The Official Pump It Up Thread

[-SuperZero3 Gold-]

I've heard it's delicious. Think Ignition worthy.

If you're gonna get it, why don't you wait? It'll be out here cheaper in May.
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[Slowpoke]

True, but the reasons for not waiting would be that I heard it might get pushed back to June, the kids are impatient, and there's no guarantee that the quality of the pads bundled with the domestic version will be the same (a larger production run might force them to cut corners, who knows?)

[Thomas Hobbes]

Yes, Andamiro's official pads are a freaking godsend. They're awesome but my pad that came with Prex3 tends to slip around a lot on my room's flooring (carpet).
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[Zro6]

so whatever happened to Chuckee's and the whole p.i.u. thing....
i need to play..........................
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[Zombiebanana]

Our new PIU machine is -supposed- to be coming in this weekend. THe joy. <3
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I keep trying to make sense of that sentence, but then I feel my brain cells committing suicide.

[.hack//*cough*]

Well, I had plenty of free time over spring break, so I decided to try something different (having played arcade DDR numerous times) and played Pump It Up last week.

BTW, I'm a little bit n00bish on the whole PIU thing. I knew the game existed, but I'd never played it until recently. For the record, I played Pump It Up - Perfect Collection DX or something, so my opinions are based on that particular game.

First off: the interface. Probably the most anti-n00b friendly system I've ever seen. My sister and I were trying to play Versus, and we couldn't figure out how to get the machine to put us on different difficulties. If she or I wanted to play in Hard or Normal Mode and the other on a different difficulty, we couldn't do it. We had to both play on the same difficulty, whether it be Normal, Hard, Battle, or Crazy, etc. We eventually figured out that the back two buttons scroll through the songlist, and the front two select the song, left and right side to the songs accordingly, and center picks the song. Problem is, there were no difficulty ratings from what I could see, only the BPM. Do newer mixes have this problem? Anyways, the interface was a MAJOR issue for me.

Secondly: the pad. Definitely took some getting used to, especially the center button, considering I started with DDR. However, once I got a feel for it, it was easier for me to get my bearings, it seemed easier to step diagonals than the standard DDR setup. Only problem I had was corner-to-corner jumps (I have long legs, but felt like I was doing the splits ) and corner-to-center jumps (I'm not used to seeing that ). The pads responded well for the most part, except for minor problems (sticking buttons, not to mention no give AT ALL on the buttons). Minor annoyances aside, not too bad a setup.

Thirdly: the songlist. Good music games should have good music, right? Well, it the case of Pump It Up: PC, it's a lot of hit-and-miss, and mostly miss, for me. We played about 10 songs, and most of the music in the game was pretty much K-pop, and most of it was pretty generic for me. Didn't help that I couldn't read Korean. There were a few pretty good ones though. There's a few other genres represented, like techno, disco, and a few others, but overall didn't have the variety that DDR has. There also aren't that many songs in this game, I saw about 30-40. Oh, and getting 2 songs for 75 cents = Not good.

Finally, the steps. I didn't like how some steps for songs were all over the place difficulty-wise, I played a Hard Mode song that could've easily been in Normal Mode, and some of the Normal songs looked like they stepped out of Hard Mode. Not being able to see step difficulties didn't help. Also, some stepcharts don't really match anything in particular at all, and seemed too bland and generic. Almost made me wish for an Edit Mode on this thing. Then again, I didn't try Crazy Mode, so I can't say anything about that difficulty. I also didn't like how the lifebar went down by almost HALF on a miss when it was in the green, and barely moved on a miss in the red (bar difficulty?) and it was a bit hard to see. Scoring was strange too, but I guess I'm used to DDR.

Overall, I was disappointed with PIU:PC. The interface pretty much killed it for me. I probably wouldn't play it again unless the newer mixes are considerably better. I understand Mastiff is releasing a home version of this game based on the Exceed engine, but I probably won't get it unless Andamiro or Mastiff make the interface better. At least Mastiff has a pretty good reputation, they did a excellent job localizing La Pucelle. Pump It Up CS is at least in capable hands. We'll see.
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[yyr]

[jbean3535]

They have an Exceed2 songlist at www.piugame.com and Exceed2 ROCKS! Remix station is so cool.
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[Zro6]

as long as they don't make the song select to much like a game like they did to ddr Extreme on the ps2...that was too much of a change......can you reserve p.i.u. already at a store?
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[codyvasy]

yes it does rock! i'm no veteran but I think i played exceed at a dave n busters in hawaii, and I play exceed 2 now, and I love it!
I can't do that well but i'm getting better.
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[Straight Dizzle]

hey didn't road fighters appeared in another mix instead of Exceed 2?
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[Tsuri]

Yeah it appeared in Perfect Collection.

[Level_9_Chao]

God, I...uh DISLIKE Pump it Up. I dont see why I dont get it. I can school everyone in DDR yet in pump it up I'm clueless. Argh. I want to learn to do both so when I see one of the pump machines I can do those too. Oh well, back to DDR.
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THEN WHY ARE YOU IN THIS TOPIC? GTFO AND STFO.

I swear, it amazes me how many idiots think they're actually obligated to post in these PIU and ITG topics just because it exists.
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[Tsuri]

It's because they want attention and have no life outside of DDR and the internet.

[sniperman99]

i think PIU is very fun and i'm kinda new to it technically and i can do hard mode and all.i wanna try some crazy's.PIU is way more fun than DDR.better music i think and better step charts.
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[Tsuri]

yyr, I believe you can see the difficulty level of whatever the mode you have selected at the top of the screen... on one side is the time and the other the level of the song on your current mode.

[asakura]

i played pump it up 3 awhile ago..in some place in wisconsin. we all thought it was ddr at first but boy were we wrong. i had a lot of fun playing it buti really only liked/played one song. i think it was called mexi mexi. i really like it and by the end of 3 days could almost pass it on crazy...is that song in any other versions?
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[Zanneth]

As far as I know, Mexi Mexi is also in Prex3, Exceed, and Exceed2. For the exceeds, you can play it by going to the Pop Channel, and it's like 4 or 5 to the left.

A local arcade just got Exceed 2, but the pads are pretty crappy. Not painfully bad, but still pretty bad. I am EXTREMELY impressed with everything they have on Pump It Up, and I hope it never changes, like it did with DDR.

In my opinion, everything in Pump It Up just feels more natural, and cool. I have Exceed Korean for the PS2, and I was amazed on how it was almost EXACTLY like the arcade, with an exeption of a few old songs that were revived from old mixes. Also, I find the pad layout of Pump to feel far more like dancing, and proves to be way more of a challenge as well.

I am also pleased with all of the steps that were added and rewritten from older mixes, like Run and Love is a Danger Zone (which is FREAKING INSANELY HARD on Crazy now, but it's still so much fun to play it and fail it. ) They also added Nightmare steps to a bunch of them, and they couldn't be better.

Is it just me, or is the intro music on Exceed 2 really awesome?

Anyway, if you haven't played Pump It Up yet, you must try it, I'm sure you will like it; you might find it way more difficult than DDR, but after I "converted" from an experienced DDR player (many Heavy AA's and double scores) to a Pump player, I actually became better at Pump. heh

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