In-Game music - do you like it??

[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).

[-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.

[Enkidoh]

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.

Don't get me started on that one (fully agree, it's jaw-dropping, heart-pumping amazing - "Journey's end, as I ascend!" indeed).

[Elissar]

In game music is a piece of art, a whole different show. I wish we had orchestral version in-game during some moments tho