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sf2 was so far ahead of its time. Each theme was a masterpiece even dalsims elephant shit was dope.each theme captured the visual and the limited sounds they had makes it that much more special. Even the sfv remakes cant hold a candle to the originalsIf anyone ever goes to my twitter page and take a look at my banner picture many will wonder who those are:
If you don't know anyone on that pic at all with the exception of one, you should forget about caring for fighting game music or music for games in some sort.
On that pic i have the greatest gamers composers for the last two decades, and many of them didn't only produced or created music for fighting games, they have created the shit we and the past generation and the next has been consuming for decades, and my list needs an update.
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Yoko Shimomura - The girl who started it all, the main composer of Street Fighter II and all its variants, she composed many of the iconic street fighter music many of the composers re-create even today, Shimomura is a fucking legend and everything she touches becomes piece of art, her latest work includes Terra Battle where she worked with Uematsu in a piece for a boss fight, and she also did the entire Final Fantasy XV soundtrack on her own.
Dan Forden - If you play mortal kombat and the type of music always gave you the feels then at some point you came to known Dan Forden, NRS main composer, and key piece on the game, while MK is an amazing game, every little piece that is added to it makes it perfect, IMO Dan is also a key part on why the game is so Iconic, he has been producing music from Mortal Kombat since MK1, this includes every spin-off the game got, his pieces were so awesome that even ported they had to be adapted to the sound system of weaker consoles, which gave origin to some variations of his music which are very well received among the fans. even today even though he didn't really created any piece for MKX, he managed and helped producing it, pure legend.
Greamy Norgate and Robin Beanland - The creators of the Original Killer Instinct sound System, they were so great at it that they got recasted for KI gold which they have composed amazing pieces for it as well trully iconic pieces in both games, the KI from XBOX1 had to pay homage to them by giving classical pieces of these two beast in every classic character in the game. I've seen Boon talking along with the Iron Galaxy staff, but i always had this dream that Norgate and Beanland would team up with Forden and Carle for some MK soundtrack, i would be probably the best quartet of the decade.
Ayako Sasso, Shinji Hosoe, Takayuki Aihara, Yasuhisa Watanabe - The greatest fighting game quartet of all times, they joined to compose music for Street Fighter EX series which is considered of the greatest musics street fighter had at some point and is still held as one of the greatest pieces in the game, many people may actually only know this quarted from here, but if you look up for their individual work you will see how each one of them are super strong on their own and they have been into these for like AGES and many of their music are listened even today:
Yasuhisa for example i used to think he is one of te weakest of the group, but then i finally got the opportunity to hear his other works and noticed a lot of his signature in the ex series, Yasuhisa composed for Senko no Ronde series, themes like Art of War, his entire work for the game Fighters impact etc, Aya Sasso is also super strong, Shinji Hosoe and Takayuki have their own albums every where in japan.
Rich Carle - When NRS switched to 3D they brough up 2 guys to help forden compose, i dunno why the 3rd one left but Carle has been sticking around and contributing a lot for the NRS scene, the add of Carle in the NRS brought a new style on the already groovy style created by Dan Forden, so on that mix something new and unique was born, they kinda switched the style in MK9 to movie like, but honestly up from Mk1 to MKA probably are the best examples of soundtracks Mortal Kombat ever had, hope they return back to that style.
Nobuyushi Sano, Keiichi Okabe, Yuu Miyake and Akitaka Tohyama - Are among the greatest Tekken sound designers of all time, like pure gold, ever since they started working on Tekken until now they're often requested to create music for the game for the last 2 decades.
The other ones are not fighting games composers but they did made memorable pieces
Harry Gregsom Williams and Enio Morricone - Composed for the MGS series, Enio also did composed for movies before like "My name is nobody" "the good, the bad and the villain" Enio also did soundtracks for some series, i remember seeing his signature style on "Smallville" once.
Tetsuya Shibata - Has been composing music for Devil May Cry series, they used to be many but it seemed he did most of the work so Capcom fired the rest and kept him his style is hard to miss, he also has a piece of him into this along side the RE composers but he is not often credited for it:
David Begaud - The greatest composer of Ratchet & Clank soundtracks hard to miss, they switched once and they regreted for the rest of their life, i've heard he returned for the PS4 version but i haven't checked yet, pretty creative guy as well.
There is a bunch more but i don't have the time to explain it all except that one of them is a personal friend of mine who is a composer for a band, he doesn't actually compose music for fighting games, but if i ever worked on a game of any sort he would be the guy i would call work with him on a piece along side @DarkSlayerSmith
And before anyone asks YES, Hideyuki Fukasawa (SF4 and SFV) is also in this pic.
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