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Video game music is IMO under appreciated in the industry. I can think of several games where the music absolutely made the game. TA especially.

SwiftSpear wrote:Video game music is IMO under appreciated in the industry. I can think of several games where the music absolutely made the game. TA especially.

MORROWIND
I <3 JEREMY SOULE

Moar frank klepacki +1's

Koji Kondo and WoW Music

I'll vote for Mr Seooleus or whatever when he does a game besides TA that... is better than TA. Yeah...

Caydr wrote:I'll vote for Mr Seooleus or whatever when he does a game besides TA that... is better than TA. Yeah...

you havent heard the morrowind music have you
except for the morrowind syndrome, it is so awesome i cant think straight

gimme 5 Koji Kondo songs that you think are great. Because I don't see anything very special! (Only two spaces left(if not including Kondo))

Comp1337 wrote:

SwiftSpear wrote:Video game music is IMO under appreciated in the industry. I can think of several games where the music absolutely made the game. TA especially.

MORROWIND
I <3 JEREMY SOULE

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
after 30h it drives you mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And don't forget Chris_Hülsbeck (Turrican&Great Giana Sisters) & all ppl who worked on Katamari.

Pendrokar wrote:gimme 5 Koji Kondo songs that you think are great. Because I don't see anything very special! (Only two spaces left(if not including Kondo))

Koji Kondo is... legendary. Leaving him off a list of top game music composers would be like leaving Beethoven off a list of top classical composers, or Carlos Santana off a list of top guitarists, or JRR Tolkien off a list of top fantasy writers.

Great songs? All of his songs fit perfectly with the games they're made for. The background music in Super Mario Bros 3 coordinates nearly perfectly with the levels they are designed for. The music for Super Mario World has a sense of unity rare in video game music - each song is a variation on the same melody, with enough significant differences in tempo, instrumentation, and rhythm that most people only realize it subconsciously.

I'm not an expert on game music by any means, but I guess my top 5 would be:

1) Koji Kondo
2) Frank Klepacki
3) Nobuo Uematsu
4) Jeremy Soule
5) Alexander Brandon

...based both on quality of music and contributions to the field.

Felix the Cat wrote: Great songs? All of his songs fit perfectly with the games they're made for. The background music in Super Mario Bros 3 coordinates nearly perfectly with the levels they are designed for. The music for Super Mario World has a sense of unity rare in video game music - each song is a variation on the same melody, with enough significant differences in tempo, instrumentation, and rhythm that most people only realize it subconsciously.

Doesn't matter. I still need 5 songs of which I will take 11.4 seconds from each of them! Sooo..... slow/ambient type music won't do!

I can't believe nobody has posted this...

Martin O'Donnell for the Halo sound tracks.
That's my number one.

Unfortunately, Halo games are hated in the Spring community, so I'll probably get flamed for this...

Link to a few free tracks: http://www.halo3ost.com/

Sleksa wrote:1) Frank Klepacki
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edit: blizzard's games usually have epic songs too, but i dont know their names :/

especially the songs for uaw:ea

Pendrokar wrote:

Felix the Cat wrote: Great songs? All of his songs fit perfectly with the games they're made for. The background music in Super Mario Bros 3 coordinates nearly perfectly with the levels they are designed for. The music for Super Mario World has a sense of unity rare in video game music - each song is a variation on the same melody, with enough significant differences in tempo, instrumentation, and rhythm that most people only realize it subconsciously.

Doesn't matter. I still need 5 songs of which I will take 11.4 seconds from each of them! Sooo..... slow/ambient type music won't do!

Google -> "super mario bros soundtrack"

But it sounds like your competition or whatever should be for the top 10 video game compositions... you're not going to figure out the top 10 composers from 11.4 second soundbytes.

Super Mario Brothers
Zelda
Starfox

easy to find good songs in each of those series written my kondo

Peter McConnell - Grim Fandango

The music in that game is amazing. Mixes jazz/bop/swing with traditional Mexican tunes and a few others.