The first Guitar Hero World Tour trailer came out recently:
It only shows a bunch of silly young people playing plastic instruments. Now with drums and mic! ... Just like Rock Band. The Rock Band drumkit is already way too big, so there's no way I'm going to fit another one into my room (nor do I want to spend another $170 on more plastic instruments!). And let's look at the way Neversoft/Activision treated Guitar Hero III; they practically ignored DLC and they invented the most horrid thing on earth: boss battles. I've already lost my confidence in further Guitar Hero titles, not to mention the fact that they thought an Aerosmith edition would be cool.
Then let's look at other things that Guitar Hero III did wrong. First, it was blatantly misogynistic with it's dancing trollops (you try not feeling ashamed playing a game with your mom when she sees gyrating whores on some fictional stage). Second, it thought that Brett Michaels was a "rock star" (in his day, to be sure, but now he's just another one of VH1's embarrassing celebrity attention whores). Third, the characters where stylistically and aesthetically appalling. In Rock Band, it's quite nice not having to see the same people over and over.
And let's face facts. Rock Band is just cooler. I mean, next week they're releasing The Cars' first album for fuck's sake! How fantastic is that? They have consistently released new songs every week since inception and have remembered that the fun in these games is playing songs that you love, not battling some asshole on guitar with random elements thrown in to make sure you fail. You're supposed to imagine yourself being a rock star while having fun with your friends, you're not supposed to remember that you're playing a fucking videogame.
My allegiance is already sworn, all hail Rock Band!
It only shows a bunch of silly young people playing plastic instruments. Now with drums and mic! ... Just like Rock Band. The Rock Band drumkit is already way too big, so there's no way I'm going to fit another one into my room (nor do I want to spend another $170 on more plastic instruments!). And let's look at the way Neversoft/Activision treated Guitar Hero III; they practically ignored DLC and they invented the most horrid thing on earth: boss battles. I've already lost my confidence in further Guitar Hero titles, not to mention the fact that they thought an Aerosmith edition would be cool.
Then let's look at other things that Guitar Hero III did wrong. First, it was blatantly misogynistic with it's dancing trollops (you try not feeling ashamed playing a game with your mom when she sees gyrating whores on some fictional stage). Second, it thought that Brett Michaels was a "rock star" (in his day, to be sure, but now he's just another one of VH1's embarrassing celebrity attention whores). Third, the characters where stylistically and aesthetically appalling. In Rock Band, it's quite nice not having to see the same people over and over.
And let's face facts. Rock Band is just cooler. I mean, next week they're releasing The Cars' first album for fuck's sake! How fantastic is that? They have consistently released new songs every week since inception and have remembered that the fun in these games is playing songs that you love, not battling some asshole on guitar with random elements thrown in to make sure you fail. You're supposed to imagine yourself being a rock star while having fun with your friends, you're not supposed to remember that you're playing a fucking videogame.
My allegiance is already sworn, all hail Rock Band!
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