well, ive looked up and only found a REALLY old outdated thread about this awesome game. so i just decided to make a new one.

Osu! is a music based game which is FUCKING HARD to master.
i got it a while ago explained as "guitar hero, just with clicking."
well since u cant really explain the game as a whole i do it part for part.

the game got 4 game modes.
osu!, Catch the beat, taiko, osu!mania

the classic one is osu!, which is also probably the hardest.

you basically, just click those circles, hold a mousebutton at the "sliders" and spin your mous in a circle in a "spinner".. there are thousands of diffrent songs by users, all with a diffrent difficulty. so what u see there above. is hard to reach and needs tons of practice.
most people use mouse/tablet for this to control the cursor. ALL good players use the keyboard to click (more comfortable. i do too.)

second one is Taiko. which is from the difficulty a bit under classic. but still a bit easier (u dont need a mouse.)

this is copied from a arcade game in asia. but made more difficulty.
u got 4 drums. 2 blue 2 red. u have to press the right button for the upcomming circle things. when a red comes u press red, for blue the blue one and so on.
u got 2 of every because at some point so much circles come that u have to tap with both cause u cant be fast enough with one.
personally, i dislike this one the most. but i still respect people which are good at this.

third one is catch the beat. which is absolutley diffrent from the things above.
also the easiest one of all modes.

well, all u have to do is catching ALL the falling fruits. by simply walking left=right. then u got a double dash key, which is normally shift. if u press it down your guy walks at speed x2 which is in some cases needed to catch a fruit which falls on the other side of your screen.
i was at this mode even at some point one of the best 1000 players. but stopped playing this mode than.


also the last one, osu!mania which was about a half year ago added to this game. it is very similar to guitar hero.

well, but one thing is diffrent to guitar hero.
u can totally decide with how much keys u can play from 4-7. as harder a song is as more keys u must use, if u use for a 7 key map only 4 u get less points. but to this ill come later.

with later, i mean now.
osu got a thing called "mods" for every game mode are several.
mods mean u make playing harder, such as the song is played with speed 2x.
now u probably think, "why would people do that?" beacuse u get more points than playing normally.
as example. when u play with speed x2 u get 1,12% more points. than playing normally. if u activate all mods u get to a total of 1,41% more points. (u cant play like this in really hard maps. cause it gets impossible.

seems like ive explained the game now.
but there is still 2 things missing.
Skinning and beatmapping.

skinning means u can create a skin, for your game. u can change the cursor, the look of the circles, the menu... EVERYTHING.. for people which like to make some art etc.

beatmapping, well. i never made this really since im not good at this.
u can pick ANY song u want, put it into the game. and make a playable song for everyone out of it.
all songs u play are made from players for players. but this is kinda complicated and needs a bit practice to be good at it, so i cant really explain much there. just telling its possible.

i think ive explained everything about this awesome game yo.
may i shall add a link to the website. http://osu.ppy.sh/
oh and i forgot. that game is FREE u can get a subscription, which is similar to toriprime, gives u some additional features, such as an ingame song downloader, an forum badge etc.

also one thing i have to show. hardest song in this game, played by the best player in this game (heДs korean)


enjoy pukin on your table.

btw. does even anyone here play this game "activley"? im kinda good and keep practicing, actually im playing for gettin in the top 1000 german ranking.


User List:
Blubkill = Yamih
dealornot = iDealer
Przero = PoctorZero
ed = edjr
hellopppp = hellopppp

well i dont have acess to a tablet and cant get any
but still playing kinda good, some short c/p out of my history :
about 29 hours ago Yamih achieved rank #133 on Last Note. - Caramel Heaven [Hard] (osu!)
about 46 hours ago Yamih achieved rank #170 on Hatsuki Yura - Intense Desire [Hard] (osu!)
about 47 hours ago Yamih achieved rank #53 on Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas - Jump Around [Hard] (osu!)
3 days ago Yamih achieved rank #37 on Yiruma & Skullee - River Flows In You (A Love Note) [Love Note] (osu!)

im so bad.
(its the 4th account im using now.)

if we get more people which post their usernames ima think about making a list in first post.

not rlly, ive tried some of his plays with relax mod (and mouse) and just made like 10 fails. my problem is that i just cant click enough for those stuff :/

well one of my new favorites is Cr1m, the last songs i were ranking he was always top 3 on the insane diffuclty, his plays looks kinda nice and solid. and he even beat cookie in some maps. also i like bikko, cause he plays much with flashlight, how it seems.

less than a minute ago Yamih achieved rank #5 on La Cataline - Helical (remix) [Hard] (osu!)
im so bad T.T

deal, ye i got it.. gimme some mins and ill see if i can rank it on a diff.

uhm i am not good. :d i still have alot to improve. im actually at the level that hard maps are a joke, and i can even play them with mods. but at insane maps... i just fuck up..
7 minutes ago Yamih achieved rank #7 on La Cataline - Helical (remix) [Normal] (osu!)
for the giggles.
(btw. tried rubiks cube, nothing to do there... not my style of map)

btw. its not hard to reach such good ranks if u know how.
http://osu.ppy.sh/p/beatmaplist&s=4&r=0
there u get new ranked beatmaps. which sometimes only have 20 total plays. means not even 5 people were able to beat the map on a certain difficulty.
when i stardet with "la cataline - helica" on hard, there were only 3 ranks. means i had a 4 place secured. but because i failed sometimes more people played and more ranks came. when i were able to finish it "ok" ive landed on place 5 from a total of maybe 15.
the only bad thing is, that much people play it at this point and u will fall fast in the ranks.
i even made it now with a better score and landed just on place 8. ^^
on old maps its hard to get a good rank cause they already got thousands of ranks and plays.

rofl, i was thinking about making a thread of this.

anyways, name is edjr come play with me some time

I am pretty bad at this game.

I have...
Anime pack 1
Anime pack 3
Anime pack 3
Video game pack (some number)
and the Metal Pack


Also, IRC channel anyone? #osu

http://osu.ppy.sh/p/packlist?t=t

there

Just doing good on this one used to get me pumped, but idk.
Never knew I could use the right click too until like last year ;-;