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Dance Central |OT| Kinect's Killer App?
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BenjaminBirdie
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DJ Lushious said:
I work a late shift so I spend a lot of time at my desk just listening to shit on my headphones and I swear I was totally just kind of subconsciously pulling moves and I'd look at my arms and be like "WTF are you...oh shiiiiii DANCE CENTRAL."
Not kidding.
plagiarize
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we tried that one on medium. twas a bit beyond us, but really fun.PhatSaqs said:
BenjaminBirdie
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AstroLad said:
Just the still frame one before you start playing the first time that explains how the game works.
BenjaminBirdie
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plagiarize said:
I'd recommend sticking to Easy for easy for everything first time through and focus on five starring everything. It's certainly a challenge, but it's nothing you'd probably consider beyond you. I think it's a good way to go through in a not-insurmountable way.
BenjaminBirdie
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AstroLad said:
Hm. Good point. No clue. It might be in the manual...?
storybook77
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BenjaminBirdie said:
I can't even begin to fathom what Medium looks like after seeing some of these songs on easy.
This game was messed up. I set up Kinect at like 1 AM, though I'd just try out Adventures, wound up playing that for 45m. Then said well I might as well do Dance Central so I can show my wife and friends how to play tonight. Before you know it I'm trying to perfect pokerface and wind up having to force myself to go to bed at 2:45 because otherwise I would just stay up all night.
storybook77
Member
AstroLad said:
:lol My wife was watching me and grinning. She wasn't feeling well so she didn't play but I'm going to make a fool of herself this weekend!
DJ Lushious
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:lolBenjaminBirdie said:
The funnest move I've had to do so far is the "diggin" move (I believe that's what it's called) in "Evacuate the Dancefloor." I've not made it much farther than that track, but the 60s style move just is so much fun, especially when it's followed by "infection."
The 8 hours of work are killing me! I've already talked to two co-workers (soccer moms) about Dance Central and how I just want to get home and play it!
I definitely jumped straight to this in Options. On my Kuro running through a Pio receiver I had to set mine to 20ms. Not too shabby.AstroLad said:
Interestingly enough, I also had to set "overscan" on in the A/V settings of the game. I was getting a black border all around the image, which I thought was odd. Is the game running at sub-HD rez? Not that it matters, 'cause this game is too fun to be legal.
BenjaminBirdie
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DJ Lushious said:
Shit I really need to do that.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Is this game as ugly as RB3?
Always-honest
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Stop saying it's fun. I don't want it to be fun!
gah that's half the lag i had back my old identical setup! (now i have vt25+pio receiver, which still comes out to about 40 both on video and audio). one day i'll get you lag one day! (of course i'm not willing to sacrifice picture quality or even go into crappy game mode for the marginal benefit so it may be a while)DJ Lushious said::lol
The funnest move I've had to do so far is the "diggin" move (I believe that's what it's called) in "Evacuate the Dancefloor." I've not made it much farther than that track, but the 60s style move just is so much fun, especially when it's followed by "infection."
The 8 hours of work are killing me! I've already talked to two co-workers (soccer moms) about Dance Central and how I just want to get home and play it!
I definitely jumped straight to this in Options. On my Kuro running through a Pio receiver I had to set mine to 20ms. Not too shabby.
Interestingly enough, I also had to set "overscan" on in the A/V settings of the game. I was getting a black border all around the image, which I thought was odd. Is the game running at sub-HD rez? Not that it matters, 'cause this game is too fun to be legal.
AlphaTwo00
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IT'S SO MUCH FUN.:lolAlways-honest said:
Littleberu
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cjelly said:
I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of videos of this game out.
Way to troll two games at once.
BenjaminBirdie
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cjelly said:
You mean is it as good looking as Rock Band 3 with that trademark Harmonix proto-cartoony style?
Of course it is.
I'm pretty sure as long as you're moving, you'll get flawless. I'm not sure if it has any bearing on your score.AstroLad said:
I am in love with this game. I had some friends over and we played it all night. I might get XBL Gold just to get on the leaderboards, cause I'll be top three on a lot of them, from what I've seen! And I am never on any leaderboards cause I suck at non-dance games, haha.
donkey show
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The wife and I had a blast with this last night and played for about 3 hours straight. Spent most of the time attempting to perfect our east coast/west coast swag with Poison and Drop It Like It's Hot. :lol I'm sore as hell now, but damn is this game fun. I would love it if they put this version of Drop It Like It's Hot, lol.
