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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Buy it now*. On Steam.

*=Only if you like music.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Yeah, I've been playing this since the first beta and it's really fantastic. I talked to my editor and convinced him to let me do a REAL FULL PAGE review which is probably a first for a $10 game!

But yeah, totally amazing game. Everybody buy it!
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

well, this game seems like it was made for me--

on my imaginary windows-running computer. is it a stupid question to ask if there will be some mac in its future?
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

I finally managed to purchase it, after a lengthy battle convincing Valve I did actually own the credit card, with my name, that I was attempting to use. Still, it's all done now, and soon I'll actually get around to playing it.
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wourme · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 362 Location: Maridia

I'm afraid that this is going to make me start cringing whenever I get to the parts of certain songs that I previously looked forward to. A lot of my favorites sure are challenging.

dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject:

i didn't care for the beta but i was told i was playing it wrong, which is entirely possible.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

how were you playing it dhex
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

He was using his ren. fair folk and minstrel mp3s to play the game and they don't have a big enough kick drum.

The Great Unwashed · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:17 am Post subject:

10 out of 10 The Great Unwasheds agree that Audiosurf is fucking great fun.
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dhex · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:57 am Post subject:

no i tried minimal tech house, really crazy shit and boards of canada and nothing seemed to match up. mr. gillen mentioned two specific modes, which i don't think i had tried, which seem to work better than the rest of them.

my experience was more suck controls and no real matchup of anything to anything.
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autokratorlovestick · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 35

An xbox360 pad helps a lot.

fun fact: shoving a stars of the lid track into it will get you a really fast, pleasantly smooth track with loads of traffic.

which probably means that something's broken.

edit: everyone should post their scoreboard names. (I'm autokratorlovestick D: )

wourme · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 362 Location: Maridia

My name in the game is the same as my name here. I think their server is overwhelmed--it saves my scores only about one in four races, and I can't call up any of the charts.

squidlarkin · . Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 100

Angels thanatos is pretty hard.

Patrick Alexander · . Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 123 Location: various

Is there, or will there be, any way to just, you know, buy this game? I don't have Steam and I don't want Steam.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Tried the demo.

17166 score on first song I tried at random.

I wonder when people will try to game the system by manufacturing custom "songs" to garner max points.

Any bets on how long it will take?
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Patrick Alexander · . Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 123 Location: various

Wouldn't that be a curious phenomenon. I'd listen to an album of songs/audio created specifically to generate favourable Audiosurf tracks; that'd be really interesting.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

You know the Vib Ribbon soundtrack is a bunch of pop songs specifically composed to be fun to play in a videogame that converts waveform peaks into game data. They do all sorts of crazy things like speed up or slow down at key points in the song. It's probably ideal for Audio Surf.

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Ride of the Valkyries wasn't very good.

Shitty mp3 copy?

Water by Psychic TV was interesting.

Cuz it's hot by TKK got me a 48000+ score. My third game evar! (Playing with Pusher)

Time for some Slayer, then some of the old, psychedelic Pink Floyd.

Bongos! Gotta find some bongo tracks.

Hey! Chiptunes! Anybody have links to chiptunes that are already converted to useable form?

Try 700 Imaginary Hobo Names for a marathon run

It won't let me!
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boojiboy7 · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject:

Man, yeah, this game is a lot of fun. And hilarious for some random music. Also, Journey is amazing for it, haha.

scorename=boojiboy7

Patrick Alexander · . Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 123 Location: various

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Yeah, I'm not really down with Steam, but it doesn't get in the way of buying or playing this one too much.

I doubt it will get a seperate release, since it uses Valves Steamworks thing.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:25 am Post subject:

steam is pretty awesome, all told.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Steam's great. You can get all sorts of games off of it for incredibly good value, to the point where it's more convenient to get them off steam than it is to pirate them (every Id game, third party Id game and expansion pack for $50!)

