Comments on: The Missing Use Of Music Games

By: wedgehog

wedgehog — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:58:22 +0000

This is sort of what Mark one of the co-founders of Media Molecule originally imagined they would make.

By: colmshan1990

colmshan1990 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:20:26 +0000

I admit, I have their Songs About Jane album!

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:48:56 +0000

Me too!

It’s ok, you’re not alone, I like them too.

By: theshockwave

theshockwave — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:37:25 +0000

As you said in the article this would be a win-win-win situation. More cash for developers, less expensive for buyers and huge publicity for bands. Wahey!

By: taisan1time

taisan1time — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:57:54 +0000

Whatever happened to the “music” franchise? I remember when i couldn’t afford software like cubase or protools I used music 2000 to make tunes.

That was on ps1/ps2 and it worked pretty well. _ would think with the power of the ps3 and the usb connectivity you could create an interface to record live instruments through something like line 6’s pods.

any musician will tell you the price of equipement is huge and if harmonix created an interface like that, that was (relatively) affordable i think a lot of potential artists would snap it up.

I know i would anyway

By: LivedeviL

LivedeviL — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:38:18 +0000

Singstar does have video with it too though, I’m guessing the licence costs more for that. Totally agree with the discount point I would def be buying more if that happened

By: LivedeviL

LivedeviL — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:33:37 +0000

I’d probably hazard at the price. And you have to bare in mind peoples tastes with music vary but with RE5 wasn’t it arguably extra of the same but multiplayer (I don’t have RE5 so not sure)

By: kevatron400

kevatron400 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:01:03 +0000

I’m going to pretend I didn’t read that so we can carry on on speaking terms.

By: jonny_bolton

jonny_bolton — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:15:51 +0000

I think the pricing is all wrong with these games. I’m going mainly on Singstar here but the £1 a song pricing certainly isn’t the cheapest. And it becomes more annoying when you buy it when you’re drunk on an impuseknowing full well you’ll rarely sing it. Even at just half the price Sony would be more likely to generate more than double the sales.
Or how about having it work like the highstreet? Have sales, make songs that have been on the store for ages available at cheaper prices? Or better yet, rather than just restricting the user to only discounts on packs, have so that when 5 songs are in the basket there is the same discount as with ordinary packs?

By: colmshan1990

colmshan1990 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:01:23 +0000

I think xdarkmagician stumbled upon an interesting point. Games like this offer DLC on release day. Why is there not the same level of fuss raised about this as there is for things like Resident Evil 5’s versus mode, which many claimed should be included on disc?

By: Snebjnr

Snebjnr — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:56:28 +0000

Hey this here is a good point! lol
the companies should be doing more to bring more bands into the games
Every week I check GH and see that nothing decent has been added, I look at RB, there is lots a great stuff (Kinda makes me wish I got Rock Band..but anyway)

More lesser bands need to be promoted aswell
Good one DJ

By: DarthSharkey

DarthSharkey — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:55:42 +0000

I would be all for new and upcoming bands spreading their music to us via dlc for games. It would benefit us (the users) of these games as we would have extra songs and as you said, we would impulse buy.
This would help unsigned / just signed bands enormously, just look at the Artic Monkeys, found on youtube and snapped up.

By: djhsecondnature

djhsecondnature — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:40:40 +0000

I disagree completely. Guitar Hero I and II were fantastic and had no DLC available to them. I don’t get bored of the content that is provided any more than I do playing with this seasons squads in Fifa. If they will give me the option to expand my library then by all means I intend to do so if I think the price is right. The reason why Rock Band and Guitar Hero are loved so much is for their simplicity; people don’t want RPG elements or things to over complicate a simple fun time. The Guitar Hero Music Creator is fantastic but has fallen quite flat as it is so hard to use and the end result is not fantastic.

By: xdarkmagician

xdarkmagician — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:33:34 +0000

It’s a good idea, but you’re not addressing the true issue, why do we get bored with these songs so quickly? If the makers would only include something more then a game of musical simon says maybe we wouldn’t have to fill the empty void with new DLC every week. Lets face it, a game that requires fresh weekly content is broken. Why not add in depth RPG elements, or randomized color/button selection,or something. Because millions of songs get downloaded every week at 2$ a pop that’s why, and that adds up to one of the most profitable game franchise to date, as long as they’re making money they’re going to give us the same games with the same DLC options, and like addicts we’ll buy them, whatever the song for whatever the price. They even offer DLC on the original games release date, because they know we’ll buy it. If they make the songs cheaper we’ll only buy more, if they’re free we’ll download till our hard drive is full. It’s a good idea to further a broken system.

By: djhsecondnature

djhsecondnature — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:19:49 +0000

I am a man of many tastes.

By: Manorhowze

Manorhowze — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:09:38 +0000

I like your line of thought with this. It would encourage more sales and promote lesser known bands or artists.

By: LiquescentShadow

LiquescentShadow — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:07:14 +0000

What’s wrong with Maroon 5?

By: LiquescentShadow

LiquescentShadow — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:06:41 +0000

Sounds like something that would really catch on. I’d definitely use a service like this.

By: rht992

rht992 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:02:03 +0000

dude you like maroon 5? thats bad like really bad but a least your ideas cool

By: radiobridge

radiobridge — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:34:56 +0000

Very good point,for unsigned bands it would help get their music noticed. For example if your songs converted for a free play and if you like you buy.We the rock god guitarists can also rate the song etc for others hence a weekly chart. Wouldn’t surprise me if some of the bigger bands haven’t thought of away to really push their songs on all these games,with the likes of Radiohead and NIN finding new ways to release music how about brand new material just for these games.pay what you want scheme would be nice!