Steam Weekend Deal: Audiosurf only £2.99

[timko] · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:21

£2.99 - http://store.steampowered.com/app/12900/

A mediocre deal by Steam this weekend so as not to draw too much attention away from the week long Left4Dead deal @ £12.49 http://store.steampowered.com/app/500

chaparral · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:22

I already have this

Wish they do a 50% off weekend deal on tomb raider :underworld or batman:AA

Shamikebab · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:23

Had it since launch, I thought it was about that price anyway tbh.

Sleepery · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:48

Got it the last time it was really cheap, played it about 5 times, couldn't for the life of me understand what the attraction was.

TheVoice · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:50

Great game, one that I come back to every now and again when I have new stuff in my music collection. Even works very well on ambient and chillout stuff.

manic111 · 1 Oct 2009 at 23:53

Absolute no brainer for that price, great fun!

rjk · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:00

Sleepery said:
Got it the last time it was really cheap, played it about 5 times, couldn't for the life of me understand what the attraction was.

same here

i kind of understood what they were trying to do

but it was difficult to grasp

it must have just been my taste in music

m0r94n · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:06

Shamikebab said:
Had it since launch, I thought it was about that price anyway tbh.

I swear it was less then 2.99 on release. Gonna have to check this out...

Devil_Spawn · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:10

m0r94n said:
I swear it was less then 2.99 on release. Gonna have to check this out...

it was $10 on release, the £ was pretty strong, but steam was not even selling in £ at the time...

m0r94n · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:14

Devil_Spawn said:
it was $10 on release, the £ was pretty strong, but steam was not even selling in £ at the time...

That would explain it, I knew it was at least cheap enough to be an impulse buy. Gave me something to do when listening to music.

Shamikebab · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:20

Sleepery said:
Got it the last time it was really cheap, played it about 5 times, couldn't for the life of me understand what the attraction was.

I have to agree, it's slightly more interesting than a media player visualisation but that's about it. If you're looking for a rhythm game then you'd play guitar hero/rock band/frequency or any of those, this is just crap in comparison.

chaparral · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:21

m0r94n said:
I swear it was less then 2.99 on release. Gonna have to check this out...

I payed

rjk · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:23

bad times

TheVoice · 2 Oct 2009 at 01:29

Shamikebab said:
I have to agree, it's slightly more interesting than a media player visualisation but that's about it. If you're looking for a rhythm game then you'd play guitar hero/rock band/frequency or any of those, this is just crap in comparison.

Except with Rock Band and Guitar Hero you're limited to the (rubbish) music they provide, whereas with Audiosurf the possibilities are essentially limitless. They're very different games anyway, I hate Guitar Hero et al and yet really like Audiosurf.

neoboy · 2 Oct 2009 at 01:40

So basically this is Guitar Hero concept where you can play with your own tunes?

dirtydog · 2 Oct 2009 at 07:02

[timko];15005825 said:
A mediocre deal by Steam this weekend

Yeah, disappointing. Meh.

Personally I don't have it, I tried the demo and wondered what the hype was about. I wouldn't have it given.

Shamikebab · 2 Oct 2009 at 07:33

TheVoice said:
Except with Rock Band and Guitar Hero you're limited to the (rubbish) music they provide, whereas with Audiosurf the possibilities are essentially limitless. They're very different games anyway, I hate Guitar Hero et al and yet really like Audiosurf.

Yet Guitar Hero is specifically designed for those tracks, therefore it is interesting and a challenge to play. Audiosurf is randomly generated so it is repetitive and a lot of tracks will be very dull.

neoboy said:
So basically this is Guitar Hero concept where you can play with your own tunes?

If you are looking for that you will find it dull. The only thing I can imagine this being useful for is having something to do if you find just listening to music boring. You could create the same effect as Audiosurf by fullscreening a media player visualisation and randomly tapping on the arrow keys during the song/shaking your mouse around.

linktoinsanity · 2 Oct 2009 at 09:28

I found this game quite fun to be honest. Well worth £2.99 imo.

TheVoice · 2 Oct 2009 at 10:03

Shamikebab said:
Yet Guitar Hero is specifically designed for those tracks, therefore it is interesting and a challenge to play. Audiosurf is randomly generated so it is repetitive and a lot of tracks will be very dull.

It's not random at all, the track it creates is based directly from the song you give it, and in my experience the results it gives are very good. I suppose it does depend on what sort of music you give it to an extent, but everything I've ever tried with it has worked brilliantly. With Guitar Hero, you're too busy concentrating on getting everything right to actually pay attention to the song.

Weebull · 2 Oct 2009 at 10:34

I wouldn't say it's a terrible game, and it's fun finding which songs give you good levels (Bush - My Engine is With You is ace, btw), but I found the harder difficulties rather confusing, and slightly pointless, like they'd been added on for the sake of fleshing out the game. I'd class it as a pretty average game all told, but actual average, rather than review world "THIS GAME ITS TERRIBLE, 7/10."