At least, until people finally declare DDR Freak dead.

LOL @ Setzer posting.

And yes, this is actually Konami's fourth, I believe, attempt at making DDR forums.

Cutriss

Better late than never.

Wonder how many people(Who played the non trackable versions like crazy) will revisit their old days and try to achieve high scores, just so that its there in their 'community' profile.

Good move I must say.

Reetesh

A little late... I'm pretty sure DDRFreak will remain the go to site for DDR information.

FancifulUnicorn

Pssh. www.ddrfreak.com
User created sites FTW.

Setzer IIDX

6 years too late.

I miss 3rd mix.

kainzero

@Zaos: You know, that dance wasn't as safe as they said it was.

Guild_Navigator

is it gonna use that same Konami ID garbage like metal gear online?

hungry_for_worms

Are you telling me....

Men Without Hats - Saftey Dance

is on DDR Universe 2 for the Xbox 360?

I think that just sold another 360 for Microsoft...

Zaos

@burpingcat:

more like fashionably late.

Dakobah

safety dance? really?

Nissan288

Awesome avatar you went with there Fahey. The likeness is astonishing.

jaded cynic

a little late?

burpingcat

Why the hell did they bother? They're going to shut it down within a year, just like they do with every single community page they launch for any particular game.

Dave Silva

They actually launched this like 3 months ago, at least. They just didn't do a press release about this until now for whatever reason.

mydjsobad

@Dave Silva: Thank you.

I was gonna say Konami shuts them down faster than they can put them up.

Konami doesn't know the meaning of "lasting online presence"

They'll shut down the new MGO as fast as they can too.

It's all lipservice.

Billkwando

Maybe now theyll finally bring e-amuse to NA since thats what everyone is gonna be asking Konami for

Jhongerkong

Psssh. Bemanistyle
Bemani Fansite FTW
Unless you count VJ Army...

Manator (Follow me and die!)

@Cutriss: I don't think that's the same Setzer you think it is.

mydjsobad

Bah, looks like I'm going to have to go out and buy DDRU2 now.

UnnDunn

well this is great! finally we'll have access to an official list of arcade locations. plus there are talks about e-amusement cards coming to america... this would add whole dimensions of fun to that concept.

thetrueyuiop

@Dave Silva: Meh, I left the ODM community for the very same reason: I'm good but not great.

masterage

Yeah, not really feeling it. I stopped keeping track of my AAAs somewhere after number 20 once they all became random, and the community in Canada has gone so downhill there's no point anymore.
@Dave Silva: I sympathize. As one of the only no-bar female players in my country that's actually decent, I get pushed aside waaaaay too often. Thankfully my city still has a little club of no-bar players, most of us who are still quite capable on 1X. But the glory days are long over. I miss 4th Plus :(

Tiger-Fever

oh snap ddrjamz globalbbs

everybody chip in so we can GO GOLD

drawp

@Genocyde: I'm glad, while I keep up with it (BMS here), I'm not one of those keyboard freaks with impossible notecharts to ultralong songs...

Yeah, I mean you Izzy.

+ Watch video

masterage

@fuchikoma: That's -exactly- why I stopped playing DDR.

In my hometown (Mexicali, Mexico) I used to be an above-average player. I could consistently AA songs up to eight feet in difficulty, but nobody really cared because I refused to do two things:

One, speed mods;
Two, use the bar.

Since I refused to use those two things, I often got booed off the stage... even though, technically, I was a better player than the people who abused those two things. My stamina sucked, though, and an old school injury really flared up, so I just stopped playing.

What's all this about DDRFreak sucking then? I haven't visited that site in a couple of years, so I don't know what's up.

Dave Silva

@Billkwando: The only way MGO could continue to exist would be allowing people to run their own MGO servers, kinda like what Valve does with the games in their Steam service.

But this is Konami we're talking about...

Dave Silva

@Genocyde: Amen to that last part brother.

Manator (Follow me and die!)

Konami of America: Consistently 8 years behind!

@fuchikoma: This is why I stopped bothering with IIDX new-school fanboys and fangirls (the one chick I met was such a huge bitch I wanted to punch her cunt through my monitor). When I started playing Beatmania way back when (like 1999), there was competition sure, but we thrived on it and built each other up no matter how noobish you were. But when I hit up the local arcades now it's about waving your AAA E-Penis around like it means something.

Fuck the Bemani crowd today, and fuck DDRFreak whoever the hell mentioned it up there.

Genocyde

I joined a Bemani forum once. I don't know if it was Bemanistyle - it was a few years ago...

