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Why Rock Band and Guitar Hero need to change

January 11, 2011 in Blog comments 2

A look at how the Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises need to change in order to keep up with the market and make their games worthy of purchase in the future

With more sequels to both the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchise that we can shake a rusty spoon at, its time to take a long, hard look at these games and see where they are lacking. Both franchises are prone to releasing sequels which don’t introduce enough new features in them, but Guitar Hero in particular seems to churn out new games more often than most. Music games are becoming more and more like the FIFA music game, with a new iteration having to be released every year for seemingly little reason.
Matthew via mshurst.co.uk »
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    reaver11 Jan 11, 11
    A shrewd and pathetic article that's full of contradictions. It's basically saying exactly what HMX is doing with it's RB franchise, but instead of introducing new features through a disc, they want them to release them through DLC. Well, don't you think they would have done something like that if they could have? The fact that RB3 DLC doesn't work with previous installments goes to show why they can't do that. And another thing, not everyone buys DLC. Not everyone who buys DLC buys a lot. They need disc based games to collect some kind of substantial revenue. This goes for Activision too.

    RB3 introduced enough features to spark interest in the genre again. What did GH6 bring? A man-bear-pig. If anything, the article should dissect what needs to change with GH because HMX has been the one innovating while Activision is just riding off the name HMX invented; no innovation whatsoever.
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    longview01 Jan 13, 11
    I love the way you say these games need to change then moan about the way Rock Band did change.....great work!

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