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Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F |OT| BELEEK (PS3/Vita)
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calc84maniac
Member
Well, I've made my initial contest entry now. Maybe I'll try to make it cooler when my thumb isn't sore anymore.
I dunno if I can do it...!
Playing through the songs for more perfects has made me realize that either the analog stick on the Vita is too close to the other buttons, or my thumb is just too big. On some of the songs, I've found it's not uncommon for me to accidentally hit the analog stick when trying to hit X. It's especially been causing me some issues with Summer Idol, where I'm normally fine until around the very end and I hit the analog when alternating between circle and X a bunch.
killatopak
Gold Member
StarCreator
Member
I see it's a tad higher than their PS3 version review.
OldKingDoran
Banned
i noticed this too.
i think any vita game with close to 1k ratings has to be doing well, not too many games aside from known brand games and popular indies get to that point
StarCreator
Member
Could have something to do with digital being the only option for Vita in NA. PS3 retail users can't leave ratings on PSN, can they?
StarCreator
Member
Two days left in the score challenge!
Still not quite sure how much to reveal, but... the average score of all participants so far is 393948.8.
It's also worth noting that two of the last challenge's top three have not yet posted scores...
Still not quite sure how much to reveal, but... the average score of all participants so far is 393948.8.
It's also worth noting that two of the last challenge's top three have not yet posted scores...
calc84maniac
Member
Well, at least I'm above average, I suppose. Not sure what that means though, I don't know how many crazy-good players there are in this contest.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
I read the OP and didn't find any mention about it so... i take it this isn't cross-buy?
StarCreator
Member
No, no cross-buy. There was a seven month gap between the two.
Median is 407730.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
Meh, guess i'll get the Vita version then... my sister preferred the vita demo over the PS3 one due to the absence of touch controls in it.
There goes my last hope.
Well, if I assume that only 6 other people submitted scores, then I'm good to go!
I kind of want to try improving my score just to have a better shot, but I'm terrible when it comes to getting good scores. There's always something about the timing that's just off for me. Going to at least attempt to improve my score between doing a test and grading over the weekend.
I kind of want to try improving my score just to have a better shot, but I'm terrible when it comes to getting good scores. There's always something about the timing that's just off for me. Going to at least attempt to improve my score between doing a test and grading over the weekend.
StarCreator
Member
Would it help if I said that 26% of the current participants have opted out of receiving prizes?
killatopak
Gold Member
You monster! Give chance to normal people!
ATXAlchemy
Member
You know... one of the awesome things of having the Project Diva f release in the west is that... I now see a lot more people worse at me than this game, LOLOLOLOLOL.
All friends playing this game is either a long time rhythm game player, or just plain better than I am.
You may as well; I doubt SEGA will ever release a US version of 2nd.
You never know. I never expected them to release F over here, and they did; with a physical release as well!
If they were really that down on the sales of F on the PS3... they wouldn't even have bothered with the Vita version. If anything, I would guess that the game sold far better than they were expecting. If it hit their initial projections... those projections pointed to the Vita version not being worth localizing (there's no other reason why the games came out about six months apart, IMO).
So I think F 2nd has a good chance of being released internationally.
StarCreator
Member
Less than one day left in the score challenge!
It's worth pointing out that work on the localization of F (for PS3) didn't start in earnest until after the Facebook campaign paved the way for a green light to proceed. From there, it was only five months from when the Facebook campaign appeared (around this time last year) and when the game was released. Knowing they -can- complete the localization process that quickly, one can't rule out that an F 2nd release in the US this year is a possibility should f/F do enough sales to justify it.
It's worth pointing out that work on the localization of F (for PS3) didn't start in earnest until after the Facebook campaign paved the way for a green light to proceed. From there, it was only five months from when the Facebook campaign appeared (around this time last year) and when the game was released. Knowing they -can- complete the localization process that quickly, one can't rule out that an F 2nd release in the US this year is a possibility should f/F do enough sales to justify it.
calc84maniac
Member
Alright, submitted my final entry! I doubt I'll be able to get any better than that without great pain and suffering. I have hope that I'll be able to make top 3 (at least out of people who can receive prizes); my only regret is that I already bought the Extra Songs DLC.
I hope you didn't put me in that group! I want some DLC! D: lol
StarCreator
Member
When I guessed that the winning score would be 420,500, I was sitting with 417,620 and some pure speculation.
I can now say with certainty that the winning score will be higher.
Good luck to those submitting last-minute entries!
I have once again remembered how nerve-wracking and stressful this game can be. I spent a good part of the last 90 minutes shaking, sweating and of course restarting, heh.
I personally believe that we're all good at rhythm games, it's just a question of how much practice we individually have. That said, some people require less practice to get to a high level than others.
I have been playing step games (and by extension, music games) on a continuous basis since I started playing DDR in 2001. I still play In The Groove 2 regularly and can clear the majority of 11s that I play, but I don't really have the stamina to do anything harder. My accuracy is consistently between 90-95% on harder charts, 96-99.5% on easier ones. And guess what? At the yearly tournament at 8 on the Break in Dunellen, NJ, I've lost count of the number of times that I see some teenager I'd never seen before, mashing away on some 14 or 15 with robotic accuracy, then ask around and am told that he started playing 4 months ago.
