Can it be true?
Is rock dead?
No more music for my guitar shaped controller to rock out to and feel like a rock god!?
Rock is dead. This a sad, sad notion too. I bought my Xbox 360 on the shear premise that they would have Guitar Hero II and it would be mine. I can't think of any other game genre that could make you feel like a rock star more than the Guitar Hero/Rock Band series. You, standing with your axe slung real low with you head bowed as the lights slowly raise up. BOOM! You hit your first notes and soon your wailing away trying to give it your best rude boy, rock star grin to the animated ladies in the first row. Am I Right!? Right!?
Well anyways this game made anybody who played it into some sort of rock star in their own mind and the dream got bigger with the inclusion of drums, bass and a mic. WHOA! We can start a band? Rock Band really up the ante on what a game could be and the collective dream you and your friends could have in a game that makes you push buttons.
Then the Plastic Guitar Wars started and all hell broke loose. Guitar Hero releases their set. Then release a new guitar controller that want you to buy because it's new and improved. Next is band wars, who can you find to play in your game (and then get sued for later). Beatles, Ac/Dc, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Metallica, Country, Metal and new song tracks. Over saturated and waining from poor sales the dream dies.
Cast aside for the bargain bins and clearance racks, it makes easier to swallow the price of a game with it's price in much more in tune for what it is, a few moments of pleasure ripping a solo. Van Halen, Aerosmith, AC/DC; all amongst my library of the fallen giant that has sunk into the shadows behind the stage. I still play for those reasons and still continue to try to find these moments of pleasure in dying genre. Five dollars here, ten dollars there. Still trying to find the Beatles, Metallica, and Warriors of Rock.
Here we are, the colored buttons no longer hold note in the gaming community except for the chosen few individuals who pop the disc in once in awhile to strum their rock heart strings and believe they are a star.
This post made me a bit sad, but then I remembered that on multiple occasion over the winter break I plugged in my drums and guitars and played Rock Band 2! Sadly, I don't have them here at college, but I do enjoy a good rock session, especially when all four slots of the band are filled.
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