Центр танцевального искусства -Dance Central Spotlight

Центр танцевального искусства — Dance Central Spotlight

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Разработчики)	Harmonix
Издатель (ы)	Microsoft Studios
Серии	Dance Central
Платформа (и)	Xbox One
Выпуск	2 сентября 2014 г.
Жанр (ы)	Музыка , ритм
Режим (ы)	Одиночная игра , многопользовательская игра

Dance Central Spotlight — это музыкальная ритм-игра, разработанная Harmonix и изданная Microsoft Studios для Xbox One Kinect .

Игра обеспечивает урезанный опыт по сравнению с предыдущими названиями Dance Central , сохраняя основной игровой процесс франшизы, но с акцентом на предоставление большего количества процедур для каждой песни, регулярный выпуск новых, недавних песен в качестве загружаемого контента и использование об улучшении возможностей обнаружения движения в Kinect для Xbox One .

Spotwhat?!

Spotlight is the first spin off in the series. Downloadable only, it’s exclusive for the Xbox One and got only 10 core tracks — so you can build your library buying individual songs in the store. Sound cool, right? Yeah, we’re all thought the same… until we discover that the game was more a “let’s make quick money” project.

Basically, there’s no new choreos in the game. They splitted moves from choreographies which has already in the last games, mixed and glued everything to create the “new” routines. Of course every single fan was pissed off.

Fortunately, they’ve annouced that all purchased DLC songs (with real choreos) from the previous games would be available for free. As a former Xbox 360 owner, that was the perfect excuse to get a One. “At least I’ll have a solid library to play until Dance Central 4” — I thought. That was not the case. The game is glitched as hell, suffers from terrible framerates and stuttering issues, among other things.

Dance Central Spotlight clearly had a rushed and low budget development and it’s absolutelly broken. Here’s what they need to fix in the game, even if a DC4 is in the works:

• The achievement freeze bug
  The first critic bug that I’ve spotted. Look how ridiculous it is: if both players are logged in their profiles and one of they unlock an achievement, the game freezes. Yeah! That’s just ridiculous. My friend Felipe and I used to be achievement hunters (and we’d used to compete against other players in the leaderboards back in the x360 era). When we played DC:S for the first time, we unlock lots of achievements breaking the game SO HARD that we had to restart the console.
• The eternal loading screen
  For me, the most annoying thing in the game — and just like the achievement freeze bug, something very stupid. The game comes with 10 core songs, and you need to buy the rest. Nothing wrong with that. The problem starts when you (try to) access the song list: the store is integrated into the menu, but the game isn’t capable to fetch the song previews and cover art for each song and cache / store to avoid redownloading. On top of that, looks that request is syncronous (which doesn’t make any sense), blocking the access to select already downloaded songs. I live in Brazil, and the connections here used to be very slow. In my city, for example, the average internet speed is 4mbps. I have a 10mbps connection and I need to wait 3–4 minutes to access the menu and choose a song to play. Serveral times my friends asked me to change to Just Dance, just because of that.
• Bonus: 30fps, stuttering and other performance issues.
  The previous games achieved 60fps in a 10 year old hardware, and everything looked so much better on x360 (except for the lack of anti-aliasing). DC:S had a 30fps lock with a LOT of framedrops in a 2013 hardware — even on the song selection menu. Mostly of those framedrops ocurr when the venue changes from normal to the peak state. This has a terrible bad impact in-game. For the player sake! This is a DANCE game! Fluidity is mandatory! If the drops relies on the crowd… we don’t care about the crowd with lots of people imitating the main dancers! Actually, this looks way worse than two backup dancers and the random crowd with they own animations like it was before.

These two major problems makes the game basically broken, unresponsive and almost unplayable. Really, HMX… for your sake, please never release a game in this stage of development again. You guys have a massive fanbase all over social media. It won’t cost much use these platforms to get user feedback, discuss bugs and see with the community what can be improved.

Why I think that Harmonix should fix the game or stop selling it? The answer is simple: quality. If you game is broken and/or the experience is awful, people will think before buying any one of your games again. Low budget isn’t a excuse to deliver an incomplete and broken experience for the player. I’m sure that those problems isn’t so hard to fix and can be solved within a few work days.

And if you guys need a playtester, I’m here (pretty good at bug hunting, by the way).

