A Correspondances Illumitees / Elektrik Shiivers

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

I suggest either removing or replacing the background video on "A Correspondances Illumitees" and "Elektrik Shiivers."

Here is my reasoning:

On Correspondances Illumitees:

1. The background video is absolutely terrible quality. Even "Party For You V2" has a CLEAN and non blurry low quality background.

2. The background animation has a flash in it, which in a chart with 192nd's (white notes) and pretty much anything actually, is just NEVER something you should do because it makes the chart stupidly hard to read. Refer again to "Party For You V2" - the chart isn't hard so much for the fact of JUST the blue on blue and constant cutting, but also the flashing of the animation.

On Elektrik Shiivers:

1. The background video is absolutely terrible quality. Even "Party For You V2" has a CLEAN and non blurry low quality background.

Again this is a suggestion, I'm not sure how many other people find this not only either annoying/adds unintended difficulty but I know for one it makes the charts to me unbearable beyond the plays required to put a rank on them, or unlock them.

Thanks for your time and I apologize if this is in the wrong section.

[Coolboyrulez0]

Sad you feel this way. I think the videos add to a more immersive playing experience seeing as they compliment the songs so well
(iirc the artist was also the background animation artist)

Quality is acceptable btw. Do you want huge loading times and HQ vid or a quick load with decent quality? Preference. Obviously they opted for the latter.

PS: Clicked this thread hoping it was to compliment how awesome the songs / files are. Just another middie thread though smh

[Herogashix]

It's just a file. The background is dark enough not to even matter when someone's playing.

Stop posting.

[who_cares973]

Files and video are great and compliment the file very nicely

[Emo_Saur_]

Originally Posted by Herogashix

It's just a file. The background is dark enough not to even matter when someone's playing.

Stop posting.

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[Xx{Midnight}xX]

Originally Posted by Coolboyrulez0

Sad you feel this way. I think the videos add to a more immersive playing experience seeing as they compliment the songs so well
(iirc the artist was also the background animation artist)

That's neat but it honestly has to relevance to the thread.

Originally Posted by Coolboyrulez0

Quality is acceptable btw. Do you want huge loading times and HQ vid or a quick load with decent quality? Preference. Obviously they opted for the latter.

The quality was more of a preference I agree. Let's be honest I'd never use a background video for a song on this game, but that's not the point. I just was suggesting something.

Originally Posted by Coolboyrulez0

PS: Clicked this thread hoping it was to compliment how awesome the songs / files are.

The songs aren't anything special, and the first chart is fine I don't mind it, the second one is just annoying though, mostly because of that background flash messing with my play of the chart, not the chart it's self. There's nothing wrong with the charts, but they're just kind of there. Nothing much to say about them.

Originally Posted by Coolboyrulez0

Just another middie thread though smh

Sorry to disappoint you.

Originally Posted by Herogashix

It's just a file. The background is dark enough not to even matter when someone's playing.

The background isn't the problem, it's the flash. For the sake of argument: I can read blue on blue arrows just fine, but the minute there is a flash of white (as like the A Correspondances Illumitees background video and Party For You V2) I'm going to mess it up every time because of the flash, not the fact it's blue on blue.

[DossarLX ODI]

I guess I should've made the brightness 100% instead of 25% then, huh

[supermoe1985]

I have AAA'd both files easily without any difficulty added from the background videos. Party4u is a lot harder to read FYI

[DossarLX ODI]

If you think the BG videos for nois's Aliceffekt files are bad, you should see them at 100% brightness. I conveniently lowered the brightness to 25% for sake of play - 100% it was blinding.

party4u and Marisa are at 100% brightness and they suck to play

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

Supermoe I know Party 4u is a lot harder I'm just saying wasn't the point of stopping video backgrounds in the first place because it made charts unbearably hard to read? I'm fine dealing with the fact they're grainy and stuff, I put the other one there because it bothered me personally, which is why this is just a suggestion rather than me complaining.

It's just obnoxious to have to watch it a good deal of times to memorize a section because of something that was added and isn't technically part of the chart it's self. Does that kind of sound more reasonable?

And yeah Dossar I'm sure it'd have been Party4u v2 all over again.

[DossarLX ODI]

The BG videos for the two files are fine. What really needs fixing are files like party4u and Marisa Stole The Precious Thing - those videos are way too bright and I absolutely despise playing those files because of how easily they could've been darkened but were not darkened at all.

[psychoangel691]

What's funny is he wasn't even rude about this and you all jump down his back. I personally can't stand backgrounds or background videos either, but that's my preference. And he brings up flashing in the video, which I have to agree is the worst to me.

[supermoe1985]

All these new video files are fine by me, they are not unbearably hard to read (again I have no skill drop on these video files) the fact that they have had the brightness turned down makes them 100% easier to read and honestly I want to see more files like this as it makes the file unique.

[DossarLX ODI]

If there is going to be a background video or background to a file, there needs to be a rule that it must be darkened for sake of playing.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

And flash free

[MaxGhost]

Why are we holding on to old shitty stuff in the game? All the backgrounds and uncolored files should be converted/fixed. It's an absolute turn-off to new players when they see absolutely horrible quality stuff like that. The "I worked so hard for this score" argument is hardly valid. This is a rhythm game, not a "blindly tap keys in hope of getting perfects cause I'm blinded by these terrible annoyances" game.

[ninjaKIWI]

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

If there is going to be a background video or background to a file, there needs to be a rule that it must be darkened for sake of playing.

I disagree with this. I think Marisa and P4U are totally acceptable, the BG's make it more difficult, but I enjoy that.

I do agree that the video quality in Jae's two files is pretty horrendous. I like the videos a lot, they make the files more interesting to play, but it's kind of bothersome when they're so low quality.

[who_cares973]

PS the person who made the videos also made the songs to go along with each other.

[bmah]

The videos in these songs were more or less an experiment to see how well-received they would be from the community in a less distracting way than previous bg videos. So thanks for voicing your thoughts, Middie.

My personal opinion: the videos weren't all that distracting, even if one of them had epileptic flashes. I could focus on the arrows without being interrupted by the videos themselves.

And for those who commented on the quality of the videos: you have a choice to make - either high quality videos which lag the game more/increases the loading time of the song, or low quality videos which looks worse but reduces potential lag.

[nois-or-e]

Originally Posted by who_cares973

PS the person who made the videos also made the songs to go along with each other.

Aliceffekt made both videos, and though it is less noticable in shiivers, the visuals are almost 'reacting' to the music. The quality in shiivers is pretty dismal to begin with. In illumitees it is a bit better, but as doss said, was darkened a little due to the nature of the video.

Both videos can be seen at 100% quality here and here.

Thanks for the comments/critiques guys, glad some people like them, sad that others don't :L

//2cents

Originally Posted by Xx{Midnight}xX

...and I apologize if this is in the wrong section.

Probably should have gone in general talk as it is discussion about something ffr related and not really a bug report, but it is sort of suggestion-y in its nature too, so it's cool ;D