+5 Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes - Unification of the Land (the only genuinely decent song IMO) +4 Portal 2 - Want You Gone (eh, it's OK) +3 DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu Black Label - Xanadu (at least it isn't outright awful, but man, I'm liking just about everyone else's lists much more) +2 Excitebike - Victory Stand (must I give this two points? Must I?) +1 Final Fantasy X-2 - YuRiPa Battle 3 (must I give this a point? Must I?)
-- K | H | A | Q | Q | A | H | K "we're about 50 years behind the rest of western society." -icon on B8
This is actually really cool and probably the second best track I've heard from Unreal Tournament after Foregone Destruction. Appropriately enough, Run has a great sense of movement which is something I really like. I was initially thinking it wouldn't be able to hold up over 4 and a half minutes, but it manages to change things up frequently enough to stay fresh the whole time.
Sol Survivor - Running Out of Time
This is exactly the kind of music I would love to just put on in the background and only half listen to, which tends to suffer when I have to just sit down and pay attention to it all the way through. But I'll try to ignore that because I like a lot of what this song does.
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel - Sacred
Haha, what is this. I feel like if I stumbled on this on the radio, I would listen to it and then later feel deep shame for having listened to it. I don't know. It's catchy but I can't shake the feeling that I don't like it despite that.
Sonic the Hedgehog - Scrap Brain Zone
I would like this song so much more if not for that knocking sound. I don't even know what that's supposed to be, but it doesn't work on any level. Other than that, Scrap Brain Zone is one of the better songs from Sonic 1, probably only behind Marble Zone.
Amplitude - Shades of Blue
I forget where I heard this first... OST contest maybe? But anyway, I think I have you to thank for it because I think it's a fantastic song and I like pretty much every part of it.
Rankings:
+5 Shades of Blue +4 Run +3 Running Out of Time +2 Marble Zone +1 Sacred
I will take 5 more, but might not get around to them until a bit later tonight.
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"The courtroom is the garden of holy judgment. Those with lechery in their hearts should leave this sanctuary at once!" ~Franziska von Karma
+4 Tyrian - Space Journey 2 +3 Jazz Jackrabbit - Sluggion
These two were pretty tough to pick, give Tyrian the slight edge
+2 Conker's Bad Fur Day - Sloprano
The lyrics are just silly and I don't care for the singing.
+1 Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II - Stage Theme 2
This game... I hear this song and I'm reminded of the game, which was just awful. I try not to associate the song with the game, but it's just impossible for me here, I hear this song and I cringe a little.
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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
+5 Super Mario 64 - Dire Dire Docks +4 Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness - Erana's Garden +3 Goldeneye 007 - Archives +2 Bust-a-Move / Puzzle Bobble Theme a.k.a. Bob's Theme +1 Touhou - Capital City of Flowers in the Sky - (Better if it were shorter.)
NEXT PLEASE
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“So we’ve cornered Andy and Kyle in the Swarts stairwell and then this guy comes out of NO WHERE like ****ing Batman or something.” ; ExTha is the man
If there's anyone waiting on a group of songs, I must have missed your request. Just say something.
Ed Bellis:
Raptor: Call of the Shadows - Four
Dungeon Fighter Online - Hamelin
Final Fantasy VII - Hurry!
Shatter - Kinetic Harvest
Mass Effect - M4 Part II
Oh, and since all 100 songs have been revealed, I'm unlocking the spreadsheet I'm entering all the data into in case anyone wants to see the complete list. (It's also in the OP.)
+5 Ruins of Silence (One of my favorite new discoveries of VGMC6.) +4 Primitive Power (I have a feeling I liked this one more than I was supposed to.) +3 Prologue, Title, & Final Battle (Augh, more Touhou. Except I actually like the MegaMari songs I've heard, so I guess I don't mind!) +2 Re: Your Brains (Could have sworn I heard this song before Left 4 Dead was a thing.) +1 Prologue Theme (Better than I was expecting from a song from Deadly Towers, though!)
I think I'll actually be a bit less... vague on my opinions than I usually am in say, VGMC, here. The very reason I tend to back away from doing my own ranking topics most of the time, because I can be very... unkind... towards a lot of VGMusic. So it feels like no one would be the winner there.
Impossible Game - Fire Aura
Oh, hey, this is actually fairly neat. I mean, it gets out of hand a bit at times, but I do like this, so that's good!
Sanctum - Glade Action
So is this! And here I thought Fire Aura probably already locked up 2nd place and everything else would be a fight for the bottom 3! That said, I think I still like Fire Aura more, but it's very, very close.
