Round #1 - Poll #10

Vote for up to eight videos!

Two of these will be eliminated, the rest will move on to round 2!

Entries:

1. Pendulum by anomaly76
   
2. Quirker's Laboratory by Hedgehogs4Me and Cephyric
   
3. Assault by Lukking and Sheldon
   
4. No One Dreams Anyway by Wolf_Spirit
   
5. Happily Ever After by Commandercoke
   
6. Overdrive by FlagCapper]
   
7. Efflorescence by Rain of Life
   
8. Phoenix by IoneRendar
   
9. Dark Matter by Snooze
   
10. Metamorphic by BHCS and Z_N-Freak
    
11. Cheat Aerial by Georgio_Jc

Rules:
- Watch all tracks before voting (if you've seen them before, a re-watch is recommended but not required)
- Please don't vote for yourself.
Exception: You can vote for 'yourself' for large collabs (e.g. community scenery projects, clan projects, or LCC projects)
- No begging/bribing/duping or otherwise cheating
- We will not change your vote after you cast it - make sure it's accurate

Embedded videos:

Spoiler:

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Assault, NODA, Happily Ever After, Dark Matter, Metamorphic and Cheat Aerial gmv. Lots of scenery in this poll!

Rabid hypes HEA a bit too much but he's right with what he says and its good enough to go to round 2 in my book, probably even semifinals.

Not the only thing I voted for but I'm tired of doing GMV posts every time

I touch myself to Cheat Aerial.

WARNING
"Rating" based solely on my opinion:
Im being very harsh when rating these tracks so please dont start an argument if i rated your track not as highly as you'd like.
I seperated my rating into 4 parts since i think they cover the most inportant aspects. Popularity/Viewcount or the amount of hours worked are aspects i can not rate.

Pendulum
Influentiality at it's time: 7/10
Creativity: 8/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 7/10
Personal preference: 8/10
Score: 30
Comment:   Pendulum. Now for real, this track is great and it also ages well. Interesting flow/style
Quirker's Laboratory
Influentiality at it's time: 6/10
Creativity: 7/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 8/10
Personal preference: 8/10
Score: 29
Comment: Good song choice, solid track, cool vibe
Assault
Influentiality at it's time: 8/10
Creativity: 8/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 9/10
Personal preference: 9/10
Score: 34
Comment: I dont want to sound arrogant but i really like what we have done there. Parts may be disjointed but so are the music parts...
No One Dreams Anyway
Influentiality at it's time: 5/10
Creativity: 4/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 6/10
Personal preference: 5/10
Score: 20
Comment: I dont see the message behind this track. Does not entertain me enough. Highspeed part is cool though
Happily ever after
Influentiality at it's time: 6/10
Creativity: 7/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 6/10
Personal preference: 7/10
Score: 26
Comment: I love the style. This one is a bit too empty in some parts though. Still very enjoyable
Overdrive
Influentiality at it's time: 8/10
Creativity: 6/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 6/10
Personal preference: 6/10
Score: 26
Comment: Ok presentation, good flow but this track doesnt age well and now looks like the most generic manuquirk you can imagine. Still i like this one
Eflorescence
Influentiality at it's time: 5/10
Creativity: 5/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 7/10
Personal preference: 7/10
Score: 24
Comment: Has its strengths and weaknesses. Good song choice, solid execution but overall pretty uncreative
Phoenix
Influentiality at it's time: 6/10
Creativity: 6/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 8/10
Personal preference: 7/10
Score: 27
Comment: I like this track. Although the scenery is a bit random, it looks pretty nice. Good presentation
Dark Matter
Influentiality at it's time: 7/10
Creativity: 7/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 5/10
Personal preference: 6/10
Score: 25
Comment: Weak track but cool scenery. Bit too empty in some places
Metamorphic
Influentiality at it's time: 8/10
Creativity: 7/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 5/10
Personal preference: 7/10
Score: 27
Comment: Well thought out scereny, good track. One of the best scenery tracks
Cheat Aerial
Influentiality at it's time: 6/10
Creativity: 8/10
Presentation (Music/editing/vibe): 7/10
Personal preference: 7/10
Score: 28
Comment: I remember Georgio telling me to think outside of the box when making tracks. He is truly the master of unexpectancy

I want to vote for 9 tracks in this poll WAAAAH (((

Pendulum - I'm crazy for this track like Votale for Volatile. I can't get enough of it. √

Quirker's Lab - This track feels so physically intense to me. The pressure on Bosh and the mix of flatsled, manuals, and quirk make this really fun to watch. √

Assault - The ending is sorta weak IMO, and the first part of the animation, but the meta-track with the invisible quirk is brilliant, and I love the increasingly intense alt to set up the animation. √

NODA - I love the music syncing in this track. It might not be precise like Jam but it's incredible on a macro scale. √

