No, not the ram. The game. Dance Dance Revolution. Anyone else play it? I have spent about an hour tonight playing it. ... ... ... OK, I admit it. I'm obsessed. Anyone else? Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Suckers. Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I just played it for the first time about a week ago and I loved it. I really want to play more often, but it's sort of expensive, and the place is a bit of a drive.
Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
I used to allow LANers play it at the LAN parties I used to host. We had some really good people...I on the other hand...lost to someone on crutches... Satyagraha
Posted by bn (Member # 5526) on :
I admit to having the DDR attachment for my PS2, but I use it for fighting games. Now THERE'S a challenge I encourage you all to try. There's nothing quite like the feeling you get from pulling off a quarter circle low punch on a dancemat
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Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Well... um... it's not an expensive habit for me
My brother built a pad, so I just play it on the computer at home at my leisure. I haven't paid a penny for DDR Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I'm trying to weasel my parents into getting it for me for X-mas, but I dunno if they're biting. Oh well, I plan on getting it with my Christmas money if they don't. Woo!
I figure, I live on the first floor of the dorm, there ought to be some perks. And yes, I've been addicted to the music for a long long time. I have a skinny white-boy friend who rocks hard at DDR, and I'm his fangirl. It's fun times. I'm hoping I can get good enough to bust out the moves at the arcade someday. ^_^
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Yeah, it's the skinny white boys and they Asians that are awesomely awesome at DDR. For instance, my brother is insane. He is half skinny white boy and half Asian. I wonder if that makes him really really good. I am half not-really-skinny-but-not-fat-either white boy and half Asian. What's rather amusing is that I am around level 8 or so (I have beaten one nine, once) but I have never actually gone to the arcade to play it. I really ought to do that some time. Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I asked for it for Christmas. Naturally, at first I'll suck. ANd more than likely, in a couple of months, I'll still suck.
But I will hop up and down in a most suckily way, and enjoy it.
[ December 24, 2003, 05:53 PM: Message edited by: T_Smith ]
Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
Explain how it works. Do you get to pick your own music? It sounds like great fun but if the music is bad and you can't change it then that ruins it completely for me. I won't be able to stand it. I have to quit exercise classes because of bad music a lot. <laughs>
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
y'know, I don't know if it's possible to use music you already know. DDR is mostly second rate techno, but the stuff that makes me do a song over and over is the cool dance moves. There is this one techno song (sunburst? starblast?) that I hear on the radio all the time, and that's pretty cool, as well as the "tribal" music.
Posted by Maethoriell (Member # 3805) on :
I woudln't mind if Santa gave me the game and the pad for Christmas.
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
I played DDR in the arcade several years ago, and immediately loved it. Though I sucked horribly.
Last year I was dating a guy who had a Playstation. I kept making noises about getting a Dance Mat and the DDR game so I could play at his house. I finally did -- on the same night he bought a PS2, so he "loaned" me his Playstation. I still have it, even though we are no longer dating. Said he didn't need it back as he had the PS2 anyway.
My collection has grown. I now have two dance mats (one non-skid), DDR, DDR Konamix, and DDR Disney. I'm looking to get a PS2 soon, and I'll probably buy this bundle from Walmart as it has, you guessed it, yet another DDR game in it.
My dancing has greatly improved. At first I stuck to songs like Macho Macho Duck from Disney DDR. Easy, simple, but still fun. Then came my first challenge: Night of Fire, also on Disney DDR. I failed this song about ten times before I finally managed to scrape by with a C. Now I can rountinely get AAA on it. Some of my favorites are Cutie Chaser, El Ritmo Tropical, and Look to the Sky.
Lately I've taken to going to Gameworks so I can play DDR in the arcade with other people. This allows me to have the social interaction I've sorely been missing. Plus, it's fun, and I get my exercise! I've had the pleasure of dancing with some first-timers. I also love watching others dance, too. There's this kid who's a regular there, who dancees non-stop for an hour, doing songs such as [url= Candy and Rhythymn and Police in heavy mode. Amazing!
I was dancing one night to my usual songs when someone stepped up next to me to join in at the next song. Looked up, and it's the kid! Told him there's no way I could dance with him, as he is way way too good. He told me to give it a try. What does he pick? Afronova. I can't even do Afronova on the Light setting (way too fast with too many jumps), and here he's picking the Heavy setting.
I lasted five seconds.
I've been taking my turn on the DDR Extreme machine lately (doing the easy songs of course), trying to challenge myself. My current favorite on Extreme is If You Were Here by Jennifer. On a good night I can pass this song. I'm rather out of shape, though, so I still have problems now and then. Soon, though, I will be able to pass it consistently!
[ December 24, 2003, 10:31 PM: Message edited by: xnera ]
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I'm crossing my fingers for DDR tomorrow. Heart set on it. Otherwise I'm buying it with my Christmas money.
