Ars writes: "A few months ago I was at a party thrown by a friend who has a monumental game collection. He also takes pride in keeping everything working and hooked up; if you can see it, you can play it. That night we played the original two Guitar Hero titles on the PlayStation 2, with the original guitars. It was shocking: those games require split-second timing, and we realized very quickly just how forgiving the games had become."
"Going back a few console generations, gaming experienced a surge of rhythm-based games. From shredding out in Guitar Hero to hitting the floor in Dance Central, game started crossing the line between general, real world practices and digital entertainment. Like most other genres, rhythm games became saturated and dipped off in popularity." --PlayStation Enthusiast
Stop these articles, christmas is over. At the least come up with a different title, I mean its January 4 already.
It's already January 4th. Hence the title on the 11th day of Christmas.
It's a series of titles referencing the days after the 25th which are the 12 days of Christmas.
Remember a few years ago, when all the cool kids were hooked to the ‘Guitar Hero’ and ‘Rock Band’ games. It gave a chance for all the wannabe rockstars to do some of their favorite posing without an air guitar. Admittedly, it was a fun experience that revived the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll for a new generation.
The rumors are swirling, so The Geek Culture has a few suggestions on how Activision can bring back Guitar Hero right.
"More of the same" has been Activisions business model for this generation of games. Bobby Kotick even wears a "more of the same" t-shirt when they have casual fridays at Activision. It only goes for him though. The rest of the employees have to pay 1200 points to be in on it. And if they don't they get sacked for not being team players.
Everything is just basically sports version of a roster update...you got your sports games that do a few animation updates, one little feature there, plus roster update. call it a new game...
Same thing goes for music games, especially guitar hero, FPS's....