What are the best simfile packs released after 2010

[Gundam-Dude]

choof basically reiterated my sentiments but better than I did.

I kinda had the idea in my head a few months ago where I'd force myself to actually do another 4key pack, except I'd basically throw back into the chancellor elitist bullshit era and judge as reasonably critical and harsh as possible. tentative rules I came up with during the same string of thought that I can remember atm:

- if I don't like the song because I think it's too rhythmically boring or repetitive, auto-rejected.
- experimental and/or "steppable" music encouraged.
- superficial dumps are auto-rejected. find an actual song that warrants difficult layering.
- weeb music is auto-rejected.
- if your file is monotonous jumpstream/handstream for like 4 minutes, auto rejected. send that shit to nuclear blast, yolomania, or whatever the fuck, not to this pack.
- basically, if YOU think it's a really good file, send it to the pack. don't send it unless you're at least 75% confident that it will get in.

so almost like untitled stepmania pack but arguably stricter.

prior to untitled sm pack, the last pack I can think of off the top of my head that's similar to this idea was xoon 5, which received over 200 file submissions and only 47 files made it to final release. a little over 50 files were accepted, but the pack had a phase 2 weeding process, which basically dropped the weakest files (many of which ended up in light chancellors pack 1).

good luck in trying to convince me to actually make this happen though because my current interest in 4key and stepmania in general has been the lowest its ever been. I have bunch of files you probably don't have volumes 4 AND 5 sitting on my hard drive but I've done nothing with it. I might just randomly release both without any organization, gfx, or w/e.

and good luck in getting anyone that's currently active to actually submit files, because they'd just ignore the pack in favour of more superficial/generic dumps.

Originally Posted by Dynam0

That being said the FFR Seasonal Packs had a ton of unappealing music, I've always shied away from the J-Pop stuff and there really is a lot of it in FFR Seasonal.

it's all good, bobby, I even admit myself that the ffr season packs' song choice is pretty bad and I take full responsibility and blame for it. fun fact: ffr autumn was close to 80% japan because I was FLOODED with submissions from the korean smoc simfile authors. after that, I enforced a no japan songs rule for the following ffr winter, and I got next to no submissions, so I kinda had to become lax with song choice rules again towards the end of the pack.

Originally Posted by dAnceguy117

I really liked them. so when you say "no one" it's kind of alienating, fam...

it was an overstatement, sorry fam