Board 8 > Mycro ranks the 278 VGM tracks nominated by BOARD EIGHT [rankings] 3 -(TOP_100)-

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congrats on finishing and thank you!!

...so, I do have some bad news: at some point my account on the service I was hosting the previous topics on got terminated due to inactivity, so topic 3 archive is not a thing yet... but fwiw, I do have the files saved locally (through post #402 here), so I'll try and look for a solution to the hosting issue sometime in the near future and if I can get it resolved I'll let yall know (in this topic if it's still up and/or over on the Discord if not)

This topic is not finished yet. (of course, it should wait until after nominations)

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Found a new hosting provider! This one doesn't have any mentions of purging for inactivity that I could find, so hopefully it'll be more stable than the last one...

All three topics are now up here:
http://zyxyzarchive.42web.io/index_mycrorank.html

thanks so much for archiving that all, this whole span of many years! glad you found a new service to host it on

also for everyone's information: as i said a few places, i'm largely leaving this community temporarily. but i DO plan to do the rerank, and when it's ready i'll probably dump it all at once in here. i won't be paying attention to gamefaqs very much so i would appreciate it if others can keep this topic bumped for me still (hopefully i finish before this hits 500 lol, we'll see.)

Toxtricity posted...

ELIMINATION TWENTY-NINE

?) Simoun (Average placement: 149.375)

well, you're with azuarc in the boat of absurdly big range, all the way from the lowest of the low to highest of the high. congratulations! (this is legitimately impressive that you managed to send me tracks I had such a diverse response to)

honestly even the ones that didn't hit the mark, i could tell you were /trying/ and you're not even someone who even knew me coming into the topic, so i was pretty impressed at even those. but you clearly read what i was into, looked for what you knew that fit, and shared with me things i'd have never have come into contact with otherwise. I'm grateful for that. and i'll never forget these higher ranked ones, that's for sure.

thanks for the adventure, and i'm excited what you have in store next time, if you ever decide to come along for the ride if i do a music topic again!

This topic has been a journey in itself. I don't know why but since nomming stuff for this topic, I've just stopped nomming for anything else. I think the last thing I did was ranking 1 and 3 for someone's Anime OP topic and I thought to myself there's no way I can top getting off to that wave. But this topic has proved me wrong. Very often I do not really understand what you talk about but I can understand the passion you give and I try to listen to the parts you mention and I try to see what you see. It's been a very interesting experience. And now my role in this thread is done and in some ways you've set me free.

I've always made it my point to get people to play relatively unknown indie games and what could be a better than than to let them listen to these game's relatively unknown tracks. The last and only time I kinda made an impact around here was nominating the Deadbolt OST to an album ranking topic and receiving some polarizing opinions. Somewhere in the vein of "man. there are some real contenders in this topic but THIS I cannot stop listening to and I've never heard of this game. Get outta here, the Risk of Rain guy???" At least now they know it exists and to that my job is done. I was going to nom some of that here but I wanted to do something else; there's alot of unknown indies out there and if you wanted 16 noms per user and this thread took 10 years to complete I'll be onboard haha!

NaissancE is one of the oldest games I own. It is one of the first indie games I've ever played. It is quite forgotten now but I thoroughly recommend it. It's basically Mirror's Edge with a very oppressive architecture and it operates in a way no other game can really replicate, the closest being Kairo but that was too puzzly to be surreal for its own good. Its free too---but it wasn't when it first came out. This is a dev who has truly decided to share his work as art and this game is as abstract as they come.

I actually did not know this track was not a true VGM until recently. And why am I not surprised that you know the artist! I certainly didn't and would never have known were it not for this game. And I was going to talk about how this dev made this silly little obscure artsy fartsy game only to disappear...when they suddenly resurfaced about a month ago. To introduce a new game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1966170/SenS/

I mean look at those screenshots. Braille? Seriously? Doesn't get anymore avant-garde than that. Limasse Five is a treasure and I'll be sure to follow him closely; he recommends you do not buy this game yet unless you want to support him. You don't meet devs like that these days.

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WOW this entire last stretch has been the most incredible ride, but that NaissancE pick really is a cut above. I've always loved the 'look' and 'feel' of this game due to a fascination with oversized [[ empty ]] wonderlands, a common theme in my lucid dreams. Loved your entire set, Simoun--excellent, striking games with excellent, striking music

I'm glad to have attracted a few more people to this game. It really does deserve praise and a playthrough and I feel like more people should know about it as one of the original 2nd generation indie games. The dev actually reappeared recently after making his game free back in 2014. And he's making a new game called SenS.

bump, i still need to catch up on the final writeups.

Bump! Hoping I'll get a minute to reflect on my set for this and wax love for the cool discoveries along the way.

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A message from Toxtricity regarding the future of this project:

due to the circumstances behind my original leave worsening---i definitely won't be able to do the rerank or any other stats or anything any time soon. Feel free to let this thread purge. I trust zyx to have archived what's here.

Once I'm able to come back I may do some other similar project. And with the start of that, hopefully I can wrap up any of the extra post-ranking stuff I wanted to do with this old one.

Thanks for being so patient for 5yrs. And I hope to see all of my friends here again whenever I'm finally ready to return!

i miss and love you all! - toxtricity

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