Rock Band 3? Flop? The death of a genre?

[Killiana1a]

greenmedic88 said:

Killiana1a said:

You think Rock Band 3 flopped, then just wait until Power Gig: Rise of the Sixstring comes out. Power Gig was created for the music industry and is going to completely, effing tank because no one besides life long guitar players will be able to play the tracks.

For God's sake, Power Gig has Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Couldn't Stand the Weather" as a track. Just imagine how your Guitar Hero player who blasted through "Texas Flood" on expert will react to having to bend actual strings on an actual guitar. He/she will effing hate it and may not get through a quarter of the game before selling it back to GameStop.

Furthermore, here is a preview criticizing Power Gig, mainly for not teaching you how to play before forcing Eric Clapton's "Layla" upon you:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2010/11/power-gig-comes-with-real-guitar-horrid-gameplay.ars

Power Gig may end up being another "Rock Revolution" in terms of sales although that particular game was just sub-par on all levels.

The play list is pretty important too. Sounds like Power Gig has a "guitar player's" play list which kind of limits the audience, but who knows? Maybe there are more aspiring guitarists out there who want to use a video game tutor to learn technical songs than some would imagine.

And the guitar controller looks a lot like a junior guitar. At least the Rock Band guitar is a Squire Stratocaster, not that I'd buy a Squire for regular guitar playing, but it's a "real" guitar at least. I'd just rather put the $270 asking price towards a better guitar.

Guitar Rising (which appears to be stillborn) let players use any electric guitar they had to play the game. That would have been ideal.

My bad, I do not own a game of the music genre. I did own PaRappa the Rapper, but nothing since. I took "Rock Revolution" as little kids aspiring to become the next Jimi Hendrix because the video game music genere has reach a level of maturity where games can teach them how to play Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) note by note.

From the feedback, Power Gig is going to be interesting to watch eventhough it is gimmicky with no note-for-note playing.