Songs Edit

Core Edit

Downloadable(Note: These are only the New DLC songs and does not include Legacy DLC) Edit

Song Artist Decade

Runaway (U & I) Galantis 2010s

Domino Jessie J 2010s

i Wanna Go Britney Spears 2010s

i Bring The Beat RuPaul 2010s

Dance With U RuPaul 2010s

Empire Shakira 2010s

Jenny From The Block Jennifer Lopez 2000s

Get Right Jennifer Lopez 2000s

Waiting For Tonight (H.H.) Jennifer Lopez 2010s

Booty (Feat. Iggy Azalea) Jennifer Lopez 2010s

Let’s Get Loud Jennifer Lopez 2000s

Follow The Leader(Ft. J.Lo) Wisin y Yandell 2010s

Wrecking Ball Miley Cyrus 2010s

i’m Your Man Wham! 1980s

Radioactive Imagine Dragons 2010s

Troublemaker (Feat. Flo R.) Olly Murs 2010s

Barbie Girl Aqua 1990s

Till The World Ends Britney Spears 2010s

Как и в предыдущих частях франшизы, игроки должны отражать танцевальную программу танцора на экране в соответствии с инструкциями «флэш-карт», указывающих на конкретные движения в программе. Игроки оцениваются и оцениваются по точности их игры. Каждая песня включает в себя до восьми программ, включая четыре уровня сложности стандартной программы, а также две программы, ориентированные на фитнес, и две «альтернативные» программы. Дополнительные процедуры и уровни сложности открываются для песен, собирая флеш-карточки, получая «Безупречный» рейтинг за отдельные ходы.

Spotlight включает песни таких исполнителей, как Рианна , Лорд и Фаррелл Уильямс . Он ориентирован в первую очередь на основной игровой процесс франшизы, с упрощенным предложением стандартных и фитнес-режимов, без сюжетного режима или других мини-игр, подобных прошлым версиям. Режим тренировки был переработан, чтобы использовать динамический подход «по требованию», а не «регламентированный» подход, который использовался в предыдущих играх Dance Central : теперь игроки могут переходить в режим тренировки в игре с помощью голоса или команды контроллера. После активации игрок может разучивать соответствующую часть, замедлять выполнение и переходить к различным частям песни. Когда игрок выходит из практики, песня продолжается с того места, где она была остановлена.

Следующие десять песен включены в игру:

Spotwhat?!

Spotlight is the first spin off in the series. Downloadable only, it’s exclusive for the Xbox One and got only 10 core tracks — so you can build your library buying individual songs in the store. Sound cool, right? Yeah, we’re all thought the same… until we discover that the game was more a “let’s make quick money” project.

Basically, there’s no new choreos in the game. They splitted moves from choreographies which has already in the last games, mixed and glued everything to create the “new” routines. Of course every single fan was pissed off.

Fortunately, they’ve annouced that all purchased DLC songs (with real choreos) from the previous games would be available for free. As a former Xbox 360 owner, that was the perfect excuse to get a One. “At least I’ll have a solid library to play until Dance Central 4” — I thought. That was not the case. The game is glitched as hell, suffers from terrible framerates and stuttering issues, among other things.

Dance Central Spotlight clearly had a rushed and low budget development and it’s absolutelly broken. Here’s what they need to fix in the game, even if a DC4 is in the works:

• The achievement freeze bug
  The first critic bug that I’ve spotted. Look how ridiculous it is: if both players are logged in their profiles and one of they unlock an achievement, the game freezes. Yeah! That’s just ridiculous. My friend Felipe and I used to be achievement hunters (and we’d used to compete against other players in the leaderboards back in the x360 era). When we played DC:S for the first time, we unlock lots of achievements breaking the game SO HARD that we had to restart the console.
• The eternal loading screen
  For me, the most annoying thing in the game — and just like the achievement freeze bug, something very stupid. The game comes with 10 core songs, and you need to buy the rest. Nothing wrong with that. The problem starts when you (try to) access the song list: the store is integrated into the menu, but the game isn’t capable to fetch the song previews and cover art for each song and cache / store to avoid redownloading. On top of that, looks that request is syncronous (which doesn’t make any sense), blocking the access to select already downloaded songs. I live in Brazil, and the connections here used to be very slow. In my city, for example, the average internet speed is 4mbps. I have a 10mbps connection and I need to wait 3–4 minutes to access the menu and choose a song to play. Serveral times my friends asked me to change to Just Dance, just because of that.
• Bonus: 30fps, stuttering and other performance issues.
  The previous games achieved 60fps in a 10 year old hardware, and everything looked so much better on x360 (except for the lack of anti-aliasing). DC:S had a 30fps lock with a LOT of framedrops in a 2013 hardware — even on the song selection menu. Mostly of those framedrops ocurr when the venue changes from normal to the peak state. This has a terrible bad impact in-game. For the player sake! This is a DANCE game! Fluidity is mandatory! If the drops relies on the crowd… we don’t care about the crowd with lots of people imitating the main dancers! Actually, this looks way worse than two backup dancers and the random crowd with they own animations like it was before.

