Little bit of a journalistic slant there and a pretty pathetic comment to go along with it. You've gotta love it when journalists get things wrong and then make it worse.
Some journalists really should only be doing editorials. So I guess by improving a concept and making it better it's a rip-off??? So Guitar Hero adding drums to their game also makes it a rip-off now???
Good ideas are always copied. WIthout things being copied we wouldn't see improvements over the original products. To bad this writer wants to spread his bias to the world...
"So I guess by improving a concept and making it better it's a rip-off???"
Well the point is, Rock Band didnt steal the idea and improve the concept. The makers of Rock Band, Harmonix, are the people who made Guitar Hero, they were improving on their own ideas.
The makers of GH3, GH aerosmith, GH:WT etc (neversoft, from tony hawks fame) are the ones who took the idea from Harmonix and "improved" it.
Of course by "improved" I mean they whored it out and tried to rack in as much cash as they possibly could, without actually making a good, fun game.
I imagine a scene where both ther interviewer and Bobby are chatting about Rockband and Bobby is telling him how evil Rockband is and that Guitar Hero is good and will make all your dreams come true and the interviewer just lapping it up!
if harmonix and red octane didnt split rock band would have been the new guitar hero and it wouldnt have taken red octane so long to make world tour. both have there ups and downs and seriously this journalist is a moron anyway
I agree, both have their ups and downs, but to go as far as attack one for being remotely similar to the other is wrong and definitely unprofessional for someone of his position.
Actually Guitar Hero 3 is a rip off of Guitar Hero 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour is a rip off of Rockband 2. Well Guitar Hero 3 is not necessarily, per se. It can be viewed as another sequel, albeit under a different developer. There is no doubt in my mind though that Neversoft and Activision wanted to cash in on the popularity of Rock Band with World Tour.
Updated my comment a moment before you posted that. :p
Like I added to my original post, you are correct as far as Guitar Hero 3 is concerned. Nothing really changed but the devs so that can be viewed as a fair sequel. Now World Tour on the other hand is a blatant copy of Rock Band but with some added features (create-a-song for example). That I consider pretty close to a rip-off.
What I originally meant though, was that Forbes has no right to call Rockband a rip-off as it is made by the original Guitar Hero devs. I can just as legitimetly call the GH series after 2 a copy of the originals just as he can call Rock Band a copy of Guitar Hero.
I'm just confusing myself here. My original intention of the post was to show that ---- you know, nevermind. I don't even know what my original intention was. Just enjoy the little chart I made... :p
Ahaha whoops my bad, bubbles for you for the confusion. I don't think Neversoft would want to cash in as much as Activision, it must be fatiguing working on the same thing 2-3 times a year.
hmm there was a world tour mode in rock band 1...then comes a guitar hero game with a full band called guitar hero world tour...can u scream ripoff more than that? the game is called GUITAR hero, why are there drums and vocals?
So, another mainstream magazine makes a completely stupid comment about a video game. This story never gets old. I guess fact checking falls short when it comes to the video game industry. Calling Rock Band a shameless rip off of Guitar Hero is like calling Halo a shameless Doom rip off. Rock Band added so much to the genre, much like Halo, and then what does Guitar Hero do? it rips off Rock Band. When will these people ever learn...
Little bit of a journalistic slant there and a pretty pathetic comment to go along with it. You've gotta love it when journalists get things wrong and then make it worse.
I imagine a scene where both ther interviewer and Bobby are chatting about Rockband and Bobby is telling him how evil Rockband is and that Guitar Hero is good and will make all your dreams come true and the interviewer just lapping it up!
This is... pretty pathetic. But, in the end, what else culd you expect from Forbes?
What makes it most funny is that Rock Band is made by the original Guitar Hero developer.
if harmonix and red octane didnt split rock band would have been the new guitar hero and it wouldnt have taken red octane so long to make world tour. both have there ups and downs and seriously this journalist is a moron anyway