The NSM Guess-That-Melody Quiz!

[Latios212]

Here's a bit of advice: you don't want people to be mad at you for putting things on the quiz, you want them to be mad at themselves for not getting the ones you put on the quiz.

*evil laughs at this past round*

[mastersuperfan]

Here's a bit of advice: you don't want people to be mad at you for putting things on the quiz, you want them to be mad at themselves for not getting the ones you put on the quiz.

*evil laughs at this past round*

Lat is a sadist

Source: experience

[LeviR.star]

Lat is a sadist

Lat is right; posting melodies from well-known games makes it too easy for everybody. By the time we teach them about new soundtracks, they'll be thanking us.

[mastersuperfan]

But there's no reason why you can't do both at once

After all I'm getting back into the CC OST thanks to Lat

Plus, there are plenty of relatively well-known games with awesome soundtracks that some people on here don't know well, and one of the best ways to get them to learn those soundtracks is to keep putting them on these quizzes *cough*RtD*cough*Dudeman*cough*Lat*cough* sorry I think I need to step outside and get some fresh air

[LeviR.star]

Plus, there are plenty of relatively well-known games with awesome soundtracks that some people on here don't know well, and one of the best ways to get them to learn those soundtracks is to keep putting them on these quizzes *cough*RtD*cough*Dudeman*cough*Lat*cough* sorry I think I need to step outside and get some fresh air

I'm just having trouble deciding whether or not a game is "well-known" or "obscure", and I know I'll give away my answers if I ask for everyone's opinion on the obscurity of a game.

There's some bias; I can tell. Some people seem to like RPGs more, and others like to stick to one franchise.

[Latios212]

From Lat's Book on Trivia Theory™:

To be clear, I was advocating for using familiar melodies, but making them difficult (which is tricky to do well). This way, people have the potential to score more, but may not, which is cause for all the fun (and frustration!). You want people to be thinking "oh man I know this but where is it from" and "dangit I should have gotten that!", not "well this doesn't sound familiar at all" and "now that I know what it is, I can confirm I never would have gotten this". In that vein, making the motif obvious but the iteration difficult is not a good idea either; there's no "eureka!" moment, just an "oh, I finally found it after searching through all these remixes".

Lat is a sadist

Source: experience

<3

[Dekkadeci]

Why does #6 sound like Emperor Palpatine's theme and #9 sound like it came from a Batman game?

(In the meantime, the only one I get is #3.)

To be clear, I was advocating for using familiar melodies, but making them difficult (which is tricky to do well).

Does using a familiar melody (say "That Person's Name Is"/"One-Winged Angel"/"ASGORE") but only using an excerpt from 2 or more minutes into the song count, especially when that melody isn't the first theme of that song?

[LeviR.star]

I knew #9 would confuse everyone... heheheh...

[LeviR.star]

I will be posting the answers around 20 hours from now. Make sure to submit your guesses!

[Dudeman]

...hold on, aren't answers supposed to go up Saturday?

[WaluigiTime64]

It is Saturday.

[mastersuperfan]

shhh Dudeman don't say anything so we can get our next quiz sooner

[Dudeman]

hey some of us haven't had time to sit down and send an answer PM okay

[LeviR.star]

...hold on, aren't answers supposed to go up Saturday?

Oops, sorry; I must be still used to the old schedule. My apologies, everyone! I will post them Saturday.

[WaluigiTime64]

It is Saturday.