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Poll 28: How did you hear about the game?

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How did you hear about the game?

A friend introduced me to the game.
552
44.09%
I read an article about the game.
15
1.20%
I watched a celebrity/streamer play the game.
152
12.14%
I stumbled upon a YouTube video of the game.
290
23.16%
I read about the game on a social media outlet.
35
2.80%
I came from another video game community.
107
8.55%
Other
101
8.07%
Total votes: 1252
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Kyrari
Was actively playing LoL and it was a time where I started watching streams more than playing, then when I was watching Dyrus' stream one day I noticed he often plays another game while waiting for matches since it takes so long.

Basically I asked around after that and finally came upon osu! and I ended up playing more osu! than LoL after that
NaTha
I was in skype with a friend and he clicked hardcore on his Keyboard and i asked him what he's doing and he showed me osu
Weavoid
If I remember correctly, I literally just... found it, I guess. I go onto a lot of different websites about gaming/anime, and when I find some show or game I haven't heard of that gets my interest, I'll Google search it. I guess some page mentioned the word osu, I highlighted it and searched Google. :lol:

That's how I find most new games and anime, to be honest!
Topic Starter
Nyquill

Shurelia wrote:

Got this game from randomly dropped USB Drive.
If you aren't kidding this is pretty impressive :D
Myles
One of my friends had osu link to their steam account and I was curious as hell because I had never heard of the game lol. So then I played it when he told me what it was and then that was when the addiction started :D
Makoto_
Well, this is like, my first time ever commenting since I started to play the game, feels weird. Whatever.
The very first time I heard/saw the game was because some friend linked me to some Twitch channel (I don't really remember) And I like, saw the game, watched it some seconds before closing the tab, that was like 2 years ago or more, before school started that year.
Then, when I really paid attention at this game was at school, me and some classmates were slacking, they already knew about osu!, and they also said one of the computers had the game so I was like "'kay, let's give it a try" and I started to fail a few times before tilting. The same day I downloaded the game and started to play it as some desperate choice.
Edit: I'd like to know why it has Japan Time. Please someone tell me :L
Silverdesu

MakotoKikuchi wrote:

I'd like to know why it has Japan Time. Please someone tell me :L
ppy = lives in Japan

Welp, might as well contribute: I don't really quite remember about how I found this game, only that I really sucked at it but was ridiculously hooked on it. I also remember this being one of the first accounts I ever created with the alias "SilverStarlight," so I find myself constantly drawn back into the game. I think I found it after a couple of google searches on "rhythm games" and I really liked this game, until at some point when I was almost non-stop playing Minecraft, another game I discovered roughly around that time. Now, I'm back and I'm ready to click circles (and not to blow my own whistle, but I'm a whistle blower; I think I'm decent at it now)

Edit: Even back then I knew who Cookiezi was and I kinda revered him, embarrassing as it is to admit
CSLM
before of meet osu! i was obsesed with the graphic novels of higurashi no naku koro ni, and there was a song which i really like it: Ayane - Angelic Bright. Searching some videos of the song i find a replay of that map in youtube and then i start to find out more about it. Some weeks after that i start osu in may of 2013 in my sister's laptop 'cause the update of that time doesn't work in my PC, and i had to leave it. Then i try it again in my PC in july, and with the update of July did it work. Since then i'm here, mapping for the community :D
piruchan
I was looking through a friend's desktop shortcut when I found a mania style rhythm game with auto generated map. He said there's one more similar game but with maps that fit the song better, and he showed me osu!.
Electovoid
I actually first stumbled across osu when a cosplayer on instagram @/geheichou posted a video of him playing osu!stream - I thought it seemed like a cool game(I've always loved rhythm games^~^) checked out the android app store and found that the non-official android version didnt work on my phone - thought it was a shame and left it like that

Fast forward a few months and i go to a con with a small group of friends - on the train ride home they were talking about some rhythm clicking game and how they should play later- i ask if it happened to be osu! And found that it was on the computer and not just mobile :D
- Later got the game and played a bit with them using my graphics tablet as i didnt have a mouse xD
- now i am addicted, and have well passed the times were i could still play with them - It just isnt fair for me to now xD Im pretty lucky to start out with a graphics tablet my whole journey :)
[ Jg ]
Saw my brother playing, now i'm here.

/s Still a skrub tho. D:
StixStix
I picked Other because, i was and still a huge fan of rhythm games, so i searched google for any multiplayer rhythm and boom came OSU!
OnosakiHito
Wanted to play Taiko in online modus.
Kurai
My brother and I were big fans of the original iNiS games, he found the game one day back in 2008 and that's how I started playing osu!.
BlackMidKnight
This: :)
Deterioration
osu tatakae ouendan
Fukita
all because of a streamer called IKANNIXI




he's god
Seijiro
I just fall under the general "friend introduced me to the game. he quits 2 days after and I'm still here after almost 3 years. Lol" xD
Mint
I used to play StepMania a lot, but a lot of songs I liked didn't have any fun KB simfiles online. When I tried to look for them I ended up here and became hooked on standard mode owo.
-kevincela-
Found a video regarding osu! by Card N'FoRcE during the first months of 2010 while searching for ouendan videos :p
meii18
Just saw some videos on youtube about it.Actually,I know about osu! since around 2010 but I joined 3 years later
Rurree
Was hooked on DJ Max Technika back then. Then I got bored and asked in MyAnimeList for a free game online, then most suggested Osu!
Professor Gila
i saw my sister played this
gh500
I was looking for the OSU (Oklahoma State University) when I stumbled across this game. :roll:
Duzx
I was a long time rhythm game fan and actively searched online to find a game to play.
ruarifinn
I don't exactly remember how I got introduced to osu! but from what I remember, I was watching Dyrus's Stream (LoL Streamer) and he started playing on stream and the game looked very interesting as I loved music and anime, so I downloaded and 2 years later I don't regret anything :D
Harbyter
friend ~
rotodomo
Got here through social media. I was scouring the internet for coding blogs and stumbled across peppy's dev blog where he talked about this thing called osu!...

