Scans of Rock Bands accessories are popping up all over the place. This time it's of the microphone and drum set.
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.
Looks like that is going to be huge sitting in a living room some where, to play rock band you're actually going to have a band set up in the corner of your room.
I must admit, those peripherals are sexy.
I am happy to see the Drums do not look that big. The Drums I have in my room take up a lot of space. I see no cymbals though. So I wonder what you use instead of using them. I wonder if the foot pedal will act as if you are pressing the cymbals down or if it will be for beating the back of the drums instead. That all being said Rock Band looks like it is coming along great. Plus the 200 dollar price of Rock Band is cheaper then I payed for my set of drums. So I can't wait to try out this game.
I imagine the pads will double as cymbals and toms etc. the pedal will probably always be the kick, but the others will probably change depending on the song/section. I would guess that the far left will be the snare a lot and the next over the hat a lot. Notice that it has 5 triggers just like the guitar so it'll probably work just like GH where one fret-button can mean many different notes: one pad can be several different drums etc. - like if it has Queens of the Stone Age's "Little Sister" one of them is gonna have to be a Jam Block (i think that's what it's called?)
I wonder if the drums come with drums sticks? I would like to think so, because I don't play the drums but I sure would use the rock band drums.