Still play a tiny bit here and there.- Christmas Dan December 10, 2015 Stopped playing until the exports are actually implemented. is still a great party game, and the return of weekly DLC is a godsend.- Lawrence Chubacca December 10, bought RB4. RB4 is great fun in a group, but the price for new guitars is absurd.- Cody Lee Rhodes December 10, Yup. Some of the responses were There needs to be a "Sometimes." Choice. I conducted a highly unscientific Twitter poll on December 10th that asked, "If you bought Guitar Hero Live or Rock Band 4 at launch, are you still playing it? (Why / why not?)." I love having Rock Band 4 close at hand, even if I don't play it every day - and I'm not alone on this one. The drums don't quite fit in that closet with the guitars, but one day we'll clean out the boxes in there and the set will have a permanent spot. Most days, my Rock Band 4 instruments sit idly in the closet - except for the drum set, which migrates around the house, from a spot behind the couch, to an awkward corner of the bedroom, to the den, and eventually back to the living room. This is what the return of music games means to me. I'm thrilled to play these games, but just as I'm never going to play CAH solitaire-style, I'm disinclined to play Rock Band 4 or Guitar Hero Live as solo acts. I certainly was, for a long while.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy.īut now, I'm excited to break out a new music game the same way I'd happily throw Cards Against Humanity or The Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit on the table. Players were done with the rockstar genre. After an avalanche of Guitar Hero and Rock Band iterations, spin-offs and tie-ins over the years, it seemed that peripheral-based music games had finally, truly died. These stats aren't bad for two franchises that fizzled out in spectacular fashion around 2011. Guitar Hero Live, which launched two weeks later, came in sixth. When it released in October, Rock Band 4 earned the fourth-largest amount of money of any game on the market, according to the NPD. I enjoy playing music games exclusively with other people by my side, looking as ridiculous as I do.Ģ015 is the 10-year anniversary of Guitar Hero, the granddaddy of peripheral-based music games, and it signals the return of the genre after roughly four years of radio silence. I don't regularly boot up Rock Band 4 and bang on the drums for a few hours by myself, largely because I don't crave that experience when I'm alone. I don't play Rock Band 4 or Guitar Hero Live the same way I do League of Legends, Life is Strange or Fallout. In my house, peripheral-heavy music games are more like board games than video games. My boyfriend and I store the plastic guitars in that closet, and as I slide them out, brushing past jacket sleeves and cardboard boxes, even the puppies understand what's going on. As the heavy, wooden door slides open with a twist and a pop, my two tiny dogs run over, tails wagging, because opening that closet means one of three things: The pups are going for a walk, I need to sweep, or it's time to play Rock Band 4. The puppies always get excited when I open the hall closet.
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