Thread: Return of the opening menu theme for 2.0?

Originally Posted by Miliant

Unfortunately this game is a million miles behind FFXI in terms of music and gameplay.
The Vana'diel marches were brillant and got you in the mood immediately as soon as the game started.

Gameplay, ok. Music? you must be high. With that said however, i hope they do name Mizuta as the full on successor to Nobuo again for XIV like they did with XI.

Originally Posted by Scherwiz

Gameplay, ok. Music? you must be high. With that said however, i hope they do name Mizuta as the full on successor to Nobuo again for XIV like they did with XI.

For most of the music I have to agree, XI's is so much better, I can listen to it all day. Though recent tracks from patches have been very epic since its under this new guy.

Although Coerthas music > all!

Originally Posted by viion

For most of the music I have to agree, XI's is so much better, I can listen to it all day. Though recent tracks from patches have been very epic since its under this new guy.

Although Coerthas music > all!

I disagree, I have both the FFXIV and FFXI soundtrack, and FFXIV's score blows it out of the water. Not saying FFXI isn't good, but the epicness of FFXIV is pretty awesome. Can't really expect anything less though, been made by a legend and all.

Originally Posted by TokyieRage

I disagree, I have both the FFXIV and FFXI soundtrack, and FFXIV's score blows it out of the water. Not saying FFXI isn't good, but the epicness of FFXIV is pretty awesome. Can't really expect anything less though, been made by a legend and all.

Heh well to me, it feels as though the legend has had his time, and it was very far before XIV. I just felt the XIV music lacked so much (excluding the new ones that he didnt do). It lost all its grand and was not very "gamey" i think.

XI was so rich, and had flavour, it was just music for the sake of music, it was music you'd visual matched to the zones.

Originally Posted by TokyieRage

I disagree, I have both the FFXIV and FFXI soundtrack, and FFXIV's score blows it out of the water. Not saying FFXI isn't good, but the epicness of FFXIV is pretty awesome. Can't really expect anything less though, been made by a legend and all.

Yeah, I'm thinking you only played Vanilla FFXI and never got into any of the expansions, while yeah musical taste is purely opinion, there's a reason SE themselves said they're remastering the music for 2.0 and Nobuo himself said he wish he could remake a lot of the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sag9hIVICM - This has yet to be beat by anything in FFXIV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LqY8...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL9vF...feature=relmfu < Probably the most atmospheric music for a maritime city during war.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hmoa...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7Nm...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJbSo...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zslD...eature=related (Before this became the lifeblood of XI..it was actually nice.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8WJL...feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ6Es...feature=relmfu (No one can forget this one.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epBRi...eature=related (remember the first time you stepped into this zone?)

So yeah, XIV has nice music in some instances, but XI's music just has so much more life to it. As for the topic, the one thing I hoped XIV copied from XI was the login screen, especially given that instead of POL interface (which wasn't bad, as the only reason people had problems with it was because in America you only had Tetra Master and XI to login to, so they hated wasting precious seconds /rolleyes) you log into a SE login then XIV..they could easily throw in videos of zone flythroughs like XI.

Maybe they have it in store for 2.0's client, but sadly given how generic all MMO login interfaces are, lets hope they try to stand out rather than simply fit in.

Originally Posted by TokyieRage

I disagree, I have both the FFXIV and FFXI soundtrack, and FFXIV's score blows it out of the water. Not saying FFXI isn't good, but the epicness of FFXIV is pretty awesome. Can't really expect anything less though, been made by a legend and all.

I disagree,
No need epic music on FF online, imho: just need FF classic ones. FFXIV has too much orchestral and rock tracks.
Naoshi Mizuta is the key.

Mhaura
Mhaura flute
Mog House

Like these, just for example.^ ^;

I vote yes!!!

Yea I agree this would be a nice addition, I'd also like to see the title screen include the log in screen, similar to how other MMO's do it.

I know this really doesn't have anything to do with the topic of music but I came across this video. Its from the WotG expansion. I wasn't around long enough on XI to complete and this video really makes me sad I didn't get to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh1e...layer_embedded

(It has WotG spoilers for anyone that is still playing/planning to finish it)