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Moonroof posted...

Wtf is this topic and why has it been here for six months?

Who the hell are you and why have you been on the site for 28 months?
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Video Game Music Contest 12 winner: Ys 8 - Sunshine Coastline

Oh, and for everyone else, it was quite the game. Thanks again to the nominators, even if you couldn't be there. We had maybe the highest turnout for a game I've ever seen, despite a few noteworthy absences, and the game extended for five hours. Everyone was exhausted by the end, especially when I made it look like I was only using everyone's first four songs, and then dropped all the #5's on them at the end.

The team went from winning handily to getting dumpstered very quickly after that, lol.
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TomNook7 posted...

Can someone explain how i can eventually make my own game? Were you guys getting a bot to play the music or how did that work?

I'd advise playing one non-survival list first. Those have a different flow to them, and they're usually a better place to start if you haven't hosted before.

But yes, there was a bot playing. I just made a youtube playlist and fed it to the bot. There are controls for the bot in a separate channel on discord I kept hopping between any time I wanted to skip to the next song.

Incidentally, here's the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RFEbIBndBVdJDI9ThTVKOqw

Also what did the score for tonights game end up being?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jZOOBOCJ5HRiCBUgfCJGU6EjO1-6btJyDUIzJvpKJUA/edit#gid=1629729180
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TomNook7 posted...

I know i said id be there last night, but some shit came up, and now i def plan on being there tonight

Er...okay? Said shit is reinforcing your ability to be present, it seems.

And for everyone else, please come join us. After thinking Saturday sounded like it would be all right, now everyone's telling me they're probably only going to be there for part of the time or not at all. And seriously, the more the merrier. We need everyone we can get.
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azuarc posted...

Thank you all for contributing to the crowdsourced list. If you have any interest in attending, I'll be running it Saturday night, barring any rescheduling. (If a gazillion people say they can't make it, I might do Sunday instead.) Normally we start at 8, but I anticipate this one taking longer than usual, so I'm penciling it in for 7. Check out the posts above if you need to figure out how to get into Discord.

edit: already have two people telling me Sunday is better.

I have not changed the scheduling as of this time.
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pyresword posted...

Edit: In fairness I think we technically lost on like song #7 or something one time but uh let's just forget that ever happened, shall we?

Especially since, post-resurrection, the group managed to go on and beat the list.

FL81 posted...

I still think we should allow our lives/score to go into the negative for the collaboration survival list

I am going to be tinkering with the extra lives formula for this game.
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@Shonen_Bat
@Anagram
@TheArkOfTurus
@xp1337
@Snake5555555555
@GavsEvans123
@Haste_2
@UF8
@KCF0107

Thank you all for contributing to the crowdsourced list. If you have any interest in attending, I'll be running it Saturday night, barring any rescheduling. (If a gazillion people say they can't make it, I might do Sunday instead.) Normally we start at 8, but I anticipate this one taking longer than usual, so I'm penciling it in for 7. Check out the posts above if you need to figure out how to get into Discord.
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Usually weekend nights around 8 Eastern.
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TomNook7 posted...

I really wanna play but i dont understand how to

Step 1: Join Discord.
Step 2: Enter the VGM channel. When the time comes for a game, join the voice chat, as well.
Step 3: Listen to the music the bot plays, and furiously try to type faster than everyone else what the game or song title are.
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Video Game Music Contest 12 winner: Ys 8 - Sunshine Coastline

Just a note that I do have a full list of 100+ songs now after recruiting some extra nominators, and I am in the process of trying to gauge the True Strength (tm) of these tracks so I can make the difficulty curve as smooth as possible.

You guys are so screwed.
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Video Game Music Contest 12 winner: Ys 8 - Sunshine Coastline

For those keeping score at home, I currently have 55 songs from:
Direkrow
Glacier
FL81
MargaretAnnMid
ProdyParrot
Janus5k
pyresword
MycroProcessor
Zyxyz0
NFUN
JONALEON1
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Video Game Music Contest 12 winner: Ys 8 - Sunshine Coastline

Up to 45 songs for the crowd-sourced list.

I will probably run the list I have on standby tomorrow unless it sounds like nobody really wants to do a game that night.
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It looks like Sunday is currently open. I might claim it if nobody else does, but I'm not specifically coveting it if someone else would rather go.

HOWEVER...

I'd like to crowdsource a survival list. Therefore, I want you to Private Message me (board or discord) five songs of varying difficulty. I'll collate them and turn them into a list. You will not be allowed to answer (or even acknowledge) your own songs. I have room for up to 20 responses, which means I basically need songs from the entire group.

