osu!
 

osu! is a great game to play in your free time. Being a rhythm game based off songs, it doesn't require you to commit to long playing sessions like MOBAs such as League/DotA/Smite, features solo and multiplayer (head-to-head) play, and essentially endless songs and difficulties to keep you playing for as long as you'd like - seriously. There are hundreds of thousands of songs in every genre; the vast majority being Japanese rock/Vocaloid/electronic, but there is more than enough music of every English genre out there to satisfy everyone. There will be songs and difficulties perfect for everyone, and due to the nature of that, the replayability is endless despite the same general style of gameplay. If clicking circles and sliding sliders isn't your thing, there are also other modes like osu!mania (Guitar Hero-esque), Taiko (drum rhythm), and Catch the Fruit (literally catching fruit on a platform) that will satisfy you. In addition, it has been getting widespread recognition and popularity due to popular streamers on Twitch praising the game for its compactness and its ability to strengthen your mechanical skills on other games due to it forcing you to improve in areas such as muscle memory, reaction time, screen vision and so forth. Here's a League player's standpoint of how osu! improves his League gameplay: http://cloth5.com/10-reasons-you-should-be-playing-osu/ Customizability also never ceases due to the ability to create your own beatmaps for others to play (99.99% of beatmaps are actually community-created!), skins for the game you can create for yourself and others, and so forth. There's something for everyone.

But seriously, if you're into music and playing very relaxing and chill-atmosphere'd games, then I strongly recommend that you try osu! - I've discovered some incredible music, incredible artists, and made a ton of friends in this game. I downloaded this game a year or so ago and recently picked it up again this August, and even though I'm not too great in the scheme of high-level players like Cookiezi and rrtyui since I've only actually been playing for a little over a month (I only have like a third of Killua's playtime :(), I'm having so much fun playing this game and it's easily made its way into some of my favorite games of all time. Oh, and did I mention? It's completely free. No subscriptions, no initial cost, no sneaky in-game purchases that tempt you like Gralat packs or League of Legends skins - it's all free. You can however, pay a few bucks a year as a donation (I do, very grateful for this game) for some neat features like downloading maps from inside the client and a tiny bit more files to skin, but it's all unnecessary to play this game to the fullest.

Go ahead and download it here: http://osu.ppy.sh
If you do decide to play, search me up and add me: https://osu.ppy.sh/u/2605433

What is Osu?
Osu is a rhythm based PC game that is played by millions of different people, more commonly played by people who come from Asia. Osu is made up for game modes, each being a different type of rhythm game, we have the more common Osu Standard, second most popular Osu Mania, Catch the Beat and Taiko. Each game mode will be further explained below.

What are the benefits from playing Osu?
When you start playing Osu, it takes a while to get the hang of it, unless you've been playing tons of mouse oriented games, it becomes challenging to even beat some of the easiest songs. After playing Osu for a bit, mouse control and reaction time really increases and you can even preform in other PC games more well. This game really helps adjusting to a new mouse or a new computer.

What do I need to play Osu?
All you need is a decent computer, my computer is pretty slow, but runs Osu smoothly, a mouse or graphics tablet. The mouse doesn't have to be some fancy $100 gaming mouse or anything, I use a pretty old mouse that I got with my computer and it works find, since I'm adjust to using it all the time.

What kind of songs are available in Osu?
The staffs of Osu do not make any songs for Osu, and every song is player made, so even you can make a song for Osu! All the staff does is approve songs that wants to be enabled for ranking. Since all the songs is player made, there is tons of different types of songs out there, but more commonly Japanese and English songs.

The Game Modes

Osu Standard
This is the most common game mode in Osu and it will be the first game mode introduced to you when you start playing Osu. This game mode consists of clicking on circles to the rhythm of the songs, there is also sliders where you click and hold for a duration of the time and spinners where you try to create circles with your cursor. The circles and sliders are all over the place and is not coming down a straight line like more common rhythm games (Guitar Hero and Rock Band). Here is video on my own game play:


Osu Mania
Osu mania is the second most popular game mode and follows the typical rhythm game mode. Beats fly for the top of the screen and you press a key by the time the beats reach the bottom of the screen. The difference is that Osu Mania has two different sub-mode, playing with four keys and then playing with seven keys, seven keys being way harder than the more common rhythm games:


Catch the Beat
This game mode is often referred as the easiest of the four, where you have to use your arrow keys and move a character at the bottom of the screen and have them collect the beats that are falling from the top of the screen.


Taiko
This is the game mode that I have the least experience and knowledge of. I know that there is four keys and a few types of beats that comes in at a single line and you have to click keys depending on the type of beat is coming through the line. Well maybe this video will help more or maybe it's the exact opposite, but whatever here is is:

tl;dr: play this game you'll love it

I play osu, add me ijesus69 XDDDDD

okay im pretty **** at this game but dammit im proud of this play even though i ****ed the full combo



it was like my third try on the song which i had never heard before and it got me 82pp $$$
apologies for mute blame copyright

get muted scrub

god damn this song is fun

Come boxing day when I will buy a tablet to replace this piece of trash office mouse. That way I can Osu without raging at my dumb mouse.

