In-Game music - do you like it??

[Cleretic]

I don't think I understood what was being sang in it for a couple of years though, mainly because I misheard the lyrics for a long time/assumed some of them were just frenzied yelling.

I have a firm belief that if Under the Weight were released in Shadowbringers, we'd have understood it far better and it would be hailed as one of the greats. It was, quite literally, before its time.

At launch we weren't prepared for lyrics to be telling us things or to really matter (and some of us might've not even recognized there even were any). So we didn't really think to actually dissect the high-speed rap for any sort of meaning until it was too late to be relevant and interesting. Under the Weight carries just as much meaning as something like Fiend, we just weren't really listening at the time.

[RyuDragnier]

And it's kind of hard to listen to it even now, because it's so fast paced to where you can't make out the lyrics.

[rainichan]

Hey same here!
It's nice to see another Footsteps in the Snow enjoyer, it tends to get overshadowed by Oblivion.

Love the slow build up, like an impending snowstorm It just sounds so good.

I'd just like to point out that, even though Soken is amazing and To The Edge is one of the best songs I've ever heard and the orchestral version makes me tear up (not to mention the orchestral version of Flow, good gods...), he's not the sole composer in CBU3.

He does do a lot, though! But everyone else's contributions are straight fire, too. The page for the Endwalker soundtrack, with info sourced directly from the booklet notes on who did what, show that Soken composes most (while Ishikawa and Imamura composed one or two) but they do a lot of arrangements - generally the dungeons since they're usually arrangements of the map music they're on (like Garlemald Express, love that track! Composed by Soken but arranged by Imamura, it's a fire track.) They should 100% get more credit though, Soken's music dept. has some fantastic talent.

I think Oblivion works for two reasons.

The end of what you quoted says it all though: it's a matter of tastes. Thematically yeah it's all fine and good but I'm just not a fan, regardless. Though tbf, all of the primal songs tend to do this from at least Ramuh up. I'd say Moggle Mog but, well... Moogle thoughts are all over the place and it feels more like the Mogglesguard and regular moogles and their worship. But Thunder Rolls is most definitely Ramuh's feelings on things and his own words, not the sahagin's worship for Leviathan or moogles talking about the great and powerful Good King Moggle Mog the XIIth, may his whiskers ever quiver. Oblivion's difference is Ysayle being able to summon a primal essence into her so it's her story, but also what she perceives to be Shiva's own.

Still doesn't change my thought much that it's a fairly mid track. I enjoy it, but if I had the choice I'd just not listen.

I still remember doing Titan HM for the first time, and my roommates stopping and listening to Under the Weight. My roommate's wife coming out of the bedroom like, "Is that music from the game? It is? Whoa..."

I don't think I understood what was being sang in it for a couple of years though, mainly because I misheard the lyrics for a long time/assumed some of them were just frenzied yelling.

Gsdfgahggfds. JGDJFdfshdfs. Asgsfdsfjdfg TITAN!

[Kele_Star]

I kmow qitanas ravel like the back of my hand purely because of its background theme. Ive played it atleast a hundred times just to hear the music. That said i think my favorite song in the game is the one that plays durring sad moments
My top 5 has to be footfalls,otherworld,crimson sunrise,mushroomery and under the stars from the fft raids hands down

[ReynTime]

I have consistently enjoyed the music in the game, but Endwalker turned out to be the exception. It has some good tracks, but I don't find myself listening to more than half a dozen of them outside of the game. For all the flack people gave to Stormblood's Ala Mhigan Anthem's motif, Endwalker often sounds like it only has variations of the same 2 tracks being used in cutscenes, cities and regular fights. At least Kugane and Rhalgr's Reach used completely different sides of the main themes, making one be associated to the Gyr Abania region and the other with the Othard and Hingashi regions. And even then the Doman Enclave has its own theme with completely different notes.

Leitmotifs are fine. They work well as signature for their expansions or large arcs of the expansions. But personally I think it's really meh to apply the same motif across completely different nations instead of giving the nations their own motif (like ARR nations have).

[RyuDragnier]

I can't think of any tunes I didn't like from EW, at least none that stick out like ShB's battle theme (it takes too long to build up and just clashes with the rest of that soundtrack).

[Fellgon]

My opinion is that all FF14 soundtrack, of all expansions are better than others MMO cause its more modern and not bind to classical style like wow, or medieval style, you have syncs, you have eletronic elements....its better. And mutch better than animes musics too. You have guitar, drums, bass...some musics even sounds like trance music.

[tsuuazu]

Going through old posts in this thread is pretty funny because so many people don't seem to know that Soken actually doesn't work on every single track in the game. It's a common thing I've noticed among FFXIV fans but can't blame them for not knowing when such info is locked away on the official soundtracks.

So you're dissing the guy without even knowig if he was involved in the music you're dissing.

I suggest taking a look at "vgmdb.com", a great source of videogame music credits, and looking up FFXIV stuff. You'd be surprised by how many stuff is arranged by other people. Soken basically creates the main motifs and then the rest of the sound team arrange the tracks around Soken's ideas. That's hwhy he gets compositional credit but the actual meat of the track is someone else. The only OST that was 80% Soken on himself was A Realm Reborn.

[-Magnai-]

Yes, I love FFXIV's soundtrack~! I sometimes like to afk in my favorite areas just so I can relax to the music when I'm doing chores or journaling ^-^

Certain songs give me chills down my spine. You know, the good kind? I can't explain it but I hope you guys know what I mean. Then theres's the songs that make me tear up due to certain memories associated with them, whether it be good, sad, or otherwise, and whether it be due to personal things, roleplay experiences, or the story itself.

[Cilia]

Overall, yes. I have some particular favorites like Insanity and Return to Oblivion, but I can't think of a single song in this game's OST I actually dislike so far.

Athena, the Tireless One was my favorite from the most recent patch.