People who aren't guessing game regulars are welcome to nominate tracks as well.
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Diving deserves better.
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Hmm, only 14 of 49 tracks were uploaded personally. You're slipping, Mycro. Going mainstream. =p
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handsomeboy2012 posted...

1/3 done and 1/2 of my VGM are out.

Yup. Pretty much how these go. Either everything's near the top or everything's near the bottom.
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I'm not in love with HTW. In general, I find that SD3's music just doesn't have the same spirit than SoM's does, even when the composition is rousing like this one. I think it probably has to do with the samples used.
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I was about to say, there finally goes my second one...except apparently it's my fourth.

edit: Forgot Stair of Grief or Fly High was posted. Looks like I'm down to Gracemeria, Shades of Blue, jtt, Thousand Suns, IN stage 1, and High-Tension Wire. Predicting Thousand Suns goes next.

Anyway, After the Storm is probably the most consistently good Lineage 2 track, unless you like the sweeter pieces like Shepard's (sic) Flute. There's another track, The Beginning of Gracia, which has some really cool parts but the middle really sags.
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And to think, this topic is almost locked. Hope you've got everything you need. New topic of some sort soon?
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Status check on this weekend.
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Not even gonna push to 500? Tsk tsk.
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nfun will finish. It's just a matter of how much he half-asses it to get it done. And with a thousand songs, I won't blame him one bit.
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At 10 songs a day, it will still take over 3 months.
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I hope you're right, Seven. I did 500 once, and I was much happier going back to doing 100's after that. 500 was so much that, in order to process the list quickly, I just started cranking them off the line, mass production style, because I didn't want the reveal to take over a month.
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I think the vocals in Fly High are really charming. Considering most of the lyrics are in Korean to start with, and I don't speak Korean, I just don't try to understand them. This actually might be my favorite DFO track, and I'm known for being connected to the DFO soundtrack, so that's no small statement.
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MC_XD posted...

#241: Myth II: Soulblighter - The Stair of Grief
Nominator: Azuarc (9/10)

This reminds me a lot of the previous song. It's too subdued and slow to go anywhere, but I actually really dig the subtle intensity and dark atmosphere it creates. Pulsing strings are just so good at that. It's steady, but it sounds good. I'd happy listen to this any time. I just wish there was more to it, because currently it's really simple and has no crescendo or moment which makes me go "yeah this is awesome!".

All of the tracks from Myth 2 are played in the intros to levels, while a voiceover is narrating the story behind the mission. They're each 90-120 seconds long, and are meant to not take away from the narrator, although the tonal shifts often do correspond to particular points in his monologue. The only track that doesn't do this is "Bonus Track," which is basically a medley of all of them, and therefore is longer. I'm also not certain it plays in the game...during the credits, if anything, but it's been ages since I've played the game.
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Video Game Music Contest 12 winner: Ys 8 - Sunshine Coastline

After one in the first ten, I seem to have done okay in the next fifty.

Which means, of course, that at some point, Direkrow is going to get me down on the ground and go WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM! and wail on all of my noms at once.
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Seymour Battle is a song that seems like it should be terrible if you break it down the way you did. There's a lot of instrumentation choice and individual parts that feel like they should be dubious, but somehow it has a sort of...I'll call it a charisma for lack of a better word. It just holds together, even with relatively disparate parts, and creates a vibe that persists throughout the song.

Also the 2:10 "transition" is best part of the song.
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Video Game Music Contest 12 winner: Ys 8 - Sunshine Coastline

Oh look, it's a song that appeared late on my last survival list.
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Biggest travesty on the list so far.
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davidponte posted...

I went on a little run and nearly got to 3 before falling back down to 5 and giving up. I'm on "complete quests" mode until the new expansion.

I've been on "complete quests" mode for the last four years.
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Cody11533 posted...

Cody has beaten Firewatch

Played through it in one sitting, that was a good time.

The game was a lot more tense than I expected, I just signed up to watch for fires, not experience paranoia and conspiracy! I think my favorite bits were the first couple days where we were basically doing our job and exploring most of the area for the first time. The latter half of the game with the mounting tension and mystery was interesting but rather stressful for me. At times I thought it might have went legitimate horror, although it never did.