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tablets are for tryhards m8

im a tryhard

i use my wacom a lot more on GIMP and other comp-aid designing/CAD work though, just gr8 to have for osu

EYYY i have that mouse pad too :D

I just tried Osu, why's it so hard ):

#getgud2015

Im over here on my janky sketchy ass ghetto 08 mac book that has ****ing duck tape on it because its falling appart and the game runs OK on it. I reccomend its hard as hell but fun.

#getgud2015

Using tablets seems so much easier, I can't get past those 5 star jumps with how awkward twisting my wrist is at that speed and distance and accuracy. Just twisting the wrist itself with the mouse is annoying since I can't move straight, so I end up gliding to hit notes instead of snapping.

also TALON Y U DO DIS TO ME, Y UR VIDEO MAKE ALSO SCREW UP, my fc ;( I could've gotten more PP.

#git
#gud
#2015

#gitgud2016

Does everyone suck at this their first few times playing, either that or I'm completely terrible at this haha

no everyone sucks and needs to #getgud2017

Well, guess this is something to do while waiting on LoL to load or if I'm waiting to find a match. Someday, I won't fail a hard song before 30 seconds have passed!

Unless you're a Korea Player and have been playing professionally on mouse heavy games for years now, there is no way that someone could do well on Osu a few tries in. Osu really helps you realize how little control over the mouse you actually have and really helps improve that with at least a month play. Then you transfer your skills gain from Osu to other PC games or become an Osu Try-hard like Talon and start using a Tablet.

Osu: definition of raging.

Addicting.

Ok Im downloading it gonna try it with my wacom might be better :o

OMARGOOSH A BETTER GAME THAN GRAAL CLASSIC <3

not terribly hard to accomplish

<3 Ikr :P

I have alot of different games but this one stands out -3-

but downloading beatmaps is kinda a waste of time :I

buy a supporter tag and get osu!direct $$$

Its ok, I can download xD

Oh btw my name is TimoChan.. (teemochan is taken ugh)

World Cup Hype! http://osu.ppy.sh/wiki/OWC_2014 http://www.twitch.tv/osulive

Sucks that Hvick is not playing for Taiwan this year. Was a big fan of his plays from last year.

Sad that Rucker isn't playing and that Shizuru got banned ):

most of my time playing this game I've just decided to play notoriously difficult songs like Scarlet Rose and Freedom Dive on Relax. super fun and really helps my reading and aim

My aim is getting pretty goddamned good, but I can't tap for **** even though I have a really nice keyboard. once I get better at tapping and a little better at reading, you're mine Airman...




yeah yeah I know it's Relax mod but god damn look at my aim especially at that 6x diagonal cross-screen jumps at 1:54 holy ****

By the way this is a really great way to practice aim and reading, just pop on Relax and play the hardest songs you can find. Scarlet Rose, Airman, Rainbow Dash, Big Black and Freedom Dive I've found to work amazingly to practice your aim. Any 0108 song too.

Im getting good at this :o

My First Perfect combo <3
http://i.imgur.com/H0J01W6.jpg

yay people are finally getting in to this game

Do you play on a tablet or mouse+keyboard?

Mouse Plus keyboard is easier on a lot haha.

Alot of people are saying that the tablet is easier although im not sure

Most people find tablet easier, but you have to get used to it in order to see it's use. It's mainly because your tablet area is linked to your computer screen where as a mouse is relative motion.

tablet provides absolute tracking and mouse provides relative tracking, so you can "line up" where the notes are on the screen proportionate to your tablet area. it takes a while for a lot to adjust to but I feel so much more control with a tablet pen opposed to a mouse cause I hate relative tracking.

there are some great mouse players though, SiLViA and cptnXn are both phenomenal and are famous for using mice to play

also pretty much every osu player uses the keyboard, both tablet and mouse players. tapping on tablet sucks ass and clicking on mouse is pretty bad too. you can use Z/X or whatever keys you want to bind them to click notes, much more efficient but can take some time to have your two hands in sync

also i love this song you should download it

There would be a "perfect" thingy on the green line if its perrfecttt

it was probably just an early ended slider or some stupid **** lol

'grats on your first FC, work on your timing so it's an S next time

I know song is to innapropriate for a 13 year old girly :I
YAY PERFECTS <3 FC

Just in case you are wondering on how the grading system works

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 with miss(es)
B - Over 70% 300s and no misses OR over 80% 300s with miss(es)
C - Over 60% 300s
D - Anything below

There's also:
Silver SS (SSH) If you get 100% accuracy with a hidden or flashlight mod
Silver S (SH) If you get an S with Hidden or Flashlight Mods

There is also a fanmade bot used in Osu that gives you map recommendations based on your top 10 plays (Performance Points wised). Just go on the game click F9 search the player Tillerino and message him !r for recommendations and !info for other commands for the bot.

Just ordered my Tablet for Osu and Drawing :3 Got that 1 day shipping for the hype! Should be here 8am tomorrow
EDIT: Fooling around at school; Got an S on the map finally
http://i.imgur.com/3PgHfVe.jpg

scarlet rose is hard ):

jeez this game is so fun but hard lol

I just got that yesterday, If anyone can beat it with a perfect +Rep

everyone quick, it's time to grind osu skill to WubWoofWolf-tier and bust our asses off to improve at unrealistic pace to FC scarlet rose so livid-sama can rep us :love:

best I could get is like 279x combo with Relax rip

spamming this map for muh AR9 and singletap practice tho

best i could do ;_;