Haha, this is bonkers :D

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Haha, this is bonkers :D

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So, I had my first play of Space Giraffe this evening. Damn, it looks absolutely gorgeous :)

I started off by diving in without trying the tutorial, and got to about 11 million points. I then tried the tutorial, and afterwards annoyingly couldn't get anywhere near my previous score for half a dozen games, suffering from a good few "what the fuck killed me then?" deaths.

Then the game started to properly click, and I got to level 28 in one go (with a score of nearly 28 million points... playing more for survival than maximum points). Which puts me 668th on the hardcore leaderboard out of 10,000+ people, not bad for the first evening's play ;)

I can understand why some people would get frustrated and give up on it... but it's worth persevering, it's a great feeling when it all starts to make sense (I suppose I'm preaching to the converted here...)

Well done Jeff & Giles for making something really special :)
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Re: Haha, this is bonkers :D

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starshipcommand wrote:I can understand why some people would get frustrated and give up on it...
eyes hurting, headaches, not being able to see anything, 3 lives left - you die and it's game over? dying without knowing why, doing well with loads of lives and then BANG end of game, non linear game difficulty, neighbours complaining of the noise during the bonus round :) boredom during the first hour of a Hardc0re game...

I like the game but there are many reasons people get frustrated with SG
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3 lives left - you die and it's game over?
Eh? When does that happen??
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3 lives left - you die and it's game over?
Eh? When does that happen??
Looking at the bonus multiplier?
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Getting better... just got to 137 million points and level 69 in one game (I'm still starting at the beginning... the games are starting to take a looong time now).

Level 64... Minter you cunt :lol:

Really loving this game. Everything else seems a bit tame in comparison now.
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I DID IT! :D:D:D:D:D

Zero to Long-Necked Long March in one week. Now 13th in the hardcore leaderboard with a score of 385,237,054. Finished with five lives to spare. I felt strangely calm when playing too.

I've got all of the achivements now except for Girafa Garantido (I always manage to mess something up on the first 16 levels).

Now, I've heard you can play other games on this here Space Giraffe box? I may have to look into that...
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starshipcommand wrote:I DID IT! :D:D:D:D:D

Zero to Long-Necked Long March in one week. Now 13th in the hardcore leaderboard with a score of 385,237,054. Finished with five lives to spare. I felt strangely calm when playing too.

I've got all of the achivements now except for Girafa Garantido (I always manage to mess something up on the first 16 levels).

Now, I've heard you can play other games on this here Space Giraffe box? I may have to look into that...
Man that's truly impressive :D I tried for the LNM on Saturday and bungled it completely on level 95. The mrs started hoovering and put me off. That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

Awesome work though :)
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starshipcommand wrote:I DID IT! :D:D:D:D:D

Zero to Long-Necked Long March in one week. Now 13th in the hardcore leaderboard with a score of 385,237,054. Finished with five lives to spare. I felt strangely calm when playing too.

I've got all of the achivements now except for Girafa Garantido (I always manage to mess something up on the first 16 levels).

Now, I've heard you can play other games on this here Space Giraffe box? I may have to look into that...
Man that's truly impressive :D I tried for the LNM on Saturday and bungled it completely on level 95. The mrs started hoovering and put me off. That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

Awesome work though :)
Awesome job! I keep dying around level 75 I think on a LNLM.

What music did you listen to when playing? I find SG can be relaxing or completely not relaxing depending on what music I'm listening to and if I'm playing for score or just for fun. :)
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I had Led Zep IV on for that particular go.

I really like BT's Moments In Still Life or the 1st Go! Team album.

Or that Digital Witchcraft mix we used to play down the yak lab :D
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I'm still listening to the default music :)

Might try a custom playlist sometime, but would that mean the bonus round won't have Gardening by Numbers in it any more?
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December Daze gets a lot of airtime here, as does that Bluefire Prodigy mastermix.

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Now 11th on the hardcore leaderboard with 429,919,750. Less then 4 million away from the top 10, gah! And where did my evening just go??

Got full 200/200 achievements now too :)

I love this game. It's getting more play than everything else on the Xbox 360 put together.
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skweek wrote:December Daze gets a lot of airtime here, as does that Bluefire Prodigy mastermix.

:D
*cough* linkz plz? *cough*
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choddo wrote:
skweek wrote:December Daze gets a lot of airtime here, as does that Bluefire Prodigy mastermix.

:D
*cough* linkz plz? *cough*
Google works you know? :wink:

It's 208MB and the download link is only giving 20KB/second, so it'll take a while to get. :roll:
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Dammit! Tried for a Super OX LNLM, and nearly did it... got to about level 90 or so, then ran out of lives :x

Still, it gives me a score of 610 million, and 6th in the hardcore leaderboard, so can't complain :)
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