Fussbett wrote:

Damocles wrote:


Have you even played Frequency, or did you just watch somebody? The notes aren't just triggers, off-timed note hits will sound off-timed, as I found out the first time I tried Fear Factory on the hardest mode.

Does Frequency differ from Amplitude greatly in that regard? I have only a rental acquaintance with Freq, but I own and have finished Amp and am CERTAIN that you cannot off-time samples in Amplitude. Wrongly timed notes go "ZZZAP", and slightly off notes get rounded off to sound perfectly in time. If this is different in Freq then I apologize for lumping it in with (the apparently inferior) Amp. Everyone told me they are identical in gameplay.

Fussbett wrote:

Damocles wrote:


For that matter, it also takes more skill than just proper timing. Keeping up a multiplier, planning out a route, and handling playing one track, switching tracks, then playing something utterly different requires some thought.

YES. YES. YES. Beatmania is purity and simplicity. You versus the notes, and nothing more. Now you're getting it.

Fussbett wrote:

Also, Beatmania constant changes up what you're playing despite your assertion that you play only "one thing", so Freq/Amp doesn't have a lock on the concept of the instant pattern switch, nor the spanning of different parts of a song.

Fussbett wrote:

Though I may not understand Erik, I think we can all agree that if this retarded child can manage to play and enjoy Beatmania, so can you.

Anyway, as I said in another part of the thread, this argument is gay, simply because Beatmania and Freq/Amp aren't mutually exclusive any more than Beatmania and Samba are mutually exclusive. The Bemani games benefited from the seperation of instruments that is intrinsic to Amplitude, and nobody at Harmonix would deny Bemani's influence. Just accept that Americans can make music games too and move on.