OK, so for everyone out there who complains and say's they're whoring, who the f@(& cares? Are you being forced to buy it? Are you being forced to play it? I mean seriously what else do you expect a popular video game franchise to do?
If your brand sells, guess what, you continue to sell under that brand, you'd be an idiot not to! I can clearly see where Harmonix is coming from here, I have certainly heard lots of comments about Rock Band's character models, etc. not being suitiable for younger kids, and to a lesser extent Guitar Hero. If parents see a lego branded music game, it's a guaranteed sell, they're not going to question, is this kid friendly? Because it has lego on the box, it's like a guarantee saying it's family safe.
And I'd say Guitar Hero still deserves some garabge thrown at them in terms of the quality they churn out, but not because they are continuing to make Guitar Hero games. They deserve criticism because they are just repackaged the same engine with different songs over and over-- not because they are releasing games.
I'd say Rock Band deserves credit though because the games they are releasing this year, Rock Band Beatles is a very different experience then straight Rock Band, and I'm sure Lego Rock Band will have plenty of features in it that are quite a different experience from that of other Rock Band titles. And even Rock Band Unplugged is a very different experience, unlike Guitar Hero On Tour, which is just trying to cram the Guitar Hero experience onto DS.
Granted I'm a Rock Band fanboy, but seriously neither company deserves flack for releasing products. Would you rather have them just sit on their asses and never release anything? I mean come on! How else do you expect game companies to make money? I really don't get why people get all pissy off of something as stupid as this. I mean, where's the outrage when Mountain Dew releases a new flavor of Mountain Dew?
You guys really need to grow up, and take some basic econ 101 lessons. If this stuff bothers you so much, then DONT BUY THE FREAKIN GAME, or even better, if you think all of this stuff is so tired and worn out, go out and start your own damn company and develop your own damn game.
Good god. Seriously, if you apply your logic to everything else, every time a Mario, Zelda, Madden, Call of Duty, Halo, Gears of War, God of War, Killzone, Metal Gear, Madden, NCAA, Final Fantasy, Metroid, Mass Effect, Star Wars, Unreal, Half-Life, game comes out, you all should be throwing fits and bitching till kingdom come.
Shut the f&ck up and let companies do what they do best, develop games, and if it ends up sucking in your opinion, don't buy it and move on.
Now bring on the FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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