The Beatles:Rock Band

^ Trust me, I'm still a kid and I agree with you 100%. Personally, I think these kinds of games are playing on people's lack of motivation to go and accomplish something 'for real', and we have all daydreamed of being a rock star at one point or another, so from a marketing standpoint, it makes total sense.

But then again, pressing buttons on a toy guitar doesn't pay the bills or give you much real sense of accomplishment, does it?

Abstrakt wrote: I'm not against kids listening to the Beatles! They will listen to Beatles because they are in a video game, and not because... whatever... The point is that i don't like it

Don't worry, I know what you meant.

I hate Guitar Hero, Rock Band, all that stuff. I think it's lame. If kinds want to play an instrument, they need to really learn to play, not play at being something they aren't. That just keeps them in the attitude of 'the dreamer', and not an attitude that pushes them forward.

Now . . . having said that, it's just my own personal opinion, and I know a lot of guys like the idea of a game such as this, because they think it will motivate more kids to actually pick up a real guitar. Personally, I think it's going to have the opposite effect, but whatever. The point is, it's here, it's not going away anytime soon, and if making a Beatles game out of it is what it takes to bring even more kids into our world, then by God, I'm going to  jump for joy over it, no matter how against the concept itself I may be.

There were Beatles dolls, lunchboxes, notebooks, etc., etc., etc., etc.,etc., etc., back in the day.  ( I had the lunchbox complete with thermos in 1968 in the 4th grade)  Hell, they even had a Saturday morning cartoon.  The Beatles were the basic model for the Gene Simmons mode of merchandising.  I think if they had stayed together and were still around as a a commercial entity it would have happened sooner and on a much larger scale than it already has.  The new Beatles album would be available exclusively at Wall-e-mart just like all the rest.  Poor Gene, out flanked by the Pre-Fab 4 once again.  Look for the Kiss version next year.

Edited by Trademark - September 03 2009 at 11:19

To me it's just more Beatles merchandise and if anyone deserves a video game it's them.

Keppa4v wrote: ...with a PA career of 35 posts, so he obviously uses the internet in moderation, not in sick amounts.

lol...watch out..dude. I am catching up...

Will there be a one handed drum setting?

Says tintedweed on an INTERNET forum...

TheProgtologist wrote: I turned my daughter (she's 18 now)on to them a few years ago.She fell in love with them and bands she used to like such as Green Day,Blink 182 and so forth fell by the wayside.   Now she listens to stuff like The Beatles,The Doors,Queen,Led Zeppelin,The Who,Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy.   That's not a bad thing at all.

Not at all. She's got better taste in music now. 

I turned my daughter (she's 18 now)on to them a few years ago.She fell in love with them and bands she used to like such as Green Day,Blink 182 and so forth fell by the wayside.

That's fine. Kids will play the game, parents will love it too.Why not?