Theory: Activision May Want To Publish Rock Band
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I've always liked Harmonix wayyyy more than I liked Activision. Where Harmonix is a music themed videogame company, with actual musicians employed there; Activision is a massive generic producer who gave the position of producing a music game to a SKATING game group. Yeah.
To me there has always been a 'soul' component missing from Activision. Instead of looking at their product and saying 'how can we improve our overall quality of game?' they say 'how can we make more money and possibly knock off Harmonix at the same time?'
Plus they completely ran the GH franchise into the ground. They even stated this in a random article on kotaku (I wish I could find it to link it here, sorry!). It went along the lines of 'We know we make excessive amounts of money from each game anyway, so we intend to release 11 games over the next year'. Had the games been improvements on their predecessors, sure, I'm all for it, but the ones they did release... weren't. In my opinion anyway.
Honestly, a lot of this is just opinion from me, some people like GH better than RB for whatever reason. Personally, I just liked to get the gme that was made my people who love music, rather than the peole who love money
To me there has always been a 'soul' component missing from Activision. Instead of looking at their product and saying 'how can we improve our overall quality of game?' they say 'how can we make more money and possibly knock off Harmonix at the same time?'
Plus they completely ran the GH franchise into the ground. They even stated this in a random article on kotaku (I wish I could find it to link it here, sorry!). It went along the lines of 'We know we make excessive amounts of money from each game anyway, so we intend to release 11 games over the next year'. Had the games been improvements on their predecessors, sure, I'm all for it, but the ones they did release... weren't. In my opinion anyway.
Honestly, a lot of this is just opinion from me, some people like GH better than RB for whatever reason. Personally, I just liked to get the gme that was made my people who love music, rather than the peole who love money
Guitar Hero Metallica and Rock Band the Beatles are my two favourite games in this genre. I think the way that the notes are mapped out in GH games makes you feel more like you're playing the song; RB seems to put more emphasis on "chord" playing.
On the flip side, the actual gameplay and layout of the game in Rock Band is just leagues better than GH. GH World Tour was just a nightmare interface to play songs in. Also, the poor availability of DLC on GH just spits in the consumer's face.
A game that is 25% GH and 75% RB would push my buttons. But I fear for this merger...
On the flip side, the actual gameplay and layout of the game in Rock Band is just leagues better than GH. GH World Tour was just a nightmare interface to play songs in. Also, the poor availability of DLC on GH just spits in the consumer's face.
A game that is 25% GH and 75% RB would push my buttons. But I fear for this merger...
Do not want. Activision pretty much ran the Guitar Hero franchise into the ground. Seriously didn't the last Guitar Hero game have Taylor Swift songs on it. If Harmonix wants to really get on top they should release a Rock Band disk with the Brutal Legend soundtrack on it. I'm pretty sure EA still has the licenses for all the songs.