How often does anyone play this game anymore?

[hi19hi19]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I still step because it's relaxing to me.
This summer though is probably going to be the last chance I have to really work on files. Next school year is so real life.

Strangely enough, I mostly play Stepmania in airports nowadays.

I can't bring myself to purchase the airport Wifi access, and I don't like waiting idly either, so I'll usually just find some private/quiet corner, plug in my laptop + headphones, boot up SM, and play a bunch of songs until it's time to board.

This is actually a really good idea lol

[hi19hi19]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

Ironically, while I don't play the game much at all anymore, some of the habits I've developed from rhythm gaming have had huge effects on my life.

I don't think, for the rest of my life, I will truly be able to listen to music without seeing arrows

[cedolad]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I don't think, for the rest of my life, I will truly be able to listen to music without seeing arrows

This will never stop being a thing.

[hi19hi19]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I go to the movies and wind up listening to the soundtracks and envisioning charts.

Like my friends are like "oh my god that plot twist was so crazy" and I'm just sitting in the car riding home being like "hey in that fight scene soundtrack the melody was totally runningmen patterns"

[AutotelicBrown]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

Anything from 2 to 12 hours a week playing the game.

The main difference I noticed since I got involved in the community back in 2014 is that the sm scores thread got progressively slower. Even then that's a transition from dead to deader.

Kinda directed at Neon, there isn't really that much to talk about the game itself so it isn't surprising that related chats and communities tend to diverge to other topics. Sharing scores, talking about events, discussing techniques, getting stepping feedback and debating difficulty ratings only gives you so much conversation fodder.

and patterning was very unique (look at someone like Cetaka)

Almost unfair to bring Cetaka up considering how good he was at that. And honestly, patterning and song choice were always bad (i.e. unoriginal or uninteresting) for the most part aside from a select few stepartists or specific charts. Naturally, you'll tend to remember more the better charts from yore which accentuates the feeling that recent files are garbage.

[Hakulyte]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I keep coming back here because I keep beating games and running out of potential content to distract myself.

FFR is easy to access to, it can be started or stopped at any point without worries, it's free, I can play to challenge myself and ignore the competition if I can't handle it and the community is fine considering the state of the game. I learned to play for fun and I'm still enjoying myself. (when im not raging at lag and broken keyboards~)

FFR is not dying imo, you're just starting to see players priorize different things in their lives and that's completely normal.

[Rapta]

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I played everyday until I quit because of depression.

[Jousway]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

#RIPStepMania

[ATTang]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I love stepmania itself. I love jacks. I love trills. I love streams. I love minedodging. I love to stepchart challenging files and to watch ppl play my files. I love to target AAs on hard files. I love sm5 theme song, bit countrified tho.

So I still play the game. Even the community is declining and thus it's hard to do such competitive things and I should set my own goals.

Even though I feel bit lonely nowadays but it's just okay for me at least because I know that there are still unaccomplished goals forward me and there are still possibility of new styles of patterns.

It's just my story but 'm posting it to remove despair in here.

[MooMoo_Cowfreak]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I took about a 3 year break and got back into it last summer, for what it's worth. Maybe other people will float back into too?

I play somewhat frequently, I tend to fluctuate how much I play though. One week I'll play 6-8 hours, the next I might not play at all. For me though, I've been finding the most enjoyment stepping. I've been stepping more or less since I started playing, but only since I recently got back into it have my simfiles been of any real quality.

As for goals, I'm just constantly trying to push what I can read! The Yolomania packs have brought me a lot of fun these past few months.

[GammaBlaster]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

lost interest, prioritising real-life, chipmusic and speedrunning instead

ITG scene is now kinda dormant in this small part of Australia, and my ITG mood got killed 2 years ago because of a fuck-up I did that I'd rather not go into further detail (I've kinda gotten over it but it has still discouraged me to get back into ITG)

occasionally I still step because it's good rhythmic dictation practice, or if I need to decipher one's composition techniques (see ._Pulse and Powerflux)

edit: it's also astonishing to see most of you guys in your mid-20s already since I last joined in 2009 l0l

[SKG_Scintill]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I play new packs, but most files only once
Sometimes I play during breaks in college
Also I have to playtest my own files
So eh
Once a week

[MarioNintendo]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I'm playing whichever game I am stepping for. This means I am still heavily invested in Stepmania (hell, last summer I had the biggest skillboost of my life). I have stepped 13-14 songs, and counting, for the upcoming vgmp4. I feel like I'm one of the few people still excited about what this game has to offer. However, I'm playing FFR less and less, due to the mess that the batch queue has become. There are a few songs I really want to step before calling it quits. We'll see what happens. I suspect I won't be able to ever stop playing this game somehow.

[Reincarnate]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

the rhythm gaming community as a whole doesn't approve of CTF

How do you mean?

[Deadlyx39]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I think a lot of it also has to do with the fact that there's other games that are just more desirable to play right now, such as Osu! Plus it's not like there's that many people even playing rhythm games anymore (at least compared to 2006-2009).