Shift in music quality? Redo the old, crappy tracks?

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Not only Mizuta, but yeah.

Most tracks released recently are definitely not done by Nobuo, neither arranges of Nobuo songs. The only exceptions are the Company Chocobo Theme (arrange surely not done by him, but the chocobo theme is obviously nobuo), Zahar'ak's theme (arrange not by nobuo, but the original song is) and Natalan's Theme (old song already in the dats since forever).

Most of them are, actually. If you give me time I can identify them all and which tracks they derived from.

[Biggs]

I'm sure I'm not the only who has noticed a real improvement in the music in XIV lately. A lot of it feels much more RPG-esque, if you get what I'm saying... not to mention it's much catchier. Honestly, such tracks are substantially better than many of the original XIV tunes... such as some of the awful battle themes, leve music, etc. The exception(s) to this being the town and zone music.

So, do you guys agree? Should the devs consider replacing some of the older tracks?

I feel like the only 2 tracks that will stand the test of time for me from the old team is the Ul'dah city music and the music that plays in Coerthas when not in combat. The Coerthas music is some of my fav from ALL the final fantasies.

[Bowen]

"Because video game music is obviously mediocre and repetitive, only a nerd with no life whatsoever can like them."

There's your reason.

Sad thing is, people actually believe that. :/

(*Completely unrelated question regarding yours sig: Why does the WHM say Black Mage when he is clearly a Magus. :S*)

[AdvancedWind]

Sad thing is, people actually believe that. :/

(*Completely unrelated question regarding yours sig: Why does the WHM say Black Mage when he is clearly a Magus. :S*)

Because his name is Black Mage Evilwizardington, he just happened to have done the class quest change to become a.....Blue Mage.

[OMEGA_HACK]

I will say I would like it if the Town music swapped between two tracks each time you entered it (to give some variety) and for the love of the twelve I wish there were some alternate music tracks that would play on leves.

So that said, no I don't think they need to be deleted, but I do think we need some variety in terms of alternating tracks, I love the way the music shifts depending on where you walk in the open world areas.

[SniperRifle]

I just watched Moneyball... Idk if anyone has seen that movie. It's great and the music is amazing. No jingles that are in your head for hours after hearing. It's more like, long drawn out symphonies/tones/instrumentals that slowly build up n go back down.

This kind of music would be terrific, in literally any zone. Skyrim does it well, but imo, Moneyball does it even better.

[Zezlar]

I believe Square is setting up Naoshi Mizuta to be there next main series composer for the FF franchise. He definitely deserves it to because the quality that guy can pump out is really good. It reminds me of Nobuo's music ten years ago. In recent years though I do believe that Nobuo has lost that edge he once had. He still does produce great tracks though.

[Elexia]

I agree with Mizuta (and Kumi since she was co-composer/arranger) as a main series composer. Those who played XI back at this point (2004):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXuMUqj2Vjg

Remember the first time you stepped into the area that's adjacent to the opening city of Tavnazia, especially after going through the hell of promyvion?

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

I just don't think anyone would REALLY be upset if Mizuta just rearranged, remixed, or revised any of the current tracks. He's been putting out some quality pieces and remixed pieces that Nobuo originally written so far.

Plus, the recording quality is terrible for some of the original tracks and the volume levels are way off. This isn't the case with any of Mizuta's pieces. Only older track I can think of that is perfect in quality is Cohertas. Twilight over Thanalan could use some time in the mixing room to improve it's quality of sound, but that track is pretty great as it is. Might still be out of place though for the zone it's in, but it's a great track nevertheless.

[Dantares]

I believe Square is setting up Naoshi Mizuta to be there next main series composer for the FF franchise. He definitely deserves it to because the quality that guy can pump out is really good. It reminds me of Nobuo's music ten years ago. In recent years though I do believe that Nobuo has lost that edge he once had. He still does produce great tracks though.

Agreed, he's a superb composer. His work with FFXI was incredible, and he did some spin-offs and smaller games like The 4 Heroes of Light, Warriors of Light and Darkness, and Blood of Bahamut. Now he's back to the main series with a tremendous job on FFXIII-2 (check musics like "Run", "Paradigm Shift" and the Xanadu theme) and FFXIV. The truly deserves the position of a main series composer.

There are also great names like Mitsuto Suzuki (The 3rd Birthday, FFXIII-2) and Takeharu Ishimoto (Dissidia, Type-0) who can pair with Mizuta for some awesome OSTs.

Talking about Uematsu, he feels more and more like a producer nowadays, and eventually doing an OST here and there and some main themes (area where he excels a bunch of composers out there).