Utterly Mad

Now this is the kind of game I have a huge passion in. I love Rhythm games, and osu! is probably the best one out there on PC. I have been playing it off and on for 4 years now, and I just adore the game. For the sake of keeping it active, I will just make this a thread for rhythm games as a whole as it is a rather niche genre, but for first post the foci point shall be on osu! I may write some other thing for another rhythm game.

So I will give you a rundown of the 4 game modes, but I am only really experienced in the main one. So the other 3 will be mostly shamelessly copied from it's wiki.

Probably the biggest problem I have is how it works. You have to manually download beatmaps from their site. Each beatmap being the game, one song with at least one difficulty with them. It can be a pain in the ass, but you can just dump them into the song folder and it normally auto detects them. If they don't an f5 refresh works. Personally, my song folder is nearing 2 and a half gigs in size.



STANDARD

This is the main meat of the game. Most of it is the standard, and that is really all I play. You click circles to the beat, that is the essential. It is much harder than that, though.

There is 3 types of things in this. Hit Circles you must click, Sliders you must drag, and spinners you must spin your mouse around the screen spastically. All in tune to the music.. except for spinners really. They are a pain in the ass like that, they were worse in the days before me though. They had 'ninja spinners' that are banned now, but then were so short some of the old songs to this day still can't be fully s ranked, not even on the bot made to play beatmaps (What each song thing is called) perfectly.

Anyways, not only must you click these things, you must also click them to the beat or rhythm of whatever song you are playing. Getting scored on how close to beat/rhythm you are.

They also increase by what ever times your combo is, raking in huge scores near the end if you keep an epic combo.
There is also what I call glorified score counters. These are
Geki and Katu/Katsu
These just mean how well you hit a set of notes. The set shown by having the same colour and increasing number (sometimes, some beatmaps change up the looks of that.) Geki for hitting perfect on the set, and Katu/Katsu for hitting at least one 100 pointer in the set. The colour of Katu/Katsu just denoting you hit a 300 or 100 on that particular note.

You get graded at the end for how well you play, and the higher ones get tracked on your account.
Silver SS (SSH) = 100% accuracy with 'hidden' and/or 'flashlight' mod.
Silver S (SH) = Over 90% 300s, less than 1% 50s and no misses with 'hidden' and/or 'flashlight' mod.
SS = 100% accuracy
S = Over 90% 300s, less than 1% 50s and no misses.
A = Over 80% 300s and no misses OR over 90% 300s.
B = Over 70% 300s and no misses OR over 80% 300s.
C = Over 60% 300s.
D = Anything else.



TAIKO

Taiko, probably the second most popular gamemode of osu! I honestly don't quite like it, but eh, I digress.
As probably expected you play a taiko drum in beat of the music. You hit 2 different notes not counting special ones, red and blue. Blue means hit the outside of the drum, red means hit the inner drum. You only hit one side on the small notes, but you must hit both sides of the drum on the big notes. There is two special notes, yellow and shaker. Yellow you must drumroll between two sides of either the inner or outer of the drum. Shaker is alternating from inner to outer.

There really isn't too much else to say about this mode, other than it is compatible with some Japanese taiko drum game thing. From what I understand it is like guitar hero's guitar thing, but a taiko drum.



CATCH THE BEAT

This is a rather fun one, but I kinda suck at it. You catch falling fruit that is timed to the music.
You only move left or right to catch the fruit, and shift is a hard to control fast dash.
For the bonus point system, similar to the spinner and taiko's drumroll, it is instead a rain of bonus point bananas.



OSU!MANIA

This gamemode is probably about as close as you will get to something similar to Beatmania or Guitar Hero.
You press a corresponding key to a falling note in time to a beat.
It has a variable amount of keys depending on difficulty, up to a hectic 9 keys. The keys being asdf(spacebar)jkl; on default. So it is like learning the homerow on your keyboard on steroids.



And now some videos done by yours truly just to show off the game! Uploaded just due to my plans on making this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt63NZbtIZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5K1bAwYjOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb2RlJhM0-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn5-DuxipPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fCXwktGTn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLzWMez9SdI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcK5qNbxnM

To make this thread not useless after my question is answered this can also be a general discussion about computers I guess.

