Okaaayyy nominations are CLOSED. Thanks to everyone for bumping/posting over the weekend - I was out of town for the weekend and was relieved to see that the topic hadn't purged. By my count, I have 105 songs posted (including the 'Impossible Game' song, which I think I'll just rank anyway) - so you get 5 bonus rankings - wahoo! I'm about 1/3 of the way through with my first round of listening, so it's going to be a little while before we get to the rankings topic. In the meantime, any bumping is appreciated, and I'll try to post occasional status updates.
I guess I ought to tell (or remind) you that this song is apparently a remix and was actually never used in the game (for some bizarre reason). If that disqualifies it, I'll find a replacement. But it was made for the game (the original, I mean).
Yeah, if it was made for the original, that's fine, I'll keep it.
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You laugh at my Celtic Guardian, until I use my Scapegoat, and then United We Stand, Mage Power, and 3 Axe Of Despairs, with Gaia Power out. 11900/7800
OK, Wave 1 complete - now to begin the second round of listenings with a full head of steam and put the initial rankings together. It was funny coming across songs that I ranked last year that I think were submitted by the same people - which is partially on me because I didn't have a digital copy of last year's list handy.
I am pretty uncertain about most of the rankings at this stage, but there are 2 songs that have pretty clearly separated themselves on the lower end of the spectrum (still better than being boring......maybe) and 1 song that is the early favorite to top the list - one of the few nominees that I immediately had to listen to again, and in fact ended up listening to four times in a row. Of course, nothing is set in stone yet as I'll still be listening to each song twice more before finalizing the rankings, so a lot can happen!
OK that's the update for now & thank you for your bumping :D
So this is my first time looking at this topic since I first blipped in, nominated some stuff, and blipped out. I certainly didn't read the thread. What are the odds that the one day I decide to nominate something from The Impossible Game, someone beats me to it, AND I find out that it's not original? Blah.
Regarding the KQ5 Town Theme, I had KQ5 and I don't remember it sounding that terrible. The funny thing about computer music from the days of early sound boards is that they all sounded differently. Maybe that's what it sounded like on an Ad-lib or a Roland, because I had a SoundBlaster, and I didn't hate it. Then again, I didn't remember it at all, so it wasn't great, but it wasn't awful either.
And man, some people need to learn some variety. I don't expect anything I picked to go top 10, and only two of them have a shot at top 50, but at least I don't repeat the same five songs every time. Maybe I should do one of these and selectively ban songs that are too familiar.
Eh, I'm on the complete other side of the spectrum there. I don't care about variety at all, simply songs I think are great. Someone could post 5 songs all from one game, and if they're all great then I wouldn't care. I'd much prefer that to variety but with lower quality.
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I try to post a diverse selection of songs for other people's rating topics, but yeah, I care more about the quality. I don't mind familiar songs either - they can be refreshing when going through a long list, as long as there aren't too many of them.
Just out of curiosity, jc, have I posted anything in one of your ranking topics before? I only remember stuff from the past 6 or so months.
I'm almost positive you nom'd 5 songs for last year's topic, which is the only other one I've done, though I don't have a copy of the list that includes which user nominated what. I did have an Iridion II song nominated last year, but a different one than the one you nom'd.
It really will. I swear to God. I SWEAR TO GOD IT WILL BE. I SWEAR TO GOD. IT WILL.
As much time as you need, jc. After all, I plan to do something rediculous as ranking all 175 songs in the GameFAQs Name That Tune! Contest after I find them all.
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I've got 30/105 songs sorted into the initial list - I haven't been able to work on it as much lately because my summer job started AND I've been busy most nights & weekends. I am going camping in New York from Wednesday-Sunday, and after THAT I should finally be able to make some major progress - I have a 4 day work week next week, and nothing really going on in the evenings. I'm also [finally] getting a new iPod so I can listen to them while driving & make revisions for the final list. Sorry it's taking so long but I am still committed to this!