Nobuo Uematsu new interview

http://music.ign.com/articles/119/1193553p1.html

I think IGN really dropped the ball on asking relevant questions though...

IGN never ask good question they ask question that anyone would have asked i guess.

never been a fan of IGN's interviews, however they are better then nothing i guess.

I'd love to hear an orchestrated rendition of Final Fantasy 6's opening music.

That'd be a truly beautifull masterpiece being stroked across my audio senses.

Oh wait... I found it:

Such a beautifull tune

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

Oh wait... I found it:

Such a beautifull tune

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Yup I have to agree that's one of the best pieces he's ever done. Even the original version with the moody graphics intro is one of the best game intros ever.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/06/22...y-vi-the-intro

Just LOOK at it. That's you set the mood for a game.

Look up "Terra in Black".

Nobuo is a musical genious (just look at the work done by The Black Mages) but that remix blows the original out of the water.

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Originally Posted by Seif

http://music.ign.com/articles/119/1193553p1.html

I think IGN really dropped the ball on asking relevant questions though...

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Meh, nothing I haven't heard before. But at least people are still paying attention to Uematsu-san. I don't think he's given quite enough credit for the success of the Final Fantasy franchise.

What I'd really like to know is whether or not SE's keeping him on retainer for new music in XIV. Nothing against Naoshi Mizuta, he's awesome too, but it'd be nice.

"IGN: What's your favorite song that you've composed and why?

Uematsu: It's hard for me to listen to my compositions equally without remembering all the memories, but I do think "To Zanarkand" is not too bad."

The best song in any FF in my opinion, such a good tune :) Gives me chills to this day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-0G_FI61a8

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Originally Posted by Seif

Yup I have to agree that's one of the best pieces he's ever done. Even the original version with the moody graphics intro is one of the best game intros ever.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/06/22...y-vi-the-intro

Just LOOK at it. That's you set the mood for a game.

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Kinda weird that I always see it associated as FF6. First time I played it, it was FF3. I'll always remember it as final Fantasy 3 before Final Fantasy 6

I actually dont want Uematsu to do all the music for XIV. When the game actually starts making revenue it would be nice if they can get different composers to expansions and stuff. I'd like them to consider Yuki Kajiura~

Oh, winning combination to make winning FFXIV:

Directors from FF3
Game designers from FF7
Nobuo Uematsu for music
FF8 cut-scene creators
Graphics designers from FFX (But still using this engine because it makes things look pretty, but OPTIMISED)
Win (b'.')b

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Originally Posted by PrettyPrincess

I actually dont want Uematsu to do all the music for XIV. When the game actually starts making revenue it would be nice if they can get different composers to expansions and stuff. I'd like them to consider Yuki Kajiura~

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Or Yoko Kanno. The music she wrote for Ragnarok Online 2 is excellent.

Or...dare I say it...Yasunori Mitsuda. Good luck with that, though. :)

But this brings up a good point. Wouldn't it be cool to have different composers with different musical styles to differentiate the expansion packs?

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Or Yoko Kanno. The music she wrote for Ragnarok Online 2 is excellent.

Or...dare I say it...Yasunori Mitsuda. Good luck with that, though. :)

But this brings up a good point. Wouldn't it be cool to have different composers with different musical styles to differentiate the expansion packs?

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Definitely! Or have composers make music for styles they excel in i.e. someone who is great at battle themes, cutscene themes, field themes, etc

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Or Yoko Kanno. The music she wrote for Ragnarok Online 2 is excellent.

Or...dare I say it...Yasunori Mitsuda. Good luck with that, though. :)

But this brings up a good point. Wouldn't it be cool to have different composers with different musical styles to differentiate the expansion packs?

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I'll always remember the first time I heard this tune <3

Heard the Miku version earlier this year and sat around for a couple of minutes thinking "I've heard that somewhere... and wherever it was I was having a great time whilst listening to it..." then it dawned on me it was from Ragnarok Online!