So basically my philosophy is that there will always be someone higher on the ladder than you, and someone lower, and we climb it at different speeds...but we're all on the same ladder.
I can now say with certainty that the winning score will be higher.
Good luck to those submitting last-minute entries!
I have once again remembered how nerve-wracking and stressful this game can be. I spent a good part of the last 90 minutes shaking, sweating and of course restarting, heh.
I personally believe that we're all good at rhythm games, it's just a question of how much practice we individually have. That said, some people require less practice to get to a high level than others.
I have been playing step games (and by extension, music games) on a continuous basis since I started playing DDR in 2001. I still play In The Groove 2 regularly and can clear the majority of 11s that I play, but I don't really have the stamina to do anything harder. My accuracy is consistently between 90-95% on harder charts, 96-99.5% on easier ones. And guess what? At the yearly tournament at 8 on the Break in Dunellen, NJ, I've lost count of the number of times that I see some teenager I'd never seen before, mashing away on some 14 or 15 with robotic accuracy, then ask around and am told that he started playing 4 months ago.
So basically my philosophy is that there will always be someone higher on the ladder than you, and someone lower, and we climb it at different speeds...but we're all on the same ladder.
StarCreator
Member
The Results
22 people participated in this challenge! Win or lose, I hope everyone had fun!
The top three scorers of this challenge were:
- yyr, with 422720 (432/14)
- macklelol, with 422280 (431/15)
- Kumubou, with 420510 (426/20)
macklelol was once again not participating in the prize pool, so the third prize goes to the runner-up, Pangya. The winners should now PM me with their choice of prizes and I will get the ball rolling on getting codes with your choices.
Thanks goes once again to Sega of America for furnishing the prizes for this challenge. Congratulations!
OldKingDoran
Banned
i've heard people say that this game is confirmed to never get a price cut/sale.
is this true? who said this?
is this true? who said this?
StarCreator
Member
calc84maniac
Member
Wow you guys are crazy. I could only barely get
This is typical for niche games...most single-player RPGs, strategy games, music games, shoot-em-ups.
The demand is lower than mass-market games so fewer copies are available, or it's made digital-only. The demand for physical copies never exceeds the supply, and the people buying the games already know that they'll get their money's worth, so there is no reason to lower the price.
In this game's case, there is more than enough gameplay here to justify the full price. $30 for the Vita version is a steal. I have sunk more than 100 hours into that version alone.
I am shocked that I won by more than 200 points, to be honest. The chart is just really tricky...the long pauses in between the runs only make it more difficult!
Congratulations to everyone who submitted a score, regardless of how you placed. Quite honestly, I have no chance of winning most competitions/tournaments I enter; I just enjoy competing =) I hope you all enjoy competing as much as I do =)
The scoring system in the game is really interesting. In this particular chart, two things matter more than most:
1) Non-Cools cost you more points during Chance Time than in other sections, and
2) Getting a non-Cool at the beginning of a hold halves the amount of points the hold is worth.
And there were a LOT of holds...
calc84maniac, that's a great score and very good accuracy =) Nothing to sneeze at!
Honestly, my goal was to get an EX% score of 98%, which would have been 17 or fewer goods (that's more of a concept from Bemani games, but the arcade Project Diva games use it too). I think I could have done better -- maybe even enough to win it -- but I was slowly losing my mind playing that song over and over again.
killatopak
Gold Member
And here I thought all the monsters wouldn't participate...
I felt like this was done to me when I saw the winning scores
I felt like this was done to me when I saw the winning scores
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I admit it was pretty funny earlier when I saw that the Median score was 407730 and I thought "Hey that's my scor-.. oh!" XD
Congrats to the winners!
Congrats to the winners!
StarCreator
Member
Score Challenge prizes have been disbursed! Let me know if you didn't get your PM.
You were actually really, really close to Pangya's score - the difference was less than 400 points. It was a tight race!
You were actually really, really close to Pangya's score - the difference was less than 400 points. It was a tight race!
I ended up buying this game on a whim after seeing it was released on the Vita for 30 euros.
Hardly a Miku fan, but I was itching for a rythm game.
Enjoying the game a lot, played 16 hours in around 10 days, and I have only now started aiming for "perfects" (I'm convinced I will never be able to beat most strongs in Extreme though) and I'm still wanting more.
I'm too mistake prone to get "Perfects" regularly, and as soon as I'm nearing the end I get extremely conscious not just of the timing of the song but of my body (itching, fingers touching the palm of my hands and so on) which distracts me from the game greatly.
Amusingly, my first perfect was also Melancholist in Normal while playing with Future Rin. It was a great feeling to finally manage to get a perfect.
Hardly a Miku fan, but I was itching for a rythm game.
Enjoying the game a lot, played 16 hours in around 10 days, and I have only now started aiming for "perfects" (I'm convinced I will never be able to beat most strongs in Extreme though) and I'm still wanting more.
I'm too mistake prone to get "Perfects" regularly, and as soon as I'm nearing the end I get extremely conscious not just of the timing of the song but of my body (itching, fingers touching the palm of my hands and so on) which distracts me from the game greatly.
Amusingly, my first perfect was also Melancholist in Normal while playing with Future Rin. It was a great feeling to finally manage to get a perfect.
The stressful, tingly feeling one gets when closing in on a full combo in this, and similar games (like beatmania IIDX), is one of the reasons I love these games so much.