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(i dont speak french what are they saying)
(i dont speak french what are they saying)
Would be a 10 if I could just type "Melee" or "Brawl" without the "Super Smash Bros" at the beginning
PEAK
I am now a master in video game OSTs and can now hate the existence of rap music on the internet to the fullest extent of my powers. Thank you VGM Quiz!
I can't think of anything negative to say, plus lain emote
Only problem is my own (I'm on laptop)
If you're making your own rooms I'd recommend blacklisting "french touch" unless you yourself are french because you will NOT get them lmao
I'll say this has honestly acted as a nice little discovery tool for games I haven't heard about
I'll say this has honestly acted as a nice little discovery tool for games I haven't heard about
I've had a real love/hate relationship with Anime Music Quiz playing it with the homies, and I'm quite a fan of video game music, so I've always wanted a website that has the simple UX and featureset of AMQ but with a library of video game tracks instead of anime music. VGM Quiz is the closest thing like that to exist, but sweet lord the actual guessing game itself here is blown so completely out of the water by AMQ that it's depressing.
So the main goal of both is obviously that it plays a random song from a random thing and you have to type in what the song is from. AMQ has it so that a song plays on a timer, and during that timer there's an input box where you can input one guess before the timer is up. There's a whole database of suggestions that you need to commit to, so even if you don't know exactly the name of the thing you are searching for you can approximate it and get it right. The timer also makes it so that everyone has equal time to think and it's not just a matter of speed (though there is an alternate gamemode where you can make it speed-based that me and my friends never play). The game shows everyones answers at the end, which can lead to some funny moments of seeing joke answers from clueless people, or funny misunderstandings. VGM Quiz on the other hand has speed at the forefront of its gameplay; all that matters is guessing the game name correctly within the first milliseconds of hearing a song. The UI is one big text log and while there's a database of game titles you have to make sure it's written correctly and that there are NO typos which is difficult when you are trying to type at a trillion WPM in order to get the answer in as quickly as possible. Some games have shortened acceptable titles, but the rules aren't always as consistent and sometimes it does want you to type the whole ass game name like "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations" for it to count. It becomes less of a game of actual song recognition and more a matter of both typing speed and knowledge of what the shortest accepted database term for each game is, which is hella lame. You can't see other players answers due to the speed aspect of it, and due to the fact it's a chat log you are given unlimited attempts to guess a game title which makes it really easy to just brute force a correct answer you otherwise shouldn't have gotten. Something sound like touhou music? Quick, type "touhou 1", "touhou 2", "touhou 3", "touhou 4", "touhou 5", "touhou 6", etc. as fast as humanly possible until you either get it right or the timer runs out.
Though really the true deep appeal of AMQ comes from the fact that there's seamless list integration, where so long as you and your homies have been keeping track of what shows you've seen and have an account on either of the massively popular anime tracking lists, you have the option to tailor-make a room specifically to only include songs that in theory at least one person in the room should know. It creates such an immensely deeper metagame when the matters of what something you haven't heard before COULD come from given the context of what your friends have seen that you haven't, and also encourages every player to broaden their horizons and gives everyone an intrinsic motivation to try out and engage with something that your friends are into for the sake of being better at the game. Naturally, VGM Quiz doesn't have anything resembling that feature. Given the fact that game tracking websites aren't nearly as centralized to one mainstream place as other media types I can't exactly blame them for not having a feature like that (hell I'd consider this place one of the larger game tracking websites and it's still pretty comparatively miniscule). If the VGMQ devs were able to find a way to link the VGDB database to their own music categories they could theoretically add list support for any website that uses VGDB as a backbone (like here!). You can make custom quizzes supposedly so maybe you could just manually add everything that you and your homies have played one-by-one to a specific custom quiz but I wouldn't know because the whole feature is locked behind a paywall in the first place. All you get is completely random picks that potentially nobody could ever get right if nobody has played it. The option to filter between like level themes/menu music/cutscene music/main themes would be nice too, but the only option you get is what genres or platforms a game lies within.
It's just a very boneless quiz game and it makes me quite sad because my game music knowledge is way deeper than my anime music knowledge and the idea of playing AMQ with game music sounds like a wet dream. But hey! At least the opposite is true, they added anime music to this site so if you want to play AMQ with significantly less options and less engaging gameplay, do I have a game for you!
So the main goal of both is obviously that it plays a random song from a random thing and you have to type in what the song is from. AMQ has it so that a song plays on a timer, and during that timer there's an input box where you can input one guess before the timer is up. There's a whole database of suggestions that you need to commit to, so even if you don't know exactly the name of the thing you are searching for you can approximate it and get it right. The timer also makes it so that everyone has equal time to think and it's not just a matter of speed (though there is an alternate gamemode where you can make it speed-based that me and my friends never play). The game shows everyones answers at the end, which can lead to some funny moments of seeing joke answers from clueless people, or funny misunderstandings. VGM Quiz on the other hand has speed at the forefront of its gameplay; all that matters is guessing the game name correctly within the first milliseconds of hearing a song. The UI is one big text log and while there's a database of game titles you have to make sure it's written correctly and that there are NO typos which is difficult when you are trying to type at a trillion WPM in order to get the answer in as quickly as possible. Some games have shortened acceptable titles, but the rules aren't always as consistent and sometimes it does want you to type the whole ass game name like "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations" for it to count. It becomes less of a game of actual song recognition and more a matter of both typing speed and knowledge of what the shortest accepted database term for each game is, which is hella lame. You can't see other players answers due to the speed aspect of it, and due to the fact it's a chat log you are given unlimited attempts to guess a game title which makes it really easy to just brute force a correct answer you otherwise shouldn't have gotten. Something sound like touhou music? Quick, type "touhou 1", "touhou 2", "touhou 3", "touhou 4", "touhou 5", "touhou 6", etc. as fast as humanly possible until you either get it right or the timer runs out.
Though really the true deep appeal of AMQ comes from the fact that there's seamless list integration, where so long as you and your homies have been keeping track of what shows you've seen and have an account on either of the massively popular anime tracking lists, you have the option to tailor-make a room specifically to only include songs that in theory at least one person in the room should know. It creates such an immensely deeper metagame when the matters of what something you haven't heard before COULD come from given the context of what your friends have seen that you haven't, and also encourages every player to broaden their horizons and gives everyone an intrinsic motivation to try out and engage with something that your friends are into for the sake of being better at the game. Naturally, VGM Quiz doesn't have anything resembling that feature. Given the fact that game tracking websites aren't nearly as centralized to one mainstream place as other media types I can't exactly blame them for not having a feature like that (hell I'd consider this place one of the larger game tracking websites and it's still pretty comparatively miniscule). If the VGMQ devs were able to find a way to link the VGDB database to their own music categories they could theoretically add list support for any website that uses VGDB as a backbone (like here!). You can make custom quizzes supposedly so maybe you could just manually add everything that you and your homies have played one-by-one to a specific custom quiz but I wouldn't know because the whole feature is locked behind a paywall in the first place. All you get is completely random picks that potentially nobody could ever get right if nobody has played it. The option to filter between like level themes/menu music/cutscene music/main themes would be nice too, but the only option you get is what genres or platforms a game lies within.
It's just a very boneless quiz game and it makes me quite sad because my game music knowledge is way deeper than my anime music knowledge and the idea of playing AMQ with game music sounds like a wet dream. But hey! At least the opposite is true, they added anime music to this site so if you want to play AMQ with significantly less options and less engaging gameplay, do I have a game for you!