612,851 on Voyage #52! My eyes are bleeding and my fingers hurt from just two rounds of Voyage. Thank goodness I have Hot Shots to break things up.
Friend leaderboards are working for me now too. Nice...it begins.
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Lumines: Electronic Symphony |OT| Shake Ya Body
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612,851 on Voyage #52! My eyes are bleeding and my fingers hurt from just two rounds of Voyage. Thank goodness I have Hot Shots to break things up.
Friend leaderboards are working for me now too. Nice...it begins.
Xander51
Member
Yes. Mondo Grosso is actually this dude:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo_Grosso
And Genki Rockets is a band that Tetsuya Mizuguchi is a part of, with a "Virtual" lead singer played a real woman.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
I'm sitting at #4 on the Voyage leaderboard. I'm #1 for the day too. I know it won't last, but it is fun seeing it. My best Voyage run so far is 1,611,035.
Awesome. It's gonna take some time for me to get used to the system. My thumb kept hitting the stick. There are also some new blocks that were doing things that confused me.
InfectedZero
Member
Ill be joining the war next week people. I'm very excited. Ill be adding a few of you here.
Berek Halfhand
Member
Add me.
PSN: Berek
PSN: Berek
Dog Problems
Banned
You're doing better than I am. Highest I've gotten is 66K lol
It's a nice game because you can just chill out and play and get better every time and then start to do things you thought were impossible. Just ignore the overall leaderboards and also it helps to be competing with someone around your skill level through the leaderboards GeoWars-style.
Square Triangle
Member
This game is so damn gorgeous, my eyes are melting.
PSN- Jrod87
PSN- Jrod87
Dog Problems
Banned
Yeah, I've noticed I'm slowly getting better. Each time through I my score gets a bit higher.
adamsappel
Member
We're never going to get a Lumines game where we can play our own music, are we? We'd never have to upgrade.
Outside of the fun of being exposed to different musicians, I'd still want more Lumines games on future systems because I'm a graphics whore and I want to see what kind of skins they can come up with.
Baconsammy
Banned
This makes no sense. The sound effects are pre-planned to match the music tracks. The only difference in this game is that for some reason they didn't bother to match the sound of hitting the back touchpad to the individual skins. The effect they used sounds bad and out-of-place. Shame on them for that oversight.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
How is everyone getting such amazing scores? I've yet to break 100k! =(
There really never was any doubt once the trophy list was released. Games don't just have platinums; they have to have a certain amount of points accumulated from the other trophies as well, and Lumines doesn't have anywhere near that amount of other trophies. In fact, it has the same amount of downloadable games that don't have platinums.
Baller. PhD
Banned
I'm frankly shocked that it's even allowed for a full retail release to not have a platinum. What the fuck, Sony? Shit like this really makes me question whether they really have everything together. Just... how?
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
A lot of it comes down to practice. Eventually you get to where you can see your upcoming blocks in your peripheral vision and you have a plan to use them before they come up. Keeping the score multiplier going is key. Try to make sure you are deleting 4 or more blocks each time the bar passes through the screen. That'll make your score shoot up like crazy.
Lemming_JRS
Member
dumb question, sorry if it was answered earlier in the thread -
is it possible to save your state in the game and come back later? I don't mean to keep it running as a multitasking thing, I mean can I save my game, play some Wipeout, then come back to my saved Lumines game? I remember my games on the PSP version would sometimes go for hours. Or maybe my wife wants to play a marathon game while I'm in the middle of Rayman.
thanks!
edit: if not, it should.
is it possible to save your state in the game and come back later? I don't mean to keep it running as a multitasking thing, I mean can I save my game, play some Wipeout, then come back to my saved Lumines game? I remember my games on the PSP version would sometimes go for hours. Or maybe my wife wants to play a marathon game while I'm in the middle of Rayman.
thanks!
edit: if not, it should.
To answer your question; because they don't have everything together. They've been poorly managed since probably 2005. Hopefully Kaz being the new CEO will make a difference, but I'm not optimistic.
Baconsammy
Banned
An easy way is to just keep erasing one color entirely before the line passes each time. Doing so nets you 1000 points each time. Get lucky and remove both colors and you get 10k. Once you get a grip on how the different combo of blocks interact, then you can start laying down groups of each color so that you can quickly link a bunch of the same color together for a big bonus as the line passes over it. Any grouping over 3 nets you a bonus.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
I'm really hooked on the 60 second stopwatch challenge. My best so far is 91. I know that I broke 120 in the first Lumines, I just need to practice.
BlazingDarkness
Member
Good god, the GT Player is like pulling teeth, shit is terrible
Also you'd think GT would have direct feed capabilities, of all places
Also you'd think GT would have direct feed capabilities, of all places
brettchalupa
Member
I'm really quite awful at this game, but I am loving it to pieces. The soundtrack is really good, and each time I play Voyage mode I get a little bit further. I hope the soundtrack will be available for purchase at some point. 
OMG
I just got a high score on Voyage of 266,000 something. And then I accidentally hit "retry" instead of "quit" and it didn't fucking record the score or my XP earned. It was just over an hour long session in Voyage and I would have unlocked tons of skins...
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
I just got a high score on Voyage of 266,000 something. And then I accidentally hit "retry" instead of "quit" and it didn't fucking record the score or my XP earned. It was just over an hour long session in Voyage and I would have unlocked tons of skins...
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Time to rage sell the game!
Baconsammy
Banned
By the sound of it, they made the game easier with the random block.
Oh no, so whats the new score cap? I'm going to be busy...
RomanticHeroX
Member
Hit ~450k on an 85 minute game of Voyage. Not enough for the real leaderboards, but I made it on the daily one which feels pretty nice. And now I can't actually see anything.
Baconsammy
Banned
Not sure. I bought it but cant play it until my Wifi unit arrives Wednesday.
Blargh... I really can't wait for this. I ended up getting Uncharted first (picked up my preorder yesterday) but I think I'm going to grab Lumines from Target on Sunday and play that first, and apparently forever.
Cannot wait.
Baconsammy
Banned
Just a reminder in case you didnt know, but you can download a demo of it from PSN(SEN) right now.
The leaderboards for the timed modes use score instead of blocks. w/e but stupid imo
Also it's Lumines and it's amazing and all that but the load times are obnoxious at times. Dunno if it's specific to the PSN version but sometimes I have to wait like 10 seconds for the damn leaderboards to load.
Also it's Lumines and it's amazing and all that but the load times are obnoxious at times. Dunno if it's specific to the PSN version but sometimes I have to wait like 10 seconds for the damn leaderboards to load.
I remember a couple of reviews mentioning the long load times in this game. UMvC3, another Vita game that I'm looking forward to, also seems to have long load times. Throw in the more egregious example of Wipeout, and I'm a little concerned about how Vita handles loading in general. Hopefully, this problem will diminish once the system is past its launch period.
I don't have my Vita yet, it is likely I will get Lumines before my Vita :/.
I just reinstalled the Steam version of Lumines and did a challenge run. I only have 326,766. I have shamed myself and my family.
MikeE21286
Member
Anyone else have trouble installing the game? It keeps locking up my system
Edit: fixed by repairing database in recovery mode
Edit: fixed by repairing database in recovery mode
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
It is too bad that the game doesn't have a platinum. I just finished getting all of the trophies and really wish there were more. Oh well. It is still great.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
The copy on my desk (it's on my Super Nintendo) is just begging to be played.
Oh, so there isn't a platinum at all for this game? Aw. Seems like some retail Vita games have a plat and others don't. Maybe this was originally supposed to be DD only?
I think that's exactly what happened.