Agreed.
Do you really think Giacchino belongs in a top 10 list of "best video game composers ever?"
Same for Keigo Hoashi. Any list that doesn't even have someone who worked on NIER (or Automata)'s music is disqualified IMO. :P
Yes, absolutely. He's written some of the best orchestral music in the medium.
He's done some great stuff. But he's not top 10 worthy. He doesn't have the catalog in gaming or the like many in the top 10 here do or even the long-lasting impact of someone like Wise.
If you keep going you'll have listed more than 10 to begin with...No Marty O'donnell? No Okabe? No Soule? No Mick Gordon? No Jesper Kyd? No Kirkhope? Wut?
Care to explain why these people being Japanese makes the list terrible?
Halo has a memorable theme, but after looking up Marty's history to see what he's done other than Halo and Destiny, I'm good not hearing from him again after finding this.
I was about to say pretty much the same thing. Gordon and Korb are kinda one-note and Kyd is kinda all over the place, but goddamn do they all make some fantastic music.It's weird, I feel like this isn't a bad list, but I could still swap out like 4 or 5 for others like Mick Gordon, Darren Korb, Hideki Naganuma and Jesper Kyd or others.
Sanodg, Keiki Kobayashi, Hisayoshi Ogura, Noriyuki Iwadare, Masafumi Takada, Masashi Hamauzu, Kenji Ito, etc etcHow can you not put Hitoshi Sakimoto, Masashi Hamauzu and Audion a list like that?Ryu Umemoto
Heck, Shinji Hosoe? ESTi? Kohei Tanaka? Jake Kaufman? Frank Klepacki?
Care to explain why these people being Japanese makes the list terrible?
Terrible because it has more Japanese composers?
Nah, that comment is far worse and borderline offensive.
"Weeby?" Grow up.
You're exaggerating.Sanodg, Keiki Kobayashi, Hisayoshi Ogura, Noriyuki Iwadare, Masafumi Takada, Masashi Hamauzu, Kenji Ito, etc etc
They're starting to make watchmojo look like professionals of their craft
Mitsuda not being #1 something I don't agree with. Atleast he's in the top 3, but I think he's better than Uematsu and especially Kondo. The fact that the Nier composer (name escapes me at the moment) is not on the list is laughable.
Sanodg, Keiki Kobayashi, Hisayoshi Ogura, Noriyuki Iwadare, Masafumi Takada, Masashi Hamauzu, Kenji Ito, etc etc
They're starting to make watchmojo look like professionals of their craft
He is probably lesser known compared to these titans, but I would have absolutely put Motoi Sakuraba on the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoi_Sakuraba
He's done a crapload of RPGs. Star Oceans, Tales, Shining Force, Golden Sun, etc.
But I think his Eternal Sonata OST is absolutely perfect - one of the best OST in games.
Oh, and a little, virtually unknown game called Dark Souls.He is probably lesser known compared to these titans, but I would have absolutely put Motoi Sakuraba on the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoi_Sakuraba
He's done a crapload of RPGs. Star Oceans, Tales, Shining Force, Golden Sun, etc.
But I think his Eternal Sonata OST is absolutely perfect - one of the best OST in games.
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.
The top 5 in this list are nearly unarguable. So you're basically mocking their list for putting some others in the bottom 5 over your own personal list.
I don't understand why people get so angry to the point of being rude over this stuff. It's silly.
You damn right Yasunori Matsuda better be in top three on this list.
I don't get people who want composers in top 10 all time because of one game. Body of works needs to be bigger honestly. And I know it's not everyone, but I feel like a lot of people bring up Okabe's name and probably only heard the Automata's OST (he's indeed one of the best composers overall, not disagreeing).
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WOW, had zero idea Yoko Shimomura composed Guile's theme. I was so confused when they started playing that.
Aha yeah, he'd definitely make my list. Motoi Sakuraba too. Can't really argue with number 1. It's either Nobuo or Yoko for that spot.