| L.C.E.C. said: I kind of do agree with the lack of new Rock Band Features, but as I said before, GH: Aerosmith is only Fan-service. It doesn't really add features that would matter to the average consumer, but would matter to the hardcore Aerosmith fan. Would regular GH players want to play as Joe Perry and have Steven Tyler as the Singer? No. They wouldn't give a damn about it. They would only want the songs, which might or might not come in the form of DLC for future games (most likely not). But would the Hard-core-Aero-fans care? Hell yeah. The new character models would be important, along with the "exclusive Aerosmith storyline". The new RB custom character features are slightly important, but it's directed to the main audience, not as fanservice. You can't compare a full-blown sequel to a Fan-service-spin-off. |
For the last time the whole reason the GH:Aerosmith and GH:Metallica games were brought up was in response to Valkyria's claim that RB didn't "need a sequel" as in his opinion RB2 wasn't adding anything new to the RB1 formula. My response to that was to bring up the existence of these games which add nothing to the formula and yet cost the same as RB2 therefore RB2 is nomore of a "ripoff" than the spin-off games. To me it just seemed like Valkyria has an axe to grind with Harmonix over the Wii port and has decided to bash RB as a whole because of it.
And it's pretty ridiculous to say you can't compare a sequel to a spin-off. The cost of RB2 = The cost of GH:Aerosmith. So why does GH:Aerosmith come with 41 songs while RB2 comes with 80 and yet RB2 is being considered a ripoff? You can argue about the Aerosmith fan service and how it could increase the value to Aerosmith fans but i'm sure there are fans of songs in Rock Band that are hyped for that game due to the announced soundtrack.
| L.C.E.C. said: I never said I agreed that Harmonix was "being greedy and exploiting the fans for money" completely, but everyone else except for XBOX 360 owners suffer. Wii didn't get ANY effort, and probably won't again. Meanwhile, PS3/2, and/or Wii won't get the game until X months after the game is already out. Now, with The Wii version of RB, and 360's timed exclusivity, tell me they're not after a quick buck. |
Go back and read my post. I said that you can't call out Harmonix for being greedy while praising GH. Obviously I don't think Harmonix is a not-for-profit charitable organization. They're definitely after a quick buck and when MS offered it for time exclusivity they accepted. I'm pissed since I want to buy RB2 as a PS3 owner but I can understand it and since it's seemingly going to be less than a 3 month delay I can wait. I'll discuss the Wii port situation in the next paragraph.
| L.C.E.C. said: Not to mention, the whole DLC pick-what-you-want-over-having-to-buy-all-the-songs argument doesn't really work out in Harmonix's favor with Rock Band: Track Pack Volume 1, when they could've given the Wii version DLC instead of making them buy another whole disc set. |
Ok so regarding the whole Wii port. It sucked. Bottom line. But in the second quote of yours you were implying that that the Wii port shows a lack of effort and therefore meant Harmonix only did it as a quick cash-in. All reports are that DLC is a massive goldmine for Harmonix and EA with some songs supposedly selling more on RB than iTunes so there is no way that I can see them leaving it out if they had any alternative. I feel the fact that they knowingly are going to lose money by not offering the microtransactions to the biggest userbase of this generation proves the crappy Wii port wasn't entirely their fault. Like I said before the no online play is BS and can't be excused since GH3 had it.
But as to the DLC I truly do believe Harmonix wanted it on the Wii but couldn't due to Nintendo's lack of a storage solution. You can bring up GH:WT all you want but GH3 last year didn't have DLC either so it's more likely that the only reason we finally get DLC on the Wii is because Nintendo is ready to announce their storage solution at E3 and let Vicarious Visions (Wii devs for GH) know about it so they could announce it to build up hype now. RB2 for the Wii hasn't been talked about at all and i'd bet good money that they will take advantage of whatever Nintendo provides to offer DLC.
