No, I didn't type that backwards. The topic itself is backwards. This is a rank 100 topic where I made the entire list, and you're going to help me rank them.
The process is actually very simple. /sign and I will give you 5 songs out of the 100 to rank. Ranking those songs are your responsibility. Give them to me from best (5) to worst (1). Note that the best song gets a +5, and the worst a +1. Yes, you must rank them all, and yes they must get separate rankings.
Once you rank those songs, you are free to sign up for another 5 songs, and I will give those to you when I get around to it. Ideally, the board collective will go through the songs enough times to actually differentiate the list, and then we will get a grand recap...so feel free to give comments on your songs, because I'll use them during the recap.
Some of these songs are good. Some are not so good. Some I simply getting a perverse pleasure out of listening to. If you don't like the list? Well, sorry, but when people do ranking topics, they often get some pretty cruddy songs to work with, so that's half the fun. Oh, and speaking of the complete list, I don't intend on releasing it until every song has been assigned once, but I'll tell you right now that the list will be found at the following (currently inactive) link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoS8GGHS9FDGdEdBOG04RWtuV0hSS0RhaVVWcW5xOXc
So, yep, get signing, and let's see what kind of ridiculous order the board comes up with for a ridiculous list.
lol, there's nothing that's forcing you to listen to the whole thing. But yeah, for a reasonable rank 100 list, there have to be a few joke noms. Have fun with that, if you do decide to listen to the whole thing.
ange, however you want. Here's fine.
Kenri:
Xenosaga III - Hepatica
Wizball - High Score
Final Fantasy VII - Hurry!
Final Fantasy Tactics - Intro Music
Guitar Hero 2 - Jordan
mcflubbin:
Beautiful Katamari - Katamari Dancing
Secret of Mana - Kind Memories
Shatter - Kinetic Harvest
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - King Dedede's Theme
Illusion of Gaia - Larai Cliff ~ Where the Wind Doesn't Reach
+5. Final Fantasy 8 - Force Your Way +4. The Impossible Game - Fire Aura +3. Raptor: Call of the Shadows - Four +2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Gerudo Valley +1. i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es - Full Song
After relistens, I solidified these as my rankings. Only 2 of these I haven't heard before; one was a decent suprise while the other one...blegh.
Give me more if you need to.
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Oh, and since I got two IMs a couple minutes apart from people as they found this topic, the answer to "how did I come up with this?" is actually pretty simple.
I've seen a bunch of rank 100's, and I always get disappointed when I think about songs I might have considered nominating, but I either go nahh, or "aww, I only get 5," or whatever. This was a chance for me to put up an entire list...and then the results get to be the product of more than one person's opinions. Plus, it's an interesting reversal on the normal rank 100 formula.
I have no idea how this will work out in the long run, but the goal ultimately will be to make a number of passes through the entire list. I'm hoping like 5 or 6. We'll see. The songs on the first pass are just alpha by title, but they'll get rotated in the second, and then I'll probably sort them by performance from there or something.
Not the best XS3 choice. Give me Godsibb any day. I will say that Hepatica is really cool as a boss theme, but outside the game it suffers from long stretches of time where basically nothing happens. ...Not that those aren't there in-game too, but they're much less noticeable. All that being said, when Hepatica is actually doing something, it's really good! I just wish it was about half as long so it could always be doing something.
Wizball - High Score
So this starts off with weird sound effects that sort of sound like the noise of rubbing two balloons together, it's kind of annoying and didn't put me in a good mood. Thankfully at 1:00 in the song suddenly becomes reasonably competent and I'm left wondering wtf the first minute was about.
Final Fantasy VII - Hurry!
Like most of FFVII's OST, Hurry! is... at least competent. I don't think of it as being much more than that, though, especially in comparison to a lot of FFVII's music which is far beyond competent. I also feel like it's way too ambient for a song called "Hurry!" but it does work pretty well in-game so eh.
Final Fantasy Tactics - Intro Music
Sakimoto's music usually just comes off as bland to me, and this is no expection. The first few seconds are a pretty big nostalgia bomb though, so at least there's that? ...Not that I can really even factor that into a ranking.
Guitar Hero 2 - Jordan
HEY GUITARS. GUITARS YOU GUYS. At least this doesn't annoy me as much as like... Guilty Gear music generally does? Maybe because it's at least somewhat interesting most of the time even if I'm not personally a fan of it.
Rankings:
+5 Hepatica +4 High Score +3 Hurry! +2 Jordan +1 Intro Music
I will take 5 more if I have not horribly offended you already. <_<
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+5. Granado Espada - M.I.S.A. +4. Myth 2: Soulblighter - Main Theme +3. Final Fantasy Adventure - Let Thoughts Ride on Knowledge +2. Marathon 2: Durandal - Main Theme +1. Mass Effect - M4 Part II
This was tougher to rank. I expected the ME credits to place higher but *nope*
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HK-47: The very best there is when you absolutely positively have to kill every meatbag in the room. Accept no substitutes!
Remember that little 16 seed Frozen Synapse in last years(?) VG OST thing you did? Ended up 4th or so? Well I nommed that. Also voted in a good chunk of the matches, just under my previous username. So there's that I suppose.
Oh hey thar ikon. I didn't read your sig. =x And yes, Frozen Synapse had one hell of a run.
Folks who have given a ranking: Note that I am not giving you another list unless you ask for one. I'm not assuming you want two. However, we will (ultimately) have a lot of ranking to do, so I'm certainly not implying you shouldn't.
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1. Final Fantasy 8 - Force Your Way 2. Raptor: Call of Shadows - Four 3. The Impossible Game/Kid2Will - Fire Aura 4. Granado Espada - L.I.S.A. 5. Myth 2 - Soulblighter 6. Final Fantasy Legend/Seiken Densetsu - Let Thoughts Ride on Knowledge 7. Marathon 2: Durantal - Main Theme 8. The Legend of Zelda - Gerudo Valley 9. Mass Effect - Credits 10. i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es - Full Song
So I found Fire Aura's composer.
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HK-47: The very best there is when you absolutely positively have to kill every meatbag in the room. Accept no substitutes!