I'm new to games like this, but started getting curious about the difficulty levels of the different songs/levels. In particular, I was wondering if you've got to do things differently here, where we play with our fingers on a keyboard, than say in the arcades where you play with your feet on a dance pad. What determines the difficulty level of a song and how is it different for feet and fingers? Here are some things I was thinking of, but I wanted to get some opinions from people who know this stuff better than me.
The faster the rhythm, the harder it is. Runs of 1/4 notes usually aren't hard to hit, but going to 1/8 or shorter tends to be harder. I guess this works for both fingers and feet, but can you go further on the keyboard, to shorter notes than you could do on a pad? The tempo has some effect, too, in that the faster the song is the harder it can be to keep up or catch up and get back on beat after a mistake. I guess that has about the same effect for feet or fingers. Hitting two arrows simultaneously has to be harder on a pad where it most likely involves jumping (I've never played with my feet); on a keyboard that's no big deal. So runs of doubles, while I sometimes have trouble with them here, are probably even harder on a pad. Using them is probably more of a difficulty increase on the pad than the keyboard. I guess something similar could hold for the general pattern/order of arrows. Certain sequences may be harder to do with your feet than the keyboard. So what's used to make the keyboard stepfiles harder? Mainly faster, more complicated rhythms and a faster tempo? I'm just curious. Because I'm new I have to stick to easier levels and I'm a bit curious about what I can expect at the higher levels when I eventually get there. Plus I think the feet/finger difference is an interesting point and was wondering how that worked.
The faster the rhythm, the harder it is. Runs of 1/4 notes usually aren't hard to hit, but going to 1/8 or shorter tends to be harder. I guess this works for both fingers and feet, but can you go further on the keyboard, to shorter notes than you could do on a pad? The tempo has some effect, too, in that the faster the song is the harder it can be to keep up or catch up and get back on beat after a mistake. I guess that has about the same effect for feet or fingers. Hitting two arrows simultaneously has to be harder on a pad where it most likely involves jumping (I've never played with my feet); on a keyboard that's no big deal. So runs of doubles, while I sometimes have trouble with them here, are probably even harder on a pad. Using them is probably more of a difficulty increase on the pad than the keyboard. I guess something similar could hold for the general pattern/order of arrows. Certain sequences may be harder to do with your feet than the keyboard. So what's used to make the keyboard stepfiles harder? Mainly faster, more complicated rhythms and a faster tempo? I'm just curious. Because I'm new I have to stick to easier levels and I'm a bit curious about what I can expect at the higher levels when I eventually get there. Plus I think the feet/finger difference is an interesting point and was wondering how that worked.
No surprise. But it did give me a look at the really high levels and you're right, it is basically a fast tempo with a ton of arrows. And people can do those? Wow.
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