Music

[AdvancedWind]

There's a little something after the locked rooms in mistbeard cove, probably the reason for the theme song.

[dream]

I am surprise so few people complain about the bgm / music.

There is no soul on all the tracks. Boring. I highly believe many one agree and, just like me, turn off all music while playing the game. What a shame SE.

Please, for god sake, overhaul all music currently in ff14. Not necessary FF11 style(I do prefer though) but they all do need change. This is not the moment to save face, or think about saving budget. The music is seriously need change for FF14 to have chance to success..

Please..

[Xatsh]

I am surprise so few people complain about the bgm / music.

There is no soul on all the tracks. Boring. I highly believe many one agree and, just like me, turn off all music while playing the game. What a shame SE.

Please, for god sake, overhaul all music currently in ff14. Not necessary FF11 style(I do prefer though) but they all do need change. This is not the moment to save face, or think about saving budget. The music is seriously need change for FF14 to have chance to success..

Please..

So few complain because for many it is one of the best parts of the game. It is not typical MMO BGM, but it sounds much more like a traditional final fantasy honestly.

It has the typical FF flare to it, made by the man who is world famous for video game music composition and known as the man behind the sound of Final Fantasy.

As for the SE being cheap with music... they probably spent more money on Nobou writing the whole 74ish song OST then most game spend on music for the release and multiple expansions.

[Verecund]

The environmental music is good, the battle music is horrible by comparison (imo).

I almost wish they would not have battle music for every minor event... it breaks the flow in a way that it normally wouldn't in a single-player game.

[dream]

It has the typical FF flare to it, made by the man who is world famous for video game music composition and known as the man behind the sound of Final Fantasy.

As for the SE being cheap with music... they probably spent more money on Nobou writing the whole 74ish song OST then most game spend on music for the release and multiple expansions.

I love Nobuo Uematsu old time work in the low bit era, I did have high expectation. well.

Not saying SE being cheap on making the music we currently have. I just want them putting resources to rework on it.. maybe I am just minority. sigh

[Xatsh]

The environmental music is good, the battle music is horrible by comparison (imo).

I almost wish they would not have battle music for every minor event... it breaks the flow in a way that it normally wouldn't in a single-player game.

The abrupt change with battle music is a FF staple through the whole series FF1 through FF14, how is it not normal in the single player area.

[Miyochan]

I agreed with you, OP.
FFXIV music is kind of ....boring.
But yeah, most of people still love it and praise Uematsu for his work.
But for me, I think his work are too dull, for now. Seem like he out of idea.

Right now when I play I have to turn off the game music and listen to my youtube playlist.

Well, I think we can do much about the music that already put in-game.
But hopefully, SE will hire someone other than Uematsu to compose new area music.

Edited: I think the best way to play the music in MMO is a play for 1 or 2 loop then turn it of for a while.
Because we have to play this game for more than ....um.. 3-4 years. And listen to same old music will make gaming very boring.

(P.S. I just remembered that I turn off the FFXI music for sometime too, but I never turn it off when I start playing for 4-5 months. )

[Verecund]

The abrupt change with battle music is a FF staple through the whole series FF1 through FF14, how is it not normal in the single player area.

Reread my post..

:/

[DubstepNinja]

There really is no such thing as "bad" music

Either you enjoy it or you don't

Hey you could always turn the in-game music off and make your own soundtrack?

[Anonymoose]

It's hard to say that the music wasn't rushed - otherwise why would the same music be heard for all ten grades of all three areas of each region? That's ridiculous. Four tracks for 90% of the overworld?

I like the arrangements themselves, in spite of the fact that after hours and hours they tend to boringly droll onwards due to their expansive territory, but I feel the final quality is poor - there's no soul in the instruments; it's like they were all just thrown together in a synth program and rendered into the game by Uematsu alone.

The rock music is catchy, but right now it's so very out of place - you see a cyberpunk setting, you resonate to techno ambiance, you see an industrial setting, you resonate to rock music, you see medieval, you resonate with classical / raw instruments. The world looks medieval, and thus we expect analog instrumentality - strings, percussion, woodwinds, etc.

However, the game isn't supposed to look medieval; the technology of Isghard and Garlemald far surpasses those standards. Hopefully, in time, we'll see enough modern tech in the patches/expansions to make the rock music a little more fitting.