anyone play Stepmania?

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 11:02 am

Metal pads are A LOT better since I'm able to control where to put my feet down. Because of that, I was able to do insane dance steps like that song "Captain Jack". 8) 8)

I usually get a B on DDR.

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:20 pm

Of course they're all Heavy. Actually, Magic Door is Heavy Doubles (D after the difficulty in the filename means doubles).

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:29 pm

Oh and I should say the big thing I have against all the emulators and even the home versions of DDR is that they all have rediculously huge perfect windows and are far too easy to cheat at. By default all the PC DDR emulators have perfect windows so large you could drive a truck through them, I could AAA most everything with my fingers using the emulators WITHOUT cheating. The home versions of DDR have similar loose timing, although not as obscene. But nothing is like the arcade version, and I refuse to play on anything else really, although apparently at AWA they're gonna be using a damn pad and PS2 for their "competition". Pathetic.

Plus, playing with your fingers is no challenge at all. DDR and DDR steps sets were designed to play with your feet - playing with your fingers removes all the challenge. If you want to see a game that's supposed to be played with your hands/fingers, go play Beatmania, Beatmania IIDX, or Pop'N'Music. Those are games that you play with your hands, and thus their difficulty in actually performing the patterns is correspondingly more difficult.

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:30 pm

I agree with the statement about how the large windows for perfects makes it substantially less difficult. Therefore, I don't really use DWI (or console versions, for that matter) as a subsitute for the arcade version. I mainly use it (with the keyboard) to help gauge whether or not I would be able to pass the song/difficulty at the arcade. Sure, there are stepcharts, but DWI is better at demonstrating how the bpm comes into play or finding out what part of the music certain steps correspond to.

leathelanime · Post by **leathelanime** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:38 pm

who the hell plays DDR with their hands on consoles? I own a Cobalt Fluxpad pad 2 of them actually (http://cobaltflux.com/) very expensive to boot. I really dont care about the perfect give on the consoles and Arcade version to much because hardly get any perfects as is so I dont worry about that to much.