By Alec Meer on February 19th, 2008 at 11:40 am.
[Updated throughout the day, petulant children that we are]
Gillen’s Brem, I’m Ento:
I relish this brief victory whilst I still can. Gauntlet thrown – responses below.
Kieron Edit: Very Brief relishing.
John Edit: Take that, losurs:
Alec Edit: Yeah Yeah Yeah:
Kieron Edits: Couldn’t play all day because I was reviewing stuff. But, I’ve come ho-ome.
19/02/2008 at 12:09 spoodie says:
This sounds like a challenge to me.
I was cheated of the top spot on Oh Yeah by Yello as some bastard was using a longer version.
19/02/2008 at 12:14 davidAlpha says:
I suggest: Yes – Hold On.
19/02/2008 at 12:17 Mike says:
In case anyone wants to get in on some regular AudioSurf challenging, we’re running a little somethin’ somethin’ here.
19/02/2008 at 12:21 Tim says:
good job. :D
19/02/2008 at 12:29 Jonathan Burroughs says:
Bah. I cancelled a Pro Mono run of Wuthering Heights mid-surf last night. Consider the gauntlet thrown!
19/02/2008 at 12:33 Kieron Gillen says:
Those scores are very beatable. I didn’t even Ghost it, as I hit a couple of greys when I was getting weepy during the best bit.
KG
19/02/2008 at 12:45 Bidermaier says:
Kieron, going mono just to beat a score is not very classy.
Anyway now i am first with over 50k :P
Edit… well not anymore!!!
19/02/2008 at 12:46 Alec Meer says:
I win at resizing screenshots, anyway.
19/02/2008 at 12:50 Kieron Gillen says:
Bidemaier wins by choosing mode with some skill to it!
KG
19/02/2008 at 12:54 John Walker says:
Hey Mr Bidermaier – not so clever now, eh?!
19/02/2008 at 12:58 dartt says:
crikey Walker!
19/02/2008 at 13:09 James T says:
The thought of someone crying while playing Audiosurf is delightful.
Try it with ‘Refuse/Resist’ by Sepultura, then we’ll talk. Or perhaps ‘Erotic Nightmares’ by Steve Vai…
It’s an extremely short demo, really — a 4 song limit, so that’s 12-15 minutes, unless you play it to Inna Gadda da Vida or Beethoven’s 6th or suchlike (which I should’ve done, actually…) Shame, I didn’t get a chance to properly appraise its moreishness, or possible lack of same. Oh well, mayve I’ll wager a tenner on it anyway.
19/02/2008 at 13:17 Bidermaier says:
I am afraid to say i am back to the first position, with 57.199 points using the underrated but graceful POINTMAN
you need more caffeine to drive your ninja monkeys :P
19/02/2008 at 13:43 Jonathan says:
Pah! Try doing it with V duo pro. On your own! Get a gold medal with that and I don’t care about the top scores.
Seriously playing V duo on your own feels like the worst migrane of your life. Finished Beck Black Tambourine and I think theres blood in my ears.
19/02/2008 at 13:54 Laco says:
Bidermaier: just behind you by 14 points! Oh, if I hadn’t missed that car near the start..
19/02/2008 at 15:00 The_B says:
I tried beating Kieron’s score on Bonnie Tyler.
It was harder than it looked. NEXT TIME, GILLEN!
19/02/2008 at 15:23 J. Prevost says:
Oh. Em. Gee.
Not only are the posters on this blog always posting fabulous things, but… Kate Bush fans, too? Too good to be true.
Also: Dammit. Now I need to reboot into Windows later to snag the game.
19/02/2008 at 15:28 Lou says:
I am hopelessly bad at the game, but my collection fo rare free jazz albums makes sure I hold a few top (and only) spots. ;-)
19/02/2008 at 15:52 nihohit says:
Yeah, ain’t nothing like being the only one on the Robert Wyatt list. Or the israeli songs list. Or the version of “Dance me to the end of love” sung by my friend at her wedding list.
Now that I come to think about it, it’s kinda lonely here.
19/02/2008 at 16:08 Nallen says:
How random, I got this off steam last night and it’s totally awesome.
Ramstein and Within Temptation hit the mark (at 2am) :D
19/02/2008 at 16:09 KBKarma says:
I managed to get (and hold) the number one place in Collosal by Wolfmother for about two days.
Then some punk beat me. Punk.
19/02/2008 at 17:12 Clicky says:
As I mostly listen to underground and alternative rap that most people have never heard of, I have quite a few top positions. Those songs arent really very fun in Audiosurf though, that is why I have a large collection of dnb, speedcore, hardcore and speed metal to play.
