411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days, Raiden IV, and The Beatles: Rock Band.
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
A Japanese PlayStation Store page for Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, the PSP remake of the original Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, has appeared.
Were in the day and age where alot of titles are translated. I believe this should show up for other regions. Come on sony we like rpgs in the west to. Not everyone wants action action action all the time.
I say this as a fan of playstation. I prefer playstation games
From Boltrend Games, a team known for their RPGs, comes a new version of Nippon Ichi Software’s excellent Disgaea franchise, Disgaea RPG. This represents the sixth in the Disgaea series. A turn-based title, based on the anime and RPG series, sees the return of Prince Lahari, Angel Fionne, and Vassal Etna. They go on an all-new adventure filled with both joy and sadness while travelling Earth and the Netherworld. Help them pass the Netherworld with care, as everyone’s moral compasses are known to be skewed.
dats a cute picture ^.^