So, my parents are planning on getting me a computer/ giving me a chunk of funds for a computer and they want to know what specs I am aiming for. The thing is I am not quite sure of the specs I will want for a decent computer. Though I would like a computer that is actually good enough to run Brutal Legend, Killing Floor 2, Payday 2, State of Decay, and Dark Souls comfortably at a decent quality so those games on my Steam library were not a waste of money. Though it would nice to be higher for when I buy more intensive games. So I was wondering if anyone knows what specs I should be aiming for. I know I would at least want one or two terabytes for hard drive space.

Post things without Context.
Context is not allowed.

On our new chat room
(00:48:34) SiegeLion: I have various other fruit based insults

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(00:38:28) SiegeLion: Educate yourselves about dicks

(23:44:27) SiegeLion: Goddamnit bubba

What is it?

DragonRoll is a recreation of the popular internet game, Space Station 13, in early development. Many elements have been changed to be more friendly to newcomers, and to convert it to have a unique Role-playing game feel.

It is centred on a world in turmoil, torn by war and on the brink of mass extinction. The primary goal of each round in the game is to push the world's balance to it's tipping point, and cause an apocalypse for your side, and in the event of a hostile apocalypse, try your hardest to revert it.

It lends a lot of mechanics from Space Station 13, but sprinkles in a heavy dose of new ones, including things like heavy character customization, classes and abilities.

A list of some features include:
* An Extensive crafting system.
* Combat system with many stats to customize your play-style.
* Unique sNPC system, meaning AI players live lives of their own, and the world grows even without you.
* Extensive Character Creation system, allowing for almost limitless combinations.
* A Variety of skills, including fishing, cooking, mining and woodcutting!
* Achievements and Tracked stats, so you can see how other's progress along with you
* Randomly generated worlds, full of dangers to survive from.
* Systems to build your own buildings.

And a lot more!

How does it work?

Players start the game by creating their own character, from a variety of races and classes which offer unique gameplay advantages and disadvantages, as well as a variety of skills and abilities.

After entering a round, the player is free to do as they please, with the ultimate goal of bringing about the apocalypse for their chosen alignment. Actions such as murdering opposite alignment characters, and helping similar aligned characters will cause the world's balance to tip, and when it reaches it's peak, the world will trigger into an apocalypse, which will cause the world to slowly change into the winning alignment.

The apocalypse can be reverted by return the world's balance to 0.

How can I play?

Firstly, download BYOND from here.

After installing it and registering an account, join any server on this page.

Can I Contribute?

Absolutely! Contribution is highly encouraged, as the ideal of DragonRoll is to create a game by players, for players. Almost all contributions (sprites, code, sounds etc) will be accepted, assuming they're thematic and don't violate any real-life laws. Additionally, contributions that are outright crude (bodily functions, etc) or p0rnographic may be rejected if they do not have substance behind them. People of all skill-levels can contribute anything from one sprite, to an entire feature, but it is asked that you do not remove features without replacing them with a new system. Due to the engine (BYOND), it's incredibly easy to contribute things.

Visit this page for information on how to contribute content.

Whats it look like?
(Note: These screenshots are from early developement and subject to change)

Ok now for my comment. I copied all that above from the post the developer made. He's a cool guy and I am friends with him. I know a bunch of you guys play SS13 so I thought you guys might want to check it out. His servers kinda suck at the moment, a lot of that because him and his server are in Australia so it kinda sucks for us all the way in America.

EDIT: Fixed the links, what I get from lazily porting a post from one forum to the other with small coding differences.

It's like a Mature adlib, but multiplayer.
www.pretendyoure.xyz/

I am also making a custom Utterly Mad deck, suggest some ideas to be put into there. I think a big one would be RP related one's because I rarely venture the land of the Roleplay. Last RP I really got into was one involving Mania and shooting people in the mouth.
My custom deck in progress can be found here https://www.cardcastgame.com/browse/deck/QGQB2

If you have not noticed we have an arcade now. Most of it seems that you can not save your score, but there is some games that you can save the score. I know for sure that Breakout's highscore is able to save.

There is a game called Bus Rampage that can not save the high score, but the concept is really crazy. You play as a Special Ed class that takes over a short bus and go on a rampage before police arrive.


So try to find as many games that can save high score, and any interesting one's you have found.

because I am bored and why the hell not.

This is fun, people can draw album covers in a MSPaint-esque program and you must guess the artist and album the picture comes from. You can also draw your own.

http://www.guessthatalbum.com/


Here is my profile http://www.guessthatalbum.com/members/profile/Bubbadoo
and the albums I have currently made.



EDIT: Wow i never expected copying album covers to be so entertaining.