AK: I like the music, but not everyone does. It's pretty much all techno, with some techno remixes of regular dance songs like Xanadu and In the Navy and stuff. But I like the music a lot, so meh. (shrug)
Sarcasmo: I believe you're thinking of SandStorm. ^_^ Fun times. Good song.
xnera: Fun! I'd love to get that good. (as good as you...) And I love Look to the Sky! I'm gonna master that song someday, I vow it!! ^_^
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Sandstorm is one of my favorite songs! Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
My friend and I, last year, were obsessed with DDR come second semester. She brought back her PS2 so we could do it every night. And we did. For three months. It was awesome. Then she moved out of the dorms, and that made it a little harder to play. We managed to play once this past semester, but we decided to challenge ourselves (only proper, seeing as we hadn't done it in months) by doing the "Challenge" mode. Good heavens, we were bad. That's the one where you only get 3 misses (read: Good or below) before you have to stop. It's more of the head-to-head one. A couple of them we wouldn't try because the song order blew goats, but my crowning triumph was betting past "I Like to Move It" on Heavy. She didn't, and she's the better one of us by a long shot Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I made a DDR reference at our family breakfast. My 17 year old neice laughed at the joke. Nobody else had a clue what I was talking about.
My neice now considers me cool and hip.
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
You can get StepMania for your PC or Mac. Saves you alot of money...
It's just not the same.
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Stepmania is what we have. My brother made his pad both compatible with Playstation and PC. It's a really nice program, actually. Especially since it is free Posted by Fantasiimaker (Member # 6050) on :
Did someone say DDR? I'm surprised to find a forum topic about DDR here...proof that DDR is taking over the WORLD!! MUahahahAH!
...ahem.
I started DDR almost 1 and 1/2 years ago with a soft pad and DDR Konamix from Fry's. Now I have DDR Max and Max2 as well, and I've just recently began to play more in the arcades. My little brother and I have been to two DDR tournaments; he's entered both, I've entered just the last one which was on Friday the 19th. Interesting and fun experiences, but neither of us got too close to winning. ^^ (visit my xanga for a long and detailed description.)
I consistently play DDR better at home than at the arcades, due to differences in the pads (soft versus metal). At home, I can pass most 9-footers with an A or above. We just got back from a trip to Reno, where I played on both the Extreme machines at Atlantis and Circus Circus. Aaah...DDR paradise. ^^
I also post on www.ddrfreak.com. Fellow DDRers, feel free to say hi! Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
Went to GameWorks last night for their New Year's party. It was pretty dead, which met more time for me on the DDR machines!
GameWorks has two machines--the original USA release, and DDR Extreme. The first machine has pretty much the same song selection as the first Playstation release. Which is great, 'cause hey, songs I love and know. But I can dance them anytime I want to at home. So I hogged the Extreme machine the whole night.
I altered between Beginner and Light. I'm still trying to beat Jennifer's "If You Were Here" on Light, but I kept failing out of it. Guess my legs just weren't up to it last night. I have new favorite songs, though! I've been humming Graduation all day today. And I'm totally in love with Speed Over Beethoven (it's based on Für Elise), and rather proud of myself for beating it on Light mode, as all those jumps are difficult for out-of-shape me. Also, I attracted quite a crowd while dancing to it on Beginner mode. I didn't realize how good I was dancing until a GameWorks employee came to clear the empty glasses off the machine and commented, "Hey, you're doing good! An 80 combo!" I was quite at this, as the best combo I've done before was probably in the 60s. I ended with a combo over 100, w00t!
Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
I love the music, but I don't have a Playstation 2 or a dance pad. Poor me. Poor, sad, me. Perhaps I will have a very good tax return. I live on the second floor, though, and I don't want to thunder about the apartment and disturb the neighbors. *grin*
I can't figure out how to d/l just the music from ddrfreak.com. Hurumph.
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
Wow, I came in here thinking, Design Documentation Report? But then I remembered, you guys aren't engineers in the US Government...
-Mike
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
It sounds really fun, except the music sounds completely dreadful. I bet I would not be able to stand it. It's weird that I am this way. I have to quit exercise classes all the time because of the music they choose. <laughs> I wish I could get over that but I really don't know how I could. Hopefully DDR will catch on to the point that all sorts of different music will be available for it. Cause it does sound really fun. I'd love to try it.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
... and I came in here thinking, ah, Deutsche Demokratische Republik...
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Guess my legs just weren't up to it last night. I have new favorite songs, though! I've been humming Graduation all day today. And I'm totally in love with Speed Over Beethoven (it's based on Für Elise), and rather proud of myself for beating it on Light mode, as all those jumps are difficult for out-of-shape me. Also, I attracted quite a crowd while dancing to it on Beginner mode. I didn't realize how good I was dancing until a GameWorks employee came to clear the empty glasses off the machine and commented, "Hey, you're doing good! An 80 combo!" I was quite ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
at this, as the best combo I've done before was probably in the 60s. I ended with a combo over 100, w00t!