Lurker > FL81

VGMC16 itself was sixteenth place in terms of how well things played out on my end (*cough*nominations), but Passing was an alright pick to win the contest. Actually having both finalists be pretty chill/less intense tracks was a nice change of pace from the usual. Cool PMD vibes from this song, ranked it low, but that's more of a testament to the quality of other champions. Feels kinda weird talking about a song that we just had in VGMC, and I am surprised to see this drop early even if my placement of it helped place it here >_>

Dark_Silvergun posted...

So, this explains the ads between every 10 to 15 comments in each topic post then? I guess so.

If you haven't started blocking ads by now, I would suggest starting soon.

his best

Monthly rent, and that's it.

Oh hi, my lowest ranked champion!! I've never actually played a Metal Gear Solid game before, so my whole exposure to its music before VGMC was through SSBB. I was not around on this board for the first three contests, and it's interesting to see what tastes were like during the very early days (my all-time favorite VGM retired the year before I started!). Anyway, I don't really have much to say about this song. It works as an intro theme, builds up, and then ends right before the point I think it's going somewhere.

Gotta add in like a dozen extra other filters in uBlock Origin just to get rid of all the unnecessary crap taking up half the screen >_>

Pokemon

Geoduck posted...

https://youtu.be/KT-y7bZlpJM

so close to the STP ^5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a0GVtsK7nU
soul

more blood on Bush's hands

I bought my local MLB team t-shirt on a super cheap sale last year when they were dead last in the league >_>

I have plenty of t-shirts for anime-style video games, but none for an actual anime oddly enough

Homestar
Angry
Paranoia
Bojack

Seize the Truth is something I would have been (and was!) really crazy about during the year VGMC9 was held. That power metal guitar + violin combo is something I've always been vocal about really loving, and really was what put Falcom on my radar in the first place. I was actually a pretty big fan of the Yukihiro Jindo Falcom stuff even before my first VGMC. Nowadays though, it's still good, but I wouldn't put it anywhere near the level of other Trails battle themes, and especially not any of the other battle themes from this game specifically (hi Azure Arbitrator, Unfathomed Force, Conflicting Passions, Unexpected Emergency, and so on and so forth). Still like a solid 7.5 or 8.

Noumas posted...

I start to use those antiperspirant spray

well there's your problem

use a stick of deodorant next time

Mia_K97 posted...

I see russiophobia everywhere on CE

oh no, think about the poor invaders

I'm only a few years younger than you, and I don't understand any of these new social media internets

azuarc posted...

So you've just recently come around to liking EXSPHERE then?

I actually have something to say about this, but I'll wait for it to appear in the ranking.

https://i.imgur.com/wsX3chY.gif

The point when I realized that my taste in video game music is basically just Board 8 but 3 years ago was when Emil / Karma won the contest. When I first heard the NieR soundtrack, I was not at all impressed, but eventually it grew on me and E/K specifically really started to vibe with me (but only right before it ended up winning it all). So yeah, nowadays I'd place it pretty middle-of-the-field when it comes to VGMC champions. It's nice, and any style of music with unique ideas gets extra points from me. Cool drums, and I like the vocals too.

everyone gets what they want, no downside

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/9/AAOGRhAADvB9.jpg

Foppe posted...

But what about GameFaqs ads?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/9/AAA_aCAADvBL.jpg

at least this one is relevant to the GameFAQs userbase

Hope holds a special place in my heart, by virtue of it being the champion of the very first VGMC I participated in, and also because it and other songs from the Umineko soundtrack were really what got me to play through Umineko (to date it's still my all-time favorite visual novel). As for the song itself, I really love sad VN piano songs, and it just has an overall "pretty" sound to it, even if it is rather simple.

I actually voted against it in its championship round, but if that same match was held again today I'd vote Hope. Actually up until around a few years ago, I would've chosen Hope as my #1 pick, but my tastes have changed (a little) since.

yeah I said I wouldn't be doing writeups, but I think I can fit a few of them in as they are posted

tfw isekai'd by truck-kun

Dark Souls is a JRPG.

good luck with your divorce TC

Tyranthraxus posted...

People already found a way to block ads on v3 so they need more time to fix that

AdGuard and the uBlock Origin devs both have MV3-compliant forks in the works, but they lack a lot of functionality still (reading some of the reviews on the Chrome Web Store, it seems they can't block YouTube ads)

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/09/29/google-delays-the-death-of-manifest-v2-extensions-to-2024/
lol Google is shook