Sorry if my footage doesn't look the best. The Quest 2 is an actual headache to work with in terms of recording gameplay (among other things), so I tried my best to work with what I had lmao
yeah, if you ever want to make more beat saber content, you should probably get the rift s or htc vive. you can mod them heavily and that included camera mods for recording. i personally use rift s, and aside from some slight problems with the controllers i have no complaints. it’s worth the price
Thank you for noting the poor quality of OSTs and not focusing on the casual play of this game. This is almost never noted in most reviews of this game. I only have 120 hours in this game but I feel you really covered all of the things I love and hate about this game.
@@splinkw7329 my problem with them is that they're either charted poorly or just old charts that aged poorly, the one exception in my opinion would be Cycle Hit for it's really fun jumpstreams
hell yeah a review on my crippling addiction imo scoresaber is the key mod, it's a massive motivator to keep playing and improving and ranked is hella fun well until it isn't, then it's actual pain
lol I see a replay of mine in here. Nice video, just want to add that using quest or quest 2 by themselves is limited, but they are both great headsets for beat saber if you are using a link cable. I'd love to see the competitive beat saber community grow.
Great video! I'm glad you also highlighted the community dedicated content as part of the review rather than just the base game alone. All of the modders and mappers put a lot of time to make the game what is it today and I feel like you hit it right on the money with this review.
nice video, it's crazy how with such little hours you get a lot of fun out of the game, and as you improve you'll be able to do the tougher charts and open another world of content, it just keeps going
im so glad you are finally giving beat saber some more traction. This game has such an amazing community and I absolutely love playing this game. I'm so glad you are having fun on this game
I think my favourite part about Beat Saber is how there really is no skill cap, like as long as you play sorta regularly you'll almost endlessly improve at a pretty quick rate and it feels really nice. Sure there's ups and downs and all that, but since its so fun to play improvement comes quicker and easier than you'd expect. Especially with sooooo many custom maps of varying difficulty and that focus on different skillsets! I 100% agree with everything on the OST as well, thanks for bringing it up and shedding some light onto that :) Honestly can't wait to see more of this game in the bigger rhythm game community, it totally deserves the recognition and I'm sure anyone who gets to try it will want to play it forever :)
This reminds me of one of my all time favorite videos on Beat Saber "A Love Letter to Beat Saber". I have about 200 hours on Beat Saber and all of what you mentioned I wholeheartedly agree with. Great video.
Awesome review, glad to see the larger rhythm game community noticing modded beat saber more and more. a note about Time dependence (TD), it's basically a measurement about how much timing matters when trying to acc a block. It's not really an intentional scoring mechanic, just a by-product of the 3-dimensional nature of the game that can be abused. Having low TD does not mean you have worse acc, although for most people it would make it harder to get high acc. Newer players don't really have to worry about time dependency, it's a fairly advanced technique that's only really used by top players going for high acc plays on mid to high speed maps. If you're a new player, just aim down the middle of a block for the most points. hope this helps.
It’s not at all fair to compare it to Mario mix considering how amazing that game is, it’s truly in a league of its own and for anyone to even consider the thought of a game being as good as it is utterly idiotic
Wrist Injury Simulator 2018 Aight, time for my actual opinions for this game, that I've barely played. I've seen someone (or close relative, to be specific) and it's definitely a mind blowing game that's fun but at the same time hard for the player base who want it. Official OSTs in the game get tiring quickly and I'm happy that custom songs are an option (very needed option), overall, with my first impressions with the game, it's not my usual cup of tea, but it certainly is a great game to try out of curiosity. 8.5/10
not to mention when you get access to a VR headset you can play TONS of other amazing experiences and games, rhythm games included, like synth riders for example. SPECIALLY if you can connect it to a PC. big huge recommend for me, it’s easier to get into VR than ever right now (unless you hate facebook which i do too but, not much you can do about it)
I have 310 hours, playing for a year just about. I thought I'd play casually but I got more and more into the ranked stuff. I'm way too old to compete with the best (the top 100 average age is basically 14), my bones don't move that fast, but it's surprising how well it works as a game even when you push yourself.
