No one wins in this situation, and both companies are worse off because of the combined failures. It’s a damn shame too.
Harmonix, best known for their work on the Rock Band franchise, has announced that they're becoming a part of the Epic Games family.
I don't get how people complained that Valve never released any games for years as an argument when defending Epic, and here's Epic just constantly revolving around one game, producing nothing else and trying desperately to keep retention on it by having over the top crossovers to stay in the news and social media. At least Valve knows how to make games instead of lucky shots.
It will never die sadly
If I have to be super blunt...there's too many idiots who buy into it.
I shit you not, I have someone on Twitter, a "friend" if you will, constantly complaining about needing money for gas, electric and to basically live, then when something Fortnite related comes out he then asks for money to buy the next Fortnite skins/pack. I mean who the f*** does that? "I need money to survive but if someone Fortnite related comes out I'll buy that instead rather than saving the left over money". The developers of this game must be laughing themselves all away to the bank.
I just think it's amazing how most of us as kids jumped from game to game, a variety of genres and experiences while today it's literally just COD, Fortnite, Fifa etc.
@Rachel: How have Epic had lucky shots? You don't create a great game by being lucky you create them by being talented. I don't care for Fortnite, not my kind of game, but talent is talent. They made great games before Fortnite too you know.
@Rachel
As someone who is far from a fan of Epic anymore ... was Gears, Unreal, and Unreal Tournament nothing more than lucky shots as well?
@Ted
@Xblade
They had almost 8 years of failures after Gears 3. They had failed to gauge any interest in IPs like Paragon and that Unreal Alpha they barely touched. Finally released Fortnite, but then they spent 3 months making a copy of a popular game at the time which was PUBG that everyone wanted to play. The problem was Pubg required expensive PC hardware and it was $30. But here comes fortnite with a free 2 play version, and all on console. It was the perfect chance to eat up what PUBG failed to do. They just got a lucky chance and seized it, that's it. It's no wonder they immediately canceled all their current projects including pushing STW off the focus over time to push their BR mode the game wasn't originally designed around. There entire company is built up all around Fortnite, but rather then make new games that bring in that same revenue, they would rather just buy up other companies and market share because I believe Tim doesn't trust his companies ability to produce another hit like Fortnite. If they are so talented then why do they not trust themselves to make new games with that great talent? At least Valve tries developing new games even with Steam protecting their revenue.
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If you guys want to read an article where the author contradicts himself several times and then complains because he didn't educate himself on the product before buying, you've come to the right place!!
This article is 100% accurate. This new amplitude is horrible it is nothing like the the original and what I mean by that is, the original introduced me to bands like Garbage, the scenery was cool with bits of video in the horizon, this new amplitude is garbage. I played the demo and although I liked the new mechanics I hated these generics tracks. Can't cut corners in these kinds of games.
The biggest offender here by far was Rock Band 4. Part 4 was utter trash, straight from the sewer. It had ZERO innovations, ZERO differences to warrant a purchase and this made me extremely sad.
Guitar Hero by contrast knocked this thing straight out the stratosphere. If you don't have the money, don't make the damn game. You look like fools.
In fact RB4 is so watered down, you'll be lucky to get a taste of what it used to be. Hell it can't even tell the difference between male and female leads in a song.
Harmonix, you broke my f***** heart.
While I like GH online channels, at least RB made it more friendly with other players in the "band".
GH has a guitar and bass track, but it was the exact same music note track for both and it didn't give you a band feeling, not to mention the vocal tracks were non existent as well.
I bet you this writer didn't even play the game. He's just beating a dead horse because that's all that gaming journalism does. I wonder how much Activi$ion paid him to write an obituary for their competition?
I'm quite enjoying Rock Band 4, the only problem I have is the s**t show that is SCEE publishing the exports on time. Other than that the game is great craic for me and my friends to play or to play alone.