About the Arrows and Rythms

trinsdad · Basic Member Joined: 25 Jan 2004

I havent played the game yet.....does the arrows and rythms make sense in the game..or are they random and no reall "feel" to them?

hmmm...like the patterns they make.

I hope you get what I am trying to type?

Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

Almost all the time they do.

Now go... PLAY THIS GAME!!
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trinsdad · Basic Member Joined: 25 Jan 2004

I would..Im waiting for my CF boards to arrive...and no way am I getting my big body out in public.

Slowpoke · Trick Member Joined: 28 Oct 2003

In beginner and light mode you will always feel like you're stepping on the beat. Generally speaking, the tougher modes are on the beat as well, but there are some exceptions... sections where the steps syncopate off the beat, or parts that don't quite feel in sync, or parts that just feel awkward... but you won't have to worry about those for a while.

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[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

You're new to DDR and you're busting out 300 big ones for a Cobalt Flux when you've never played it??? Well welcome to the uh, DDR scene I guess

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Narsil · Trick Member Joined: 04 Jan 2004

Welcome to DDR!

Yes, most of the time arrows have SOMETHING to do with the song; almost always on the lower two difficulty levels. When you get to Heavy mode, things can get pretty crazy, but you'll always be able to find some connection between the music and the arrows. Except for the craziest songs out there... those are just insane.

The best cardio workout from DDR comes when you get to the higher Standard/all Heavy songs. Then, I could go out on a limb, and venture to say it is a better workout than any cardio machine.

Let us know how it works out for you!
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Otla · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject:

The trick to Public playing, really is to Get good at home, and as you feel more confident in your abilities you go to the arcade. The pads are usually Very Comfortable to use, you can have a support bar, and genrally the song selection is MUCH better than the home games (Unless you want to get a JPS2, and the JDDR Games).

I myself play at heavy, and learned to do that by doing the above, Heavy and standard songs are a better workout definately, but also are much harder, and with some songs Like: Bag, Max300, Legend of Maxx, and Paranoia Surviovr Max, you may not be able to beat those for quite some time (I still have only passed Bag and Sakura, both only availabe with arcade play).

In short, Welcome to ddr, and Just ignore the people Talking trash about ya, Enjoy the forum

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Jeff's Bawls · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject:

that's kinda like the purpose of the game. To step to the beat of the song. So ya, they follow the song. On the harder songs, the beat can be faster or more bizarre, but it usually still follows it.
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Sesshomaru · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject:

although Basic(light) and trick(standard) do follow the beats just like the hardest difficulty, the hardest difficulty, maniac(heavy) is the most fun. it follows the music co much better and its so much more fun to move to. i recomend never using the little difficulty modifer as it does take away from the fun(i've never used it myself, but i've seen others use it and its horrible how the songs steps get murdered by the modifier).
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Ducky, not Goosey · Trick Member Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Location: Cicero, IL

The game helps you a bit to "visualize" the rhythm by using spacing. You can tell quarter steps, eighth steps, and sixteenth steps apart by the distance between the moving arrows.

Another thing is the color. On Light/Basic, most or all the arrows will be the same color, because they are all on the downbeats. When you get to songs that have eighth beat steps, you'll notice some of the arrows are different colors. This signifies steps on the upbeats. There are yet more colors to signify sixteenth beats. This is most notable on gallops.

in short...
arrows in succession of same color or somewhat close= quarter beats
arrows in succession of different colors or close together=eighth notes
even more different colors or very close together=sixteenth notes

The "Flat" mod makes all the colors the same, no matter what, making it harder to read and forcing you to rely on spacing, while "Solo" makes the difference in color easier to read.

Another thing, on triplet steps, it's easier to read them by their spacing than by color.

Narsil · Trick Member Joined: 04 Jan 2004

Narsil · Trick Member Joined: 04 Jan 2004

Oh my....
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Narsil · Trick Member Joined: 04 Jan 2004

Triple post...
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Corkscrewed · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:47 pm Post subject:

I would say that even the hardest songs go with the beat, with maybe two exceptions (*cough* Graduistic Cyber *cough*). The arrows may not follow the main beat, but they do follow A beat (sometimes it's to the secondary background music beat, or something else).

Suffice to say, for me, playing DDR would be VERY heard without sound. I'm a pretty big ear player, so I rely on the beat to help me out.

Happy DDRing!
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