Whatever happened to the Musical Instrument games?
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I fired mine up last week for the first time in a long while.
**** me my wrists hurt after the first song on expert. I'd lost a lot of my legendary skill as well
Rock band 3 killed it for me. A crappy coloured flashing fret board that made hitting some notes harder than it should have been. I would have continued to play RB2 but the DLC was only for the new one and little of the DLC interested me anymore.
I still keep all the stuff but for me they made far too many errors with RB3 and killed a game I adored.
**** me my wrists hurt after the first song on expert. I'd lost a lot of my legendary skill as well
Rock band 3 killed it for me. A crappy coloured flashing fret board that made hitting some notes harder than it should have been. I would have continued to play RB2 but the DLC was only for the new one and little of the DLC interested me anymore.
I still keep all the stuff but for me they made far too many errors with RB3 and killed a game I adored.
Point Blank was the king of the lightgun game.
I'm sure even with the wii sensor bar it could be accurate enough for fun.
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I fired mine up last week for the first time in a long while.
**** me my wrists hurt after the first song on expert. I'd lost a lot of my legendary skill as well
Rock band 3 killed it for me. A crappy coloured flashing fret board that made hitting some notes harder than it should have been. I would have continued to play RB2 but the DLC was only for the new one and little of the DLC interested me anymore.
I still keep all the stuff but for me they made far too many errors with RB3 and killed a game I adored.
Truth.
RB3 was the nail in the coffin for not only the franchise, but the entire genre IMO.
I still occasionally have a brief glimpse at the weekly DLC, but they still continue to release absolute crud for it. I do look fondly back at the entire day-long drunken Rock Band/Guitar Hero parties I used to hold/go to. Those were great times, tons of fun, but I just can't find myself getting enthusiastic about it anymore when everyone else is as equally dried up with it as I am.
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The lack of compatibility between peripherals just began to grate so I never invested in them.
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always good as a bit of fun with mates and drinking. Didn't they even have paper hero? I remember seeing some sort of paper version in stores.
I would have thought some type of film could be placed over the screen to act as a receiver like CRTs used to from light guns. No doubt the technology exists, probably just too expensive to be worthwhile.
Sucks, I love Time Crisis...
Wii remotes make suitable light guns 
Just don't think anyone really wants to play light gun games that much anymore
Ghost Squad on the Wii is good for some arcade shooting but it doesn't touch the arcade version!
As for Rock Band etc I think Harmonix are working on something new now that the court case has all been sorted but I wouldn't expect it to involve loads of different plastic instruments tbh. Retails stores hated them, it was difficult to add new features as your fans aren't going top be paying £80-90 every year for a new guitar.
Just don't think anyone really wants to play light gun games that much anymore Ghost Squad on the Wii is good for some arcade shooting but it doesn't touch the arcade version!
As for Rock Band etc I think Harmonix are working on something new now that the court case has all been sorted but I wouldn't expect it to involve loads of different plastic instruments tbh. Retails stores hated them, it was difficult to add new features as your fans aren't going top be paying £80-90 every year for a new guitar.
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Probably went to the same place all my kit is that I brought in its 'boom' stage.. the far distant reaches of the loft.
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Wii remotes make suitable light guns
no they don't, they work, but the accuracy is terrible imo.
in this day and age the technology has to be accurate and smooth, what happens with games using the wii sensor, kinect and ps eye is that they compensate for lack of accuracy by making the game easier or adding in a "aim assist".
nobody wants easier games or aim assist in a light gun game, it defeats the whole point of using a light gun in the first place and accurate and realistic experience, in real life it isn't easy and you don't get the "hand of god" guiding you.
there is a huge demand for it, but unfortunately the costs involved are so great i imagine it would be impossible to make a profit or very hard to.
ideally game developers need Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft to come up with a better technology then make use of that.
A kinect 2.0 or eye 2.0 could potentially be the solution, if it's really good.
I have The Beatles Rock Band. The production value of that game is very good. I still have a quick blast now and again.
I think the bottom line is that they are just very basic games dressed up with music and flashing lights. There's only so much you can do with that before they all become the same.
Did anyone here think that they had re-made klax when you first saw the game
I think the bottom line is that they are just very basic games dressed up with music and flashing lights. There's only so much you can do with that before they all become the same.
Did anyone here think that they had re-made klax when you first saw the game
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I think they used up all the good songs and brought out to many games to soon. I also didn't like that they stop using a cover band and started using proper master's for the tracks, kinda ruined the vibe for me.
I thought they would make a comeback with the Playstation Move. I bought into it and bought Time Crisis 4, RE5, SOCOM and Killzone 3. Great games actually and i felt the accuracy was actually very good. Sadly it seems not to have taken off.