Why do you play FFR (the game)?

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The main reason for my stay on FFR is to prepare me for the real life. As strange as this sounds, I use FFR to set my limitations which I will discover when it comes to my future. More importantly, it's to understand how emotionally stable I am when it comes to failures on FFR and how to celebrate how much I have achieved in the past.

Also, you'll deal with a good variety of people in this community. Obviously you'll encounter people who aren't your type vs. people who are. Similarly, in the real world, you will meet these two types of people as well.

tldr, to prepare myself (in terms of how I can handle what comes my way) for the future.

Re: Why do you play FFR (the game)?

setting and accomplishing goals i set for myself.

also: the weekly updates of songs is nice. i dont have to store shit tons of packs or files on my HD.. or go through the time to download them.

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Ah, but you could get the same stuff from SM, right? (Or any other active rhythm game.) You could hang around the SM scores thread and share scores, for instance. So why do you play FFR itself, when there are other "better" alternatives?

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FFR was my first rhythm game I ever picked up seriously. I find it better to make goals with a game you first start off with to keep a longer lasting memory. Like in life, we all begin making goals when we were young. I remember saying, "I wanted to be a doctor one day" when I was a little boy. Even though medical practices is out of my limitations, I will still remember the goals I have made ever since I was a child.

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This thread is tl;dr.

Community and competition. My reasons.

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Just for the music. Not much of a competitive person..

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This is a big reason why I play FFR. When you start getting to more panels, it encourages "new generation stepping" and also makes for much more awkward anchors and layering abuse. 4 keys is enough for file memorability and also allows players of all playing types (one handed, spread, index, etc) to give it a shot. Honestly, going above 4key is like attempting to turn the game into music theory, which is NOT what I find memorable.

Holds, mines, and xmods are fake difficulty. Holds and mines are mainly abused in stepfiles. xmod is not my interest since it's another AAA-fest type thing about getting several less perfects by trying to memorize certain changes of a chart. Most of the time when I do xmod files, the bpm changes or stops aren't easy to detect, so it winds up being fake difficulty again.

I actually like this since it's only for a few files, and it gives the nostalgic feel. I remember when Balloon Fever was all pink notes, and Grand Galop Chromatique was all red notes.

Raw scoring would be better, I'm not really fond of the AAA fest thing (shaving off a few goods). However, it is interesting to see big improvements on really hard files (such as in my MiniMegaTournament). It makes for interesting competition. I'm personally not too competitive unless in a tournament or trying to achieve a high goal.

Yes. I don't need to download a ton of packs that I don't want to play, and I don't lack files if I'm ever in multiplayer (unless it's a token or something).


Holds and mines remind me of "new generation stepping". I like memorable files - files which have a certain part that stands out and makes me remember after playing it while also having high replay value. Since FFR is flash based, we saw an example of a cool file - Winning. This was a neat visual challenge; holds/mines aren't "nice visuals", they've instead been a huge annoyance seeing how much they're abused.

There are many memorable songs on FFR too - and seeing how I've accomplished a lot of tough goals on stepmania, it's interesting to see how I do on these files. I even made my own tournament to see how much of the file I actually do (since chord cohesion doesn't exist in FFR, I can't BS patterns as easily).

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Nostalgia


and I've become pretty close to people in the community here. It's kinda like home.

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FFR was the first Music Rhythm site I found, and Loved it.

Also, Competition and the Music. I've also met some amazing people.

Also, all I do with my life is play video games, so this helps me out.

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people come because of me, i come because people want me. simple fact.


but no really. i HATE this game... i just come here to post SM scores now XD
and i like being good at something

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Personally I played the other rhythm games and I say FFR is the most fun for me. And I also think it's the best flash game I have ever played as well.

tokens, ranks, fun love how it works etc

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Immediate uploading of scores to a competitive database structure (unlike SM) with songs that I'm capable of trying to get better at and perfecting instead of trying to mash less and pass insane crap I'll never do while I realize there are people far better than I'll ever reach. I also don't have to download the music and it has a community that's easier to familiarize with

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It's fun :P (Yes that's it xD)

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That's also a good point. Many other rhythm games have confusing layouts and too much complicated shit. FFR is easy to understand and there aren't any unfair bonus/extra things ingame (like you know how Guitar Hero has Star Power which increases score more and you need to remember certain star power paths, and then how you can release notes to hit hammer-ons or pull-offs).

If there's also another thing I should mention, FFR has a reasonable timing window. It is just ludicrous to see games have ridiculously small timing windows; that's again just fake difficulty and makes you focus more on the steps than the actual song itself. Although there are a few files in FFR that have nasty difficulty spikes (lol 12 bar bloops and Crowdpleaser), it's done a pretty good job at managing them in a way that isn't too extreme. If you've been to Thirdstyle, wow, their files are simple for a large majority of the file and then some insane difficulty spike comes along later in the file that totally throws off the difficulty.