Major Minor Creator Wants More Creative Music Games

Feb. 10 2:38 PM by Lynxara

It's hard to say Masaya Matsuura doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to music games. So when he criticizes music gameplay driven by hits like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, it's time to listen. At a Friday morning speech at last week's DICE summit in Las Vegas, he did exactly that.

"The recent success of music games in the US has been based on licensed music," he said. "It is necessary to move beyond this."

"We're wasting our use of music," he said.

"The contents of a game are passion and energy," said Matsuura. "If they become subordinate to other factors, it is game over."

He also denounced all uses of violence as a gameplay mechanic, claiming that violent games hurt and embarrass the industry.

"It may be one of the most straightforward ways to design a game, but I don't think the future is bright for our industry if we have games that motivate the player to use physical attacks as a way of establishing superiority," he said.

He told a room full of people to stop making almost all of the games they were working on because they were intrinsically terrible. Hardcore.