30 minutes later I was running around stabbing porings on good ol' Ragnarok again XD

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Definitely! Or have composers make music for styles they excel in i.e. someone who is great at battle themes, cutscene themes, field themes, etc

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Whoever did the rock remix battle music for FF7: Advent Children DEFENITELY has to do the battle music, that stuff gets my adrenaline pumping every time I hear it!

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Or Yoko Kanno. The music she wrote for Ragnarok Online 2 is excellent.

Or...dare I say it...Yasunori Mitsuda. Good luck with that, though. :)

But this brings up a good point. Wouldn't it be cool to have different composers with different musical styles to differentiate the expansion packs?

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Yasunori Mitsuda composing for Final Fantasy game would be the second best thing to ever happen. Michiko Naruke would be the first.

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Whoever did the rock remix battle music for FF7: Advent Children DEFENITELY has to do the battle music, that stuff gets my adrenaline pumping every time I hear it!

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That'd be Uematsu. He wrote all the music for FF7:AC.

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That'd be Uematsu. He wrote all the music for FF7:AC.

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Ah

In that case yeah, we're already into a winning combination.

Dammit I can't stop listening to this Ragnarok tune now! >.<

Such an addictively happy melody @.@

Not a big fan of his music or any of the FF, Japanese type music. Would rather listen to more western type/style rock music, but it's not going to happen.

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Originally Posted by Seif

Yup I have to agree that's one of the best pieces he's ever done. Even the original version with the moody graphics intro is one of the best game intros ever.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/06/22...y-vi-the-intro

Just LOOK at it. That's you set the mood for a game.

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Damn, it makes me want to wipe the last 10 years of gaming from my memory...

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Damn, it makes me want to wipe the last 10 years of gaming from my memory...

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The original terra theme is a midi...

So why does it, EVEN NOW, sound more epic than anything I've heard in a video game in the last 10 years?

Let this be a lesson to all these video game companies. It doesn't take an enormous orchestra or a million electric guitars or a giant bass drum to make something sound amazing, it doesn't even require real instruments, it just takes a damned good composer!!!!

"Let this be a lesson to all these video game companies. It doesn't take an enormous orchestra or a million electric guitars or a giant bass drum to make something sound amazing, it doesn't even require real instruments, it just takes a damned good composer!!!! "

Well that depends on what you like, to me its sound awful. This sound 10000 times better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poyWs95UYCI

I also have to say:

Linkables

The day I bought FFXIV, I installed, created an account, loaded it up, then this music began playing on the character creation screen.
At first my spine tingled, I'd heard it in many other Final Fantasy games, and it's still as awesome as it's always been.
By the time the track reached 1:25 that tingling became a full blown shiver and I started to cry with happiness.
Music easily affects me, and when this tune hit it's peak I was weeping buckets.
I weeped buckets in FF7 during the Aerith death-scene, both from seeing it unfold, and from the tune. I still can't listen to that tune without crying.
In fact I couldn't even count how many tunes Final Fantasy games have had so far that have made me cry with joy or sadness.

And Eugenics, I know what you mean, Megadeth did a great take on the Duke Nukem tune, shame that it never got put into Duke Nukem Forever like it was originally planned to. I'm a fan of heavy guitars and tunes that make me want to jump up and down and shout, but I'm also open to other forms of music. I love orchestrated music like Final Fantasy games use, I love J-Rock and J-Pop, I love the music they put in anime, and many other musical styles (apart from rap, modern r'n'b and dance, I find them pointless and without any real emotion)

The difference here is rock and pop and suchlike can make something sound good, or amazing.

But orchestrated music has the ability to make something sound legendary.

I am actually not a fan of a good portion of the music tracks in this game, would love to see them add in some tracks from other FF's. Especially the intro to FF6, my fav game in the series.

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I am actually not a fan of a good portion of the music tracks in this game, would love to see them add in some tracks from other FF's. Especially the intro to FF6, my fav game in the series.

