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Top 10 Video Game Composers - Easy Allies
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Pretty good list! I'm cool with Soule being left out, his work is way too generic - which fits Elder Scrolls, but doesn't stand out for him as a composer.
She may not be accomplished enough yet but I would have Manaka Kataoka on my list for her incredible work on Breath of the Wild alone.
She may not be accomplished enough yet but I would have Manaka Kataoka on my list for her incredible work on Breath of the Wild alone.
Yes, the way it should be. :) Consensus = boring
I opened the video depressed expecting to see no recognition for Yasunori Mitsuda, happy to be proven wrong for once.
Pretty great list. I'd personally find somewhere for Jesper Kyd, although that's a personal choice and I wouldn't expect everyone to feel the same. I would also include Kow Otani as an honourable mention purely on the strength of the soundtrack to Shadow of the Colossus. He's done a few other games but nothing I'm familiar with.
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That's my feelings, mainly because Uematsu kinda lost some magic in some of his recent titles.
He's my personal favorite, but I don't think you can really fault anyone ranked above him.
I really can't see Uematsu beating out Kondo, but it's a pretty solid list. Jessica Curry is the only one that stands out, less because of the quality of her work but the quantity. I think I would put Hip Tanaka in her place, but Grant Kirkhope and Kenji Yamamoto could also fit well.
I don't really fault them, and the list is fine. Music is so subjective that it's hard to say anyone's take is wrong, I'd just personally have him towards the top of my own list.
Good list.
Shogo Sakai's work on Mother 3 alone rocketed him up near the top of my personal list alongside Shoji Meguro and Masafumi Takada. And I imagine Toby Fox is gonna get even more popular as a composer once we're able to hear the entirety of Deltarune's soundtrack.
Shogo Sakai's work on Mother 3 alone rocketed him up near the top of my personal list alongside Shoji Meguro and Masafumi Takada. And I imagine Toby Fox is gonna get even more popular as a composer once we're able to hear the entirety of Deltarune's soundtrack.
Why is Motoi Sakuraba never on these lists?
Its especially surprising because he contributed tracks to all three Dark Souls games and EZA loves them some dark souls.
Bonus: I think I need to give a shout out to Masato Nakamura. Sonic 1 & 2 soundtracks are timeless. He may not have been profilic as a video game music composer, but what he made was iconic. Sonic 1's soundtrack is perfection.
Its especially surprising because he contributed tracks to all three Dark Souls games and EZA loves them some dark souls.
Bonus: I think I need to give a shout out to Masato Nakamura. Sonic 1 & 2 soundtracks are timeless. He may not have been profilic as a video game music composer, but what he made was iconic. Sonic 1's soundtrack is perfection.
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hm really?
CT is in the hall of greats.
And all the allies like Xeno and general, and Xenoblade's music if they haven't played it. He seemed a lock
David Wise over Yuzo Koshiro? Meguro over Hideki Naganuma?
As a wise man once said, "this ain't it chief"
As a wise man once said, "this ain't it chief"
That's wrong. Kondo literally stopped lead composing as soon as orchestration was even a factor in video game music. And the few tracks he contributed to the 3D Mario games are absolutely amazing.
Not just cause the guy is a dear personal friend, but Chris Huelsbeck should be on the list, and pretty high at that when considering his achievements. Not only for the melodic quality of his music, but he was among the very first video game composers in the world that managed to market his music as mainstream, opening his own record label for video game music, having his music broadcast via national radio in Germany, developing the world's first public tracker software (sound monitor), developing the 7 channel TFMX system on Amiga, developing MusyX on N64 (which was so successful Nintendo picked it up), and having a symphony dedicated to his music and again, broadcast on radio.
His legacy easily rivals that of Yuzo Koshiro and Nobuo Uematsu in terms of legitimizing and pushing video game music forward.
Oh and Alberto Gonzalez too, just cause his music is amazing.
His legacy easily rivals that of Yuzo Koshiro and Nobuo Uematsu in terms of legitimizing and pushing video game music forward.
Oh and Alberto Gonzalez too, just cause his music is amazing.
Yeah it's not EZA's fault at all, i'm bummed that Mitsuda was always snubbed hard at the Game Awards all these years which makes me questioning whether western journalists, youtubers,... really know him.
*Mitsuda :P
Good list, but I would swap Uematsu and Kondo.
And Masuda is missing (Pokémon)!
Kondo never composed for a RPG :P
Missing Motoi Sakuraba, Sakimoto and Hülsbeck instead of Wise, Curry and Kondo imo.
Not a nintendo childhood, I guess.
Not a nintendo childhood, I guess.
lol. You need to listen to more Uematsu. In no reality is Kondo's work as varied as his.
Expecting literally anybody in mainstream games media to celebrate a C64/Amiga composer is a waste of time.
Koji Kondo didn't compose music for Skyward Sword.
I feel like some people are really sleeping on Jessica Curry's music in this thread - she may not be as prolific as some others, but each and every soundtrack she's composed in games has been exceptional (Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Dear Esther, So Let Us Melt). Consistently amazing music that fit each game like a glove, and is often the reason to play those games. The music is that good.
Well he goes beyond that since he's had his success on SNES, Mega Drive and even PC Engine. I get what you mean, but its a damn shame.
