Greatest Game Composers?

iohkus · Post by **iohkus** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:38 am

Frank Klepacki, who did all the C&C soundtracks like Hell March...

and the guy who did Q2 soundtrack... Sonic Mayhem i believe?

i'd include nin for Q1 and skinny puppy for descent 2 but they aren't really game composers...

is it more or there are lot of good industrial game soundtracks?

oh yeah and the guy who did fallout music owned, some creepy ambient stuff :shock:

but really some game music is really good stuff that out weighs a lot of the shit that's being force fed to all the mindless 12 year old drones out there over MTV and radio

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 10:08 am

Didn't we have this topic about 2 monthes ago?

BlackDog · Post by **BlackDog** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 1:19 pm

the soundtrack for Quest for Glory V is one of the best I've played to...

KruddMan · Post by **KruddMan** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 1:58 pm

Interstate 76 is the winner i have to say for best game soundtrack

spyder07 · Post by **spyder07** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 3:16 pm

I believe a band named Coblat 60 did a song on the C&C: Red Alert sound track. I think it was Radio, but I know for sure it wasn't Hell March.

axltrauts · Post by **axltrauts** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 5:19 pm

i don't remember... but there was a group named Alpha Lira that composed many soundtracks for videogames... where they for capcom or konami? anyways, they were great

anyways, i really think they guys that made the castlevania SOTN and Nobuo Uematsu from the final fantasy series

Sykotik · Post by **Sykotik** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 5:36 pm

Come on... you forget the musical soundtrack experience that was Unreal (and Unreal Tournament)? I used to listen to those UMX files for days on end with MODPlug...
The two main composers were Alexander Brandon and Michiel van den Bos, and damn... those guys track with a fevered intensity 8)

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iohkus · Post by **iohkus** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 2:12 am

spyder07 wrote:I believe a band named Coblat 60 did a song on the C&C: Red Alert sound track. I think it was Radio, but I know for sure it wasn't Hell March.

u can ask him yourself;

www.frankklepacki.com

he was the main composer, but he also had other composers come in, like for Tiberian Sun he had composer come in with ambient stuff.

Mohrg6sic6 · Post by **Mohrg6sic6** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 4:04 am

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Can't think of who did most of the music, but it's the best music in any game besides, FF, IMHO!

Mohrg

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 11:04 am

People who did the stuff for System Shock 1 & 2, Homeworld and Fallout. Fallout 2 was lacking in the music department.

Other then that, I don't really pay attention to music in games, unless it is outstanding or so shitful I need to turn it off.

axltrauts · Post by **axltrauts** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:10 pm

i also like the music from the lucasarts games like day of the tentacle and monkey island, the loops are well done.

and of system shock 1, they did and excellent job! it sounds almost that the music never ends and never loops!

And the Robert Prince music in Doom.

Da Man · Post by **Da Man** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 10:28 pm

Full Throttle was a good LucasArts game too.

Phias · Post by **Phias** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 5:27 am

Mark Morgan, who did the music for Fallout 1, 2 and Planescape Torment. A few others, who I cannot remember.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 6:29 am

Da Man wrote:Full Throttle was a good LucasArts game too.

And the songs from there were pretty good.
Anyone know the track-names? I'd like to be able to hear them without having to play.

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:25 pm

I believe they didn't realy have a name. I['m also pretty sure they came in midi format, get the game, use amazing hacking abilities, and wallah!

Also, for those naming Mark Morgan, yeah, the guy's a genius. There's also Yasunori Mitsuda, who were the main music composer in Chrono Trigger. There's also whatshisname, this one guy who produced most of the Final Fantasy tunes... Name starts with U? I GUESS HE'S JUST NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH.

Klepacki, now there's a name I don't hear very often for some reason. Yes, exellent work in C&C, but I don't recall hearing of his name outside the C&C community... Was his music used in other games?

If you want names of groups that used to be big in the gaming soundtrack, how's about Future Crew, eh? They're dead now, sure, but they used to be big... Skaven still makes music though, you probably heard most of his new stuff in practicly every new PopCap game that comes out.

C:SOTN doesn't realy have one composer(no suprise there), and it's kind of hard to decide who should be getting most of the credit for the music... I think, maybe Vennesa Mae? I'm pretty sure she's connected to it somehow.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:59 pm

Black Doggie WOggie wrote:the soundtrack for Quest for Glory V is one of the best I've played to...

Shitty game, though.

First Force · Post by **First Force** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 6:53 pm

Al Lowe, the creator of Larry 1, he also composed the music.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:15 pm

Moscow Symphony Orchestra - Outcast.

axltrauts · Post by **axltrauts** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:57 am

the guardian wrote:There's also whatshisname, this one guy who produced most of the Final Fantasy tunes... Name starts with U? I GUESS HE'S JUST NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH.

i'd say his name is Nobuo Uematsu, cool music, bad game.

the guardian wrote:C:SOTN doesn't realy have one composer(no suprise there), and it's kind of hard to decide who should be getting most of the credit for the music... I think, maybe Vennesa Mae? I'm pretty sure she's connected to it somehow.

I am the wind is a wonderful song!

U heard about the Castlevania: Resurrection music? although it was cancelled, i managed to hear their tracks, i never thought i'd hear one song of this game in Disco!!! And Yodel!!!!!! damn

oh, by the way, i found a small cover band called Mini Bosses. interesting thing.

Calal · Post by **Calal** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 4:29 pm

Some of the tracks on Empreror: Battle for Dune were nicely done. Can' t recall the name of the artist though. Those Ordos themes sounded plain weird, but added to the atmosphere, although maybe not in line with the overall feeling of Herbert' s books. Then again, none of the themes did actually.