Please loop BGM for dungeons!

Sort of a weird request, not sure if anyone has asked before. It's kind of disappointing to have 30 seconds or so of BGM for dungeons and then silence aside from the battle music. It would be nice to have the dungeon BGM return when you are not engaged in combat. :D

this was brought up many times during beta but yoshi kept saying it was intended and he didn't want the music to be monotonous... which is funny considering we hear the same battle music over and over and over

Greetings,

We plan on making how the background music for dungeons plays change depending on which dungeon you are doing.
For example, we will be making the background music loop in the “instanced dungeon: hard mode” that is planned for patch 2.1. :)

If you are hording longer versions of Haukke Manor and Wanderer's Palace until now, shame on you.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Greetings,

We plan on making how the background music for dungeons plays change depending on which dungeon you are doing.
For example, we will be making the background music loop in the “instanced dungeon: hard mode” that is planned for patch 2.1. :)

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This is pretty awesome. Its such a buzzkill when we get such an awesome dungeon theme at the beginning and then it drops out to the same battle music we have heard several times in other dungeons. I look forward to how the developers approach this. Music alone can really make a dungeon very appealing for someone.

Haukke manor needs continuous haunted house music. badly.

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Originally Posted by Velhart

This is pretty awesome. Its such a buzzkill when we get such an awesome dungeon theme at the beginning and then it drops out to the same battle music we have heard several times in other dungeons. I look forward to how the developers approach this. Music alone can really make a dungeon very appealing for someone.

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Broken record response and just like everything else, its probably too stressful for the PS3 to handle looped music, thus the PC ver isn't allowed to have it either....le sigh

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Originally Posted by Khalus

Broken record response and just like everything else, its probably too stressful for the PS3 to handle looped music, thus the PC ver isn't allowed to have it either....le sigh

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Next min you think the PS3 can't play Blue Ray Disc, looping music is not that hard to do.

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Originally Posted by Khalus

Broken record response and just like everything else, its probably too stressful for the PS3 to handle looped music, thus the PC ver isn't allowed to have it either....le sigh

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Mmhm, keep telling yourself that. I'll just leave my PS3 on with Tales of Graces F (as much as I dislike the game) music looping. I hope my PS3 doesn't explode while I'm gone >_>

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Originally Posted by Khalus

Broken record response and just like everything else, its probably too stressful for the PS3 to handle looped music, thus the PC ver isn't allowed to have it either....le sigh

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Then I guess the countless games I have for PS3 were all lies right? Even the PlayStation 1 can handle looped music. Also, the PS3 can handle the looped music in The Praetorium just fine.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Greetings,

We plan on making how the background music for dungeons plays change depending on which dungeon you are doing.
For example, we will be making the background music loop in the “instanced dungeon: hard mode” that is planned for patch 2.1. :)

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WOW, this is why I love you guys, you care so much about us, UNLIKE SWTOR THAT DOESN'T LOOP THE MUSIC AT ALL.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Haukke manor needs continuous haunted house music. badly.

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I totally agree.

So far, this is my favourite dungeon theme out of all of them. An extended version that played the entire way through Haukke Manor would be awesome!

Can't wait to hear the changes :D
Anyone from 1.0 remember Toto-raks bgm? So catchy, and I love the way the battle and regular versions compliment each other. It was genius, we need this kind of thing more :D

Hey Square what about that cool thing you did in version 1 with Toto-Rak !! where the dungeon BGM changed to a battle variation of the same theme when you where fighting and then back to the original BGM, that was really cool, i was very impressed with that...

For those that don't know here's the video, listen how the theme changes when going in and out of battle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvvDlq0UcPo

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Originally Posted by Khalus

Broken record response and just like everything else, its probably too stressful for the PS3 to handle looped music, thus the PC ver isn't allowed to have it either....le sigh

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When you don't have a good enough reason to explain something, just blame it on the PS3 version.

What about adding support for custom playlists on the PS3 version, effectively replacing the game's music with the player's preference? This should be easy enough too add.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

What about adding support for custom playlists on the PS3 version, effectively replacing the game's music with the player's preference? This should be easy enough too add.

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PS4 solves that problem.

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Originally Posted by Martin_Arcainess

Next min you think the PS3 can't play Blue Ray Disc, looping music is not that hard to do.

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She was being sarcastic much like anyone else that thinks it's because of the PS3 that XIV can't do what even a 2000-2002 PS2 MMORPG called FFXI could do. Remember zoning into Gustaberg or Sky/Sea dungeons and how the music looped? Yeah, that didn't happened. >.>

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Originally Posted by hamsteak

this was brought up many times during beta but yoshi kept saying it was intended and he didn't want the music to be monotonous... which is funny considering we hear the same battle music over and over and over

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Exactly. I dont know what they were thinking. Even the field BGM is lackluster. 30 second tracks followed by silence or or repeating battle music. The only thing that has full loops is town music and coil.

Soken get your head outta them damn stockings and make us some good tunes!

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

She was being sarcastic much like anyone else that thinks it's because of the PS3 that XIV can't do what even a 2000-2002 PS2 MMORPG called FFXI could do. Remember zoning into Gustaberg or Sky/Sea dungeons and how the music looped? Yeah, that didn't happened. >.>

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Trouble with posting on any forum, can't tell if be sarcastic or not.

please consider the same for open world music

Will the original opening theme be on the OST?

