So...Why does everyone hate the Dancers?

[CMG]

Sure everyone hates on the original dancing characters from DDR but I haven't seen anyone complain about Mario dancin around the screen. I guess its ok if a fat plumber rips off the DDR character's moves and makes an ass out of himself.

Anywho, I only select female dancers when I play DDR... Maid Zukin is my girl. <3

Other hot babes include Janet from 5th mix, Emi from SuperNova (cause she was too young in the older mixes), Alice, and Lady (both blonde haired and pink haired). Ni-Na and Charmy were ok. If anything I liked Charmy in her rollerskate outfit better.

I'm just kinda sad that they haven't brought back any of the dancers from DDR PC. Alex was a cute red headed girl, and Ruby was a hot cowgirl, and some other ones looked cool too... although Mr. Spanky kinda freaked me out... idk what kind of drugs Konami was on with that one.

[MechaGai]

Ahaha, I almost forgot about the PC characters. Yeah, they were a crazy lot. I mean, I love the dancers as CHARACTERS, but they rarely add the right mood to the song at all. I seriously preffer generic backgrounds a la 3rd Mix over dancers, simply because they seriously don't dance too well. The only few exceptions are Akira and Yuni. They're simply my fave duo. :-P

[CardinalDan]

Originally Posted by Arctic Wolves

Before Extreme 2, I really didn't care, but I prefer unique videos by a vast margin. They help convey the song more; you can put so much more into a video than a character. LOVE IS ORANGE tells a hilarious story, I feel like there's a story behind those songs with the unique videos, I find them very entertaining. =P

I agree with you on that. I've played from 3rd mix to SN, and although I don't mind having characters on the screen, I'd rather have unique videos for the songs. I think they give a song something unique.

[天の龍]

I really don't mind them. To me, they seem like a lazy attempt to put something on the screen besides backgrounds - but other than that, I largely ignore them.

I could do without them when playing a fast song though. Seriously, everyone here has to think that the characters look rather stupid when you're playing a fast song like FAXX or Paranoia -Respect-. It looks like they're being attacked by bees or something. :P

[Monster in a box]

Originally Posted by ParadoxVincent

Because they took the background for A away.

No they didn't...

And I like the characters. Not all of them, but enough of them. Especially Emi, and pre-SN Rage was cool. I liked them better when all they did was flail around like idiots though. Now they're actually trying to make it look like they're dancing, and that's lame...

[Cao Landoku]

Originally Posted by MDRL

Well at least we can be sure that approval of the dancers is skewed toward shut-in sociopath losers. Thanks for that.

Wow, what a arse. Better than saying the crawling green worms in the background video of Break Down on Max2 inspires me to play that song. Exactly how does green worms set the mood there? There's really no reason why you had to get so nasty about it jeez. I just think games without characters are boring.

[Only One Jops]

all I can say is Konami is getting lazy to put background graphics... because you'll need lots of different looking backgrounds while some of these graphic were used for one song... for example, Sakura, they'll only put alice in a kimono on that song right??? Even the falling of leaves on the tree itself...

[Blackraven]

I think Emi is the only awesome character to use in Supernova and is the only one that I prefer in that version.

The rest are okay. Rage and Afro are neatly good, Gus and Babylon are okay.......but the robot and Jenny look like crap.

I do hope they would put Alice back there. . I do remember her from 5th Mix so I do want to see her back in the series

[SulferDragon]

I actually like some of the dancers. I'm not going to play the name game, but some of them I'm quite fond of. Afro is always a classic though...

I'm just steamed that they replaced all of the background visuals with stupid dancers. They ruined it for me, I'd rather they just didn't have anything in the background except the background image. Maybe if they actually danced to the music, instead of dancing a bunch of random crap that looks awful it would be a little better!!

They also need some better moves. You know, like Jackson here:

That's what I'm talking about.

[Daniel]

Originally Posted by PrinceLandon

Wow, what a arse. Better than saying the crawling green worms in the background video of Break Down on Max2 inspires me to play that song. Exactly how does green worms set the mood there? There's really no reason why you had to get so nasty about it jeez. I just think games without characters are boring.

The green worms make so much sense in Speed Over Beethoven!

[SulferDragon]

Originally Posted by Daniel

The green worms make so much sense in Speed Over Beethoven!

Just like the guy in the railcart knocking over the barrels in BREAK DOWN makes sense.

[MAX_LeGendre]

I have no idea who the characters are and don't care. They just mess up my arrow reading.

[papersak]

How about don't look at the characters if you don't like them?

The chatacters aren't any more distracting than the random changing background of Extreme. In fact, in SuperNOVA's case, I find them less distracting than Extreme's videos.

Would you rather have those BGs that are practically the same colors as the arrows? I know there's some in Remember You, and I'd rather have Rage or Zukin any day than have that BG blend in with the arrows.

Plus, they have cute little stories and personalities. That seem to translate to Engrish in Google, but they're fun anyway. And... fine, not so much personality for everyone. It's a shame nothing is ever done with them. Cute designs and you get some freedom with 'em.

Yeah. Yanno, dancers have been on the game since day one. You can'y say that "took away" the videos, as the videos took them away first.

[Sagat believer]

I love the characters. Going back to my 4th Mix roots, I usually play its Player's Best genre for the sake of seeing either Yuni or Akira (it was 4th Mix Solo, specifically).

And if anything, I have a better proposition: why not offer both characters/bg vid? I heard that it was working on the CS scene well.

[MechaGai]

No, just like in SN AC, if the song has an exclusive video, then no dancers appear.