New music ~ Uematsu?

[Rau]

No, and I think we're the better for it.

I haven't been wowed any of his music made in the past 10 years.

Now Shimomura. She's worthy of high name projects.

Would poop my pants of Shimomura got on the XIV train.

[Eruantien]

No, and I think we're the better for it.

I haven't been wowed any of his music made in the past 10 years.

Now Shimomura. She's worthy of high name projects.

I dunno the mistwalker games music is epic.

[JDR388]

No, and I think we're the better for it.

I haven't been wowed any of his music made in the past 10 years.

You should listen to some of the Lost Odyssey Soundtrack. I particularly love the final boss battle music. Or if you are into the more mellow stuff then check out Eclipse of Time from the same game, a hauntingly sad song arranged by Uematsu with lyrics by Sakaguchi.

I think part of the dip in quality you are perceving is due to the fact that Uematsu is no longer an in house member at SE. His music in previous FF games did not get made in a vaccum, if you read alot of his interviews you will realize that there was a bit of a complex interplay between Uematsu and Sakaguchi (who is apparently a bit of a music man himself). In many cases scenes from the older games were (according to this interview) directly inspired by music that Uematsu had written.

This is why I always look forward to the music whenever Uematsu and Sakaguchi are working together directly.

[Kerwin]

What's sad is I read somewhere that some of Uematsu's work in the current version will be removed when 2.0 hits. Sad to see some of his songs that wont ever be in game again.

[shuttergnome]

What's sad is I read somewhere that some of Uematsu's work in the current version will be removed when 2.0 hits. Sad to see some of his songs that wont ever be in game again.

This right here is a very sad day, because when I think of him I think of Final Fantasy. If some of the new music,( Garuda, Van Darnus) was by someone else, then that composer is headed in the right direction, but I really hope they don't try to erase all of his tracks from 2.0. The music in this game is 50% the reason I play.

[Meow_Zedong]

They won't erase all of Uematsu's tracks, it makes up most of the soundtrack.

The original soundtrack was around 70-ish songs, all done by Uematsu. Not all were in the game at launch, most were just waiting for future use, like the event songs.

So the patches that introduced new tracks to the game were a combination of unused Uematsu tracks and completely new music, composed by SE's in-house music team (Naoshi Mizuta, Ryo Yamazaki, and Tsuyoshi Sekito).

The new music team's contributions have only been around 20 tracks (and a few remixes of Uematsu songs), so the soundtrack is still mostly Uematsu.


For those that are curious, the VAN Darnus battle track is Uematsu (at launch it was the theme to Coerthas leves, but they changed it), but the DEUS Darnus track (2nd phase) is the new music team. Garuda theme is also from the new team.

[Jennestia]

They won't erase all of Uematsu's tracks, it makes up most of the soundtrack.

The original soundtrack was around 70-ish songs, all done by Uematsu. Not all were in the game at launch, most were just waiting for future use, like the event songs.

So the patches that introduced new tracks to the game were a combination of unused Uematsu tracks and completely new music, composed by SE's in-house music team (Naoshi Mizuta, Ryo Yamazaki, and Tsuyoshi Sekito).

The new music team's contributions have only been around 20 tracks (and a few remixes of Uematsu songs), so the soundtrack is still mostly Uematsu.


For those that are curious, the VAN Darnus battle track is Uematsu (at launch it was the theme to Coerthas leves, but they changed it), but the DEUS Darnus track (2nd phase) is the new music team. Garuda theme is also from the new team.

Recent interviews said few tracks from the original soundtrack will remain for ARR -- Few is a lot less than 70.

[Meow_Zedong]

Recent interviews said few tracks from the original soundtrack will remain for ARR -- Few is a lot less than 70.

You must have misread. They said that they would be taking out a few tracks, not that only a few tracks would remain. Big difference.

[Bowen]

Recent interviews said few tracks from the original soundtrack will remain for ARR -- Few is a lot less than 70.

You must have misread. They said that they would be taking out a few tracks, not that only a few tracks would remain. Big difference.

I'd like to know what interview you both are getting this from.

[Starlord]

You must have misread. They said that they would be taking out a few tracks, not that only a few tracks would remain. Big difference.

The BGM for Gold Saucer was memorable, Crystal Tower as well, will FF related content have reappearance of those BGM?
Y: Of course. Not much of current BGM will be left. We are aiming for music where old fans can feel that this is FF by arranging the crystal theme or arranging the level up music. We just put in the final Neil Van Darnus battle and for that there is an opera which we received comments on the forum that it reminded them of Sephiroth. That music is really popular on the forums and we also released a lyrics in Latin. This is the FF like feel so I am particular with the musics.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ish%29/page447