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10/09/09
In my opinion, this series just belongs on the PC.
10/09/09
Starcraft, on the other hand, is a different beast. I pray that it NEVER gets ported to any kind of touch-based devices, EVER.
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Still, I might have to snag the wife's iPhone to try this out when it comes out.
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When you have competing games giving songs for free or a dollar per song... In the case of TTR a dollar buys you 2 songs.
I think that touch arcade said the demo had a pack of 2 songs for a dollar for download.
10/09/09
I might be missing something.. (i've never once played or seen a GH, RB game being played)
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I need to see the price to judge, though. I presume 10 bucks the game, 1 buck for each DLC.
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90% of the time, I'm right.
10/08/09
What's my point? DON'T fuck this up, Harmonix... develop something worthy, and put some effort in it, since you are not entering a completly inmature market here. The iPhone may lack many quality games in some genres, but rythm games have already tons of competition.
Edit: Though i'm not sure if there's a game that let's you play vocals yet... still it sounds like Band Hero for DS and seems a bit odd...
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And TTR still has lots of ways ahead. The third version is pretty great, but still lacks modes.
@ mclifford82: Still, TTR3 is a 1 dollar game with more than 100 free songs AND 1 extra free song a week besides the paid DLC. It is still a great deal... if not, there's still TTR2 with like 180 free songs.
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It's not like Rock Band is nowadays an thoroughly original concept (even though Harmonix basically invented the modern Western rhythm games) or an "artistic vision" such as something as what, for example, Patapon (now that we have rhythm games as a topic) was. And even it got a sequel since it worked.
I understand your opinion on them being sellouts but the games _work_ and you don't have to buy them.
Surely Harmonix is becoming more and more sellout but hey, at least the games have been good for the time being - RB: Beatles and Unplugged have both been touted as good games and RB1 and 2 are very good, I can confirm that based on my own experience. GH4 on the other hand sucked.
Just my two cents but if you make the same game on many platforms you are immediately insulted as a sellout and it begins to get on my nerves a bit. : /
10/08/09
Course, I don't play any instrument, but then I don't play games where I play fake instruments either.
I was really just hoping that maybe, a few years down the road, Harmonix or whoever makes GH will just come out with some controllers that actually do teach you how to play the guitar at the same time you play the game.
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Also, I hate so sound like a Harmonix fanboy but notice that it's EA Mobile making the announcement not Harmonix. As great as EA has been to Harmonix in getting Rock Band developed, this, unfortunately is the cost of business.
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If anything Lego Rock Band is a better example of such practices, but allowing us to import all of the Lego Rock Band songs into Rock Band 1/2 makes it feel much more legit instead of a cash grab.
09/01/09
Of course, I'm ignoring all the GH branded rubbish you see everywhere, just the games, just the games. And all these ones are a step in that direction of EA realising how much of a Cash Cow RB can be. Harmonix jumping ship after being bought was just delaying the inevitable.
But hey, not that it matters to me. I'm one of the few people in the world who both greatly enjoy Rock Band and Guitar Hero. I'm just sick of pointless elitist bashing from either side against the other.
09/01/09
Guitar Hero has a new DS game every six months &; three or four different Mobile games.
At least each of the portable Rock Band games are all on different platforms (One on PSP, One on DS & One on Mobile).
And in terms of Console releases, Rock Band has two (I don't count the track packs since all of those songs are or will be available as DLC), compared to Activision's five (six if you're one of the people that counts DJ Hero).
You can argue as to if EA/MTV/Harmonix are whoring out their game or not (personally I don't think they've reached that point yet) but they're nowhere near as bad as Activision.
09/01/09
The console franchise, a Frequency/Amplitude type game with the Rock Band name, and now a mobile title that's basically Phase with the RB label.
If you add up all of the games in the RB franchise to date I still don't even think you get to half of what's come out for the Hero franchise this year.
09/01/09
Whereas Band Hero (which appears to be GH's answer to LEGO) is just GH5 with a different setlist.
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I have no qualms about rhythm games on the go, but I just can't wrap my head around this.
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