DJ Lushious
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Why do you refer to game mode as "crappy?" I'm just curious."Game" is the only video mode I like on my Kuro for when playing video games. ISFcc, naturally, doesn't fit, and everything else caused too much latency for my SF4 "skills" to handle.AstroLad said:
I agree. It fits Harmonix's visual design. My only complaint about that, though? The dancers only have two outfits each and aren't customizable beyond that. Not that I mind too much, since Miss Aubrey's default outfit is all I need.BenjaminBirdie said:
From what I can gather, the horizontal bars extending out from your silhouette are the key. Every time one is hit, it seems to do something. I can only assume that this "something" is towards the flawless freestyle.AstroLad said:
don't like the picture settings. i pretty much calibrate forever and then any deviation from that drives me nuts. too saturated like almost all of them. altho i think on the vt25 it doesn't even reduce lag (or barely) anymore so it's kind of moot anywayDJ Lushious said:
DJ Lushious
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I bought Dance Central from Best Buy, but they didn't give me an external card. there was an internal card for "keep on dancin'," and it included a key code, but no further instructions on how to redeem the code. So, I just put it back in the case and got my groove on. Maybe this is the Janet Jackson song?Chairhome said:
DJ Lushious
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Definitely. I moonlight there, so I'll rough up one of my co-workers if they don't have any more. :lolChairhome said:
If there's a stack of them left over, like there normally is for these promotions, I'll try to grab extras. No guarantees, though.
BenjaminBirdie
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AstroLad said:
Does "Temperature" seem to have new moves? The Lady Sov, on easy at least, looked like it was only recycled stuff from other jams. Same question for the Ne-Yo.
DJ Lushious
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That seems like a perfect fit for this game!Raide said:I so hope they add some Jamiroquai in the future.
Courtesy of Chris Remo's twitter:
http://www.dancecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?118-How-Do-I-DELETE-the-Picutres-Taken-During-Danc
http://www.dancecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?118-How-Do-I-DELETE-the-Picutres-Taken-During-Danc
BenjaminBirdie said:
I just watched the Giant Bomb quick look and the presentation was amazing. Even the menus looked super sexy and slick, and the in game animations looked so good that I kinda wanted to start dancing with it even though I was just watching a low quality internet video.
I dunno when I'll get a Kinect, but if and when I do this'll be the first thing I play.
donkey show
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Fuck secretly. I want to be Timberlake. :lolRaide said:
BenjaminBirdie
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Chairhome said:
No, I know, but I touched on this earlier in the thread. Ne-Yo and Lady Sov were most likely promotional picks tied to the launch event performances, so it seemed that they possibly got less attention than full fledged, planned DLC. The Easy version of the Lady Sov song seemed to back that up, as it had no new moves.
donkey show said:
Don't we all. :lol
With the dancing, I guess the tracks that work are much more restrictive than the usual Rock Band track. Still, they do have a massive array of songs available with awesome dance-move possibilities.
Some James Brown would be awesome. Adding some Jackson 5 stuff would also be amazing.
indigo-cyclops
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Router said:
I apologize, this is the best I could do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvVZegDnbJU
*Turk (Scrubs) dancing to Poison*
JimiNutz
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I've been watching some videos and while it does look fun to play, the actual dance moves are just so cheesy and well...really camp.
Do they use the real choreography or do they just make up random moves for the songs?
Like I was watching one video and it had this weird 'hula' move, and well, it didn't look like any dance move I've ever seen...:lol
I'm sure I could be wording this more clearly, but the 'dancing' just looks kinda strange.
Maybe I was just watching the wrong songs, or maybe it was because it was on easy.
It still looks entertaining, but I can't imagine I'd ever want to try any of these 'dance moves' while actually trying to dance :lol
Does the dancing become more like real dancing the higher the difficulty?
See that's what I'm talking about, does the game have routines like this once you move up in difficulty?
Do they use the real choreography or do they just make up random moves for the songs?
Like I was watching one video and it had this weird 'hula' move, and well, it didn't look like any dance move I've ever seen...:lol
I'm sure I could be wording this more clearly, but the 'dancing' just looks kinda strange.
Maybe I was just watching the wrong songs, or maybe it was because it was on easy.
It still looks entertaining, but I can't imagine I'd ever want to try any of these 'dance moves' while actually trying to dance :lol
Does the dancing become more like real dancing the higher the difficulty?
INDIGO_CYCLOPS said:
See that's what I'm talking about, does the game have routines like this once you move up in difficulty?
BenjaminBirdie
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NutJobJim said:
It's choreographed dancing. More music video than dance club. But it's not like crazy made up shit, or at least it doesn't really feel like it when you're playing.
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