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Mirson on 22 December 2010

Yeah, Final Fantasy XIII's soundtrack is great. It's one of my favorites this year along with Bayonetta and NieR. I also liked the game, but it did have some flaws like pacing. Like in Chapter 11, nothing really happens; very little story progression and not much character development. All you do is walk, get amazed that you don't see something linear, then return to linearity, climb some tower, go to some village and end chapter. There were some other chapters that didn't really do anything or took a while to get somewhere. I also would've liked something to do other than fighting. The side missions were just fighting.

Back to the soundtrack, I really enjoyed it. Final Fantasy always delivers on the music aspect. My favorite track in FFXIII is Snow's Theme. And outlawauron, Eyes on me isn't good, imo. My Hands is superior.



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outlawauron on 22 December 2010
Boutros said:
outlawauron said:
Boutros said:
outlawauron said:
Boutros said:

I was personally not impressed with the soundtrack. I was expecting more perhaps.

What did you want more of? It has tons of orchestral stuff, would rather stuff a bit more varied?

 

I can understand expecting more. I certainly don't think it has the best soundtrack ever, but it certainly is up there imo.

I don't really know...FFX had some awesome musics.

It doesn't help that I didn't like the combat music :/

I liked a couple of them but I already forgot most.

That's understandable, but I absolutely love the combat music. I'm a sucker for violins and it has electric violins at about the ~35 second point, which immediately won me over.

I realllly disliked the music in Gran Pulse LOL. Gathering Platinum Ingot was painful :/

The one music I liked is this one:

And My Hands lol

You didn't like Gran Pulse's music? I liked it. Sure, it isn't wasn't as good as the song you mentioned or Sunleth Waterscape, but I found some to like.

This one was one of my favorites from Gran Pulse.

I found myself humming along to this and 'Dust to Dust' which was played in Oerba.



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KungKras on 22 December 2010

The battle, and boss musics are slow and bland.

Gilgamesh Battle from V and the boss and fight themes from VI are in a league way above the FFXIII soundtrack.



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outlawauron on 22 December 2010
badgenome said:

I agree. It's actually one of my favorite Final Fantasy soundtracks. I'd guess you're at least partially correct about the reason why it's so overlooked; the multiplatform controversy and general outpouring of hate for the game (not all of which is undeserved) takes up a lot of air in the room. Plus the fact that it's comprised of more evenly high quality songs rather than having a few big ones. The only really big one was "My Hands", and we all know how people shat bricks over it.

But yeah, stuff like Sunleth Waterscape, Snow and Lightning's themes, and the battle themes are some of the best in the series. It's a shame Hamauzu left. I thought they'd found their new Uematsu.

I completely agree with this. I don't think there is anything terrible about the soundtrack at all. Indeed, to your last statement as well. He's obviously very talented, and he'll make some beautiful music for his next project I'm sure.

About 'My Hands', I find it very funny. I can only remember the song playing once in the entire game and that was during the credits. I find it hard to believe that it was worth all the fuss.



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outlawauron on 22 December 2010
Mirson said:

Yeah, Final Fantasy XIII's soundtrack is great. It's one of my favorites this year along with Bayonetta and NieR. I also liked the game, but it did have some flaws like pacing. Like in Chapter 11, nothing really happens; very little story progression and not much character development. All you do is walk, get amazed that you don't see something linear, then return to linearity, climb some tower, go to some village and end chapter. There were some other chapters that didn't really do anything or took a while to get somewhere. I also would've liked something to do other than fighting. The side missions were just fighting.

Back to the soundtrack, I really enjoyed it. Final Fantasy always delivers on the music aspect. My favorite track in FFXIII is Snow's Theme. And outlawauron, Eyes on me isn't good, imo. My Hands is superior.

 


Hey, I don't think 'Eyes on Me' is very good either. It's just a very popular track that a lot of people associate with FF8.

To your other comments, I've yet to play Nier, but I anxiously await hearing the OST that has received so much praise.



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Rob-Ot on 22 December 2010
outlawauron said:
Boutros said:
outlawauron said:
Boutros said:
outlawauron said:
Boutros said:

I was personally not impressed with the soundtrack. I was expecting more perhaps.

What did you want more of? It has tons of orchestral stuff, would rather stuff a bit more varied?

 

I can understand expecting more. I certainly don't think it has the best soundtrack ever, but it certainly is up there imo.

I don't really know...FFX had some awesome musics.

It doesn't help that I didn't like the combat music :/

I liked a couple of them but I already forgot most.

That's understandable, but I absolutely love the combat music. I'm a sucker for violins and it has electric violins at about the ~35 second point, which immediately won me over.