19/02/2008 at 17:33 Matt says:
The Splinter Cell Chaos Theory soundtrack is good fun. Try ‘The Clean Up’, it’s something about the slow build up to the uber break beaty style ending that just makes it awesome in Audiosurf. So much so that I recorded a vid. Woot.
19/02/2008 at 17:52 CrashT says:
Try Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” the map is just two giant and rather steep hills.
19/02/2008 at 19:24 Zuffox says:
Is this the blog post that will never stop updating?
19/02/2008 at 19:27 Rook says:
Sisters stuff is pretty good on this too. Always surprising what plays well.
19/02/2008 at 20:29 Jives says:
We are scientists callbacks works realy well, cos theres several bits with no noise in the middle, each of which causes the ship to slow right down then speed up again…. its crazy times
19/02/2008 at 22:08 trioptimum says:
I don’t know if you guys are playing with Xbox 360 pads, but you should probably try it if not. Way more control.
(also: 61.5K now? blimey. was quite proud of beating Bidermaier by 400 (on rubbish easy mono mode, granted). getting then beaten by 4000: instant dose of reality.)
19/02/2008 at 23:34 Rockeye says:
International Tweexcore Underground was a lot of fun. I’m rubbish at modes other than the mono ones.
20/02/2008 at 00:55 ry likes fun says:
Kenny Rogers First Edition – Just Dropped In is lots of fun and Prodigy – Out of Space is predictably (read: brilliantly) all over the bloody shop.
or throw on some punk for straight 45 degree slopes, with a brief artistic flat bit in the middle. Rise Against – Generation Lost was particularly entertaining, since it had two flat bits. fancy.
no scores for ry though, since his copy isn’t connected to the interweb pipes.
20/02/2008 at 02:16 The_B says:
Sorry guys.
Fifty one points man! FIFTY ONE!
20/02/2008 at 02:19 malkav11 says:
I’m resigned to never having any top scores on songs people other than me have actually played. Except maybe on my local leaderboards, since I’ve yet to see a single Minnesotan other than myself listed on anything.
20/02/2008 at 07:31 trioptimum says:
Well, I made up another couple of thousand, but it’s not nearly good enough. That fast chain at the end of the second verse is killing me.
20/02/2008 at 07:40 James T says:
I think this game alone would justify the installation of an RPS forum.
Now! Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger…
20/02/2008 at 09:38 Jack says:
Hold Your Colour – Pendulum – really amazing ride, very tough.
Born in the USA – bumpiest track ever! :D
Hard to Explain – really fast and fun with added bullet time!
20/02/2008 at 09:40 The_B says:
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again:
“NEXT TIME, GILLEN!”
20/02/2008 at 09:48 James T says:
Try Jungle Boogie by Kool & The Gang; your virtual teeth’ll rattle.
edit: or Highway to Hell! I think I psychosomatically slipped a disc.
20/02/2008 at 10:48 KBKarma says:
Ooo, and I have that track. Now I MUST try it.
After I buy it. Today.
20/02/2008 at 15:19 wyrmsine says:
I’d highly recommend “Janie Jones”, by the Clash, for a bumpy ride.
20/02/2008 at 20:56 Theory says:
WORRRRRLD CHAM-PIONNNNN!
21/02/2008 at 08:22 wyrmsine says:
today’s anti-pirate audiosurf moment (?que?) – playing the “Still Alive” track I ripped out of the Portal .gcf, I got a unique message to the effect that “The track could not be recognized, and no internet score/tracking will be assigned” (paraphrased). It hasn’t been added to “My Songs”, and doesn’t show up on my stats. Which is weird, considering the mass of “unrecognizable” music it’s been happy to add to it’s global database… it didn’t have a problem adding William S. Burroughs bootleg tapes or mislabelled TMBG Dial-a-Songs.
21/02/2008 at 20:23 PleasingFungus says:
Yeah, the same thing happened to me, with that and a few other things. It’s something to do with the metadata. Bizarrely, using iTunes to edit the properties (name and artist) of the music seemed to fix it for me, so you might want to try that. (Capitalization is irrelevant for scoring purposes.)
(You know that the game comes with the Orange Box soundtrack anyway, right? Or is this a demo issue?)
P.S. Want a real challenge? Try playing a song (in my case, for testing the technique above) while Firefox and half a dozen other things are running in the background. The game sort of pulses – it slows down, then speeds up dramatically to keep time, making it very very hard to play. Great fun, though.