Off-Topic Boards > Forum Games
The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
Nessy:
Welcome to the Video Game Music Challenge!
A fun daily challenge inspired by a similar challenge/list Lana T. posted on the Lemmings Discord.
Please read before participating:
1) You will be given three short descriptions of a certain type of video game music, and it's up to you to write down the title of one specific video game track from one specific video game that matches each description and essentially creating a list of three different video game tracks. Links to your music track choices such as one on YouTube for others to listen to is not required but highly recommended!
2) Please post your list into a spoiler tag on this thread so that people that have already posted their own list can look but people that haven't posted their list yet won't be accidentally influenced.
3) You will have roughly until the deadline stated during that round to not only get your list of titles posted but in the meantime everyone is encouraged to discuss everyone's choices and list.
4) After that round is done another set of descriptions will be posted. This challenge will roughly end when general interest starts to die down, in the hopes that sometime in the future someone else will take over and revive the challenge!
To discuss any concerns or questions please post them in this dedicated thread
First round
1) Favorite music that's used in a main title screen
2) Music that you like from a game you haven't played yet
3) Music from a game that was first released the year you were born
Second Round
1) Favorite music that plays during the credits shown at the end of a game
2) Music you like from a game that you have played and disliked
3) Favorite final boss battle music
Third Round
1) Music that seems to be underrated in your opinion (basically music you like that may not be liked as much by others)
2) Music you associate with frustration
3) Music that makes you feel nostalgic
Fourth Round (By Turrican)
1) Music with an uplifting beat and sound
2) Music that is more atmospheric sounding
3) Music with a very dark and gloomy sound to it
Fifth Round (By Colorful Arty)
1) Music from a video game that people wouldn't be able to tell is from a video game just by listening to it
2) A really creepy/scary track from a game (Note: unlike dark and gloomy the intention of this one is to actually make you feel fearful/scared)
3) A track from a video game you wish you could forget so you could hear it again for the first time
Sixth Round (By 607) Until August 31 at 18:00 UTC
1) Music with unusual sounds
2) Favorite music that plays in a cave or underground area
3) Music that is technologically impressive (for the system it's on)
Nessy:
First round!
1) Favorite music that's used in a main title screen
2) Music that you like from a game you haven't played yet
3) Music from a game that was first released the year you were born
Round will end on July 23 at 13:30 UTC July 25 at 13:30 UTC
Colorful Arty:
Round 1
Updated to include my thoughts on each of my picks.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)1) Main Theme: Harvest Moon: Back to Nature - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJ_o7urUVc
While this isn't my favorite title screen music, it is up there. My all time favorite is Baba Yetu from Civilization IV, but that's a real song that was put into a video game, not a track made specifically for a video game. I've never actually played Harvest Moon Back to Nature, but I have played Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town, which uses the same song, albeit lower quality as its title screen music too.
2) Deadlock: The Fruit of Grisaia/Grisaia no Kajitsu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ji2W7iRP38
This is the game I'm going to play when I finally finish CLANNAD. I've seen a mod for Doki Doki Literature Club that is an homage to this game and uses a lot of the tracks from this game, so I've heard the soundtrack. This song really stuck out as amazing to me, and if the actual game is anywhere close to being as good as its soundtrack, it's going to be one heck of a good visual novel!
3) Battle Against a Somewhat Stronger Monster: Super Mario RPG - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNfqL-7PGrk
I was originally going to pick something from Super Mario 64, since I was born in 1996, but I decided on Mario RPG instead, since I may end up using Mario 64 music for other prompts. I've only played a bit of Mario RPG (made it to Merrymore, but then the Wii we had it on died), but it was very good. Not quite as good as Paper Mario, but I should go back and finish the game. I've always loved this miniboss music.
Proxima:
First round (click to show/hide)1) Favorite music that's used in a main title screen
I'll kick off with something from my childhood: Galaforce for the BBC Micro :)
2) Music that you like from a game you haven't played yet
"The Ground's Color is Yellow" (Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody). This track was my gateway to discovering the entire Touhou series, but 10.5 is one of the fighting games, so I haven't got round to playing that particular game yet :P
3) Music from a game that was first released the year you were born
...I tried, I really did. I consulted Wikipedia. And I couldn't find anything from that year that I have even played, much less have fond memories of. I guess maybe the closest is Mr. Do!, since I have played a BBC Micro clone called Mr. Ee! and it has the same music (which is just the Galop Infernal, which you all already know from its appearance in Lemmings, but this was where I first encountered it).
IchoTolot:
My first round:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)1) Favorite music that's used in a main title screen
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 - Grinder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJvPyH8WnMw (Live version from a concert by the original composer together with a fanband: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYWoxP9jLk0)
No question on my choice here and the thing that immidiately jumped into my mind when reading the category. It's simply one of the best main menu themes of all times and in quite a few top 10 listings as well.
2) Music that you like from a game you haven't played yet
Killer Instinct Season 2 - Mick Gordon - Inferno (Cinder's Theme): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmwFBK0cyk
I am not a fighting game player, but I just love Mick Gordon's music and this is one of his best tracks imo.
3) Music from a game that was first released the year you were born
I was born in 1991, so the Lemmings t-shirt I have not only represents the game's release year on it but also my birth year! It would be weird to me not to post a Lemmings track here.
So I just post a link to one of my favorite DOS Lemmings track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceESUJ6RWLw&list=PLYnKFyDMmhs1MmwLoEkriIXmnB7sQnfv4&index=17
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version