https://vipvgm.net Today is the VIP's 15th birthday! I'm terrible at making speeches, but I'm fairly competent at prompt engineering, so here's a word from ChatGPT: I couldn't have said it better myself. Anyway, to make this update not pointless, I'm adding a few awesome tracks! Code: Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation - The Tiberian Sons - The Liberation of Gracemeria replacing Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation - The Liberation of Gracemeria Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War - The Tiberian Sons - The Unsung War replacing Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War - The Unsung War Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War - The Tiberian Sons - First Flight Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War - The Tiberian Sons - Zero replacing Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War - Zero Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown - The Tiberian Sons - Dual Wielder In this moment, I am euphoric, unironically. As I tweeted, the way this band was able to elevate these tracks is absolutely insane. They sound like officially endorsed arrangements done by professionals. They've worked professionally before with Frank Klepacki, but I believe their epic metal Ace Combat arrangements are their best works. Hell, they added over a minute's worth of glorious music to "The Liberation of Gracemeria". Code: Project Wingman: Frontline 59 - Redline Project Wingman: Frontline 59 - Fullmetal Frontline Project Wingman just released its first expansion. Too bad it's exclusively for the PS5. Indeed, a very peculiar choice. Code: Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker - THE PRIMALS - Close in the Distance (Band) replacing Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker - Close in the Distance Keeping within the rock theme, we have this very fine arrangement by Soken's own band, THE PRIMALS. Probably unpopular opinion: This is the only track I like from them. The first few seconds sounds like the intro of "Blurry" from Puddle of Mudd. Code: Sonic Frontiers - I'm Here (feat. Merry Kirk-Holmes) Sonic Frontiers - Find Your Flame (feat. Kellin Quinn & Tyler Smyth) Sonic Frontiers - Rhea Island Sonic Frontiers - Kronos Island: 4th Mvt. Sonic Frontiers: Sonic’s Birthday Bash - Action Chain Challenge Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon - Second Wind - Sonic Mvt. Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon - I’m with you - Vocal ver. (feat. Gaby Borro) The Sonic Frontiers OST is, dare I say, a masterpiece. It has such an excellent blend of action and emotional music. I don't think anyone expected a Sonic game to have 6 discs worth of music! The action music will sound familiar to Richard Jacques fans, even though he had no involvement in this game, unfortunately (or fortunately, seeing as how well this OST was made without him). There are also some unexpectedly emotional tracks. I never knew a Sonic OST would make me feel things. I would go so far as to say it's the most depressing Sonic OST! BTW, in order to further circumvent my track limit gimmick, I've decided to attach tracks to game updates, as long as they're listed in IGDB, which categorizes them similarly to DLCs or expansions. Game updates are sort of like free DLCs nowadays, particularly when it comes to gacha games. Games with ongoing content updates are a bitch to evaluate for good music, especially if the game is at least a year old with half a dozen OST releases, and each of the OSTs has some exceptional tracks. But that's not all! Some madlad (which I'm thankful for) actually subscribed to my Patreon. Each tier states that I'll add the patron's name somewhere, so I added a section in the menu. But wait, there's more! Ever since vipvgm.net was made, I used Google Analytics with a bunch of custom event tags to see what tracks are being engaged the most. I like looking at the data, but I don't know what to do with them, so I'm sharing some of it! Here are the deets from this past year: Top played tracks: (Whether they were clicked on, played for one second, played on repeat, or just plain RNG, these were the tracks that were played the most.) TrackEvent countTotal usersGrey Goo — Agile Maneuvers4157155Monty on the Run — Dj Space — Monty On The Run (theme remix)3531141Advance Wars — Sturm's Theme2504156de Blob — Splashback (Defiant)2309152Mega Man X: Corrupted — Skyway (Hurricane Hoatzin Stage)2177162Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze — Seashore War1955270The Sims 2: Apartment Life — Sim Will Build1750255Silent Hill 4: The Room — Room of Angel1732179Metal Slug 5 — INTRIGUE (Stage 3)1554148Pilotwings Resort — Glider1532244 Top played chosen tracks: (These were the most played tracks among everyone's favorites.) TrackEvent countTotal usersFrozen Synapse — A Functioning God15077Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn — Ultima91917Punishing: Gray Raven — Hikari7938UNDERTALE — Heartache63021Namco X Capcom — Original [Namco x Capcom] - Brave New World62811Age of War — -Glorious morning-60716Risk of Rain — Coalescence60415Final Fantasy IX — Prelude5584Chrono Resurrection — Corridors of Time54216Sacred 2: Fallen Angel — Sacred Worlds53012 Top chosen tracks: (These tracks had the highest number of users favoriting and playing them.) TrackEvent countTotal usersUNDERTALE — Heartache63021Zombies — Modern19420Alan Wake — The Poet and the Muse5320Dragon's Dogma — Into Free -Dangan-9819Gran Turismo 5 — 5OUL ON D!SPLAY7519Shovel Knight — Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage)6819Portal — Still Alive9618Persona 5 — Rivers in the Desert7718Final Fantasy VII Remake — The Airbuster6318Jet Set Radio Future — The Concept of Love6118 Top blocked tracks: (When the playlist chooses a track to play and the track is blocked, the playlist chooses another track. These are the most skipped tracks sorted by the number of users.) TrackEvent countTotal usersRhythm Heaven — Ribbit Dance (Bright Rock 'n' Roll)2012Vidya Intarweb Playlist — Introduction2810Left 4 Dead 2 — Re: Your Brains1610Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island — CommodoreKulor - Subliminal Soviet Propaganda?209Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion — RobKTA - Octo DLC Remix159Dynamite Headdy — Hustle Maruyama168Tropico 3 — Viernes Social158Tropico 3 — Para Ponertelo128Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Videogame — The Twins817Medal of Honor — Medal of Honor (Alternate Version)217 Top looped tracks: (These were the most looped tracks, because people just can't get enough of them.) TrackEvent countTotal usersXenoblade Chronicles — Unfinished Business7142Touhou Shinreibyou: Ten Desires — FELT - One More Time6054The Sims 4 — Topography42520Fez — Majesty39515Amberstar (Amiga) — CZ-Tunes — Amberstar [Title Theme] (CZ-Tunes Remix)2591Jets'n'Guns — Death From above2316Animal Crossing — Ben Briggs & ectogemia - Rainy Day2227Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations — Noriyuki Iwadare - Trials and Tribulations2061Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent — Orsazantos, the Creator2052InMomentum — Flyover1991 I still have no idea what to do with this data. Maybe sell them to China or something. Aaaaanyway, Happy Holidays, everyone!
Damn, 15 years that this has been around. Ever since I've discovered the playlist I've always had it open on a tab on my computer, not necessarily always playing something though. Thank you for maintaining it to this day.
