Post Your Controversial Bemani Opinions

It's probably more likely that StepManiaX would get those sorts of licenses. Like, it's not totally unheard of for DDR to have rock and metal, but most of the time it's in house or commissioned stuff and DDR seems to like stick to its specific identity. SMX does have stuff like Machinae Supremacy and Electric Callboy already so I don't think any of the artists you mentioned would be totally out of the question.

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I think flashn00b might just be a fan of those artists, they've posted about Napalm records and those artists many times on ZiV. Not surprised a rhythm game fansite has nerds with hyperfixations haha.

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We need more hololive songs.

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1. About the trajectory of DDR A3. I think it will continue add electro songs only, but not to see a big upgrade. We still seeing the same disgusting announcer, the same dance stages and the same character for me 10 years. The formula is so repetitive, i miss the era when DDR using song to make story like x or planets songs like SN2.

2. I say thanks that this not happened, this would be the worst decision for Konami and Bemani. Forntunetly this project kept s in beta. It see that they made with low budget: theme which seems made by stepmania in a simple way, dancefloor and dancer reciclying from Dance Evolution, https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/thread?threadid=10156 ....... yes DDR ULTIMATE MOBILE.

3. For the anniversary, i see innecesary to make "remakes" to previus DDR songs as Have you never been mellow or Sky high. (about that remake songs, sucks, i didn't like them) DDR could have been back the nostalgia bringing new dancemania songs and discover new artists, it's wasn't neccesary to back previus songs.

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ddr needs even more touhou

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U1 has no good songs.

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edit: didn't realize this point was being discussed for half of the last page, never mind

With R1 and SMX apparantly coming to a deal to get new cabs in stores, how long until the already weak amount of cabs running the latest version of DDR shrinks even more? In my opinion whatever the sequel to A3 is won't be coming to D&B at all and will only see extremely limited availability in a handful of R1s.

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I can't tell if you're joking or not but Dave & Busters A3 has been dead for a good while. IIRC D&B pulled out of the agreement with Konami.

In defense of of my fanboying of Napalm Records, I think an argument in favour of a more euro-centric DDR soundtrack can be made in three words: Laser. Shooting. Dinosaur.

You don't have to defend anything haha. It's just that Dancing Stage has always been mostly europop licenses. DS Fusion was a mix of random licenses and covers (several of which were in Extreme US CS). I could see maybe one pop-infused metal track making its way into a DDR release, but StepManiax seems to be picking the fun obscure euro lisences right now.

This banger was on DS Fusion though, but it was a *checks Wikipedia* top 20 hit in Germany

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Doubles charts saw an improvement in quality with Ultramix 2 and peaked with DDR X

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I'm normally a grumpy old "DDR's golden age ended when SuperNOVA came out" player, but yeah, doubles mode is a different story.

In my opinion, Konami didn't figure out how to make consistently good doubles charts until around X, and the non-boss songs have been good since then. But like you said, Ultramix 2 was an early outlier, having very good doubles charts. Extreme 2 and Ultramix 3 weren't bad, either.