In recent years, the music video game industry has pretty much been declared dead in the water by mainstream gamers who played Guitar Hero III or the original Rock Band once or twice in 2007. With shelves overflowing with Guitar Hero and Rock Band titles in recent years, a clearance music video game is pretty much commonplace at any given Target or Best Buy.
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
oh god i hope not. music games are so played out that they make fps' look downright fresh.
rockband is going the way of guitar hero just coming out all the time and now making bands like green day even though they released alot of DLC for green day
If they mean actually innovating the music game genre rather than rehash band related music games then I hope so. Rock Band 3 is going in the right direction of being able to utilize your own guitar. Though it's all good to see this come about, this seems like the last major thing that can possibly come about for the music genre. After this only track packs and DLC should be utilized.
if music games are what we're supposed to get excited about then gaming as a whole is in a sad state of affairs.