[Amusing] The Official GFF High Score Challenge Club Thread Society

Hi, this is the official thread of TOGFFHSCCTS, The Official GFF High Score Challenge Club Thread Society!

Fun though the arcade games here are (They're not), the scores there have been in place for a while and nobody can really be arsed to challenge them anymore, the thrill of competition has gone and there's simply no decent way to prove how much better a gamer you are than everyone else (Except for the Xbox high score table and that's always going to be dominated by a couple of our more perenial virgins). Whilst Omagnus and co's games club is a fun enough way to encourage people to play games in Philia's backlog, it lacks a certain edge, there's no real impetus to play the games other than a couple of posts at the end of the month about how crap graphics were on the PS2 and how talking animals are gay.

As such, in the interest of providing an outlet for our collective competitive streaks, I have founded TOGFFHSCCTS!

The idea is to have several concurrently run high score challenges featuring old games that pretty much everyone in the world owns. Rather than posting your best score from back when you were playing the thing, the challenge is to set a new best score to see how well your skills have survived the test of time. There will be no actual prizes but the leaders of each challenge will have ultimate kudos and bragging rights.

I'm going to suggest a few to start with but if there are any games you reckon you're a bit handy at and want to add in, post them here. You can take pictures of your high score if you want but I'd like to think that even here there's nobody sad enough to bother cheating at what is essentially a bit of fun.

So, first up, we have a couple of score challenges and a time trial challenge:

Gran Turismo 3

I was going to suggest either GT1 or 2 but my copies of either are nowhere to be found (Because I foolishly left a few of my PS1 games, the ones I was likely to play again sooner rather than later, somewhere seperate from all the others in storage. I can find every other game I ever bought except the ones I kept out ). Challenge is in Gran Turismo mode, buy a Toyota Supra RZ (It's 44,800 credits, anyone who already owns this game should have that much saved and if not it doesn't take long to earn it). You can put new wheels on it but no further modifications are allowed. You then go to Run and Settings in the My Home menu, choose Laguna Seca. It's the time for one lap we're looking for. You can use manual or automatic gears although everyone will laugh at you if you use automatic. I did a test run as a (Crap) benchmark and on my first attempt got round in 1'41.144.

Super Monkey Ball - Monkey Target

Fuck rolling balls around a maze, the only reason to play Monkey Ball was also pretty much the only reason to own a GameCube, to play Monkey Target. Challenge here is simple, the best score in a five-round match. Leave powerups turned on and I don't think there are any other options. My GameCube is buried deep in a drawer at the moment but if memory serves my old best score was 1,400 odd points. I shall dig it out (Or play it on a Wii) and give you a proper benchmark score later.

Vib-Ribbon

OK, I know that not everyone has a copy of Vib-Ribbon but everyone should have a copy. Challenge is for the best score on the Gold or Hard mode. My test run just now yielded a pretty rubbish 2,033 points. I'm open to suggestions of good music to play this to.

FAQ

Bit of a misnomer that as I'm going to answer them here so none of these should ever be asked, let alone frequently.

But Shin, there are loads of games coming out in March and Skills wants me to play Icaruga

That's not actually a question. Anyway, this is just a bit of fun, you don't have to take part. Plus, there's no time limit. I'll put up new challenges as people suggest them but I'm not going to take down old ones so join in whenever. Alternatively, put off buying Final Fantasy XIII for a week and get it for £10 less than it'll cost on launch day, giving you a week to play Vib-Ribbon. You know you're only going to complain about how there's no towns to visit and all the characters have too many zips anyway.

But Shin, the Supra RZ is a gay car for homos. Real men drive a Ford Mustang and play GT4

No, men who know nothing about cars and think that lots of hp = fast round a track drive a Ford Mustang. Also, men at the end of films made in America drive Fords, demonstrating the superiority of Detroit Muscle over that Ricer shit any day of the week. If that's really how you feel though, suggest a GT4 Muscle car challenge.

But Shin, Monkey Ball 2 had a much better version of Monkey Target

No it didn't, you couldn't fly for nearly as long and the whole formation thing made it more of a shotgun competition as opposed to the first game's sniper battle. Anyway, refer to my answer above, if you don't like it, suggest something else.

But Shin, I sold my copy of Vib-Ribbon along with all my other PS1 games to get $6 store credit to set against a copy of Professor Layton

The you're a fucking idiot, get out of my thread. Like I said, if you don't like the challenges here, suggest something different (But not Professor Layton).

But Shin, someone said they beat my high score but I think they're making things up and have photoshopped their screen grab

Then the real loser is them, for being that much of a loser. If winning a meaningless online contest is that important to you then frankly, I ought to ban you from the boards for your own good. I won't though, I'll just fuck about with your avatar and edit all your posts until I get bored.



High Score Tables

GT3 Supra Challeng

1: Shin - 1'41.144

Monkey Target Score Challenge

No scores yet entered

Vib-Ribbon Hard Mode Score Challenge

1: Shin - 2,033

Bosconian Score Challenge

No scores yet entered

Ikaruga Level 1 Medium Skill Challenge

1: SuperSonic - 2,404,900 (72 Max Chain)
2: Skills - 2M~ (60ish Max chain)
3: Shin - 454,440 (8 Max Chain)

Kirby's Pinball Land Score Challenge

1: nuttyturnip - 655,110
Have fun!

How ya doing, buddy?

Vib-Ribbon never came out in the US? For shame, it's one of the greatest rhythm games of all time.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Way to miss the point and be a complete dick at the same time Shin.

Way to get butthurt about what's obviously a joke, HomOmagnus.

Skills, the point of games club is to get people playing games they might otherwise not and to discuss them in a jovial fashion, nowhere in your thread is there any mention of comparing scores. When I was speaking to Philia a few weeks ago she asked me for ideas and I suggested it might be fun to have a score challenge on Monkey Ball or TT challenge on GT, two of the best selling games on their respective consoles, with a mind to this month being chock full of new releases and assuming something like this would take people a few minutes here and there when they get bored of bitching about FFXIII.

Since you're playing Ikaruga this month and apparently just so you can laugh at other people not being very good at it, I figured I'd start my own thread, primarily as a drop point for people who think they're pretty shit-hot at a game and want to test that theory against other people.

I've not rammed it full of rules and dates and limits because it's just a bit of fun that can sit here for ages and maybe once or twice generate a bit of friendly competition amongst friends. I know that with your superior powers of failing to attract emotional attachment from other human beings your position near the top of the 360 leaderboard is safe but the rest of us might fancy a different way to show off our excess of free time.

I apologise if you and HomOmagnus feel in any way threatened by this thread, it was meant as a light hearted bit of fun and I guess I forgot about Ben's prediliction to take everything as a mortal insult.

An Ikaruga score challenge would be a nice way to bring the two threads together, set some paramenters and I'll add it to the first post.

Oh yeah, I love Vib-Ribbon so much I store a copy online in case my disk breaks.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Fine, I'll avoid trying to explain things in future and stick to childish insults and changing people's profile information in future. Pardon me for trying to spark a bit of fun in here I'm sure. You want me to ask CHz to add an infraction for posts that are too long?

Loving your suggestions for April Fools so far by the way, oh paragon of community involvement.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Sorry Skills, I was reading your posts a little defensively and Philia, it was only a joke.

Skills, pick a level of Ikaruga for a score challenge, probably one of the earlier ones by all accounts.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I downloaded the trial version and managed 454,440 points with a max chain of 8. Was my first ever go though...

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?