Rock Band. Guitar Hero. Why They Are Doomed.

Re:Rock Band. Guitar Hero. Why They Are Doomed. by jdrock on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @12:32PM (#787488)

I've always felt there is a huge, untapped gold mine waiting in these games: the ability to upload your own songs and have them automatically converted to playable tracks in the game.

Of course, this relies on two things:

1. Automatic conversion actually being feasible.

2. Record labels allowing this to happen.

Somehow 1. seems more solvable than 2.

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Re:Rock Band. Guitar Hero. Why They Are Doomed. by arjunlall on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @02:11PM (#787715)

Its been done: http://www.jamlegend.com

The gameplay of auto generated tracks is different from guitar games, but its fun in its own way.

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Re:Rock Band. Guitar Hero. Why They Are Doomed. by warp on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @01:16PM (#787593)

I think you heavily underestimate the skill and creativity involved in creating a note-chart which is fun to play.

1. may be solvable, but you'll end up with something vastly different from the note-charts we have today. A bit like the difference between randomly generated dungeons in Nethack (or Pokemon Mystery Dungeon :) and a regular RPG.

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Re:Rock Band. Guitar Hero. Why They Are Doomed. by jdrock on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @02:39PM (#787766)

Not underestimating at all. But it seems like it could be solved. Maybe a hybrid auto/manual tweaking approach is the answer? Or perhaps users could requests songs be converted by the creative team and/or pay for individual tracks? I'm not interested in buying song-packs, but I'd pay $1 for any given song.

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Re:Rock Band. Guitar Hero. Why They Are Doomed. by sp332 on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @12:49PM (#787540)

Audiosurf! http://www.audio-surf.com/

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