The Future of Competitive Rhythm Gaming

**vVvGaming** · Joined: 14 Nov 2009 Posts: 83 Location: Chicago, Illinois

Earlier today, an article was posted on the Chicago Tribune's Geek to Me blog written by vVv Gaming's own rhythm gamer vVv Paradise. The name of the article is "From Guitar Hero to Rock Band: The Future of Competitive Rhythm Gaming."

As that ScoreHero is one of the homes of competitive rhythm gaming, we from vVv would love to hear community member opinions. Is Paradise right with his views or is he incorrect?

**Garwood** · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 720

**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

Seeing as how they took the Score Duel out of Rock Band 3, I'd say the competitive aspect of things is looking better for Guitar Hero, at least on a one-on-one basis. ;)

But in all seriousness, there will always be the hardcore fans who compete til the end. But the same can be said with any game - there are still people who care about getting the high score on Tetris or PacMan or whatever, but to say it's the "in" thing everybody is doing at the arcade anymore, not really. The general public will care less about how high of a score you can get on Guitar Hero but the niche market competition will always be there, whether it lives on ScoreHero or the leaderboards.

No doubt I'll be playing plastic instruments until they break and play with future children and so on.

But I'd certainly agree that with the genre exhaustion and outrageous amount of content available, I'm much less motivated to go for FC's or compete on any songs since it'll literally get lost in the shuffle when 10 new songs come out the next week.

Not that I need recognition to make it worth doing, but I figure if a fan like me is overwhelmed by all of this the casual player doesn't want to touch rhythm game competition with a 10 foot pole.
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**massi4h** · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 536 Location: New Zealand

Well as long as WCG continues to pick GH, I'll keep playing it competitively I guess. But tbh they were never really too competitive in the first place. And at the utmost top level, it can really just come down to squeezing (you have the same path to go down every time you play a song, unlike say Quake 3 or something) and with offline lag even degrees of squeezing can be risky.

**Brockbfball1563** · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 3245 Location: Rochester, NH

^ That's what I was thinking of at first, but that's only one tournament. It would be awesome to get GH on the MLG circuit or something like that.
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**CamelTower** · Joined: 20 Oct 2008 Posts: 477 Location: Wisconsin

yeah, honestly it's quite surprising that Guitar Hero does not have an MLG circuit, especially since it's one of the most skill-based video games out there.

I think having sightread GH/RB tournaments would be really cool and allow for people to be competitive without getting so hung up on laggy activations and squeezing

Plus, what could be more motivating than training for publicity and money if there was MLG, and not just a high xbox live or scorehero ranking?
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