State Of The Union Of Gaming: No More F@#$ing Plastic Toys!
Rock Band. Guitar Hero. Rock Revolution. All of them are great “music” games, that require more then just a normal controller to play the correct way. Ok maybe not so much that third one, but the time has come when we have ENOUGH fake plastic toys. Or has it? Kotaku has posted images of the new guitars for The Beatles: Rock Band. But I’m so tired of these stupid plastic toys. We have enough. Now lets look at some other, less popular peripherals.
Steel Battalion. The $200 controller that worked with ONE game. Good Job, Capcom. Way to think ahead. Did anyone actually BUY one of these? Please, comment here if you did. You will win my “Idiot of the century award.”
There….there are just no words for this. Aren’t we all happy that Nintendo stopped making things like this for their systems? Surely the wii doesn’t have an excess of useless peripherals no human being in their right mind would buy or use, right?
The GameCube Chainsaw Controller. Apparently made to commemorate the release of Resident Evil 4. I sort of want to play like, Super Monkey Ball with this. I’ll admit, I never even heard of this until I did some research (blournalism, at its finest folks) for this article. I think they would have been better off just giving out a little plastic chainsaw with the game, then making a fully functioning controller.
I believe three examples is enough. So I’ll get to my point. Why do developers feel the need to make these things for their game? It’s silly. I sincerely hope that sometime in the near future, game companies will decide that, we, as gamers, are more intelligent, and don’t need a choice of 15 fucking plastic guitars to play our favorite music games. Is anyone actually going to be stupid enough to spend money to get a “Beatles” Guitar? Lord know the price on those bad boys is gonna be jacked up higher then an Asian hooker during mardi gras.
So good people of Negative Gamer, do you agree with me? Are we as gamers done with the need for a new controller EVERY time a new Guitar Hero / Rock Band comes out?
At least guitar and stuff actually have a point. The worst offenders are crap like this: http://www.slipperybrick.com/2008/01/wii-sports-pack/
The chainsaw controller is sweet, it’s just a bitch to use. It’s so fucking uncomfortable.
Also I’ve only got one Guitar and even that’s in the way I’ve got nowhere to put the thing.
I want a Steel Battalion controller, and the game. You’re silly.
The thing with plastic instruments is that there is absolutely no need to upgrade to the new instruments when the new game comes out. All the old instruments work perfectly fine! The new Beatles instruments are for a) people who don’t have two guitars for a full band session (in which case they need one more), b) Beatles fans, and c) consumer whores who must own every instrument just for the hell of it. By no means is the regular consumer required to buy them. That’s as ridiculous as Apple requiring you to buy a new iPod every time they announce an upgrade.
Also, any mech fan worth their fandom should either own or want to own the Steel Battalion controller.
I want the Steel Batallion controller more than I want Wardrox next to me in the morning.
@OrangeGoblin:
I just don’t see why I need a plastic golf club stuck to the end of my wiimote to remind me that I’m playing golf on my Wii. Maybe one day I’ll have some kind of brain hemorrhage whilst playing, and I’ll thank the Gaming Gods that some nasty third party peripheral company produced a tennis attachment for me, so that I don’t have to strain my eyes to see what I’m playing on-screen.
Also Francais: I think Adam’s older brother used to have that Steel Batallion game w/controller.