Nobuo Uematsu new interview

[Eugenics]

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.

[Kirith]

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.

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

[Konachibi]

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

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!!!!

[Eugenics]

"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

[Konachibi]

I also have to say:

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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.

[Vesper]

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.

[Konachibi]

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.

Wish granted

[Kirith]

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

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.

[Konachibi]

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.

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?

[Rhomagus]

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?

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.