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<blockquote data-quote="JoshuaKadmon" data-source="post: 31292" data-attributes="member: 1046"><p>This may be a weird comparison, but when I was playing DJ Max Portable the other night, it made me think about how awesome a career mode could be in TPA. You probably wouldn't call it "career", maybe something like Flight, Series, or Champion mode...</p><p></p><p>Anyway, in DJ Max, when you select the play mode, you have to go through 4 stages, and in each, you pick the song you want to play for that stage from a preset selection of tracks. Stage 1 includes songs of difficulties 1-6, 2 includes 3-8, 3 includes 5-10, and 4 includes 7-12, for instance (so the challenge can be scaled to your skill level based on the tracks you pick). Each stage contains about a dozen songs to pick from, and based on your performance, it gives you a rank for that stage (A-F or S/SS rankings could be used, for instance). And even though different songs may allow higher scores based on a variety of factors, that ranking system evens them out for an average ranking that's accumulated at the end. If you do well enough, you can also compete on a fifth bonus round.</p><p></p><p>That kind of setup would work really well for TPA, though we may need several more tables before we had enough to organize them into "stages". The ranking system would also work, since there is a huge disparity between the scores you could get on, say, Black Hole vs. Bride of Pin*Bot. Using the current tables, this is an example of how it could be organized:</p><p></p><p>Stage 1: Ripley's Believe It or Not, No Good Gofers, Funhouse, Monster Bash</p><p>Stage 2: Theatre of Magic, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Taxi, Harley-Davidson</p><p>Stage 3: Black Hole, Elvira and the Party Monsters, Bride of Pin*Bot, Tales of the Arabian Nights</p><p>Stage 4: Medieval Madness, Gorgar, Black Knight, Cirqus Voltaire</p><p></p><p>I realize that including modes like this, Tournament mode, online Hotseat, or anything else would require several changes to TPA's interface. A frontend menu would be needed, for one thing, and you'd probably need some Williams Collection-style background music to jazz it up a bit.</p><p></p><p>I think additional modes like this would give you more of an overall objective to your playtime. Just a thought...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoshuaKadmon, post: 31292, member: 1046"] This may be a weird comparison, but when I was playing DJ Max Portable the other night, it made me think about how awesome a career mode could be in TPA. You probably wouldn't call it "career", maybe something like Flight, Series, or Champion mode... Anyway, in DJ Max, when you select the play mode, you have to go through 4 stages, and in each, you pick the song you want to play for that stage from a preset selection of tracks. Stage 1 includes songs of difficulties 1-6, 2 includes 3-8, 3 includes 5-10, and 4 includes 7-12, for instance (so the challenge can be scaled to your skill level based on the tracks you pick). Each stage contains about a dozen songs to pick from, and based on your performance, it gives you a rank for that stage (A-F or S/SS rankings could be used, for instance). And even though different songs may allow higher scores based on a variety of factors, that ranking system evens them out for an average ranking that's accumulated at the end. If you do well enough, you can also compete on a fifth bonus round. That kind of setup would work really well for TPA, though we may need several more tables before we had enough to organize them into "stages". The ranking system would also work, since there is a huge disparity between the scores you could get on, say, Black Hole vs. Bride of Pin*Bot. Using the current tables, this is an example of how it could be organized: Stage 1: Ripley's Believe It or Not, No Good Gofers, Funhouse, Monster Bash Stage 2: Theatre of Magic, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Taxi, Harley-Davidson Stage 3: Black Hole, Elvira and the Party Monsters, Bride of Pin*Bot, Tales of the Arabian Nights Stage 4: Medieval Madness, Gorgar, Black Knight, Cirqus Voltaire I realize that including modes like this, Tournament mode, online Hotseat, or anything else would require several changes to TPA's interface. A frontend menu would be needed, for one thing, and you'd probably need some Williams Collection-style background music to jazz it up a bit. I think additional modes like this would give you more of an overall objective to your playtime. Just a thought... [/QUOTE]
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