Official IN THE GROOVE Thread - New arcade dancing game!

Yojimbo! · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Location: Tyler, Texas

Know what...ITG kinda...Isn't the best name. But, no one cares. I want to play!!!!!!

SaeNoDa · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002

I think it's hilarious that just because it isn't DDR, people say, "OMG it sucks!" "It's a ddr ripoff!" OK, WTF. If Konami isn't going to make anymore dancing games, and we want to continue playing new songs, with new steps, and new modes, why wouldn't someone else step in to take the reigns.

In The Groove rekindled my love for dancing games. I LOVE In the Groove. I am a tech player and In The Groove totally caters to tech players. All the things we've ever wanted to see in DDR, we have. And it was made BY DDR players. I hope it takes off because I would love to see people viewing ITG like they would DDR.

BTW, Keel (the guy who created 'Utopia') is a friend of ours who did the sound on ITG, and he's AMAZING... and has like 40 heavy DOUBLES AAAs

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diddrstrait · Trick Member Joined: 01 Jan 2004

FINALLY!!! someone decided to come up with something that doesn't suck!

the greatest flaw I've seen with home versions of DDR (especially MAX2) is that the song selection is deviod of anything interesting. It's sad to see DDR going out that way, and ITG will be a welcomed alternative to such poor games.

the biggest suggestion I can offer is to keep it fresh. if you should get to a 2nd and 3rd mix or beyond, don't start just remixing the hard songs from other mixes...go ahead and write a new damn song. Take PARANOiA, for instance. The only remixes of that that actually sound decent (to me at least) are respect and Max club another. I don't even like the steps to either. would it have been so much harder to write a different song at 145bpm and slap the steps to PSMoni on it? I don't think so. but whatever, you get my point (hopefully).

overall design and presentation are looking good from the pics I've seen. keep it up. song selection is looking good, too, but I agree with CaptainCanada who said there should be some easy freestyle type steps and maybe some songs with a funky/disco feel.

again, keep up the good work :0)

Aesir · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Las Cruces, NM

Know what? This looks.... sweeter then all heck.

Not speaking for the rest of my community, Roxor can come and gut our Extreme machine ANY time. This has some serious potential, no doubt.

And why would Konami bother to sue them? They don't give a crap about America, they no longer give a crap about DDR, why would they care about an American DDR knock-off (albeit a GOOD knock off).

But I think we need the answer to the real question thats burning on everyone's minds: If this is Stepmania (sorta), will it have Toasty?

Neon Kel · Trick Member Joined: 01 Mar 2002 Location: Diamond Bar, CA

And when will i see an ITG machine here in so cali?

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BemaniFreak488 · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject:

When SO CAL arcade owners decide to buy one.

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Yojimbo! · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Location: Tyler, Texas

DDR Freak should add ITG to the list of Bemani games to search for in machine search I think.
We should buy the rights to DDR and continue it here!

zero2dash · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:21 am Post subject:

Forgive me for not humoring fans of this game.

It looks stupid... DDR + Windows XP + Stepmania + a DDR cabinet and mat. Yay!

It sounds stupid... "We're not doing anything illegal, we've got a new game it uses music with 4 arrow directions in a machine that another company designed and owns the rights to, we have our own gui and our own music, you follow the music and step on a mat just like the other game with the same directions as the other game and you are graded accordingly. We have a marathon mode which seemingly is similar to something called "nonstop", we've got 4 different difficulties for our songs just like them..." etc. etc. et al do I really need to go on here?

But it's NOT illegal. <says the dev>

The ideas are stupid. Three arrows at once? Yes! Primate rituals at last! Two feet on the floor, slap your hands down too. w00t! *Smell the innovation* Sorry folks, there's NO originality to see here. Other than the primate ritual hand slapping. And that's not originality. It's stupidity.

They're blatantly ripping off DDR. Period.
This is a joke. A seriously demented joke of a game. I could care less if ten years from now there's never a new DDR game and this is the only thing left...I'll never play it. And that'll never happen.

A) Konami's cash cow, worldwide, is DDR. Out of Bemani, DDR is numero uno. They're not going to kill off DDR. Ever. EvAr! It'd be like Miyamoto saying he's killing off Mario, Link, and Samus. Capcom's never doing another Street Fighter game. etc. Ludicrous.

DDR will never end and it will never cease to exist. I keep seeing people claiming this and that about Konami Japan is gone, no more arcade DDR being developed. All up to Konami USA. *ppffft* Whatever. BS. SNK USA "closed up shop" a few years ago; they still cranked out games. A year or two later, they reopened.

