Implement Orchestrated Music

[Zahak]

At least let us have an option to switch to orchestra! I want the orchestra

[Kibo]

Yes..! That's the music I want..

Haha I bet, with your name and all.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

I think Hitoshi Sakimoto should compose some music for FFXIV. I love his music in FFXII and Tactics.

[SupaCancerion]

Whether or not we get an orchestrated soundtrack, something needs to be done with the music. I wouldn't say that it's really bad and I like some of it (Coerthas, Mor Dhona, The Black Shroud and La Noscea all have good music in my opinion), but all of it is extremely repetetive and even if I like the tune I find myself wanting to rip all my hair out after a few hours of playing, so most of the time I just keep it off. Also some of the music isn't really fitting to it's surroundings. Take LL and Thanalan for example; the "grand" nature of the music for LL really just doesn't go with the peaceful oceanside atmosphere of the city. Thanalan's music is too "uplifting" and orchestral for the region's arrid landscape. I think some tribal percussion or maybe even some arabic sounding music would fit Thanalan better, and for LL maybe an acoustic guitar piece (think Balamb from FFVIII). As for the battle tunes, seriously what was Uematsu thinking??? We need orchestral battle music, or even something of a more electronic nature, not some stupid pop guitar crap. It completely destroys immersion. Battle music needs to be entirely replaced I think.

But the biggest problem is the repetitive nature of the music; even if it's good it gets annoying. I think the music should change with day and night cycles, so it's not playing over and over and over. Maybe they could even have the music just stop during the night time. I mean, walking around in LL at 3:00 in the mornin with "duuuuuuun DUUUUUUUUUN DUUUUUUN" all over the place is just a lil much! Having the music only play during the day or having a seperate score for night time would make a huge difference (the first solution would be a lot easier for the devs I think). But really this is all just one humble player's opinion; honestly they have more important things to work on, but I really hope they look into this in the future. It's something that has bothered me from the beginning.

I think Hitoshi Sakimoto should compose some music for FFXIV. I love his music in FFXII and Tactics.

I completely agree, this style of music would fit this game much better than what we have now.

[Jennestia]

Battle music is fine really for what the current feel of the game is and based on the areas, a lot of it is "first steps" style, for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t042q...eature=related

Vs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_9aB...eature=related

The Ul'dah, Limsa and Gridania area battle themes has a 'setting off' feel to it compared hitting the mid/peak of your battle career so far. We also haven't gotten the rest of the areas and their music, so I'm sure it will be a lot better as we get deeper into the world like it does now.

[whoopeeragon]

Well, if you don’t want repetition, it’ll be hard since you’ll in an area for over an hour while the soundtrack loops every 2 minutes. Unless you want an hour long theme or new music being composed every week to take care of the old ones, there’s nothing you can do about it. Besides, by that same measuring stick, all games have repetitive music. There is nothing to stop the ‘repetitiveness’ of the soundtracks looping, and they'll all eventually get annoying. Just accept the music is there, you can't save it from looping.

Limsa Lominsa is no-way near peaceful. Pirates, bombings and a possible invasion? The storyline sure doesn’t show a peaceful coastal town. LL is more grand than the other cities, in fact, not to mention being a ‘busy’ port for ships. Navigator’s Glory fits LL enough, and it’s not as repetitive as the other soundtracks –cough Black Shroud cough-. Remember, the city is filled with PIRATES.

As per Jen, the battle music is fine. Rock has always been a favourite hobby of Uematsu-san, and IMO, it fits the feel of the current game set-up. FFXI’s starting battle themes were much much sub-par, and not even as much variety. La Noscea, Thanalan and the Black Shroud’s battle themes are just what they’re meant to be, setting you up for the battle. Go to Mor Dhona and Coerthas and battle there, and the music is much darker and faster.

Hitoshi Sakimoto was fine for FFXII, since Ivalice is quite mecha-based, so his percussion heavy soundtracks fit. They will fit quite well in FFXIV, but you also have the problem of the lack of orchestration, even more than Nobuo’s. And if anything, Hitoshi Sakimoto’s tracks lack some of the sophistication Nobuo Uematsu sometimes likes to plug into the tracks.

What I really don’t like is the looping of the soundtrack to the beginning FOR EACH TIME IT IS PLAYED. Take crafting for example; you hear the first 30 seconds repeatedly for each synth you do, and never actually get to the ending which is by far the better part of the track. Perhaps one of the least of the problems which are worrying the devs, but I never get to enjoy the full soundtrack because of that. Battle music suffers the same as well. In fact, the soundtracks which I do get to hear in full are the area themes and levequests. Storyline instances also suffer from the same looping to the front. If it’s possible, could the devs try something like FFXIII’s, where after each battle finished, the field music started right back from when it was cut off?

That's my short summary of FFXIV's music.

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As for orchestration, YES, please put Navigator's Glory in! I love the arranged version....so beautiful...

But we do need to think of the costs. There's no way Nobuo Uematsu can have 80+ tracks all orchestrated; not only will it take ages, the costs will be massive to pay for all the musicians for certain bombastic soundtracks like the Opening Theme, or Quicksand.

Oh and...

Nobuo also commented he wished he could have done a bit more with the in-game music, so you never know, they added music to FFXI in an update before, so we can log in after a patch and have updated music one day.

Do you have a link or source to where he mentioned it?

[Seif]

Just more music in general would help. The game is designed to keep the player in one zone for the whole play session and there's about 2 tracks looping while you're playing. I love Uematsu to the moon and back but the actual implementation of his music is just horrible in this game.

[Lenneth_Valkyrie]

Haha I bet, with your name and all.

You forgot this one though..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGtnBnmJ8MA

If you look at my channel on youtube you'll see I have alot of unreleased tracks from Nier.. ^^

Also to everyone.. rate this thread up and make a positive comment if you agree..: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...dtrack-manager
I believe we all can be happy with it.. if interest of the players is shown they might consider it..

[Laiferr]

YES PLEASE!! I agree the music is lacking and dull. PLEASE re-think the music in this game! Some of it takes so long to get into the decent parts, and some like zone music is very short and repetitive, like Gridania. It's plain dull compared to XI's music.