Music Games!

I still haven't compiled all the Raya pics, so the birthday raya post has to wait. It's still raya anyway, right? :D

Just 2 days ago, the Ballistic Wars team (minus nyin *sob*) went for some interview. One of the questions: "What's your favourite game?". Such a difficult question. Of course, we grouped our answers into different genres.

Though I enjoy playing them, I generally suck in strategy and fighting games. But I do rock (literally) in one genre: music games :)



I'm what they call the ol' skool Konami music gamer. Pop'n Music (my fave), DDR, Beatmania, Drummania and Guitar Freaks. I rarely play those online music games possibly because I enjoy playing in the arcade and consoles more. And I've been rather busy in my later years. (yea, i'm freaking old)

Ah, I remember the good ol' days when I played Dance Dance Revolution in Sungei Wang on Maniac mode and stepped my way through hell a million times. Now, I can't imagine going through it even once. Yea, age and fat took over. Fortunately, my fingers didn't get fat, so I still have the skills for pop'n and ez2dj ;)

Coincidentally, I was browsing through my old Level UP! blog (remember that junk?) and suddenly remembered about this video my friend took last year:



Yup, that's me playing Pop'n Music in Timesquare. The song was Eurobeat Love2 Sugar EX level 38. My friend wanted to take a video of me getting the usual full combo, but I failed (hence my thumbs down at the end of the video).

Times have changed. Now, people are dancing on the Pump it Up machine for style rather than accuracy. And even though I won the 2nd prize for an o2jam competition once, I suck compared to the recent o2jam players. I barely can play music past level 25, yet I see people playing level 30 songs with ease :|

Ah, suddenly I'm inspired to create a music game like Rez and Space Channel 5. More on creative music games like these in http://www.easyonlygames.com/glog tomorrow!