In the Groove Dance Pad/Game Bundle for PlayStation 2 Customer Review: love the mats, not the songs
The mats are of pretty high quality and well worth the price. the songs i dont enjoy very much which is why i’ll be buying a ddr game as opposed to in the groove. this is just personal preference though
Customer Review: Newbie at ITG/DDR … this bundle
I’ve just started playing DDR about a week and a half ago and just got the ITG bundle. I mainly got it for the pads, tbh. The konami that I got with SN2 is already showing signs of not wanting to work consistently. I play for about an hour to an hour and a half (it’s hard to stop once you start!). I’m also using this for exercise and I’m older (53) with arthritis.
Now, I’d read some reviews on the pads saying they are good, but a little wacky. Wacky how? Standing square in the middle, not moving, can “trigger” a sensor and then you’ve got the menu or songlist moving a mile a minute. I thought, nah, they’re standing in the wrong spot. But it’s true, this pad does do that. So it’s gonna take some practice to find the “sweet spots” for the sensors and where to stand when you’re just starting to play.
Another thing to do (which I didn’t in my excitement) … unwrap the pads and lay them gently over a chair for a couple of days to get the folds/wrinkles out. I think that would’ve helped me today.
The pads are made so much better than the default DDR game bundle flat pads. They don’t skate across the floor the way the konami ones do, they feel a little better underfoot and the top’s a tiny bit ‘sticky’, which is a good thing. The ITG pad did not move while I played, but it did bunch up in the lower left corner – not good. I may have to do some sort of soft pad mod (the wood/plastic principle which won’t work for me – arthritis and roomie right under me), but using some dense foam and some sort of plastic/non slip something on the bottom and attaching it to the pad.
[tags]PS2 , Playsation 2, Video Game, Cheap PS2 , Cheap Playstion 2[/tags]
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