These two major problems makes the game basically broken, unresponsive and almost unplayable. Really, HMX… for your sake, please never release a game in this stage of development again. You guys have a massive fanbase all over social media. It won’t cost much use these platforms to get user feedback, discuss bugs and see with the community what can be improved.

Why I think that Harmonix should fix the game or stop selling it? The answer is simple: quality. If you game is broken and/or the experience is awful, people will think before buying any one of your games again. Low budget isn’t a excuse to deliver an incomplete and broken experience for the player. I’m sure that those problems isn’t so hard to fix and can be solved within a few work days.

And if you guys need a playtester, I’m here (pretty good at bug hunting, by the way).

Songs Edit

Core Edit

Downloadable(Note: These are only the New DLC songs and does not include Legacy DLC) Edit

Song Artist Decade

Runaway (U & I) Galantis 2010s

Domino Jessie J 2010s

i Wanna Go Britney Spears 2010s

i Bring The Beat RuPaul 2010s

Dance With U RuPaul 2010s

Empire Shakira 2010s

Jenny From The Block Jennifer Lopez 2000s

Get Right Jennifer Lopez 2000s

Waiting For Tonight (H.H.) Jennifer Lopez 2010s

Booty (Feat. Iggy Azalea) Jennifer Lopez 2010s

Let’s Get Loud Jennifer Lopez 2000s

Follow The Leader(Ft. J.Lo) Wisin y Yandell 2010s

Wrecking Ball Miley Cyrus 2010s

i’m Your Man Wham! 1980s

Radioactive Imagine Dragons 2010s

Troublemaker (Feat. Flo R.) Olly Murs 2010s

Barbie Girl Aqua 1990s

Till The World Ends Britney Spears 2010s

Как и в предыдущих частях франшизы, игроки должны отражать танцевальную программу танцора на экране в соответствии с инструкциями «флэш-карт», указывающих на конкретные движения в программе. Игроки оцениваются и оцениваются по точности их игры. Каждая песня включает в себя до восьми программ, включая четыре уровня сложности стандартной программы, а также две программы, ориентированные на фитнес, и две «альтернативные» программы. Дополнительные процедуры и уровни сложности открываются для песен, собирая флеш-карточки, получая «Безупречный» рейтинг за отдельные ходы.

Spotlight включает песни таких исполнителей, как Рианна , Лорд и Фаррелл Уильямс . Он ориентирован в первую очередь на основной игровой процесс франшизы, с упрощенным предложением стандартных и фитнес-режимов, без сюжетного режима или других мини-игр, подобных прошлым версиям. Режим тренировки был переработан, чтобы использовать динамический подход «по требованию», а не «регламентированный» подход, который использовался в предыдущих играх Dance Central : теперь игроки могут переходить в режим тренировки в игре с помощью голоса или команды контроллера. После активации игрок может разучивать соответствующую часть, замедлять выполнение и переходить к различным частям песни. Когда игрок выходит из практики, песня продолжается с того места, где она была остановлена.

Следующие десять песен включены в игру:

Spotwhat?!

Spotlight is the first spin off in the series. Downloadable only, it’s exclusive for the Xbox One and got only 10 core tracks — so you can build your library buying individual songs in the store. Sound cool, right? Yeah, we’re all thought the same… until we discover that the game was more a “let’s make quick money” project.

Basically, there’s no new choreos in the game. They splitted moves from choreographies which has already in the last games, mixed and glued everything to create the “new” routines. Of course every single fan was pissed off.

Fortunately, they’ve annouced that all purchased DLC songs (with real choreos) from the previous games would be available for free. As a former Xbox 360 owner, that was the perfect excuse to get a One. “At least I’ll have a solid library to play until Dance Central 4” — I thought. That was not the case. The game is glitched as hell, suffers from terrible framerates and stuttering issues, among other things.

