GUYS, PREPARE TO BE ENLIGHTENED

[emccky]

o2jam.com.my


o2jam is going free to play on December 1st. THANK THE LORD. I actually just asked my parents if I could renew my subscription last night.. and I didn't because it was WAY too hard to do. I am so happy they did this XD

oh and thanks to Reach for telling me in the first place :P

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

This is the best news that I've heard all week. Okay, so mabye there hasn't been too much to this week yet, but this is stil very big.

[mead1]

YUSS!!!

[Tasselfoot]

7 buttons... so confusing....

[MalReynolds]

I clicked around the site for a little but didn't find out what that thing was about at all?

Is it worth the download?

Mal

[ImEric12]

Yayyyy!

Too bad I won't have my level any more... I played Korean version for a while.

Lately I've just played o2mania or whatever that crack is because I have no means to pay for o2jam for real.

[emccky]

it's a beatmania simulator.. that you had to pay to play. It's a lot of fun.. you level up and stuff and have missions to level up at certain levels.. you get credits and crap.. a lot of fun.

[MalReynolds]

How much is the fee for it?

Cause... That sounds frikin' awesome.

Mal

[XXXsmittyXXX]

yea that sounds cool.

[ImEric12]

Mal... read the main post of the thread.

The whole point of the topic is that in 3 days, it's going to be free =P

[emccky]

yeah, basically you needed 100 e-points for a months subscription. It was extremely hard to buy e-points because it is based in Malaysia, and you had to photocopy your cc or wait for checks to balance and crap.. just a big mess. 500 e-points was 14 bucks. It wasn't too expensive, but it took a while for the points to register and stuff like that. Now that it's free it's going to be awesome

[jamuko]

O___O

YAY.

This makes me so happy. I never even paid to play, and I still had fun. The only reason I didn't make all my friends get it was because of the small selection of free songs (that I still managed to enjoy more than I probably should have). Now there is no excuse not to play! >D

Only problem right now is that I can't connect unless it's 4 AM or so when nobody else is cluttering up the campus network. Bwah.

Man, I think I'm a little too happy about this...

[MalReynolds]

OH SNAP! I misread the site, I thought it was going to be free UNTIL Dec 01.

Man, okay. Definitley getting it now.

Mal

[emccky]

Pictures for viewing pleasure.


This is the place you are in when you connect to a server. From here you can join a room or start your own.





This is the room you go into before you start the game. Up to 8 people can play, and you select the song you are playing and speed mod if you are the host.




This is ingame, right after I finished the song:



Another shot of ingame with bars falling:

[Silver_Brian]

Never played this game, and suspect I would be horrible at it, despite being pretty good at ffr. I should go try anyway.

[jamuko]

Yayy, O2Jam high X3

Here's a pic of the score screen while we're at it.





Edit: Silver_Brian and anyone else: don't give up if you suck at first. It takes a little while to acclimate yourself to it all... you'll be pushing the wrong keys at first, but eventually it'll settle down in your subconscious just like FFR or anything else.

[Tokzic]

Niiice.

Hit me, December 1st.

[fusi0n]

This is awesome.

Too bad my old account doesn't exist. I guess 43 isn't hard to get to anymore anyways, but the money I had on it would have been nice.

[Moogy]

Wow, nice spoilers in one of the room names.

Also, O2Jam is total BS compared to IIDX.

Originally Posted by Moogy, on machogang.net

To be honest, O2Jam is a shitty piece of... shit. The songs are garbage and the charts are beyond terrible - there's no way to increase difficulty past a certain point legitimately due to the way the game is set up, so every hard song is just a mass of incredibly gay freezes and idiotic patterns at a fast BPM so the timing window is smaller. The easier stuff, with the rare exception, is garbage too. Have fun doing random streams that only go to the music because they put random, shitty sounding keysounds on them. Seriously, a lot of the keysounds sound like MIDI. Did I mention the timing? The timing is so bad - it's absurdly easy on slow songs, and way too tight on faster songs. A vast majority of the music sucks balls - 0x1311, %10, and Death Moon are the only songs I would actually listen to outside of the game.

Lately they've been licensing IIDX songs so they can be even lamer. Too bad playing IIDX charts without scratch on a keyboard is the shittiest thing ever, and their difficulty would be nil on a cheesy keyboard setup like O2Jam, unless they added retarded freezes (which they probably did, showing how much respect they have for anything they get their grubby little hands on). Not to mention the idiotic Korean MMO idealogy associated with it - hey guyz, better go play 99999999 songs so you can buy a stupid looking hat for your player char. All of the users are massive dimwits who can barely speak English, which is supposedly the official language of Malaysia. Good luck playing any song except Identity normal on the Malay servers, because that's all anyone plays. Ever. If they're not playing that, they're playing some gay song on a speed mod that's either way too high or way too low.

Did I mention that the graphics and interface are terrible? I got sick of staring at the fucking retarded avatars after 2 seconds. The notes themselves look like shit compared to IIDX, the interface is a laggy piece of shit that looks like a joke and makes 8th's interface look like the Mona Lisa, the note explosions are giant, chronically retarded, cutesy theme junk, and the options are confusing and labeled in broken English. Oh, and who could forget all the fucking bullshit American users had to go through before they could use PayPal? Half the people who used PayPal got scammed, anyway. They're making it free now to cover up for their shitty product and the way they've treated customers in the past. The "compensation" is either something incredibly shitty like free skill rings or e-points (did I mention how terrible and broken the e-points system is? Have fun paying 5 dollars for any songs that are actually played) or nothing at all.

In conclusion: O2Jam sucks. Don't play it.

Also, Gaussian Blur.

Don't bother with O2Jam. Spit up the 300 or so for IIDX and actually have fun playing a music game for once.

[Tokzic]

Originally Posted by Moogy

Don't bother with O2Jam. Spit up the 300 or so for IIDX and actually have fun playing a music game for once.

We aren't all rich like you, Moogy. D=