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| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/28/18 4:29:35 AM #40 | #109 Silent Hill 2 - True Nominator: Snake5555555555 (3/5) Link:  Silent Hill is another one of those popular series I never could get into as far as its music is concerned. This one is pretty decent though (I prefer it to the one that always finds its way into the VGMC), and I like how chill this is. The strings that show up halfway through the song are nice too. Again, it's another not-particularly-exciting atmospheric song (I've been particularly harsh on these, haven't I?), but I do kinda like the simplistic instrumentation used here and how it all pulls itself together into this song. --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/28/18 4:05:14 AM #38 | #110 Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Voiceless Nominator: Zyxyz0 (5/5) Link:  Umineko has one of my favorite game soundtracks of all time, if not being my #1 favorite. This track, while I recognize it, I couldn't tell you where exactly in the game it played off the top of my head, and this track never really stood out to me in comparison to the rest of the game's soundtrack, even when comparing it to the other slow, melancholy atmospheric tracks this game has to offer. This is actually the first track I feel legitimately bad for ranking so low, since it isn't bad at all. I really like the atmosphere this song gives off, but I don't know what I'd rank it above. --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/28/18 3:40:30 AM #37 | #111 Spyro: Year of the Dragon - Spooky Swamp Nominator: GavsEvans123 (5/5) Link:  This is exactly the kind of song I would expect from a western-developed 3D platformer for the PS1 released in 2000. I imagine this song would have a lot of the nostalgia factor going for it, but I've never actually played Spyro! With that being said, this song doesn't sound particularly Spooky or Swampy to me. Also, what's with all the haiku comments on this YouTube video? I feel like I'm being left out of the loop somehow. Anyways, back to the song. It's simple, it's repetitive, and it gets the job done. It's not particularly great, but it works. All the songs after this point are at least a 5/10 for me, as far as preferences go. --- |
| Topic | Which DNA testing kit or service is the best? (recommendations) |
| FL81 07/28/18 2:49:33 AM #6 | Whichever service doesn't sell out your genetic data to the insurance companies --- |
| Topic | finished blend s the anime |
| FL81 07/28/18 2:40:18 AM #12 | I once saw an episode couldn't understand what was going on then afterward realized we started on the 3rd episode for some reason didn't continue the show, wasn't that great --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 6:37:39 PM #34 | ProkhorZakharov posted... T stands for Tony man Tony Hawk Pro Skater music just doesn't have that same oomph anymore --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 6:34:39 PM #32 | #112 Super Street Fighter II - T Hawk theme Nominator: NowItsAngeTime (5/5) Link:  Capcom has made some pretty great soundtracks, particularly from the Mega Man and Street Fighter series. Now for what it's worth, I've never played much of SF so I don't know their soundtracks too well, but from what I've heard they're pretty good (e.g. Ken's Theme and Guile's Theme). This track, on the other hand, ehhhhhhhhh It has that cool Capcom SNES soundfont in it, but the song feels really flat. There's not much excitement going on, which is pretty crucial for a fighting game. I'd probably pick a different stage in this game just so I could listen to something else. I'm not even sure what kind of atmosphere this is going for either. It's okay, but slightly below average. --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 6:09:30 PM #31 | TheArkOfTurus posted... If you don't know about Omikron, it's worth noting that David Bowie was heavily involved in the creation of the soundtrack! what is this I don't even --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 4:58:20 PM #27 | #113 Final Fantasy X - A Contest of Aeons Nominator: barreldragon88 (5/5) Link:  Here's a track I should like a lot more than I actually do! It's powerful and symphonic, pumped full of energy and ready to take on the world! The reason I'm not fond of this is its instrumentation, or rather more accurately, how the instrumentation is used. Strings and horns are really nice and can make a song sound "epic", but not so much when they're blasted at full volume for six minutes straight with little variation and drowning out anything else going on in the song. Maybe make the song a bit shorter and throw in some quiet parts to balance it out a bit, but this track is tiring more than anything else. (I've always been