Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors

[DarkeSword]

This thread is a general Q&A/detail thread for Final Fantasy V - The Fabled Warriors, OCR's FF5 album series.

There are 5 albums in The Fabled Warriors: WIND, WATER, FIRE, EARTH, and DAWN. Each album is comprised of arrangements written as character themes of important characters in the game and the job classes made available by the respective crystals. The fifth album doesn't correspond to a crystal, as there is no "Dawn" crystal in the game; instead it covers the additional job classes available in the Gameboy Advance re-release.

WIND was released on September 10th, 2010.

WATER has a target release date somewhere in the first quarter of 2011.

FIRE, EARTH, and DAWN have no scheduled release dates.

Tracklists and artist rosters for upcoming albums are not and will not be publicly posted. I keep track of everything in my own personal spreadsheet and there is no benefit to posting these things in public.

The Fabled Warriors is not open enrollment; it is invite only. Furthermore, I only recruit for the album currently being worked on. There is no roster for FIRE, EARTH, or DAWN, and I will not be taking any claims for any tracks for those until WATER is completed and released.

The artist roster for WATER is filled, and there are no slots available.

Artists are free to express interest in participating, but I am only looking for OC ReMixers who've had multiple mixes posted on the site to participate. I do keep a mental list of artists that I know are interested in participating in case I need a backup artist.

If you have a Final Fantasy V remix you're already working on and want me to put on the project, chances are I won't take it. The Fabled Warriors has a very specific concept, and I'm not looking for music that wasn't written without the concept in mind. That said, I still encourage you to submit your remix to OCR, because there is always room for more FF5 remixes, whether they are on the project or not.

Feel free to ask any questions you have about the project, but keep in mind that suggestions will more than likely be ignored, as production on WATER is already underway, and details like tracklists for future albums are already locked in place. Questions about release dates will be ignored as well. Also, reviews for WIND belong in its review thread in the Album Review forum. Please don't post them here.

Thanks.

[Thylacine]

Well, I guess I'll ask a couple of questions.

First, if I can't ask when this project will end, then when did this project get off the ground? How long has everyone been working on this?

Second, will the other four albums be roughly the same size as Wind (10ish songs)? Or will Dawn be smaller/larger? Or will they all vary in length given the stand-alone nature of each album?

And since it's not a review of the music, I'll just compliment the great album art and hope that the other four are the same impressive style.

Okay, I'm done. :D

[DarkeSword]

We started early last year, actually. The roster changed a couple of times, but the music had actually been done for quite a while. A lot of time was spent waiting for a good time to release because certain things besides music needed to get done.

The other four albums get progressively smaller. Water is 9, Fire is 8, and Earth and Dawn are 7. I'm considering adding other tracks to the last two but I'm not really going to worry about that right now.

The album art style is going to remain consistent; only the overall color scheme of each album will change.

[Geneson]

Are you asking the artists to pursue a different sort of theme for each album? Or are you granting full creative freedom and just asking for the best track they can make? Basically, I'm wondering if you're pursuing different styles for each album where I can listen to Water for example and have that evoke a certain mood, and then listen to Fire and walk away feeling completely differently...

I think you sort of tried to go for that in Wind with the ending flute piece, personally I thought it would have been cool if the entire album was based around wind instruments. I'm wondering how you plan to evoke the elemental themes in the coming albums.

[Neblix]

Are you asking the artists to pursue a different sort of theme for each album? Or are you granting full creative freedom and just asking for the best track they can make? Basically, I'm wondering if you're pursuing different styles for each album where I can listen to Water for example and have that evoke a certain mood, and then listen to Fire and walk away feeling completely differently...


That would be kind of hard to have an overarching mood for an entire album and then have each individual track have its own mood at the same time!!! 0_o

[Rozovian]

That would be kind of hard to have an overarching mood for an entire album and then have each individual track have its own mood at the same time!!! 0_o

No it wouldn't. Majora's Mask is a great example of an overarching melancholic and creepy mood, despite the many non-melancholic and/or non-creepy songs in it. Same could be done with an album, just tell the artists what the mood is and they'll bring their own perception of it (and their own style) into their respective sources (which has a mood to begin with), so you've got three different sources of mood, easily woven into an overarching one.

Dunno the plan for the project, but a mood-based project would be cool. I was actually considering something like that as a solo project. Not sharing what that is tho. :P

Also, DS, count me as interested in one of the later installments. Need to get a few other projects out of the way first.

[Neblix]

No it wouldn't. Majora's Mask is a great example of an overarching melancholic and creepy mood, despite the many non-melancholic and/or non-creepy songs in it.

There's no overarching melancholic and creepy mood if the songs in it aren't like that.

Also I'm going to try and do my best to get a shot at being on this project. :D

[DarkeSword]

Are you asking the artists to pursue a different sort of theme for each album? Or are you granting full creative freedom and just asking for the best track they can make? Basically, I'm wondering if you're pursuing different styles for each album where I can listen to Water for example and have that evoke a certain mood, and then listen to Fire and walk away feeling completely differently...

I think you sort of tried to go for that in Wind with the ending flute piece, personally I thought it would have been cool if the entire album was based around wind instruments. I'm wondering how you plan to evoke the elemental themes in the coming albums.

No, the concept is limited to the character themes.

[GTAHater836]

I wondered where each source tune was listed. I heard something about tags and comments, but I never found them. Where are they?

[Bahamut]

I believe they're listed in the ID3v2 tags in the Comment section.

[GTAHater836]

ID3v2 tags?!

[Bahamut]

Just about every music player supports them these days - just open the track up in a player, right click the track in a playlist, and click "Get Info" or something similar. It should display a bunch of info about a song.

[GTAHater836]

I'll be waiting for the Water chapter this winter! By the way, will it be either OCRA-0019 or OCRA-0020, will it be grouped with OCRA-0018, or will it have some other project codename?

[DarkeSword]

I believe we'll be giving it another catalog number, but I'm not sure.

[TGON]

Just one question... In wich part will "Clash on the big bridge" and "The final battle(Neo Exdeath" be?

[GTAHater836]

Just one question... In wich part will "Clash on the big bridge" and "The final battle(Neo Exdeath" be?

DarkeSword probably has the answer to this, but I believe those will be in part 3, the Fire volume.

[Mirby]

I remember asking him, and he said we'd find out when the album came out.

[Algamest]

I love this :D My favourite Final Fantasy getting it's own project ^^, i loved part 1 :)

[jivjov]

Just wondering if this project is still happening. Volume 2 was scheduled to come out in Q1 of this year...and we're well in to April with no sign of it. What happened? :(

[Subz1987]

Just wondering if this project is still happening. Volume 2 was scheduled to come out in Q1 of this year...and we're well in to April with no sign of it. What happened? :(

Either delays with production or the really long ass Album queue here on OCR.

As someone who just got into Final Fantasy V recently, I loved the first volume and really look forward to the 2nd volume. V has a really great soundtrack

[prophetik music]

i'm curious when it's coming out, too. any updates?

[HitoriJaNai]

At the time of my posting this, four more FFV mixes have been posted (three are from Wind, and one intended to be), with one more on the way. Looking at the YouTube channel, I find the last one to be a halc mix, but even more important than that, its title: Sinking Deeper.

That sounds water-related, if you ask me. :-D

[DarkeSword]

It's a coincidence. Halc's mix is great, but it's not a remix from Water. Not that that's a bad thing. Having more FFV remixes—album or not—is always a good thing.

Water is coming along. Got some progress on some pieces. I realize everyone's anxious; I'll try to step it up.

[Brandon Strader]

Good luck yo, I'm looking forward to it. :-D Time for some... April showers.

[HitoriJaNai]

It's a coincidence. Halc's mix is great, but it's not a remix from Water. Not that that's a bad thing. Having more FFV remixes—album or not—is always a good thing.

Water is coming along. Got some progress on some pieces. I realize everyone's anxious; I'll try to step it up.

Oh, well. Its like my theories on TV shows. Its fun to do, but I'm almost always wrong. XD

[jivjov]

Been over a month with no news...I'm not trying to be too impatient, but I'm really curious as to the status of this project. Any news would be appreciated! Thanks!

[mv]

I'd be interested in participating, so drop a line if you want eventually want me in one of those :)

[Thylacine]

Another question.

Are you concurrently "running" each album? Like, has work started on FIRE even though WATER is still in development? I don't know what kind of artist overlap there is, so I don't know how possible it would be to do this.

[DarkeSword]

No we're going one by one.

[Sir_NutS]

Well, this is the first time I spot this thread but count me in if you need another remixer. It's been a while since I was in any project.

[MagiusNecros]

Any updates?

[KyleJCrb]

Looking forward to the next release. I might be the only person in the entire world who likes FF5 enough to call it my favorite Final Fantasy game.

[MagiusNecros]

Looking forward to the next release. I might be the only person in the entire world who likes FF5 enough to call it my favorite Final Fantasy game.

