New music, please.

[Vyncent]

Place this one as far down on the priority list as possible, because frankly it's not a big issue and there are a lot of other things currently being worked on that I'm very excited about.

But one thing I haven't heard much discussion on is the lack of diversity in the game's music. I have long ago turned off the music option due to there being only a handful of background songs, all of which just play on repeat all day long. Why is this? The game's music is amazing, but it loses its impact after hours of repetition. I can no longer stand it.

Unfortunately, by turning the music off I also lose out on hearing the ad hoc songs like the victory tone upon completing a leve and the chocobo-riding song.

Could I please request that a more diverse score be integrated into the game, one that is powerful due to its presence in certain areas or contexts rather than as a constant background filler noise?

The only good thing to come from me removing all background music is that I have developed an immense appreciation of the ambient sounds I had never noticed before. These are truly masterfully done and I recommend to everyone to play at least a couple of hours with no music to hear them.

One final thought: how awesome would it be to have One Winged Angel playing during boss fights? So awesome, that's how awesome.

[RemVye]

Donkey Knight had it's own music.... but they closed the thread.... wtf!

[Denmo]

The soundtrack doesn't need to be redone. It just needs to be developed on further. Add more verses to these songs, so they at least last for 5 minutes with some variation! I had this discussion earlier in another topic.

Donkey Knight had it's own music.... but they closed the thread.... wtf!

And I laughed and laughed and laughed when it happened too.

[Mairuzu]

Uldah's music is horrible. Horrible.

I don't ever recall having a problem with the music in XI. That Ronfaure music gets me going. I put it on replay when I'm leveling in Limsa.

So friggin epic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Gv1...eature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WAcS...eature=related sounds better

Music plays a MAJOR role when playing a final fantasy game just as much as scenery imo.

From epic boss fights. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_AhK...eature=related

To little towns like Mhaura http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJaFB...eature=related

and selbina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiGxN...eature=related

and tropical places such as widurst http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnP16...eature=related

Damn I miss XI now.

[Vyncent]

Yeah, I too wish I could open YouTube while playing, but for some reason the game thinks it is appropriate to crash when I alt-tab out of full screen mode. One day things will be perfect. One day.

[Scherwiz]

Donkey Knight had it's own music.... but they closed the thread.... wtf!

Dude.... they are so mad at you they removed all of your medals, you have been stripped of your rank of commander General of the Donkey armed forces... I blame the Bearforce.

[Scherwiz]

And I laughed and laughed and laughed when it happened too.

Fun is against the ToS for all Square Enix forums.

[Mairuzu]

Yeah, I too wish I could open YouTube while playing, but for some reason the game thinks it is appropriate to crash when I alt-tab out of full screen mode. One day things will be perfect. One day.

Tempted to use all of XI's music and download it to my ipod renaming each song after the areas in XIV and try my best to make each song fit with each scene :P

Might be a lot of work though.

[Vyncent]

The soundtrack doesn't need to be redone. It just needs to be developed on further.

Agreed.

The music today is great, I'm just dead tired of it. It's perfectly good music to keep, though.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Donkey Knight had it's own music.... but they closed the thread.... wtf!

True story, thanks to that thread, we just implemented the Donkey Knight Award on our site.

I currently like the game soundtrack, it has improved since launch.