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FL81 posted...

Also @azuarc the lyrics are clearly DADDY DA-DA-DA-DADDY

I stand by this.



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Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour

I was about to say I don't have any sense of what would be left and was going to ask if a songs left list was posted, but then I looked at post #1 and how this topic started in 2019 and still is barely half full. Wow.

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Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour

Spoiler: In this topic full of "real" songs, the top 5 are all VGM.

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Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour

There goes bracket.

How do you feel about Nightwish, post-Tarja?

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Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour

Wow, this ranking is still going? Looks like I've still got, appropriately, Last of the Wilds.

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Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour

FL81 posted...

I couldn't tell if this was released in the '70s or '80s it was released in 2005 >_>

lawl. It's a shame the group broke up after one album.

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Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour

FL81 posted...

Oh, and with that we are in the TOP 50

Thoughts? Predictions? complaints about how slow this is going? >_>

Updated list?

edit: nm

Looks like I still have Last of the Wilds, Silence Must Be Heard, and Where Eagles Have Been. Those seem like such atypical nominations for me. I must've thought you'd like them.

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Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour

I realized I haven't actually announced any games I've beaten this year. Uncategorized for now:

New completions:
Hato Boyfrined
Dishonored 2
DanganRonpa V3
Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows
Borderlands 3
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Rebeats:
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (randomizer)

Maybe others? I don't know, need to think about it. A lot of the games I've put in time on haven't been finished, including big time-wasters like Hearthstone or Civ VI. I've dabbled with a ton of little stuff, too.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

FFDragon posted...

If you have a deathwing in your lobby, rush 2 and buy up all the rats. It's the only way to stop him.

Oh, I get that. But I've never seen a Deathwing player crash and burn quite so hard. It was like the entire lobby was conspiring against me rather than playing their own game.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Just had a game as Deathwing where every opponent of mine had a rat pack and I did not...and every fight ended with popping the rat pack. I was out before hitting 10 gold.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

I played a Tirion game that got carried in large part by golden Unstable Ghoul. It was kinda funny, tbh.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Got sidetracked by the new kitten, who insists on curling up on my lap -- which I can't really do at my desk or Neko gets jealous and growly. The date is the 13th.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

My main goal for today is to write up the announcement thread.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

I read that, yes, but without looking at the sheet and without additional information, I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

My ranking has been in the tank this past week. Two nights before the update went up, I played a bunch and lost horribly, dropping 500 points. Since the update, I've had one second place, a few fourths, and mostly finished in the bottom half. I don't know what my MMR is now, but it'll be a long time before I pull back up to the 6600 I started at.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

If there are errors that need to be fixed, please tell me.

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Ridiculous imbalance of epics has really hurt my experience with the last two sets on release day. Not only did I get surprisingly few epics, but the ones I got were not a very representative sample. Making up numbers, I maybe got 20 total and 4 were the same card.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

*cry*

I can enter my stuff manually, so it's really not that big a deal, but I can't not poke fun at the situation.

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Mac Arrowny posted...

Maybe try switching to classic posting mode?

That does seem to at least use normal <br /> tags, although it's not working for other reasons. But this might have potential. Thanks for the tip.

edit: And after flagging down newbie to say something, apparently he has a mostly functional version of the script now. It just....doesn't...read my posts...it's okay. I'm not bitter. It's not like I wanted to participate or anything.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

+3 Attack
+1 Attack/Health
Windfury

is way worse. Taunt has value, especially if you can grab a Strongshell Scavenger. Health is always usable. Plants are good if your opponent is playing mechs. Obviously DS and poison are your targets.

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VGMC update: There is definitely a problem with the parser. Gamefaqs now does something really stupid with its line breaks, where it uses <br> and then </ br> at the end, rather than a normal <br />, and it's creating holy hell to fix. I have no timetable.

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Haste_2 posted...

Please no. If the entire contest went based on team azuarc, my overall VGMC win % would drop all the way down to 47%! >_<

I'm pretty sure my actual win % in the contest was at least that low.

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Haste_2 posted...

Also, The Final Song vs. EXSPHERE is an extremely close match for me...

Which we got in round 2. GG bracketmakers. Who were the idiots who set that up?

We thought EXSPHERE vs Bob was one of the most hilarious matches, and we wanted both Bob and Final Song at the end of the bracket.

FL81 posted...

why isn't MARIA retired yet

Shhh, one mustn't talk about MARIA, lest the haters wail and gnash their teeth.

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pyresword posted...

I think I dislike more of Team Mycro's retirees than I like.

I don't love every retiree on the first list, and some I can't even remember, but the Mycro list definitely has some songs I could have done without.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

I like B1. Can we go back and make that canon?

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Haste_2 posted...

My noms are not on your spreadsheet. Did you DQ me because of all the trouble I cause?! =p

*blink blink*

Well, uh, shit...I somehow completely missed your post, I guess, because those songs don't even sound familiar to me. I mean, I know End of Raging Waves and Proud Dust, but I certainly don't remember seeing them in the topic before and they aren't on my playlist.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

So, on pretty much a daily basis, I think of this topic and how I haven't done the ranking, and each time I come to it, I realize how much I am absolutely not interesting in working on it at that moment. I could say that I'd do it eventually, but I'm going to have to start focusing on VGMC soon enough. (My brain has definitely not registered this fact either, yet.)

