Osu!

Lore · Mar 19, 2011

"What is osu!?
osu! is a rhythm game based on the gameplay of a variety of popular commercial rhythm games. While aiming to keep authentic gameplay and scoring, osu! increases the epic factor through online rankings, multiplayer, replay exchange, and a huge community following. Also available is a fully functional built-in editor, allowing intuitive creation of your own beatmaps for the songs you want to play."

Yeah, it's pretty much ouendan/elite beat agents except it's free and for the pc. Pretty much how stepmania is to ddr, and how frets on fire is to guitar hero.

here's a gameplay vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0ErCNG97M&feature=player_embedded

Main site: http://osu.ppy.sh/
Download: http://osu.ppy.sh/p/download

Lythium · Mar 19, 2011

This looks pretty interesting. :3c

Who's it made by? There are Touhou characters in the background of that video.

Lore · Mar 19, 2011

Lythium said:
This looks pretty interesting. :3c

Who's it made by? There are Touhou characters in the background of that video.

I have no idea who makes it, but the songs are all uploaded by the users. They make the beatmaps to any song, and then they upload it to the main site. It's mostly anime and touhou songs, though, because they're easy (and legal) to find for free.

It's like Elite Beat Agents, but you can play forever with an infinite amount of songs!

fkacyan · Mar 19, 2011

I pretty much stopped playing when it was clear that you lost if you didnt have a tablet.

I was an early adopter, though, and it's a great game, it's just very hard to rank with a mouse.

Lore · Mar 19, 2011

Thiocyanide said:
I pretty much stopped playing when it was clear that you lost if you didnt have a tablet.

I was an early adopter, though, and it's a great game, it's just very hard to rank with a mouse.

But it isn't impossible! The video in the OP is with a mouse, lol.

fkacyan · Mar 19, 2011

Werekill said:
But it isn't impossible! The video in the OP is with a mouse, lol.

That is a very, very tame track.

Also, he ranked in the 5000s.

EDIT: Not sayin its not fun without a tab, but I'm one of those Ouendan guys who's full 300'd every song in all three games, so the lack of speed and accuracy with a mouse drove me up the wall

But then, I did have a crappy mouse with no dpi back then.

Lore · Mar 19, 2011

Thiocyanide said:
That is a very, very tame track.

Also, he ranked in the 5000s.

EDIT: Not sayin its not fun without a tab, but I'm one of those Ouendan guys who's full 300'd every song in all three games, so the lack of speed and accuracy with a mouse drove me up the wall

But then, I did have a crappy mouse with no dpi back then.

Well... you're right about it being tame. I'm still in the phase of everything about 4.5 stars looking impossible. XD

But yeah, I get what you're saying. EBA is just too fun on a touch screen.

Lythium · Mar 19, 2011

I'll have to give this a try.

EBA was good, but I can understand why a game like this would be difficult to play on a mouse.

Lore · Mar 19, 2011

Lythium said:
I'll have to give this a try.

EBA was good, but I can understand why a game like this would be difficult to play on a mouse.

It's really, really weird for a while, lol, but once you set the sensitivity settings just right, your mouse feels like an extension of your arm. It's hard to describe, haha.

Also, turn off Mouse acceleration ("increase precision" in windows options). It really messes you up.

Brightside6382 · Mar 19, 2011

lol I still have the #1 score for green gardens. The games a lot of fun. As far as the whole tablet thing goes why are you taking Osu! so seriously in the first place?

fkacyan · Mar 19, 2011

Brightside6382 said:
lol I still have the #1 score for green gardens. The games a lot of fun. As far as the whole tablet thing goes why are you taking Osu! so seriously in the first place?

Why shouldn't I?

Yamada · Mar 20, 2011

Osu is alot of fun i recommended for people to play it :D

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