Do you miss Nobuo Uematsu?

[Dionysos]

There are many elements of Final Fantasy that have been missing recently:
Great music (As in ALL of the music is great, rather than just oen or two tracks)
Airships that you can fly
World Map
Brilliant character development
Great map design.
Turn taking or Active Time Battle systems. NOT running around and switching / not switching between characters... Would be fine for a spin off, but not for FF thanks.

In my opinion the best FF games were FF4-9, as they had all of these perfectly.
FFX was still good, with excellent characters and beautiful Hindu based design, but the absence of a world map, flying airships and the fact that you literally walked a path the whole way pulled it down a lot.

FF12, with the absence of excellent music (I mean the music was ok at times, but most of it was forgettable and close to what you would expect forma ny game, not a FF) was alot further down. FF12 is my least favourite so far. Story was ok and everything, but they didn't carry it out in the true FF manner I'm afraid. The lack of the usual battle system and lack of Nobuo quality music added to my dissapointment.

 

[Misty]

Battle system needed a kick up the arse, to hell with random ones etc.

The music wasn't poor, or badly done - it's just not to your tastes, let me remind people that.

 

[Dionysos]

Battle system needed a kick up the arse, to hell with random ones etc.

The music wasn't poor, or badly done - it's just not to your tastes, let me remind people that.

Well I'm merely saying that in comparison to the music from 1-10 alot of it isn't that great... Sure FF12 had some good tracks, as did Tactics and I admit that Sakimoto can produce soem good music, but I stress "some", as quite alot of the tracks don't sound that great / could be mixed up with each other etc... And then when you get to Crisis Core the random bits of guitar for no reason, the lame battle music in particular and the repetitiveness of the soundtrack in general just doesnt add up to being on par with the wonderful melodies of 1-10...
Perhaps it is just my opinion, but I'm allowed to make one / well informed to make one as I have recently been playing a bit of all... I've recently played FF12, Tactics, Crisis Core AND began another go through FF7 and can conclude that frankly, the music of FF7 is 10 times better than the others.
Other people might disagree, and that is fine, but I'm stating what I know alot of people have felt.