What's the 2012 scene like?

[Arkuski]

I started playing FFR and Stepmania back in 2006 when bemanistyle had their massive database as well as FFR. I was fairly young and clueless back then so I didn't know too much about what was going on and what other people really cared about in the community. I think I stopped when FFR was down for a while.

I just recently hopped back on board and I'm starting to get more assimilated with the culture. For example, I have all of Mad Matt's Tachyon packs and I don't waste any time trying to learn PIU.

I guess my real question is what's going on right now? Is all of this still popular? What packs are the most popular? Where should I go to download simfiles? How receptive is the community to new simfile artists?

Also, what have I missed in the 4 years I haven't been playing?

[Arkuski]

Bumping because I am still interested

[Winrar]

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=115269

[dAnceguy117]

Originally Posted by Arkuski

Is all of this still popular?

Overall numbers have dwindled a lot since the "golden age," but I think participation for each individual right now is pretty high.

Originally Posted by Arkuski

What packs are the most popular? Where should I go to download simfiles?

what Winrar said

Originally Posted by Arkuski

How receptive is the community to new simfile artists?

much, much more than in years past.

[Wayward Vagabond]

Any pack with my files is worth getting

[Wayward Vagabond]

SStepartists are still elitist we just hide the fact.behind a forced smile

[Arkuski]

Originally Posted by Wayward Vagabond

Any pack with my files is worth getting

I'll take your word for it. Would you say this is the de facto center for stepping?

[dAnceguy117]

Originally Posted by Wayward Vagabond

SStepartists are still elitist we just hide the fact.behind a forced smile

speak.for yourself

Originally Posted by Arkuski

Would you say this is the de facto center for stepping?

there have always been separate communities with different interests, but now the sites' purposes are more mutually exclusive than ever. FFR houses both stepping crews for FFR (the game) and SM, with the two groups very closely intertwined, as both are dedicated to making spread-based keyboard charts. r21freak is devoted to making simfiles for use on hacked ITG machines.

there are some other communities, but from what I can tell, FFR and r21freak are by far the largest remaining groups that are involved with 4-key/4-panel rhythm games. I guess there's probably a DDR fan site here and there, but... bleh.

[Patashu]

play osu instead it's a lot better than stepmania

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

Originally Posted by Wayward Vagabond

SStepartists are still elitist we just hide the fact.behind a forced smile

Ermahgerd yes

Originally Posted by dAnceguy117

speak.for yourself

No he's actually completely right. People here stepauthor wise think you have nothing to say unless you have more than one chart in game. And don't say that I say that because people say things to me all the time, because let's ignore my existence for a minute and realize that this does happen. A lot. It's honestly really disgusting.

Originally Posted by Patashu

play osu instead it's a lot better than stepmania

Subjective. Also I find the Osu community and game to be worse off than ffr.

Aside from the standard game (Which I honestly dislike the concept from the start so I'm just not gonna talk about it because it'd be major bias from me.) Learning the other game's modes (Teiko and Catch The Beat) is something that's incredibly difficult to do. And even then as you're doing it, it's off sync nonranked crap. Forgive me for wanting to be able to have a rank on it (as that's sort of the reason for playing a game with leader-boards no?) but I mean ranked easier charts for all game modes would make that game worlds better. Or even if they weren't ranked, can we get some on-sync fun stuff please? :/

But as it is, no thank you. The community also is a pretty, um, bad, from what I've seen. Which granted is not too much.

Also to add my opinion on the community here: A deal of the community is a bunch of easily offended cry babies. You know who you are.

Simcharts are more technical than fun now which makes this game really hard to actually enjoy. But you really should play a few of them to form your own opinion on that.

[reuben_tate]

I don't care for the osu community myself either, I don't find it all too welcoming and being involved in the FFR community for awhile, I can say that the osu community is more elitist (like, "oh, you're not top 100? You have no opinion then...") Also, I feel the FFR community is more tight-knit than osu's, but I can't say too much since I haven't been ~too~ involved in osu's community.

[i love you]

I have to say that both FFR and OSU communities both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

If I had to choose a winner between the two, I would personally say osu.

[dAnceguy117]

Xx{Midnight}xX aka Middie aka Negative_Nancy