In The Groove coming to PCs and Macs

Travelsonic · Trick Member Joined: 08 Oct 2005

To amend my reasoning for wanting to buy the PC version of In the Groove: I watched a video of people doing a marathon of songs, and watching them do "Bloodrush" on expert inspired me.

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CHUCK BASS · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jul 2004

If anyone has already said this, flame me all you want but god damn.

This could be worth buying, because I have not downloaded one accurate marthon yet. Sure you can come barely close with Driven, but its still not helping me learn it at all.

The actual game being released for PC is a lot better than just some attempt at the actual game. No?

By the way, for all those people who downloaded Freeze Rolls and it crashed, it could be FIXED.

This is assuming ITG2 stuff is included....

Just damn 100% accurate stuff.

...Plus I can't find ITG1 simfiles anymore.

Dont get on me for saying that either.

Joel Stud?! · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Location: The ILSTU

^ I've been looking for ITG 1 simfiles for a while, and without downloading them with videos, and taking about ten days to do so cause there's not decent seeding, you don't get them....

And let me reiterate... Roxor's games won't get any better if you don't support them. So get off your lazy butt's, get a job, and fork out the money for it. If you have it for PS2, then don't... if you don't play at home, then don't... but seriously, we all know you cna illegally access the same game, so stop going on about how that's the better option. Use this thread to discuss the benefits of ITG PC, what you expect from it, and what you want from it.

To go along with that, I just want edit mode and better loading times... regardless of how many people exxagerate them, they still get on my nerves.

ViciousCB · Trick Member Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Location: Canfield, Ohio

WHO THE frick CARES!!! SERIOUSLY!!! WHY DOES IT MATTER?!?! IT'S A GODDAMN GAME!!
What happened with Roxor and Konami is what happens between any other business everyday! They take a product and make it better by adding more features and slap their name on it. Oh wait, that's nothing new, now is it?
If you want to make something like ITG into a big buttocks deal because it's so similar to DDR, then your fighting a pointless battle in a series of other related battles. Wal-mart does it by making their products in China. See anyone caring?

The point is, if you don't like ITG. Then shut the frick up and let everyone else who does have fun with it. Vise-versa for you DDR fanboys.

I hope you all realize you are having a huge internet contreversy about a weird arcade game? That's just rediculous. lolz babies...
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Resident Lune · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject:

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject:

sherl0k · Maniac Member Joined: 27 Jan 2002 Location: the internet

I believe the current batch of simfiles can be made because they're not official, they're "fan-made" creations. Therefore since they're not 100% accurate, they're not the same as the real ones and therefore they can't be taken down. The music though I'm a bit more sketchy on... they were recorded from the game via line-out I'm assuming, but does that make them the same as what's in the game itself?

Either that, or RoXoR truly doesn't care. That's what I'm banking on.

I'm just wondering that when this comes out, they'll want to stop distribution of ITG1 simfiles - which are still being passed around.
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PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:55 am Post subject:

Synaesthesia · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject:

Maybe I'm in a low percentage here, but having the simfiles doesn't stop me from getting the game. I have the sims mostly so I can familiarize myself with the charts and usually end up saying "LOL I won't be doing *that* any time soon." You can bet I'll still go preorder ITG2 (especially if they have T-shirts; note for Roxor: the best way to get my money is include a free T-shirt. Free T-shirt means I'm totally there.). I've only met one person who had the mentality of "I have SM so I won't buy any video games or even go to the arcade;" interestingly enough, she was not good at DDR nor SM. I know a few people who have SM, don't buy home versions, but play ITG to death in the arcades. It seems to me the first kind of person is the one that "hurts" companies, but as that seems to clearly not be the prevailing attitude (at least in my experience), I believe that simfile distribution is not this evil monster that some make it out to be.
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Joel Stud?! · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Location: The ILSTU

But the problem is that people are saying "Why buy ITG PC if you can have the same thing on SM..." These people may have bought ITG PS2, because as we all know, playing arrow-smash on a computer is usually not the most convienient thing, But if your forced to result to that anyways due to lack of console, why not just illegally hoarde simfiles and put NO money to the company. No one's saying you should buy this if you have ITG PS2, though still, it's helping out a company that needs cash.

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject:

Keep in mind that if you go to a typical ITG or DDR arcade and ask the players there, many won't even have a clue what Stepmania is, many will have a general idea, a few may have tried it out, a few might be regular players, but not many will actually have a full set of ITG simfiles. We "internet people" are a minority. Many people enjoy playing the games but see no need to hang around on websites afterward to talk about what they just did, and thus they don't know many of the things we know and take for granted. The real reason that simfile downloads aren't a real problem is that only a small number of people out of the total body of DDR/ITG players actually know what simfiles are, much less have the knowledge and initiative to go out & download a full set. Even though we take it as a given here on the internets, our more reality-oriented arcade brethren don't even know that the ITG cabinet contains a Linux computer running a modified version of Stepmania unless we tell them. I know plenty of people who'd buy gladly buy ITG for PC and wouldn't want to, or be able to, go through all the trouble we simfile collectors go through.
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J. S. Mill · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:35 am Post subject:

Remember though that ITG caters to more elite players, and therefore a higher percentage will be familiar with aides like Stepmania.
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Synaesthesia · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:39 am Post subject:

I could reconfigure the setup I have such that I just had my laptop+pad instead of a PS2+pad, but the garage is a rather dirty environment for my computer to spend time in. However, the batch of sims I have is far from perfect, and $40 to buy the "correct" files with all the bells and whistles (and a free T-shirt

) is worth it to me.
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Rajjab · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject:

A t-shirt would be nice, especially if it's different from the PS2 t-shirt, which i have two of already even though I hate t-shirts, especially white ones.

I doubt they'll price it at $40; ITG1 is so late in its life cycle, and ITG2 home versions probably aren't too far over the horizon; ITG1 PC really shouldn't be considered a full-price product. If I were to guess I'd say it'll be considered a bargain-type product priced at $20 or so, just a way to extract a little more money from ITG1 in the months before the ITG2 home versions come out.

Synaesthesia · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject:

Actually, I was referring to buying the ITG2 "sims" on the PS2. I bought ITG1 before I had SM, and I've never really felt the need to have ITG1 on my computer. Yeah, an ITG2 shirt with some kind of cleverness would be cool; I'd get ITG Freak's one that has the arrows on Flip and says "Bend Your Mind," but everyone who sees me knows I'm laughably bad at reading Flip. :\
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Dansumthing · Trick Member Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Location: Germantown, WI

I don't have a PS2, but I'd buy this for Xbox.
Playing on the TV is always going to beat a PC screen, and I don't have enough space in my computer room for a dance pad.