Isn't the real issue with the lackluster soundtrack that we're, kinda, slowly running out of good, classic rock songs? Those first games on the previous gen had a lot of DLC for them and if you end up buying this to play the old songs, doesn't that essentially just make this a HD Remaster?
How about this one Harmonix: Synth Band.
Dig out the keyboard controller and tap along to a soundtrack comprised of 80's classics as well as a bunch of neo-80's synthhwave hits from the likes of Tesla Boy, Lazerhawk, Apollo Zapp and Kavinsky. We live in the year of Back to the Future II and 80's nostalgia is at it's peak. I cannot fathom for the life of me why Activision didn't think to get in on it.
Yeah I would agree with this to an extent. Rock music as an art form is no longer the cultural force it was, sadly. Even though there are really good bands out there*, they don't have the instant recognition which works well for a game like this.
I would love another DJ Hero for that matter, would have to be more fully featured, though, the first two games were a little too simple. Some way to create your own mixes or something.
*If Ghost (BC) were around 20-30 years ago they'd be legends, but the entire genre is a niche these days.
Price cuts had already been announced in all of Asia and the UK. Mainland Europe is PlayStation's strongest territory so there is less pressure to lower the price there. Maybe they'll wait for Paris Games Week for an announcement?
Yes this is just bringing it into line with the price cut of the same bundle here in the UK... except even that cut only took it down to US$460. Sucks.
There's a kind of nostalgia here for me in that the major publishers rarely put out something this terrible any more. Conceptually good but broken games, sure, lots of those, but not games which are just completely dire. In the old days you had companies who constantly put out dreck (THQ during most of the 90s for example), now that is the preserve of the likes of digital homicide.
It has 33% on metacritic (and that is inflated because the lowest a GB score can go on there is 20%, and very few outlets have reviewed it).
This game seems more 'elaborate money extracting machine' than game. Which would be less bothersome if it was free rather than really bloody expensive.
I have a faint and forlorn hope that we don't see the whole AAA part of the game industry deciding to make all their games cynical empty grindfests because Destiny is a success, but of course they will.
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