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#1 Paragon

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:11 PM

#1 Ryan8bit - Duck Hunt - Zapper in the Duck Hunt - good +0.01
#2 BONKERS - Metal Gear Series - DoDied - above average +0.25
#3 Tuberz McGee - Mega Man 3 - Infiltrating the Fortress - above average +0.1
#4 Mustin - Final Fantasy 6 - Pitch a Tent (Good Night) - above average -0.07
#5 Daniel Alm - Mega Man 3 - A Manly Decision - average +0.26
#6 Sara Choi$eux - Metroid Fusion - Parasitic Party On SR388 - average +0.12
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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:16 PM

Is there a TL;DR to the short story?

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#3 Paragon

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:18 PM

Is there a TL;DR to the short story?


Everybody dies.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:21 PM

Sorry I didn't enter, decided it just wasn't the right month for what I had planned, I'll have to make it up by throwing in a jingle somewhere in my potential entry this month.
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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:24 PM


Is there a TL;DR to the short story?


Everybody dies.


I'll properly read it when my attention span isnt that of a goldfishes.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:27 PM

Apparently I'm late on reviews, so here are some:

Reviews:

Duck Hunt

This is an excellent example of what this month is all about - taking a clip and developing it into something more. Nice and jazzy, I love the subdued sound effects and you have great tone. Pretty tasteful solo, although some of the little scale runs seemed a little too boring. Overall very solid entry and great arrangement skills.

Pitch a Tent

:lol: Seems straight out of the 70s with that groove and singing. Nice innuendo. Maybe a little repetitive and could do more by having interplay of both singers, but I think you accomplished what you set out to do. A+ would lol again. Seriously it's cool to hear something in such a unique style.

A Manly Decision

Pretty well arranged. The production leaves a little something to be desired with the guitars but better than a lot of songs I've heard. Pretty sweet breakdown at the end. It had a good DoD feel overall.

Infiltrating the Fortress

Too repetitive at the beginning till you hit the solo-ish part. You could have done more where you made the jingle into an arpeggio and just used that as a backing to something more. Overall I felt like this song was lacking one more layer at times. Also the drums were pretty iffy. Solid effort but needs more work!

Metal Gear

Oh Metal Gear how I love you. This is a pretty good mashup of a bunch of jingles that works pretty well as a song, even if a bit unfocused. The styles shift a bit too abruptly into the piano and I could have gone without the little singing at the end. However I do like how this song sounds in general and builds up pretty well, so + for arrangement.

Metroid

O.o

Well for style this was great. Not my thing personally, but I will say it was well made, even if a little weird. Might have gone on a little too long tho.

I think it will do great on OCR B)


I totally thought Pitch a Tent was Hat, I am genuinely surprised. Also this is one of the first BONKERZZZ songs I really like (no offense).

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#7 Brandon Strader

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:40 PM

Now that we have a free month next, I am scared.

That's waaaay too much to choose from. Seriously.

Free month is my favorite but seriously. There's SO MUCH to choose from.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:45 PM

I want to enter this month and I have a great song I want to do but I'm kinda confused about how to tag my song. Do I edit the ID3 tags or like actually name it in the file path? I'm reading the submission FAQ on dod but it doesnt say. I guess I could do both to make sure.

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#9 Paragon

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:50 PM

I will retag it. You just make sure you include the artist name, song name, and source games when you send it to me (in the text of the email / PM).

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:53 PM

I will retag it. You just make sure you include the artist name, song name, and source games when you send it to me (in the text of the email / PM).


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#11 Brandon Strader

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 07:02 PM

I think it will do great on OCR B)

Ouch bro. I nominate this for meanest review ever. :lol:

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 08:16 PM

Lolwhat, I TOTALLY thought that Metroid song was Brandon because it seemed like it was pitched shifted and the speech pattern sounded like'em lol.



Also: Sources for my song in order of appearance



^ Everything after "Mission Success" is
MGS Konami Logo (Policenauts Theme)
And you can see why I did the ending the way I did. I wanted to work the original style in there

Everything that isn't these sources is original material.

I know it was really disjointed. I agonized over this while working on it, I didn't stop to think of making a jingle a whole song like a lot of other people did you know?

My brain just kept thinking "no, you can't loop any sections to extend the song, you gotta keep adding and adding on each section, to try and make it unique!"


Edit: Alt is just 3 variations of the Victory Jingle
The first is new, the 2nd is based on http://www.box.com/shared/xjb77613k9 (which was going to be my original version for "The Gate of Nightmares") 3rd version is actually based on "TGON" version. Just prog-ified(yeah whatever)

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 08:36 PM

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Posted 01 April 2012 - 04:43 AM

Because it deserves repeating. cross threads.
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Posted 01 April 2012 - 08:03 AM

hey pud i broke the site again sorry.

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