Oh and I use the Quest 2 but with Link on a PC, I don't even own the Quest 2 version of the game. Quest 2 works very well as a PC headset, no reason to limit yourself to the Quest version of the game. The native quest version sucks because it takes FOREVER for mods to be updated after a game update, it's impossible to be a ranked player on the native version because Scoresaber will literally only work for like 3-4 weeks and then break again. Scoresaber hasn't been available on the Quest version for about 2 months now for example.
thank you so much for pointing out that the OST songs are bad, mods are a must need for this game. Edit: id love to see you get really good at beat saber lol, thatd be great
Beatsaber to me is one of the most awkward feeling rhythm games i've ever played, and some of the easier charts are more charming and fun than the difficult ones that just devolve into swinging up and down at 200 bpm
I was just about to ask how you felt about this game because it is my personal favorite rhythm game. You got me into osu and I'm trying to pick up some 4 key games too so I really appreciate your opinions on these kinds of games
@@megvmean im on steam ver with a few mods, its taking up 1gb not counting custom songs, 5.3gb when counting the ~450 custom songs i got (most of my custom maps are ranked scoresaber maps)
@@megvmean oh lol, well I don't have too much space, I play BS facing my bed, so theres nothing high enough infront of me, behind me there's maybe abit less than 1m space until a wall, as for side to side ig just make sure you can outstretch ur arms fully and dont have controllers touch anything (even when leaning side to side). Though I should mention I can't really play 360 maps due to the wall behind me but like 99% of custom maps aren't 360 maps lol. And I have to be aware of the bed when crouching under walls. Most importantly make sure you can swing your arms without hitting anything. Aside from 360 maps and more than 4 lane maps, both of which are pretty rare, your feet don't need to move at all. As for other games, most of them support controller-based movement and rotation, so you should be fine, but there are a few exceptions, e.g. iirc SUPERHOT VR doesn't.
Same bro, I wish someone would make a bunch of infant annihilator maps and I wish they would only be stamina stream maps, if someone mapped Ov Sacrament and Sincest it could easily be a top ranked map
I recently got into VR with the Quest 2 myself. Beat Saber in my opinion is just okay. It's fun and all but it didn't grab me like I thought it would. Now for a different and unique VR rhythm gaming experience, I highly recommend checking out Pistol Whip. It's a very unconventional rhythm game with a weird scoring system, but after you get past that hump of understanding how the game works it becomes truly amazing. Check it out sometime!
I just found this channel and I've been fascinated by your content. You have a new sub. Now: maybe you could solve a myth I've been looking for for years and I've never found any information... It's a video called "stepmania crash" or something. Which was about someone playing a marathon in stepmania... But it was only 4 songs one after the other until it reached a combo of approximately 30000... Which causes the game to collapse and close... I remember it 10 or 11 years ago... It really existed or it was just an invention of my mind...
I still want VR specifically for this game, lol. I'd be really interested to see your impressions on Spin Rhythm XD. I picked it up way back and I think it's pretty interesting, especially with the number of controller options that are available (I play with KB+M, but it's got options for just KB, as well as gamepad and actual DJ controllers) Thanks for the content! I don't often post youtube comments, but I've watched your stuff for a good while now.
if you need help setting up mods and stuff hit me up on discord (you can find me through modding discord and scoresaber discord) Current top 1 in Germany would love to help you with having a great experience with this game EDIT: Time dependency doesn't directly influence your scoring it just helps with getting better scoring. If you try to hid the middle of a block moving past you it is time dependent as you can imagine. By minimising time dependency by hitting the note diagonal through its fly path you get yourself a better probability to hit the middle. It does not count into the calculation of the scoring on a note from the game itself it just helps hitting higher precision.
