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DDR, PIU, and other TLAs
Jan. 10th, 2006 09:44 pm(Disclaimer: If you are not one or more of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gr33bo, kingradix, kytheraen, marcobiagi, vidiian or zephyr_pie, you can probably skip all this.)
DDR in the Union is no more! Actually, that's a bit overdramatic - after a two-year run, the Euromix 2 machine has been updated, but it's a fairly major change this time.quadralien was the one that informed me of the change, saying that they now had a "third-party game with five panels". Being able to make a pretty good guess as what it was, I rushed off to the Union, pausing only to drop the guests off at AMH, go back to the flat, sleep, go to the lab and do a day's revision, pick Whitney up from work, have dinner, and sleep again.
But eventually, as I was saying, I found out that the Union now has PIU - it's PIU Exceed 2, to be precise, even though the top of the cabinet says that it's Premiere 3. I don't think it's going to draw quite as many people to itself as Euromix did, somehow - this isn't to do with the new layout, but more because there are very few recognisable songs on it at all. From what I've seen, there are three sets of songs - original ones (consisting of quite a few Yngwie Malmsteen-style classical rearragements on electric guitar for some reason), a set of Korean pop, and a set of what I can only call Other Pop.
I began to get a feel for the layout of the five panels (one at each corner and one in the centre) faster than I had imagined, but it still feels a little strange stepping in different places, particularly the resulting diagonal jumps. DDR sometimes got surprisingly intricate with only four panels, and using five opens a large number of other step patterns to get used to. It could be my imagination, but I think that the panel needs stomped on a lot harder than the DDR one for it to register your steps...
What's most interesting about this, though, is because of the completely different style of the game that comes from the new panel layout, even the DDR experts are going to have to get used to it all over again, and everyone will be restarting from pretty much the same level (on my first try I failed a five-rated song quite flagrantly, but the difficulty level of the game seems to be a lot higher than DDR in the first place). However, I've already seen some initials suspiciously similar tovidiian's beginning to appear on the scoreboard, and it's only 50p a credit, so I'd better start going to the Union regularly again if I'm going to have a chance of keeping up.
gr33bo, kingradix, kytheraen, marcobiagi, vidiian or zephyr_pie, you can probably skip all this.)DDR in the Union is no more! Actually, that's a bit overdramatic - after a two-year run, the Euromix 2 machine has been updated, but it's a fairly major change this time.
quadralien was the one that informed me of the change, saying that they now had a "third-party game with five panels". Being able to make a pretty good guess as what it was, I rushed off to the Union, pausing only to drop the guests off at AMH, go back to the flat, sleep, go to the lab and do a day's revision, pick Whitney up from work, have dinner, and sleep again.But eventually, as I was saying, I found out that the Union now has PIU - it's PIU Exceed 2, to be precise, even though the top of the cabinet says that it's Premiere 3. I don't think it's going to draw quite as many people to itself as Euromix did, somehow - this isn't to do with the new layout, but more because there are very few recognisable songs on it at all. From what I've seen, there are three sets of songs - original ones (consisting of quite a few Yngwie Malmsteen-style classical rearragements on electric guitar for some reason), a set of Korean pop, and a set of what I can only call Other Pop.
I began to get a feel for the layout of the five panels (one at each corner and one in the centre) faster than I had imagined, but it still feels a little strange stepping in different places, particularly the resulting diagonal jumps. DDR sometimes got surprisingly intricate with only four panels, and using five opens a large number of other step patterns to get used to. It could be my imagination, but I think that the panel needs stomped on a lot harder than the DDR one for it to register your steps...
What's most interesting about this, though, is because of the completely different style of the game that comes from the new panel layout, even the DDR experts are going to have to get used to it all over again, and everyone will be restarting from pretty much the same level (on my first try I failed a five-rated song quite flagrantly, but the difficulty level of the game seems to be a lot higher than DDR in the first place). However, I've already seen some initials suspiciously similar to
vidiian's beginning to appear on the scoreboard, and it's only 50p a credit, so I'd better start going to the Union regularly again if I'm going to have a chance of keeping up.