Happily Ever After - Perfect unity of track and scenery. Stylistically unmatchable. Tells a beautiful story. The absolute essence of Line Rider. I will cry when this track is eliminated. Like Votale will when Volatile is eliminated. √

Overdrive - Love this when it came out but today it just feels like a generic manuquirk. X

Effloresence - Put together a little sloppily because of the whole clan track thing but the contrast in sections is awesome. And the monument too. Hard to choose between this and Metamorphic for my 8th vote but I eventually went with this. √

Phoenix - Random scenery, what's the point? X

Dark Matter - beginning is quite weak, and the fish is dumb, but the squid remains the best monument in Line Rider IMO √

Metamorphic - Like, the shading and detail are incredible, but shading is shading, it doesn't make the track. I wanted to vote for this one anyway just because damn, but I ran out of votes But anyway, the opening monument is really cool but the integration with the track is shit, the middle section has lots of super detailed things right next to super not-detailed things, and the ending doesn't fit with the rest of the track at all. X

Cheat Aerial - I forgot how good this was. So much trickery and riffing on manuquirk, the most overused track genre ever, playing the definitions of manuals and quirk and overall just being misdirectional and fun. √

Lukking wrote:a bit too empty in some parts though.

Lukking wrote:Bit too empty in some places

Can you elaborate on this? Because I'm reading this as "not as much detail as Incito Scaena, therefore not as good"

rabid squirrel wrote:

Lukking wrote:a bit too empty in some parts though.

Lukking wrote:Bit too empty in some places

Can you elaborate on this? Because I'm reading this as "not as much detail as Incito Scaena, therefore not as good"

HEA: 0:42 there are just 3 curves and a couple of hearts there. I whish there were more things to see like a wall or...pretty much anything. Same thing at 0:52.
I like the story part. I should have mentioned that.

DM: 1:10, 1:19. It looks like they were too lazy to fill this part with something interesting....

It isnt so much about detail. I dont like that there simply is not enough to see at the times i mentioned. It would have been very easy for cc to add some simple things/shapes there to avoid that lazy feel.

rabid squirrel wrote:I will cry when this track is eliminated. Like Votale will when Volatile is eliminated.

Jesus. I didn't know we were 5 year olds now.

Votale wrote:

rabid squirrel wrote:I will cry when this track is eliminated. Like Votale will when Volatile is eliminated.

Jesus. I didn't know we were 5 year olds now.

I didn't know you couldn't take a joke...

Lukking wrote:HEA: 0:42 there are just 3 curves and a couple of hearts there. I whish there were more things to see like a wall or...pretty much anything. Same thing at 0:52.
I like the story part. I should have mentioned that.

I just want to comment that IMO the genius of the scenery is parts like 0:42 where he is able to create the image of a figure under a tree with such simplicity, and yet such elegance. Don't want to start an argument so I'll keep this brief.

rabid squirrel wrote:

Votale wrote:

rabid squirrel wrote:I will cry when this track is eliminated. Like Votale will when Volatile is eliminated.

Jesus. I didn't know we were 5 year olds now.

I didn't know you couldn't take a joke...

LET THE GAMES BEGIN
Ladies and gentlemen, the burn factory is up and running and production has never been more momentus!

I will cry when everything I worked on gets eliminated next round

How about we award special tracks like: best scened track, best naked track, most upvoted track, most controverse track, most underrated track, ...?
We would take all tracks from the sweet 16 and make some extra polls.

Lukking wrote:How about we award special tracks like: best scened track, best naked track, most upvoted track, most controverse track, most underrated track, ...?
We would take all tracks from the sweet 16 and make some extra polls.

Or we could stop thinking about art as a competition maybe

rabid squirrel wrote:

Lukking wrote:How about we award special tracks like: best scened track, best naked track, most upvoted track, most controverse track, most underrated track, ...?
We would take all tracks from the sweet 16 and make some extra polls.

Or we could stop thinking about art as a competition maybe

Then why are you voting?

Anyway, Quirker's Laboratory, Assault, HEA, Overdrive, Efflorescence and Metamorphic GMV. Really liked the pumped-upness (?) of QL, Overdrive and Assault and beautiful scenery in HEA and Metamorphic.

Helios Pavonine wrote:

rabid squirrel wrote:

Lukking wrote:How about we award special tracks like: best scened track, best naked track, most upvoted track, most controverse track, most underrated track, ...?
We would take all tracks from the sweet 16 and make some extra polls.

Or we could stop thinking about art as a competition maybe

Then why are you voting?

Any way to discuss tracks is better than nothing

Coincidentally, I voted for the last 8 options. I've yet to not vote for a scenery track

believe we need a tiebreaker between pendulum and overdrive?

Ah, we do. Terrific! *Makes poll*

Phoenix is eliminated. Overdrive and Pendulum enter into a tiebreaker to see which will advance. https://iridethelines.forumotion.com/t11461-tiebreaker-round-1-poll10