...and the rest is history...
wendyes
i actually first found out about this with the video of Cookiezi's old final play. I thought it was legit and started watching more videos of this game and getting into the drama and such lol. Didn't actually make an accout and play until recently though.
ouranhshc



this is what got me into osu!
Garven
I had played the DS games when they first came out after I found about about rhythm tengoku and started searching for music games on handhelds. After playing through those, I didn't really look for any alternatives until I saw a thread on 4chan talking about good music games "besides osu" so I came to check it out. Apparently it's been 6 years since then.
E_Sweezy
this ridiculous video got me initially interested after watching some memes of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPVIgshtOag
Hisoka Yuuji
A friend showed it to me,mania mode then,I re-started it now mostly because all other free-2-play games are getting boring and repetitive.
This is gold! You play your favourite music. Thank you peppy for creating this!!
;)
Doqtor Kirby
There's an osu! community in our high school gaming club.

I was watching the school's best player play.
Novalogic
Fun fact - my kid sister showed it to me, and she herself stopped playing very soon after. I'm sticking around almost 7 years already ;x
AGRX
damn BoxBox playing osu
Mirt
I was on twitch and went to Osu! wondering what it was. I then proceeded to click on a stream titled "Don't watch me, I'm bad" and that's pretty much what made me download Osu. I had another friend who downloaded it at the same time and we played Pika Girl for two days straight. Unfortunately he quit though >.>
G-Osu
I was scrolling the app store's music games, Until I saw osu!stream. I searched osu!, I signed up for osu! after.
guitartsword
a friend: PwnBlck
He discovered osu, well he is a nintendo fan, he likes rythm games (Like rythm heaven). And since osu is inspired from a nintendo rythm game, well, you must know what happened.
Don't know how he discovered nintendo osu, since it was released only in japan... Of course... He is a nintendo fan :lol:
neko cookies
my brother introduced me to it, after he was introduced to it by something he read about improving at league of legends. it seems a lot of people come here for getting better at other games?
mulraf
mmm... i voted for "I stumbled upon a YouTube video of the game." but that doesn't describe it perfectly.
i'm an amv editor and a fellow amv editor uploaded a video someday where she showed playing one or two songs and made a game with 7 others from the comments (including me even though i didn't even download the game at that point). at the beginning i was really shocked how anyone could even play normal maps oO so i trained enough to pass easy maps before i went into the multiplayer match and that's basically what got me into it in the end.
Scarlet Evans
I stumbled upon a YouTube video of the game.

Months ago, when Last.FM wasn't terribly broken and I was still using it, I loved to check pages of Japanese artists, which music I was listening. On last.FM, there was often a link to youtube video on the song page, so you could listen to it. There was also a nice feature to find "similar artists", from which I was making a good use.

However, you know how it is with Japanese music randomly uploaded on youtube and copyrights - it often disappears. Thus, some people found a solution - linking youtube videos with osu! gameplay replays of the songs, if they were missing.

At first I was mostly ignoring them, as I was only listening to music and hitsound were annoying. Nevertheless, while listening to anime music, both at last.FM and directly on youtube page, I was encountering osu! replays quite often. I checked some of them and started to wonder "what game it is?"

I quickly got interested by them. I don't remember what song it was, but after one of these videos the dam get broken and I told myself: "Enough! I am checking this game, I must to try it!"
Runiel
My Bud introduced it to me, so i decided to try it, best decision of my life
MostDakka
I actually read about it in a video game magazine and it was added on cd so i gave it a try and osu sucked me in.
Meah
I stumbled upon a YouTube video of the game
_HiguchiKaede
Saw my friend playing on school computer, then I tried to play it at home. Few weeks later he stopped playing but I'm still here today ><
Can't imagine if I wasn't encounter this game ;w;
urbanhero
I watched my sibling and his friend play this game and it looked fun so I snooped around until I found the name of this game.
Bara-
I saw 'Best Osu! Players of 2012!'
I downloaded it, and I'm still playing ^_^
Xeiiryuu
I stumbled upon a YouTube video of the game,

While searching for a new released anime opening song. that time there is no full version nor a Tv size yet on YouTube for that song, Only a Osu! Video. After i watched it, I decided to start the game because it seems fun and interesting.
-londy
A friend told me about the game 2 and a half years ago, but I only started playing last July because I was bored as sh*t. Turns out its a lot more fun then I expected :)
Topic Starter
Nyquill
I accidentally set the poll for 1 day too long :p

Thanks to everyone who contributed. A new poll will be coming at the beginning of February, so look forward to it!
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