Has the DDR Era ended?

[Blink_04]

i started playing in december of 04 and my main era was late 06-mid 2007....lately i haven't been playing as much being how my ps2 got stolen and i haven't had any money to go play, but i just got a job so i will be playing more in the near future

i plan on buying another ps2 and getting supernova or supernova 2 and ITG again

[Funsize Tw!x]

ugh this thread is stupid.
IMO

[mizu]

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Yeah, well, I still say guitars have superceded dancepads.
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[ʎɐb sı ʞ01ɹǝɥs]

All I see these days are kids flailing on the local DDR/ITG machines. In DDR, they get to the level of passing a few 10s and maybe consistently A'ing 8s and 9s, but that's the limit. Beyond that, there's no progress in terms of skill. I haven't seen a single decent new PA/FA player emerge from my local scene almost two years. Most people I see just don't pay attention to score or great count, they're content to simply pass Max 300. The funny thing is that some of them have been playing just about as long as I have (or longer).

Talk about the potential of the "new generation" all you want, I just don't buy it. But like I said, that's how it is in my area. I'm sure it's not necessarily the case in all areas.

/2 cents

[mizu]

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[Servb0tKing]

So yea. go to certain places at certain times...and ddr is still well and alive. But the days of getting of class and running to the mall to play ddr until my mom got off work everyday are over. I go probably once a week now. so do most ppl.
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[zmaxxx300]

were im at its pretty much dead.. back around when ddr max 2 and extreme came out it was hella popular but now...i very rarely see anybody who plays ddr and if they do its either just some person trying it...there was a place were they had itg 2 and ddr but it got closed down

[yukihime]

I don't know that many people who play DDR, but my neighborhood is pretty much half college students who're more interested in getting plastered and half really poor only wants to sit and blast rap. Add a sprinkling of immigrants from Guatamala and Ethiopia. These are not DDR people.

But I do know some who play and it's mostly for fun and exercise. There's only I think 1 arcade that even has DDR and that's way on the other side of the city.

I don't think it's a super popular as it was, I wish it were. If nothing else it'd be a little easier to buy the games and pads in stores - not having to deal with almost everything online. Especially pads.

Who knows, maybe Konami will come out with a new version that will bring back popularity. We can hope, right?

I've played Guitar Hero ... tbh, I really don't know what the fuss is about. I'd rather move!
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[stuffmonger]

I know I shouldn't really talk about the "ddr scene" since I just started to get into ddr recently, but here in so-cal, there really aren't any local arcades worth going to. Most of the arcades that were popular have been closed down due to either bad business overall, or problems with the city. I have been in the arcade scene for awhile, and have a few games on location, but it is really hard to keep a full-on arcade here in California. The best arcade for import games in all of LA county will be closing down within the next year because the city keeps fighting them about the noise level and blaming them for the gang activity (which is a common cop-out given in city complaints). When it boils down to it, arcades just aren't don't pull in enough income to fight to keep anymore. Needless to say, I don't blame anyone except the game developers for that. People used to go to arcades because you could get an experience that you couldn't get anywhere else. Then, the home consoles started coming out, but the arcades were still vastly superior to the home games. Now, you have arcades based on the same hardware as consoles, and games coming out for home consoles only a month or two after arcade release. So, there's really no point for people to go to arcades anymore when they can get the same experience at home. The main reason ddr was so popular was because it was something you had to go to the arcades to experience. And it was different from anything else on the market. In the past 5 years, there haven't been any new games on the market, just newer versions of fighting games, a couple shooters, some drivers, and a few shmups.


It's a sad fact, but it's true. Arcades are dead. Not just ddr.

[Marq(uistadorous)]

^ Good point stuffmonger. I do see alot of arcades struggling now a days. A big one by where I live just closed down, and never hear any kids talking about wanting to go to the arcade now. It's kinda oldschool now unfortunately
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[Suko]

Marq, the quote in your siggy is priceless. Reminds me exactly of a bowling alley I play DDR at here in Pullman. Except I'm lucky, we still have our DDR cabinet.
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[Kilroy{ZTC}]

There does seem to be a bit of an economic downturn, so it would make sense that people would spend less on entertianment...

and more on liquor...

The community isn't dead, but struggling. Extreme and ITG2 were solid arcade mixes that people could care about getting better at, and there was always Pump. Now WPF is cancelled, ITG is dead, and DDR has jumped the shark. But I'm not going to sit here and whine about it. Maybe I can talk the owner of the local arcade into letting me throw a Pump Pro tournament there.

[zmaxxx300]

[January.]

not many people even know what ddr is in philly because there are no arcade machines, i only know 3 people besides myself who are hardcore DDR players that live in philadelphia
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