Games Are Fun was in attendance at this year's Austin Game Developers Conference, and caught up with Vicarious design manager Adrian Earle, who spilled the beans on Vicarious's port of the acclaimed music franchise. In addition to the horrible decision to build a peripheral for a portable device, Vicarious plans on leaving much of the game's visuals as-is, making them two-for-two in a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality that may prove problematic when moving an established console title to an entirely new platform.
We'll give Vicarious Visions the benefit of the doubt, and assume the decision to ignore the touch screen was to avoid comparisons to Jam Sessions. Still, here's hoping Vicarious will let us rock out and still fit the darn thing in our pocket.
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Another complaint I would have is that the DS speakers SUCK... BAD! How can you here it.
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Anyway, Jam Sessions is in no way as fun as Guitar Hero, it's not even in the same realm, or universe. It's fun though, but my GOD am I sick to death of the "real" guitar versus guitar hero BULLSHIT.
I know what you mean. I suppose you play real guitar, just like me.
They dont know what you are talking about.
"Real" guitar is NOT for everyone, I did not enjoy learning to play the guitar which is why I quit. I had neither the time nor the desire to become good. Guitar hero is fun, I could beat expert after two short weeks. There is no comparison.
To elmersglue: After you went into more detail there you actually have a great idea. That's probably what Jam Sessions should have been. There could even be harder difficulties that combine jam sessions with your idea. For example you would have all the strings and then also 5 "fret" buttons (d-pad and the left bumper)yes it would be harder than hell, but thats what a super hard/expert mode is for.
However it's no reason to not make a guitar hero game.
How would one manage to play multiple chords at the same time through the touchscreen? I'd rather have the true GH experience than some overly simplified, 'taiko drum master DS' clone.. ever played it? WAY too easy, even on max. difficulty.
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I need one of those.
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Awesome
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Guitar Hero, though, needs no such realism---it's a straight-up fantasy fulfillment. I can't say I have any idea how you'd make a peripheral that makes it all work, but maybe the developers will prove smarter than me on the subject...
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Instead of the Guitar peripheral plugging into the DS, DS goes into the guitar controller.
That'd make sense. Watch your fingers and what you're supposed to be doing.
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^mouthful. Sometimes video games dont help learning things. All you need is some time and patience. DS suks, period. Although, i will give them a chance with this, I think that it isnt portable anymore when i set it on the table, and pull out my 2 and a half foot.... guitar controller from my back pocket and start jamming on the busride to school. its absolutley not the kind of thing we need, everyone will get one, and people will be bumping into everyone, and if someone lit on fire, we wouldnt be able to stop them because theyd be playing guitar hero and it would kill us all in a horrible fire. So, guitar hero for the ds will basically kill everyone. But thats what they said about cynide... ;)
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