Dafydd

Haven't heard the source. So you pretty much sampled the game and edited it a little? I think it sounds pretty cool. At the same time, the instruments used and the overall sound quality makes it sound like old game music more than something you'd hear on the dance floor. I like it, but it's pretty far from an ocremix.

Hah, I've never noticed thread sorting was possible before. Cool. On the other hand though, imagine having posted something 2 months ago and still not have any replies on it... Think I'm gonna have to go samaritan on this one.

I just noticed I couldn't find the one Solar Jetman remix when browsing on S (the game isn't in the list). Searching for it in the sidebar gets if for you though. Anyway, I get the feeling there should be someone here that knows the VB forum inside and out who be able to take care of things like creating a new subforum for this type of threads and managing the forum software. The smileys sidebar is still a complete mess and it's only because no one with the knowledge/access required has the time to fix it. DJP is obviously a very busy man and there should be someone he could entrust with this type of thing so he doesn't have to do everything himself, just like he trusts the judges panel with deciding which mixes should be on the site and not (a pretty big responsibility). I understand if he doesn't want someone to mess up the site or its code so he doesn't know how his own website works anymore, but I don't think that would be necessary. I think this site needs a forum software-Larry, just like it has an avatar-Larry and a judge-Larry (and whatever else Larry does).

Never played this game before. Thanks to you now I have

Huuunh?

You would at least expect them to release on campaign first and then the other two as expansion packs or something. I know it starts looking a lot like the sims that way, but I don't see why anyone would want to play just one of them. Especially if their storylines are connected (which I would assume they are).

Oh, ok, sorry.

Dude, that would be so awesome. Get his address, send transvestite strippers to his door. I'll help with paying for it as long as I get to read the story afterwards.

Now that I think about it, "others" should probably have had an apostrophe... This is really off topic though. So... good thing you wrote the guy, BGC, and I hope he burns in hell.

I'm getting sick of this trend where games just get longer and longer, while at the same time, there's more and more of them to choose from. I can already say that I most likely won't play this game at all. Even if I spent all of my spare time playing computer games, I wouldn't have the time to play more than 3 or so a year, if I wanted to beat them (and now I'm not even counting the MMORPGs). Unless I only did speedruns, but where's the fun in that? The game industry would be better off economically if they did what nintendo used to do - make each game last for 1 hour tops and sell them for a hundred bucks each.

I get this sometimes when listening to some of Jeremy Soule's stuff, but I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I know I'll never again visit the worlds I spent so much time in while accompanied by it. It's nostalgia, only much worse.

You misspelled "steal" and wrote "still" instead. Anyway. Hope he gets his nuts cracked.

Then people would just spam the forum to fill their quota. Oh, Rozovian - I didn't see your post about ChipAmp and Mac before - Audio Overload should do the job for you. Hah, I didn't even have to look that up, despite never having owned a Mac. Tells you how much time I've spent on zophar... Anyway, I had another idea - it would be cool if the threads in the wip forum could be sorted after the number of posts in them - that way it would be a lot easier to find the threads that have no or very few replies. Another thing would be if the the thread title would be written in red (or the thread icon more of an eyecatcher) for threads that either have no replies or only replies from the op (bumps). That way they're more easily spotted.

Yeah. Also regarding the judges decisions - it's pretty hard to understand why a mix got noed if the link is deleted so you can't listen to mix. I understand why the links are removed, but that doesn't make it easier to understand why a mix has been rejected. The way I see it the wip board's main purpose is to lessen the work for the judges, or at least for whoever insta-rejects the really bad submissions. You simply let the ocr forumers to the judging for you, and this is a good thing, I think. The problem is that since so few of us are ocremixers ourselves, very few of us set the bar as high as the judges do and so we are unable to tell a poster whether his mix is ready to be submitted or not. There are few really terrible mixes posted here, and those who truly suck at remixing will probably submit their shit anyway, regardless what kind of feedback they get from this forum. The only time I've seen some real activity in this thread was when I posted a remix that had been rejected by the panel. That time I specifically asked the panel to elaborate on why it didn't pass. It ended up being a little judgehate-ish, unfortunately. I think this is about the only time that you would need judge activity here - how else would I be able to discuss the rejection with the judges? It's not like I can post in the JD thread. Another thing is how a game's popularity is so important to how much attention it gets on the wip board. Forumers need incentive to comment. I don't know how they panel works, but I assume that most judges vote on the oldest remix in the queue rather than whichever one they feel like. A lot of times, people comment on wip they're interested in hearing. I sometimes comment on wips that have no comments yet simply because I feel sorry for whoever posted them. But other than guilt and the promise of hearing something you want to hear, what other incentive does a forum-goer have to comment on a mix? If it's from a game you've never heard of, and it doesn't sound that interesting anyway, why bother? In a perfect world, we'd all be commenting on everything because we're altruistic angels, but that's not how it actually works. I'm getting a lot of comments on my warcraft II wip, and judging by the comments themselves I'm pretty sure it's because it's a well-known, well liked soundtrack, one which has no coverage here yet. It's also a pretty good wip, I think, but had it been a remix of a completely unknown game, most people wouldn't have bothered listening to it and finding out whether it sucked or not. If it had stunk, and if it had been a remix of a completely unknown game, I wouldn't have had any more than 3 comments by now - 2 of which would be my own bumps.

