I stopped throwing Rock Band parties after my last one, when I looked around during one song and realized I was the only one left playing. Getting four people to pick up the plastic instruments was easy.
But isn't the magic gone? When Rock Band was new, I and two other friends frequently threw Rock Band parties, and they were well attended. Now, most of this is based on my own personal observations and thus should be taken with a grain of salt. It's easy to blame the glut for the death of the fad, but, even if music games had been released at a reasonable pace, the thing was doomed to collapse. The Beatles game will goose the genre a little, but even new releases with serious, broad appeal (Led Zeppelin? Pink Floyd?) will only slow the decay.īut, here's the thing.
