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[Death Metalist]

The Amplitude QL sold me on Cowboy Bebop and the Skullgirls soundtrack.

Mission accomplished?

Good. Cowboy Bebop's strength is how it manages to combine the music and animation to perfection. These sweet, sweet jazzy tunes won't leave your mind.

 

[Dineren]

fucking EXACTLY. drives me nuts.

They talk about it because it is something they are enthusiastic about and they want to discuss it with others who may be interested. It's not that confusing. There are plenty of subjects I don't care about, I just skip them. There isn't much point in getting annoyed by it.

 

[kvk1]

When the selling point of VR is "you really have to try it to be sold on it" i wonder why people keep talking about how great it is.

So you try it.

 

[KingKong]

the Paul Ryckert Springsteen concert story is absolutely insane

 

[Myggen]

the Paul Ryckert Springsteen concert story is absolutely insane

Haha, yeah.

 

[Lunar FC]

My goodness does Amplitude look boring.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

My goodness does Amplitude look boring.

Sounds like an amplitude game alright

 

[stump sock]

My goodness does Amplitude look boring.

mostly I just don't want to use a normal controller to play it. if it ever came to PC i'd be all over it. as mentioned earlier, i'd probably try to find a way to remap MPC pads to the inputs, that would be rad

e: oh shit, you might be able to do it with Necrodancer http://braceyourselfgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=735

 

[Heimbeck]

My goodness does Amplitude look boring.

Yeah I was thinking about getting it but I really don't see myself enjoying it after the QL.

 

[Myggen]

Amplitude looks great.

 

[Twin Tails]

So Twitter is supposedly increasing its character limit from 140 to 10,000 characters soon.

Twitter essayist Austin Walker reportedly rejoiced at the news.

┻━┻︵ \(°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻
(╯°□°）╯︵ [_]||

 

[Data West]

GB has always had a fondness for music games that I've never really had.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

My goodness does Amplitude look boring.

Amplitude looks great.

Make up your minds, individuals with differing opinions!

 

[RepairmanJack]

Good god, Paul and his "true fandom" :lol. Good on Dan trying to talk some sense into him.

 

[Heimbeck]

Amplitude looks great.

Are you giving me your opinion or telling me that?
With that avatar I'm really not sure anymore.

 

[daydream]

amplitude looks fine, i'd probably buy a vita version

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Are you giving me your opinion or telling me that?
With that avatar I'm really not sure anymore.

I think he's trying to say it looks great

but when you actually play it, it's not

 

[giant_frying_pan]

I redeemed my Amplitude code for the +1. Will I ever play it? Who knows?!

(Would have preferred the +1 on Steam though...)

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

When the selling point of VR is "you really have to try it to be sold on it" i wonder why people keep talking about how great it is.

You're probably totally right that some people are saying it's great without ever having used a VR HMD, but many of us have been using a developer Oculus Rift for months and are already sold based on our experience.

 

[Myggen]

Are you giving me your opinion or telling me that?
With that avatar I'm really not sure anymore.

I was a huge fan of the original and think this looks great too. A bit sceptical about the music, but what I heard in the QL was okay.

 

[Noray]

They talk about it because it is something they are enthusiastic about and they want to discuss it with others who may be interested. It's not that confusing. There are plenty of subjects I don't care about, I just skip them. There isn't much point in getting annoyed by it.

Those topics are usually not preceded by a disclaimer like "it's really no use talking about this because you have to experience it, but let's talk about it at length anyway", as I already said. It's not that confusing.

 

[stump sock]

oh my god I have so much midi equipment lying around and this is the coolest thing

http://www.bome.com/products/miditranslator/overview/classic

 

[Heimbeck]

I think he's trying to say it looks great

but when you actually play it, it's not

I was actually thinking maybe it just looks sucky but is actually better to play than it is to watch it.
But maybe it's just sucky all round.

 

[RepairmanJack]

"I'm not going to pretend to like Chinese checkers just to get hepatitis from her."

 

[Myggen]

I was actually thinking maybe it just looks sucky but is actually better to play than it is to watch it.
But maybe it's just sucky all round.

Have you played the original? I always loved how it played. Not for everyone though, obviously.

 

[Twin Tails]

http://jeff.zone/post/136760289386/did-you-get-the-oculus-dildo-accessory


News Post
Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Now Available, Package is Priced at $599
by Austin Walker on January 6, 2016

 

[kvk1]

I have not and will never play 95% of the games/consoles/hardware/etc. that are talked about in the podcats, video content, etc.

Doesn't mean it's not a worthwhile (and fun) exercise listening to them discuss it.

 

[Lunar FC]

Audiosurf: Tilt on my Zune HD is the superior rhythm music game.

 

[Myggen]

I've always loved listening to people talk VR. It's pretty much the only Tested content I've consumed the last year.

 

[Dineren]

I kind of want to play Audiosurf in VR now.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I kind of want to play Audiosurf in VR now.

Now Audiosurf is a great music game

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

A Very Ryckert Christmas is a fascinating piece of something all right.

 

[Heimbeck]

Have you played the original? I always loved how it played. Not for everyone though, obviously.

No I haven't actually.
Maybe I would like it, maybe when it goes down in price I'll give it a shot.

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

I've always loved listening to people talk VR. It's pretty much the only Tested content I've consumed the last year.

my interest comes from it being a completely new means of entertainment. Gaming is part of it, sure, but seeing films and programs and whatnot also trying to do something with VR means that it might be treated as a whole new medium.

I get the general exhaustion in regards to VR because it's been nearly half a decade of talk regarding VR going back to 2012 when Carmack showed off Doom 3 VR. But if it hits like people expect it to hit then, yeah, people are going to look back and maybe wonder why they didn't talk about it MORE

 

[giant_frying_pan]

Audiosurf is an okay music visualiser but I've always thought it weird to consider it a rhythm game. To me, that's stuff like Ouendan, Parappa and the like.

 

[kvk1]

i went down a pretty dark Audiosurf hole for a while

it's weirdly addicting in its own janky way

doubly so if you have a large library of your own music on your computer

edit: I have yet to try Audiosurf 2

 

[Myggen]

Audiosurf is pretty great too.

As for VR, I fear my pretty intense motion sickness when it comes to a lot of stuff will make me incapable to play games in VR. But I'm fascinated by the concept.

 

[Data West]

Any kind of music that generates based off your music choices, I'm not into.


I'm not into 'generated' stuff in my games in general

 

[shiftplusone]

Audiosurf is an okay music visualiser but I've always thought it weird to consider it a rhythm game. To me, that's stuff like Ouendan, Parappa and the like.

You hit buttons to the timing of a song, how is it not a rhythm game?


Also audiosurf sucks, beat hazard is the real "play your own music" rhythm game champion

 

[TheMrPliskin]

The Skullgirls song in the amplitude QL is pretty great.

 

[daydream]

for the record, i don't mind vr talk per se. i just see a giant disproportion between the attention it's receiving and the actual games that have been announced for that thing so far. i get that the software development for vr is still in its nascency and i don't mind hearing about new projects that are trying to actually do something worthwhile with the hardware

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Give me final fantasy vr

then we'll talk

 

[KingKong]

what if the new video podcast is VR only. it's like you're sitting at the table just watching them talk

 

[giant_frying_pan]

You hit buttons to the timing of a song, how is it not a rhythm game?


Also audiosurf sucks, beat hazard is the real "play your own music" rhythm game champion

To me, it doesn't really match up well with most of the music I threw at it, even the included stuff.

The most enjoyment I got from it was seeing how it looked when I made it play classical music, then death metal, then a podcast track and then I closed Audiosurf.

And do you really hit buttons? I just remember moving a thing from side to side.

 

[Infinite Justice]

I feel like Dan doesn't really understand money, despite the fact that he provides for himself

He does since he had been a stingy for a while plus he's apparently decent at investing.

 

[Antiwhippy]

for the record, i don't mind vr talk per se. i just see a giant disproportion between the attention it's receiving and the actual games that have been announced for that thing so far. i get that the software development for vr is still in its nascency and i don't mind hearing about new projects that are trying to actually do something worthwhile with the hardware

But vr porn though.

 

[Myggen]

 

[Data West]

Jeff has still made far more bad purchases than Dan.

 

[kvk1]

does the hiring of dan count as a bad purchase

 

[daydream]

But vr porn though.

we shall see