Then again, if you want the judges' opinion, just submit the remix. That way they don't really have a choice not to comment on it. It takes a lot longer to get comments that way, but if the judges were able to comment on songs more quickly than they do now I'd rather see that time spent on cutting the queue, not comments on the wip board. WiP was never for the judges. I'd like to see more oc remixers post here though - most of us who hang around here have no remixes on the site, which means that the skill level stays pretty much the same. If there were more oc remixers around, maybe they could help the less gifted of us to improve, but when no one knows what they're talking about, much less what the other guy is talking about, well... this is all speculative though. Maybe I'm totally wrong. I still don't think the judges can be blamed for whatever's going on here (but they probably have more and better ideas on how to improve on whatever issues the wip forum may have than most others). I guess once people get good enough at remixing to get their shit past the panel, they don't need the wip forum anymore, and/or are no longer interested in it. That's the feeling I get, anyway. And, yeah, there are a number of ocremixers here, but most people here are just regular guys.

In the WiP forum it is.

I will, but it needs a bit of work before it's in tempo with the rest of the song, and I think that's going to be necessary to make it fit. If someone else wants to try, you're very welcome...

I could post mine, but it's not all that great... Your best bet would be contacting everyone involved and try to get them to send you theirs. And then some kind soul could host them somewhere (I don't have the space for it, I'm afraid).

Well, good luck, Wave Man could use some more love. I don't think that mix is all that awesome either (a little too lightweight), but it's the best one I know of.

Starla - yes, bass is a little weak, but with my sub-standard mastering and production skills, I'm sure this is going to stink if I try boosting the lower frequencies. A lot of times I find a sound I like and then I try to improve it further but it invariably leads to it getting worse instead of better. Maybe one of you mixwizes could help me with this... And yes, this could really use some variation. Like I said though, the "new" section will be pretty different from how it is now. I was thinking something like Shael Riley's Wily Wars ReMix, almost. I used to sit and listen to this for hours on end but I'm starting to get tired of it (and I'm feeling a little lazy at the moment) so I really need to make it more interesting and alive. It's really easy to get lazy with copy and paste being so readily available... I'm going to have an exam soon though, so I'm sure inspiration will come then (that's when I'm at my best, unfortunately (especially for my grades...)).

This song was covered in rock remix during a dwelling of duels contest a few years ago. I'll try searching for it on my hard drive - pretty sure I still have it... ... Ah. February 2004. Here it is: http://dod.vgmix.com/past/feb04/ EDIT: Dead link on that site. Well, I'll just upload it, I guess... www.ngst.nu/Megaman_5-Waveman.mp3 Sorry, Cybermouse, but there's nothing to stop you from making your own...

Ok. I think I just misunderstood what "industrial" is all about to begin with it. Now that I know what you guys are talking about, I know what I could set as my target style, or not. Haha Well there needs to be an intro, but I think I need to rework the intro vocals to be more in tempo to fit. I assume that by weird synthy thing you mean the phasered (phased?) bassline. Fresh vox? You mean voice samples from the game or a choir type pad? Or Will Smith-styled rap?

lol! EDIT: Wtf, Liontamer's post just bounced down to below mine even though it was already there when I posted! Something wrong with the server's clock?

Wait, don't you mean the counter-melody? What part of the song do you mean exactly? Anyway, I posted an update.

"Stripped" sounds like Rammsteins usual stuff, only worse Wolf Eyes was a little too ambient, I think... meh. I guess I'll just keep listening to the StarCraft and RA soundtracks and work something out from there.