Official IN THE GROOVE Thread - New arcade dancing game!

Rancidfish · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:53 am Post subject:

It's not better in every way imaginable, dukcw0rm.

1. It doesn't have more genres than DDR. If anything, it has different genres, because some key genres are under/unrepresented. (For example, needs more house!)
2. Steps are good sometimes, but some of the steps are ass on Hard difficulty, and occasionally on Expert too. Disconnected (Ex), the 1/16ths feel totally dumb and excessive. July (H), there's all sorts of great rhythms going on, and the song is almost nothing but 1/8th notes. Euphoria has all sorts of beautiful rhythms, and it could easily be the So Deep of ItG on (H), but its steps are pretty crappy. etc

And a few more sidenotes, but those are the big problems.

However, I'll still take ItG over DDR 9 days out of 10. More challenge makes it more interesting for me, since DDR 9s are easy and DDR 10s are frustrating. A bridge between those difficulties is well-appreciated.

Additionally, I don't much care for battle, but Marathon mode is the best thing ever.
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dukcw0rm · Basic Member Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Location: socal

1) And there aren't any DDR songs with useless feeling steps? I think not.
2) Okay, I'll say that ITG has more ACCURATELY REPRESENTED genres than DDR. There can be no dispute there. Find a hiphop song in DDR that is actual hip hop. Same goes for DnB and trance. And not just cheese System F style euro trash "trance". Real trance. Real DnB. Real hiphop. Real rock. Real hardcore (DDR has no hardcore). I could even go as far as saying the happy hardcore is more true to the genre in ITG than in DDR. Simply, ITG pwns DDR in the accuracy department of the genres. You say it "needs more house"? That's not to say ITG doesn't have any house because it does. :::Aaaahhhh, house, the evolution of disco, how good you are to me

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3) I could see where less experienced players would have a hard time getting through the mods during battle play, therefore not liking it

4) btw, have you played Oasis yet?

LET ME SHOW YOU THEM · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:09 pm Post subject:

I will say it here for the record now and i bet plenty of people will agree with me. Do You Love Me expert has quite possibly some of the weirdest and unfitting steps EVER.
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Rancidfish · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:14 am Post subject: Re: no

916 Roseville SUCKS · Trick Member Joined: 10 May 2004 Location: Roseville, CA

alright...here's my opinion on this game...I like this game because it's something new...as soon as I become more comfortable with my DDR accomplishments, then I think I'll be taking some stabs at ITG...but hey, RVGL may never get an ITG cabinet....
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Tsuri · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject:

This is sickening... I'm getting tired of all the whiny "It's not DDR" posts... of course it's not DDR... thats why the banner doesn't say DDR.

For people un willing to try new or other dance game series :

1-if you hate it shut up and stay stuck in the past with DDR Extreme

2-if you haven't played the crap out of DDR EX yet... something is wrong with you (that or you don't have a DDR machine near you like me)

3-You obviously can't handle the difficulty of the newer dance games out now... so just give up and stay with DDR... and get out of the ITG topic!

And thats all I have to say about that...

dukcw0rm · Basic Member Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Location: socal

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ITG2 beta machines are out and about. Check the locator at www.itgfreak.com. Hopefully there's one near you. If they release all the mixes this quickly, HOT DANG. We'll have hundreds of songs in no time flat.

tempest6 · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject: In The Groove Truly Rocks!...

IN THE GROOVE TRULY ROCKS! And this comes from a preson who's played DDR since April 1999, when the DDR 1.5 mix machine came into Cyberzone Arcade in Koreatown, LA. I was about to give out on DDR when ITG came into the picture. Now I'm getting into ITG in severl places like:

Pro Swap Meet, San Bernardino
Family Fun Arcade, Granada Hills
James Games, Upland
Arcade World @ Stonewood Center Mall, Downey
All Amusement Fun Center, Van Nuys
Sherman Oaks Castle Park, Sherman Oaks
Zero Gravity @ Glendale Galleria, Glendale and
Linbrook Bowling Center, Anaheim

Is that a trip or what? Please reply, over! Thanks!

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LET ME SHOW YOU THEM · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:20 am Post subject: Re: Itg2

jas · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:15 am Post subject:

I finally got to play ITG over at Milpitas Golfland, and it's pretty neat. The steps are mostly fun (expert mode makes me cry ;.;) and the songlist is nice. A lot more... well... different then DDR. I don't know exactly how to describe it, i guess more widespread in it's genre is a good way to put it.

Still, i don't think i'd go out of my way just to play ITG, it's just a nice little bonus on 10$ Thursdays. :D
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veganrick · Basic Member Joined: 30 Dec 2004

This is the first tiem I've ever heard of ITG, and I'm excited. I want to play. Anyone know if this is coming out for PS2, GCN or another console?

Does anyone have any websites to other DDR "fakes." meaning...other dance games? Are there others for the consoles. I know there's MC Groovz for GCN...

Thanks tons

Rick
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Chibi_Sven · Trick Member Joined: 13 Nov 2004

Okay people, I've played it in a small arcade in Merced CA, It's freaken sweet but some of the steps are killer. I love the longer songs but the rock needs to go or they need to get licensed songs. also they need to, at least, triple the song count. This really has potential to take over DDRs throne but they need to be smart. I think if they just expand on what they have they willhave the greatest game ever I am itching for a home version. (PS2 if any powers that be are reading this) One last thing

ROM-eo and Juli8 and that folk song are the effing jam!
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject:

Damn, that was a little out of hand there don't you think?

Oh and I heard from the ITGFreak Forums that they are going to create one if enough interest is put in to one, but the people at ITGFreak have that taken care of.

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Chibi_Sven · Trick Member Joined: 13 Nov 2004

well they have my interest. I'd honestly like to see konami put out a
konamix 2 then step of the scene for a while. What i liked about in the grooove, is that the songs don't all sound like what Naoki likes to listen to, because honestly he has some weir prefrences.

And the stepmania cabnet with a flash herddrive that you could load your own songs on to is about as legal as what napster was doing a couple years ago. A buisness can not use a song without the artists permission. A person can not hold a recording of a song without the artists permission. The onl time a person can use a song with out the artists permission is for school projects and home enjoyment. technically, downloading the sm files w/ mp3s is illeagal, but so are all the DDR arcade machines.
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