Dance Central Spotlight clearly had a rushed and low budget development and it’s absolutelly broken. Here’s what they need to fix in the game, even if a DC4 is in the works:

• The achievement freeze bug
  The first critic bug that I’ve spotted. Look how ridiculous it is: if both players are logged in their profiles and one of they unlock an achievement, the game freezes. Yeah! That’s just ridiculous. My friend Felipe and I used to be achievement hunters (and we’d used to compete against other players in the leaderboards back in the x360 era). When we played DC:S for the first time, we unlock lots of achievements breaking the game SO HARD that we had to restart the console.
• The eternal loading screen
  For me, the most annoying thing in the game — and just like the achievement freeze bug, something very stupid. The game comes with 10 core songs, and you need to buy the rest. Nothing wrong with that. The problem starts when you (try to) access the song list: the store is integrated into the menu, but the game isn’t capable to fetch the song previews and cover art for each song and cache / store to avoid redownloading. On top of that, looks that request is syncronous (which doesn’t make any sense), blocking the access to select already downloaded songs. I live in Brazil, and the connections here used to be very slow. In my city, for example, the average internet speed is 4mbps. I have a 10mbps connection and I need to wait 3–4 minutes to access the menu and choose a song to play. Serveral times my friends asked me to change to Just Dance, just because of that.
• Bonus: 30fps, stuttering and other performance issues.
  The previous games achieved 60fps in a 10 year old hardware, and everything looked so much better on x360 (except for the lack of anti-aliasing). DC:S had a 30fps lock with a LOT of framedrops in a 2013 hardware — even on the song selection menu. Mostly of those framedrops ocurr when the venue changes from normal to the peak state. This has a terrible bad impact in-game. For the player sake! This is a DANCE game! Fluidity is mandatory! If the drops relies on the crowd… we don’t care about the crowd with lots of people imitating the main dancers! Actually, this looks way worse than two backup dancers and the random crowd with they own animations like it was before.

These two major problems makes the game basically broken, unresponsive and almost unplayable. Really, HMX… for your sake, please never release a game in this stage of development again. You guys have a massive fanbase all over social media. It won’t cost much use these platforms to get user feedback, discuss bugs and see with the community what can be improved.

Why I think that Harmonix should fix the game or stop selling it? The answer is simple: quality. If you game is broken and/or the experience is awful, people will think before buying any one of your games again. Low budget isn’t a excuse to deliver an incomplete and broken experience for the player. I’m sure that those problems isn’t so hard to fix and can be solved within a few work days.

And if you guys need a playtester, I’m here (pretty good at bug hunting, by the way).

Trivia Edit

This section appears to have been written by someone very salty about the subject. Consider revising it to offer a more unbiased look (January 2020).

• This is the first Dance Central game after Dance Central 3 and the first one after Harmonix’s break back in 2013.
• This is the first time not to include Angel, as he appeared and is the only one to be in every Dance Central except Spotlight. This does not include Dr Tan, Oblio or Shinju (called ‘Twit-Torlep’) as he made a rather cameo appearance in the end scene of the first Dance Central.
• This also is the first time that marks Lil T, Kerith, Jaryn, Marcos, Frenchy, Shinju, Kichi, CYPH-56, CYPH-78 and Dr Tan, Oblio to not appear in a Dance Central game, after being constantly being in one since, Dance Central 2.
• Bodie, Emilia, Mo, and Glitch are the only four characters to return and the only one to bring the full crew in (Riptide and Hi-Def).
• It also has the lowest character count of 6 making it the lowest since Dance Central 1 with 11. (12 including Dr Tan)
• This is the second game after Dance Central 1, not to include or be in crews for the first time.
• All dialogue for this game is recycled from previous Dance Central games or is dialogue that was cut from past games and didn’t appear to be in the game.
• All previous choreographers did not re-choreographed or did any new ones too, making it so far the only Dance Central game to do so.
• This is the first game to have a set-list of tracks to be 10, making it the lowest tracklist since Dance Central 1, with 35.
• This is also the lowest-selling Dance Central game from any of the previous instalments. [citation needed]
• It also marks the first Dance Central game not to be on the Xbox 360 and the first one to be on Xbox One.
• This also the first Dance Central not to include importing, while it is all bought in the Legacy Download.
• It also marks the first Dance Central, not to include the original three difficulties, Easy, Medium, Hard or even Beginners, as it uses, Silly, Diva, Pro, etc. (ANGEL IS NOT COMING BACK ON THE XBOX ONE DCS)
• Angel, Hatsune Miku, Kasane Teto, Oblio, Dr. Tan, Dare, MacCoy And Lil T Are Unlockables For The ReYaMa.