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"There's something here for everyone whether you're into Anime, Gaming, Education in ICT or general electronics this is the place to be! Entry is completely FREE with chances to play yet to be released games like RockBand and Midnight Club: Los Angeles.
GO3 is an absolute blast. The speakers of the conference were top class and extremely enjoyable to view. Attendees from nVIDIA, Sony Online Entertainment, Nokia, Military Game Technology and InterZone all made the trip to GO3 for the conference and they all had exceptional information to share on upcoming games and technology..."
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
Midnight Club: Los Angeles was a great swansong for the arcade racer, but now the genre’s a bit less packed, it’s time for Take-Two to bring it back.
Yes, yess and yesssss!!
I loved dub edition back in the day, had a killer soundtrack aswell.
LA was sick as well, cmon rockstar give the people what they want and being a classic back!!
Midnight Club 3 is the best Street racing game imo. Also Midnight club was the real start of waypoint racing. It really pushed the open world race design to the next level, Where you could race on roofs etc. We need it back asap
Player 2's long-form feature about kids and video games continues with a look at introducing toddlers to games for the first time.