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Scratch: The Ultimate DJ - The Controller

Learn how you'll be cutting on the one and...um...ones.

Jun. 12 2009

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Scratch: The Ultimate DJ

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Never heard of this, wonder if it ever actually released

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Edited By irainhumor

scratch scratch scratch...thats all you need to know

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Edited By caseylakes

From what I have seen, and with DJ Hero developers, having the background it does with rhythm games, I think I will be buying DJ Hero.

I just prefer what DJ have done with the controller, and the trailer was pretty good aswell.

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Edited By milpool

Who is developing this game?  It looks like garbage compared to DJ Hero.  The controller looks like crap too, way bigger than it needs to be.  This is a great example of why developers should not just jump on the peripheral music train and hope for the best.

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Will scratching becoming annoying

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Edited By FrumpyBiscuts

Lol, I was really hoping at the end he would say "Scratch tech . . . it's in the game!"

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Edited By brydello

This looks fucking awesome!

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Edited By MrRedwine

To me, this looks like a much more realistic approach to how DJs work.  Also, do graphics really matter THAT much in a music game?

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Edited By aurahack

Man... this is depressing...

I was hoping this would actually look cool, but even an actual Numark controller can't seem to save this thing... DJ Hero seems to be making a conscious effort to have interesting gameplay even with it's completely fucked controller. This... it looks like Beatmania. With a worse track selection. And a terrible presentation.

No, thank you...

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Edited By megalowho

I think it looks like an awesome peripheral. And mixing freestyle scratching and fading with MPC beat patters could be really fun, if that's what the gameplay is.

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Edited By WightnNerdy

Wow, that actually looks really boring. DJ Hero looks far better.

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Edited By digital_sin

The dude doing the demo is kinda creepy, but I'm kinda rooting for these guys, just because I hate how Activation tried to bring them down and bury them before they even got started.

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Edited By joshy9411

get your HANDS! on the music....

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Edited By dethfish

The graphics look terrible and that scratch deck looks like it was made in the late 80s. That's just looks though, the game still could be fun.

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Edited By shroom

i want it!!!

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Edited By FuzzYLemoN

Now this is MUCH easier to understand than that terrifying/confusing DJ Hero controller...

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Edited By Paradigmer

That commercial didn't sell me on anything. I don't think even a killer song list can save them.

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Edited By vladgd

looks interesting, ill have to keep my eye on this one.

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@bigdaddyjack21:  I was thinking the samething
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Edited By goatmilk

This controller looks way better than DJ Hero's but the gameplay.. Hm, not sure about that.

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Edited By basshero

TO me it just looks like guitar hero with scratching sections added... Dj Hero looks more authentic by far!

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DJ Hero seems to be more of a DJ-like thingy, which is cool. This is just Guitar Hero with scratching or should I say Beatmania?

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This is a fake 1980s informercial right???

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Edited By Grillbar

is this the rock revolution of scratch games now??
the games looked really bad the controller was kinda anoying somehow and the track was terrible.
actually there was not much i liked.

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Edited By Death_Unicorn

This commercial was brought to you by SPANDEX!
Man, when I saw the game in motion, it looked horrible.

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Edited By i2v2nr20i

So why are they showing the DS version?

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@thenexus said:
" I did laugh at "first and only"May give them first, but far from the only, Really daft even saying that. "
I wont even give them first. http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/801/800pxbmiidxcontrollerik0.jpg
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Edited By Kyle

Okay, so they took the Beatmania controller and made it better. ZOMG TECHNOLOGICAL MARVEL. Yawn.

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Edited By MeatSim

I know the graphics aren't a big deal for these games but this game looks ugly for 360/ps3 game.

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Edited By wolfbaru

this looks like a great deck... to bad the game looks like shit. DJ hero seems to have the exact opposite problem.

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@ThePhenomenal1: It gives a pretty good view of the general budget of the game...
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Edited By BountyHead
@RobtheRobot: No but that doesn't mean they shouldn't put a little effort into the visuals. I was just shocked by how bad it looked. It seriously looked like PS1 graphics. But I've seen screenshots that looked descent. If the game is fun and has a solid track list then I'd play it regardless.
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I did laugh at "first and only"
May give them first, but far from the only, Really daft even saying that.

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@Sunjammer said:
" That controller is looking totally killer. I dunno bout the game, but that's absolutely killer in terms of authenticity. "
I agree, this game looks really good. I can't wait to play both.
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@BountyHead: Dude do the graphics really matter in a music game?
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Edited By BountyHead

What was with those graphics?!? They look HORRIBLE! Is there some unannounced DS version we don't know about?

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Edited By ThePhenomenal1

whats with everyone talking about the graphics? its a fucking music game! you're not going to look at anything other than the notehighway.

not quite sure about this game yet, but to all the people talking shit about the controller, it at least looks like a normal turntable. i've yet to see a record with buttons on it.

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Edited By mrsmiley

that looks horrible. at least in DJ hero it combines scratching and the colored buttons.

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Edited By YoungDetective

Those graphics look seriously like PS1 level.

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Dude, DJ Hero looks so much better...

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Edited By JJWeatherman

I don't know a lot about being a DJ but those buttons on the controller looked like you try to play guitar hero on a flat surface without a strum bar. Not too fun looking imo.

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those graphics are ugly! so ugly!

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that had the production value of an 80's educational video. 

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Edited By Sooperspy

The crowd looked like N64, even the DJ looked like early PS2.
The controller looks ok, but DJ Hero's looks way better

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Lol!

No.

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Edited By ProfessorZombie

Yes Yes.... Yes... Yes.... I am deeply impressed by this video. I cant wait to play this game!

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Edited By AURON570

the buttons look a bit unresponsive. beatmania is cooler than any of the crappy DJ games coming out these days.

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Edited By CrazedJoker

Looks more legit than DJ Hero's Controller.

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Edited By Itsdapoleece

Congrats Numark, you made a crapgasm of plastic and software that manages to be NOTHING like mixing.  I'm not a big fan of DJ Hero since I actually DJ, but at least that one controls much closer to the real thing than this abomination.

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Edited By Myomoto

Woah, the textures on the dance crowd looked like a ps1 game...