Board 8 > [VGMC] Video Game Music Contest 18: Discussion Topic 1

(+) Yeah! (+)

why don't we already have this?

Important links
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HBxgL9woiCMFKNOPuN_qdxmzjStJXSpC3Ocalfsavdk
Nomination playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKaE-gusMmbVgiFLGZzuBuAK-cFhvdUv
Discord: https://discord.gg/7FVXqWj
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SAJKYJmYhccLvbf_H-5uSA7-eMwXfW8k1q74Qho1bLU
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o

Timeline (all times are at 9pm Eastern US time (UTC-4) on the day specified):
April 17th - Nominations open, 5 unique nominations allowed with no limit to supports.
April 18th - Unique nominations raised to 10.
April 19th - ALL nominations AND supports stopped. 48 hours pause enacted to let people listen to everyone's top priority nominations over the weekend.
April 21st - Nominations and supports resume, unique nomination cap completely lifted. Go crazy!
April 27th - No more songs will lock past this point if the lock cap has not already been hit.
April 28th - Nominations close!

@OrangeCrush980

I'd be very temped by Battle for the Dream (or basically any Fukuyama song), or Mutual Fists/Collisions of Our Souls... or Lots of Lights or Bloodstained Philosophy or Spicy Brass Squad or Rebellions or Nervousness or... Basically talk to me because I won't support I Believe in You but there's a lot I'd think very carefully about

I'll keep it in mind. It'll have to wait until after the pause of course.

It has come to my attention that my Blissade/Egrigori link also includes Raphael at the end, so I'm... not sure if it was the same song that was nominated back in VGMC9? I wasn't here then, and the Drakengard 3 soundtrack has very obnoxious naming when it comes to songs transitioning from one to the other.

Tag

I like video game music.

imagine liking video game music

omg, but how are we going to lock the main topic before the end of the freeze now?

Never, video game music does nothing for me

@barreldragon88 you know there are topic uploads of ffx that are newer than 12 years old and have a bitrate higher than 96kbps right?

and aren't youtube kids so they can go on the playlist...

Nominations part 1 btw
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80749858

I think this was discussed last year and I was in the minority, but I'm still not really a fan of the nom freeze. I'd like it more if it was only a freeze on adding totally new nominations

nom freeze, but we can only nominate ice-themed vgm during the freeze

FL81 posted...

nom freeze, but we can only nominate ice-themed vgm during the freeze

I accept your conditions and also propose this new freeze be extended to the entirety of the nomination period

uh i never make a topic until bracket cause otherwise the important bracket stuff isn't in the topic post lol

and also cause one during nominations would just attract people trying to skirt as close to rallying as they can without doing it

but if one is wanted then i won't complain about one existing right now!

wher brakt

Where brak

https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/the-forgotten-adult-swim-comedy-you-need-to-binge-on-hbo-max/intro-1619198949.jpg

so when a track is retired; do you all take them up north to a farm or do you take em out back .. :(

STOP RETIRING TRACKS NOW

I don't remember if this was here or in the discord, but I saw a comment about the version of Weight of the World I nominated when I wasn't able to really respond.

No it isn't actual French. It's supposed to be a fictional futuristic language that in this case--I believe--uses sounds common to modern French as a base. You can look up something like "Nier 'chaos' language" for a probably better explanation

https://blog.playstation.com/2020/12/18/nier-replicant-singer-emi-evans-talks-music-chaos-language-and-more/

This link is about Nier (not Automata) but the version of WotW I nominated is also done by Emi Evans.

French (chaos language)

Google Sheets seems to be trying its best to format some song titles as calendar dates rather than as strings which seems like it has the potential to cause a problem.

I'm assuming this has an easy fix but maybe I'm wrong.

Format>Number>Plain Text

FL81 posted...

French (chaos language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TjVfCR9N7M

@Geckoeygecko Would you be willing to switch out the link for Everything Goes On to the full version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWX3mRQZ88)? I'll support it if it's the full version.

MaxGalactica posted...

@Geckoeygecko Would you be willing to switch out the link for Everything Goes On to the full version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWX3mRQZ88)? I'll support it if it's the full version.

yah i didnt notice i had the wrong one tbh

how do i do that LMAO

Bumping now, I guess, since now it's appropriate.

Oh Rubia ended up making it, along with both Unfathomed Force and Merciless Savior? Not bad at all. I think almost everything I was rooting for at the end other than my HSR noms made it. I guess I wish Daughter of Hallownest made it but I'm already used to Hollow Knight disappointment in these.

Definitely better than I hoped considering I was sleeping through the end of noms, and I think this might have ended up as one of my better nomination periods.

wen braket?

me wan brcket