Rock Band 4 gameplay recently added gigs that was said to test friendships. This was because of the kind of elements added to the game, which are simple yet strong features labelled as "Gigs."On the other hand, Harmonix CEO revealed that they might face instrument shortages due to unanticipated high demands from gamers.
According to recent news published online, Harmonix mentioned through lead designer Chris Foster that the new structure added for Rock Band 4 gameplay will "capture the feeling of a live performance." Because of this, it will add extra layers of fun, enthralling experience for the gamers that come along with some tensions between them. Thus, these gigs that they have included for this anticipated music game will make some tests of the "stability" of everyone's friendships, they said.
Foster added that this act of live music performance is not completely different from the previous Rock Band game installments, however, it does have some upgraded elements to improve the music gaming to its optimal level. For him, this addition is like a "ebb and flow of the arc of a performance" to the listed successive songs.
Since the game will be more like of a live or real band performance, there will also be crowd cheering over each performance and at the same time there will be a much more noticeable sense of momentum and pacing to expect from the game itself.
This was actually one of the main points that Harmonix, the game developing team behind Rock Band game series, wanted to target - capturing the "sense of a gig" while gathering different emotional experiences all throughout the music gaming with Rock Band 4 framework.
In order to achieve this goal for the game, they divided the song lists into set breaks. This means that the gig will involve 4 songs in two rows with some set breaks in between each of the batched songs. This is something new to look forward to with the upcoming Rock Band since this feature was not yet included in the previous series that they have developed so far.
Foster also mentioned about the player as a vocalist. The mechanics will be more of a "stage platter performance" where it was compared to adding LARPing to the Rock Band experience wherein role-playing will be done with a different event. He cited that the gamer should be able to show "in the first place inside the campaign" where the kind of narrative experience will be delivered.
In contrast, there were reports saying that the game instruments might suffer from several shortages because of the high demands from the gamers. This was confirmed by Harmonix CEO Steve Janiak through an interview. This event was not really expected from the users thus they were not able to anticipate the need to produce more Rock Band 4 instruments for them. Because of this event, he advised gamers to have these instruments pre-ordered to guarantee the said hardware required for the game.
With these being said, the Rock Band 4 game design is much more competitive than those game series produced by Harmonix. Several interesting additions were already made aside from cool songs enlisted and the "gig" structure introduced to the players. Thus, the development team assured that every gamer will not surely miss every enthralling opportunity to have this kind of fun that has never been made before with Rock Band 4 PS4, Xbox One gameplay.
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