Why do you AAA?

[Zapmeister]

Re: Why do you AAA?

i have 0 public aaa's and i'm borderline d2-d3.

i know for sure i'm in the minority but i don't see the point in literally trying to hit every single arrow perfectly, it's way too much effort and luck, especially when i get random goods in easy (or hard) spots where i have no clue what i did wrong. i believe that in ffr a good is called a "good" for a reason, and that the way people tend to interpret ffr timing judgements suggests that perfect/good/average/miss should be renamed average/bad/terrible/cataclysmic. why ffr players are so self-deprecating is something i'll never understand.

i only really play this game to waste time and for enjoyment, and trying to hit every arrow within the three frame window certainly fulfills the first objective but not really the second.

[choof]

Re: Why do you AAA?

to me getting AAAs are fun
which sucks because I absolutely cannot AAA a single fucking thing ajhlkjhlwkejrhlekjhresasdf

mfw I legitimately BF'd Sea Breeze before AAAing it

[Godnick]

Re: Why do you AAA?

Usually when people play a game where score and ranking is displayed at the end of every session, they have incentive to improve.

Pretty much this. It's a game you can keep coming back to and improving to the point of AAA'ing the song you were once uncomfortable with and going for more improvement on more challenging files from there. The aaa aspect ends a goal to only create new goals.

[Hakulyte]

Re: Why do you AAA?

Why would you not want to AAA everything you can?

[awein999]

Re: Why do you AAA?

When I get a AAA I achieved perfection and that's the ultimate satisfaction on ffr for me. Knowing that I have completely dominated the song and will never have to go back to it. If I'm playing a song too hard for me to AAA my mindset is to get as close as I can to AAA'ing it so the end goal is always perfection and improving. A feeling of accomplishment and progression.

[ilikexd]

Re: Why do you AAA?

it just happens by accident

[sweet2kill210]

Re: Why do you AAA?

Like others have already said, the feeling of achievement is nicest with AAAs for me. Although I still get excited when I get an FC on a song of a very high difficulty level (86+ FCs excite me).

Whenever you finally AAA a song it's like you've completely mastered the rhythm of that song and that patterns within it. It shows definite improvement and in addition I feel like the more I'm able to AAA the more difficult songs I'm able to actually read the notes on harder songs better.

For example, sometimes in easier songs there will be the same pattern that shows up in a more difficult song, but slower or in a nicer setting (with less notes surrounding it) to where I can actually see the pattern easier and that way I'm more likely to recognize it when I see it amidst a cluster of other arrows surrounding it in a more difficult song. Going back to master those easier songs makes it to where eventually I can master the more difficult songs.

[SK8R43]

Re: Why do you AAA?

i have 0 public aaa's and i'm borderline d2-d3.

i know for sure i'm in the minority but i don't see the point in literally trying to hit every single arrow perfectly, it's way too much effort and luck, especially when i get random goods in easy (or hard) spots where i have no clue what i did wrong. i believe that in ffr a good is called a "good" for a reason, and that the way people tend to interpret ffr timing judgements suggests that perfect/good/average/miss should be renamed average/bad/terrible/cataclysmic. why ffr players are so self-deprecating is something i'll never understand.

i only really play this game to waste time and for enjoyment, and trying to hit every arrow within the three frame window certainly fulfills the first objective but not really the second.

Well, its not exactly luck to get a aaa, its actually quite easy. If youre almost D3 you can EASILY get 300+ aaas without even trying. I know for a fact you can go aaa excite bike right now and you wouldnt even lose sleep over it. You just have the midset of "im never getting a aaa because im stubborn". Even if you just played the game for fun why wouldnt you want to get them? Makes no sense.

For example, im going to play mario kart for fun just to pass the time but im never going to get first place because its way too hard and just luck based. I mean why worry about it right? Second or 5th place are just as good... And you dont even have to try



Edit: And my point stands, if you can aaa this you can aaa almost anything 50 and under.... EASILY. You played it 20 times so cant just go with i got it first try or anything

Rank ▴ D Level Score P G A M B C Played
1 65 OMGWTFT0k3N 925,350* 597 0 0 0 0 597 20

[Pseudo Enigma]

Re: Why do you AAA?

I've always found the most pleasure in rhythm games when playing my favorite tracks, casually hitting notes and jamming along, but it seems the general consensus on this site is that going for AAAs is what you're supposed to do. That's super cool and I love watching replays of people smash songs, but what about it keeps you guys grinding for that perfect run?

Ex-High D4 player here, I've AAA'd probably less than 30 songs in my lifetime and

I perform worse when under the pressure of trying for a AAA. Makes me anxious and I stress every movement I make

is the reason I've never given a shit. What I've gotten are by accident. I've even had some really nice runs ruined by misses, so fuck AAAs. Just play for fun or you'll hate this game sooner than you should've.

[beary605]

Re: Why do you AAA?

[AAAing] just happens by accident

pretty much what happens for me

i'm with zap, i'm pretty lazy and dont want to slave through 2000+ charts i wouldnt enjoy (!! damn FFR is huge!), playing them 1~10 times to AAA them all

i just play songs that i enjoy, to see how far i can push myself, and pat myself on the back for hitting some ridiculous section that was difficult before

[One Winged Angel]

Re: Why do you AAA?

excluding vrofl, the difficulty cap in FFR is so low that, barring maybe at most 10 files, if the score isn't a AAA, I don't consider it to be good (I recognize this isn't a healthy mindset to approach the game, but in terms of playing competitively, it's true)

SM on the other hand is a different story...and for that very reason I find SM much more enjoyable to play

[Tim Allen]

Re: Why do you AAA?

it's because we're a bunch of nerds D U H

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Why do you AAA?

FFR gives a mix of both accuracy and speed, but is more focused on how you can approach files.

Stepmania you can force a lot of patterns and not get boos, and you can consider chord cohesion. On the other hand in FFR you can't take advantage of chord cohesion or you get averages/boos, so you need to try another approach. It also gives you a more accurate display of your splitting tendencies on jumps/hands/quads.

In other words, you have the extremes in Stepmania: You can watch Staiain's plays on stamina draining and fast songs, you can see OldCartoon getting scores with ridiculously low perfect counts even if other players can get better greats and CBs. FFR is unfair when you consider lag issues, but I don't see anyone getting 1/4 my perfect accuracy on FFR songs. If anything, my accuracy is generally pretty close to the "most accurate" players in FFR, but on Stepmania my perfect count is much worse.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Why do you AAA?

Because it's fun to do well on hard things

It's also fun to see yourself improve over time. Setting goals and then meeting them, etc.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Why do you AAA?

Was anyone else reminded of a certain Batman Begins quote upon seeing this thread title btw :P