HMXSean the community forum leader for Harmonix on the official Rock Band forums, has said that the article from dailygaming.net is absolutely false.
HMXSean said "In no way is this true. It is well written satire but it is very much satire."
Stopping any wild claims of a Metallica lawsuit against Red Octane, Activision or Harmonix.
TheGamer Writes "Harmonix has proven plenty of times it can make Rock Band work without instruments."
I mean, yeah, but was anyone saying otherwise? The fact is people liked the plastic instruments rather than pressing buttons on a controller. They enjoyed the simulated experience.
"Work"? No, but to be good? It's absolutely necessary. Not having the accessories is like playing a lightgun shooter with an analog stick sure it works, but one experience is completely unique and fun as hell, and other is torture trying to make do playing in a way it was never meant to be played
I think CHEAP plastic instruments is THE reason why the instrument-genre ‘died’.
People invested in buying the game AND the peripherals, so the guitar, the dj-set, the drum, whatever, and the experience was absolutely fantastic. Great fun, great music, etc.
But then the instruments would break. A button would stop working, or your hits wouldn’t register, and that kind of hardware failure would end in you not being able to play the game as intended, and thus you not getting the scores you deserve.
So, now you had a great game, but a broken instrument, and nobody is gonna buy a new plastic instrument every 3-6 months in order to keep playing the game.
A solution would have been to release better quality instruments (obviously), at a slightly higher price, so you could have kept the new games coming and the genre alive, but sadly, that didn’t happen.
Bust a Groove, Gitaroo Man and Parrapa the Rappa were such good games. Neither needed any extra peripherals
Player 2's long-form feature about kids and video games continues with a look at introducing toddlers to games for the first time.
Music rhythm games dominated the video game market in the mid-2000s. Unfortunately, the genre would fall from grace shortly after finding success.
More like faded away than failed. Failed implies it was new and didnt take off... that is not the case. Rhythm games were hugely popular but the lights dimmed and the show is over.
You would think the current situation would cause a resurgence but im actually seeing more people picking up real instruments and learning to play. My son is one who started out on GH and now he plays real guitar.
I lost interest when they stopped allowing you to use the controller to play with, just couldn't get into playing with the guitar.
Not the sole reason, but over saturation by Activision releasing 5 GH games in one year, charging full price for all of them while only Metallica and GH5 were worth it.
I dont think these games failed at all. People aren't going to keep buying games and peripherals over and over. All songs need to work on either rockband or guitar hero thru updates. Guitar hero live was actually good but rockband with all its songs and same equipment killed it.
I'm sure part of the reason they faded away, at least over the long term, was that you couldn't download them digitally.
I posted this to see what kind of reaction it would get over on the Rock Band forums that I frequent. This article was kicked off the main page extremly fast(Within 2 minutes) and quickly proven not true by the lead Harmonix rep. HMXSean.
This is a very far cry from Activision/Red Octane who will ignore a million screaming and outraged fans just so they can keep milking their userbase. Another example of why it will be Rock Band inflicting MASSIVE DAMAGE on the Guitar Hero brand...
Anyways, Can't wait for GHIII Though. May get Rockband for the Drum Kit. Something new to play.
I HOPE Developers will be smart and use these peripherals as well. It opens up a whole new playing field.
HMXSean. Just closed my thread LOL. He said...
"I am going to lock this one up before it gets out of hand. If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times irony and the internet go together like toothpaste and orange juice. Ok, maybe I have only said it that time..."
The thread is funny as hell if you want to read it though...
http://www.rockband.com/vbf...
Would've been stupid to sue before the games are out :)
.. I guess we still love you Metallica
;-)