Baron Von Beans
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:O They used to live there when I was younger, but they moved to Honey Brook not long ago. Planning on going downtown tomorrow for some festivities. Crazy though!I'm like 90 minutes from Philly in Harrisburg
:O They used to live there when I was younger, but they moved to Honey Brook not long ago. Planning on going downtown tomorrow for some festivities. Crazy though!I'm like 90 minutes from Philly in Harrisburg
re: that Kickbeat review. All I listen to is hip-hop, really (plus some dubstep, old classic rock and soul once in awhile), and aside from Marylin Manson I haven't recognized any of the songs in Kickbeat... not my genre at all, but I can enjoy any kind of music so it still sounds good to me, and good for the gameplay. Sometimes I'll get hit with a blue halfbeat sequence that starts on the side I thought was about to be the second hit, and get thrashed for a second, but I haven't encountered a single sequence that isn't onbeat and in tune with the music.
It's more comedic than it is valuable. probably the most useless item in the game next to the parachute
I'm like 90 minutes from Philly in Harrisburg
Very little. It can kill bats and skeletons, but mostly just stuns enemies. If you snap a picture of the ghost, it turns into a girl posing for the camera. It stuns her for about 3 seconds. Could help to ghost a particular level
I'm like 90 minutes from Philly in Harrisburg
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It does work. The song's prompts do match its beat. This can be proved objectively - the enemies are on the beat or half-beat (but on the easiest difficulty - which I'm assuming is the only one you played - the scripts don't even use the half-beat much) at a precision of something like 2ms.
That's one of the downfalls of rhythm games with no pre-existing reputation. If people suck at them, they assume something's wrong with the game, whereas with a game like Rock Band, when people suck, they realize they have to get better and do so.
Based on your lack of skill development and paucity of information about the music import mode in the review, I'd wager you spent very little time with the game. Did you even unlock and try Beat Your Music? (Yes, the unlocking scheme sucks - that is a very valid criticism.) I wouldn't consider a review of Audiosurf very complete without some analysis of the feature that lets you use your own music, yet you offer none for the first beat-matching game ever to have a music import mode that actually works.
KickBeat may be an inexpensive indie game, but not every inexpensive indie game can be fully grasped in an hour or two of playtime. It's designed to be played over dozens of hours and still provide challenge and room for growth. One or two hours in, most people haven't even gotten to the real game yet at Hard difficulty (Normal, with button icons on the ground, is just there to help people transition from traditional rhythm games.) and are worlds away from the game's ideal experience at Expert/Master. It's like if you saw nothing but Easy mode in Guitar Hero and concluded that it didn't really make you feel like you were playing guitar in connection with the song, and thus the whole concept was a failure, even though that is exactly what it does when you develop the skill to play at Expert.
The soundtrack criticism is a valid opinion, I suppose, but what $10 indie game has a diverse, well-rounded lineup of mainstream artists? (aside from something like Tap Tap Revenge, which can do that because it's all DLC-based) Usually it's some chiptunes or generic electronic stuff that has equal or less diversity compared to the KickBeat soundtrack. Could we have found a few songs that were better? Sure, maybe, (we definitely tried - denied), but the expectations here seem way out of whack with what they normally are for a game in this weight class.
And even though it doesn't match your personal tastes, a lot of people like it. I mean, slam Papa Roach all you like, that song has over 50 million views on YouTube and over 150K likes. We make games for fans. Do you write reviews for fans, or for yourself? If your review is supposed to be your subjective opinions on the game and its music, fine. But if your review is supposed to be geared towards an enthusiast video game audience, it's way out of sync. After all, gamers are the ones who comprise the majority of Blue Stahli's audience and that put him "on the map" on youtube in the first place. And this standard of "score the game base on how much I like the soundtrack" doesn't jive with well-reviewed rhythm games featuring nothing but Fresh Prince-like kiddie rap (Parappa), nothing but sugary J-pop (DDR and others), or bland, homogeneous techno (too many to list).
Furthermore, lumping the entire soundtrack into "nu metal" is just plain wrong. Even if you are lumping in the hip-hop stuff that has guitar tracks in it (e.g., Styles of Beyond), and redefining "nu metal" to include Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie, it's still less than half the soundtrack. The review is simply misleading in that respect.
Finally, the game exists as an alternative to what's out there right now. It's targeting people who don't want another dance game, another odd Japanese-styled rhythm game, another music performance game, another game with bars, arrows, icons, etc. in the foreground and the scripted, non-interactive action in the background. And the soundtrack reflects that - it's got a much different character than those of other rhythm games. It's a game about rhythmic fighting. And the soundtrack is loud, angry, aggressive, kinetic, rhythmic fight music.
re: that Kickbeat review. All I listen to is hip-hop, really (plus some dubstep, old classic rock and soul once in awhile), and aside from Marylin Manson I haven't recognized any of the songs in Kickbeat... not my genre at all, but I can enjoy any kind of music so it still sounds good to me, and good for the gameplay. Sometimes I'll get hit with a blue halfbeat sequence that starts on the side I thought was about to be the second hit, and get thrashed for a second, but I haven't encountered a single sequence that isn't onbeat and in tune with the music.
parachute > teleporter
You're not terribly far from me then. I'm over in the Hudson Valley of NY.
no, go play 2 immediately.
like right now.
Good God people!
I feel unworthy being in the same Vita thread as you folks! Hahahaha.
So-many-games!
