Uematsu leaves Square

Massacre · Post by **Massacre** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:20 am

it has been announced that Nobuo Uematsu has terminated his exclusive contract with Square and while he will prolly still add something to FF games he is no longer part of that company. the original and classic FF dream team now has little remaining originals left in the company.

Post by **Chewi** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:17 pm

Gee. It's probably for the best though, I'd imagine that he was really growing tired of it. The amount of stuff they asked him to write must have really strained his creativity badly.

Post by **Mik** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:37 pm

you can tell cause most of his songs are repeated through the series

Super Goat Weed · Post by **Super Goat Weed** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:28 pm

heh, maybe he just retired

i recall he wasn't exactly the youngetst of the crew when he started up, besides, i guarentee he made enough money by now to live quite comfortably for the rest of his life reguardless of his age.

Massacre · Post by **Massacre** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:01 am

actually i believe he still writes orchestra and techno music and u can find soem of his none FF stuff if u look hard enough and it REALLY good

Super Goat Weed · Post by **Super Goat Weed** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:16 am

i always did like his orchestrated work much better then the straight soundtrack material, although now there's really little difference.

Spider Jerusalem · Post by **Spider Jerusalem** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:43 am

Strike 1) MonolithSoft founders leave Square Enix to complete Xenosaga for Namco, including Yasunori Mitsuda.

Strike 2) Final Fantasy XII is revealed to me more MMORPG oriented, thus killing one of the last vestiges of the best elements of the series.

Strike 3) Uematsu leaves. Thus killing THE last vestige of the best elements of the series.

FFXII wil probably be the second game int he series I'll pass up, the first being XI.

*sigh*

Super Goat Weed · Post by **Super Goat Weed** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:46 pm

i gave up after FF IX, although i heard X wasn't that bad

i have an interest in playing XI, although i don't really consider it an FF game, more of a MMORPG based on the FF series.

Post by **Mik** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:19 pm

you heard wrong

I like everything I'm hearing about FFXII thus far and Uesmastu isn't really that important to the game as a whole he just makes the tunes.

Has anyone concidered that it was time for a changing of the guard ? 20 years on the same base material had to be tough on them and being constrated by assholes who claim every one of their games or idea's isn't FF enough.

Massacre · Post by **Massacre** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:01 am

Lastwolf wrote:you heard wrong

FFX wasnt that bad. i rather liked the battle system i just thouht the characters (with the exception of Auron ) sucked ass

Post by **Mik** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:37 am

I have to agree with you there auron just had too many redeeming qualites to him, he made the game vaguely worth playing plus he had the best voice actor

Massacre · Post by **Massacre** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:22 am

and u gotta admit that Anima was a very cool summon that almost made up for the terribleness of Bahamut

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:54 pm

[häretiker engel wrote:,Nov 22 2004, 11:39 PM]
Metal Gear Solid 3.

hes made his own copmpany, not retired, and like paradigm says hes gopnna be still adding music to FF...i think he may work on contract, ubt i aint sure

FFX is stilla good game, the story was ok

Super Goat Weed · Post by **Super Goat Weed** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:26 pm

like, a video game company?

i thought he was basicly just a musician...

Spider Jerusalem · Post by **Spider Jerusalem** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:27 am

I'm just confused as why Shin quoted THAT.