This gameplayer article questions the sudden influx of music related gaming titles, with three big guns all set to launch on Australia within weeks of each other.
"Since Rock Band has been delayed for so long in Australia, with a rumoured September release date, for all intents and purposes these three games will be dropping all at once. This will mean two things for consumers: freedom of choice (which is good) and utter retail chaos (which is not)."
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
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Player 2's long-form feature about kids and video games continues with a look at introducing toddlers to games for the first time.
yea its just like alcohol, good at first but it always wins if u go overboard.
Meh, guitar hero 4 looks better than rock band for wii...if they don't give it the ps2 version I may get it.
i can't wait until i can open up any magazine without seeing some dumb music game, guitar hero while excellent at first got old fast, and with rock band it was sweet but no matter how many songs you make available it will still not be as fun the 10th time as the first. just stop with these games, if anything else stop putting them in the mags every other month
It's so pointless to have Guitar Hero and Rock Band. All we need is one game, Rock Band. When you add a drum set to guitar hero (which was recently announced), you aren't playing guitar hero anymore, you're playing rock band!
I say everybody boycott Guitar Hero so Harmonix stops being greedy and puts all their energy into one game.
but funny we have many types of shooters / rpg's and no one says that they're over-crowding each other lol