I cannot tolerate how repetitive post-ARR music is

[TheVigilant]

There is a pause between ARR music and the music sounds good, I just can't stand how repetitive the music in DT is and how noisy it becomes in the morning, I know I can just mute but I want to enjoy the theme as composed by the artists' imagination of the game's world, I don't like most of the morning themes in DT but I can tolerate them if they don't loop very often, please do something about that so I can enjoy my game in peace while still appreciating the valuable work of your composers. Please add a loop disabling option or just anything else you can do all the way to improve my experience. Thank you.

[MoofiaBossVal]

I do agree that I do have a few gripes with the zone music after ARR, as you are hearing a 2 minute track that loops over and over, and the track isn't good enough to endure repeatedly listening to. Most of the time it sounds the same idea throughout. Rarely are there multiple parts to it like with the Tulilyollal Day theme. It also does not help that this game abuses reusing the same melodies with little to no meaningful variation, so they can quickly become tiresome. When you are doing the long fate grinds in the zones it can get pretty tedious to listen to and I would wind up muting the game to put on a podcast. With ARR not only do you have the pause, but there are actually two or three different ideas or pieces for La Nosca/Thanalan/Black Shroud, so it's not just one samey song looping over and over.

We desperately need new FATE and world boss music, and also some new cutscene music rather than continuing to reuse Machinations.

[Daralii]

I respect Soken a lot, but he or someone above him kind of lost sight of the fact that tracks used for zones and cities will be playing on loop constantly and will typically be in relaxed situations. 4 1/2 minutes of bombastic jazz doesn't work for that.

[MoofiaBossVal]

I respect Soken a lot, but he or someone above him kind of lost sight of the fact that tracks used for zones and cities will be playing on loop constantly and will typically be in relaxed situations. 4 1/2 minutes of bombastic jazz doesn't work for that.

I actually quite like the Tulliyollal music, but it helps that it has two parts and the second is much more relaxing which helps spruce up the experience and keep it from being noisy nonstop. It is Ishgard, Kugane, and the Crystarium I take issue with as their music is far too dramatic.

[CaffeinatedKing]

The gall to say this when Ul'dah's deafening day time theme exists.

[Rinoa_353]

The gall to say this when Ul'dah's deafening day time theme exists.

But it's balanced with "Sultana Dreaming" which is still one of the best nighttime themes imo and I have that playing in my home in LB too :3

[VictorSpoils]

I respect Soken a lot, but he or someone above him kind of lost sight of the fact that tracks used for zones and cities will be playing on loop constantly and will typically be in relaxed situations. 4 1/2 minutes of bombastic jazz doesn't work for that.

And the fact that tracks reset every time you enter an area. This rapidly wears out the city/haven themes, and when you hear the latter half of an overworld zone's music you practically stop what you're doing to listen. Adding to that is FATEs having the same music for 12 years and boss FATEs inexplicably ignoring the "no battle music" setting.

And it's worse when said looping tracks are 25 seconds long (Idyllshire).

[Korret]

Enter Diadem
/bgm 0

[Wired-Lain]

I respect Soken a lot, but he or someone above him kind of lost sight of the fact that tracks used for zones and cities will be playing on loop constantly and will typically be in relaxed situations. 4 1/2 minutes of bombastic jazz doesn't work for that.

At first I really thought Tuliyollals theme was just for the opening quest to sell the fun vacation vibe and then it just... Never went away.

[Hallarem]

Some zones seem very phoned in. The idea for game music is to transport you into your surroundings / the situation and STORYTELL.

- Lakeland theme plays like an assault mission soundtrack, does not fit
- Ultima Thule's theme self-destructed the moment they made it repeat the song. It was a good song in the moment, and got ruined by making it the zone song
- Speaking of repeating, they REUSE ARR music and more sooooooo much in new expansions, it got old long ago, but they keep ramming it in, because they cant be arsed to compose a new jingle for "Hmmm, its mission time!" give me a break.
- DT in itself had a decent soundtrack, aside from Tuliyollal's theme and Smile. I just think Tuliyolllals theme was Soken being quirky and getting his way through. You earn the right to be quirky with a good story and delivering a good game, DT did not earn the right to be quirky.