The Official Pump It Up Thread

Tsuri · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject:

Well by the standard of some of these DDR players who play nothing but bemani because they believe it is the original... why would they then go play different branded RPGs or fighting games? I mean wouldn't you break down in disgust in front of a Tekken machine saying it is a clone of Virtua Fighter? Or claim Final Fantasy is the god of RPGs and never play a PC RPG? Or Claim Dungeons and Dragons is the best RPG ever because it was the original (or some bs like that)

Do you only eat at one resturaunt because you believe it to be the original?

I'm curious about these single minded people...lol

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

The same can definitely be said both ways. Back when I first started playing Dance Dance, I laughed at a large amount of the music in that game, as my primary tastes in music were with classical and metal. But it grew on me. In fact, the music game genre as a whole has expanded my tastes in music.
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Blinx69 · Trick Member Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Location: Pensacola

i was playing it just 2 see what it was like and i was playing and there was a hand plant (up-left, down-left-, and center) and i was like WTF how am i suppost 2 do this???? i dont remember what song it was on though its an ok game but its still no ddr
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Tsuri · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 10:43 pm Post subject:

it's not susposed to be DDR... they came out around the same time and are considerably different... and there are plenty of songs with what you saw on it - triples... in fact there are a few where you have to hit all 5 (quints)... for these you just drop down and hit one with your hand, the other two with your feet, or if your wearing the right shoes you can hit two panels with one foot and the other with the other foot... for as to how to hit all 5 :

Upleft - foot
Downleft - hand
Upright - hand
Downright - tip of shoe
Center - Knee

works for me

there are also quads, where you hit 4 panels.

There is another way to hit triples, if your really fast you can hit two panels and quickly switch to the last one that you didn't hit... it works if your fast...

and to that guy that said the music is odd, I don't think it's odd... maybe you only play the American crap on DDR but I play all sorts of music on the machines... I just happen to hate a lot of the English stuff.. lol

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Tsuri · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 4:47 pm Post subject:

By regular artists :

Oops! I did it again (also on DDR... and also as sucky on Pump)
Bye Bye Bye
I need to Know
Let's get loud
Mambo No.5
Take on me
Let's Get the Party Started

I don't know of any others that aren't Banya... (Banya are unknown artists well most of them) some of the Korean songs are English/Korean... half of the song is in English and the other Korean... lol

and it's impossible to hit all 5 with your feet at the same time... unless your cheating by having another person play with you... lol

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anyone played EXCEED yet....?
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Sixfortyfive · Trick Member Joined: 25 Nov 2002

*sigh* Come on now, here's the PROPER way to do a quint:

Left Foot: Down-Left
Right Foot: Up-Right
Left Knee: Center
Left Hand: Up-Left
Right Hand: Down-Right

Visualize doing each of those in order. Can also be flipped left-right with the same idea.

zero2dash · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject:

DDR is still my fave, my local arcade got a Pump machine again and I find myself playing it while I'm waiting to play DDR. I've played Pump before; took me awhile to get used to the arrows being different and where my feet were supposed to go but I'm pretty solid on 5's/6's on Easy, I'll probably try Hard soon. (I play Heavy/Challenge in DDR.)

I think the coolest thing about Pump's song selection is they've got Drunken Tiger songs in Pump...

I wish DDR had DT...

I like a lot of Banya's stuff also.
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Tsuri · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:18 pm Post subject:

Smidget · Trick Member Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Location: Charlotte, NC

Here ya go:

Up-Left:left hand
Up-Right:right hand
Middle:head
Down-Left:left knee
Down-Right:right knee

Teehee.Pump isn't better, DDR isn't better. They are different games. PIU is better for freestyling and DDR can be better for accuracy. It just depends on your preference:Freestyle/Accuracy?....Korean&pop/Breakbeat&techno&
I think PIU is a little more challenging becuase it forces you to move sideways on the harder songs and implements more "dance" moves in order to keep the combo going. DDR is all frontlocked. But that is only because PIU has 5 steps. So really its just a matter of preference.
Any players in the Charlotte(NC) area?
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starcrafta · Trick Member Joined: 26 Dec 2003

I haven't actually played PIU and I don't think I will anytime soon since I can't find it anywhere, but Will o the Wisp is awesome.

Tsuri · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:04 pm Post subject:

whitewulfe · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:53 am Post subject:

BY any chance, would anyone know which two mixes Circuit Circus in Edmonton (West Edmonton Mall, Phase 3 Food Court) has?

Getting back on topic, I can pass a good deal of the songs on DDR (7th mix or 8th, only got a dead 7th mix locally) and am comfortable with 8-9 footers on heavy... 7-8 footers heavy doubles...

What would you guys suggest for starting out in PIU? Next time I'm up in etown I'd love to give PIU a try, looks like a lot of fun....
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Sixfortyfive · Trick Member Joined: 25 Nov 2002

If you're good at 8-9 footers, stick with Hard mode until you're comfortable. Then move up to Crazy. As far as Double modes go on the newer mixes, here's the hierarchy:

Half-Double: middle 6 panels only, difficulty ranges from fairly easy (lower-level Hard) to pretty damn tough (upper level Crazy)
Freestyle: all 10 panels, wider range of difficulty
Nightmare: absolutely ****ing insane. The easiest songs on this mode give a lot of the tougher Crazies a run for their money.

As far as music goes, almost anything by Novasonic is a winner. Most instrumental and Korean stuff by the Banya group is damn nice too, though I'm not a fan of their English work.

whitewulfe · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject: