Speed Mods

[Da-Risin-Smoke]

There's always good and bad things about everything.

In ITG, it's almost impossible to play w/o speed mods (unless you're from Montana ).

Speed mods are a great way to learn.
Just don't abuse them because you're missing part of the difficulty.

It makes me use facepalm when I hear people they pass this song or whatever and they end up using 2x speedmod and stuff.

For example: Using 4x on Bag.
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[HeavyD2]

I think Bag is the ONLY song whose difficulty rating really stems from its difficulty to read on 1x. If this were taken into account for So Deep as well, it would be a 10 easily too. After all, So Deep is a hard 9 on 2x!

So yeah, I wouldn't count bag as a 10-footer passed unless it's done on 1x, but I would also count anything else passed with a speed mod. Hell, when I went back down to Light to try to get a AAA, I used 1.5x!! Not because I can't read it on 1x, but because the faster scrolling gives me a better idea of the exact millisecond to step.

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[pleasedon'thurtme]

I once made a B on Bag expert using triple speed on the pad, but I cannot pass it with the Playstation controller on normal speed (I can make at least A's on songs using the Playstation controller I can't even pass on the pad). It is ridiculous how much easier Bag is with a speed modifier -- I think even 1.5 speed allows me to pass it on the Playstation controller. Also, songs such as Anubis and Bend Your Mind on expert (In The Groove "expert", not the equivalent of heavy/expert on Dance Dance Revolution, which I believe is "hard") are currently impossible for me to pass without speed modifers just using the Playstation 3 controller (I have to use both thumbs on the four shape buttons because using the arrow pad causes some steps to misregister -- on a side note, reason I play In The Groove on the Playstation 3 is because the copy I ordered will not run on my Playstation 2 for some reason). Yes, I cannot pass Bend Your Mind expert on normal speed even using a Playstation 3 controller, but putting it even on 1.5 speed allows me to pass it with like a B or more. I really like the hands and gallops in that song, too Isn't Pluto or Pluto Relinquish on challenge sort of like Bag at least at some parts such as the beginning?
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[ʎɐb sı ʞ01ɹǝɥs]

Christ, why does everyone say Bag should be rated lower if the tempo weren't halved? It'd still be hard to do well on since all of the arrows would still be improperly quantized triplets! =p

(Then again, I realize I'm one of the few who think song difficulty should be based on how hard a song is to PA/FA, not how hard it is to pass...)

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[PureBlue]

People who complain about other people's playing preferences are hilarious. People can play however the fuck they want to, whether or not it's the "REAL way to play the game". I thought the "real way to play the game" was to step on arrows to a song whichever way is most comfortable to you. I guess I'm horribly wrong though. The real way to play is to whine about the way other people play DDR! Don't like how everyone "cheats" by using speed mods or using "3x SOLO bar-rape"? Then just quit the game if it pisses you off so much. Speed mods and the bar make the game easier, we know that already. We don't need to hear the same old crap over and over again. People have different playing styles, get over it.

Also:

[Suko]

[Yarni]

[Yarni]

[Suko]

That is the most backwards f*cking logic I've ever heard. Basically you're telling me to have mediocre players analyze a song at different speed mod settings to tell me if the timing window is larger or not? There aren't many people that get under my skin, but this is certainly doing it. Name one other sport/profession/anything where someone would suggest to "go ask the guy who somewhat knows what he's doing". Seriously, I sure as hell hope you aren't a doctor or in charge of anyone's health.
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[MyChemicalRomance]

The rule I follow is this: Don't let yourself get to the point where you DEPEND on speed mods to pass a song. With the exception being Bag and any other insanely slow and dense song.

Like the other day at the arcade, I was playing and another regular comes in and asked if he could shadow, I said sure, then picked Cartoon heroes. He says "oh ya, I forgot you don't use speed mods." After a few seconds he says "Man, I don't know how you play without mods.".

So, I sometimes use 1.5x or 2x if the songs is below 145 bmp, but if I find that its getting harder for me to read denser stuff I quit the speed mods and do a little sight reading training.
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If it's in the game it isn't cheating.

Speed mods and solo and whatever don't make it easier to step on arrows, it just makes the arrows easier to read.

Speed mods don't change the timing window. You may want to look up "burden of proof."

Also you pretty much look like an idiot playing DDR no matter what you do.

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[PureBlue]

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