Audiosurf doesn't seem to synch anything to the music, usually (according to videos)

glennmagusharvey

I've seen so many Audiosurf gameplay vids, and it is surprisingly rare that anything in the gameplay is synched with the music.

Well, I guess it's often loosely synched.  But I've never seen anything like, say, colored blocks on all melody notes for a whole phrase, or colored blocks on all downbeats for a whole phrase, or something like that.  The best I've seen is, say, colored blocks following the melody for the first few notes of a phrase, and then random junk.

Is the game really like this?

Formaldehyde

No. It syncs up pretty damn well at times. Sometimes, it just depends on the song.

DYRE

If nothing else, the shape and coloration of the road is pretty clearly synced to the song.

Bee

I know from personal experience how difficult it is to run an audio analyzer that recognizes anything useful.  Suffice to say musical elements are a lot more difficult to mathematically define than one would expect.

Audiosurf probably has the best algorithm out of rhythm games, but even it'll crash and burn every once in a while.  Also Youtube likes to desync audio every once in a while, but hey.

Icalasari

IJBM: Audiosurf is telling me to install quicktime, which I already have