Overheard@E3: Analysts like Rock Band

oh.

This game high cost included, will sell.

I can imagine many a drunk party where this game will entertain (mainly friends making complete asses out of themselves) for hours on end.

I think Harmonix has another winner on it's hand.

It would be cool if some sort of nano bomb would kill all analysts.

I'm sure as hell interested in it (even at the prices people have been estimating), even moreso after reading they'll be doing FULL ALBUMS. This has been my dream since I first played Guitar Hero. Boston's self-titled debut would be amazing, I really hope they wind up doing it.

I just don't see how the drumset is going to sell well. Less people want to play the drums, they will be expensive, and they take up space. Just get real drums.

My Analysis (based only on this screenshot) :

In the next six months, gamers will grow so completely sick of developers' overuse of bloom, like cel-shading before it, that we will cease to see for almost a year. Only then will it return and be used in a moderately sane facility, like cel-shading is now.

So sayest the me.

Analyst liked the PS3 chances against the Wii too. Screw Analysts.

Of course analysts like Rock Band. What's not to like?

"However, real drums would be more expensive, not teach you how to play"

Wait, so playing real drums doesn't teach you how to play real drums? That's a new one...

Playing almost anything in rhythm - whether it's a fake drum set and a pair of drumsticks or a couple of frisbees on a table with some #2 pencils - will teach you how to play real drums to some extent. Playing a basic beat is not that hard; it's staying in perfect rhythm that's hard. So this comment from Harmonix is really not very extraordinary. But obviously, nothing beats playing real drums to learn to play drums (like any other instrument), so I am not sure what you were getting at in your comment above.

Im iffy on the music selection. I know it's "Rock" band but for karaoke my music taste is not quite the same. Also, I find myself not recognizing a lot of the songs in the last few aka guitar hero 2, 80's, what's been announced for rock band so far etc.

Its funny that people that will buy this game could buy a Nintendo Wii at the same cost!! This game will be very expensive to buy and its not going to sell alot of units.

Damn, a little backlash to my knocking the drumset. I still don't think that many people are going to want to purchase that drumset. Maybe it collapses into something more manageable.

Also, with the guitar, you are getting a way easier fake instrument that allows you to hit notes as fast as a real guitarist. With that drumkit, you are hitting round pads with drumsticks to a beat. How the fuck would that be easier/harder/different than doing it in real life?

I don't like it. Try to keep your panties in a bunch.

Well to each his own, personally I have never been as excited about a game in a LONG time, and I have gamed for a loooong time. If the PS3 had me a quarter of this excited I would have bought two of them by now.

I love it when joystiq overhears stuff. Eavesdropping rules!