Battle Music Concerns

[Gabanisu]

More battle music should be like this:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/

Or straight link to it via the above post:
http://youtu.be/gFVS4M_I4oI

Ah, the Iconic FF music... sound familiar, forgot where this comes from, FF3?

[Evangela]

No, that FF2 remix is corny and shouldn't be anything more than a cameo theme.

I'd rather have this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CoPpjleaEg

[Gabanisu]

Maybe it's just nostalgia. Why do you think it's corny?! Haha.

I just wish they had more uplifitng battle music like this, if not exactly this FF2 one. It's a good remix imho.

[Tupsi]

No, that FF2 remix is corny and shouldn't be anything more than a cameo theme.

I'd rather have this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CoPpjleaEg

See, with "option 1" it's actually a relevant battle theme to the series and actually something different than the same battle theme used everywhere with different instruments.

[Viktion]

The battle music should be this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuHuD5Ahjck

or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUlWl27lDk

Or the 1.0 music

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

http://youtu.be/YF9-mbLld1w?t=57s "Desert Moon Defiled"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v5aNzNfngM

[Gabanisu]

I wish they had more, including the ones you mentioned, thematic battle scenes throughout certain areas, not just on the storyline--say FATEs I guess, like the lighting one is a good change of pace

Also, FFXIV 1.0 had Nobuo at the helm of music, he makes the battle music iconic and upbeat!

SOKEN makes good battle music too, but he reserved them for boss battles and big FATEs and the storyline.

IMO, normal battles need to have the most important battle beat, cuz, well, we fight in em like 99% of the time, eh.

[Akuha]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v5aNzNfngM

This blows all the current battle themes out of the water.

[RexValentino]

This blows all the current battle themes out of the water.

One of the many ways 1.0 > 2.0 ... music

[Alhanelem]

One of the many ways 1.0 > 2.0 ... music

Sorry, nearly (but not quite) all of the ARR music is vastly superior.

I detect a lot of composer hero worship in this thread. I found most of the 1.0 music to be dull and uninspired. Porbably because the composer was given little to work with to derive a style for the various areas.

-All three city themes both day and night are way better than the originals.

-While I would have preferred a main theme that plays continuously in most parts of a zone (other than the villages/hubs), I feel all the short themes in the field areas are well done, if sometimes a little too short.

-Love the battle music, though I wish each region's theme was a little more distinct compared with the current slight variations on a single theme.

-Love the levequest themes (The verison 1.0 fieldcraft theme was kept in ARR which is quite nice actually), though again I wish it varied by region like in 1.0.

-Love the dungeon themes, I only wish they were designed to play throughout the dungeon rather than only at the beginning. This area is an exception in the variation department, where every dungeon in 1.0 had the same music, in ARR each dungeon has its own theme.

-The themes for the primals are great, especially Titan.

In summary, I only wish there was more! IMO what we have now is great, there just needs to be more of it.

I hate it when people call it "generic" as if it's stock music or something when it's not. 1.0's music was no more or less generic.

[Tupsi]

Sorry, nearly (but not quite) all of the ARR music is vastly superior.

I detect a lot of composer hero worship in this thread.

You detect hero worship because not everyone finds ARR's generic music superior..?