Activision DJ Hero

[DJ-Daz]

Anyone think this might be an epic fail? To me it's too niche, and looks complicated as hell.

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[Symonator]

for the price u cud get a starter kit and learn to be a proper dj.
I have some nice dj equipment and my starter kit cost me less than they are charging, i started with cd's and mvoed to scratching with records and finally learned the art via vinyl altogther.

So yes, it will appeal to the ypunger generation who have no idea how to learn the art correctly.

[Chemical_Burn]

Is it an Epic fail......

Nope! I bought it last weekend and I'm having great fun with it and whilst i'm no expert I did do a bit of bedroom DJing in my clubbing past and still play about with ableton live (but i've not put enough effort in to get worthwhile results).

It works well as a game and the feeling of pulling off a difficult sequence is similar to the feeling of pulling off a good mix on the decks. :high:

The deck peripheral could be better in that you have to hold the entire turntable since there is no record or slipmat which makes it feel a bit 'heavy' to scratch and the cross faders central position isn't quite definite enough to make it easy but I'm getting used to it now.

Some of the tracks are really good but some are a bit too much shnizzle my pizzle for me but you can make custom set lists and DLC is on its way. Its well worth a rent to see how it works for you or you can give it a try in tesco if you can put up with feeling a bit of a tit in front of a crowd.....

[DJ-Daz]

Or...
you buy the game, get really good at it, go into tesco's, play the demo like an expert and look way cool.
Or geeky?

[Symonator]

lol i hated this idea at first!
but im come round in circles on it.. infact i nearly bought it at the weekend from shop to.

But i decided ill get the saboteur first then alien vs predator and mafia 2, then ill look at dj hero when its about £50

[Chemical_Burn]

its tempting to wander up casually and look like a genius, but you'd have to ask yourself how desperate for adoration from the average tesco shopper am i......?

After reading the reviews of saboteur I reckon you'd be better off with dj hero!

[codayop]

Mate has it on Xbox - but I'm sure its the same set up.

Chemical_Burn - yes, plate is too heavy to scratch, shame they couldn't have a loose plate and the 3 triggers seperate, oh and a third hand.

Sy - glad to hear you are a vinyl man, too many people using cd or laptop mixing suites like Serato (cool, but fake in my opinion).

I enjoy DJ Hero - but after 2 days I got bored. Glad I didn't pay £80 for it. I think once you get to a relatively decent level of skill, a 2 player game would be quite lots of fun.

:slow:

[Chemical_Burn]

2 days dude?! blimey. i'm still loving my fisher price record player!

i always said i wouldn't get a steering wheel in case someone saw me, a grown man, elbows sticking out hunched over a plastic toy stuck to the coffee table but i'm happy to ignore how ridiculous I must look playing dj hero cos its a load of fun.

i think they missed a trick with the multiplayer though, you both do the same thing - can't have been too difficult to have a B2B lined up

[Spajdah]

I bought it 3-4 weeks ago and im already bored of it. It was really fun in the beginning. Something i hate playng this game is when you have played for 30minutes my hand/arm hurting so much after the scratching So i will possible sell it and stick to my guitar hero games.

[Spajdah]

Well here is my first video of DJ Hero you asked for, i think the video is okay but in my eyes the video laggs sometimes, if you look at the fretboard you see it shaking sometimes, no idea what that can be

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[Symonator]

u got some serious encode issue with that.

what bitrate u got there? seems it hardly has any to play with.

[Spajdah]

u got some serious encode issue with that.

what bitrate u got there? seems it hardly has any to play with.

its on 8 bitrate =P and i have no idea whats the best render method for vegas etc, i used wmv on that video, followed this guide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHGTAssbYTM

[Symonator]

pretty good guide overall - but - capture your video at 8mbps and render it at 8mbps.
no point in downgrading/resampling to much before youtube does.

for games with lots of light and details i would capture at 10 and render at 8.
wmv is ok to use, faster and smaller, but mp4 is better.

if you upload direct m2ts file then i'd go no lower capture of 6 myself - only on raw files though.

[Spajdah]

pretty good guide overall - but - capture your video at 8mbps and render it at 8mbps.
no point in downgrading/resampling to much before youtube does.

for games with lots of light and details i would capture at 10 and render at 8.
wmv is ok to use, faster and smaller, but mp4 is better.

if you upload direct m2ts file then i'd go no lower capture of 6 myself - only on raw files though.

well i did capture at 8 and rendered at 8 bitrate =P followed that guide 100% =P Gonna try out render a mp4

[DJ-Daz]

if you are not editing the video, best bet is just upload the raw .m2ts/.mp4 file.
Youtube will recode it anyway for 2mbit downloading.
Dont bother recoding it yourself if you're not going to edit the file.
You can lower the bit rate this way too, I usually upload at 4.5-5.5mbits
I only use higher bitrates for fast action video's.