well i dont listen to ff music as much as did years ago.
but coincidentally yesterday i was checking my back up mp3 cds and listened some ff songs.
nowdays im listening more to ff songs that i didnt like that much at the beginning, but now i totally love them(like the oath, swing de chocobo, an other.

I still love Final Fantasy VII and VIII music, myself. I don't think they could ever grow old

Not as often as I used to. I occasionally get the urge to just load up all of Nobuo Uematsu and listen to some tracks, but I haven't listened to any FF for a few months now, since the FF XII OST.

Final Fantasy IX got me started on my VGM <3. And then it was Parasite Eve. So in effect, it was love for a bunch of Square titles for me until I joined GFF and branched out to other stuff.

I only frequently listen to Sakimoto's FF music. And Hamauzu's.

As in Uematsu's case... I listen to FFIV - VI mostly, despite the low quality synth. I don't have much interest in his post-SNES era music. :(

Snap. In fact, FFVII is the only actual OST I own :(

But I still love the rest of them, and I'll play the games every so often just to hear the music :)

yeah sometimes, The odd track brings back happy gaming memories.

But I was never a big ff fan as the games are a bit naff

Not really, I grew out of FF after FF7 and Tactics, the emo nonsense of Squall and FF8 turned me off considerably. At the same time, I became a lifelong fan of Suikoden, and I still listen to all their soundtracks on a daily basis. Just goes to show you that substance has a lot more staying power than flash ;)

I find most Final Fantasy soundtracks to have way more substance than any of the Suikoden ones. Just goes to show you that opinions are entirely relative to individuals. ;)

About FF8, I like the soundtrack almost as much as I hate the game. It contains some of the most powerful Uematsu's compositions, in my opinion. I also totally love FF9, but can't stand anything past it.

Most of my VGM albums are FF albums, so you can say that I often listen to FF music. I still put Uematsu's music in high regard when we talk about VGM, but that doesn't mean he's the best. I do listen to other composers, but the range isn't that big as compared to other members here. Maybe if I'm exposed to more composers or games, I might try to listen to their music, but for now FF (and usually Square games) dominiate my VGM collection.

And I think FFX is the worst FF album, but I love Suteki da Ne. ;)

I still love my Final Fantasy music however I must say I'm very annoyed at the new FFXI Box Set collection which contains an extra disc with previously unreleased vocal works. I'm not going to buy all those albums again so I can have just one CD no matter how much I loved the performance on the voices DVD. Grr!

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I went through an anti-fanboy backlash a while back and pretty much hated on all FF musics. It took the Advent Children OST to rekindle the LURVE.



Oh, and it's not the only thing I listen to. Right now. I'll go nuts when #gamemp3s releases the F archive.

"And I think FFX is the worst FF album"
What about Hamauzu tracks ?
I love Hamauzu style...

And it's weird but I feel like FF music are part of when I was young, but now that I'm starting my twenties, I want to heard something else...

I still listen a lot to Final Fantasy music, but mostly to the Piano Collections only. The beauty of Final Fantasy music introduced me to VGM and I will never forget that.

I still do. I still can't get enough of the Battle with Gilgamesh on the FF XII soundtrack. I'm not all that fond of the rest of the album, though...

Somewhat sadly, Nobuo's work on the series is still some of the best video game music available, apart from being also groundbreaking and the most popular. It's got a good reason to be.

The other soundtracks and composers are mood-dependant, individuals, but Final Fantasy has good in everything. So I sometimes pop in a FF soundtrack whenever I have 3-4 hours to just chill to a soundtrack with incredible variation you really can't find anywhere else in the vgm world. Again, sadly.

I'm not listening to Liberi Fatali non-stop or anything like that, though.

Depends on my mood. I listen to a lot of other series' music now so everything has to have it's turn. I find myself liking Final Fantasy 7's music less after not hearing it for about a year and having listened to so much other VGM during that time. But it's not about the age of the music because I never get tired of FF6's music.

I think I'll always listen to FF music even if I get tired of some of it, there's a lot of good stuff especially the piano arranges.

Wow, the hate. FFVIII is one of my favourites in the series and the Balamb Garden theme is a keeper for life. The OSTs for this stuff are so hard to come by in Oz - does anybody know a good website where I can find (er, download) some more of it? I really dig the Shadow Hearts music, and want it on my iPod stat.

...a Koori on the Internet?

Regarding: the only VGM discs I've ever bought were via CD Japan, but I daresay there'd be a few local (ie. CBD) stores by now (eg. Alternate Worlds) who may stock some. Although you'll pay out the arse, mind.

Well, since metho became harder to acquire I've discovered the internets.

That sucks. I trip down to Alternate Worlds all the time and yeah, they take your $$ hard for these imported goods from faraway - it cost me ridiculous amounts to get ahold of the Evangelion OSTs. I was hoping there was some miraculous website out there that was just hosting all the mp3s for free.

I guess stickying stuff actually make them invisible or something. =/

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/ge...ion-7-1-a.html

Also, you may want to check out the My Stuff forum.

My very first VGM "album" was the companion music disc from FF Anthology on PS1. That got me into game music, I guess you could say. The next purchase I made was, I believe, the FFVIII Orchestrated album, which was my main VGM album for quite some time. But I never have found myself listening to the whole OSTs themselves, just a song here and there, and tend to prefer arrangements like Pray, Love Will Grow, and Piano Collections, and even then, just select songs from those albums. Since then, I've also acquired knowledge of a vast array of other composers, but generally follow the same listening pattern of picking and choosing the songs I want, and basically completely ignoring the rest. As it would turn out, out of all the vast sums of songs Uemastu's composed, I perhaps have more particular Mitsuda or Sakimoto songs I really enjoy in my collection than songs by him. But those songs by him still have a place, so I still listen to them from time to time. Though it is the case that some songs by him I used to really enjoy, I now find myself saying, "did I really enjoy that that much?" I kind of feel like I "outgrew" those songs, but maybe it's just a matter of having more stuff to listen to now.

Final Fantasy music used to take up around 3/4 of my music collection at one point, but I'm finding that a lot of the newer stuff isn't all that exciting. It is interesting to hear a random track from an older game, though - even if it's something "standard" like Aeris' Theme or something, it's a good listen now just as it was back then.

Yeah, I still listen to a lot of them. Final Fantasy Black Mages I & II and Final Fantasy IX is usually what I listen to, I love IX's! :D

I used to listen to it a lot, along with other VG and anime music, but I did it SOOO much that I started to get bored... then I got deeper into Trance but this year I missed the old days so I am back on track.

My favorites are Black Mages and the Piano Collections ;)

I'm always in search of new and better music. So naturally I let the older final fantasy music go... (not FFXII and FFXIII though)