These are the reasons it did not resonate with you? They seem like trivial issues, particularly as the main reason people love the game is for the portrayal of the characters and their relationship through the game.
" The only women willing to do this are women you do not want to do this. Also, I want someone to justify to me why children watching softcore porn is bad, but this is not. I don't care one way or another but I hate how people flip around on shit like this. "
By children you mean 12 or under. At which point they shouldn't have any sexual thoughts or desires until they are a teenager, 13. "
Are you serious? I knew I liked boobies and wanted to have sex long before I had hair down there.
Where did this idea of buying more and more plastic come from? You could buy the game alone, not just bundled with hardware.
I don't think the decline can be attributed to "hardware burnout" alone, and that it is being burnt out on the game style as a whole. A lot of people have been playing "press 5 buttons in time" for quite a few years now, and they just don't find it as infectiously addictive as they did when it was new and fresh and exciting to learn.
I don't see how making it more complicated (real instruments) would reinvigorate the genre, simply because part of what makes the games great is that there is a much gentler learning curve in picking up a plastic instrument compared to a real one. Real instruments would also make the cost for entry considerably higher, and many people already found that rhythm games were simply too expensive to justify (full band kits and all that).
" Thank god Tony Hawk is taking a break too. Activision may be getting smarter after all! "
Let's be honest, Activision aren't stupid. Many of their decisions may seem stupid and insulting to us, a specific population, but in the sense of they are business out to make as much money as possible, they're golden.
I like to think that it was always destined to be a fad. Did Activisions mass release of games cause the fad to die quicker? Possibly. But speaking as someone who only really played the Harmonix games (started with GH2, played GH3 until RB released here, RB2, now RB3), looking back I can see that my passion for these games now has waned significantly from say 18 months ago. I still play RB3 and enjoy it, but for different reasons and very much in a different way to how I enjoyed Rock Band and Rock Band 2.
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