The direction of FFXIV's music.

[Velhart]

I do like the current music, however I don't feel that J-Rock like music fits in well with Eorzea. I think the tracks are fine, but should be altered to an extent. I would like it if La Noscea's battle theme was toned down from a rock theme to a more orchestrated theme instead. I think that theme has potential to be out of this world if it was put into that format.

I said it in another thread. We just need a good transition between open world music and battle music. The instanced dungeons showed a great example of going between non-battle music to the battle theme.

[alexhatesmil]

As said before, I wish people would stop calling it J-Rock. Just because Uematsu is Japanese and he writes some rock-y songs doesn't mean that his music is J-Rock.

Want some J-Rock? Take a gander. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lGgfUwlTFo

Want some Uematsu proggy rock? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGD8QXFyTkQ

Hear the difference?

[Andrien]

wow that j-rock link.. that guy looks like a girl..wth.

[alexhatesmil]

That's J-Rock for ya. Now can you understand why I'd rather not have Uematsu's name sullied by such an association?

[alexhatesmil]

For me personally:

Naoshi Mizuta > Nobuo.

I would much rather have him compose for XIV.

Oh, shoot. I'm not sure how I missed this in the credits. Check out the composers:



Looks like we've already got what we've asked for.

[Munba]

But those credits are rather wrong.. Uematsu is still actually in the game (and he'll be in it also in 2.0 for sure). Ack.

[Darkhaund]

Are you sure Nubou Uematsu is back on 14?

[alexhatesmil]

But those credits are rather wrong.. Uematsu is still actually in the game (and he'll be in it also in 2.0 for sure). Ack.

There's an earlier credit that lists Uematsu. It's at the very beginning of the credits, actually. This is later on, and is more like an 'additional composers' credit.

[kimoi]

Yeah, those 3 names were added with the 1.19 patch. They are all SE in-house composers. Soken, the sound director, is no slouch composer either, I suppose it's up to him to keep it all consistent. I hope he also likes the idea of day/night songs. It's a good idea if only for the variety in not always hearing the same song.

I also hope 2.0 comes with another CD release. A more full soundtrack release.

[Lavinia]

Well, you have to agreed that Nobuo did the whole OST w/o ever seeing the game, I mean he did an amazing job via concept art lol, also remember that they cut his pieces and used some and others not, so I wont blame the man for what he did, but yea if he had more material to work we could see amazing pieces