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Wanna know the reason why DDR isn't the CRAZE anymore??? Because of ******** guitar hero and rock band. I ******** HATE THOSE ANNOYING GAY GAMES!!! GRRR... its an lousy imitation of playing guitar!!! I hate those games so much!!!

Rock Band really isn't so bad. I hate the userbase, but the game's not terrible. Guitar Hero can choke a flaming d**k though.

But as I said in another thread (or maybe in this thread and everyone's blind!), these newfangled geetar games have stolen pretty much all of DDR's prospective male userbase due to the fact that they combine the average teen's two favorite activities; rocking out and sitting on your ever-largening a**.

If DDR didn't have that "gay pop music", it wouldn't have any chance at appealing to a mainstream audience, and would therefore be less popular.

Granted their song selection could be a little better, but I think outright laziness is to blame for the lack of popularity more than anything, really.

I believe it's just a sign of the times. It went through it's phase in Japan and other countries even as it was just hitting our shore.

I personally agree with the other posters who were saying it was because their later products were not nearly to the quality of their earlier. That was due to part (as we here all probably/hopefully know by now) of their competition with (and eventual aquirance of) ITG/Roxor which lead to rush-production of so/so games.

I also transitioned over to Pump It Up because it became one of the only local, working machines in my area. As well the local malls have disposed of their DDR machines because of lack of activity. I personally like the music of Pro because it is different from the standard DDR and combines with ITG music.

I do still occasionally play at home, but have recently traded in my later editions and kept Max, Max 2, extreme, and extreme 2 because I actually play those mixes.

(I apologize if any of what I said was confusing - I am taking a break from finals studying and my brain is slightly done...lol)

Yeah, I've been out of the loop/off the gaia forums for awhile, (damn college and work...lol)

I do agree with the point that the DDR series was better in the days of ITG vs now. If my sources were correct, supernova might not have even happened if it wasn't for Roxor regenerating interest in 4pannel games in the U.S. (that is where the competition part comes in) So in a nutshell, I do agree that it *kind of* helped DDR but only for a time, but Roxor was (in the end) mainly a competitor for DDR/Konami.

I completely agree with you that Konami is being lazy (and have been for a while.) I am wondering if at this point, if the hurting economy hasn't been affecting production/importation as well. (random side thought....)

And this is how out of the loop I've been, I didn't even realize they were stopping Pop'n. I haven't even tried Empress either. lol (sorry to hear it's a letdown)

I am just hoping that at this point that Andamaro can at least keep up the Pump series for a few more mixes, basically until I am too (physically) old to play...lol

(again sorry for any confusion/rambling - brain has officially stopped functioning)

Konami doesn't care about music games anymore.
They pretty much threw Rock Revolution out there and moved on.

Rock Revolution was such a joke. I tried it once and the lag just about made me cry... I have just about lost all respect for Konami anymore.

RB FTW