DDR in... Seventeen Magazine?

[Syni]

[Prime]

You guys are talking about hating Britney Spears ( I agree ) but YOu all should know that one of her dumb songs is on 5th mix, sad enough to say.

[N.N.T. Barton '1080 ~IIDX]

seventeen gives guys a look into the mind set of teen girls. and there is nothing wrong with that now if only they aimed there magazine at 21 year old guys like me who want a gf but dont know anything about relationships. and have had there hart broken one to many times dumb girls always dumping me...
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[Special K]

Okay everyone, let's knock off the non-conformist4popularity attitudes around here. Just because something's popular doesn't mean it's evil. And don't worry about your precious DDR machine becoming overcrowded with a bunch of 14-year old n00bs. First of all, the magazine doesn't even mention that DDR is an arcade game. Secondly, the publicity scares have happened before. First it was the appearence on the Morning Show and King of the Hill, then it was the shoe commercial (I don't even remember the brand anymore) with the guy dressed in 70s throwback clothing, now it's this. One article/TV appearence isn't going to instantly create a huge DDR fad, so stop worrying that it will.

Even if it did, as stated before, it wouldn't neccessarily be a bad thing. If anyone has respect for the elite players who FC catas for breakfast, then it's the n00bs who play the game and actually know how hard it is. Granted, the audiences that gather at the arcades (such as the aforementioned Ameristar, thx Davin), are usually the ones who give the most applause and junk, they wouldn't know the difficulty difference between Healing Vision and HV: Angelic Mix. I usually just wave off any crowd that starts going crazy over a song that I just butchered, simply because I know I did bad on it. Maybe I'm just too hard on myself

Lastly, I'm sure I'm not the only one who wouldn't complain over late teens-early twenties girls getting into DDR.

Oh yeah, one more thing: If owning a PSX is 'tech-savvy', I wonder what owning a PS2, a PSX, a GCN, a DC, a SNES, a Genesis, every incarnation of the Game Boy except the Pocket, plus 2 computers and a wireless LAN running through the house would be considered. And that's not counting the systems and PCs that my sister and dad respectively have.
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[Dreaming Xenon]

Eh, I don't know whether to applaud or boo that DDR was in Seventeen. I think it is good that DDR ois getting mroe publicity as time goes on. Nowadays DDR is getting more and more recognition and more people are respecting us as players rather than make fun of us because we play it. More and more people are going from saying its a gay game to saying that its a pretty cool game.
Now here is the problem. Some of the DDR articles that I read were written by people who don't know what they are talking about. Some articles (I will post a link of one really bad one later on) really butcher the game because the Author doesn't know what he/she is talking about. Thus they make the game seem corny and cheesey. I mean, come on, dance like Britney Spears? And there was also one article that said that one person played "the ultimate challenge", which in this case was Max 300 Heavy, not an easy song, but not the ultimate challenge.
Also, some of the articles in teen magazines really make me kinda mad. One article said that a perfect guy was quote "someone who does not have an action figure collection or has a video game obsession." Now that is kind of mean IMO . Because of that, I am a little biased at teen magazines. I sometimes glance at teen magazines to check what girls look for in guys and it makes me mad when some articles in teen mags promote shallowness towards boyfriends.
There is my two cents, please don't flame me!
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