The Official Pump It Up Thread

FowlActually · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Woodbridge, VA

Prex 2 is basically a combination of Premiere 2 and Extra, meaning it contains the new songs from Premiere 2 and the older stuff from Extra that wasn't on it. Unfortunately there is no half double on Prex 2, but it's still a killer mix, I wish our arcade would make the upgrade.

Kortsu · Trick Member Joined: 12 May 2002

here comes another pump player

yo Megido, I remember you from pump extreem too, when are you getting your lazy butt to the mall of america?

I haven't been playing as much recently, but I get out once every week or 2, just so I can reamin confident that I can whoop on the resident premier 2 and 3 machines with impuity.

as far as hard songs go...

Crazy

Holiday - hope you like tripples
Can Can - Larpus on crack
Final Audition Ep.1 - 16th notes at 189 BPM, WHY!?!
Slam - the holy grail of pump songs
WilloWisp - mixed 8th 16th note runs at 210 bpm, not as bad as it sounds, but nothing to overlook either

Doubles

Larpus - twist-2-3-4-twist-2-3-4
Can Can - again, larpus on crack (I haven't beat this, no more prex in my area to try)
Holiday - again, I hope you like tripples, oh yeah, most evil hold note in pump history at the end too (I haven't beat this no more prex in my area to try)
Vook - most stamina draining song ever made

The Mad Cappa · Basic Member Joined: 12 Apr 2003 Location: Woodbridge, VA

FowlActually · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Woodbridge, VA

Megido · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH

Kortsu · Trick Member Joined: 12 May 2002

Yeah, the 4th floor sports bar arcade has a premier 3
Camp snoopy has a Premier 2 and a DDR 3rd Korean 2

Token Rates there are
$1 = 3
$5 = 18
$10 = 40
$20 = 90

the games cost 3 tokens each

then theres Jillians with its VERY GOOD premier 2, it costs an arm and a leg to play, but that pad is drool-worthy

they used to have 3 premier 2's. but the sports bar arcade upgraded like 3 weeks ago.... too bad premier 3 is crap, I just want my prex back

Megido · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH

Yeah, they took out WAY too many songs. It's kind of a step backwards as far as song selection goes. But I have not played any of the 20 new songs, so that is my main desire right now.

As for the new songs, they also should have added more features like the hold steps and varying speeds.

Kortsu · Trick Member Joined: 12 May 2002

don't get TOO excited, I personally believe theres only 2 really good songs in tthe new stuff

Bee
Beat of the war

Let the sunshine in HAD potential to be fun to freestyle, but NOOOO!!

Weston · Trick Member Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Location: Minnesota

Since you've been to the MOA, recently as it sounds, do you know what mixes of DDR they have there as well? I remember seeing one PIU machine in Camp Snoopy, and one DDR 4th mix there, but this was before I started playing, so I assume they've gotten something better..

Kortsu · Trick Member Joined: 12 May 2002

no 4th mix
They haven't upgraded thier sole DDR machine Since I started playing pump back in January of 2002
its the Same 3rd Korean 2 they've had forever

so the count is this

DDR 3rd - 1 - Camp snoopy
Pump Premier 2 - 2 - Camp Snoopy / Jillians
Pump Premier 3 - 1 - Sports bar arcade

I live 2 miles away from the mall, so its a small matter for me to go there

rampage · Administrator Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Redmond, WA

So, I played Premiere 3 yesterday and was very disappointed.

Here is what I wrote about it in my blog:

PIU Premiere 3 was disappointing. Some of the songs seemed very out of sync, and I wasn't terribly impressed with the song selection. The UI is pretty, and I like being able to once again switch between all play modes on the fly. I played some of the new songs and they ok, but I was really hoping for more of the older songs as well. Nearly all of the good BanYa stuff from Premiere 2 is sadly missing, except for Dyna^H^H^H^HWinter (go figure). Chicken Wing makes its return which is nice, but there's really no good old songs (c'mon where's the Seo Taiji and other awesome licensed stuff that is so sorely missed from Extra). It's mostly new licensed tracks, and a few of the BanYa standards. Maybe it will grow on me after a while, who knows.

MDR · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 12:11 pm Post subject:

Kortsu · Trick Member Joined: 12 May 2002

Final Audition Episode 1 189 bpm, has A LOT of 16th note steps, its a tossup between that and holiday for the hardest song on 1 pad for me

and if you wanna get picky, Willowisp 210 bpm, has some 16th notes too

FowlActually · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Woodbridge, VA

Sexual Chocolate! · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Location: Wilmington, DE

Maybe the machine's difficulty was set to low or something...who knows

But either/or, I finally passed Vook Crazy yesterday with a C...and I was tired. Damn song really works you
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Megido · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH

Anyone who lives near Ohio: All 3 of the Dave and Busters now have Premiere 3. Cincy, Columbus, and Cleveland.

I've only played about 3 songs, but I will give my full impression when I play the rest.

chubs · Trick Member Joined: 27 Jan 2002

blah, premier 3 sucks. i've played on it once so far and i was able to get an A on the 4 hardest new half doubles songs, i guess next time i'll go for full doubles =/

rampage · Administrator Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Redmond, WA

Yeah, Premiere 3 sucks. What a disappointment.

FowlActually · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Woodbridge, VA

Does anyone have a songlist for Perfect Collection in the arcade? I've looked around but can't seem to find one anywhere on pumpxtreme.

CStarFlare · Maniac Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

Hehe. I played Premiere 3 a few days ago.

Songlist seemed kinda small. I only got to play 3 songs, and I'm not sure which were new to 3, if any. I played one I was familiar with (Beethoven Virus, duh.), one I'd heard (Winter), and one that looked cool (Will O The Wisp).

I couldn't form an opinion of it, really; I'm not a PIU player, nor did I have enough time to get a good impression of it.

It was more fun that playing our Extra, though, so I enjoyed it.