Thread: XIV 1.0 - Nostalgic Music. XIV SOUNDTRACK

I played 1.0 for a grand total of like, three hours, but the La Noscea theme, "On Windy Meadows", was really pleasant to listen to. It shows what seems to have been a strong Andean musical influence that Uematsu must have been feeling at the time, judging by a similar feel in his work on Lost Odyssey (such as here). It's just such a great chillout piece. I was pleasantly surprised to hear some riffs from it crop up in the music in Aleport and Moraby Drydocks.

I also really like how "Twilight Over Thanalan" got worked into scenes during story quests if you start your ARR character in Ul'dah. It definitely feels more appropriate as an accompaniment to characters waxing poetic in cutscenes than for environmental exploration and travel (for which "To the Sun" is just fantastic)

Originally Posted by Mahri

I played 1.0 for a grand total of like, three hours, but the La Noscea theme, "On Windy Meadows", was really pleasant to listen to. It shows what seems to have been a strong Andean musical influence that Uematsu must have been feeling at the time, judging by a similar feel in his work on Lost Odyssey (such as here). It's just such a great chillout piece. I was pleasantly surprised to hear some riffs from it crop up in the music in Aleport and Moraby Drydocks.

I also really like how "Twilight Over Thanalan" got worked into scenes during story quests if you start your ARR character in Ul'dah. It definitely feels more appropriate as an accompaniment to characters waxing poetic in cutscenes than for environmental exploration and travel (for which "To the Sun" is just fantastic)

I agree with everything you said (especially On Windy Meadows), but interestingly Soken had all three original zone themes play during the opening cutscenes for their respective cities in ARR (like Twilight Over Thanalan for a new Ul'dah player, On Windy Meadows plays for a player starting in Limsa Lominsa on the ferry, and Whisper of the Land, one of the original Black Shroud themes, plays for a player starting in Gridania - this last track also shows up a few times during the BRD Job quest line interestingly.

I really hope Soken continues to bring back these 1.0 tracks (I'm still hoping some of my favourite tracks will return, like Navigator's Glory, Born of the Boughs, The Forest's Pulse, The Seventh Gate, Widdershins, Tears for Mor Dhona and Piece of Mind).

Originally Posted by Seif

ARR's problem is that the tracks loop way too fast and they're really short.

This, so much. There was a long thread about this in the beta forums, but looping of BGM was turned down by the devs because 'the music wasn't made to loop', and would mean much reworking.
But I recall them taking it into consideration at a later point, stating that they might reconsider down the line.

I hope so much that they will give us the option to loop ARR's wonderful BGM. After having played the game for almost a year, I still can't recall the tune of my favourite tracks without twisting my brain. And that's not a good sign. Good music should stay in your mind with ease. Arr's does not, because we rarely get to hear it.