DDR is not "over". Extreme WILL NOT be the last DDR game. I will not believe it until Konami themselves come out and say it, and they never have and they never will because it ain't gonna happen. People read too far into this "We're starting over!" "Thank you for playing!" "Why do you need Konami Originals?" crap. Sheesh.

B) This game will not be around in 10 years. Believe that. If their "lawyers" know what's good for them they'll tell them to shut down shop now before they're sent upstate for breaking copyright law and ignoring patent law. On top of that, what arcade franchise in their right mind will give an ounce of time to a team of nobody's who have never manufactured an arcade machine in their entire lives? None. Mom and pop chains might buy this garbage up, but I'll be damned if I ever see it at a Tilt.

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CHROMEDOME · Trick Member Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Location: San Ramon, CA

So what...your just going to play extreme for the rest of your life or be like "man theres no more DDR i guess I'll just quit cuz I already played like Xenon like 900 times" ITG has a lot of possiblity for groth and to continue the game of DDR. Every DDR cabinet in america(except for USA mix) are illegal and Konami cant do anything about that...so roxor or anyone else can do anything to an Extreme cabinet. THe only place Konami makes money off DDR(arcade) is japan, and from what I hear DDR isn't so hot in japan. All the mixes here are bootleg anyways...STFU
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Kyran · Trick Member Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Portland, OR

You can't write a review for ITG until you've seen it and played it... at least try to get you're facts straight if you do. So what if it's a blatant rip-off of DDR? Even the development team agrees, that's exactly what it is. But who cares? Don't you want to see more difficulty, and new elements added to the DDR gameplay (especially now that the series is facing its end)? Just think of it as another DDR game if you want, but either way ITG has lots more "innovation" than could be expected from a new DDR anyway.

Tomo_kun · Trick Member Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Location: SE-WI.

Ehh, pop'n music and IIDX is Konamis "cash cow"
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Daniel · Trick Member Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Location: Sonoma, CA

There is no official announcement of wether and/or when the next DDR game will be released. However it is unlikely a new DDR game will ever be released sooner than 2006. Konami failed to make money off of DDR in the USA other than making crappy home versions. Since everybody in Japan plays IIDX and other musical games instead Konami is going with those games. If you are not going to play In The Groove you should seriously consider starting a console gathering and play IIDX and not play DDR.

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BigBoi · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 9:58 pm Post subject:

This is officially the ghettoist piece of crap EVER!!!

and you know, it makes me love it ALL that much more... I would really love to try this game... and I'm not kidding either. Good luck with this.
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foyboy21 · Roxor Staff Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Location: Seattle

FACTS

Mines and many other featurs/options were made by the ITG team and then back ported to Step mania. You seem to think that they were made in step mania and intagrated into ITG.

This is not the first arcade game this company has made.

Franchises have already contacted employees of the ITG team with express intrest.

It does not run on windows.

It is legal

False "we've got 4 different difficulties for our songs just like them"
DDR currently has 5 difficulites (not that I care, but you sure get a lot of facts wrong).

False "Believe that. If their "lawyers" know what's good for them they'll tell them to shut down shop now before they're sent upstate for breaking copyright law and ignoring patent law."
JESUS have you even studied the specific patents here and do you have any idea which one(s) ITG has bought?!! You clearly don't have a clue what is going on behind the scenes, not that you should, but you sure seem to spout off like you do.

You state your opinon of what you like as fact and not opinion. Some people like triples and quads, others don't (you have the optionto turn them off). "It sounds stupid" WHICH SONGS sound stupid? I would bet that you would like a lot higher % of the songs in ITG than DDR. "It looks stupid" so you have played it then or are you just saying that from a 12 fps video? "The Ideas are stupid" clearly you don't like hitting more than 2 arrows at once (assuming you have even tried on say PiU) but what other "ideas" are stupid?

MY OPINION
ITG is simply way more FUN than DDR. I have played DDR since the beginning, hell I even competed against J Dog during the 1st mix days when he showed us his slide routine on Am3P. I have loved DDR very much and never thought I would get tired of it. MUCH to my suprise, after playing a lot of ITG I then went back to DDR and no longer liked it. WHY? Because I had so much more fun on ITG that DDR now seems boring.

More importantly ITG is about making the dance game live on, it's not a giant coperation going for the big buck, but rather a company that not only talks to the public about what they wan't in a game but actually goes ahead and implements many things the public askes for. If you could actually come up with something you don't like about the game or something you would rather see, then TELL THEM and they will change it or add/subtract from the game.

OR

You could just sit there and piss and moan about what you don't like, then proceed to not get any new dance games for the arcade.

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