I wish for a more complicated Drum-set. Since I know a LOT of Rock Band fans, I've been looking into how you can make a more complicated drum set, without complicating and overcrowding the market.
1. Make it an add-on. Make the upgrade peripheral plug into the console via USB FIRST, and then have the drum kit plug into the expansion peripheral. Think of the "Game Genie" during the Sega Genesis days. Sorta like that.
2. The peripheral could be two Hi-Hats, and design it so it fits onto the original drum set. I know it's a lot of drums, but it's an upgrade, and it's not too intrusive to the style of the game. We decided that you could sell the peripheral for about $30 without a large amount of consumer backfire.
3. Add a new instrument: Call it "Advanced Drums" or something similar. This way, you can have all the difficulties of a regular instrument, and work your way up to expert.
4. Make all old songs compatible with "Advanced Drums" via an expansion pack on the "Playstation Store" or the "Live Marketplace". The expansion pack may cost money, and our group decided that $40 was the most that they would pay for the software upgrade. The expansion pack would contain a patch that patches over all downloaded songs, and all the songs that came on the disk originally.
There you have it. I see Rock Band in the same light that you folks do, it's a platform. This is the best idea I've felt I have ever come up with. I want Rock Band to mature as it is, unlike Guitar Hero and others. Using this method of upgrading, you can release Rock Band 2, complete with all the upgraded instruments and "Expansion Packs".
The song list for RB2 could consist of downloadable Rock Band songs. This way, the consumer never feels like too much is being forced upon them, and the old instruments they bought are still relevant.
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I want Rock Band to hold the sales crown.
But I'm so laaazy.
The note charts weren't any fun, the song list blew, the boss battles were horrible, the character designs/animations were horrendous, the DLC comes out too sporadically and costs too much.
Those are most of the reasons I don't like it. I usually play a Guitar Hero pretty consistently until the next one comes out. I stopped playing GH3 after 2 months and never put it in my Xbox360 again except to try the free Halo song.
Says the asshole with the Neversoft logo for an Avatar who also can't spell Burgundy correctly. Don't be pissed just because your beloved series is slowly turning into garbage, thanks to a horrible developer. Embrace Rock Band, the better game.
Or, continue enjoying your inferior shit and Tony Hawk 24 (or are they on 25 now). I'll continue playing the series that's superior in every way.
I know, I look like a fanboy and no matter what I say, you will label me as such. I know that I will never be able to sway your opinions, so I will not even try. I would just like to say that anyone who has a beloved series or has played a game beyond even a possibility of ever hoping to count the hours wasted, which is EVERYONE who is reading this or even a reader of this site, you are exactly like me, no different.
Yeah, no.
I loved GH 1. I loved GH 2. If I were a soulless douchebag, you could call me a GH fanboy. However, I have self-respect, so I'm able to judge a game based on its merits, not the merits of a series as a whole.
GH 3 sucked in comparison to the first two. The lone redeeming quality of the game was that the soundtrack was fairly solid. Battle mode was awful, as were the boss fights. The leap in difficulty from 2 to 3 was so far beyond excessive, the word I'd use to describe it has a restraining order against it for repeatedly raping and sodomizing the word "excessive". While I've enjoyed some of the DLC, the rest has been abysmal, as has their release schedule.
I'm giving them another chance, however, because usually everyone deserves a second chance. They said they dropped the difficulty down in Aerosmith, and GH 4 will hopefully have songs that Rock Band 1 and 2 won't have, so I'll likely purchase the disc-only version of each.
But yeah...I'm not exactly like you. I can see through bullshit when it's slung in my face.
You must live in some kind of dream world where people only speak if there's good things to be said. Sorry, but it doesn't work like that. Especially when Neversoft guys dump on Harmonix in Game Informer, like they're being so fucking creative by releasing a full band game. If they want to pop off and try to inflate their ego, they better be prepared for someone like me to point out how they fucked up a series that should be impossible to fuck up.
Also, Madden sucks, but I've ranted about this before. The last good version released was 2005.
Secondly, if there was some way to put your Gamertag in your profile information, so other people could see what games you own, the world would be a better place. Oh wait.
Lastly, I thought I made it blatantly obvious I've at least played GH 3 when I mentioned I don't just spout off random shit about games I know nothing about.
A little detective work might be in order next time, chief.