Audiosurf is Very Awesome

locallyunscene

<!--quoteo(post=1671554:date=Feb 26 2008, 11:26 PM:name=KungFuDiscoMonkey)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(KungFuDiscoMonkey @ Feb 26 2008, 11:26 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1671554"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I want to be cool and post youtube videos too ^_^
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That hurt my ears.




<!--sizeo:1--><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->And my soul.<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

Abra

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ARRRRRGH!!! WHAT ARE YOU!?

DiscoZombie

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yeah really... I haven't had reflexes that lightning fast since I was like 12

locallyunscene

What are you guys using to record those videos anyway?

Monkfish

Fraps, then encoded in virtualdub.

Kouji_San

F-Zero - Red Canyon also has some nice fast paced action going on the whole frikking time the song is playing <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> (SNES version of course!)

KungFuDiscoMonkey

I didn't record that but just wanted to share the joy with the rest of you guys.

Liku

<!--quoteo(post=1671574:date=Feb 27 2008, 09:06 AM:name=locallyunscene)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(locallyunscene @ Feb 27 2008, 09:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1671574"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->That hurt my ears.
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Leave it to Japan to ruin your day.

locallyunscene

I like syncopated beats.
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KungFuDiscoMonkey

If someone wanted to put a NS competition together we could find some CDs that are free to download like some of the projects from ocremix.
<a href="http://www.ocremix.org/albums/" target="_blank">http://www.ocremix.org/albums/</a>
DooM: The Dark Side of Phobos might be a fun one to try

locallyunscene

Good idea. The song I played is from <u>Definitive Swim</u>, a free album for download that was compiled by the Adult Swim crowd a little while ago.

Is the <u>Red Alert</u> stuff by Frank Klepacki free too?

TychoCelchuuu

<a href="http://www.frankklepacki.com/juke2.swf" target="_blank">If you can download it, it is</a>. That lin's from his website.

lolfighter

Can you actually download it, or just listen to it in the flash player? It probably makes a difference, legally.

remi

I was enjoying this but there is very little to this game. As the novelty fades so does the fun...
Maybe this is good for a casual gamer that would only play for 5 minutes (a song or two), but for someone who wants to play it for longer it gets old fast.

lolfighter

By the way, did someone say OCRemix? Why don't you show me how much I suck by beating my Elite highscore for <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00453/" target="_blank">this song?</a>

Thansal

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consider your self pwnt.

First time through I just ran a perfect score.

lolfighter

It would seem so. Still, the rest of you shouldn't take that as an excuse for not listening to that song, whether you want to play it or not.

remi

By the way, songs by Offspring seem to be super fun... Every song by them I tried had a loop in it. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

lolfighter

Pretty Fly doesn't. It does have a corkscrew though.

remi

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Ah... I thought I had seen corkscrews in Still Alive, but didn't see anything I would call a "loop", so I thought that was what everyone meant by a "loop".

Well then, the offspring songs all seem to have corkscrews. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Thansal

Ha!

Some one just beat one of my highscores and Audiosurf sent me an email letting me know <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

lolfighter

I get that. Stop beating my scores! >_<

Thansal

hey, I only beat one of yours!



/me marks down to remember to try and trounce more of lolf's scores latter

lolfighter

I didn't mean you specifically. Various random people are beating my scores.

Problem is, I rarely play a song twice, so I don't get to know it well enough to score high. So if I get a top score, it's usually because the people below me didn't do particularly well. All in all, it means that my scores should be quite beatable with a little effort.

Quaunaut

Utada Hikaru - Fly Me to the Moon(2007 Mix)
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
The Mars Volta- Wax Simulacra, Inertiatic ESP, Roulette Dares

I'm going to bed now, but when I wake up, I'm going to do the new Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts I-IV, by each volume straight.

Albums I'm looking forward to doing cause I think they'll fit it well:

Songs for the Deaf by the Queens of the Stone Age
Bedlam in Goliath by The Mars Volta
You're a Woman, I'm a Machine by Death From Above 1979
Speak for Yourself by Imogen Heap
Power in Numbers by Jurassic 5
Lateralus by Tool
Harmonium by Vanessa Carlton
A Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars
Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Reanimation by Linkin Park
Flyleaf(self titled)
Be by Common
You Forgot It in People by Broken Social Scene


They all have easily defined melodies and beats while not having much in between bull###### to artificially extend a song.

Talesin

I play as Talesin (Big surprise!) and feel your pain on the slew of incoming 'score beaten!' mails. It's a pain in the posterior as some people have easier versions of the song (I take the time to properly EQ stuff I plan to keep when I rip it from CD) and get an easier ride that's apparently easier to score on as well. Really glad there's a 'challenge score' button, when my track looks like the Rockies, and the person who beat me has one that looks like a graceful curve upward with a few minor bumps to show that it's roughly the same song.

Generally I play on Pro Mono or Ninja Mono, though sometimes I'll slum it down with the beginner Mono just to pop up a perfect score for a good song. Just because I'm a ###### like that. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
Unfortunately, I can't play any of the color modes... the yellow and green blocks are too visually close for me to distinguish at the kind of speeds Audiosurf demands, and I bollix up a great combo by grabbing a brick of the wrong color. Frustrating as hell. Sometimes happens with the light blue and purple bricks as well. Annoying, as Mono has a certain score limit that any of the other characters can easily top, and by a LARGE amount with a competent player. Not to mention an inability to grab the Laser Show achievement. :b

lolfighter

Yeah, I've noticed that with any song that people are really competing over, Mono characters are practically not seen in the highscore lists.

And I can't play anything but mono characters either. I have no trouble distinguishing the colours, but it becomes far too stressful to try to keep track of them all, and I end up overfilling far too easily. I've tried picking up only yellow and red bricks, but that's no good. Doesn't give a good enough score. So I stay with Mono, am happy with the songs where I CAN take the highscore, and try not to care about the rest.

TychoCelchuuu

80% of the time I enjoy mono more; you just let the reptilian brain take over and groove to the music. If I'm looking for a challenge, or something more cerebral than reflex-based, I'll go for one of the other modes. It's very stressful at first, but when you think about it in terms of "I don't have to worry about hitting a gray block anymore" it gets a little more relaxing. Either way the most fun for me is in riding through the music, whether I'm matching colors or dodging grays.