actually played any of these games, love the music though)
Rob Hubbard	Monty on the Run, Nemesis the Warlock	Monty on the Run - Theme
ZUN (Jun'ya Ota)	Touhou Series	All of them.
Tim Follin	Silver Surfer, Solstice, a lot of other obscure shit with awesome music	Silver Surfer (NES) - Level 1
Chris Hülsbeck	The Great Giana Sisters Series, Turrican Series	Turrican 2 - The Final Fight
Grant Kirkhope	Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, other Rareware Stuff	Banjo-Kazooie - Treasure Trove Cove

 

[Meta Knight]

Koji Kondo

 

[Crackin355]

Motoi Sakuraba.

I don't really remember any names except this guy because I ended up liking a lot of stuff he did before I even knew he did it.

 

[freakworld]

Composer	Known for	Personal Favorite
Nobuo Uematsu	Final Fantasy I-X, XIV, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The Last Story	Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad
Yoko Shimomura	Mario & Luigi Series, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy XV	Mario & Luigi: Dream Team - Adventure's End
Yasunori Mitsuda	Chrono Series	Chrono Cross - Scars of Time
Jeremy Soule	The Elder Scrolls Series, Warhammer Series	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Main Theme
Motoi Sakuraba	Baten Kaitos, Dark Souls, Tales of ...	Baten Kaitos Origins - The Valedictory Elegy (Never actually played any of these games, love the music though)
Rob Hubbard	Monty on the Run, Nemesis the Warlock	Monty on the Run - Theme
ZUN (Jun'ya Ota)	Touhou Series	All of them.
Tim Follin	Silver Surfer, Solstice, a lot of other obscure shit with awesome music	Silver Surfer (NES) - Level 1
Chris Hülsbeck	The Great Giana Sisters Series, Turrican Series	Turrican 2 - The Final Fight
Grant Kirkhope	Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, other Rareware Stuff	Banjo-Kazooie - Treasure Trove Cove

Updated my post above with Favorite and shit.

 

[Dardy]

Grant Kirkhope, there is not a single piece of music that he composed that I didn't like. My favorites are Jungle Japes (the first location), and Grunty's Industries (inside version, maybe because I just spend too much time there.)

 

[Dr. Peach]

Composer	Known for	Personal Favorite
Nobuo Uematsu	Final Fantasy I-X, XIV, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The Last Story	Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad
Yoko Shimomura	Mario & Luigi Series, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy XV	Mario & Luigi: Dream Team - Adventure's End
Yasunori Mitsuda	Chrono Series	Chrono Cross - Scars of Time
Jeremy Soule	The Elder Scrolls Series, Warhammer Series	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Main Theme
Motoi Sakuraba	Baten Kaitos, Dark Souls, Tales of ...	Baten Kaitos Origins - The Valedictory Elegy (Never actually played any of these games, love the music though)
Rob Hubbard	Monty on the Run, Nemesis the Warlock	Monty on the Run - Theme
ZUN (Jun'ya Ota)	Touhou Series	All of them.
Tim Follin	Silver Surfer, Solstice, a lot of other obscure shit with awesome music	Silver Surfer (NES) - Level 1
Chris Hülsbeck	The Great Giana Sisters Series, Turrican Series	Turrican 2 - The Final Fight
Grant Kirkhope	Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, other Rareware Stuff	Banjo-Kazooie - Treasure Trove Cove

Updated my post above with Favorite and shit.

And no Michiru Yamane?

She is still awesome especially with SOTN.

 

[freakworld]

And no Michiru Yamane?

She is still awesome especially with SOTN.

Gotta be honest with you I don't know her lol

 

[DragonFreak]

Pretty much anybody who composed for Mother series.

Which is Keiichi and Suzuki for the first two games, the second added Hiroshi Kanazu too. And then for Mother 3 it was Shogo Sakai.

 

[Dr. Peach]

And no Michiru Yamane?

She is still awesome especially with SOTN.

Gotta be honest with you I don't know her lol

She is a composer who has worked on Castlevania music first in Castlevania: Bloodlines and becoming the primary composer since Symphony of the Night. She also composed music for other Konami games like PES.

 

[Weasel]

can't believe i'm the first person to bring up david wise in this thread

 

[Dr. Peach]

Koji Kondo also does a nice job but if he ever teams up with Tim Follin, Michiru Yamane, and Chris Huelsbeck then it would be a masterpiece made somewhere between heaven and earth.

I am particularly impressed with Michiru Yamane's work with the Castlevania series from SOTN onwards (excluding Castlevania 64 & LOD since she didn't even compose any music for these two abominations). Lament of Innocence and Symphony of the Night shows her amazing skills.

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

Koji Kondo

How did he not get mentioned until the 5th post?

Koji Kondo for sure.
Toru Minegishi (and Asuka Ohta), mostly for Twilight Princess music.
Shogo Sakai, mostly for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse.
Masami Ueda for Bayonetta 2.
Yoko Shimomura for her M&L stuff.
Hajime Wakai, for Pikmin. (Atsuko Asahi and Asuka Ohta as well for Pikmin 3)
Asuka Ohta for a lot of things.
Mahito Yokota for Super Mario Galaxy stuff.

And a bunch of others.

 

[Zae]

Daisuke Ishiwatari for the incredible guilty gear soundtracks i just cant get over them, especially holy orders and awe of she.

 

[Time Turner]

Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, and Hiroshi Kanazu, (EarthBound), Toby Fox (Undertale), Danny Baranowsky (Cave Story, The Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy, and other indie darlings), and Keiichi Okabe (NieR) are the ones that distinctly stand out off the top of my head.

 

[freakworld]

Danny Baranowsky (Cave Story

I'm 90% sure Daisuke Amaya made the music for that game himself, at least the original version. IDK about the 10000 remakes since I've never played them.

 

[Zae]

Danny Baranowsky (Cave Story

I'm 90% sure Daisuke Amaya made the music for that game himself, at least the original version. IDK about the 10000 remakes since I've never played them.

well the dude made the game entirely by himself so yeah probably.

 

[freakworld]

Quick Google told me that Danny Baranowsky did the Soundtrack for the 3DS Remake of Cave Story.

 

[Zae]

well im talking about the original game, the remakes eh idk maybe uh manslaughter

 

[freakworld]

well im talking about the original game

I know

 

[Zae]

well im talking about the original game

I know

also i really like the guy that made this

 

[Time Turner]

Danny Baranowsky (Cave Story

I'm 90% sure Daisuke Amaya made the music for that game himself, at least the original version. IDK about the 10000 remakes since I've never played them.

daisuke did the original songs

but dannyb's versions are sooo much better

like the originals were great, but they were begging to be revitalized

besides daisuke still told dannyb how to make the remixes

 

[freakworld]

never listened to them but will give it a try