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Title: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 26, 2011, 09:32:00 PM
I have a few, Martin O'Donnall, Kazumi Totaka, Koji Kondo, thats just to name a few

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You guys should all post a link to one of your favorite songs from the composers your listing.  There's no better way to talk about your favorite composer then my giving an example to why you love there music so much! ;) 
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Fleetstar The Flygon on April 27, 2011, 06:48:36 AM
Koji Kondo.. Because hw's the only one I know. :P
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Greg on April 27, 2011, 06:51:02 AM
Kondo and Shimomura.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 27, 2011, 04:33:18 PM
Quote from: Fleetstar The Flygon on April 27, 2011, 06:48:36 AMKoji Kondo.. Because hw's the only one I know. :P

Well, He's definitely one of the best! but you should check out some more! Martin O'Donnell has some amazing music check out this link for one of his songs http://youtu.be/b_2HdYRzr1M and this is one of my favorite ones http://youtu.be/VtC8ffxly5c and one last one you should check out http://youtu.be/wbkQ99OxQJU
I think its some pretty incredible music so you should check it out ;) 
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 27, 2011, 04:35:52 PM
Quote from: gzgregory on April 27, 2011, 06:51:02 AMKondo and Shimomura.

ya know I don't think I have listened to much music by Shimomura she did the music to Mario RPG right?
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: SlowPokemon on April 27, 2011, 05:05:20 PM
Well, yes, but more importantly KINGDOM HEARTS MAN. That is what she's FAMOUS for! xD

Anyway my favorites are Jun'ichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Shota Kageyama, Yoko Shimomura, and Mahito Yokota. They're all brilliant. Also the guy who did Professor Layton and Dark Cloud 2...Tomohito Nishiura?
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Greg on April 27, 2011, 05:44:34 PM
Right, Yokota. He's also really good.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 27, 2011, 08:40:42 PM
Quote from: SlowPokemon on April 27, 2011, 05:05:20 PMWell, yes, but more importantly KINGDOM HEARTS MAN. That is what she's FAMOUS for! xD

Anyway my favorites are Jun'ichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Shota Kageyama, Yoko Shimomura, and Mahito Yokota. They're all brilliant. Also the guy who did Professor Layton and Dark Cloud 2...Tomohito Nishiura?

haha yeah, I don't really play kingdom hearts but I know thats a popular game ;)

Of coarse the only thing I would know would be from a mario game haha
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Greg on April 27, 2011, 09:31:45 PM
Same here. I love the Partners in Time soundtrack, and I intend to arrange some of it.  :D
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 27, 2011, 10:25:02 PM
Quote from: gzgregory on April 27, 2011, 09:31:45 PMSame here. I love the Partners in Time soundtrack, and I intend to arrange some of it.  :D

Let me know when you get some arranged haha ;) It is indeed a good soundtrack
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Brassman388 on April 27, 2011, 11:24:37 PM
Nobuo Uematsu,
Kenji Yamamoto,
Koichi Sugiyama,
Akemi Kimura,
Dave Wise,
Hajime Hirasawa,
Hirakazu Ando,
Robin Beanland,
Setuo Yamamoto

...
annnnnnnnnnd
...

Yoshie Arakawa.

If I had to choose two it would be, without a doubt, Nobuo and Koichi.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: SlowPokemon on April 28, 2011, 04:35:44 AM
Quote from: ASH501ST on April 27, 2011, 10:25:02 PMLet me know when you get some arranged haha ;) It is indeed a good soundtrack

Bowser's Inside Story is sooo much better though. :)

In Kingdom Hearts, Shimomura used all her creative juices at once. Mario and Luigi is a very silly game, but also a very dark one. She has music that reflects that.

For example.

The Boss Battle is just a very fast-paced song, very light and quick. Clash of the Titans, which plays when Bowser gets huge, and the DS turns sideways and stuff, is very dark and evil sounding. "Friends" is a silly little piano waltz that plays when you're talking to someone who mainly serves as comic relief (the examples I can think of are Broque Monsieur, the three minions who rescue the cannon, and the three moles who call everyone "bro"). Then you have evil pieces like Fawful's Castle, Dark Area and Bowser's Castle, and more of the lighthearted stuff with Blubble Lake, the Underwater theme, and Toad Town.

Some stuff is obviously intended to be a mixture of light and dark, and there you have Dimble Wood, Cavi Cape Cave and Plack Beach.

Fawful's Theme does a good job of being uneasily weird, although it is one of my less favorite ones.

The two normal battle themes. Mario and Luigi's battle theme, "Lets-a Go!", does a fantastic job of sounding playful and light; while Bowser's battle theme, "It's Showtime", sounds manic and dark.

The title song is a great song because it shows the overpowering message of the game: that good will always trump over evil. However, I especially love it because it sounds a little weird occasionally with diminished chords, showing the slightly off-kilter nature of the game.

Finally, the Final Battle theme. It's without a doubt the best song in the game. The dramatic beginning opens to a dangerous and almost sad chorus that perfectly illustrates the Dark Star Bowser fight. It's a great soundtrack.

