Your (current) favorite composer?

Originally Posted by bishop743

Namco Sound Team (Keiki Kobayashi, Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Junichi Nakatsuru, Hiroshi Okubo)
I can't get enough of this group. These guys have done amazing work on both the Ace Combat and Soul Calibur franchises. They've also put out a couple non-vgm albums that have been great. Also, Okubo's on the Ridge Racer games is fantastic.

Can't get enough of this team neither. Hopefully AC6 turns out having a great album like AC5 if this team is composing the soundtrack.

My current favorites:

Jesper Kyd
He's done some excellent work on the Hitman series and "Freedom Fighters". Hitman: Contracts was somewhat lacking.

Michiko Naruke
Composed the Wild Arms series. Her music really fit the games well, but I really hope her illness doesn't stop her from composing more projects.

Ryo Yonemitsu
Composed a lot of Falcom arrange albums until Ys IV I believe and then came back and did 4 tracks in "Wild Arms Music the Best -rocking heart-" album. Hopefully he does some more composing and doesn't disappear again

Noriyuki Iwadare
Composed the Grandia series, Langrisser series, Growlanser 1 & 2, Lunar The Silver Star, etc. After Grandia III though, hopefully he improves....

Honorable Mentions: Harry Gregson-Williams, Tommy Tallarico, Nobuo Uematsu, Akira Yamaoka

Jam it back in, in the dark.