Which version?

**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

Oh, also, if you like bag, get beatmania IIDX 9th style :p

**Dreyvas** · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 2416 Location: Cleveland, OH

I just need to save up money for a fliptop before I can start messing with that stuff...

Oh yeah, it might also help to not suck at IIDX.

**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

DDR has a far less steep learning curve, though :p

**Dreyvas** · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 2416 Location: Cleveland, OH

I know.

I think I'ma quit IIDX for good, though.. it's not good for my health.

**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

I hope you arent like my friend who spent about 7 hours straight of playing colors normal, finally passed it, and axekicked his controller, successfully breaking it...Then regretting it.

**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

I ended up buying extreme 2 this weekend, even though I couldn't find it used anywhere. I am not regretting it, I played it for several hours Saturday and Sunday and even if the timing isn't exactly like the arcade, and even if In the Groove or others are more challenging, it's going to be a long long time (if ever) before I can actually do these songs at the higher levels. Maybe I'm just too old, maybe I don't have the fast twitch muscles necessary, maybe my eyes are just too slow (reading the arrows fast enough is half the problem) but whatever the reason is I only get to 4-5 step songs before I find songs very very challenging.

I was also happy that most of my favorite songs from playing step mania are included on extreme 2. There are only 2 songs that I can think of off the top of my head that I really liked playing on Stepmania that aren't in this one... and i can always play them in stepmania if I really want to play them.

The only thing I don't like is that some of the challenges in dance master mode are just stupid. Most of them are fine, but for example I played one where I had to do 150 steps but none of the steps could be on an actual arrrow. WTF? That's just dumb. Especially with my pad which is very sensitive and it is extremely easy to have other arrows activated when i'm not stepping on them... so they would activate and hit an arrow and fail the challenge for me. I ended up using my hands for it :P I also hate the challenges that only give you 4 misses and consider anything below "great" to be a miss.... I'm just not good enough to do that, even on easy songs my precision isn't perfect enough.

**trofl** · Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 1297 Location: Ames, IA

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**Dreyvas** · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 2416 Location: Cleveland, OH

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**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

I enjoyed the vast majority of the challenges. My advice for the "stupid" challenges (i.e., don't hit these arrows), is to use a dualshock controller.

**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

I'm with Matt.... for the most part I like the challenges. Being not very good I liked starting with very easy challenges and getting tougher and tougher until I hit the point where every song is very challenging for me... and then beating them slowly as I improve. I just hate the "stupid" challenges, I just want to dance the songs... not these goofy invented things, and using a dualshock controller is a pretty good idea for those missions.

**Dreyvas** · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 2416 Location: Cleveland, OH

**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

If I recall correctly, songs appear in the shop if you play freeplay enough, and you dont actually need to play mission mode to unlock anything to the shop. Although it is faster.

**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan