How do you refer to DDR's levels and ratings?

[「dj.TK」]

Originally Posted by ranatalus

beginner/light/standard/heavy/oni
numbers themselves, occasionally i call 9s "catas"

that's it

Same here. Difficult isn't difficult, its just standard. I tend to say Oni and not Challenge also.

[zonic505]

I think it depends on who I'm talking to. Here & on DDR Freak, I just refer to Light/Standard/Heavy/Challenge, while talking to offline people or people who aren't that familiar, whatever the game says it is (i.e Extreme, I'll say those; for Supernova, I'll say them). I usually just say the number of the diff. online & add "footer" at the end offline.

[Kamek]

I tend to vary it up, I'm trying to get into using "Basic/Difficult/Expert" but I usually find myself saying "Light/Standard/Heavy" instead. As far as difficulties, I say "That's a 9" or "It's a 9-footer" (usually the former).

[Cali]

I try to use the new terminology, but I usually stick with light, standard, heavy, oni, and Ill say "Its a 10", or "Its a 8". I dont add footer.

[koa5001]

I first started playing DDR with MAX 2 so I just call it beginner/light/standard/heavy/challenge. After a while I started using oni in replace of challenge. As for difficulties I first started saying the number and footer but now I just say the number.

[imrandom1]

I say light,standard,heavy and if its a hard song I say Oni but if it's easier I say Challenge. I also say 10 footer. I also started with max2 but now i wanna get my hands on in the groove.

[DMAxel]

I use Beginner/Light/Standard/Heavy/Challenge and X-footer for the difficulty rating.

[桜の色]

Originally Posted by ranatalus

beginner/light/standard/heavy/oni
numbers themselves, occasionally i call 9s "catas"

that's it

Pretty much the same thing here.

Except I will say "Flashing 10" and sometimes add "Footer" on there.

[seraph086770]

I used to say Light/Standard/Heavy, but I switched to Basic/Difficult/Expert. I still call Challenge Oni though.

Since they got rid of the feet in the ratings, I'll usually call it a "level _" on so-and-so difficulty.

[Ramengan]

Beginner/Light/Standard/Heavy/Challenge are what I use most commonly.
I'll say Basic/Difficult/Expert sometimes, but usually only while I'm playing the newer games, which rate them as such. I use Oni rarely.

Numerical values? Either just the number or with "footer" appended. I interchange them frequently. I don't use 'catas' etc. to refer to any of them.

Also, I agree that beginner is a handicap that people don't grow out of. Starting on Light is much better, really. I actually recommend that to new players of the game.

[recessionatalus]

Originally Posted by Spork!

I still think Beginner was a bad idea for DDR. Most people who play beginner get the mentaility that they can't get better, which causes them to quit.

god i'm glad someone else understands this


also while some people are trying to learn to call the difficulties by their new names, their new names actually make me want to call them by the original basic/another/maniac names, hahaha

[Ashura96]

Originally Posted by 「dj.TK」

Same here. Difficult isn't difficult, its just standard. I tend to say Oni and not Challenge also.

To most people, having Standard to represent the medium difficulty will assume that Standard = Default = Normal difficulty. Might be why they changed it.

[Oni-91]

Beginner/Standard/Difficult/Heavy/Oni.

So it's an amalgamation of EU and NA terms. I just call the diff. in number form, except sometimes I add a ' on the end (as 5' would be 5 feet, wouldn't it?)

[shuhbonkboo]

I don't mention the feet so it's just a 1, 2, 3, etc.

I got into DDR around 99/2000 so when Max came around, I refused to say light/standard/heavy and stuck with basic/another/maniac. But now I just use the new rating system names.

[Αng]

Originally Posted by Spork!

I still think Beginner was a bad idea for DDR. Most people who play beginner get the mentaility that they can't get better, which causes them to quit. I never see ANYONE get past beginner, and those that do are so damaged by being a 'beginner" that they quit soon after. People got a lot better faster when they didn't have it.

God, agreed. A few of my friends have just been starting to get into DDR, and sometimes I feel like I have to force them not to play on beginner, because they can stay on beginner forever and never get better.

On the other hand, it's good for playing versus with someone who's new. Otherwise you're stuck playing the 5 songs they can do on light.

As for the original question... I tend to use basic/trick/maniac and light/standard/heavy interchangeably. (more often than not I say light, trick and heavy. ) I learned to play on MAX2 AC, but when we went through an arcade drought I played at home with Konamix, so I got used to both. Considering the only thing we have here now is SN, I tend to confuse the friends I mentioned above who are just getting into it, since I never use SN names. Beginner is always beginner, Challenge and Oni get used interchangeably (though I use oni more). Everything is an x footer except 9's which are always catas.