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Originally Posted by Kerwin

Exactly. I dont know what they were thinking. Even the field BGM is lackluster. 30 second tracks followed by silence or or repeating battle music. The only thing that has full loops is town music and coil.

Soken get your head outta them damn stockings and make us some good tunes!

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Coil's music > any other dungeon theme in the game because of this. Not only does it loop, the fact that it works PSO style and the music in combat is a ramped up version of the same song makes it light-years beyond the "music clip for 30 seconds and then silence with a generic battle theme" played everywhere else. There's no contest.

Please make every dungeon's music like this.

Honestly I like play once then done so you don't have to hear the same thing over and over.

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Originally Posted by AlphaDragoon

Coil's music > any other dungeon theme in the game because of this. Not only does it loop,

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Hold it right there.
You sure it loops?
Because as far as I know the Coil theme song is actually 15 minutes long.
Are you sure you are hanging around long enough for all 15 minutes of theme to go by?

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Honestly I like play once then done so you don't have to hear the same thing over and over.

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You must hate the battle themes, then :P

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Originally Posted by Khalus

Broken record response and just like everything else, its probably too stressful for the PS3 to handle looped music, thus the PC ver isn't allowed to have it either....le sigh

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I... I...

I just...

lol

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Originally Posted by Geiger

Anyone from 1.0 remember Toto-raks bgm? So catchy, and I love the way the battle and regular versions compliment each other. It was genius, we need this kind of thing more :D

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Originally Posted by NyameRei

Hey Square what about that cool thing you did in version 1 with Toto-Rak !! where the dungeon BGM changed to a battle variation of the same theme when you where fighting and then back to the original BGM, that was really cool, i was very impressed with that...

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{Yes, please.} Would love to see this return.

I've been hoping for this since AAR Beta :D

That being said, I really wish we could choose our chocobo theme. The rental chocobo theme is SO much better than the personal chocobo theme.

And yes, Soken makes amazing music, but it would be better to hear more of it. Halatali is a good example.

I'd also just like to take the time to say how great the FATE battle themes are.

I've also been thinking about this OP!

Except, to be clear, I'd like for it to blend with each other just like it did in 1.0...which you can experience (or reminisce) here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RETh2jSXEQs

Notice how the battle and idle music are the same, just two different versions that swap as you enter / exit battles. :) THIS. Is what I miss the most out of Dungeons. Probably the only thing I miss from 1.0 dungeons really.

And, if you just joined XIV when ARR was released, you'll notice that the opening music of the current Toto Rak is a nice nod to the original theme. :) A lot of music across Eorzea has the essence of the original music for those areas. It's just fantastic.



Oh and just throwing this in here too, it's a nice little comparison video of the opening scene of Toto Rak from 1.0 and 2.0.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusYWeYOe_4

Okipuit, an option to shut off basic battle music would be nice too. I'm sure in the games data the battle music is organized by category of battle type. So, with that being said you could theoretically allow us to pick and choose what type of battle music we want to hear and what battle music we don't want to here. This idea is similar to the way the chocobo music is handled. To give you an example I don't want the world battle music to play everytime I get in to a fight I'd tic that off. I do however like Fate music so that would be on, I also like Boss Battle music and special event music. So basically I'd have everything on expect the same generic song playing over and over again both in the world and in a dungeon.

Not to revive an old thread, but I really would love to see something done to fix this. Soundtrack's are one of Final Fantasy's strongest assets, and its a genuine shame that you never hear certain areas music for more than thirty seconds, or unless you engage a monster group in a dungeon.

They have made changes going forward but from what I understand it will not be retroactive into older content. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing some ambitious young developer taking it on as a side project, but at least SE heard us and is fixing it for new content.

I am really, REALLY sick of that terrible low level battle music that NEVER ENDS.

I found this thread after this occurred to me while playing Pharos. I see it says they changed it for 2.1 but that dungeon is 2.1 content. Is there some option I need to choose to make this happen? Im pretty tired of the battle music, especially overriding Lost city, love that one, let it play.

Well the dev specifically said "Hard Mode" dungeons, which do have looping music. I also recall another dev, on a different thread has said that dungeons before 2.2 will not have their dungeon themes redone to loop.

Also, Lost City of Amdapor doesn't have a battle theme, save for the mini-bosses and the final boss. Why are you implying a battle theme does override it? Did 2.3 change something?

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Originally Posted by Nestama

Well the dev specifically said "Hard Mode" dungeons, which do have looping music. I also recall another dev, on a different thread has said that dungeons before 2.2 will not have their dungeon themes redone to loop.

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Now that's a damn shame. Pharos Sirius in particular should have its music looped.

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Also, Lost City of Amdapor doesn't have a battle theme, save for the mini-bosses and the final boss. Why are you implying a battle theme does override it? Did 2.3 change something?

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Nope. There's no battle theme in Lost City except at boss battles.

I remember it losing the music at one point, it may have been an error, but I specifically remember being disappointed when the theme dropped. I havent played though that one in a while, nice to know thats the case.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Now that's a damn shame. Pharos Sirius in particular should have its music looped.

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Maybe not looped, but treated similarly to how Titan's theme works (using him as an example due to how many themes he has). I can already imagine Through the Gloom being cut into four parts (singing, music, Siren humming and Siren singing for the boss fight), each part changing after every boss (though complete silence after Tyrant until you engage the Siren).