(if this thread has already been made or this is supposed to be on the gaming thread, I`m sorry lol)
Well, I`ll start. For Japanese composers, pretty much the greats: Yuzo Koshiro, Nobuo Uematsu, Motoi Sakuraba and a lot of others that I cant name right now due to them being underrated AF and their name being somehow inexistent in my head and the face of the earth for some reason.
For American/European composers, Tim Follin is pretty self-explanatory. But I do also like people like David Wise and Evelyn Fischer (did I pronounce her name right? Not sure) for their amazing work on the DKC series, and also Chris Huelsbeck for the Turrican series.
For Indie/Fan composers, I guess NitroFlasher/Dominic Nimark (the creator of the MMX Corrupted OST) is pretty cool in my eyes, along with 40Nix, Kevin Phetsomphou and HertzDevil. Then there are the composers of this website themselves, like Lui37 and Izuna, and I guess CoolMario and CrispyYoshi as well. Oh, and Moose too. God, there are just WAY too many to choose! ARGH!
Either way, though, these are my top picks. What are YOU guys`s favorite composers? Maybe I might even learn some newer stuff too, who knows!
EDIT: To add a few more: ZUN for the Touhou series, Daisuke ``Pixel´´ Amaya for Cave Story, Jake Kaufman for Shovel Knight, Falcom Sound Team JDK for the Ys series (though I did partly mention Ys by mentioning Yuzo Koshiro), Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuko Takehara and Yoko Shimomura for their various works, Koji Kondo for the Mario series, Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida and Naosuke Arai for Thunder Force IV, and that`s about it tbh. I`ll edit my post again when I have other people to mention.
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