Best Video Game music composer?

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Yoko Shimomura
0 (0%)
Koji Kondo
4 (57.1%)
Nobuo Uematsu
1 (14.3%)
Ippo Yamada
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Other
2 (28.6%)

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Offline HyperSonicEXE

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on: October 03, 2009, 05:52:15 AM
So, who's the best composer?

And I left out Jun Ishikawa (Kirby) and Jun Senoue (new Sonic), because their best songs are only in one style in their respective series.
Feel free to vote anyone, though.

Ippo's in there because there may be the same construction, but Ippo can still utilize different genres, tempos, and atmospheres, not to mention a great lack of Mega Man NES song-specific composer credit.

EDIT: Personal shout out to Makoto Tomozawa for Mega Man X, but at the end of the day, I'm going to have to give my vote to Kondo. Uematsu has FF7, and that's a whole lotta points, but Kondo speaks music as a second-language, not just matching moods to music.



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Reply #1 on: October 04, 2009, 10:08:26 PM
Add Yoko Kanno to this quiz immediately.



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Reply #2 on: October 04, 2009, 10:51:15 PM
Mmmmm, if I hadn't put this in the Gaming section, yeah:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6jCJZEFIto&fmt=18[/youtube]



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Reply #3 on: October 05, 2009, 12:21:35 AM
Don't really know that many names. Certainly not enough to name a "best", they're all pretty good.
I'd go with Capcom Sound Team, but...



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Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 12:56:41 AM
Don't really know that many names. Certainly not enough to name a "best", they're all pretty good.
I'd go with Capcom Sound Team, but...

Yeah, I hear ya. Thus, Ippo.



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Reply #5 on: October 05, 2009, 01:47:02 AM
Nobuo made the Final Fantasy prelude in 5 minutes. D:



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Reply #6 on: October 05, 2009, 05:07:16 PM
ZUN's pretty good, I think.



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Reply #7 on: October 05, 2009, 05:19:33 PM
Koji Kondo wins.

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Reply #8 on: October 05, 2009, 05:44:31 PM
Where. The. [tornado fang]. Is. Hideki. Naganuma? Or Richard Jaques for that matter? XD

Skipping my rabid love for those two, if this poll is strictly speaking in how diverse and great the portfolios of each person is, I think Kondo wins this one without a question. If we're talking personally, Kondo wins still. the guy was one of the big reasons we got the SMG soundtrack after all.



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Reply #9 on: October 05, 2009, 07:49:37 PM
Whoever did ZOE2's soundtrack is right up there as well.



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Reply #10 on: October 05, 2009, 08:24:07 PM
Whoever did ZOE2's soundtrack is right up there as well.

A bunch of guys did the music for the game.

Maki Kirioka
Akihiro Honda
Norihiko Hibino
Toshiyuki Kakuta

Let's just go with Konami Sound Team for the moment.





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Reply #11 on: October 05, 2009, 08:40:16 PM
A bunch of guys did the music for the game.

Maki Kirioka
Akihiro Honda
Norihiko Hibino
Toshiyuki Kakuta

Let's just go with Konami Sound Team for the moment.

Oh cool.  Thanx.

I really love the ZOE2 soundtrack.



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Reply #12 on: October 05, 2009, 08:49:50 PM
Awww, no Motoi Sakuraba, Yasunori Mitsuda, or Noriko Matsueda.



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Reply #13 on: October 05, 2009, 08:57:18 PM
Hmm.... Yunichi Masuda (Gamefreak) , Masaki Izutani (Psikyo), Jun Ishikawa (Hal), Capcom sound team, lol