Xenosaga III - Hepatica
Hepatica was the only song of these 5 that I knew for sure I heard before, and I knew it was pretty much automatically going to be the highest ranked of the 5. Excellent song, though not Xenosaga III's best (Godsibb.) Such a great OST, one of my favorites. As a bonus, this is the best of the 3 Hepatica versions in the game.
Beautiful Katamari - Katamari Dancing
Okay, I figured after three songs I liked (which was already a shocking overperformance to me) things would come crashing down. Katamari's music tends to be pretty hit or miss with me. And here we have a miss! If you actually ignore the vocals, I think this is a lot better, which is saying something since I tend to be inclined towards vocals in VGMusic. That said, despite calling this a miss, it could have missed a lot worse.
Final Fantasy Adventure - Let Thoughts Ride on Knowledge
I kind of dreaded this a bit when I saw it. While I wasn't immediately aware of what song this was in particular, I am aware of FFA's music. And there's this thing about me and chiptunes. I wouldn't say we don't get along, it's more... I don't get along with many of them, at least compared to most people, I think. This is not an exception. This vs. Katamari is surprisingly difficult actually! Katamari peaks at a higher spot, but I also feel like this never gets as bad as Katamari does as times. Decisions, decisions!
+5: Xenosaga III - Hepatica +4: Impossible Game - Fire Aura +3: Sanctum - Glade Action +2: Final Fantasy Adventure - Let Thoughts Ride on Knowledge +1: Beautiful Katamari - Katamari Dancing
Anyway, I'll take more, but there might be a slight delay in results because I have to work my way over to VGMC6 in the meantime.
-- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX
So I have to give a +5, +4, +3, +2, and +1? Have to? =P
+5 i maed a gam# w1th z0mb1es 1n it!!!1 - Full song - (Long, but rather enjoyable) +4 Treasure Quest - He and Beauty - (He's not here to fix your plumbing!) +3 Myth ii: Soulblighter - Main Menu - (Wish this were longer) +2 Final Fantasy Tactics - Intro Song - (Abrupt end =( ) +1 Super Smash Bros. Brawl - King Dedede's Theme - (My ears are hurting)
Blast Corps - Beeton Tracks: 0.5 WTF is this? It's just flat-out rediculous, and z0mb1es is the only thing keeping it from dead last. Still, I'd rather get tortured with pitchforks then listen to this POS ever again.
River City Ransom - Boss Battle: 1.5 All Boss Battle manages to do is annoy me. At least its soundfont isn't godawful.
Star Fox - Corneria: 6.5 Finally, something I can listen to without pulling my ears off. Well, Corneria is catchy, and though it feels repetitive at times, I like it. It feels like I have something important to do with this playing.
Mega Man X - Ending: 6 The soundfont can be annoying. Still, I find it to be enjoyable; the song doesn't feel cluttered or empty, as it flows nicely.
Donkey Kong Country - Fear Factory: 8.2 Easily the best song of these 5. It fits the level nicely, but that's just one reason why it's so good. Rather, its how Fear Factory manages to take the DKC soundfont and make a fun yet forboding, robotic song with it. Good show.
You know, I might have to listen to z0mb1es again after Mana's comment. But I can't see why I'd enjoy this thing on my first listen.
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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!
ytt: I'm fine if you want to give 0-10 rankings, but if you're going to do that, please sort them highest to lowest. Took me a minute to make sure I knew what I was looking at.
Machete - no, definitely not too late. I'm winding it down for the night, but there's still plenty more to do. Try these five...
*listens to song* *cannot remember a single thing about it even seconds after it ends* *listens again* Oh, it's just unexceptional in basically every way. That explains that.
Contra - Energy Zone
This is okay. It seems kinda slow at times, in a bad way, but the faster sections are pretty decent.
Trine - Crystal Caverns
Crystal Caverns doesn't really do anything to set it apart from any other piano piece I've heard, but it's pleasant enough to listen to. I like it, in fact -- it's just not very unique or memorable.
Digital Devil Saga 2 - Brahman
Pretty good. As usual I'm not a big fan of battle themes, but I've got no big complaints about this one. I really like how it periodically breaks up the song with little piano interludes.
Zone of the Enders 2 - Beyond the Bounds
Aside from that crazy noise at like 40 seconds in (and I've even started to tolerate that after listening to this so many times), I'm a fan of every part of Beyond the Bounds. It even has one of my all-time favorite lines from all the VG songs with lyrics I've heard: Fear to see "The World to Be"
Rankings:
+5 Beyond the Bounds +4 Brahman +3 Crystal Caverns +2 Energy Zone +1 Felwithe
Will take 5 more whenever you come back to this.