I realllly disliked the music in Gran Pulse LOL. Gathering Platinum Ingot was painful :/

The one music I liked is this one:

 

 

And My Hands lol

You didn't like Gran Pulse's music? I liked it. Sure, it isn't wasn't as good as the song you mentioned or Sunleth Waterscape, but I found some to like.

This one was one of my favorites from Gran Pulse.

 

 

I found myself humming along to this and 'Dust to Dust' which was played in Oerba.

My favourite track from the game. This track and dust to dust remind me how underrated the games soundtrack is. I think this tune would have been on a world map if FF13 had one, it is that kind of a tune. With a tune like that I don't see how people say its not memorable.



Wagram on 22 December 2010

Well honestly I don't care what others think but to me and all my friends who played it. Final Fantasy XIII is an excellent addition to the FF franchise and it has an epic soundtrack!



A203D on 22 December 2010
Rob-Ot said:
 

Story - Yes the idea is original, thats why I said the setting was great, the premise was different from most JRPG's. However the story just wasn't told well, the datalog told a good story, the game didn't. This angers me more, the developers had a good story but it wasn't told in game.

Dialogue - I know what you mean, star ocean 4 dialogue makes FF13 seem like shakespeare, but just because others do it worse doesn't mean this game doesn't do it bad on an objective level.

Linearity - Yes, I hated the linearity in X and hate it here. Thats not all, by design I mean lack of variety (sure on gran pulse it wasn't linear but now I ran around in circles fighting enemies) and variety in side content. Then the games battle system is developed too slowly. I would welcome a FFXIII-2 because from interviews I think developers have realized where they went wrong.

This is the most un-great game I've played, for everything done well there was something I didn't like. Just to give you my background with the series, my favourite is IX and since X turned out to be mediocre for me I have felt they have dropped a lot in quality.

Story - i found the story was awful. it never went anywhere, the same plot points were recycled again and again - 'its our focus, Serah said so'. the script was very predictable - Ragnarok, was predicatable. i dont think the story was as original as we think tbh.

Yasumi Matsuno constructed a phenominal world in Ivalice, which he built upon in several installments. FF12 was about the Occura who maintain their world order through the Espers, their children. and FF13s story was about the Gods who maintain a world order through the fal'cie. i think that Kitase and Toriyama simply thought they could do what Matsuno did. but instead of fill their world with politics and intrigue, they filled it with hormonal melodrama.

Dialogue - compared to FF12 and Dragon Quest 8, FF13s dialogue was awful. it was just cheesy American one liners, the developers seemed to think hormonal dialogue is the way to create realistic characters. sadly we know from Dragon Quest 8 and FF12, JRPGs dont have to be like that.

Design - i think the game design is the fault of one Yoshinori Kitase. the game is filled with 6 hours of cutscenes. its like you playing a game, just so you can watch the cutscenes. i think this is the case  because its reported that the Crystal Tools game engine is designed for cutscenes. so i dont think it was ever designed to be played like a game, it was just meant to be played as more of an interactive movie. its not even an RPG according to the developers.

PS. my computer issues are sorted now Rob.



Boutros on 22 December 2010
outlawauron said:
Boutros said:
outlawauron said:
Boutros said:
outlawauron said:
Boutros said:

I was personally not impressed with the soundtrack. I was expecting more perhaps.

What did you want more of? It has tons of orchestral stuff, would rather stuff a bit more varied?

 

I can understand expecting more. I certainly don't think it has the best soundtrack ever, but it certainly is up there imo.

I don't really know...FFX had some awesome musics.

It doesn't help that I didn't like the combat music :/

I liked a couple of them but I already forgot most.

That's understandable, but I absolutely love the combat music. I'm a sucker for violins and it has electric violins at about the ~35 second point, which immediately won me over.

I realllly disliked the music in Gran Pulse LOL. Gathering Platinum Ingot was painful :/

The one music I liked is this one:

And My Hands lol

You didn't like Gran Pulse's music? I liked it. Sure, it isn't wasn't as good as the song you mentioned or Sunleth Waterscape, but I found some to like.

This one was one of my favorites from Gran Pulse.

I found myself humming along to this and 'Dust to Dust' which was played in Oerba.

Ah yes I liked Dust to Dust too.

The soundtrack was better than most games that's for sure.



Rob-Ot on 22 December 2010
Wagram said:

Well honestly I don't care what others think but to me and all my friends who played it. Final Fantasy XIII is an excellent addition to the FF franchise and it has an epic soundtrack!

For me the series has been mediocre starting with X, so the quality of XIII didn't surprise or disappoint me to be honest.

@A203D

Yeah I agree mostly but I do feel the story's theme was original, at least the one in the datalog was. What we got in the game was 6 hours of cut scenes with the same plot points being repeated and plot points being not even mentioned (those missing plot points were in the datalog). Like I said, just abysmal storytelling.