While video game enthusiasts are going nuts, a lot of Beatles fans are shaking their heads at what they think could turn the band’s respect in a negative direction.

Musicians at Staples have frequently said that the Rockband games are much harder to play than the real thing.

“Making a game out of being able to play their songs isn’t a proper tribute to the music they created; I’m just saying that the Beatles weren’t about technical skill on their instruments, they were about the creation of memorable music,” Ryan Panny ’12 said. “I’m sure [the game] is fun, I just hate the idea of it.”

“I absolutely despise playing the games. I feel completely disconnected from my actual skill as a musician and thus have found discomfort when receiving boos from a virtual crowd when playing a song I can play perfectly in real life,” said Max Stampa-Brown ’10, who is a big Beatles fan as well as a skilled musician.

Although many believe that this game marks the end of an era for the Beatles where fans knew all of their songs and all the words to them, others think this game will expand peoples’ musical horizons. “I think the ‘Beatles: Rockband’ will introduce some kids who normally wouldn’t listen to the Beatles to songs that they wouldn’t normally like, but since it’s a game, and the ‘cool thing’ they end up liking it, which is good and bad because it becomes a short cut, which can be limiting,” said Alanna Morton ’11 said.

“At the end of the day, its a video game, and there have been almost no real feeling video games, people claim that Rockband is the closest you can get to a realistic video game, they’re wrong,” Brown added.