Nobuo Uematsu's Original Score: Why was it removed?!

[Leira_Raine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QRKQWD0jOc

How can people deny this song? Really?

(still stuck in my head after a year)

So happy it's coming back.

[Gilraen]

I think the city with the worst song was Limsa Lominsa. It's a pirate-hovel turned city, built on the wreckage of a long sunk ship... and it had the loudest, most bang-clash song of all the cities. Ul'dah was at least somewhat fitting.

[Enkidoh]

Actually, I loved Navigator's Glory (Limsa's original theme), yet I utterly hated The Twin Faces of Fate (original Ul'dah theme) - it shows how subjective this argument really is.

And Soken has retained a significant portion of 1.0's OST in ARR - only the original battle and field themes seem to have been replaced. Yes it's disappointing tracks have been replaced, but Soken's new soundtrack is on par with Uematsu's work in my opinion. The only 1.0 track omission I'm really upset about (and I even asked about it in Feedback during the Alpha and Beta), is Uematsu's Piece of Mind (sic), the track that played when you chose a Path Companion in 1.0 (and a few other places). I love this track so much, and would love to hear it again in ARR somewhere.

EDIT:

There was another one, but I can't find it or know it's name. If anyone knows it... it was sometimes played during crafting quests... I remember it in the Alchemy one in particular. Sort of sad-sounding with a bell set melody.

That wouldn't happen to be Uematsu's With These Hands by any chance? The only version of it I could find on Youtube included a link for a pirated download of it in mp3 so I am not including a link here for that reason - in any event it's track number 30 on the Before Meteor album.

[Eldaena]

In 1.0 Nobou was not given the proper material to inspire the music he was writing. Besides that, they decided to overplay a lot of the music in game, making people tired of it. If you notice in 2.0 they hardly ever repeat music unless it's in a fight now. It wasn't Nobou's fault for all that and his music is still good, though possibly not perfectly suited for the areas in 2.0.

Here are a few that give me nostaliga:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Y8tsuJU3Y On Windy Meadows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDFyl0W2iww Twilight Over Thanalan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSabm7ZZ_0 Tranquility

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgAzY6Obh8s Scared Bonds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxBl0muwxVM Aetherial Slumber


There was another one, but I can't find it or know it's name. If anyone knows it... it was sometimes played during crafting quests... I remember it in the Alchemy one in particular. Sort of sad-sounding with a bell set melody.

[neizero]

Disagree. Having played 1.0, the music was good but it didn't really fit the game. ARR bgm is much better

[NefarioCall]

It's in one of the live letters or dev comments from about 3ish months ago but i couldn't possibly dig it up..
They plan to have Nobuo compose new tracks for ARR in the future

Also, the old ones aren't at all scrapped. They just need to find the right situation to use them.

[hamsteak]

i didn't play 1.0. that being said, after digging through the tracks, the one i really enjoy is the ul'dah music... it sounds like it fit more than the current ul'dah music

in general i really like the ARR music, my only complaint is that after 30 seconds of being in a dungeon, the unique music disappears :-(

this is my favorite ARR track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmfXo0cX8Z8 i purposely aggro mobs on my chocobo when running through mor dhona just to hear it

[ufufu]

No, but really, Uematsu's compositions for 1.0 were really bad, to the point where I'd consider them him "losing his touch", so to speak. Soken does the game justice.

[CyrilLucifer]

No, but really, Uematsu's compositions for 1.0 were really bad, to the point where I'd consider them him "losing his touch", so to speak. Soken does the game justice.

Agreed. Uematsu hasn't been in his prime for years.

The same goes for FFXI. All of FFXI's best songs aren't Uematsu's.

[Enkidoh]

All things considered, Uematsu only composed like, four tracks for FFXI anyway, if that - the majority of FFXI's OST was the work of Naoshi Mizuta and Kumi Tanoika. From what I'm aware Uematsu only composed the opening movie theme Memoria di la Stona, the end vocal theme Distant Worlds (which played at the end of Chains of Promathia), Ronfaure, and reocurring tracks like the Prelude and the Victory Fanfare. Everything else was Mizuta and Tanoika's work.