Oddly enough, when it comes down to it my three favorite tracks are all battle themes, which is very strange for me:
1. Boss Battle
2. Clash of the Titans
3. Final Battle
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: GaryOak on April 28, 2011, 08:29:24 AM
Uematsu, Yuzo Koshiro, Junichi Masuda. First one is genius, second makes so touching music and the last one is nostalgicawesome.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: DrP on April 28, 2011, 08:30:21 AM
Koji Kondo FTW... he started everything

Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Shota Kageyama, Mahito Yokota, Stewart Copeland, and some others.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: fabbemannen on April 28, 2011, 12:18:13 PM
Koji Kondo (Mario, Zelda)
Nobuo Uematsu (Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy)
David Wise (Donkey Kong Country)
Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Cross)
Robert A Allen (Jazz Jackrabbit)
Terry Scott Taylor (The Neverhood)

and some more...
I seriously love the Chrono Cross soundtrack <3
Who's the composer of the Wild Arms soundtrack btw?
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Mmella on April 28, 2011, 01:17:28 PM
-All pokemon composers who were involved with music from Gen I to III
-Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 2 OST)
and
-Junko Tamiya (Sweet Home and other Capcom games)
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Sekter77 on April 28, 2011, 09:18:27 PM
I only have a few I can come up with off the top of my head:
Koji Kondo
Kazumi Totaka (I love the Super Mario Land 2 soundtrack as you could probably tell)
Grant Kirkhope
Tomoya Tomita (In case anyone didn't know that I love the Kirby's Epic Yarn and Wario Land: Shake It! soundtracks)
Dave Wise (Just for Donkey Kong Country 2)

And those are all the composers that really come to mind. I probably missed some people or just don't realize how awesome they are yet.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 28, 2011, 10:05:23 PM
Quote from: Mmella on April 28, 2011, 01:17:28 PM-All pokemon composers who were involved with music from Gen I to III

I think Junichi Masuda is the composer for the original red and blue (or red and green version if your from japan) and that is some really good music! ;)
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 28, 2011, 10:07:45 PM
Quote from: fabbemannen on April 28, 2011, 12:18:13 PMWho's the composer of the Wild Arms soundtrack btw?

I think its Michiko Naruke except for the last game because she fell ill
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 28, 2011, 10:08:22 PM
Quote from: drpamplemousse on April 28, 2011, 08:30:21 AMKoji Kondo FTW... he started everything

Pretty much haha
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 28, 2011, 10:10:40 PM
Quote from: SlowPokemon on April 28, 2011, 04:35:44 AMBowser's Inside Story is sooo much better though. :)

I can tell you like that game! haha

Ya know I was really excited for that game but I never got around to getting it but after reading your comment you made me wanna go right over to my gamestop and buy it! thats a good thing! haha ;)
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: SlowPokemon on April 29, 2011, 01:36:43 PM
Partners in Time was my first, then Bowser's Inside Story, then I had to pick up Superstar Saga. Bowser's Inside Story and Partners in Time were my favorites, but all three had moments when I literally laughed out loud. Especially Partners in Time with Luigi xD

Also don't double post, let alone quadruple post. Use the edit button.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 29, 2011, 01:53:27 PM
Quote from: SlowPokemon on April 29, 2011, 01:36:43 PMAlso don't double post, let alone quadruple post. Use the edit button.

Yeah I know its bad to do that, I just wanted to reply to other peoples posts ;)
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Cobraroll on April 29, 2011, 02:01:25 PM
^There's nothing wrong in replying to several other posts with just one of your own, you know  ;D No need to make a new post for each reply.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 29, 2011, 04:48:02 PM
Quote from: Cobraroll on April 29, 2011, 02:01:25 PM^There's nothing wrong in replying to several other posts with just one of your own, you know  ;D No need to make a new post for each reply.

Thats true, I will keep that in mind ;)

I'm glad you keep me in check with all my posts, seriously ;)
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: SlowPokemon on April 29, 2011, 05:55:13 PM
It's cool, everyone does that when they're new. I didn't want to be all mean like Kefka was to me xD I didn't even know there WAS an edit button back then.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 29, 2011, 06:28:45 PM
Quote from: SlowPokemon on April 29, 2011, 05:55:13 PMIt's cool, everyone does that when they're new. I didn't want to be all mean like Kefka was to me xD I didn't even know there WAS an edit button back then.

Hahahaha, thats really good to know man!  It makes me feel better ;)

I learn something new all the time ;)

I love this website by the way!
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Greg on April 29, 2011, 06:46:32 PM
So do the rest of us.  ::)
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 29, 2011, 07:24:52 PM
Quote from: gzgregory on April 29, 2011, 06:46:32 PMSo do the rest of us.  ::)

NINTENDOSHEETMUSIC.....FTW!!!!!
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: Cobraroll on April 30, 2011, 04:14:12 AM
Quote from: ASH501ST on April 29, 2011, 04:48:02 PMI'm glad you keep me in check with all my posts, seriously ;)

Good to hear. I have plenty more!  ;D

For example, when replying to the post just above yours, no need to quote it. The "^" sign at the start of your reply works well enough. Likewise, "^^" for the post above the one above yours, and it can be stretched to "^^^" as well, but from there on, a quote works better.
Title: Re: What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?
Post by: ASH501ST on April 30, 2011, 12:57:06 PM
^ Okay cool ;)