PS3Addiction.com writes
"Since the beginning of the Guitar Hero/Rock Band saga, the question has been asked as to which is the better game. Both have there highs and lows, and both have a solid fanbase. But which one truly reigns king? We have your answers in the TOP 5 REASONS Guitar Hero World Tour Whoops Rock Bands Ass! Let's go."
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 used to be a die hard GH fan, but RB DLC and trophy support has changed my views. RB FTW!!!
Number 1 reason Rock Band destroys GH:WT:
1) Songs (RB: 400+ vs. GH: 130+)
Its all about the music.
It's not blatantly obvious that author's a GH fanboy... :/
I have and like them both... but i must say Rock Band does everything GH does better. Especially DLC!
Personally, I like Guitar Hero's gameplay much better then Rock Bands, but Rock Band really kicks Guitar Hero in the ass with it's range of downloadable tracks, and backwards compatibility with the first games tracks (both downloads and those that came with the game).
Now, if Neversoft decides to go back and fix the Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero Aerosmith (I could care less about the latter one TBH) tracks to make them compatible with GH World Tour, that would be great. Hell, even if we could just play guitar at least that would be something.
And i can't play it for more than 3 songs at a time. The selection of songs are great for me, well on par with RB disc offering, but i dunno, the game just seems hollow. Really not getting the satisfaction outta it.
If say any Queen, Pantera, Radiohead, basically songs i like came out as DLC for GH:WT instead of RB i'd be pretty GUTTED
Oh i got the ion rocker (a little early xmas present to myself) and it ROCKS