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Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Mitsuda also did Xenosaga Episode I, which was kind of meh mostly, but had some good tracks. Your post, however, pretty much covered what I would've posted. Halo's is fine, but the mere scope of those two Japanese rpg composers is just awe-inspiring. Yuki Kajiura has dabbled in game music too, and I think the score she did for Xenosaga II was excellent.
Mitsuda also did Xenosaga Episode I, which was kind of meh mostly, but had some good tracks. Your post, however, pretty much covered what I would've posted. Halo's is fine, but the mere scope of those two Japanese rpg composers is just awe-inspiring. Yuki Kajiura has dabbled in game music too, and I think the score she did for Xenosaga II was excellent.
But yeah. If we're sticking to PC games, I'll say Heroes of Might & Magic has always had pretty good music. On consoles, we have Uematsu (already mentioned for Final Fantasy series) & Mitsuda (Xenogears, Chrono games, Xenosaga, a bit of Shadow Hearts) as two obvious notables... also very good composers would include Motoi Sakuraba (Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, Golden Sun, Baten Katios... closest thing to a progressive rock video game composer around) Michiko Naruke (Wild ARMs series), Yo****aka Hirota (Shadow Hearts & SH2- a video game counterpart for Taku Iwasaki, who did fine anime music in a similar style), Yoko Shimamura (Parasite Eve, Legend of Mana), Michiru Yamane (Castlevania series, other stuff), Noriyuki Idaware (Lunar series, Grandia series) & Jeremy Soule (KOTOR 1 & 2, Total Annihilation, Secret of Evermore). Hmm, that was longer than I intended... I suppose I give away that I listen to entirely too much video game music in my spare time.
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