1up's Greatest Track Ever: Final Fantasy VI "Ending Theme"

Jun 27, 2012 by RawmeatCowboy

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bushidogamer

27 Jun 2012 14:56

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Damn straight.

Hawk

27 Jun 2012 15:10

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Thank you for not choosing "One Winged Angel", 1up. I agree, the FF6 ending had some of the best video game music I've ever heard. I'll admit nostalgia is making me somewhat biased, but I don't care.

kamehamehax

27 Jun 2012 15:18

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Why do I care about these characters so much 15 years after I played this game, when I care so little about most of the characters from the games I've played in the last five years?

Nostalgia bias be damned, I just think these characters were more real and had more heart than most of the ones today.

-BitNick

Link613

27 Jun 2012 16:11

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Final Fantasy 6 = Best FF ever and one of the greatest games of all time.

varoennauraa

28 Jun 2012 03:32

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Final Fantasy 6 = Best FF ever and one of the greatest games of all time.

And as much as I want the remake...(yeah, usually want new games and shiet, but I'm about to start FF6 again, and theres a smell of remake in air, so I cannot start it before I'm certain)...but I cringe at the many ways it could go very wrong. I don't trust J-RPGs. This is not a mediocre J-RPG, but it might get mediocre treatment, and I shiver when I think what they might do to the music. Of course this sound track is indestructible, but they could stain it with tasteless arrangements. Voice acting is another, even worse possible game breaker.

I have many problems with J-RPGs and possible the most paradoxical is my taste of the music. I grew with FF4 and 6 and on one hand I want every J-RPG to be as good, but on other hand I hate J-Rock in fantasy games(Don't hate it in scifi games for example, but even there I'm bored with its generic mundane formality...if Star Wars suddenly got heavy metal guitar, I would kill my self with laughter), and practically every J-Rpg tries to follow Uematsus tradition. But even when Uematsu tried(and succeeded in amazing fashion) to achieve historical feel with the SNES's sound chip, new RPGs are highlighting the few electric elements in the battle themes, and that's too much contrast in my experience. Put electric guitar in medieval game, and my immersion is dead in an instant(even when FF6 is full of robots). In Snes games it wasn't as bad; even when they tried to rock, the sound chip demanded creativity, which is in shortage in sound tracks nowadays, and the sound chip also left things for listener to imagine.

I'm already depressed with Bravely Default because its sound track, and I fear I cannot play it even when it is the most fantastic looking adventure I have seen in a long time.

thorn-rock

28 Jun 2012 05:47

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Stop with your so-called nostalgia bias.
It doesn't exist. Give FF6 scenario to a nowaday noob who only played say, 10, 12 and 13 and liked them, he's going to admit it's good. That's all there is to it.

There is no bias, the characters are just well written, and the music is awesome. I mean who need nostalgia to say Uematsu's work is among the very best things that happenned in video game history. You don't need nostalgia for that, you just need your ears.

This nostalgia thing is just an argument invented by newbies who were tired of hearing people stating that this or that game is one of the best ever, even if they were right doing so. And they didn't even want to bother understanding them because they're too dumb to get out of their comfort zone and usual modern games and listen to people who actually know about video game history. These people don't want to learn. They just pretrnd they're interested in video games but they're not.