What are some of your favorite video game composers and why?
>>334630559
kenji ito
nuthin more needs to be said
Inon Zur, he nailed all three of the new fallouts imo. Say what you want about the games, but the ost's were incredible.
dumb frogposter
>>334630762
my nigga
Kirill Pokrovsky
right here
kenji yamamoto
akira yamaoka
david bergeaud
And marty o donell
>>334634565
>kenji yamamoto
Mah nigga
>>334634160
>being a weeb
Frank Klepacki
>>334630559
Keiki Kobayashi
Because Ace Combat
Toby Fox
David Wise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuqKBryfDB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFJrA3uk4Pw
I wish Faulconer Productions made videogame osts, at least i don't think they do.
>>334632516
I like dumb frogposter's music too
If you post any name that belongs to a nip you have shit taste.
Soichi Terada and Stewart Copeland
>>334635825
Not okay to like Koji Kondo?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koji_Kondo#Works
marty o donnel
Kenji Yamamoto
Whoever the hell collaborates with Hideki Kamiya for all of his games
Masafumi Takada
David Wise
Grant Kirkhope
Yoko Shimomura
Masafumi Takada is hit or miss tier for me but when he hits he hits hard.
>>334634565
>Marty O'Donnell
H1 to ODST were God tier
>>334630559
Hideki Naganuma
>>334635825
Nigga fuck off.
>>334635825
>I have shit taste
Harry Gregson Williams niggers
Kevin Schlider
Stephen Rippy
Alexander Brandon / Michiel van den Bos
Kirill Pokrovsky
Kenji Yamamoto
>>334635825
>if you post any name that belongs to a nip
good thing all of my favorite songwriters don't have nipples, the thing that literally every normal human being is born with
Chris Christodoulou, I only played two games he did the music for but they were both fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjqimqlaeZQ
Amon Tobin for the OST of Chaos Theory which was amazing and somehow still his weakest album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_IjGVWtVY
SOKEN
>>334635946
Also Mahito Yokota, just for partially composing SMG1 and 2 alone
>>334630559
In no particular order:
- Olivier Derivière
- Jesper Kyd
- Akira Yamaoka
- Motoi Sakuraba
- Martin O'Donnell
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Keiichi Okabe
- Darren Korb
- Zak Belica
- Pawel Blaszczak
Keiki Kobayashi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrspW6JVabI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19573R2nUx4
Christ Christoulou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD4E_YsZ2-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP-hSDIosNA
Borislav Slavov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcvndQIfu0A
Rupert Gregson-Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1YbmLA3MMA
Yuzo Koshiro
The Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack is almost timeless.
Western music is almost always God-tier
Weebs get it right once in a blue moon, where it may be tolerable for a single listen.
>>334637964
>Western music is almost always God-tier
Fucking kek
Post examples
Really loved Alexey Omelchuk's work in STALKER and Metro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONRCE6GiCQQ
Jeremy Soule
>Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim soundtracks
>Guild Wars soundtrack
>Harry Potter games soundtracks
>>334638356
fuck you, jeremy soule is an overrated hack and all his music sounds the fucking same
exceptions is the morrowind theme for one, but other than that, it's all samey shit
>>334638691
Kill yourself.
>>334636206
this you fucking niggers
>Kelly Bailey/Mike Morasky
>Darren Korb
>Jesper Kyd
Best Western composers
>>334630559
Michael McCann, solely for HR's OST.
Dat one Chaos Legion composer. He gets around apparently.
Russel Brower of WoW is dank asfuvk
>>334637875
>go straight
>expander
>max man
>almost
>>334636060
>tfw he got fired from bungie after working on Destiny
>Rage
>>334641552
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_d1j1V064
Soichi Terada and Jun Chikuma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6EDQJZ20c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba4J-4bUN0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBIjQwncfss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4FrNo4l-M
Their non-VGM stuff is great, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWT1DU0OBxw
>>334630559
Shimomoura
A machine who puts out god like soundtracks
Yoko Shimomura
Toby Fox :^)
>>334630559
Shoji Meguro.
>>334635886
>Stewart Copeland
you know it, anon
Ryu Umemoto was the absolute tops.