I was pretty much booed off the boards because I couldn't AAA Giudecca 7-key doubleplay with a blindfold on. When I mentioned I listen for timing instead of relying on my TV's display speed, such a fireball erupted that I was blasted right off the board. No one could even conceive that was possible. It was then that I decided I love the games, but hated the fans. :/ Of course I'll take people individually as they present themselves, but the communities I found before rhythm games caught on here were the most elitist cliques I have ever seen in 14 years on the internet and that's quite the achievement!

fuchikoma

If Kotaku Had to be Personafied; I'd Imagine it'd be a Cool WHite dude with a Soul Patch, and an afro. Because, Kotaku would Either be Soulful with a Jew Fro, Or Obamanized With a Strong tinge of Arian Blood; Or, Maybe an Albino Black guy! We all know, nothing is more rare and awesome in a Pokemon pack, than an Albino Black guy.

Flitz

It's too bad that the Stepmania, Bemanistyle, and FFR Database have been doing this forever, And much better.

For instance, if you go to the FFR Database, you can find a song you like and download it with stepfiles for any simulator you can imagine. Except ParaParaParadise because that's just retarded.

Narsil

@mydjsobad: There's other Setzers?

Setzer on-
Gaia
Bemanistyle
DDRFreak
PSN
XBL

Hell, I think I registered it at forums I don't go to, just in case. o_o

Setzer IIDX

hasn't SMo been doing this unofficially for years?

masterage

I would have been all over this.

...if it had come out around 1999 or 2000.

fuchikoma

@Genocyde:
And you had to DDR up the hill both ways, right?
^_-*

Channing

What the hell...when did bar grabbing become acceptable?

Fuck I must *really* be out of the "loop", we used to clown anybody who would bar hug the entire time they played. Freakin' KIDS and their BAR GRABBIN' and AAAin'. We didn't have BARS in my day, we had BARBED WIRE wrapped around that shit. And the only people who could get high scores were JAPANESE, and GODDAMMIT, that's the way we LIKED IT.

:D

Genocyde

@Genocyde: you're my hero. As far as I can tell, it became acceptable once ITG came out and it was just "too hard". After all, if they're going to use it for ITG, might as well play DDR the same way. No point in actually having to work at getting better.

Tiger-Fever

@Genocyde: Last time I hit up an arcade, dudes were locked onto the bar w/ both wrists, well before the song even started.

Back in the day, people only used the bar to vault over it or do to short-lived and now-extremely-foolish Matrix Walk.

drawp

@drawp: Yeah, it saddens me to see beginner/light players grabbing the bar for their lives. Hello, you're not going to fall over. You're hitting an arrow every couple seconds. I don't get where they get the idea in the first place . . .

Tiger-Fever

@Dave Silva:
@Genocyde:
I hear you bros... I played at home with a Konami soft mat so not only was there no bar, I couldn't even feel if I was on or off the arrow. The only metal pad was the official arcade set and you'd have to pool the resources of a whole game club to justify that!

At least on DDR boards that I lurked, you'd be the laughing stock of the arcade if you claimed you were something special then hugged the bar. That's Kick-Kick Revolution. If kids are doing that now that's just sad...

I didn't use speed mods then, but these days I do depending on the game. I set it to 2.5 in IIDX, and tweak it around that in DJ Max Portable because it's bound to buttons. In Guitar Hero I leave it because it's an undocumented cheat option.

And I may as well say this here since no one will get it anywhere else... back in the "beatmania" days I'd play strictly with buttons with my left hand and turntable with my right. Now in IIDX I still play with buttons on the left like player 2 side, but I use both hands and do so-so pinky scratching because the official controller is too big for me - I can't consistently hit both outside grays (1 and 7) even though I can put my hand right over them... it doesn't seem to work in practice.

That really kind of messed me up since my scratching is weak after so many (5+?) years of using the standard PSX controller and BM98/Mixwaver. On the other hand, I can do level 10-11 in DJ Max Portable 1+2... (but only 8-9 usually in IIDX even though they don't exactly translate.)

fuchikoma

I actually started playing DDR again, today. I've been sitting on my bum pretty much all summer taking just two classes so I need a way to stay fit. It really is a great exercise tool for people that don't want to go to the Gym. I mean it won't make you buff, but it'll give you a good aerobic workout. On the underhand I wish they had come up with this a good 5 years ago when I first started playing DDR seriously.

Chewbenator

As soon as I read "Two-step", I had to post this song.

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shammers

There's no reason to play DDR, not when you have POP'N MUSICCC!!! (epic)

CaptLtrl