How good can u get without the bar?

kisschicken · Basic Member Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Location: Nashville, TN

I've been playing DDR for like 4 months, and I'm having serious difficulty on some of the tougher songs. I play at home on a cobalt flux w/o a bar, and I was just curious how much i can expect to progress w/o a bar. I watch some of these videos of the "pros," and they always use the bar for the harder songs.

Evil_pied · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jun 2006

Look at pickles. That's how good you can get without the bar.

metalgearbolton · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

Alot of people dont use the bar and do just fine on the hardest songs. It's all about whats comfortable to people.
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Ian2K3 · Trick Member Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Location: Berlin MA

you can become lv 99 with out the bar or 114 with the bar
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TRPX_Mudkip · Trick Member Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Location: Madison, WI

Not true, I can get to 255 by switching from bar to without bar in the middle of songs. I also get better drops when I do that, and the guy on the 2P gets a better buff.

Back on topic.

I know people who can AA The Legend of MAX without bar, and people who play with bar who can't AAA for poopy. I know it vice versa as well. It all comes down to personal preference really.
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momomixer · Trick Member Joined: 25 Sep 2005

*cough* *cough* *Gameplay forum* *cough* *cough*
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Tyrgannus · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject:

Yes, this needs to be in gameplay, but I have to say something.

It does come to personal preference, unless you want to be the best player in the enitre world (which doesn't matter to most DDR players I know)

As good as Pickles is, LilQ, Damien, Bluemystic and the like are....better.

Do you know what these 3 other players have in common? Bar skills.

True, LilQ plays no bar a lot, but his best scores are with bar. Sure, bar is personal prefernce, but no one ****'d an 11 barless......and yes, it's been done with a bar.
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psycho442 · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:

I believe a person who plays with a bar is probably better than a no bar player due to the fact that because a no bar player has to shift his entire weight along with his feet, his reaction time will drop dramatically, thus meaning less AAAs/****s.
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Resolute · Trick Member Joined: 30 May 2005

rawr... this will turn into yet another flamescrimmage (yes i said scrimmage) of the bar. but ill put my two cents in

i do not use the bar frequently, only if i fall off ballance or do dips while waiting on the other person to pick a song during versus. i cant aaa a song with it or without (however i dont really strive for that), so i guess it doesnt matter for me.

bar or not, you still play ddr, and still a nerd to everyone except respectable persons
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Edbot · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Location: New York, N.Y.

Sorry but I think thats what the bar is there for. The hard songs kinda make me lose some balance (and mines is terrible as is) so the bar is very handy.

P-Chan · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

gameplay forum please
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