Still listen to Final Fantasy Music?

Just a simple polling... are you guys still listening the old tunes of Final Fantasy music by Nobuo Uematsu? I still remember when I was huge Uematsu fanboy, searching, looking and listening his FF discographies like crazy. Eventually I become fed up already, and for meantime, I dont want to listen any of his old FF compositions anymore.

I see this is a good thing though, I'm glad that FF music introduces me to VGM world and letting me know the existance of caliber composers and music in the vast VGM industry (Kentarou Haneda, Koji Kondo, Hamauzu, Kanno, and even erogame composers that shouldnt be underrated for their amazing quality). After I'm getting bored with FF music, I could explore more beautiful music that still obscure and lesser-known for most people. Final Fantasy music is suitable to be introduced to people that who are not really familiar with VGM, it's still the most popular, but there are dozen VGM to be explored other than just FF music.

How about you? Do you still listen to Final Fantasy music? or perhaps you fed already like me? or it's all depends on your mood? share your thought about your choice here.

EDIT: Forget to make this into public poll. could this be fixed? D:

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I do on occasion, but not nearly as many of the albums as I used to. Now I pretty much just listen to the I-II Symphonic Suite and the Tour de Japon.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Same here eriol, except I still listen to FF occasionally and it is still the first the that I introduce when I tell people about VGM. I should also say that when I first discovered doujin music, the only thing I searched is FF doujin ^_^

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Not as much anymore, no.

It's not specific to FF, though, a lot of the stuff I used to listen to all the time has started to collect dust. Stuff like Chrono Trigger/Cross, Castlevania, Shadow Hearts, etc., I listened to non-stop at various points, and now I barely listen to them at all. Everything comes and goes in cycles, I guess.

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Final Fantasy music is still beautiful and I still listen to lots of it because there is so much and there's always a piece or two on my playlist. There's always a song or two from the Final Fantasy Pray album (I love that thing past reason perhaps) and probably a few from the Crystal Chronicles OST (which is severely underrated IMO...) and maybe one from FFX or FFIII (the real FFIII). However, I don't make any extreme efforts to make sure that I have some FF on my playlist. To me, they're just kinda like any other classical music pieces.

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Originally Posted by WarpStar

Not as much anymore, no.

It's not specific to FF, though, a lot of the stuff I used to listen to all the time has started to collect dust. Stuff like Chrono Trigger/Cross, Castlevania, Shadow Hearts, etc., I listened to non-stop at various points, and now I barely listen to them at all. Everything comes and goes in cycles, I guess.

^^^

It used to be mainly FF VIII, CT, and CC for me. I had played through the games and loved the music; that was when I first really got into vgm, iirc. I don't listen to them much anymore, though. I still like them, but I'm always looking for new stuff to listen to. I guess they're like "old hat" to me now.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I still listen to old tracks. They're in my massive DVD Mp3 playlist along with tons of other non-FF stuff. Some of the music are still darn good to me. I don't see myself stopping anytime soon.

FELIPE NO

I don't have them all, so I'm listening to them as I get them, now that I've discovered the wonder of FTP's.

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I still listen to the FF music, but not as much as I used to. I still enjoy the music but have moved onto other things now. Good to listen to it once in a while to relive memories of the games, without actually having to dust off any of the games.

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About the same as any other game series' music I enjoy. FF music has always been like that...I've always balanced it with everything else I listen to, so when I go to look for a good RPG soundtrack to put, it gets the same amount of consideration as other OST's I like (at least the entries I enjoy). Even before I got into collecting game music, I never "only" listened to FF music...There was always plenty of great game music to listen to.

If anything, hearing later entries in the series (starting from XI) has given me more of an appreciation of Uematsu. Overrated as he may be, I'll take him over Sakimoto or Mizuta anyday.

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Originally Posted by GoldfishX

Even before I got into collecting game music, I never "only" listened to FF music...There was always plenty of great game music to listen to.

Definitely. I recorded TJ&E, DKC, and Bubsy to audio cassette before I ever got a real VGM album.

I've noticed that the alternative for most Final Fantasy fans still tends to be Mitsuda. Some of them seem to think that Mitsuda is more of a discriminating and sophisticated choice than Uematsu. Yet they all invariably choose him as their second favorite or top favorite alongside Uematsu. Both of them are favored to the extent that others are overlooked, but I do still listen to Final Fantasy sometimes. Specifically FFVI, which will never grow old for me. I also listen to the other stuff sometimes, but on rarer occasion, even though I own most of the original soundtracks. For the most part, Final Fantasy is no different to me than other VGM, even if most of my "F" albums happen to be Final Fantasy ones.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'm still an unabashed fanboy, though my actual listening time is somewhat less because I have all my favorite tunes pretty much memorized. It really was my introduction to the wider world of VGM, and I enjoy the stuff even after my tastes have matured.

I personally don't see it as something to be ashamed of, at least not if you're a fan in a reasonable capacity. Slavering fanboys can get annoying, it's true, but that's no reason to distance oneself from music they like.

Incidentally, since virtually none of the recent Final Fantasy music is by Uematsu, I don't feel as saturated by his style anymore, since his replacements have very different musical personalities, for better or worse.

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Considering I just got FFXII recently, yes, I still listen.

