In a recent interview with The Seattle Times, Red Octane co-founder Kai Huang touched on a few interesting points including the Kurt Cobain controversy, Project Natal, and more crazy music game types. Future Music Games:“We're really just at the beginning of music games. What we love and what we're constantly looking at is, how do you expose people to new music and new instruments? In the U.S., country music is obviously very popular. Globally, classical music has always been very interesting. Latin music — there are just so many different genres of music and instruments that haven't been tapped into yet.”Kurt Cobain:“We can't comment specifically because there's litigation going on, but at a general level we've been working with artists for the last four years with Guitar Hero. As long as we can continue to work with artists to do that and put them into the game, that's what we'd love to do. It puts a level of realism and reality into the game we'd like to see.”Natal:“We haven't made any specific announcements of what we're doing with new technologies in Guitar Hero 6 and beyond, but one of the areas we're exploring certainly is camera technology and what you can do — track your movements and maybe have your characters on the screen do certain things you're doing, or personalize it more so it can look more like you on stage rather than just be an avatar. There are a lot of possibilities that technologies like Natal will bring, and we're definitely exploring those possibilities.”
Keeping all this in mind, what new music genre or instrument would you most like to see incorporated into a music game? How would Natal enhance that experience?
Virtual drum set. Natal tracks your motions and all you have to do is pretend to play the drums, and you are playing the drums! Yeah it's gimicky, but I'd play it.
Yo thats a good idea cepxico
The less plastic, the better.
Sounds Cool. Can't wait till it comes out
lol symphony band....no thanks
Pretending to do something you're already pretending to do? No thanks. Keep Natal the hell out of this.
JUST THE BEGINNING?!? You gotta be kidding me..... but then again, what would Red Octane do without fake music instruments?
Next up, Guitar Hero expansion packs! Banjo, Violin, and Sitar all coming soon!
dude im still waiting for the Horns section of the band. u know like trumpets tubas and flutes and stuff
ding i got it, i got the next big hit....
Mariachi Hero
ROFL
I'm not down with any instruments that have to go on your mouth being created.
some where in this world somebody has a WHOLE room full of plastic instruments for their "Rock Band"s and their Guitar Hero"s. they are crying right now at the sight of this news. they have no space left.
This guy looks like an Asian version of Ourumov from Goldeneye.
piano. even the pop artists are moving back to the piano, and its been a mainstream instrument since long time way back.
This is the problem with the genre - it's stagnated, stale. This guy is looking at it two-dimensionally and ultimately trying to squeeze the proverbial lemon for more juice. The entire 'band' experience has nearly been epitomized with Beatles Rock Band, though obviously very specific. Additional music themes can't hurt, but it seems this guy believes there is a huge industry to just buy new peripherals and sub-genres.
Definitely a classical guitar simulation, classical guitar is so much harder than Rock, the rhythms and flourishes and musical complexity are way above the 4 4 pattern of rock.
saxaphone hero anyone?
I would like to see these new ideas they have for Natal and see what they do with Guitar Hero 6. They will make other instruments.
Music genre games have saturated the market and hopefully will die off very soon. Everyone who wanted guitar/drum games already has one and they're probably collecting dust right now because they're all playing Modern Warfare 2.
and here i thought dj hero was a stretch but more plastics to come??
needs:
keyboard hero
cowbell hero
spoons on pots hero
whistling hero
and my personal favorite protools hero.
I seriously can't wait for Triangle Hero. It's probably the biggest hit in Japan and it'll steal the show at E3 next year. Can't wait.