New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

[One Winged Angel]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

I still think removing Training, shifting Beginner down to 2, and inserting Novice before or after Very Easy and Easy is the best option to go with if we're going with Jae's list, the rest is pretty much spot-on

[bmah]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

Yeah, I like Novice, even though what exactly a novice is falls in the eyes of the beholder. But at least it sounds better than training.

[Hizack]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

Why do we even need a name for each?

Why is "FMO" a clearer way to tell a difficulty-11 song? I don't see why we don't call it a "D11" song instead.

If a difficulty-2 song is "for beginners", how about a difficulty-1 song? For whom are difficulty-1 songs?

I think those labels are just making things more confusing.





01 - D1
02 - D2
03 - D3
04 - D4
05 - D5
06 - D6
07 - D7
08 - D8
09 - D9
10 - D10
11 - D11
12 - D12
13 - D13
14 - D14
15 - D15
16 - D16
17 - D17
18 - D18
19 - D19
20 - D20

[MarioNintendo]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

Why do we even need a name for each?

Why is "FMO" a clearer way to tell a difficulty-11 song? I don't see why we don't call it a "D11" song instead.

If a difficulty-2 song is "for beginners", how about a difficulty-1 song? For whom are difficulty-1 songs?

I think those labels are just making things more confusing.

Kinda agree with that, after all. When I play the ~OfFiCiAl DDR by Konami~, they only have numbers (1-12 feet). The only reason why they put beginner/easy/standard/heavy/oni is because they had to differentiate the difficulties on the same song, which we already do here by using the same terms (ex: Sunless Daybreak [Heavy]).

:P Just a thought

[top]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

yeah, there's that thought, but didn't nois-or-e (forgive me if I'm incorrect) say that we were trying to keep the traditional naming scheme? that's the only reason the D1-D20 idea is probably going to get shot down.

I personally wouldn't mind that either.

[i love you]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

yeah, there's that thought, but didn't nois-or-e (forgive me if I'm incorrect) say that we were trying to keep the traditional naming scheme?

If this were true then he should have went with qqwref's plan XD

Personally, if you want to keep the original names, qqwref's idea would be best.

If you want to keep the original names but at the same time remove the "For __ only" names and stuff that majority supports, nois-or-e's plan would be best.

If you want a consistency of the difficulty names from 1-14 but at the same time, include "expert, master and guru" for 15-17 and most likely "brutal and relentless" for 18-19, (which is also stuff that most of the community supports), Silvuh's idea would be best.

[jimerax]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

Thoughts:

- Can "Beginner" and "Novice" co-exist? because they have similar meaning, if not exactly the same. "Beginner" sounds easier, though.
- "Light" "Standard" "Heavy" are used for the description of different charts, also "Standard" is already in old rating system, so they might be arguable.
- If we insert something after "Challenging", "Demanding" or "Intense"?
- We may need to confirm a few words that are widely-tolerated for hardest part. Currently it looks "Brutal", "Ridiculous", "Legendary", "Insane", "???" are supported by some people here.

[VisD]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

Thoughts:

- Can "Beginner" and "Novice" co-exist? because they have similar meaning, if not exactly the same. "Beginner" sounds easier, though.
- "Light" "Standard" "Heavy" are used for the description of different charts, also "Standard" is already in old rating system, so they might be arguable.
- If we insert something after "Challenging", "Demanding" or "Intense"?
- We may need to confirm a few words that are widely-tolerated for hardest part. Currently it looks "Brutal", "Ridiculous", "Legendary", "Insane", "???" are supported by some people here.

-Novice does imply something slightly more difficult than Beginner...they're fine appearing together imo

-INTENSE

[richyrich55]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

20- For ThaoR's only

Fixed. And come on, you know you want to put "For ThaoR's Only" do it for the lols.

[popsicle_3000]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

for who??

[TheSaxRunner05]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

Maybe this, then?

01- Easiest
02- For Beginners
03- Very Easy
04- Easy
05- Standard
06- Tricky
07- Difficult (D)
08- Difficult (D)
09- Very Difficult (VD)
10- Very Difficult (VD)
11- Challenging (C)
12- Challenging (C)
13- Very Challenging (VC)
14- Very Challenging (VC)
15- For Masters Only (FMO)
16- For Masters Only (FMO)
17- For Gurus Only (FGO)
18- For Gurus Only (FGO)
19- Brutal
20- Insane

That, but change 19 to legendary

[U.N. Owen]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

for who??

St. Scarhand AAA
Fury of the Storm AAA

Vids are 4 years old. They're still nasty by today's standards.

On topic: Really like the list in the op. Though Training sounds a tad awkward.

[i will pwn u]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

I like maybe adding intense and this word is weird but could go after beginner..
TYRO -a beginner in learning : novice
or maybe one of these

Definition: person unskilled in something
Synonyms: abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, buckwheater, catechumen, colt, fish*, fledgling, greenhorn, greenie, initiate, learner, neophyte, new kid on the block, newcomer, novice, novitiate, probationer, recruit, starter, student, tenderfoot, trainee

i just copied and pasted and know a few have been said but w/e good to see them as a whole xD

[qqwref]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

01- Abedecarian
02- Amateur
03- Apprentice
04- Beginner
05- Colt
06- Fledgling
07- Greenhorn
08- Initiate
09- Neophyte
10- New Kid on the Block
11- Newbie
12- Newcomer
13- Novice
14- Pupil
15- Recruit
16- Rookie
17- Starter
18- Student
19- Trainee
20- For Dossar Only

[nois-or-e]

Re: New Difficulty System Name Suggestions

We've swapped out training, moved beginner down one and put novice into where beginner was.

Seems the final discussion before this goes live is if we really need to change Ridiculous.

The charts that will fall under the Ridiculous label are:

RATO
--
Death Piano
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party 4u -holy nite mix-
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Metro
Revolutionary Etude
--
do I smile?
Rave7
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Crowdpleaser
The wisest were wrong
--
Winter Wind Etude
Husigi Usagi Milk Tei



Any suggestions? Things like Legendary reference something awesome/great, not something difficult. Currently the fact that to 99.9% of the community the above charts are Ridiculously hard seems to be the clincher...