DanceDanceRevolution X (AC) (International)

'Tis the sad truth. Konami is more interested in expanding gimmicky difficulty than genuine difficulty. Grr, they need to use Challenge more. And CORRECTLY.

They say they want to make the game harder, but really, they're just stretching one piece and letting the others shrink. It's been that way ever since they decided to "start over".

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There was no Groove Radar pre-MAX, so Freeze was there when we first got the Groov Radar

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I doubt this, it sounds like the little icon that shows up on songs with them will be it.

Those charts were obviously just demonstrations of what Shock Arrows do. Who knows how they'll be used in the actual game. Hopefully they won't go too crazy with them.

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When did BUTTERFLY or DUB-I-DUB get confirmed to have Shock Arrows? Flight of the Phoenix will have normal charts to accompany the current Challenge chart as mentioned in the DDR STAFF blog.

That one DDR player who was at E3 said they did.

Somebody should ask him what songs there are... unless he forgot.

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what i just read makes me sad(in regards to butterfly and dub-i-dub), konami needs to give those REAL challenge charts with shock arrows if they are going to do that. its dumb that they are doing this anyway, granted butterfly isnt a problem as standard is the same as light with more jumps so losing a chart isnt hurting anyone, but dub-i-dub has two full sets of heavy steps that are begging to make the song beginner-challenge. why mess with a good thing?

konami needs to give these songs full challenge charts, not light charts with shock arrows. i dont care if the shock arrows are in, the challenge charts better be.

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why don't they make a new difficulty for shock arrow charts?

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Because it's simpler to repurpose a difficulty they (mostly) weren't using. Notice the decline in numbers of challenge charts over the years?

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WinRAR

Interesting note here:

Tracers (4Beat Mix) is done by Ruffage & Size, as stated in the artist name in the AC, but apparently it also has vocals by Chwhynny, a hardcore dance artist and vocalist, according to her website. (By the way, she states that DDR X AC will be released September...I think it's safe to say that she's wrong xD)

Here's a song by Darwin with her on vocals, she has a nice voice.

http://www.chwhynny.com/clips/nt.mp3

Check out other stuff on her website: http://www.chwhynny.com/

Yay! More happy hardcore people~

I hope this song's on DDR X!

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Well, they did not make a new difficulty when freeze arrows were introduced.

I think what they'll do is moderate the amount of shock arrows until we are able to adapt to this new gimmick. Shock arrows will be worthy of a new GR category only when there's enough songs that have them.

Freeze Arrows don't feel like a gimmick, you can change the way someone has to dance because of those. Shock Arrows are in the same light not a gimmick but they make them feel that way. Advertising songs with them, only having them on higher levels, making them look gaudy.

Konami could do the "don't step there" thing better than that, even if they did a dirty transplant of mines from ITG. And they thought of the idea first way back on the first PlayStation game with "Ouch!". To me that would be more challenging and fun to do than watch for lightening.

When they had in MAX2, a few of the old songs had steps that had freezes.

Overall, I thank that shocks is just something new to get use to. Like I said before, EVERYTHING IS CHANGING!

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Now I'm reminded how 1st and I think 2nd mix was. If you hit the pad when there wasn't a arrow there it was like missing one. Did that stop with 2nd or 3rd mix?

That could be a mean mod.

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That was only on 1st I believe.

Just wondering if there an option that we can switch ON or OFF for Shock arrows like Freeze arrows if we don't like. I usually like playing DDR without Freeze arrows.

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