So Rock Band brought the music party game genre to a new level when it added drums and a microphone to complement the guitar scene. What it did best, however, was make subtle improvements on the existing crop of guitar controllers, but leave the general mechanics in place. Apparently, Guitar Hero IV will jump on the drum ‘n mic bandwagon with Guitar Hero IV, which is all well and good, but the game will be designed to work with a different drum layout, in which instead of four simple drums, Guitar Hero IV will go with three, plus two elevated cymbals. We’re guessing that the cymbals are both tied to the same note, else the Guitar Hero IV set would be adding an additional drum, and that would make people very unhappy, given that the game would not be backwards compatible with Rock Band’s drum set.
Things are starting to go a bit far; the plastic controllers shipping with each game variant are piling up in living and storage rooms across the country, creating a major surplus of unused plastic. That’s not just costly and not green, but overall a waste of space. Thus, here’s a call for some standardization of these kinds of peripherals: let’s come up with a standard that is is ideally based on what people have already been using, and make improvements to the gear’s quality, not drastic layout and functionality changes. If you’re going to change anything about the drums, make them less noisy.
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Good news, according to Activision the new drum kit is supposed to be significantly quieter.