Of course I understood the philosophy. It's not like the game was my first time playing a puzzle platformer. At the end of the day, the game just wasn't very enjoyable. I was no longer involved or engaged in its world or game play or story. I don't drop words like "suck" out there, but Knytt felt like amateur hour when it comes to game design and execution. I don't need to be blowing things up or killing things in my games, but I, at the least, need to be having fun while I play. After 15 hours, I wasn't having fun with Knytt anymore, so I dropped it. I have a plethora of other games that I do enjoy playing that I could be spending my limited game time with, so I play those.
Welcome!Been debating on whether to get a 32GB card or KZ:M.
Gonna get dat card. I figure I'd rather have tons of goodness, be able to get all the ps+ stuff, and I'll have the card "forever".
Will get KZ down the line someday... Though it hurts.
Probably for the better, though. I have Uncharted, Rayman Origins, Gravity Rush, and Guacamelee to finish still.
And, of course, spelunky. You guys are blowing my mind as to what I can do in that game. Will start practicing killing shopkeepers next time I play.
Also, I'm a fairly new vitabro... Add me? Jarsonot
i mean have you ever seen an environment that makes the player, not the character, undeniably better and more skilled just by playing on it without a single tutorial or a single upgrade?
This is an odd response. You get plenty of upgrades in Mega Man...a fair number of which simplify or otherwise facilitate level traversal.Mega Man ;-p
It's for 15 bucks in PSStore. I promise I'll buy it and play it as soon as I finished Xillia. I'm in thatOnce I ended it my life will be devoted to Uncharted. And after that I'll probably buy P4G an Tearaway. .weird cruise ship that Exodus has as it main base.
Mega Man ;-p
Goin to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to visit some family. Vita is now in my hands! Well, lap, due to typing and only havin 2 arms...need to work on that. Time to spelunk!
@breakfuss, I enjoy ZP, send a FR if ya want. Psn in profile. I think I have one more slot left. I don't play it too often, but I'd love to have a pro on my friends list to know what I need to shoot for.
You need to flag them as purchased when they're available. You can do that by purchasing them in the PSN web store.Question about the games in PS Plus. I joined this month (Sept), so I'm entitled to any free PS+ titles that come out. What if you don't have the space for them and don't grab them the month that they come out? Do you lose the ability to download them, say next month, when different titles come out? Or are they yours forever and you can get them at anytime.
Well I must confess, they now live in Honey Brook, which is about 48 miles outside of downtown Philly, but it's close enough. My early childhood years were in Greensburg, and I consider that Pittsburgh, even though that's almost te same distance away as Honey Brook is to illadelphia.Hey! :O I'm a Philly native. Where's your family live, what section of the city?
WTF, its like we all live in PA. Why is there no PhillyGAF in OT?!
You need to flag them as purchased when they're available. You can do that by purchasing them in the PSN web store.
Well I must confess, they now live in Honey Brook, which is about 48 miles outside of downtown Philly, but it's close enough. My early childhood years were in Greensburg, and I consider that Pittsburgh, even though that's almost te same distance away as Honey Brook is to illadelphia.
It IS surprising how many gaffers are in PA or around it. I live in Cincinnati, still not that far from the PA!!
Back to topics, got several great starts in Spelunky, but never make it far...always get great setups with like 15 bombs and 11 ropes, full accessory sets, all sorts of goodness. I guess I get too excited or something, cause it hasn't panned out too far yet..
Man, Killzone really does a good jump of killing my battery. It's gone down to the red warning twice today.
Playing through the campaign, like over four hours? Drains my battery way more than any other game.how many hours did you play it for?
Lies, you'd have finished the campaign if you've played it for four hours.Playing through the campaign, like over four hours? Drains my battery way more than any other game.
Do we have any idea when Rayman will be put up for free on PS+? Dying to play this on my Vita.
Book 1 has no platinum?Well now this took me by surprise. Dragon Fantasy Book II has a full on trophy set (including a Platinum trophy!).
Book 1 has no platinum?
Kinda random, but does anyone know of a source that lists all the games that have been free on PS+?
edit2: and shit. i knew PAL was better than NA in regards to plus, but gad dayam!
Do we have any idea when Rayman will be put up for free on PS+? Dying to play this on my Vita.
i think the last week of sept - and GTA is the 2nd to last week.
i think the last week of sept - and GTA is the 2nd to last week.
you guessin? need to replay it ASAP
32GB get!
Backing up to PC now. Sooooon... Sooooon...
A little tip for anyone new to this (like me): When you get the content manager on your PC, you may want to consider changing your default folders for photo/video/music. It took quite awhile for the content manager to build its database. Not a big deal, but it annoyed me because I couldn't cancel it.
(rubs hands together) Sooooon...
Thanks frost! I actually looked up Playstation Plus on wikipedia but I should have thought of looking up IGC specifically.
Yeah that list really made that obvious. I wish our Plus was that good.
Sooo September for Terraria? Cuz maybe I should get it for android.
I know people advised against getting a 16gb card when going all digital, but I don't think it's as big an issue as people have said. The content manager link between PC is awesome, and once set up you can even wirelessly copy between them (from bed) which doesn't take long. I don't need more than 5-6 games at a time to instantly play, I'm happy to wait 5 min to transfer new games to the device.
daaaaannnggg - i misssed so much ;__;
only became ps+ when I got my vita last november because it came with the 3-month trial.
edit: on ps3 i mean i missed a lot
edit2: and shit. i knew PAL was better than NA in regards to plus, but gad dayam!
edit 3: i posted this in the dragons crown OT - but i'm not sure how great of a response i'll get.... i want to get dragons crown on vita, but i finally tried the game out ( on ps3) and it seems like a lot of the beauty of the game will get lost on vita. it seems like even 1 player will be a clusterfck on the vita screen no matter the size and glory of the OLED. so which version should i get?? esp if i plan to mainly play 1 player.