"On Windy Meadows", Please return this to the game! ><

[SpookyGhost]

So, I love On Windy Meadows and I think it's more fitting than the current theme.

But.

No matter how good a song is, if it's BGM you hear every day it just becomes noise regardless.

Prime example is the Limsa theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ForHMX-xs

Great song, very fitting for Limsa, but you wouldn't even know it at this point because you've heard it 5,000 times.

[Ilitsa]

This is "On the Windy Meadows" they are two completely different songs. Both good, but I agree it might be cool to see it in game again

not gonna lie, it reminds of Chrono Cross, which makes me happy

[Shougun]

I don't mean this as an insult because I've absolutely enjoyed Soken's awesome battle, dungeon and event music, but I feel the majestic pauses for scenery supported inexorably by the wanderlust music have mostly gone and I do sincerely miss those moments (Windy Meadows, Twilight, and Coerthas's Unspoken are all good examples). Kind of one of a small pile of reasons why while I think FFXIV is still a good game that it did become a little bit less "mature" feeling*. Hope in the expansion they can make the new XIV meet old a little bit more.

*For lack of a better word something to describe the perhaps temporary shift in visual and armor designs, everything being faster, amazingly smooth animations, overworld monsters generally being as good as invisible, add to that the lack of unique personality monsters had - bring back monster personalities, beautifully directed cutscenes replaced (to be fair they were expensive to make we're told, and I believe that lol; although, some 2.0 cutscenes get close, a lot of hildibrand's), Ascians being these haunting specters and shadowless infiltrators, ect ect, still a great but different game, however my greed says we should have both.

Or perhaps I'm just blind, deaf, and dumb as I'm sure those who disagree would say, perhaps I have felt loss for something that never left? :P Opinions~ yay! lol

Aside confession: I remember one of my regrettable 4AM moments I was like "1.0 music is alright" then I logged back into the game and it was passing dusk as it started to rain in Thanalan, the ground went wet, and as the wind blew Twilight over Thanalan played, and I felt guilty for making the comment haha- moral of the story don't post on 3 hours of sleep.

Because Unspoken is great with the birds and the wind lets watch Noomy run into all the invisible walls, <3 .

[Psychosamm]

As much as I like both, the music I'll really miss the most is Nail of the Heavens.
Nothing made fighting a tiny rat the size of my little toe more epic back in 1.0 early days than this rockin' battle music. Every encounter was a struggle back then and this really helped pump me up.

Holy shit this is epic, why don't we have this?! I'm so mad right now.

[Taruna-Aeon]

I do also wish some of the awesome 1.0 BGM could replace the current ones, especially like each city's theme, but at least make "ON WINDY MEADOWS" a permanent comeback! XD

Yes please!! ;W; When it comes to Limsa and Ul'dah city + field zone music and Coerthas. They are all probably the songs I miss the most from 1.0. :<

[Twilite]

not gonna lie, it reminds of Chrono Cross, which makes me happy

It makes me happy that someone else likes Chrono Cross.

Anyway, aside from some good music in the dungeons in 2.0, the majority of music from 1.0 they could have kept. But I understand the producer wanting to depart from remnants of the original FFXIV(FFXI) team's work as much as possible.

[BobbinT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FImhMrOpBLo

I want this soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo badly.
I can just imagine killing a Lady Bug with this music! xD!

WTF where is this music from? Why do we not have this?

It's the main battle theme for La Noscea region. Also FYI, back in 1.0, each region has their own battle BGM, including Coerthas & Mor Dhona too. At least Mor Dhona battle BGM were already re-used for one of dungeon boss battle, Halatali HM for example.

not gonna lie, it reminds of Chrono Cross, which makes me happy

It makes me happy that someone else likes Chrono Cross.

Well... Chrono Cross are in fact one of my greatest fave game. ^^

Anyway, aside from some good music in the dungeons in 2.0, the majority of music from 1.0 they could have kept. But I understand the producer wanting to depart from remnants of the original FFXIV(FFXI) team's work as much as possible.

I used to feel that way too. But... seeing how the direction of this game goes, and not to mention Uematsu-san were coming back to contribute for 3.0 soundtracks, it kinda felt a bit unfair that majority of cool 1.0 BGM were intended to be left behind.

[rina_inverse]

while were on it, pls return the crafting bgm

*put on nostalgia googles*

[Mahri]

More than anything, "On Windy Meadows" sounds a lot like Lost Odyssey, which also has music from Uematsu.

I really like it, myself. It's got a very distinct ethnic feel -- Peruvian, specifically. Nobuo must've been really feeling that style at the time.

[Ilitsa]

It makes me happy that someone else likes Chrono Cross.

Well... Chrono Cross are in fact one of my greatest fave game. ^^

we're few and far between, hear hear~