OK, so I went to IZ to try out ITG
Yeah, so I was at work and I caught up on email from Friday, answered some stuff, did a quick fix to a web page, and then I headed to Illusionz for an hour or so to try out the new dance game.
1) I called first to make sure In The Groove was working. If you don't know what that is, it's an American-game-company made DDR-type game. Two of my favorite people to play DDR with in Seattle (Chris Danford and![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kyleward... well, and I guess three, really, 'cause Foy did some stepcharts) have been working on it for months and months and now they have a prototype machine of it at IZ! They put it in over the Disney's Rave machine. Yar. Anyway, long story short, the front desk said ITG was working, so I headed out there. You might want to call ahead if you hear rumours that it's broken.
2) ITG is neat but it's still kind of weird. It is a lot like Stepmania and the arrows look kinda weird and the default mode seems to be Reverse scroll, Hallway style, which was a little weird at first.
3) My favorite song so far is Dawn (which ironically enough is by said Kyle guy, so I'm sure he'll be glad to hear that). It's a cool song music-wise and I really like the steps. If you've played it, you'd probly know why.
4) Most of the songs are electronica, or standard dance type music. I liked the songs by Missing Heart, though. I honestly forget most of the songs I played, although I also did play Kagami, and that Jam Jam Groove or whatever the heck it's called that sounds like La Senorita, kinda, but it scrolls at 98BPM. I think that it honestly should be a 200BPM song and have the steps match that. It's not bad at 2x though and I did think the steps were really cool... it just seemed weird to hear a fast latin song and have it scroll at 98 BPM. If you know what I mean.
5) Rest of the time there I basically played one game of PNM, one of PPP, one of KBM, and 2-3 of DDR. For the record, and this is a short shameful confession, I passed Bag Heavy today for the first time ever. Keep in mind that the last time I had actually TRIED to play Bag Heavy was sometime around... uh... January. I just don't play it. I blame James. So I decided to play it on a whim today, and it was pretty easy. Yeah, so that's two 10-footers I can pass. Whatever.
After an hour at IZ I called it quits and headed back here to work. (IZ is only 15 mins from work... sigh... need my own car...) I did seeanimegothgrrl playing DDR on my way out of IZ though! Her blue hair braids look really fucking cool. It was good to see her, but I was just getting IZ-apathetic. Going to IZ makes me miss Mark (rkane), oddly enough. Good thing I'll see him and everyone at CMU in a few weeks :)
1) I called first to make sure In The Groove was working. If you don't know what that is, it's an American-game-company made DDR-type game. Two of my favorite people to play DDR with in Seattle (Chris Danford and
kyleward... well, and I guess three, really, 'cause Foy did some stepcharts) have been working on it for months and months and now they have a prototype machine of it at IZ! They put it in over the Disney's Rave machine. Yar. Anyway, long story short, the front desk said ITG was working, so I headed out there. You might want to call ahead if you hear rumours that it's broken.2) ITG is neat but it's still kind of weird. It is a lot like Stepmania and the arrows look kinda weird and the default mode seems to be Reverse scroll, Hallway style, which was a little weird at first.
3) My favorite song so far is Dawn (which ironically enough is by said Kyle guy, so I'm sure he'll be glad to hear that). It's a cool song music-wise and I really like the steps. If you've played it, you'd probly know why.
4) Most of the songs are electronica, or standard dance type music. I liked the songs by Missing Heart, though. I honestly forget most of the songs I played, although I also did play Kagami, and that Jam Jam Groove or whatever the heck it's called that sounds like La Senorita, kinda, but it scrolls at 98BPM. I think that it honestly should be a 200BPM song and have the steps match that. It's not bad at 2x though and I did think the steps were really cool... it just seemed weird to hear a fast latin song and have it scroll at 98 BPM. If you know what I mean.
5) Rest of the time there I basically played one game of PNM, one of PPP, one of KBM, and 2-3 of DDR. For the record, and this is a short shameful confession, I passed Bag Heavy today for the first time ever. Keep in mind that the last time I had actually TRIED to play Bag Heavy was sometime around... uh... January. I just don't play it. I blame James. So I decided to play it on a whim today, and it was pretty easy. Yeah, so that's two 10-footers I can pass. Whatever.
After an hour at IZ I called it quits and headed back here to work. (IZ is only 15 mins from work... sigh... need my own car...) I did see
animegothgrrl playing DDR on my way out of IZ though! Her blue hair braids look really fucking cool. It was good to see her, but I was just getting IZ-apathetic. Going to IZ makes me miss Mark (rkane), oddly enough. Good thing I'll see him and everyone at CMU in a few weeks :)