You are not the only one.

[Brandon Strader]

Don't feel bad, my favorite is FF8. That seems to be either love, hate, or really hate for most people.

FF5 is one of the FF's that I actually beat, having not beat 4 or 6 yet, so it is a pretty lucky game, haha.. Or i'm lucky for having finished it. The music really is stellar in that game. Really looking forward to Water.

[Tuberz McGee]

FF7 is FF6 but with flashy graphics and worse character design and storyline.
FF5 is like they ONLY cared about the amazing gameplay, the storyline is atrocious.
Which is ridiculous because I love it. Plus, yeah, I can't wait for these albums.
Though, do take your time. Better to have a 100% job later than a 99% job now.
That's my post for the month. Meh.

[uhhh6677]

Soo, any updates?

[Level 99]

I'm quoting from staffchat earlier:

<DarkeSword> hey, it's happening
<DarkeSword> realx

So apparently...it's happening.



realx

[uhhh6677]

I'm quoting from staffchat earlier:



So apparently...it's happening.



realx
Lol ok. Waiting for the epicness to come :D

[Mirby]

Okay, I shall realx and await the album.

[KyleJCrb]

This shit's about to get realx.

[Brandon Strader]

Insert picture of people in tents waiting outside OCR HQ for his album..

Except cross out 'people' and replace it with 'skeletons'

[Subz1987]

OCR has headquarters?

[Gardevi]

Brings a new meaning to the album title FABLED Warriors.

[KyleJCrb]

OCR has headquarters?

djp's house.

[halc]

I made a song for this like a year ago :(

[Brandon Strader]

i made a song for this 2 years from now

[prophetik music]

I made a song for this like a year ago :(

mine's dated 10/8/2010.

[MagiusNecros]

Impatient loser dude here. Any updates for this? And any progress on the 3rd album. As much as I love the megafast analysis and album release timeframe, I kind of get a little impatient.

>:I

So any news?

GILGAMESH FAN KING can't wait for the album his BIG BRIDGE song is on.

Keep on overclocking.

[RiverSound]

For anyone not yet familiar with FFV or its soundtrack, this is a perfect time to play the game and listen to its music while waiting for Water. This is one project that makes it worthwhile. Oh, the anticipation... Don't lose hope.

[pmac]

For anyone not yet familiar with FFV or its soundtrack, this is a perfect time to play the game and listen to its music while waiting for Water. This is one project that makes it worthwhile. Oh, the anticipation... Don't lose hope.

Isn't hope the Earth crystal? :P

[GTAHater836]

I've virtually given up hope that the next volume is even in production. Now it's an "I have to hear it to believe it". It's quite a shame, because I still wanted ReMixes of Big Bridge Battle and Boss Battle (Sole Signal did great with his ReMix of the previous Final Fantasy game's boss theme.) Just knowing who'll be involved in Volume 2 and what tracks it'll ReMix will at least give me comfort in knowing this project isn't canned.

[Brandon Strader]

It'll be out before Final Fantasy 15

[GTAHater836]

It'll be out before Final Fantasy 15

In other words, half past never! That's what I implied! I'll believe The Fabled Warriors Volume 2 is in the works when I see it on the front page under "Latest Albums" or something. It's not a matter of blatant impatience, I'm just saying I'm not going to believe it's not canned until I see overwhelming and totally doubtless evidence that it's in the works, or gets released. The issue I'm taking is not a matter of when, but a matter of if.

[halc]

I've had a finished track for probably a year and a half now. it's sounds kinda old now, though it was one of my finest mixes at the time when I finished it. *sigh*

I know there are at least a couple more finished tracks, but no details beyond that.

[Brandon Strader]

GTA H8er, O ye of little faith. I had faith that FF15 would be announced and possibly have some kind of basic schedule within a year. Shariq said this was coming and they are working on it and I trust him, maybe you don't and I guess that's ok, but you should give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes. :tomatoface:

[KyleJCrb]

This album is totally a hoax, just like all of the other ones.

[bluelighter]

This album is totally a hoax, just like all of the other ones.

I hope it's wrong! I can't understand that all work yet done on it can be just... forgotten. The first album was great, I've real hope on the following.

[MagiusNecros]

So can I expect the next part of this album to release in 2014 and the 3rd part with the desired CLASH ON THE BIG BRIDGE in 2016?

Last time I inquired about an update was nearly a year ago.

And saying it will release before a FFXV isn't funny given SE's current state of affairs.