Mystery-wise, I was satisfied with how it wrapped up. There were three main aspects: the teens, the Goodwins, and Wapiti Station. The teens ended up being a red herring, as did the government study at Wapiti. The crux of the story ended up being Brian's tragic death and Ned messing with you using the other story aspects to fuel your paranoia. In the moment, like Henry and Delilah, I was totally believing in a conspiracy (being followed/listened to was creepy). Obviously in hindsight things make sense, but in the moment I enjoyed getting caught up in it all.

I appreciated the story as well. After all the tension and mystery, the emotional climax of finding Brian's body was a wave of emotions that made me legitimately pause for a few moments. It felt like a rather mature game, forsaking anything supernatural or too out there for a depressingly real conclusion. Henry and Delilah were enjoyable throughout, and they too had a mature, realistic end as well in that they seemingly parted ways at the end to go back to their flawed lives. Despite the flirting, there was no fairy tale romance.

I really enjoyed the gameplay loop of exploring. I think I'm going to go back and do the audio tour mode eventually, I really liked the world of Firewatch. Also I need to find the turtle, I never found it :(

I liked Firewatch. Very interesting storytelling experience, and great lines from the two main characters.

(Didn't beat it this month, but I've played it in the past.)
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VeryInsane posted...

Oops I totally deleted that by mistake thinking it was someone who was raging at me >_> (I added you again though)

On a side note, hit legend again, this time as Token Druid

Yeah, I deleted mine, too, I think.
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VeryInsane posted...

Just when I thought I've seen it all, I've seen a Zoolock run Hellfire

I used to do that. There were games where I just needed a freaking board clear and then I could come back from there.
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pyresword posted...

MC_XD posted...

This marks the end of the songs I thoroughly dislike.

Aw yes still safe.

RIP Snake's noms though.

Bless Snake for not caring, or for being a pal and soaking up the bottom spots for us, but isn't this usually the case?
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WickIebee posted...

but shit, have had no motivation to actually work on the next OST.

RIP
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Wonder how many people are going to dig up the ol' mech mage decks for wild.
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Well, looks like I survived day 1.
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MC_XD posted...

Alright, people were saying my write-ups a too short and too negative so now I'm worried about it.

Don't be.

They were short, maybe, but only because you were trying to fit them into tweets. I wouldn't personally constrain yourself, because I'm a B8'er and I want to know your full thoughts, but if you've got a Twitter audience, too, then you need to keep them in mind. As for negative, we're talking about the bottom five songs! If there was a time to be negative, this would be it!
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MC_XD posted...

And yes, this doesn't bode well for a couple of other songs in particular.

GG Fly High?
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NFUN posted...

just nag dire to rank the top 10 songs from my topic

Sure, whenever you actually manage to finish ranking 1000 songs and we find out what the top 10 are.

Yes, I got your joke.

Edit: never mind, I thought Dire was going to be the first poster.
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Video Game Music Contest 12 winner: Ys 8 - Sunshine Coastline

Disney Land (every show ever on TGIF)
River Marked (Mercy Thompson)
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Johnbobb has a switch now

https://pm1.narvii.com/6572/68b51bc20cc5a1482a116df3d5eaf43c6c5a93ce_hq.jpg
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I read this as Abraham Lincoln, and I was very confused. Abe leaving the walking dead? I mean, I know he was a vampire hunter, but I didn't realize he killed zombies, too.
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pyresword posted...

Also I'm rooting for anyone to beat NFUN's average but I doubt it's happening lmao

Just because they were a repost of what Dire picked for NFUN's list doesn't mean they'll be his favorites...but yeah, while amusing at first, that wasn't exactly the most thought-out set of submissions.
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MC_XD posted...

Any predictions for songs in the Top 10?

I can't predict for someone else's tastes, but looking over the list and ignoring my own noms...

DOTSBAW
EXEC_Z/.
Arab Rock
Nefertiti
Mount Vesuvius
Seymour Battle
Amusement Park (...NOT!)
Diving
Solstice
Chemical Plant Zone original
Queen in the Dark Knight

Actually, you know what. Forget it. Just copy-paste FL81's noms here. That's much simpler, and probably pretty damn close.
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tag
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He's half-Asian.
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KokoroAkechi posted...

I want to say I fucking hate death knights. I think introducing them to the game is one of the single biggest mistakes from a gameplay standpoint ever.

I generally tend to agree. Yes, they're legendary, and yes, they're supposed to be powerful, but damn if they don't singlehandedly win games an awful lot of the time.
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I'd need to ask other people their reactions, but I look pretty similar to how I looked when I was 17, except I'm not nearly as skinny. (5'10 135 vs 5'10 175)
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