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Top 5 would probably be as follows:

1. Yasunori Mitsuda

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2. Nobuo Uematsu
3. Koji Kondo

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4. Yoko Shimomura
5. Motoi Sakuraba

Paul Anthony Romero and James R. King were awesome.

Daisuke Ishiwatari.

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Koji Kondo is one of the few names I know. He did a lot of good scores.

Motoi Sakuraba. I'm most fond of his music.

No mention of Richard Jacques in the above posts, either you're all teens and have never played a sega, or you're all noobs and have never played a sega.

Originally posted by Juk3n
No mention of Richard Jacques in the above posts, either you're all teens and have never played a sega, or you're all noobs and have never played a sega.

I've played Sega Mega Drive more than you.

John Williams...

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Jeremy Soule and Koji Kondo.

Koji is obvious but Jeremy Soule is a bit less known but his work is legenadry specifiaclly his KotOR score.

In all seriousness though even if we were to include non-VG composers I would still place Yasunori Mitsuda in the #1 spot. No other composer from any other medium or era can even slightly compare with him as far as the emotive and atmospheric quality of his music is concerned imo. His works on the Xeno and Chrono series were pretty unbelievable.

Really liked Harry Gregson Williams score for MGS2: Sons of Liberty. Other than that I don't know any composers.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
I've played Sega Mega Drive more than you.

Impossible, i grew up in a poor house, all we had was a fridge, cooker, tv and a sega megadrive.

well thats all i used growing up ^^.

Steve Henifin and Kurt Harland, Jim Hedges For Legacy Of Kain.

Originally posted by Juk3n
Impossible, i grew up in a poor house, all we had was a fridge, cooker, tv and a sega megadrive.

well thats all i used growing up ^^.

Well, maybe. I owed it for like 3 or 4 years, then I got a PS1.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Well, maybe. I owed it for like 3 or 4 years, then I got a PS1.

I owned mine for 6 years then i got a multi region Sega Saturn.

if you guys could, please post up some examples from youtube or other sites, of some of these memorable songs. I'd like to become a fan of some of those composers if they are good, you know?

Koji >

Here are a few from Yasunori Mitsuda, all from the legendary Xenogears:

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Originally posted by dadudemon
if you guys could, please post up some examples from youtube or other sites, of some of these memorable songs. I'd like to become a fan of some of those composers if they are good, you know? I could show you some Daisuke Ishiwatari.

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Just a few from him I particularly like.

In no particular order:

Jeremy Soule (I put his music on while I'm in bed to help me sleep, it's that good. Winds of Kynarith ftw)

John Williams for star wars games, indiana jones games, and alot of other movie-games.

Beetoven. No explanation needed.

Yasunori Mitsuda >>>>>> Beethoven

Bullshit.

Nebaris?

Martin O'Donnel. Polaski agrees.

Originally posted by One Free Man

Jeremy Soule (I put his music on while I'm in bed to help me sleep, it's that good. Winds of Kynarith ftw)


He did the music for Guild Wars. I have all of the soundtracks for those on my computer. They are awesome

Don't have the guild wars (never really got into that game) but I have the oblivion and morrowind OSTS and can't stop <3ing them.

I recently went camping in the mountains with all the redwoods and put one earbud in with the oblivion songs playing while hiking. It was hella boss/nerd.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Nebaris?
He certainly does have the same obsession for jrpgs. *shudder*

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Although I still cannot find that damn Factions track of his I like anywhere, even though it plays all the sodding time during Factions gameplay. (That Factions soundtrack above is a bit bombastic- he has better ones)

'Through the Asura Gate' is still my favourite from him, though worth noting that the title was clearly ignored in game. "Tune played sometimes when in Asura territory' would have fitted better.

I just snagged the main themes from the games...though I obviously skipped EOTN because I hear that enough logging in. Really wish that they'd change the music on the login screen!

As a whole I like the music from Nightfall the best though I think.

Originally posted by One Free Man
Jeremy Soule (I put his music on while I'm in bed to help me sleep, it's that good. Winds of Kynarith ftw)
Nice to see somebody else with taste.

Yeah that music added so much to the atmosphere of the game.

I can't believe that only one person has said Nobuo Uematsu. We're talking Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon and more. He takes it by a landslide.

Chopin get's a mention for Eternal Sonata though,

If not for Yasunori Mitsuda, absolutely. Mitsuda was entirely responsible for the three greatest video game soundtracks ever made in the form of Xenogears, Chrono Cross and Radical Dreamers, was far more heavily involved with Chrono Trigger's soundtrack than Uematsu and composed pretty much every memorable track in the soundtrack, and his work elsewhere such as on Xenosaga Episode I was also pretty incredible. Nobuo Uematsu comes close however. They're both two of the finest composers of all time, videogame or otherwise.

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Motoi Sakuraba is brilliant, espeically his works with the "Tales of" games... However the Final Fantasy games have the best soundtracks of any game IMO.

Uematsu is just one of those people that goes without mentioning. His compositions are brilliant. And I definitely agree about the FF games having the best game soundtracks. You'll find very few people who won't agree that he is amazing.

One of many reasons X-2, XII and XIII took a hit... Granted, they still have very decent OSTs... But nowhere near as good.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Really?

I assumed it was because X-2 and XII sucked, and XIII though better than XII was still not that great. "One of the many reasons"

Meaning, not the only reason.

The dude who did the 1st Sonic games!

Not many can comprehend how ground breaking Sonic's soundtrack was when it 1st debuted. Genius!!

Lost Odyssey did have some fantastic pieces. I just really like that game.

Originally posted by LLLLLink
Lost Odyssey did have some fantastic pieces. I just really like that game. I treat Lost Odyssey as the true Final Fantasy XIII. It has the feel of a Final Fantasy game, moreso than FFXII/XIII.