MTV plans to make music games

E-Prime · Trick Member Joined: 08 May 2005

I disagree with the lot of you.

What one complaint do many teenagers have with the DDR games?
The crappy music selection.

Now, we here at DDR Freak may love or J-Pop and Euro techno. Hell, we even play rubbish like the terrible-sounding Max and Paranoia mixes without a qualm. But the kids that still want to play DDR just for quick fun don't like what Konami has to offer.

I think DDR simulators like Stepmania do so well because DDR players love to hear decent music when they play for a change. And you can bet that many teens will see the appeal of playing a fun, simple dancing game to some of their favorite and legitimately popular songs.

The mechanics of the game will probably suck, especially in comparison to DDR and ITG. But that simply won't matter to MTV's market.

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nayten · Trick Member Joined: 19 Sep 2004

A very boastful statement, but interesting nonetheless. The MTV Music Generator games were a decent use of the license, but as it has been said, nothing too spectacular. They've got a lot of money to throw around, so there is potential, if they'd team up with the right names in the music game business. Just as long as I don't see pop up videos on DDR EX2, that is.

Xatu23456 · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:04 pm Post subject:

It's gonna be stupid because its gonna be all main stream hip-hop music
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babyvoxlover · Trick Member Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Brighton

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midnightclub x · Trick Member Joined: 17 Apr 2005

After MTV made the crappy celebrity deathmatch game?

the Andy Millonakis show will get the axe in 2 weeks.

1 more thing,I don't think MTV will give us anything worth trying.....

Reenee · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2003

Drumscape anyone?

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Falling/Fading/LostItAll · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Location: The Wired

Oh, sh*t.

heavymaniac · Trick Member Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Location: MI

i am one of those that beleive MTV should have their buttocks's patriot act'd.
That company doesnt deserve rights for any of its employes because they continue to demean one of the worlds most magical forms of culture, music.

Any girl on MTV has to be hot, naked, and sweaty or else they dont play the music and dont show the video, so what do you think their games are going to be like? I am guessing its going to be a bunch of girls in thongs in a row bending over and bouncing for a music video background in every song (during which you would press the left and right arrows at the same time over and over)

MTV is more likely to make a sexual intercourse sim than an actualy dance game, and they any also most likely to demean whatever respect ddr freaks get in the arcade.

So it boils down to this

should MTV make a dance game? No.
do you think it will be succesfull? Was that britney spears dancing game
successfull?

L. · Trick Member Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Location: Chicago

It's called Britney's Dance Beat.

DDR Announcer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!11!!
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Agent J · Trick Member Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: Dimension X

Hmm, I'm definitely following the "wait and see" school of thought on this, but with egomaniacal statements like "We don't think the music space has ever really been done well", I'm having a hard time imagining that a good game will come out of this. They say they'll do something different, but what? I'm not saying there are new possibilities out there for music games, I just dunno what they are and I'm not very confident that MTV will be the ones to bring out such new ideas. From reading the article, it sounds to me like dance games could be one of their first efforts. Combining this with what they said about doing something different in music games, and I'm imagining something along the lines of Britney's Dance Beat, which was a pretty big flop. Ah well, like I said, we'll see what happens in the coming months, I suppose.

Daggett · Trick Member Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Location: Corona, CA

Do they have what it takes? Quite possibly.

....but they have an uphill battle right now, especially with Amplitude and Beatmania coming around the corner.
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Fire_Adept · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject:

Do they have what it takes? Yes, but not for the reasons people have listed here. MTV Networks has a huge following from the prep crowd. Judging on what I've seen from the general group of MTV fans, they'll mindlessly follow and love whatever game they make. Unless, of course, it involves sweating or something else "icky".
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xjeffegx · Trick Member Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Location: Meridian, ID

I honestly don't think that MTV can do that well, but who knows, they could pull something purty cool out of their butts!

Catastrophe · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Location: Worcester, MA