That's awesome. Plus it's one of my favorite Queen songs. good find.

Holy SHIT that was epic. I would * quality this if i had a point. I've bookmarked so I'll be back.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by JiggaJonson.

um... this is awesome why?

uh oh, thread crap alert

what a downer

Great nominee for a "way too much time spent making something pointless and boring that some sifters think is the best thing since sliced bread" award.

if you don't like it it does not mean it's pointless and boring for everyone.

So they made mario brothers occasionally make plinking sounds that sometimes synch up with some of the notes of parts of a song?

Is it more impressive to aim for the sun and fall far short, or aim for the moon and hit it spectacularly? In other words - do a simpler song, better.

>> ^Xax:
Great nominee for a "way too much time spent making something pointless and boring that some sifters think is the best thing since sliced bread" award.


By that reasoning movie remakes or cover bands should be just as pointless and boring. Maybe you feel that way, but I rather enjoy listening to cover bands at the local pubs.

>> ^dannym3141:
So they made mario brothers occasionally make plinking sounds that sometimes synch up with some of the notes of parts of a song?
Is it more impressive to aim for the sun and fall far short, or aim for the moon and hit it spectacularly? In other words - do a simpler song, better.


Good luck finding a song that's worth listening to that only has the exact same pitches as the sound effects from mario world...

The fact that the song is complex is what makes it impressive. Do you honestly think this would be more impressive if it were "4-way auto Mario: the happy birthday song?"

Dunno about the rest of you, but I enjoyed it

>> ^residue:
>> ^dannym3141:
So they made mario brothers occasionally make plinking sounds that sometimes synch up with some of the notes of parts of a song?
Is it more impressive to aim for the sun and fall far short, or aim for the moon and hit it spectacularly? In other words - do a simpler song, better.

Good luck finding a song that's worth listening to that only has the exact same pitches as the sound effects from mario world...
The fact that the song is complex is what makes it impressive. Do you honestly think this would be more impressive if it were "4-way auto Mario: the happy birthday song?"


If it sounded like the happy birthday song, followed all the notes, sounded good, added flourishes (this is the bit where you hit the moon 'spectacularly'), yes. Far, far, far more impressive than doing 4 notes of "Don't Stop Me Now" every 20 seconds or so.

To you, what makes this impressive is the complexity of the song? Very well, i could overdub this with "Through the Fire and the Flames" and it'd probably coincide with some of the notes too, is that impressive to you? It's a very complex song that's for sure, and i'd hit "some" of the notes. Surely the accuracy of hitting objects in a game that sounded very similar to a song is what makes these types of videos impressive, no?

And therein lies my criticism.

Additionally - the point with the birthday song example is; you wouldn't have to overdub the game to identify the song. Take out the queen song and you would have absolutely no hope of knowing what song this is.

It would be about 2 minutes of whirly noises interspersed with barely identifiable upward scale progressions which happen to occur every so often in "Don't Stop Me Now".

Feels like i'm over analysing, but shit - you started it by attacking my opinion with an answerable question!

haha my apologies!

ok, I can understand your point, but I didn't interpret him to be re-creating the song, I saw it as more of an addition to the song, like percussion. Following that line of thought, the method by which he chose to add that percussion line is (overly) complicated, but it's what makes it interesting

-edit - sort of like if you complimented a song by adding an original amazing drum track. The drums by themselves don't sound like a lot, but in combination with a pre-existing song, both might be enhanced.

>> ^xxovercastxx:
um... this is awesome why?


Here you go!

There's almost no correlation between the song and what they're doing in game. It doesn't even sound similar except for tempo.

Man, some people.
It's not a recreation of the song in Mario, it's an Automatic Mario set to the song. It's fun and obviously done by someone who loves the song. Take a bit of joy in life sometimes.