[Naoshi Mizuta please!] Music trouble?

[quantumsaint]

Uematsu-san: "Soundtrack for new Final Fantasy?"

Corporate: "Make sure to use American air guitars in the scores so we can compete with American games like WoW."

They wouldn't need to tell him that, he's a fan of them himself. See: Black Mages.

[Verecund]

They wouldn't need to tell him that, he's a fan of them himself. See: Black Mages.

Have heard, but that wasn't even the point of my post :P (though Black Mages was arguably more tasteful in its compositions)

[0451]

A few songs in XIV are good but the music in XI was incredible. It really set the bar too high. Call it nostalgia but walking out of a city for the first time and hearing Gustaberg will always have a place in my memory.

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[neizero]

In the 20+ years I've been playing videogames, this (festival theme) is the first time I have had to switch off the BGM ;_; It would have been okay if it only played in small areas, not the whole city + the market wards + most of the outside world.

I do like most of the rest of the BGM in XIV though, specially outside lominsa and uldah (the original themes), coerthas battle theme, to name a couple - but yeah, hard to top FFXI in this department!

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

[whoopeeragon]

In the 20+ years I've been playing videogames, this (festival theme) is the first time I have had to switch off the BGM ;_; It would have been okay if it only played in small areas, not the whole city + the market wards + most of the outside world.

I do like most of the rest of the BGM in XIV though, specially outside lominsa and uldah (the original themes), coerthas battle theme, to name a couple - but yeah, hard to top FFXI in this department!

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

The festival music is ok to listen to, especially for events such as this. however, the implementation of the music is totally not subject to Nobuo's ideals; it's the development team in charge of placing the tracks. This music should only be in select areas, which Nobuo probably intended for and not extensively in huge areas. The event music is nice and all, but prolonged listening can make it dull and boring....as listening to anything extensively can.

At least FFXIV's midi sounds have improved from his FFX days. Those ones were just.... "....". The sounds themselves are ok, but the synth is a bit overdone in some pieces, and adds a bit too much of a bombastic appeal over those particular soundtracks. Though honestly, I love the entire soundtrack of FFXIV so far; even the original Black Shroud theme has grown on me after extensive listening.

FFXI's music was much more folk-tale based and less bombastic, though Mizuta's style is a bit awkward at times. Though I have to say the more likeable tracks from FFXI were, oddly, composed by Nobuo Uematsu. >.> Naoshi Mizuta provided nice soundtracks though; FFXI-WotG soundtrack was almost perfect save for some boring and repetitious tracks.

FFXI suffers from the midi sounds and lack of instruments and vocals as much as FFXIV as well, with the later just having improved sounds. Still, they're both equally as good to listen to, and I am heavily pleased by all of the tracks focused on the Limsa Lominsan city-state areas.

I've always wondered, though, regarding instrumentation....in the credit rolls for the FFXIV from the home screen, you eventually see a list of music players, I think one notably the flute. (Because I'm a On Windy Meadows whore. >.<) Perhaps FFXIV did have instruments in it, but it wasn't as obvious after being synthed/arranged? I don't know. Someone else confirm from the credits as well in case I was hallucinating.

[Felis]

I've always wondered, though, regarding instrumentation....in the credit rolls for the FFXIV from the home screen, you eventually see a list of music players, I think one notably the flute. (Because I'm a On Windy Meadows whore. >.<) Perhaps FFXIV did have instruments in it, but it wasn't as obvious after being synthed/arranged? I don't know. Someone else confirm from the credits as well in case I was hallucinating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiCAEMN3K90

[AsterBarnivere]

I'm all for Mizuta, Tanokia and Hamazau (Nobuo is just overrated imo)
The only thing out of the soundtrack are the first 3 minutes of ANSWER, Coerthas and it's battle theme and the outside of Thanalan..
I say FFXI set the bar high to heaven in the soundtrack, but that's because SE got a large majority of composers working together and it added a different flavor to the game. (not just midi sounds and guitar rifts) and I know how nobuo LOOOOOVE his midi sounds and guitars..

(I WANT REAL INSTRUMENTS!! MASASHI HAMAZAU WHERE ARE YOU???)

[Morri--Xen]

We can just hope it then.
Maybe with the first expansion... (I like FFXIII OST but the game is horrible...).

Uematsu did a lot better when Sakaguchi was the director/producer of the FF' saga, FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII and FFIX especially.)

I'm a huge fan of FFIX, FFXI and Vagrant Story team. I personally think that FFIX (Uematsu & co.), FFXI (Uematsu & co.) FF crystal chronicles (Tanioka), FFXII (Sakimoto) and Xenogears (Mitsuda, best game ever) have the best RPG soundtrack in the world.

I truly love the FFIX's team fantasy as well.

[Jinrya-Geki]

The only song I liked in XIII was the chocobo theme (without vocals). All the other music sucked.

That song you hear before you push continue on FFXIII was way over-used. I will take the Faire event music over that crap from XIII.

[Kowen]

The only song I liked in XIII was the chocobo theme (without vocals). All the other music sucked.

That song you hear before you push continue on FFXIII was way over-used. I will take the Faire event music over that crap from XIII.

Whether you liked XIII's soundtrack or not is your opinion, but the fact that it had incredibly high production values isn't subjective.

There was never MIDI used to imitate real instruments, and the synth work that was there was always top notch. That's the treatment every Final Fantasy soundtrack should get, regardless of who composed it.