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Wish granted

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Well that depends on what you like, to me its sound awful. This sound 10000 times better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poyWs95UYCI

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It depends on whether you're trying to convey childish machismo while you splatter hordes of aliens or the complex range of emotions needed to form the atmosphere of a RPG. In the latter case, you'd be hard pressed to find a better tune than FF6's opening. Of course, the music you propose could be used for things like battle scenes, but it would never set an atmosphere for any kind of typical RPG progression scene.

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It depends on whether you're trying to convey childish machismo while you splatter hordes of aliens or the complex range of emotions needed to form the atmosphere of a RPG. In the latter case, you'd be hard pressed to find a better tune than FF6's opening. Of course, the music you propose could be used for things like battle scenes, but it would never set an atmosphere for any kind of typical RPG progression scene.

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I think Sega did pretty good with the soundtrack to Resonance Of Fate, awesome game too, though a fair bit of it was also orchestrated. There was a fair bit of guitar in it though.

But yeah, usually:

Electric Guitar = Action games/scenes
Orchestra = Plot sequences/RPG's

You couldn't picture Tifa running around inside Cloud's memory, watching scenes of the past unfold to a tune from Disturbed or Nine Inch Nails could you?

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Or Yoko Kanno. The music she wrote for Ragnarok Online 2 is excellent.

Or...dare I say it...Yasunori Mitsuda. Good luck with that, though. :)

But this brings up a good point. Wouldn't it be cool to have different composers with different musical styles to differentiate the expansion packs?

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I agree and disagree. I would like there to be different composers but I could see the argument for wanting to keep the one composer. It starts to turn into a comic books storyline in a sense.

I would like it if Kumi Tanioka provided some tracks.

"Flowers on the Battlefield" was the most beautiful piece from XI by far, including the Sanctuary of Xi'tah, in my opinion. The Star Onions version is just amazing.

She also did the soundtrack for the Crystal Chronicles which was done primarily with actual natural instruments. Really helped pull me into the game more than Uematsu's synth pop. I always wait for them to do an orchestrated version of Uematsu's work, then I'll put that version into the game over the original version.

Not sure what kind of interview questioned you want from Nobuo about XIV, at a concert of his music and other FF music. He's not developing the game, he did his part and did the best job out of everyone working XIV.

But they did say something about XIV when we were there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHiw...eature=related

Watch the first 30 seconds of this, when he said "they'll get the platform fixed one of these days" you hear laughs in this video, but sitting in the back you should of heard the laughs turn to oooooos, especially with the Square Enix guys right in front of us.

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Not sure what kind of interview questioned you want from Nobuo about XIV, at a concert of his music and other FF music. He's not developing the game, he did his part and did the best job out of everyone working XIV.

But they did say something about XIV when we were there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHiw...eature=related

Watch the first 30 seconds of this, when he said "they'll get the platform fixed one of these days" you hear laughs in this video, but sitting in the back you should of heard the laughs turn to oooooos, especially with the Square Enix guys right in front of us.

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I lolled

Then I thought "ooo low blow" XD

Woot!!!!!!

Loving all the chocobo clips in the background :D

I lol'd at the video, brilliant

Want

Chocobo

NAOW!!!!

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

Oh, winning combination to make winning FFXIV:

Directors from FF3
Game designers from FF7
Nobuo Uematsu for music
FF8 cut-scene creators
Graphics designers from FFX (But still using this engine because it makes things look pretty, but OPTIMISED)
Win (b'.')b

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That's a winning combo right there. Especially if you mean the real FF 3 not the U.S. 6-3.

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...he did his part and did the best job out of everyone working XIV.

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Truer words were never spoken.

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That's a winning combo right there. Especially if you mean the real FF 3 not the U.S. 6-3.

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I meant the Final Fantasy 3 that got re-released as Final Fantasy 6. Loved the story, and it was a VERY long story.

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I meant the Final Fantasy 3 that got re-released as Final Fantasy 6. Loved the story, and it was a VERY long story.

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6 is really good but 3 is amazing. I honestly think the best aspects of XI were built on things invented in the real FF III the job system, exploration and secrets. There's just something very honest and pure about III's design that makes it a classic. The DS remake is frankly even better than the original in my opinion.