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Final Fantasy Music on iTunes
Final Fantasy Online Warcry has the news that iTunes is now carrying Final Fantasy scores and music from the Black Mages. Square Enix has a listing of all of their iTunes offerings, which includes music from FFI - FFXI, a live concert offering, and two albums by the Black Mages (Nobuo Uematsu's rock band).
Six is the Empire Strikes Back of the FF series, in my opinion - its' easily the best of the series- deepest (again, imo) character development, most compelling characters, most fluid combat system, one of the better magic systems... I spent hundreds of hours with it as a teenager and got so deep into it that I eventually hand corrected innacuracies in the strategy guide I'd purchased (when it had become apparent I'd missed a few things).
Then VII came along, completely and utterly failed to be better than VI in any way (in fact, amping up to a high level pretty much every shortcoming of the series), and my high hopes for the future of RPGs were rapidly deflated.
I spent somewhere around 250 hours with FF VI - multiple runthroughs and couching with friends who were playing the game. I couldn't stomach VII or VIII for any more than 40-50, and never replayed either - they'd lost the magic that made VI so compelling for me.
I don't know about that. I have no problem ripping or downloading the music for a game I already own. If I bought the game, don't I own the music on it already as well? I don't see much difference between taking it off the CD manually and grabbing it from someone's website. To me the cost of most OST's is a little inflated, and not justifiable if I've already got the original medium.
Or look at it from the other point of view: how is it illegal?
If you've ever listened to any of those songs, the vast majority of them are making songs that sound similar to the originals using entirely original performances and scores, with only a few distinct melodies and riffs to remind you of the original. There are no lyrics, so no worry of copyright infringement there. And to the best of my knowledge, the actual melodies of the music cannot be copyrighted, only specific arrangements of the whole song can be copyrighted. It's the lyrics that snag people most of the time.
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