I loved the art direction the game was taking, it was the perfect mix of cartoony Team Fortress and realism.

I to pre-ordered the game, something I try not to do after being let down so hard by Brink.

best video game composers:

Masashi Hamauzu:





Kenji Ito:




Hitoshi Sakimoto:

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Best composers who have composed for a limited number of games:

Shunsuke Kida:




Soshiro Hokkai:

my favorite game composers:

Hitoshi Sakimoto:



(as a sidenote, I'd like to say that I also think the sound engineers for ogre battle 64 did a great job of using the technology of the n64 to their advantage; it has a very "rich" and "full" feeling to it that I think is perhaps unrivaled amongst n64 OSTs)






Koichi Sugiyama:








(strangely, I kind of like this better in its NES form than the symphonic form)






Masafumi Takada:










Motoaki Takenouchi:










Masahiko Yoshimura:












Jun Chikuma:




(man the drum samples in this sound crazy good for a SNES game)



Hideki Okugawa:

Bomberman Hero's soundtrack went for something more... drum and bass, which is good but not as classic as the Super Bomberman tracks.

In fact, Super Bomberman's music were just remixed tracks from TG-16 Bomberman games. Give it a listen:





I like Jun Chikuma's affinity to middle eastern/asiatic music, it's somewhat mystic and catchy as hell.

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I also love NON and Nazo Nazo Suzuki's music. They compose for Treasure games, which has great soundtracks:







(I suggest checking the games' whole soundtracks. I didn't link to any Mischief Makers one because I am not fond of its music myself)

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Finally Masahiro Ikariko. He, along with others, are responsible for a lot of old Konami game music:

Fav Composer? HIYA.

Couple of all-time favorite tracks in gaming right here. I hope Mass Effect 3 will deliver on more memorable tunes.

(02-21-2012, 02:03 PM)Mighty Jetters Wrote:

Spoiler

Yay for Super Monkey Ball! I think the mini-game music like bowling and billiards have some of the best music in that game.

The latter two Monkey Races are my favorites in the game. I was so glad to find the music without the annoying "GO!" voices in the beginning.

(02-22-2012, 02:59 PM)Mighty Jetters Wrote: The latter two Monkey Races are my favorites in the game. I was so glad to find the music without the annoying "GO!" voices in the beginning.

Oh lawdy. Tell me about it! I had to search long and hard for versions of the music without the "go!" and the sound of the monkey dropping at the start. That was all a few years ago tho, seems that there are many cleaner versions out now.

also pokemon r/b/y whole soundtrack has a tendency to play in my head all the time

especially when im walking down the long hallways at my school route 4 plays or whatever

There's way too much good video game music.

EDIT: PLEASE DONT POST YOUTUBE VIDEOS IN THE REPLY'S LINK THEM PLEASE!!! THIS PAGES TAKES AGES TO LOAD!!!
Yep it's gonna be hard because I'm Diehard zelda n sonic fan so I make a little compilation here
Open your heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEzXFuYN89k
Planet Wisp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15WIhHy2beU
Dark World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sslj06K-Nlw
Midna's Lament/Desparate Hour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nq-gEG-E04
Radical Highway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68WOBoyRLwM
Good egg galaxy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzYBrUl926c
Ghirahim 3rd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YYVkacsZlk
MOLGERA!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlF0-Qs2xkI
Volvagia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mKWOb5PMY4
I am all of me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VpYfMxIoR4
Spagonia rooftop run day (RAAAAGH!!! reference)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0piixxCTmo
Crazy gadget Olympic games remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzDO-kLTjw

Pokémon X Gale of Darkness:

Battle Mode Theme 1
Battle Mode Theme 2
Battle SIM
Cipher Admin Battle
Cipher Peon Battle
Colosseum Theme 1
Colosseum Theme 2
Dr. Kaminko's Manor
Gateon Port
Hexagon Brothers' Theme
Miror B. Battle
Mt. Battle Leader Battle Theme
Mt. Battle Reception Desk
Multiplayer Battle Theme
Pokémon Center
Pokémon Lab
Relic Forest (I swear this sounds just like a Zelda song... can someone listen and tell me which one I'm thinking of?)
Theme of Suspense

(02-26-2012, 11:24 PM)Mighty Jetters Wrote: Relic Forest (I swear this sounds just like a Zelda song... can someone listen and tell me which one I'm thinking of?)

Is this what you mean? That's an arranged version of the intro music, but the harp in the later half of the song sounds almost exactly like the Relic Forest music for a few notes. I know, that used to weird me out in Pokemon Colosseum as well!