“The Fab Four did not set the video game world on fire with the launch of The Beatles Rock Band. The game was one of the most overhyped in game history, with a buildup that was similar to last year’s Spore, which sold millions of units but was still a disappointment.”— - Venture Beat. Unsurprising. They were the Hanson of the 60’s and only a handful of songs were good, but even those aren’t going to appeal to a wide audience today. Unlike, say, Pink Floyd which utterly and absolutely rocks. (Except for their took too many drugs and then were unfortunately allowed into a studio to reef on random bits of equipment tracks.) Uh oh! INTERNET ARGUMENT /never liked ‘em /not sorry
Roger Waters isn’t fit to lick John Lennon’s boots!
The problem with Spore was well documented: Will Wright wanted to make a sort of videogame version of Powers of Ten (his early presentations of the game were enthralling!), but EA basically wanted him to make a less complicated Sims-like game for which they could sell $30 expansion packs twice a year, and the company won out—the released game bore little resemblance to the earliest demos (which were like every science fiction movie ever made put together). Plus they used the universally disliked SecuRom rootkit, a no go with gamers.
Beatles Rock Band was pricey, incompatible with any other Rock Band music besides the Beatles (this week’s pay-for-additional-content: the Abbey Road album!), and seemingly unsure of its demographic. It shows how greedy these guys have gotten that they still sold over half a million of these things, outselling the competition (Guitar Hero 5), and yet that’s “disappointing.”
(The industry is doing its best to kill off PC gaming in the meantime. Modern Warfare 2 won’t support mods or dedicated servers, wtf? So the PC community won’t buy it, so the pointy heads can say “See? Nobody games on computers anymore” and they can squash the PC market while continuing to nickel-and-dime everybody on the consoles…)
