It was a bit strange to hear the somewhat shocking news that Green Day will be the next band to have a music video game made to incorporate their music discography and likenesses. Moreover, there are probably many people scratching their heads in confusion since they seem a little out of place when compared to other bands that have been given the same honor. Let's be honest, the Beatles, Metallica, AC/DC, Aerosmith and Van Halen all have one thing in common: they're considered legendary to the point of being regarded as rock Gods. Whereas Green Day are a largely popular band (this is partially due to the success of their American Idiot album), however they are not considered on the level of any of the other bands. But, we here at G3 are not here to discuss Green Day's upcoming Rock Band game, instead we would like to point out which legendary bands should deserve a music video game, mostly because of musical skill, lyrical content and overall greatness of the band.
These groundbreaking video games changed gaming forever and drew in scores of fans in the process.
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
Greenday and their 3 chords... Yeah, that'll go over really well. What is this Guitar hero 4: tykes? There's a lot more to guitar than Power Chords and opens. Greenday couldn't outplay Nickleback to save their record contracts... That's how generic they are.
I think enough is enough with these music games. Aren't they just the same thing over and over? Why not listen to your iPods instead of "playing" the song?
Playing a Radiohead game would just put me to sleep. In fact, I actually have fallen asleep while playing one or two of their songs on Rock Band/Guitar Hero. Same goes for Coldplay. As for Led Zeppelin, Rush, and Deep Purple...I wouldn't be able to stand listening to them for that long. Velvet Underground is okay, but I don't know if they have enough good songs to make a decent game. My vote goes to Queen, although Harmonix supposedly already has something in the works for them.
Honestly, though, I think these band-specific games are getting ridiculous. I'd rather just have direct sequels. If they really need spin-offs, then they should be genre-specific instead. I would kill for Anti-Folk Rock Band.
I know a lot of people hate on Dragonforce, but hell, an ENTIRE game of ridiculously hard songs?
Sign me up please.
They need to dedicated a guitar hero or rock band to Pantera, specifically Dime Bag Darrell RIP. The only band bigger then Pantera is Metallica, and thats because they are more mainstream then anything. I would also like to see a mudvayne and Slipknot one too.