Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Can I take a moment here to rant about how messed up Sea Monk is in Monstrosity?

It's base form is Warrior/Warrior.
The subspecies is Samurai/White Mage.

All it's instincts contain BLM and/or DRK buffs (INT+, Occult Acumen, Drain/Aspir potency, Magic Acc and so on).

Yet the bloody thing is called a Sea MONK.

MONK!!!

/rant :<

I thought the family was called mantas >.> But also, a Sea Monk is just another term for some old timey Sea Monster that looked like a European Monk(ya know with the flowy robes and bald head like Friar Tuck).

Also though I would never have wanted those things to actually be monks. >.> Monk mobs in XI are annoying as ***, especially for Ninja tanks!

That was the last album I bought on cassette tape before switching to CDs.

SE used it for the basis of their new Sephirot Phase 2 track in XIV. haha.

Take my opinion as you will, as a musician of only 17 years.

The songs are as "Similar" to eachother as both are similar to all "Nu Metal" and "Grunge" released since 2001.

The drum track? Different tempo, different instruments, different pattern, different beat. PM5K sticks to the 4x4 pattern of Kick | HiHat | Kick+Snare | Hihat | Variating every so often but very little. and the XIV track seems to ignore anything not producing bass for most of it, using more loose and open hats. sometimes at 4x4 sometimes 2x2 sometimes otherwise.

The guitar? The only similarity if you can even call it that is the 2 chord progression (lol)

The intros? XIV is more bass, PM5K is more treble.

The vocals? XIV is more lower range hz and spread out, PM5K is more higher range and closer together with screaming, the only words the two songs share in common are "World's" "Taking over" nothing else.

The song overall is a different tempo, the XIV track is deeper and has more of an industrial feel to it.

I've been a fan of PM5K for a lonnnnnnnnng time, but this is making me have serious concern for their hearing abilities.

Personal conclusion: Calling this a "Rip off" of PM5K is like calling Gangnam Style a ripoff of Baby. LOL

I have read through your comments concerning the BGM for the 2nd phase of the Containment Bay S1T7 battle with Sephirot, and I would like to personally explain how the track was conceived.

As most FINAL FANTASY fans already know, Sephirot (the Fiend) is a legacy boss character who originally appeared in FINAL FANTASY VI. When considering how to portray Sephirot's return in FINAL FANTASY XIV, we decided to pay tribute to FFVI by working VI's "Battle to the Death" track into the Containment Bay S1T7's first phase, while opting to create an FFXIV original for the second.

Building upon the motif of Sephirot as a representation of the World Tree, to create this FINAL FANTASY XIV original track, we further incorporated story-driven themes of death and a warped obsession with life, all while utilizing a musical genre─industrial rock─which we believed would provide substantial emphasis to the message.

Industrial rock is a popular genre that can be further divided into numerous sub-genres. Countless songs from these genres have been released worldwide, and I have been made aware of an allegation regarding similarities between an existing track and the track created for the 2nd phase of Containment Bay S1T7. However, track composer Masayoshi Soken, has also stated to me that he was unaware of the track in question while working on this FINAL FANTASY track.

We hope that you continue to enjoy FINAL FANTASY XIV battle content.


FINAL FANTASY XIV Producer and Director, Naoki Yoshida

When your ex tells you "you don't have the balls to leave Carrot".

I can honestly see SE re-writing the song to stop the complaints, seeing PM5k have made very aggressive complaints about it on their Facebook page.
Which Sucks because i actually like the 14 song.

I can honestly see SE re-writing the song to stop the complaints, seeing PM5k have made very aggressive complaints about it on their Facebook page.
Which Sucks because i actually like the 14 song.

I like both, but PM5k hasn't been mentioned... Well, since Little Nicky. I think this is for attention.

I hope to god they don't bend over and take it in the ***. PM5K needs to stop being a typical American music band and crying foul just because the song is slightly similar. They are completely different songs.

Ehh, all the people on the OF saying that the songs are indeed, two different songs are kind of being naive. Of course SE isn't going to admit to ripping something off, that would be self-incrimination. Of course the songs aren't going to be exactly the same, then there'd be no reasonable doubt lol. I mean, the way I see it, it's a homage or just another pop-culture kind of reference. Just like most everything in XIV and other MMOs.

It's not lasers, it's plasma streams. Think of it like a tiny lightning storm and you are a giant Lina walking over the clouds. Serene like.