Beatmania IIDX

Beatmania IIDX is a music game by the creators of DDR that involves button mashing to shit techno tunes. This is marketed as a DJ simulation game, but it's not, because DJs don't mash buttons at over 9000 key presses per minute, and their disc scratches sound like actual disc scratches, unlike this game, where they sound like anything but disc scratches. If you choose to remove social life, your family, women, sex and pretty much everything else that involves other human beings, then it's the game you must play.

Gameplay

The goal of this game is to destroy the turntable controller by mashing your hands over it until they become a pile of skin, or they just burn into flames. Doing this will make the music hearable. If you play like shit, the music will sound like shit. Also, there's a vinyl disc that sits besides the keys, just to make sure it looks like a DJ game. But when you scratch it, it makes any random sounds, so it's like just another key, but it's harder to press.

Typical Beatmania IIDX gameplay Real men play this game with two controllers Previous Video | Next Video

The series

The latest game in the series

This series is the Street Fighter 2 of music games. The second game gets a series while nobody gives a fuck about the first one. But it's way much worse, since Konami will release IIDX 19 Lincoln this year. The only differences between each game are some additional shit tunes and a different look, but the game is still the same. Except for 17 SERIOUS, where they've added Charge Notes, a mechanic that forces you to hold notes. This should've been in since the first game!

List of games

• beatmania IIDX (1999)
• beatmania IIDX substream (1999)
• beatmania IIDX 2nd style (1999)
• beatmania IIDX 3rd style (2000)
• beatmania IIDX 4th style (2000)
• beatmania IIDX 5th style (2001)
• beatmania IIDX 6th style (2001)
• beatmania IIDX 7th style (2002)
• beatmania IIDX 8th style (2002)
• beatmania IIDX 9th style (2003)
• beatmania IIDX 10th style (2004)
• beatmania IIDX 11 RED (2004)
• beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY (2005)
• beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD (2006)
• beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD (2007)
• beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS (2007) (Yes! Even this game wanted to beat Call of Duty!)
• beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS (or Gay style) (2008)
• beatmania IIDX 17 SERIOUS (actually SIRIUS) (2009)
• beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem (2010)
• beatmania IIDX 19 Lincoln (actually Lincle) (2011)
• beatmania IIDX 20 We ran out of names (2011)
• beatmania IIDX 21 ...what (2012)
• beatmania IIDX 22nd style (2012)
• beatmania IIDX 23 Apocalypse (2012)

See Also

• DDR
• DJ
• Guitar Hero
• Pop'n Music
• Konami

External Links

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