Music during "START" screen a rip-off?

[Berethos]

https://video.search.yahoo.com/searc...0f&action=view

pretty damn close, IMO. Just the repeat of the first couple of bars. Every time I go to the start screen of think of DA.

Not at all close to the current one, which starts with a militaristic snare beat as if they were starting a march of some kind. The use of piano in the theme during Heavensward (I believe it's named A Cold Wind and is heard in exactly one cutscene in the 3.x patch series) is the only similarity I can draw, and the two themes still don't sound anything alike there.

A Cold Wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHEMBqtPtC0

Stormblood Menu theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASl9Hpj63iE

[Nestama]

Ripping off a song...
sounds
like
this.

To be fair, they're all composed by Motoi Sakuraba.

[Fenral]

Can a composer rip off their own music though?

In three different games by different studios with different copyright holders? It's gray area, I think. Though I suppose Namco couldn't very well sue themselves over that last one...

[enthauptet]

In three different games by different studios with different copyright holders? It's gray area, I think. Though I suppose Namco couldn't very well sue themselves over that last one...

Yeah I think in this case it would depend on how the tracks were licensed, if the guy composed them and sold licenses then having the same one in multiple games makes sense.

[LittleSparrow]

This post is as retarded as artists who start lawsuits over 3 notes in a song matching theirs.

[Esp]

Whats....Downtown Abby? >.>

[Saiah]

I just listened to both of them back to back but couldnt find a similarity. If anything, the SB opening themes drum roll reminded me of the 20th century fox theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPj4JPbKtA

[whiskeybravo]

I just listened to both of them back to back but couldnt find a similarity. If anything, the SB opening themes drum roll reminded me of the 20th century fox theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPj4JPbKtA

Lol maybe so.

But yea, no similarities whatsoever to DA. Totally different articulation, melody, and tempo.

[Theodric]

Whats....Downtown Abby? >.>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey

If you're a fan of British period dramas then I'd suggest looking into it.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Um, the Downtown Abby theme sounds NOTHING like the Stormblood title screen. You are really seeing something that none of us see. And why is this in the Lore forum??