Politely staving off rabid DDR fanboys

fenwick · Basic Member Joined: 07 Jun 2005

ITG doesn't seem too appealing to me, but I still want to try it. It really is a knockoff but still looks okay nonetheless. Whatever. I still don't tolerate closed-mindedness. The best thing to do is ignore it and say "whatever man" or something. It works

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And that whole "hands" thing sounds pretty stupid, no offense. Can you turn it off by preference? And mines sound cool cuz they can force you to do crossovers, which are very fun

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PARANOiA -Respect- · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:26 pm Post subject:

THE MAX - ZZZ · Trick Member Joined: 05 Sep 2005

in the groove totally copies DDR

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deep_in_*food* · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject:

Fact -- they *are* copying DDR.

It's the same game basically, so why bother seperate them. I'll do both if there are both around.

Hey it's just a game! So what's the fuss?

For those people, tell them that it is the same thing but with different songs, and tell them that it is just another game to play on. It's alright to agree that ITG copied DDR because they did. Hopefully this will shut them up.

Mart · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:51 am Post subject:

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:40 am Post subject:

Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject:

Uh, why? The "OMG KONAMI IS PROTECTING THEIR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. HOW DARE THEY?" argument has not logic or anything of that sort behind it.

Try again.
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PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:51 pm Post subject:

Not all of us buy into the social construct of so-called "intellectual property", and thus not everyone's going to have sympathy for entities that try to exert draconian control over consumers' lives and over the flow of information. Slaveowners before and during the American Civil War were just "defending their property", which they had a legal right to do during the laws of the time, but that didn't make it morally right.

Even those who think that the "intellectual property" concept still has its place in the world mostly agree that it's gone way too far in recent years and needs to be severely reigned in. When restaurants can't even sing "Happy Birthday" to you on your birthday because of an ancient copyright, things have gone too far. We need to draw a line in the sand and say "enough".

Maybe the concepts of copyright, patent, and trademark still serve a purpose and still have some merit to them (or maybe they don't), but you have to admit that they've been severely abused, and the severity of the abuse grows every year as the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft continue to buy up the entire United States government and buy legislation granting them ever-more-pervasive control over your life as they prop up their failing business models by turning them into criminal law.

Educate yourself. Please read The Right to Read, a short story by Richard Stallman, that describes where things are going and what the future will be like if we don't stand up to the Copyright Nazis now. Not later. Now, before public libraries are outlawed and all the world's paper books are burned for not having DRM protection. Now.
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject:

Congratulations. You guys have degenerated this into another legal debate!
The point was advice on how to convince DDR Zealots (yes, they exist, as do ITG Zealots) to give the game a fair chance.

Yes, it is the same core game, and I play both. You guys should try it too! You might lighten up a bit.
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DAF · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Location: In CP

Thank you. DDR Zealots need to seriously lighten up. I'm so sick of all the "I think hands/mines are stupid." with no evidence of why they're stupid. I mean go ahead and drink some Jack, or do a line of coke if necessary.
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Mart · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:56 pm Post subject:

ihcw.stefank687 · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jun 2005

Just think of it as a 9th mix(its basically the same game, just think of it as another company picking up a franchise considering konami isn't making any new arcade games any time soon)... its everything that a 9th mix should be(even better maybe)...personally i don't even play extreme anymore

cfusionpm · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: San Diego, CA

in the groove is pretty much nothing more than stepmania in a ddr cab. asside from adding hands/mines/rolls, its the exact same game. once you actually accept it and get passed that fact, its a very fun game. it will never have the feel of ddr, nor its sense of ... i guess "officialness" would be the closest thing, but that doesnt stop it from still being a good game. sure it plays and feels like stepmania, hell it was even coded from it. but look past that superficial shit, and its a pretty good game. its far from being perfect, but itg2 is a giant step up from itg1. i only hope itg3 can be even better.
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Borknagar54 · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:48 am Post subject:

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Kyrandian · Trick Member Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Location: Portland, OR

Hey, do you guys know what else plays just like Stepmania? DDR.