
Nobuo Uematsu has been doing an Anime Soundtrack? (Guin Saga)
#1
Posted 25 April 2009 - 06:48 PM
To me it would be good news that he's working on an Anime but the problem I'm seeing is that the Anime looks...well not so interesting...at least compared to the stuff of the legendary magic he could program into Final Fantasys 6 through 9.
Is it true, though, I wonder? Is it completely true that he will for the first time ever compose for an Anime? I know that Hironobu Sakaguchi wants Blue Dragon to be the next Final Fantasy, so I know that Nobuo will be composing for all of those projects throughout the next 10 years or so.... Blue Dragon 2, 3, 4 etc....
I still have to wonder if he will keep composing for anime after this project? Anyone have anything more to say on the subject?
#2
Posted 25 April 2009 - 06:54 PM
#3
Posted 25 April 2009 - 06:57 PM
also wow I can't care about this news at all! he hasn't done anything remotely interesting for a while now and I honestly forgot he existed. I also don't see the difference between anime and game soundtrack in this case, so whatever!
#4
Posted 25 April 2009 - 07:00 PM
How did it ever come to this.
#5
Posted 25 April 2009 - 07:06 PM
#6
Posted 25 April 2009 - 07:16 PM
and anyway, making music for anime or jrpgs isn't too different
same fanbase.
#7
Posted 25 April 2009 - 07:21 PM
#8
Posted 25 April 2009 - 07:44 PM
also wow I can't care about this news at all! he hasn't done anything remotely interesting for a while now and I honestly forgot he existed.
this. dude dropped off HARD. note that this is coming from someone who has the FFVI soundtrack on constant loop
#10
Posted 27 April 2009 - 10:39 AM
note that this is coming from someone who has the FFVI soundtrack on constant loop
have you ever tried makin' out while listening to that?
#11
Posted 27 April 2009 - 11:23 AM
I used to really like listening to his music when I was a kid, but it's all just kind of nauseating now. Mostly, anyway, there are a few tracks here and there which are still pretty cool but mostly it's all the same kind of stuff.
have you ever tried makin' out while listening to that?
I load up a hand-drawn anime pic of Tifa, put on "Tifa's Theme" and then I just go ahead and lick my LCD monitor and that's me for a couple hours.
#12
Posted 27 April 2009 - 11:52 AM
#13
Posted 27 April 2009 - 12:32 PM
I absolutely agree.do you not distinguish between the quality of his work at all? no, i wouldn't say it's all the same. when i was 16 or so i played ffx and for the most part LIKED it and still did not give much of a shit about most of the music. anyway nauseating is really strong and inappropriate because as far as VIDGAME MUSIC goes he's probably been one of the better composers, and even in terms of regular old music, it's not at all bad for what it is.
Even people who don't like or play videogames can appreciate Nobuo Uematsu's music. I remember playing Final Fantasy 9 once upon a time while my father was in the same room playing Freecell on the computer. Beatrix's theme started playing and he said, "What are you listening to? That sounds really nice."
Pretty much shocked me because I never expected to hear an old fashioned bastard say that about Final Fantasy music.
#14
Posted 27 April 2009 - 12:46 PM
and
I like the first one better though.
I guess all I've got left is that differentiating between the two periods of his music in some sort of stylistic way like "He used to be cool now he is embarassing!", is probably not right. But yeah okay I thought about it a little and there is a difference in the quality of these lost odyssey songs and some earlier ones.
Pretty much shocked me because I never expected to hear an old fashioned bastard say that about Final Fantasy music.
I had a similar experience with my dad once. I was playing FFIX and the Dali theme music was on. My dad said "jamie what is that godawful music coming out of your room" and I was just stunned. Stunnered.
#15
Posted 27 April 2009 - 12:52 PM
#16
Posted 27 April 2009 - 12:54 PM
#17
Posted 27 April 2009 - 12:59 PM
and i guess i could see you feeling like that, but it's unfair to pin it on his music. that's embarrassment coming from the fact that you're sitting around listening to videogame music and being nostalgic about stupid epic storylines that for some reason you still find appealing on some level despite them being transparent and childish, not embarrassment coming from awful music. it's a bit unfortunate that his music can be so sweeping and epic, though; it makes it difficult not to associate it with those ideas (as in, *looks somberly into the dusk sky, eyes fixed on something beyond the horizon* and other stupid videogame shit you used to have a boner for as a kid) and you always feel like a tool when you do.
#18
Posted 27 April 2009 - 01:09 PM
I mean it is childish yeah but it's more about just having a sense of adventure which I think is fine. The problem is though, yes, that any kind of adventurous sentiment in this area gets lumped together with terrible character archetypes, jrpgs giving 13 year old girls size DD's and a thong to wear as a personality, terrible villains with big swords and all that stupid crap.
There are better ways to access adventure than sitting around listening to nobuo uemastu though, cos of the reasons you said about it getting lumped together (and also really some of it is just godawful and too much). Which is why even though I think I know what my "for some reason" part is when it comes to still finding slivers of these games appealing, I still get all cheesed out by this stuff. I just listen to non-videogame equivalents which is shit like folk music from other countries and classical music stuff like that which makes me think of strange places and people.
#19
Posted 28 April 2009 - 01:50 PM
#20
Posted 28 April 2009 - 10:19 PM
If theirs any soundtrack that needs listening to it should be Eternal Sonatas. That game is the fucken shit(Aside from some voices)it's soundtrack is amazing, considering it's a revolving around the real life pianist Fredric Chopin it had to be great.
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