Board 8 > Phantasy Star Online 2 of the Year: Results and Discussion

(+) Yeah! (+)

no BOST this year that means it's time for stupid contests to fill in the time

bracket here: https://challonge.com/PSO2oftheYear

64 songs and the cuts were physically painful. Please tell me songs you want in, songs you don't think should be in, and weird matches I should fix. I aimed for roughly even representation from each album and wanted to include variety... we'll see how successful I was

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haven't played in a while but has pso2 the animation crossover stuff happened yet

specifically the emergency trials where this plays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ti3mpgWCjo


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agesboy posted...

haven't played in a while but has pso2 the animation crossover stuff happened yet

specifically the emergency trials where this plays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ti3mpgWCjo

cool song, if a bit generic. Pretty sure it hasn't happened yet, so it never will

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Tag. Will provide suggestions later.

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one day

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no vacuity wtf!!!

banshiryuu posted...

no vacuity wtf!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR2dst2WqdE

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I haven't spent much time with the 9th album (and zero time was spent on the 10th album). I was going to suggest Struggle to Live ~ Sector 1 or Rebellion to Luminmechs ~ Sector 2-1, but you got Struggle to Live on there already, so perfect. Yggsdrasil is on there, good. Kohri and GOSU are already there (duh). Dinatis Q Vecis and MBSP, too...good. Three of my past failed vgmc noms are now somewhat vindicated because they're on the bracket....!

(I really need to explore more of PSO2.)

The Perfection ~ Phaleg would be nice to see. PHOLBLARS ~ LUSRA, too. (but especially Phaleg. I guess I'd choose Midnight, but Daybreak works, too)


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I was torn between Mother Cluster and Phaleg. I can swap those

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Woo GDIU! Happy one of that or GDID made it here. A lot of fantastic stuff on first glance so I am happy with bracket.

Oh, yeah, I know BATALLURA, as well...it's good to see that on the bracket! (in case you couldn't tell, I'm tellingyou to keep all these if they're on the bracket already!) And speaking of BATTALURA, the BATTALURA version of MBS might do better than the original, though.... Oh, yeah, and I love Seashore Probe Battle!

Yggdrasil ~ Stand By would DEFINITELY be cool to have (I kind of accidentally stumbled upon it just barely) in addition to the original Yggdrasil. CB Lilipur is nice, but a bit boring, assuming I'm listening to the correct one, so maybe that one could be removed.

Let's just... make some lists. Time to go through all the music on the bracket and decide what ones I care about least. Actually, I did mainly just the second half of the bracket. I'll do the first half of it tomorrow.

Please consider removal of:
DINATIS CAOCITAL
Calamity Border Probe Lilipur
"IDOLA" da Sledge of Destruction
Violent Dynasty ~ Falz Hunar
Resonant Nation
Tears of the moon

Please consider adding:
Yggdrasil ~ Stand By
The Perfection ~ Phaleg (Midnight?)
PHOLBLARS ~ LUSRA
Swapping MBSP with MBS batallura

Please keep:
Struggle to Live
Yggsdrasil
GOSU
ICL Kohri
Dinatis Q Vecis
BATALLURA
Seashore Probe Battle

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HasteDeux posted...

Oh, yeah, I know BATALLURA, as well...it's good to see that on the bracket! (in case you couldn't tell, I'm tellingyou to keep all these if they're on the bracket already!) And speaking of BATTALURA, the BATTALURA version of MBS might do better than the original, though.... Oh, yeah, and I love Seashore Probe Battle!

Yggdrasil ~ Stand By would DEFINITELY be cool to have (I kind of accidentally stumbled upon it just barely) in addition to the original Yggdrasil. CB Lilipur is nice, but a bit boring, assuming I'm listening to the correct one, so maybe that one could be removed.

Let's just... make some lists. Time to go through all the music on the bracket and decide what ones I care about least. Actually, I did mainly just the second half of the bracket. I'll do the first half of it tomorrow.

