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Best western composer for vgs?

Allister Brimble



Robin Beanland
Graeme Norgate
Eveline Fischer
and of course David Wise

Stephen Root
 
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Whoever made the soundtrack to the new Deus Ex games. Jesper Kyd is also amazing.

Edit: Oh yeah, Mick Gordon! Killer Instinct and Doom have amazing soundtracks!
 
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I like my music "gamey" with memorable melodies, the west mostly do movie-style music and they all just blend together to me.

Jake (Virt) Kaufman:






Barry Leitch:


 
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Clint Mansell (Mass Effect)
Hans Zimmer (Modern Warfare)
Frank Klepacki (Command and Conquer)
Marty O'Donnell (Halo, Destiny)
Michael McCann (Deus Ex)
 
Many greats already mentioned.

I'd like to add Tim Follin to the list. Did a lot of great stuff on the home computers, as well as on consoles.

Some examples:






Richard Joseph (R.I.P.)



Steve Collett



Raphaël Gesqua




and there's Vladimir Frey, also known as MoozE, a very versatile composer from Russia, who composed stuff like this:

 
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Mark Morgan




Gavin Parker, Marshall Parker, and Sam Powell



Bobby Prince, especially his original compositions



Michiel van den Bos (who lives in my city by the way)



The Fat Man and Team Fat



Matthias Steinwachs



Tim Wright/CoLD SToRAGE, who was arguably on the same level as his "professional peers" during the PlayStation-era I think...
 
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Jim Guthrie












Disasterpeace, Lena Raine, Chris Remo, Jukio Kallo and Danny Baronowsky are all great too.
 
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Yeah Jeremy Soule is one of the best for sure.As much as i didn't liked both Oblivion and Skyrim as games their music was phenomenal (especially Oblivion's). Morrowind's OST was also great.

I also love the music from all Witcher games,Uncharted,and some themes from Assassin's Creed.
Besides those i had mentioned in my previous post i should also add Nathan McCree and Peter Conelly from the classic Tomb Raider games.

Whenever i listen to those themes they make me so sad for remembering how Tomb Raider and Lara Croft used to be and how they currently are. :(



 
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Michael McCann, Jeremy Soule, Jesper Kyd, Sarah Schachner, Marty O'Donnell, Graeme Norgate, Grant Kirkhope, Jack Wall.
 
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P.S. Fuck Mick Gordon. The DOOM (2016) soundtrack is one of the worst I've ever heard. Completely killed the mood for a game that demanded a proper Heavy Metal score, not that dubstep/metal-ish crap.
"Doom composer Mick Gordon: "one of the pre-conditions of the project was no metal"

 
"Doom composer Mick Gordon: "one of the pre-conditions of the project was no metal"

Mick Gordon still made the ill-conceived decision of using that dubstep crap for the soundtrack.
It still sucks.
At least he could've used more Lazerhawk and less Skrillex if he wanted to go more synth.
 
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