a much bigger fan of the Uematsu tracks) --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 4:45:08 PM #25 | #114 Hitman: Blood Money - Invasion on the Mississippi River Nominator: Snake5555555555 (4/5) Link:  This is the kind of music I'd expect to hear when your character is stealthily doing stealthy things in the dark (stealthfully). Not much to say here, as there isn't very much going on to begin with. This is definitely another "works-in-context atmospheric track", but as is and in comparison to the other songs on this list, it feels kinda "just there". Scary assassin, spooky strings! I guess it all just boils down to me prefering VGM for its own sake rather than VGM that tries to accomplish something for its setting (although if it can do both, even better!) --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 4:24:23 PM #22 | #115 Outlast - First Chase Nominator: Snake5555555555 (55555/55555) Link:  Ah yes, Survival Horror music. I feel bad for ranking this one so low because I just know this would fit in perfectly within the context of its own game. And to be fair, this song has that really creepy "being chased" feel to it. That being said, I don't think I would listen to this song on its own, and independently from its game of origin I don't feel like this song holds up. Like, I can't really see myself doing something like driving and thinking to myself "You know what would really make this interesting? Let's put on some survival horror music!" It'd probably put me into a panic attack or something. >_> But yeah, song itself is pretty repetitive and out-of-context repetition in songs needs to be really catchy for me to hold it in high regard. --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 4:24:10 PM #21 | Anagram posted... I see Lavender Town is listed as "Pokemon Red/Green" even though I would definitely have written "Pokemon RBY." I listed it as such since the YT description has it listed as the "original Japanese version", assuming there's any difference at all. --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 4:04:44 PM #17 | I wish I liked Persona music more! --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 4:01:09 PM #15 | #116 Persona 3 Portable - Time Nominator: OrangeCrush980 (5/5) Link:  Well, this one should come as no surprise to those who know my taste. Persona has always been that one super-popular series whose music I never could get into no matter how much I try, and this song isn't much different. Maybe it's the prevalence of all the vocal songs, which tend to be really hit or miss for me. This song is pretty chill, but the vocals are a bit off-putting and the instrumentation is nothing special. Like the previous song, it's not really exciting enough to get my interest, but doesn't have the feel to it that would really get me into what's going on here. It's an easy listening song though, I'll give it that much. --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 3:49:33 PM #14 | We're out of the actively terrible songs, and now onto the songs I'm personally not fond of for whatever reason! #117 Shin Megami Tensei IV - Tokyo Nominator: rwlh (5/5) Link:  Here's a slow song, perhaps befitting one's night with nothing much to do in a big city (like Tokyo!) Unfortunately, I'm pretty finicky when it comes to slow songs, much prefering the sad, melodramatic piano style. This song is pretty atmospheric, not really feeling like it'd fit for much of anything outside of background ambiance, it's just kind of there. Overall, I'd just say it's another dull and inoffensive song, one I'd probably forget not long after listening to. --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 3:28:30 PM #13 | #118 beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem - Shakunetsu Beach Side Bunny Nominator: Janus5k (5/5) Link:  Next up is Shakunetsu Beach Side Bunny, the first song I'm assuming to not explicitly be a joke nomination! In this song we have a loud high-pitched whistle instrument, HEY HEY HEY HEY, techno sounds, and a trumpet thrown in there somewhere too. And not much else. My biggest gripe with this is that damned whistle. Honestly it's too high pitched and just gets on my nerves. This would be a bit better if the song threw in some more variety, but it's too repetitive on a few sour notes that just don't sit well with me. This song might fit in well in a volleyball game or something, I dunno... --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 2:58:22 PM #10 | While still on the topic of incoherent mumbling, this brings us to our next song! #119 Neverhood - Neverhood Theme Nominator: NFUN (5/5) Link:  I imagine that within the context of this game, this could be seen as a fun song neverhood more like never good --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 