DanceDanceRevolution WORLD (AC)

Still no word about a Touhou collab? Cuz that seems to be the only reason for me to give a shit about modern DDR tbh.

Well, shit. I'm about to move from someplace where we only have A20Plus, and WORLD will probably be out by then.

Thank god they're adjusting a bunch of charts and their timing. Will NGO finally not be total ass to play...?

Finally Muteki Buffalo is getting fixed, that charts timing was so bad but its so fun.

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Imagine if they made it worse 😂

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how many information updates till we get a release date

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It's been a while since we had a good old fashioned D2R from MAX2 to Extreme "fix" and this is Konami we are talking about. Don't rule anything out.

It's cool that they're unlocking Challenge only songs for everyone, that's an awesome change. Combine this with website options being available in game, and it's exactly as it should be. Not all arcades have eamusement cards in person, not everyone cares to order one. Not much that can be done for individual unlocks from this standpoint, but basic things like speed mods, filters, and 20 year old songs should just be there. Extra Stage with gauges other than LIFE4 is cool too. I wonder if they mean Flare can be used as well, or if you can just play with the normal gauge? Honestly I think restricting it to LIFE4 is just there for the sake of how it's been done since SN2, and needs to go. Step chart difficulties themselves should be the only gate between a player and the song they're playing and extra self imposed restrictions should be optional. I like what I'm reading (except for special events, I mean after a song is unlocked for everyone to play).

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This has been announced for A MONTH? I can't believe this is the first time I've heard of it. I'd like to be excited, and am still somewhat excited for the surge of simfiles to come with its release, but the prospects of one coming close to me, of coming to Canada at all soon after release are... well none. There are no prospects.

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Fingers crossed they don't pull the plug last minute like they have with past announced games

The day Konami kills off DDR is the day they disband BEMANI all together.

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lol
lmao

The only Bemani series death that would signal the end of Bemani as a whole is IIDX.

"Most rhythm games don't have announcers."
One thing I know outside Japan is the Pump It Up series, since Andamiro doesn't sell their own soundtrack and they have many conditions with licensed songs (J-Music, K-Pop, and World Music) being in the game with clean audio so as to attract the audience without distractions in the game. But it's just my opinion about copyright and redistribution rights. In Japan, the songs featuring in arcade rhythm video games are promoted from different music labels, commissioned artists, and in-house artists more than just being added to the game for everyone to enjoy with written charts. They are all before the game soundtrack is released (and outside artists' promotion of licensed songs before or after they release their own album) and then the next game iteration is announced. It's a cycle.

Other rhythm games such as pop'n music, IIDX, GF&DM, jubeat, Nostalgia, and SOUND VOLTEX are simply key-sounded within the bms files, so they don't need to put announcers during the game since the in-game song being tuned by any player is not as perfect as the actual music. More games like REFLEC BEAT, BeatStream, DanceEvolution, DANCERUSH, and DANCE aROUND add sound effects every time you play a note or dance pattern just to keep the song more protected from being copied.

But anyway. Me, too! I am hyped to see what's new in DDR WORLD~ ^^

^does the PC version of IIDX still have autoplay like the PS2 versions did? We have very clean audio of various Another versions from back then because of autoplay, which got around the human error aspect of key sounding.

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DDR WORLD Launch date June 12th, 2024

[Special Report!]
The launch date for DanceDanceRevolution WORLD has been decided!
It will be available worldwide from 9:00am (JST) on June 12,2024!
The official website is now open, so check it out! p.eagate.573.jp/game/ddr/ddrwo...
* Operation will begin in the order in which the update is completed.
#DDR_WORLD

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Well then, looks like I'm driving 2 and a half hours to the nearest A3 tomorrow so I keep all my scores.

(ALL STRAIGHT FROM THE DDR WORLD WEBSITE, THIS IS NOT ACTUAL GAMEPLAY)

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Does that mean the UK then?

So all we get for any sort of indication of what's in the chart is tiny icons showing that they have shock arrows, speed changes (the jagged arrow), or stops (the !!).

Again, why give up the groove radar all of a sudden? IIDX and SDVX both adopted something similar, and it's not like there isn't still space for it in the UI as long as they were willing to sacrifice a little visibility on the big-ass character arts.

I am... really hoping a lot of this is still just undercooked website previews, which itself is concerning if the game releases in two days.

This just feels like someone said, "yeah, whatever, they'll play it" and shoved it out the door.

Edit: I just had the thought that there's the possibility that a lot of the music licenses are expiring and not being renewed, and they're dressing up that event as A New Version. And unfortunately that new version really doesn't look like it's ready to go, but time's run out.

In-game option UPDATE:
WORLD: https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/ddr/ddrworld/howto/option_list.html
A3: https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/ddr/ddra3/p/howto/option_list.html

Hi-speed:
The scale is now 0.05, and PREMIUM PLAY is not required anymore (the range is still x0.25~x8.00).

Dance gauge:
LIFE4 is now available in NORMAL PLAY (still requires an e-amusement pass).
FLARE I~EX are now available in PREMIUM/GALAXY PLAY.
FLOATING FLARE is now available in GALAXY PLAY.

Display timing:
A display offset can now be set between -5.0 and +5.0 (the scale is 0.1).

Arrow appearance:
CONSTANT is now available in PREMIUM/GALAXY PLAY, the arrow display time can be set between 100ms and 3000ms (defaults to 1000ms, and the scale is 10ms).
HIDDEN+, SUDDEN+ and HIDSUD+ options are moved to a new option category LANE COVER (i.e., you can use the new CONSTANT option with a lane cover).

Arrow color:
NOTE is the new default now, replacing RAINBOW.

Others:
Arrow shape and bar guideline position can now be set in-game.