But since my VGM exploits have been concentrated on new/unknown albums, not so much. I'm not sick of it though. On occasion I'll fire up the FFVII, or VI, or VIII soundtracks and hit the greatest hits...but I'll do the same for Guilty Gear and other recognizable series.

Anyway, I never thought FF was the be all, end all anyway. Now Chrono on the other hand....

I was speaking idiomatically.

Can't say I've listened to a whole lot of Final Fantasy lately, except by coincidence. Star Ocean music has been calling, along with some Genso Suikoden and even non-VGM. Not to mention, at this point I think many of the official Final Fantasy arrangements have been outclassed by other games. It was the series that got me into video game music, and it used to be what I listened to exclusively. But it's been wonderful to branch out and find some of the true gems of VGM.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Final Fantasy music is nowhere near at the top of my list right now and it hasn't been for several years now. It's still on my radar but I've branched out to so many other things that is has taken a backseat. While most vgm listeners treat FF music as the end all-be all of game music, I treated it as a portal to things much greater.

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I'm no more fed up with it than any other music I listen to. When I feel like I've played a song out enough to the point that it doesn't offer anything new when I listen to it...well, that's when I put it aside for a while. I might come back to it weeks or months later depending on my mood and the music that I get in the meantime.

For instance, because I'm in the middle of finals lately, I've been setting aside a lot of my metal and techno music for more instrumentals and ambient music. It gives me something to listen to without distracting much from the writing process. But next week, I might be back to Juno Reactor and Killswitch Engage. It just depends.

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You know, I was thinking that since there's so much Final Fantasy music, it isn't really fair to lump every album together under the general label of "Final Fantasy music" the way people tend to do. I think that the ups and downs, differing tastes, and especially now the differing composers makes the generalization too inaccurate. Even for people who claim to still listen to Final Fantasy music a great deal in this poll, how many think that every single Final Fantasy game or spinoff entry has great music? And how many voting on the opposite end feel that all Final Fantasy music is average at best? The only thing holding the generalization together has been Uematsu, but the changes in sound technology over the years coupled with his own experimentation is enough to create varying tastes even amongst fans of Uematsu-composed FF soundtracks. (I think there's more variance there than with say, the Dragon Quest scores) Not to mention that the series spans a great number of entries at this point. When you add to that the spinoffs like Mystic Quest, Tactics, FFX/FFX-2, Crystal Chronicles, and Dirge of Cerberus, it doesn't seem specific enough to ask whether or not I still like Final Fantasy music. There's enough variation to make the question impossible to answer without excluding a good chunk of Final Fantasy titled albums that you like or don't like. In my case, I've always seen mainly just FFVI and FFTactics as belonging with my personal lists of the best that VGM has to offer one hundred percent of the time. I still listen to them a great deal but I feel like I have to answer the poll with a response that is more on the "no" side since the great majority of FF music for me varies between average and good.

This isn't meant as any sort of personal attack, btw. It was just something that occured to me while looking over this topic again. I've never liked how Uematsu is the only composer who tends to have all of his works mentioned as one when folks are talking about how they've gotten over him or whathaveyou. It's like people view him as the composer whose works are the most unvaried and predictable compared to all others. He has his own style the same as every other composer does. And like with any other composer, you become more intimately familiar with that style as you listen to more of his works. Somehow greater experience with his works from the getgo relative to other composers makes him some old and crusty standard to be forgotten over time. At least that's the impression I get from some folks.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Basicly the only time I find myself listening to any FF music is when I do a random shuffle on my Ipod and one pops up.

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Heck yes I still listen to Final Fantasy music! While I mix in a lot of other stuff (and for some reason I've been on a heavy classical crossover and movie soundtrack kick for the past one and a half years or so) and love to try out new vgm albums, Uematsu's work still has some of my favorite - and most memorable - melodies, so songs periodically crop up. There's far too much nostalgia woven atop the fantastic talent and well-executed work for me to let it go anytime too soon.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah, I listen to Final Fantasy music quite regularly. The very first series I got into and became all fanboy-like about was the Final Fantasy series, if my memory serves me correctly.

Uematsu-san ftw, I say, ftw.

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I still listen to it from time to time. But I listen to whole albums instead of just tracks off a random list.
It's interesting to see how your musical taste has changed over time, some tracks that I never appreciated suddenly becomes favourites, while old favourites fade away slowly.
Well, Final Fantasy Music still bears a lot of favourites.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I haven't listened to any Uematsu FF tracks for months, but the reason for this may be that I'm not liking RPG OSTs as much as I did some years ago.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by bishop743

Final Fantasy music is nowhere near at the top of my list right now and it hasn't been for several years now. It's still on my radar but I've branched out to so many other things that is has taken a backseat. While most vgm listeners treat FF music as the end all-be all of game music, I treated it as a portal to things much greater.

My sentiments exactly.



That being said I still listen to a few songs from FFVIII occasionally; lately my listening habits involve browsing Windows Explorer for whatever tune I get in my head, jumping around my 25+ #gamemp3 albums randomly. The Spy, Never Look Back, Don't Be Afraid, and The Stage is Set are in my head around once a week.

FELIPE NO

I listen to all of my VGM quite regularly.

I like it when FF music comes up randomly on the list.

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I tend to listen to ff music too much in one go, and then I can't stand it for a while, and then I go back to it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.