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Yo,

I will start visiting Bloomington again!

I'll have to follow you an upcoming weekend to the venue, Chad. Most likely the weekend of the 25th.

Hopefully PIU starts getting popular, i was able to play it a few times while i was in KY, i love it!

I have a feeling that I'm going to be playing a lot of this game --- playing it is like DDR USED to be: there's so much room for improvement! (Not that I'm that great at DDR, but I just reached a plateau long, long ago...)

Does anyone know where a decent song list is available online, with listings of which songs are available in which modes and what the difficulty ratings are? If I can't find one, I'll just make one myself I guess...

The Pump it Up Exceed song listing can be found at the official site. That doesn't include the ratings, but it does include song name, artist, BPM, and screen shots.

Actually, I probably won't be able to go tonight, or if I do it will be very brief. I got WAY too much crap that needs to be done in the next couple days.

Speed mod code: On music selection Down Left,Down Right, Down Left, Down Right, Center.

Well the get together that was had this evening was rather entertaining. In fact, here's a highlight from tonight's events!

http://portfolio.iu.edu/mmerkler/ChadPump.AVI

Hey, that looks like you guys sure are having lots of fun!

I'm violent happy =D

The funniest part for me is the echo the basketball game makes, and the wary look on my face as I just glare at Chad.

And then right after that I proceeded to laugh at his ass. Roffle.

God, that video is wonderful.

Fluffyumpkins wrote:Props to Shannon who knew about this but never said anything.

Yea my bad...I thought everyone already knew so I didnt say anything.

I've played 3 piu mixes, premiere, prex2 and exceed. Exceed is by far my favorite. Songwise, it is uber good.

Can't wait to try it out.

I just got back from playing PIU:Exceed in an attempt to work off some stress, and I discovered some pretty damn cool steps on some of the otherwise more lame songs (AKA most non-Banya songs). The cover of Kiss Me under the Pop category in particular. I was goofing around and trying some of the easier Crazy songs (8's and 9's), and Kiss Me is all kinds of ridiculous fun on Crazy. It's only about 126 or 128 BPM, but it plays a whole lot like Drop Out Oni on DDR, and let me tell you... if you can do the streams fairly clean without double-stepping, that is a DAMN fun song to play.

Next time someone pretty good goes to play, I recommend playing Kiss Me and just playing some of the easier Crazy songs in general. They're pretty fun and not overwhelmingly hard as the difficulty number might lead you to believe. Like Dignity Hard is an 8, but so is Don't Bother Me Crazy under K-Pop, and it's nowhere close to being as hard as Dignity. PIU has a weird difficulty system.

omg but there's one siesta song me and chad played last night...it's under pop I think...it says it's a 5 on hard but that shit was trifling

I got a chance to go play on this machine last night. It was quite fun! It only makes me wish even more that there was a Pump machine in Indianapolis...that didn't suck.

This is the newest version of Pump I've played. I'm glad to see it's all I liked before and more. I like the cabinet with its nice big monitor and hi-res graphics.

The stage seems good and responsive. Most of my missed steps were a result of me stepping on the metal parts...where DDR arrows would normally be. Old habits are hard to break. But, as with my previous Pump experiences, I really enjoyed some of the step patterns offered by the arrangement of the panels. I'm not sure how much of it is just because it's something different from DDR, but I found some really fun and dynamic step patterns for which DDR has no real equal that I can think of.

I'm not a huge fan of selecting everything with my feet. I miss the select and start buttons for that job. Navigating menus with my feet just feels kinda clumsy.

I also like the variety of music. Although I think a lot of that is simply becuase it's not the same 200 or so songs I've been playing on Extreme for the past two years. But there seem to be a lot of songs based on classical music that I really enjoyed.

All-in-all, I'm really glad I went and hope I can return sometime soon.

Glad you enjoyed it Brian. Off-topic, but... did you happen to get the 4th mix machine working again at Lazerlite? If so, Bloomington will be forever in your debt