Favorite video game music composer?

MrMelGibson

Music can enhance and often times be one of the emotional drives behind a story.  I have always loved video game and movie soundtracks.  If i had to name my favorite composer I believe my answer would be Nobuo Uematsu.  He is known for his work on a majority of the Final Fantasy series.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Uema

What are your favorite composer/s?

shetlandslarsen

Chance Thomas . Best known to me for his work in lotro.

Galadourn

Jeremy Soule, he wrote music for the Elder Scrolls series

Po_gg

The good old 'game music' thread, welcome back   (there's one every few months)

No change on my part, Knut A. Haugen and Chance Thomas (and a proud owner of two AoC and three LotRO discs - yep, that means the Mordor and the Anniversary collection discs are not in my grubby hands yet, but christmas is coming )

Canibaloler

Clint Mansell for "mass effect" series and "the fountain" movie

rojoArcueid

Galadourn said:

Jeremy Soule, he wrote music for the Elder Scrolls series

And for GW 1 and 2.

From the west he's on my list too, as well as WoW's composers.

From the east, Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) and Miki Higashino (Suikoden 1 and 2).

I'm sure there are others i really like.

MrMelGibson

I'm gonna take some time and explore each composer's portfolio that you all suggested.  Thank you for the information. 

Renoaku

Back when Lineage 2 was good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQeIYVM3YBM

Darkfall just has that theme to it.

There is too many to name got a big collection of many games such as Planet Side 1,  The Witcher, Elder Scrolls etc.

Slapshot1188

John Williams.   Anytime a game uses his epic music it makes my wallet open...

... well.. except for SWBF2.


He is the Once and Future King of soundtrack composers.

Octagon7711

Composers names at the bottom of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLZUnIN1M4R_8kx4NXV3Nzdtsds6N_QKz6&time_continue=1&v=4jQ_NbelyZE

Not a game but the soundtrack from the movie Legend.

Slapshot1188

Lest this one be forgotten:

Scorchien

its pretty hard to beat Nobuo Uematsu of FF14

Loke666

Galadourn said:

Jeremy Soule, he wrote music for the Elder Scrolls series

He done a llot more good stuff, I like the original Guildwars music he did too.

I did like the music of TCoS as well, it was made by the Dutch band "Within temptation".

RexKushman

As a general rule I almost always turn music off in the options if I can. Most of it is crap and just distracts from the game and I can't really think of any games that had music I enjoyed. 

d_20

Galadourn said:

Jeremy Soule, he wrote music for the Elder Scrolls series

For me, this. I especially love the music for Morrowind and Oblivion. 

WoW has some amazing music as well. I especially loved the Night Elf lands. I'm not sure who composed those pieces. Anyone know?

Finally, I really enjoyed the original Fable soundtrack. Was that Danny Elfman? Edit: @chambordin Yes! Agree!

And some of the Civ V tracks are beautiful. I really enjoyed the one for Portugal, but I don't know who wrote it. There are some other really nice ones.

Recently, I really liked the metal soundtrack for the tutorial section of MU Legend, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere on youtube.

TheDarkrayne

There's so many great one's but I'm going to pick Nobuo Uematsu for his work on Final Fantasy VI and even more specifically the track Terra's Theme.

I think that's probably the most nostalgic and thought provoking sound track for me. 

TheDarkrayne

RexKushman said:

As a general rule I almost always turn music off in the options if I can. Most of it is crap and just distracts from the game and I can't really think of any games that had music I enjoyed. 

This seems like madness to me, music adds so much to games. From walking into Tom Bombadil's house and hearing a merry tune to the hilarious moment when Holding Out for a Hero kicks in during Saints Row The Third, music is just integral to presentation and is usually what people remember the most about games.

Each to their own but I'll never be able to understand that choice.

MrMelGibson

RexKushman said:

As a general rule I almost always turn music off in the options if I can. Most of it is crap and just distracts from the game and I can't really think of any games that had music I enjoyed. 

Everyone's got their own opinion and I can understand where you're coming from.  

SirAgravaine

Jeremy Soule

@Galadourn And KotoR

JeffSpicoli

Who ever did Vanilla Wow

kb4blu

Another vote for Jeremy Soule.  In my opinion the soundtrack he did for Icewind Dale was amazing.

Sovrath

kb4blu said:

Another vote for Jeremy Soule.  In my opinion the soundtrack he did for Icewind Dale was amazing.

Same here.

Sovrath

Octagon7711 said:

Composers names at the bottom of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLZUnIN1M4R_8kx4NXV3Nzdtsds6N_QKz6&time_continue=1&v=4jQ_NbelyZE

Not a game but the soundtrack from the movie Legend.

I actually prefer the original soundtrack to that movie (on the director's cut). Still, I think Tangerine Dream did a good job making a "dreamy" fantasyesque soundtrack.

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Xatsh

Gona have to cast my vote for Nobuo Uematsu. The man is a legend with video game music. Not many ppl have had such an impact in the video game genre as a whole as he did. Even today with FFXIV he is making masterpieces of videogame music.

Arglebargle

For me it would be between Jeremy Sole (Morrowind theme still raises the goose bumps), and Peter McConnell, who did the Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, and Pyschonauts scores, and a bunch of the Star Wars stuff too.