Im so glad you did this review because I wasnt sure if I wanted to buy this game. I have a quest and im thinking about getting rid of it bc i would only play beat saber on it. I got it on a whim 2nd hand bc if was so cheap but still wasnt sure if i wanted to keep the console for the sake of the one game
If you want to mod bs you’re gonna want a PCVR headset, whether that be with oculus link or a native PCVR headset. With PCVR, you get access to more mods and get mods faster.
as a PSVR player I can proudly say that I used to play Beat Saber for about the first month that I got it, and now I almost never play it since I get tired playing the same shit all the time I am legitimately debating on whether or not I should just buy a Quest 2 for Beat Saber
i wish i was you man I've been playing the game for 2 years now and now i just feel depressed after playing it also you should get a link cable and play beat saber on your pc if it can handle it the experience is a lot better on pc
This might sound strange, but I wish there was a way to play without a VR headset. I only have one working eye, and the 3D effect of VR is lost on me: it's more like just holding my phone very close to my eye, if that makes sense. Otherwise, I enjoyed the game when I had the opportunity to try it.
Honestly for a good while, I thought the game looked stupid. Then I recently tried it. Now I cant put it down and im doing a couple songs on hard, and I include this (plus two more) in my routine gym nights... I honestly knocked it til I tried it and im sorry
Catching up with a few people and sharing a VR headset is not super responsible in times of Covid, friend... Explain yourself :P Cool vid, though. Glad you enjoy the game!
I can't play this game because all the songs are either too easy or too impossible. I literally can't find songs that are in my difficulty level. The expert and higher songs all scroll at the speed of light, it's wild that anyone can hit them. I wish they'd add a constant speed option, even if that meant disabling high scores.
It's not actually how hard you swing, but instead how "far" you swing (angle-dependent). There's quite a lot of technique that goes into optimizing each swing so you're not over/under-swinging or using too much energy for each swing, and basically every single top player agrees it'd be an awful idea to base scoring on something like timing instead.
@@sagittarius9237 interesting, does that mean there is legitimately no rhythm element to it? because, even if there are “streams”, there is a big difference between getting a stream of straight 50’s and 100’s and getting a stream of 300’s, in a game like osu. even though you technically hit the same amount of notes, the difference in skill required is literally ten fold. if there legitimately isn’t a significant rhythm element to it, thats kinda boring to me, no disrespect to the top players of course. the best scoring system of all time in my opinion is clone hero, where misses are penalized but not to a crazy extent, and there isn’t any accuracy element. if all you were doing was going for an fc, you can cheese streams in osu and pretty much exclusively get 100’s and 50’s as long as you overstream. looking at beat saber gameplay it looks and sounds exactly the same to getting bad accuracy on a stream in osu.
@@wjjxkskqkw The only real rhythm element is the time window your swing angles are judged in. However, as someone who plays both Osu and Beat Saber, I think something like streams is way harder to cheese in Beat Saber since your swings are direction-dependent, so something like double tapping simply isn't a thing.
@@wjjxkskqkw Beat Saber’s scoring system is the way it is because of its nature as a VR game; you’re moving in 3 dimensions. There are still timing windows, however that’s not the intentional method of gaining score. Also because of the fact that notes require you to hit them in a certain direction, trying to overstream will result in a ton of bad cuts.
Yo! I've been playing Beat Saber since launch and playing though PC is definitely the way to go. You can use the link feature on your quest 2 to run it though your PC which will make modding much simpler. You said that the mods that are available depend on your headset, and I guess that's true in a way, but a better way to look at it is that you're either on quest or on PC. The vast majority of headsets run though PC and modding the game won't pay any attention to what headset you're using as long as you just run it though steam (or through the oculus launcher using a rift/quest or ReVive). I believe there's a way to use link without even having a cable now so if your PC is strong enough to handle running VR, I definitely recommend using that rather than standalone quest 2. I have a Quest 1, Quest 2, and Rift CV1 and I pretty much exclusively use my rift for BS. Also, I definitely recommend checking out Audica! Lot's of VR rhythm games fall a bit flat IMO but Beat Saber and Audica are 2 great ones, but oculus bought the studio that makes Beat Saber so they constantly promote it and Audica doesn't get enough exposure!
