Roxor Making a New Game with Andamiro

[ItsDrew]

[Yeehaw McKickass]

Honestly, the complaining over Pro is like when the girls hit puberty but the boys hadn't, except I can't tell who's the boys and who's girls in this situation.

DDR fanboys hate it because it's five panel
ITG fanboys hate it because it's five panel
PIU fanboys hat it because it takes ITG/DDR elements and mixes them into the game.

That said, I understand why people around the internet are up in arms over this. The main reason being it's the internet, and it's mixing something most of us are passionate about.

It looks like Pro is trying to fill a niche that ITG can't anymore thanks to the Konami lawsuit and the fact they aren't willing to let DDR progress beyond what it was way the frick back in Max2.

Let's look at it this way, the biggest point of confusion new people have with a pump machine in the states is that they have no god damn clue how to work it. None, whatsoever. And on top of that they skip over the intro videos because they don't realize 5 is select.

Case in point, I was watching over the Zero in my little student union arcade last thursday night while 8 different women's baskteball teams were there. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM couldn't figure out how the hell to work anything because they were looking for buttons on the cabinet, then stomping around when the intro movie came up. I had to demo how to scroll songs several times - in easy station. God forbid they go into arcade station.

Oh! That's right! They did, and they kept picking stuff like Phantom or getting stuck on the Another channel and getting frick Extravaganza [A] when time ran out. They went into Remix station by accident once or twice too.

I didn't even try to teach them speed mods when they got into arcade station. I never even mentioned channel changing either, I just did it during a demo. (I know NX solved the channel thing, but face it, most of what's out there is exceed-zero).

Pro addresses this by adding the buttons everyone looks for because they see the cabinet, immediatley think it's Dee Dee Arr, and don't take the time to read any of the directions or speed mod codes.

I did it too, I had to have someone at Dennis' show me how to put in a speed code, select a difficulty, and select songs. I also stomped the hell out of the corner arrows because they say "STOMP" on them.

I'm not saying Pro is the answer to all everything, in reality it goes against everything "hardcore" Pump players like about Pump, but it gives Andamiro another tool to pick up on another player base that they haven't been able to get to, and gain marketshare from Konami.

As long as Standard Pump and pro are treated seperately, and ANDAMIRO GETS OFF THEIR BUTT AND ACTUALLY PROMOTES SOMETHING TO THE PUBLIC, they can coexist. Let the ITG heavy locations go with pro and the zero/nx heavy locations go with NX on.
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[TimeSpaceMage]

As a DDR player, I like the idea of making Pump more accessible. Kyle seems to do a good job of listening to the fans (or at least it's what the ITG fans tell me ) so I think he'll make sure it's really something special. He did say that it's still in its early stages and lots of changes can be made to it, as well as the final build using Pump-style freezes.
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In Air Force DEP, shipping out August 12th.

[Mostly_Harmless]

I can't agree more, most people here are so ignorant of pump it up. To me this is a miracle because I was never a big fan of pump music but i loved itg trance stuff. If everything gose well this might even replace regular pump. Kyle listens to his fans much better then andamiro listens to theres. I would love to see this merger be a huge success of my 2 favorite games. and you think you have noobs at your arcade? the people who play (or try to play) pump and the arcade employes call it DDR. They don't even realize it's a different game. and most of the time people think it's a touch screen to select song. so when they touch the screen and there foot accidently hits an arrow, they think there moving the song selection with there finger. Then when they can't figure out how to pick a song, they start poinding there fists on the screen really hard. It makes me want to vomit when i think of how great pump it up is yet it's completly rejected and hated by an overwhelming number of DDR idiots.
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Official Pump It Up/ITG supporter for N.J.

[valius]

[Cata-Kai]

[TimeSpaceMage]

Regardless of name, I get the feeling casuals will still refer to it as "that 5-panel game". Not everyone remembers names well, especially long ones. Now, whether they would see the word "pro" and get turned off by feelings of inferiority is another story.
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In Air Force DEP, shipping out August 12th.

[Edible Bondage Tape]

anything would be better than the prex 3s at my lone arcvade (as long as they put starian on this thing otherwise no reason)
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[Zeta Aspect]

[Flound3r]

I've never played PIU...I really want to though.
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Wow my sig got messed up.

[psisarah]

It makes me angry that theres a collective total of about... 1 Pump machine in all of Canada.
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[RBCF retunes]

[Ghettobarney]

I don't see why everyone is suprised or upset that people are saying PIU sucks. I mean, you are at DDRFREAK, not PIU freak. I like DDR, I don't think PIU sucks though. Also, why not just consider PRO a sequal instead of just a side series? I find that a sideseries would be bad, I mean there were what, 3 Solo versions?

-OJA
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OMG I BEETS MACKS 300!

[valius]

[RBCF retunes]

[Mostly_Harmless]

[Cory_In_JaPaN]

PUI Pro>Any other PUI

And its not a damn sequall....
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[mydixiewrecked]

[DarkCore]

[valius]