Therefore, I want to sincerely apologize to everyone. I'm going to link the sheet I was working from, which I copied into the spreadsheet in the OP -- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gRAHwzLZduGVWYPILF5wyiTAvtI3PUG3O_s4MgV9Zwo/edit#gid=1546732875

Note that I only wrote up comments for about half the songs, and that was only some very preliminary remarks. My intent had to be to sort them by the initial ratings and then go back and do a much better job. Nearly all the ratings were between 5 and 7, and I very easily could have swung the score for a given song by a bit if I had rated it on a separate day. So please don't assume this is my final verdict on everything here, but I did listen extensively to the playlist I made with all these tracks. There was nothing I personally loved (except maybe Wandersong, depending on my mood that day,) but there are certainly some contest-worthy songs on the list.

Again, my sincerest apologies, and if anyone wanted to call attention to a given track pre-contest, please comment here and I'll try to offer my thoughts on it if I haven't already.

That said, now would be a great time to get in your final thoughts about VGMC and any potential changes from last year's ruleset.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows (Steam)

Decent tower defense. What makes the game good and unique also weighs it down by the time you're closing in on the end, though, but it's a game with absurd replayability.

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Danganronpa V3 (Steam)

Well, that was certainly an ending. Not as stunning as the beginning, though.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl11iqagWIc

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Late January update: I've played a lot of different game sthis month, but the only one i can distinctly say I've finished is...

Dishonored 2 (PC)

Great game. I hadn't played the original. I had a fantastic time skulking about the world, though. The level design and attention to detail is the biggest standout in Dishonored, as everything in the world feels very real and not merely a contrived video game playspace. Definitely recommend.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Are people still running apothecary decks? I haven't been on standard ladder a ton, but I haven't heard a peep about them since the nerfs.

skullbone posted...

My point exactly! Other competitive games I can alter how I'm playing to fit the situation. With Hearthstone I just hope my opponent doesn't counter everything I'm doing and shrug.

Well, don't take my statement too far. A combo deck is unfun to play against aggro. An aggro deck is unfun to play against control. Control is unfun to play against combo. You can win those match-ups, but depending on the specific decks, the likelihood is often extremely low, and the unfun part comes when you feel helpless. I don't mind any loss where I actually get to participate in it. If all I'm doing is hopelessly (and ineffectively) deflecting my opponent's game plan, that's when it becomes disinteresting.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Finally remembered to add Cako's songs to my playlist.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Every deck is unfun to play against, depending on what you're playing. Clearly you just need to flood his deck with 1/1 Albatrosses.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

I kinda expected Back to Rise to get dumped on during BOST, but I was cautiously optimistic there'd be people who really liked it. I'm not into rap/hip-hop at all, but I find it eminently listenable, maybe moreso than any other KI track.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Silly game last night: Priest mirror. Opponent is playing quest, I'm playing Galakrond resurrect. Absolutely nothing happens over the first 6 turns except that I drop a Bad Luck Albatross onto the board and give it reborn. Finally he plays an infiltrator. I Grave Rune the bird, kill it, and he answers with a Khartut, which just gives me the means of killing off my three new birds. Instantly he's got 8 tokens in his deck and we've got empty boards. I Psychopomp out another, but finally he draws his mass dispel.

Next turn he plays Zerek's, and gets Zilliax along with six bird tokens. I laughed so hard. Not only is that virtually useless, but his rez pool is now 60% useless tokens. He still came surprisingly close to deciding to aggro me down since I'd replaced my hero power at this point, but his deck choked super hard down the stretch. He must have drawn every single albatross before I finally closed it out.

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

I'm a math person, so I have no problem discussing probability. Arguing it with ulti is another matter. Thanks for telling me what I was missing, though.

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Camden posted...

Does putting someone on ignore also remove posts of people quoting them? Because those aren't all Ulti.

Ah, you can toggle that on or off.

Well, the only other person I have on ignore is Maria, so unless that was the other person posting...

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VGMC13 champion: Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

https://imgur.com/TUfMori

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Haste_2 posted...

I would be happy to be in charge of creating and maintaining it this year, if you'd like.

Not a hard task, and I definitely used the playlist myself, but if it's one less thing for me to attempt to cover, I would appreciate that.

Mac Arrowny posted...

Would be more interested in a no-returner contest!

It might or it might not be. I'm willing to listen to this argument, and it's certainly been floated before. I personally think blocking any songs from returning might be discouraging, and it creates a massive do-not-fly list that nominators have to check against, which is annoying to deal with when people can't always handle the regular retiree list. Doubling that or more, depending on if you mean none of last year's participants or nobody ever, will be a massive headache. And if you meant the latter, I think it might choke nominations as people struggle to decide what to nominate. Some of us could easily crank out 20 songs that haven't been seen before, and some of us couldn't find 1 that they want to nominate.

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Haste_2 posted...

You really think nobody would listen to it?

Well, you didn't. I have no idea about anyone else, but nobody indicated they were using it.

Haste_2 posted...

I don't get it, so I'd better see what it looks like.

https://imgur.com/fqpi0s8


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