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The Guitar Hero franchise died in the wake of Activision's lust for Call of Duty, but we should be dusting off those plastic guitars for a new Guitar Hero game.
Guitar Hero was good. The problem was Activision started creating many versions. Guitar Hero had the every one year cycle like COD and people felt they were being robbed.
Why in the hell would one want to spend time to learn a button mashing order when you can lean to play a real guitar in the same time frame.
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
games are about wanking?
“Personally, I feel that if Guitar Hero has prevented the foundation of just one new Nickleback-inspired band, Harmonix, the creator the Guitar Hero series, should be given some sort of medal.”
If only they had a clue about what good music is. The eighties are gone and the golden era is over. Video games are a form of salvation for the music industry. Didn't Aerosmith make more money from their Guitar Hero game than from any of their previous albums.
Below, good times.
Since i'm not a good english-speaker, what did he mean by "w*****g"?
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same old story... Music industry (and music magazines...) is afraid of the growing videogames industry that becomes the number one entertainment business. Whether they like it or not, the new big bosses of music industry are Apple, EA or ActiBlizzard, and the future is downloading music to play with games like GH or RB.
I recently read an interesting interview from the creative director of Harmonix : this guy IS a musician and he LOVES music. He never said that videogames were better than music, he just wants people to know a bit of the feeling to be a musician (hey, and obviously he wants to make money out of it) without having to spend years in learning an instrument