Background music in Coerthas

[Sapphires]

first time I heard the coerthas music I was like sweeeeeet, sounds like castlevania.
I'd love a way to turn off choco and battle music interrupting it.

[charlemagne]

it's bloody awful.

[Alhanelem]

The music in coerthas is supposed to be gloomy/desperate. The area is covered in an unnatural snowfall, there's dragons everywhere, the Ishgardians are kinda up poop creek without a paddle.

There were dragons everywhere in terms of story/lore in 1.0 as well (we obviously didn't get to experience it all yet for a very obvious reason) and we still had this music:

http://youtu.be/ohsPC_K8S1k?t=18s

So yeah, they kind of always been up the creek without a paddle since the inception of XIV.

making that music all the more inappropriate. I don't think you're supporting your argument. The old music has a different style but it still conveys negative emotion. The new music simply does so with a greater sense of urgency (and it feels more appropriate in the snow covered environment)

[Velhart]

SE: "Coerthas sounds gloomy? Mission accomplished."

[Keres]

Of all the areas to be turned into a wasteland...why the good one?

It was always a wasteland. It just used to be green-colored instead of white.

[Tupsi]

The music in coerthas is supposed to be gloomy/desperate. The area is covered in an unnatural snowfall, there's dragons everywhere, the Ishgardians are kinda up poop creek without a paddle.

There were dragons everywhere in terms of story/lore in 1.0 as well (we obviously didn't get to experience it all yet for a very obvious reason) and we still had this music:

http://youtu.be/ohsPC_K8S1k?t=18s

So yeah, they kind of always been up the creek without a paddle since the inception of XIV.

[Tiggy]

That's very true and I know that the music is related to what happened to this area and that it makes sense. I still do not like it tho but different strokes for different folks I guess and like I said, it is nothing that needs to be changed.

I adjust my speakers accordingly and everything is fine. From the first responses, it seems that the majority of you like it and I get where you are coming from. FF14ARR is the first FF-Game where I do not get warm with the Story because it's most of the time plain texts which are not dragging me into the World and Story and maybe that's why the Music doesn't connect me with the Story of that zone.

Oh no you had to read? The shame of it all! Honestly, you have no one to blame for not knowing the story other than yourself.

Once upon a time all games had nothing but text as a means of story telling. Oh how lazy gamers have become.

[Tiggy]

first time I heard the coerthas music I was like sweeeeeet, sounds like castlevania.
I'd love a way to turn off choco and battle music interrupting it.

You can turn off mount music at least. It's in the settings.

[Nuinn]

There were dragons everywhere in terms of story/lore in 1.0 as well (we obviously didn't get to experience it all yet for a very obvious reason) and we still had this music:

http://youtu.be/ohsPC_K8S1k?t=18s

So yeah, they kind of always been up the creek without a paddle since the inception of XIV.

Q_Q oh the memories.... So less aggressive to the ears as well. The ARR Coerthas music does fit the current theme and state of things, but it just gets irritating to me way too fast. Especially when you're not doing anything as dramatic as the music makes you think you would.

[Garlen]

I love the Coerthas music and would hate if they ever changed it.