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"The courtroom is the garden of holy judgment. Those with lechery in their hearts should leave this sanctuary at once!" ~Franziska von Karma
This had some real potential! For about the first 4 seconds! Then it squandered it and decided it would wallow in the valley of mediocrity. Which, while not the best place to wallow in, is most certainly not the worst either.
Halo 3 - One Final Effort
One of two songs I have definitely heard before/can clearly recall even before listening to it again. Not the best Halo song, but then, I think I'd go for the underdog pick in Heavy Price Paid (Halo 2) for that. Assuming we don't count Blow Me Away, which as a pick is borderline cheating. Anyway, Heavy Price Paid is okay.
Dynasty Warriors 5 - Primitive Power
Huh. This could be a challenge! Well, far be it from me to back down on this. This is... really interesting. It manages to do things I typically do not like at all in songs (most of the sound effects) while not making me immediately annoyed at the song entirely. Actually, I am speaking too soon, my opinion is starting to turn on this and in a bad way.
Unreal Tournament - Run
Hmm... this is okay. Though, I think it is benefiting from being the kind of style that I like. Yeah, I'm liking this more the more I think about it/listen to it. The opposite of Primitive Power. I think I like this more than One Final Effort, but again, this is close. Could probably get me to go back and forth on this if you wanted to.
Legend of Heroes VI - Silver Will
Silver Will was the other song I was very familiar with before. I actually was having fun with this during the other songs. I was hoping for this version of Silver Will because I prefer this one, but you said Legend of Heroes VI and not SC, so I started second guessing myself on what Silver Will I was going to get (Kind of like Hepatica last time, except I feel the default answer there is (KOS-MOS) as it was.) It started getting intense because I think first place on the rankings was depending on the version here, because I think I'd take Run and One Final Effort over the other Silver Will.
As a side note, the pattern has broken. All throughout VGMC...4... I think, Silver Will grew on me every round much to my confusion, even including the ToC (...so it must have been VGMC4, come to think of it) but that has finally ended. I still like Silver Will, and a lot of stuff done by Sound Team JDK, but Silver Will is definitely not my favorite of theirs.
+5: Legend of Heroes VI - Silver Will +4: Unreal Tournament - Run +3: Halo 3 - One Final Effort +2: Trine 2 - Main Theme +1: Dynasty Warriors 5 - Primitive Power
I'll take more songs.
-- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX
+5 Moon Over the Castle +4 Path to the Heavens +3 Sloprano +2 Deadly Towers - Prologue Theme --- (Annoyingly repetitive, but catchy) +1 Running Out of Time
More, sorry for lateness
EDIT: Awww
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"Because they don't want to reason about what they consider a masterpiece and be hurt when they realize it was all useless." - Umineko on Lost
+5 Mana Khemia: Alchemist of Al-Revis - Stigmata (7/10) +4 Touhou: PoDD - Strawberry Crisis!! (6/10) +3 Mirror's Edge - Still Alive (6/10) +2 Sword of Vermillion - Statts (5.5/10) +1 Dynasty Warriors 7 XL - Teary Edge (4.5/10)
Pretty good set. The weirdest one was the DW song, because it felt like the kind of song that I typically enjoy but for some reason I couldn't get into it at all.
more imho
-- another place and time, without a great divide, and we could be flying deadly high
+5 Digital Devil Saga 2 - Brahman. Best of the lot, though it's missing something to kick it to a higher degree of liking from me... but I'm not sure what. +4 River City Ransom - Boss Battle. Coin flip between this and number # 3, really, but the opening gives it the edge. +3 Elemental Master - Blood-Stained Lake. Nothing bad to say about it +2 Bust-a-Move / Puzzle Bobble - BGM. Would be better without the random "voices". Catchy little ditty. +1 Pilotwings 64 - Birdman. Zzzzzz-whuh? Oh, yeah, this. Relaxing piece, but... boring. Which reminds, I don't remember if I ever actually finished Pilotwings 64...
1-4 I like, 5 was meh. None I love.
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My Little Phineas and Ferb: Summer is Magic! Aww, I lost to SuperNiceDog, Winner of the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest
+5: Donkey Kong Country - Fear Factory +4: Star Fox 64 - Corneria +3: Megaman X - Ending +2: River City Ransom - Boss Battle +1: Blast Corps - Beeton Tracks
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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!