Comments on: A Bank Holiday Bargain: Audiosurf

By: Shakey-Lo

Shakey-Lo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:19:59 +0000

Found another good song: Lemon Jelly – ’64 aka Go

@CitizenKaned:
You can turn the sound effects off. I did that within about 30 seconds of loading up my first song.
And I’ve yet to find a music visualiser that does as good a job as Audiosurf. The fact that you’re controlling your little ship and that it does affect the gameplay helps a lot. For example the feeling of trepidation you get when you can see a massive drop coming on the horizon, bracing yourself for the onrush of blocks, then the music pauses in anticipation and you hover in place for one ever so slight moment before plummeting down into the bright red tunnel.
Some people ‘get’ Audiosurf and some people don’t.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:42:42 +0000

Well clearly I can bear other people having a higher score than myself, otherwise I’d have been driven insane long ago (although I’m sure you’ll surmise that I already have been, LOL). Much of the time playing I would just whack on a track I thought might be fun to try, then if I was close to the high-score see if I could beat it.

By: CitizenKaned

CitizenKaned — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:47:21 +0000

@ Man Raised By Puffins: I knew about the leader boards but you seriously played this game more just because you couldn’t bear someone having more points than you? Competitive gaming is one thing but I think you should talk to someone about this ; )

I kind of know that different people like different things but thanks for patronising me anyway. My beef isn’t so much with the game, although as you might have guessed it’s not one of my personal favourites. But more with the people holding it up as a shinning example of ‘indie’ games development. Just my opinion but I thought I redress the balance very very slightly with my own crazed little rant. No hard feelings. Have +10,000 bonus points for caring. Mmm points. If you like I can make you a leader board for those points ; )

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:22:06 +0000

@ CitizenKaned: To each their own, but it’s worth bearing in mind that a key facet of the games appeal is the score chasing via the online leaderboards, so the scores aren’t completely meaningless. I doubt I’d have played it half as much as I have done if the leaderboards weren’t there.

As for a track suggestion, I’ll nominate the Call of Duty 4 credits rap if only because I take a certain sociopathic delight in subjecting people to this ear-bleeding monstrosity.

By: Down Rodeo

Down Rodeo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:44:38 +0000

I like Audiosurf. It’s good clean fun. Anyone play a bit of the Corrs? No takers? Ah well.

I find there are some annoyances with it; occasionally it says I have overfilled when I’ve done nothing of the sort, then I remind myself that I can go back again and really it’s not that important in the grand scale of things.

BG&E for how much? Consider it purchased…

Anyway I’m not sure what my favourite track is but the Foos go quite well normally. I’d also participate in a song battle :)

By: LukeE

LukeE — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:28:04 +0000

@Theory

Actually the bank holidays were formalised in the UK in 1871… a good 60 years before Roosevelts act.

By: James

James — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:01:03 +0000

The Killers makes for some nice tracks, though their first albulm is far better with it than the second. Plenty of downhill runs without the motion-sickness-inducing drum bounce that turns up on most rock tracks.

EDIT:
“They really should port this game to the Wii. I can just picture happy ‘gamers’ accross the land flailing their WiiMotes around wildly as the accrue masses of points while dribbling uncontrolably.”

Does making wildly stereotypical remarks about a large portion of the gaming culture allow *you* to accrue imaginary happy points?

By: CitizenKaned

CitizenKaned — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:57:38 +0000

Why did everyone get so excited about this game? It’s almost as confusing as why people are banging on about Braid, a painterly 2D platform puzzler as if it was something new? Anyway that’s another rant.

here we go…

The ‘game’ itself is a simple block match game. Sort of Klax meets F-Zero but even less fun. But get this, the really clever part is that you can play your own music in the background. Not only that but irritating sound effects are triggered over the top of it and it even slightly influences the ‘gameplay’. You EVEN get points too. Mmm points. We all love points. Wow. Exciting stuff.

Save your 2.5 Britishians. Download a 3D visualiser for your music player of choice. Then play your music and watch the visualisation while waggling your mouse about a bit and awarding yourself imaginary happy points. It’ll be just as much fun and you won’t get inappropriate samples triggered over your favourite music.

They really should port this game to the Wii. I can just picture happy ‘gamers’ accross the land flailing their WiiMotes around wildly as the accrue masses of points while dribbling uncontrolably.

…and relax.

By: Cope

Cope — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:59:24 +0000

Awesome as in insane? How about these on Ninja Mono: Prodigy – Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix), Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up (Sub Focus Remix). If you want something a little more reasonable I’d suggest anything by Red Sparowes, especially the song “Alone and Unaware, The Landscape Was Transformed In Front Of Our Eyes”. Or hell, you could always go with some crazy russian song about sex on a bmx (I guess?): Bobi Turboto – Sex

By: Arathain

Arathain — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:23:51 +0000

I find the theme and opening to Star Wars: A New Hope makes a surprisingly excellent track.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:47:49 +0000

I’ve not played many so far, but Eurythmics songs seem to work quite well, and Jane Siberry’s Map of the World part II is neat.

I tried one of the Orange Box tracks, and although it turned out to be a minimalist ambient sort of track, Audiosurf somehow turned it into a downhill onslaught of red blocks. Weird…

By: brog

brog — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:14:52 +0000

Now to try a Thick as a Brick marathon.