Dance Dance Revolution

[Brushfire]

I prefer ITG to DDR... perhaps it's the harder difficulty level? I love a challenge. But as far as ITG goes, the music IMO is, for the most part, better (aside from Reven-G and DM Ashura works)

ITG/ITG2 favs:

1.) Energizer

2.) Monolith

3.) !

4.) Tension

5.) Tribal Style

My personal preference is Pump It Up. To me the steps seem more thought out as opposed to the mindless stepping of DDR or ITG.

[LiquidGlass]

I prefer ITG2 simply because of the fact I can play whatever stepfiles are out there. It really adds a lot to the game when you have a pretty much infinate amount of songs to choose from. My only problem is finding people who make doubes charts. I suppose I could do it myself, but I spend WAY too much time creating stepfiles. Enough time to where it's not even worth it.

[The Pezman]

I've long been out of DDR practice, and even at my peak I was nowhere near nerdcore. I tried to play with my also out-of-practice friend last weekend and it was very difficult for us to finish some heavy songs on Maxes 1 & 2 (so ashamed!).

However, this means I'm a bit out of the loop on a couple of things:

1.

What are those circles that show up occasionally?

2. How were they suppose to respond to more than two arrows simultaneously? If you look at the video, you'll notice arrows are still coming while a pair of freeze arrows are already in effect.

3. What's the best way for an out of practice DDRer to earn back his skillz? My friend's school has it as a gym activity, and he made sure he was one of the six to sign up. My school, as of yet, has no such course.

[Bigfoot]

Those are mines. They're in In The Groove. Basically it just adds more challenge.

Best way? Probably buy the home mixes and invest in a metal pad, or you could just go play at the arcade

[The Pezman]

But how is it physically possible for them to step on three arrows at once?

[Gollgagh]

Who knows, maybe they have big feet like Bigfoot here.

[Bigfoot]

But how is it physically possible for them to step on three arrows at once?

Well, like Gollgagh mentioned, if you have big feet like me then you can just use your feet:

Or you can use your hands:

[Bigfoot]

Some videos from DDR Storm X. The pads were being dumb, so it was just the one with the most fantastics win.

Flash is too good.

Flash vs Soul of Ignorance - Let My Love Go Blind

Soul of Ignorance vs Kaze - Holy Guacamole

Kaze vs Flash - Xuxa

Kaze vs Flash - Tell

Flash vs Kaze - Hardcore of the North

Flash vs Kaze - Utopia

[shikigami]

2. How were they suppose to respond to more than two arrows simultaneously? If you look at the video, you'll notice arrows are still coming while a pair of freeze arrows are already in effect.

hands +10chars.

[shikigami]

Did you fail at reading comprehension or something?

try just responding with "hands" and see what happens.

[Gollgagh]

hands‫‫‫‫‫

[shikigami]

okay whatever you owned me.

[Bigfoot]

Here's me playing Honey Punch on Pop'n Music 13. I'm ok as a player, I've passed a 36. The highest difficulty is a 42 I think.

[Malaki-LEGEND.sys]

So... I've gotten the DDR bug, and I'm thinking of grabbing DDR Universe for the 360 along with the dance pad, but I'm not totally sure about it yet.

65 songs? I hope alot of them are recurring from past games like DDRMAX. I friggin' loved the tracks on that one. And what about dance pads? Is the one that comes along with the game good enough or should I go 3rd party? Wired or Wireless?

Thanks in advance.

[Bigfoot]

I've played some of the songs on Universe. I liked them, especially the Tsugaru one. This one:

Soft pads are a lot better than what they used to be. When I first played DDR, it was on a Dreamcast on 2nd mix. The soft pad was terrible because it would crumple up like paper and always move around.

Now they have a grippy bottom and they don't crumple up, even on harder songs. I bought the Mario Mix on the GC when it came out, and I was surprised how well the pad that's included worked. But, it's still a soft pad, so it's not the best thing.

If you aren't satisfied with the pad that comes with it though, you could always go for an Ignition pad. It's better than a soft pad because you can feel the panels, and it's not too pricey compared to a metal pad. http://www.redoctane.com/ignitionpadv3.html

[shikigami]

i need a bar, so if i were to ever play at home id have to buy one of the metal pads w/ bar. good thing im not a huge ddr fan.

[Bigfoot]

i need a bar, so if i were to ever play at home id have to buy one of the metal pads w/ bar. good thing im not a huge ddr fan.

Use the back of a chair/couch

[shikigami]

Use the back of a chair/couch

ive used the chair method, but, lets just say bad experience. i cant play anyway since i dont live on the 1st floor anymore. the people below me would probably get pissed.

[Broken]

I've played some of the songs on Universe. I liked them, especially the Tsugaru one. This one:

Soft pads are a lot better than what they used to be. When I first played DDR, it was on a Dreamcast on 2nd mix. The soft pad was terrible because it would crumple up like paper and always move around.

Now they have a grippy bottom and they don't crumple up, even on harder songs. I bought the Mario Mix on the GC when it came out, and I was surprised how well the pad that's included worked. But, it's still a soft pad, so it's not the best thing.

If you aren't satisfied with the pad that comes with it though, you could always go for an Ignition pad. It's better than a soft pad because you can feel the panels, and it's not too pricey compared to a metal pad. http://www.redoctane.com/ignitionpadv3.html

I second the Ignition pad reccomendation.

Also, lol at the dancer in the background of that song

[Brushfire]

I ended up buying the $300 Metal Monster that and it worked great until the cable to my computer got pulled out and it broke >__<. I ended up having to splice the cable back together and the down arrow didn't work well. 300 bux down the tubes.

[ElectricCatfish]

ive used the chair method, but, lets just say bad experience. i cant play anyway since i dont live on the 1st floor anymore. the people below me would probably get pissed.

Hehe I nearly broke me neck doing that too but I've gotten better

[Bigfoot]

Solina 99.77%

Listen to the song playing in the background at around 0:48 into the video. It's on beat with Solina. "I see you baby... shaking that ass"

[atmuh]

Soft pads are a lot better than what they used to be. When I first played DDR, it was on a Dreamcast on 2nd mix.

konamix here

[Gollgagh]

Man, I wish there was a machine on-campus.

[bmhedgehog]

Hey everyone did you guys pick up Supernova 2 for PS2 yet?

I kinda like it, but i still wish that they did away with the stupid Dance Master Mode (its called Hyper Master Mode in the game but its still the same stupid consept).