Please consider removal of:
DINATIS CAOCITAL
Calamity Border Probe Lilipur
"IDOLA" da Sledge of Destruction
Violent Dynasty ~ Falz Hunar
Resonant Nation
Tears of the moon

lolno


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day 1
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79699839

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My suggestion is that you should add more songs by me

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Hello > BATALLURA (7-3)
ASTELTO AI LIBEICION > Alchimista di Tuono (7-3)

very surprised Batallura lost

rip AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

New day: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79701571

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Last Operation > MIERNO "IDOLA" (5-3)
Eternal encore > Big Varder (5-3)

rip AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

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Prismatic Insanity > Nursery Probe (5-2)
Phaleg > PHotoner (4-3)

horita wilding. it's very sad for me that nursery probe has no shot in vgmc (which was obvious regardless of these results)

day 4: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79704683

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wow this game's songs are LONG

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FL81 posted...

wow this game's songs are LONG

if many were as long as they are ingame, my computer wouldn't be able to store the sound file, so be thankful the mixes tend to be only ten minutes or so

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Darkness within Darkness > Gathering of Light (5-3)
Realization > GDIU (4-3)

match 1 was a pure coincidence

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79706293

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Neon Nights > Confronter (4-3)
DINATIS CAOCITAL > Irresistible Shiva (5-2)

confronter is super cool but nights is too fun
APUTURA is good too but I think the intro for regular is important for this kind of setting, and I couldn't figure out a good mix. PROGAL is definitely worse given that it cuts out weirdly a minute in or so

day 6 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79708286

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Superluminal > Steel Gale (6-1)
Mothership > Zero-G (4-3)

zero-g is the most impressive song, but sadly it is not the best

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Kohri > Flagship (6-1)
DYREINA > Falz Arm (5-2)

Raetsel determined to ensure there are no blowouts

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I hope next vgmc only has us seven voters participating because i'm liking the pso2 results so far!

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Seashore > GOVU (4-3)
Devotion > Whole New World (4-3)

close matches for a close day (even if my choices were easy)

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Primordial Darkness > INVERRUCION (5-2)
LEYGENDER > Tears of the Moon (4-3)


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Yggdrasil > Star-Singing (6-1)
Mother > Wandering (5-2)

whOA hiDEKUNI HORIta voted for the fukuyama song

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Dark to Light > Parallel Area (7-0)
Sandal > Borderless (5-2)

not surprised that parallel was the victim of our first sweep. i don't think borderless would lose that match anywhere else, but i'm glad it did

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I didn't give a writeup yesterday oh no my food is BURNING but Dark to Light has been maybe my favorite song yet. I dunno. But it's a contender! So, it feels kinda fitting that it's the first sweep.

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Struggle to Live > Resonant Nation (6-1)
Evoke the Virtuality > Falz Hunar (6-1)


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no love for hideaki kobayashi

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GOSU > White Summit (5-2)
DINATIS Q VECIS > Sledge (7-0)

can't be upset at this blowout tbqh. here's that song but more horita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjIAOMcqha8

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Lizard Battle > Archer (6-1)
Hitsugi > Endless Story (4-3)

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Vacuity As One > Calamity Lillipa (4-3)
Dragon Scenery > Challenge Pobe (6-1)

surprised challenge got bodied so hard

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The combined vote record of my three past (failed) PSO2 noms is 18-3! Yep, those tracks are great, "but...."

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Over the Universe > Greenscape (4-3)
Floating Facility > Thank You (4-3)

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where endeavor

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not from pso2

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Unfathomable Darkness = Superior Probe Underworks (3-3)

v surprising but i'll take it

okay guess that's 4-3 but the vote was late so i will not be swapping UD with Underworks

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we made it through r1 congrats

Pretty solid/consistent soundtrack here. Gotta say Hideaki Kobayashi is the most consistent in terms of compositions I like, even though my two favorite songs in this were both by Horita.

(in other news, offering two different versions of a song to vote for and counting either is kind of a weird advantage you're giving them, like it's not too big of a deal with today's match where it's just ENG vs JP version, but more like yesterday's where scenery and battle were two radically different songs)

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They're two halves of the same song

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Hello > ASTELTO (4-3)
Eternal > Final (5-2)

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Phaleg > Insanity (4-3)
Darkness > Realization (4-3)

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Neon Nights > CAOCITAL (4-3)
Superluminal > Mothership (4-3)

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Kohri > DYREINA (7-0)
Justice > Seashore (4-3)

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Primordial barkness > LEGENDER (4-3)
Iggdrasil > Mommy (4-3)

mother :(

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do i even need to post scores it's just first to 4 wins now and like every match is 4-3

Dark to Light > MBS~P (4-3)
Struggle > Evoke (4-3)

sorry borque.

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the council of seven

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I say let Raetsel vote in GOSU/DQV to settle the tiebreaker.

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yes

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