Gaming Music-based games

[Viva]

i really love guitar hero. i used to play a lot of ddr, but it's fazing out to me. the donkey kong one is okay. it's fun, but my arms get tired from beating on the bongo. i don't have good upper body strength...anyway, the singing games i don't play because i can't sing at all!! guitar hero is the best out of what i've played. i wanna play rez, but i can't find it anywhere in stores.

[saiyuki chick]

[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]I love DDR! It's my favorite arcade game by far.

There's a guitar game out now for...all platforms, I think, that looks kinda fun. And then Guitar Freaks. I haven't played any guitar games yet, but I plan on it.

DDR's my main thing, though. ^^[/COLOR]

[Samsara]

I got Guitar Hero for Christmas and I am convinced that it is the greatest thing ever created. One thing that really suprised me about the game was how it accomplished making you feel like you were actually playing the songs. The only bad thing about it, to me, was it's replay value. I mean, sure, there are quite a few things to unlock. However, I found that most were very "meh".

[Semjaza]

I LOVE Guitar Hero. It's my favorite game of 2005 by far. I was not disappointed with the tracklisting in the least. There were a handful I wasn't very familiar with, but stuff like Cream, Boston, Bowie, Black Sabbath... it just belongs in this game. Some of the indie stuff was quite good, although I only recognized a handful. Playing through all the difficulties and using your cash to pay for unlockables really extends the game far more than any other music title I can think of. All games have to end at some point.

The other stuff from that company, Harmonix, is good too. Frequency and Amplitude were great games in my opinion, although I liked the songlist in the former better.

I'm also a big fan of Gitaroo Man. I think its system is more interesting than Guitar Hero's, which is definitely helped immensely by the whole guitar controller gimmick. If you take that away, it really isn't anywhere as fun or impressive.

The Parapa and Lammy titles are fun too, although I've not played them in a long time. Space Channel 5 on DC was simplistic, but fun. I also have Samba de Amigo and the maracas controller, which is a blast. Donkey Konga was alright in concept, but ultimately far too easy and short. I've never played Taiko.

About the only music games I don't care for are of the dance variety.

[DeadSeraphim]

[color=indigo][size=1][font=arial]Vib Ribbon is another music game made by the same people who did Lammy and Parappa. It's a reaction based game, and you can use ANY of your own music in it. It's kind of fun for a novelty game, but it gets old fast, heh. If you can find it cheap though, or rent, try it.[/font][/size][/color]

[Chiisu]

[SIZE=1]DDR and ITG are awesome, but maybe that's just cause I'm good at it... Meh... Stepmania, Beatmania, and Drummania are pretty fun to.

I'm pretty horrible at Guitar games though :animeswea.[/SIZE]