[I AM THE PROPHECY.]

Originally Posted by usamablackbelt

I mean, it's been a peeve of mine lately how largely ignorant the majority of Americans are. It kinda emphasizes how dependant pop culture is on mainstream, don't you think? Most people I know think Guitar Hero is a godsend and that it is absolutely perfect, but they don't know jack about what's going on in Japan. They too said IIDX was a GH rip-off.

Why should they know about video games that have never seen a release in their territory before except in limited circumstances? I wouldn't be surprised if a big motivator for why this is in the works is because GH was extremely successful, and you're being willfully ignorant if you try to disagree. There's nothing wrong with that; a lot of people will doubtless be pleased when they see that something similar to Guitar Hero is available and will pick it up since they've burned through GH over the last year.

And for fuck's sake, let the Beatmania shit go already. Every single preview I saw for Hero acknowledged that it was in effect a carbon-copy of the Guitar Freaks gameplay structure, with the previewer saying how happy they were about it since they really liked Guitar Freaks.

Honestly, I'd have to read over the patent again, but I'm pretty sure that Konami could find a loophole in the drumscape patent. Especially since drumscape isn't actually a game. It's more like Karaoke for drums, there are no note paterns or anything to follow, you just pick a song and hit a bunch of drumpads.

I think they might have patented the idea of having a scoring system to go along with it but I'm really not sure. There may well be a loophole in there somewhere but I've never heard of it yet. If they could find a way to release a DM game here I'd definitely be pleased.