Merits of voting for an OST without playing the game aside, there's a few aspects to the example of P5. In my case I've listened to most of the P5 OST, but like I said without voting for it, I don't feel comfortable voting for it. I doubt that it'll fall through in execution within the game, but I'd like to make absolutely sure for myself. Which gets to the other point, which is that I'm going to be playing the game this year, barring any unforeseen catastrophe. So it made more sense for me to wait anyways when I'm guaranteed to be playing it in 2017. And I'm pretty sure many other people feel the same way, and might have avoided listening to the OST to avoid potentially spoiling even the smallest aspect of the game for themselves.
It was on my honourable mentions list but: 25 points, 5 honourable mentions
Just missed the Top 15 with 25 points, 4 honourable mentions.
No but if you'd like to pass the results on to her that would be lovely.
I feel similarly in terms of FF, though I love 13-2's quite a bit. Definitely looking forward to Stormblood stuff during the EU fanfest.
13 points, 8 honourable mentions
Stellaris: 17 points, 3 honourable mentions
I wasn't talking just about just FFXV's OST. I was responding to you saying that small JRPGs have superior OSTs vs. bigger JRPGs as if that's some general state of the JRPG VG music industry, when that's just unarguably not true.
I'm frankly too tired right now to go crawling the web for pieces of music to make this point since this is a matter of opinion anyways. But, I do think there's something about the flexibility that smaller games have that does allow for some more interesting music, and I feel like I often end up with that feeling in bother Western and Eastern titles. And to that point Western AAA games often get shit on for their samey OSTs, but I don't necessarily find that huge of a difference in terms of there feeling like a more staid quality among larger games in the JRPG scene either. And that stuff doesn't interest me as much as smaller studios doing more unique or experimental or just plain different music.
You're right that some games will just attract more votes by virtue of being more known, regardless of their soundtrack quality. I've been counting the votes this year, and saw some pretty interesting movement in the rankings as the time went on. Games like Uncharted and The Last Guardian were faring much better early on in the voting process. Presumably because they were still in their Game Of The Year frame of mind. A solid week in the new year however, they not only would be mentioned far less frequently, but if lists were altered, it was usually to get rid of these such games as well. The upside is that they almost always got replaced by infinitely more obscure indie titles. This makes me believe people do scope out what's out there, and give things a moderately fair chance.
[B]Single Issue Voters (Top games according to people who only voted for a single game):[/B]
1 DOOM
2 Final Fantasy XV
3 The Last Guardian
4 Dark Souls III
5 Furi[B]Passion votes (Only the games of which the majority of its votes were 3pt votes):[/B]
1 Final Fantasy XV
2 Fire Emblem Fates
3 Virginia
4 Let It Die
5 Paper Mario: Color Splash
6 The House in Fata Morgana
7 Kirby: Planet Robobot
8 Samorost 3
9 Brigador
10 Mafia III[B]Nobody's favourite (Top games without [I]any [/I]3pt votes):[/B]
1 Steins;Gate 0
2 Persona 5
3 King of Fighters XIV
4 Quantum Break
5 Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
6 Bravely Second: End Layer
7 Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
8 Tyranny
9 Unravel
10 7th Dragon III Code: VFD[B]Early birds (Early results after the first 50 votes):[/B]
1 The Last Guardian
2 Final Fantasy XV
3 DOOM
4 Furi
5 Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
6 World of Final Fantasy
7 Dark Souls III
8 Fire Emblem Fates
9 VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
10 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II[B]Most Mentions, regardless of placement:[/B]
1 Final Fantasy XV
2 DOOM
3 The Last Guardian
4 Furi
5 Dark Souls III
6 Pokémon Sun/Moon
7 Fire Emblem Fates
8 Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
9 VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
10 Hyper Light Drifter
Sucks but it happens.
Abzu is wonderful but I'm guessing not enough people played it.
My slapdash Furi quote alongside the FINAL schala analysis, I'm honoured!
It's a nice OST, but it's not one that I really feel compelled to listen to again and again. XIII is actually something I return to again and again, and the same goes for XIV's stuff. It doesn't really mean much, but to my disregard of XV, as I've said before it didn't wow me enough to stop me from listening to XI, XIII, and XIV's OST over it.
Dis was me!
lol
