Re: New Songs: February 16th, 2012
Absolutely. And we need to have both extreme ends (e.g. bmah/xandertrax file, midare/mina dump) so we can calibrate exactly where in the continuum our ideal file lies. Of course, that doesn't mean either extreme deserves to be in FFR.
I think when people criticize technicality they are criticizing OVERtechnicality. Obviously people are gonna want the chart to go to the music - otherwise we'd just accept dumps - but if the tradeoff is between something like 90% technical and 90% fun, and 100% technical and 20% fun, then I think it's clear which one should be chosen. When you try to go to the music so much that the player can't even tell what your notes are going to as they play the file in real time, or when you match the PR so closely that the patterns require way more speed than they should, you've made a bad file. I'd like to think that one of the things that makes a stepartist good is that they can realize when they did something wrong in a chart, and learn from their mistakes, so they can eventually end up with files that make everyone ruin their pants.
Absolutely. And we need to have both extreme ends (e.g. bmah/xandertrax file, midare/mina dump) so we can calibrate exactly where in the continuum our ideal file lies. Of course, that doesn't mean either extreme deserves to be in FFR.
I think when people criticize technicality they are criticizing OVERtechnicality. Obviously people are gonna want the chart to go to the music - otherwise we'd just accept dumps - but if the tradeoff is between something like 90% technical and 90% fun, and 100% technical and 20% fun, then I think it's clear which one should be chosen. When you try to go to the music so much that the player can't even tell what your notes are going to as they play the file in real time, or when you match the PR so closely that the patterns require way more speed than they should, you've made a bad file. I'd like to think that one of the things that makes a stepartist good is that they can realize when they did something wrong in a chart, and learn from their mistakes, so they can eventually end up with files that make everyone ruin their pants.
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