Patrick and Cycle are just wary of anything that doesn't have a name like 'pookanangnang' or 'bizzabozza', because they come from Australia where everything has a name like that, you see.

extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

does audiosurf play nice with itunes yet? last time i had tried it audiosurf would grouse at opening audio files with drm attached, and as a person who has bought music from itunes that includes a decent part of my library
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

The biggest problem with Steam is that it doesn't tell you how big games are before you buy them. That's pretty important information in a country with stupid broadband deals that we can't do much about.

That and it forces you to download updates that are like a gig in size.

Also harvey can you communicate with people without insulting them, seriously go fuck yourself, you bombtastic twat.

Also it's still easier to pirate games (and play them because you don't have to go through steam).
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Surf music can get some crazy roads in this game.

Bomboras lol.

So, what are people listening to with this game?

edit:

Next up, along with a bunch of random stuff (Mostly DEVO): I'll see if this works.
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digi · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject:

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

it's actually much more than that since it comes included with the Orange Box soundtrack.... which I would have happily gone without!

My friend name is RezCycle, by the by.
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject:

I don't understand all this Steam hate on the internet. Not this forum specifically, but like, in general. I mean unless you're one of those guys who was all up in the Steam beta, when installing it was basically equivalent to pouring honey into your computer, but seriously, Steam is really great now. Like, great to the point where I am attributing mystical effects to it, like the curing of my mysterious recurring leg sores. And these diamonds I found in my teeth last night. Steam did it.

Also I'm pretty sure Steam does tell you file sizes on the online store, before you download. Also inside the minimum requirements.

Also you can disable automatic updating. Though I don't know why you would as the downloads are usually quite small and it's all extra content and balance patches and countless other good things from our benevolent overlords. And it's not like Audiosurf or any of those hundred other little non-Valve games will ever get patched anyway, the only ones that receive regular updating are the proper Steam titles like HL, TF2 etc. Which you would actively want to be patched as it makes the multiplayer content sexier and better than ever.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Does Steam have an enemy?
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autokratorlovestick · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 35

I broke 250k on Seadrum by Boredoms while the score server was down Sad

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

"Unknown Track 3" seems to be extremely popular!

Channel Surfing.

The sequel to audiosurf (VideoSurf!) will have facial recognition technology and we will get points for collecting the heads of actors, newscasters, world leaders, etc. as we cycle through the channels.

Plus get set-bonuses for collecting groups of similar entities.

Had to restart a bunch of times last night. I was trying to surf a cover of Death Comes Ripping by the Misfits, but I had a mental image of the Cookie Monster singing it and jumping around breaking things. Couldn't focus.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Dueling Banjos was quite good, and funny.

Dueling Drums got to the point that it was insane.

Scroll down a bit to find those 2 tracks. Have to use a sampler to grab them, then convert to mp3.
You will need this, too.

It's worth it.
2 reasons:
1. Once you have gone through the hassle, you will be able to do it again for many things in the future.

2. They are really fun to surf, especially Duelling Drums.

Manic!
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject:

I am confused as to how you would use Audacity to grab those? And by confused I mean "very interested". Please expound!

Also, if you could just host the mp3's up, that would be awesome.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I reviewed this game for the magazine, I gave it NINE OUT TEN just FYI. As usual, I wish I had more space (it was just a one pager), but oh well. I shouldn't complain, atleast we killed half page reviews a couple years back...
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:09 am Post subject:

Cheers for that Redeye, I use Audacity a lot but never recorded anything being streamed before. Thanks for the tip!
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:10 am Post subject:

Also seriously guys, get over Steam and install it. It's free, easy, and it won't fuck up your computer. You could do much worse in a content delivery system.
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:36 am Post subject:

Just to continue my incredible reign of posting, I just played the Dueling Drums and it truly was kickass.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:59 am Post subject:

i tried to grab the steam demo for this last night but it looks like their servers are slammed. maybe this weekend.
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boojiboy7 · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject:

The Great Unwashed · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject:

I am equal parts glad that people are starting to make music specifically for this awesome game, and also saddened that people have the time to dick with their mp3's to get better songs scores. Sad

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dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject:

wouldn't it be funny if the scoring system was really an RIAA sting in disguise and the entire game was a ruse to sue illegal downloaders?
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