tbh I don’t get stressed about these but I also don’t like them at all, I find the brackets very crass
Oh, I’m into silly categories, would be much better than a ranking or a tournament
Like, I don’t care about the best ‘vgm’, but I do care about ‘best vgm to listen to while hungover at 6 am’
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Really hard to pick just 4. Drakengard was on the shortlist I promise. Tried to vary it tonally.
Bad Girl - Masafumi Takada - No More Heroes OST
Ogre’s Theme - Akitaka Tohyama, Yuu Miyake, Nobuyoshi Sano and Keiichi Okabe - Tekken Tag Tournament OST
The Prestigious Mask - Keiichi Okabe, Kakeru Ishihama, Keigo Hoashi and Takafumi Nishimura - Nier Replicant ver 1.22 OST
Life is Beautiful - Riyou Kinugasa, Takuya Kobayashi, and Hiromi Mizutani - Deadly Premonition OST
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Never seen a more tim Named Game Track.
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I forgot that’s not actually the name for the track lol
i like this thread because it is easy to participate and gets everyone to post hot shit they think is great
i will say any competitive aspect of it is far less interesting, to the extent that framework exists. i mostly just see it as an excuse to post and listen to some great VGM. trying to decide if i like e.g. soyo oka’s simcity OST more than yoko shimomura’s legend of mana OST, i mean, these are impossible decisions (actually it’s still and always was oka, whoops, BUT OK you get what i mean)
but even if everyone just keeps posting bangers i mean this thread is full of absolute bangers already, i feel like it’s good
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Okay, I like putting our “favorite” entries into unknown categories because there can be an element of novelty each week. I’ll work on this later this evening.
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Seconding/Thirding that I don’t care about the ranking/bracket stuff at all but if it’s an excuse to hear some of these absolute bangers people are pulling out then I’m 100% for it.
It would make me crazy to try and put down 4 of the tracks that I like the most/means the most to me because frankly it’d probably be pulling from the most “obvious” 8-16-32 bit picks (or like 4 yasunori mitsuda tracks) so I’m gonna post a few I haven’t seen on here and that I think are really cool.
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I was thinking about how the competitive bracketing of songs is mostly an excuse to hear everyone’s opinions, boost the topic of vgm, and generate some discussion. I tried to think of another method where we might create that spotlight without a sense of competition, and I’ve got an idea: a thread where posters rotate as DJs.
At the start of the week, a poster could share a playlist roughly an hour long. They could share some of their personal experiences with the music, describe why they enjoy it, or just let the music speak for itself. Posters could opt into the list and rotate a little like the high score thread. By keeping things spaced out at a weekly pace, the thread wouldn’t become oversaturated and it would be easy for people to follow along.
I don’t mean to hijack @doolittle’s thread with this idea, but it seemed good enough to share.
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i know batman and robin was posted and they said any song but I LOVE THIS SONG SPECFICALLY
the reason why cheetahmen is so good
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(A little dirge-like but not a joke pick, I listen to this one a lot)
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They turned out to be all ambient/drone tracks but I think sheer number of times played as mental wallpaper works as a “how much do I personally like it” metric
Silent Hill - Moonchild
Pikmin 2 - Save Area
Operation Wolf 3 - Attract Mode 1
Silent Hill 3 - That Sick Room
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As some who has run a vgm music bracket or two elsewhere, I have to say that the bracket itself has never been the main appeal to me — making choices gets tiresome, it can be a bummer to see all 4 of your picks die in the first round, and (as we saw with the best vidcon polls) engagement tends to decrease on a round-by-round basis. Rather the appeal is more about the threads serving as a place to share/discuss a curated selection of interesting vgm picks in an orderly, communal fashion where nothing risks getting left behind.
tl;dr a bracket is fine, but I’m open to other (possibly non-competitive) formats for this (eg mini-brackets, songs-of-the-day, etc.).
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I am working on a series of categories that no one could reasonably get mad about the stakes of, please stay tuned
I think a mode of interaction between a post and a bloodpotion is nice, and voting is an easy means of engagement. New categories each week means it’s always a fresh (hell).
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The best thing about brackets for me is it gives me a reason to listen specifically to certain songs in arbitrary juxtaposition rather than being confronted with a sprawling (or even modest) list of songs people think are cool (like this thread, which I’ve listened to very little of yet). That doesnt’ have to be a bracket, but voting is definitely a neat thing that would provide me with more impetus to participate/pay attention than just, like, recommendations. That’s just me, of course.
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We’ll have a subset of submissions to work with each week. I recognize that’s an important function.
The future is just like you imagined (the first output of GPT-2 from my prompt corpus)
Best VGM for a movie (this is a bit of a stretch, but VGM music can be used as a background for movies. For instance, a lot of people would want to listen to a VGM when they watch an action movie, such as a kung fu movie e.g. Mortal Kombat. If you want to be a complete nut about it, check out this guide, by the way. It doesn’t have anything to do with the rest of this post, but it is a quick reference for those that want to understand and appreciate that particular genre of video game music. If I’m wrong about any of the below being suitable as background music, please feel free to correct me and I’ll change the title)
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It inserted that 123 word parenthetical of pitch perfect neurotic forum poster caveats in an otherwise unbroken list of “best vgm for [activity]” by the way
Another:
Best… Hangover VGM?
Hangover has been recorded by many. This is the only search results for VGM I found: Google
Not sure how useful it is, I would consider it a good starting point. If you know of some better examples feel free to post them in the comments.
And the link to the VGM page is: http://k2k-toy.com/hangover/hangover.html
I tried this game once. For some reason they stuck a shotgun in my mouth. I must have had some type of hangover.
Best… For a Sh
There’s a long tradition in video games of using music from movies and other pop culture to create soundtracks and to establish moods. In some cases, songs from the film score are even recreated and arranged for the game. A great example of this is the game, Super Mario Bros. 3, in which the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is recreated for the Mario Bros. and used as the main theme.
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i HATE music but LOVE drama
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