Death Steps

Geno_Atog · Basic Member Joined: 26 Nov 2003

Ok, I was on the gamefaqs board and some guy was saying something about death steps. What I could get out of the convorsations was that some kid died while playing DDR. Has anyone else heard about this? I'm confused and I wunna know if it's true or not. It isn't like I'm goin to stop playing or anything, but it would be nice to know what song to avoid.

TEEX · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 7:24 am Post subject:

The only "death steps" I know about are the 8th runs at the end of LoM and PSMO. I guess that's why the song is called Paranoia Survivor Max[/b]
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Oolong · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 8:52 am Post subject: Re: Death Steps

Frozen V (for Extreme) · Trick Member Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Location: STL, Missouri

I saw a kid about 14 years old and he did Legend Road...And finished the whole thing. Then he just passed out i dont know on his condition right now but death runs can mean death sometimes lol

TCBCR.Toastercookie · Trick Member Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Location: Eugene, OR

lololol dis 1 tiem I wuz payin Be Im Mai Paradise beginner and mai best frient teh died onoes

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Andre Segarra · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 10:46 am Post subject:

LMAO...y'all are priceless.

ANYWAY...it's actually called PARANOiA Survivor because, like Trip Machine, it's the only song to have remixes all the way up through 8th mix from first. So those songs have survived through all of DDR.

But to answer the original question: anything that looks like you can't do it, you should probably wait to try. If it looks like you can get messed up trying to play that song, assume someone has. Just use some uncommon sense.

DJX · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Location: CA

Y'all are silly.

He died playing the death steps in Tsugaru standard.

Hardest. Song. Evar.

And no, I don't think anyone has actually died playing DDR, but that is where the Tsugaru standard joke originated.
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[Team Conglom-o]XALAsToR · Trick Member Joined: 10 May 2003 Location: Massachusetts

Who says the person died on a hard song? I was at the arcade today and LMAO! I saw a girl do Captain Jack light and practically pass out. I bet she wished she didn't eat all those pies. Fatty.

tsugaru_man · Trick Member Joined: 13 Dec 2003

tsugaru standard? try tsugaru heavy. i can't beat that one. but yeah, i saw those death steps when one kid was doing them, and it looked hella hard.
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tsugaru_man · Trick Member Joined: 13 Dec 2003

i don't get the joke

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SO! loves Electroplankton · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 12:57 pm Post subject:

I think it's an inside joke. Gamefaqs is wierd.

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Aku Soku Zan · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject:

I doubt that anyone has really died while playing DDR, otherwise I think someone would have sued Konami (regardless of their warning, someone would have sued anyway because that's how people are). If they have then I'm wrong then I'm doomed to a life of never passing Tsugaru standard AGAIN! (even PSMO can't touch Tsugaru standard

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BreakUP · Trick Member Joined: 11 Dec 2003

This one time, I was playing Cutie Chaser (morning mix) on heavy, and I died. I assume "death steps" refers to when somebody is playing this song.

(P.S.- Thanks to Jesus and black magic, I came back to life. phew)

ddrfan163 · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject:

i always try to do songs i know i can barely pass (which are few and far between at this point only ones are like LoM, Maxx Unlimited, and PSMO)
but i find it is the only way i can get better. yes i agree death steps are nasty, but no one ever died on them, they just refer to the high scale of difficulty

TEEX · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject:

Do you think it's possible it was a figure of speech? Maybe the kid fainted or something doing an exhausting song, it's just hard to believe he "died."
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jas · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 7:05 pm Post subject:

Sigh.

The rumor first started i believe when a kid was injured while playing Healing Vision -Angelic Mix-'s OLD double steps. Which had a part in it, where during the brief pause, you had to jump across the pad. Legend has it that a kid was injured/died during this, which in turn caused them to change the steps.

At least, that's how i remember it.
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TheKatsurame · Trick Member Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Location: New York

maybe somebody was killed by someone playing. Maybe he was behind the pad and got elbowed is the head or chest or something. It's hard to believe some one died. I've tried to pass LOM Heavy, and I tried to keep up, and finished with 2 perfects, 4 greats, 90 goods, and the rest misses, but I didn't die... or maybe I did, can't remember very well.