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ExtremeZeroII

Suggestion on Sound Test

Could you not put a difficulty level on the music similar to the other games depending on how well known and iconic the music track is and adjust the points like that too? For example;

Level 1: Sonic the Hedgehog's "Green Hill Zone", Contra's "First Stage" - 10 Points. Level 2: Street Fighter 2's "Zangief's Theme", House of the Dead's "Magician's Theme" - 15 Points. Level 3: Demon's Crest's "Memory of the Fallen Ones", Turrican 2 The Final Fight's "Main Title Theme" -20 Points. Level 4: Street Fighter 3 Third Strike: "Killing Moon", Street Fighter EX2+'s "Before Moon" - 25 Points.

Something along the lines like that? I've noticed a lot of songs that people don't seem to get except for the likes of ProtonJon and I think this would be a good way to at least not make the Sound Test feel unfair for those who have terrible music memory and have a bit more risk for the likes of people like ProtonJon.

Posted Jul 12, 2016, 2:33 AM UTC

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SmiteSA•

That sounds complicated and subjective. I don't know how you would set that up

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ampillion•

Yeah, there's never really a good way of categorizing this sorta thing. Even if you broke it down into 'Common' and 'Uncommon' titles, some people may still have never played any RPGs before, say, Chrono Trigger, or any of the Marios before World.

I think the one good thing is that there's just not a lot of Sound Test spaces on the wheel. So even if it does have a varying level of difficulty inherently, it also isn't coming up four+ times a game and counting for 20+ easy points or missed opportunity, each time.

I could see maybe breaking it down into genres: Each game, there's 3 different choices of genre. That way you have at least a starting point each time it starts. But I think it might be more work than necessary for one of the events that's more an added touch (Sound Test/Screencrap) than a real focus (Quizzler/Gamebler)

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ExtremeZeroIIOP•

Thinking about it. Yea you do have a point.

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