Quote:Not sure what ITG is, but DDR yeah I've played that and I suck at it.
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ITG is very similar to DDR except that it's actually well designed. ITG was designed with player interests in mind (harder stepcharts, better stepcharts, new gameplay concepts, a logical scoring system, tons of gameplay modifiers, etc.), whereas DDR was and continues to be designed by Konami employees who for all I can tell create their content by bashing blindly on their keyboards.
ITG's downfall: in the very early days of the game, Roxor (the makers) didn't have enough $ to manufacture their own arcade cabinets for the game, so to get ITG going they sold it as a DDR cabinet upgrade (so an arcade owner could transform their DDR cabinet into an ITG cabinet). Once ITG took off and started to threaten Konami's dominance in the genre, Konami sued Roxor over their old cabinet mischief and was awarded complete control over the ITG brand.
It's coming close to 9 years since the game was first released, and 7 since the lawsuit put an end to things, but there are still a ton of ITG and ITG2 cabinets around the world in various arcades that arcade owners feel are worthy of keeping around and maintaining. That should say a lot about the game's quality. (There was an ITG3 in development, featuring even more badassery, but progress on that was left permanently incomplete by virtue of the lawsuit. Of course, Konami, in all their awesomeness, has never released any content from ITG3 for fans to enjoy.)
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