2:43:15 PM #7 | And without further ado, here is our LAST PLACE WINNER!!!! #120 Omikron: The Nomad Soul - Training Room Nominator: TheArkOfTurus (5/5) Link:  Starting off the list is this song, a track from a game I've never heard of before OH GOD these vocals, make them stop!! In a way, it's almost impressive that they were able to find someone with a voice that so perfectly encapsulates the essence of nails being dragged against a chalkboard, and then distort the audio even further so that it sounds like my washing machine after I've loaded with too many of my dirty clothes. There are tracks that are "so bad they're good", but this one is just "so bad". I'll give it points for the humor factor, but I don't want to subject myself to listening to this song any more than I have to. Fortunately, this is only one minute long. Congratulations! dickbutt joe biden --- |
| Topic | FL81 ranks VGM (ranking phase) |
| FL81 07/27/18 2:19:25 PM #1 | Nominator/nomination list: https://pastebin.com/SDNZqDmw Nomination playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGI-vEs5ZGOHhrqo4KDrx7OIxDf_Tiuvs + one bandcamp link https://zirconstudios.bandcamp.com/track/dead-neon-hell-city Here it is, my VGM ranking topic! After mulling over the list for several days, I finally have them all ranked in order of preference, how much I like each song in comparison to everything else. I should've probably posted this a couple days earlier, but work and a sleepless night held me back until today, so sorry about that. Anyways, I'm glad I finally managed to do one of these. I've felt like I've just lurked here for too long, and now that we have some new faces around here and the overall hype for VGM-related topics is at a high, I want to get more heavily involved in B8's video game music community, so I figured this would be the best way. Still, I feel like my tastes are more-or-less already well known enough around here, since there weren't very many songs I'd consider bad nominated at all! Predictions welcome! Shoutouts to @NFUN and @MC_XD be sure to check out their VGM ranking too! https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76604255 (nearing end of nomination phase) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76833413 (currently ranking the songs) --- |
| Topic | Star Wars Director Deletes 20,000 Tweets |
| FL81 07/26/18 1:54:45 PM #7 | tbh deleting old shit should be standard practice --- |
| Topic | I just got framed |
| FL81 07/26/18 1:53:28 PM #19 | leave them a bad Yelp review --- |
| Topic | Facebook loses $120 billion in market cap after awful Q2 earnings. Down 20%. |
| FL81 07/26/18 12:53:46 PM #8 | Facebook can't die quickly enough --- |
| Topic | How did your neighborhood vote in 2016? |
| FL81 07/26/18 12:52:25 PM #14 | |
| Topic | Michigan GOP caught blatantly gerrymandering |
| FL81 07/26/18 12:50:46 PM #42 | Tyranthraxus posted... Coffeebeanz posted...P4wn4g3 posted...Coffeebeanz posted...Finally Democrats can get back into power in Michigan and make it the gleaming utopia it has been up to this point I vote Libertarian you're welcome --- |
| Topic | hello fellow loli lovers |
| FL81 07/25/18 5:33:32 PM #6 | |
| Topic | ITT: post your favorite anime music |
| FL81 07/25/18 5:32:15 PM #32 | kirbymuncher posted... we need more love for bgm in here instead of just openings and endings tbh    --- |
| Topic | ITT: post your favorite anime music |
| FL81 07/25/18 2:35:17 AM #22 | Seikon no Qwaser ED2  song is good though --- |
| Topic | Mega Man X Legacy Collection Review Zone |
| FL81 07/25/18 2:28:01 AM #21 | Grand Kirby posted... I like how they're basically like, "If the game fucks up just reset it and see if that works." lol classic Capcom --- |
| Topic | Pokemon: Best in Line Day 30 - Exeggcute - Exeggutor |
| FL81 07/25/18 2:19:30 AM #7 | Alolan Exeggutor is too big :( --- |
| Topic | the fuck kinda name is DocileOrangeCup |
| FL81 07/25/18 2:16:32 AM #7 | |
| Topic | Anyone play Icons: Combat Arena? |
| FL81 07/23/18 9:45:35 PM #4 | Nah, sticking with Rivals of Aether and Brawlhalla here. --- |
| Topic | Why I sit at home and play video games all day instead of working |
| FL81 07/23/18 9:41:58 PM #16 | |
| Topic | GameFaqs needs to get these mobile scam ads under control. |
| FL81 07/23/18 5:01:56 PM #28 | Firefox mobile w/ uBlock Origin --- |
| Topic | Tuna vs. Ham |
| FL81 07/23/18 4:49:22 PM #5 | |
| Topic | My cox bill went up 20 bucks a month and I'm only pulling a quarter of my speed |
| FL81 07/23/18 4:48:01 PM #21 | Cox is basically the Comcast of my state their main competitor here (CenturyLink) is somehow even worse --- |
| Topic | The average Naruto is unfuckable |
| FL81 07/23/18 2:34:22 PM #5 | the Virgin Sasuke vs. the Chad Naruto --- |
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