"I never thought I'd say this, but I now pity rock stars. On the surface, we get to see all the glitz and glamour associated with being in a world-famous band--the mounds of money, fast cars, enormous houses, private jets, and the near endless adoration of fans. But what we normally don't get to see, or even understand, are the hazards of leading the life of a rock star. It's not about alcohol or drug abuse. No, it's far worse than that and if anything, it's the reason why the people in the music profession develop such addictions. And now, I, along with the other members of the band, am experiencing it--the absolutely horrid nightmare of being forced to play the same popular song over and over and over again because no matter which part of the world we're in, the fans demand it and the band manager demands it. There's nothing I can do to save myself from this hell on Earth", writes Game Tap.
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
Player 2's long-form feature about kids and video games continues with a look at introducing toddlers to games for the first time.
Music rhythm games dominated the video game market in the mid-2000s. Unfortunately, the genre would fall from grace shortly after finding success.
More like faded away than failed. Failed implies it was new and didnt take off... that is not the case. Rhythm games were hugely popular but the lights dimmed and the show is over.
You would think the current situation would cause a resurgence but im actually seeing more people picking up real instruments and learning to play. My son is one who started out on GH and now he plays real guitar.
I lost interest when they stopped allowing you to use the controller to play with, just couldn't get into playing with the guitar.
Not the sole reason, but over saturation by Activision releasing 5 GH games in one year, charging full price for all of them while only Metallica and GH5 were worth it.
I dont think these games failed at all. People aren't going to keep buying games and peripherals over and over. All songs need to work on either rockband or guitar hero thru updates. Guitar hero live was actually good but rockband with all its songs and same equipment killed it.
I'm sure part of the reason they faded away, at least over the long term, was that you couldn't download them digitally.
I need to pick this game up
All these websites giving perfect ratings is getting out of hand. I've been gaming since '85 and I can't recall any game getting perfect scoring. Now this year alone every game that comes out is getting 10/10. Yes I'm exaggerating...but thats how it feels. There is no way so many of the flawed games are getting perfects...AC, Halo, CoD4 and the list goes on. These games are fun. But by no means are they perfect 10/10 or 5/5 or 100%.