So long Guitar Hero

[MatParker116]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a302953/activision-kills-guitar-hero-franchise.html

Well Activision has killed Guitar Hero, True Crime and DJ Hero by the looks of things but only the first two are official

 

[Fooz]

NOOOO! i love GH and DJ hero, why would they do this? the bat rastards!

i love the look of the notes etc, and as ive been playing GH for like 4 years i cant get used to rock band,

 

[MarkDavis94]

I heard the next guitar hero was going to 'teach' people how to play the guitar.
If you're going to spend that much on a game why not just invest in a actual guitar and learn the real thing.

It frustrates me when people think they can play guitar becuase they are 'br00tal' at Guitar Hero and the two are pretty much the same thing.
No they are not, one is very complex, one has 5 coloured buttons on it.

Rant over

 

[oplinger]

Oh thank god. That was getting tiring. No longer will party goes be ranked on coolness based on how good at guitar hero they are. Back to drinking games! It needed to die. I'm glad activision agrees.

...I'm sad about true crime though.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Next year they will kill off CoD, it will be a happy day

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

True Crime? Well, that sucks, even if we knew next to nothing about the game.

Pretty sad about Guitar Hero, too, but it had to end some time.

 

[GiantRaven]

They should've moved to pure DLC.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

Now they can make a "new" CoD game every 2 months.

 

[Armored Prayer]

Well that just sucks.

Guitar Hero was the game that started it all and its a damn shame seeing it go. I only own GH3 and I thought the game was fantastic, and had a very awesome set track. (Loved all the songs)

 

[EmzOLV]

I heard the next guitar hero was going to 'teach' people how to play the guitar.
If you're going to spend that much on a game why not just invest in a actual guitar and learn the real thing.

Exactly this - I spent 7 years so far playing bass and I don't get why people just don't do the same. A real instrument is not as hard as expected, it's just not as quick to learn as GH. People want to do solos and rock out immediately, and if a few colour buttons can improvise that rather than two years of learning then I guess they pick that...

It's all about live performance anyway

 

[bswanson702]

I am glad they finally took this out to the pasture and with a twelve gauge shot mercifully behind the head, much like they do dairy cows...the series jumped the shark when it was called Guitar Hero but had a band focus...jumped the alien ship from GH2 when they had the eternally annoying Kiss frontman play a God while you had to complete a quest to unlock the more interesting songs...dumb...oh one last rant WTF was with the mindnumbingly boring Rush and Tool setpieces. Yes they have their fans but they are a specific group of people of which only about 25% fans even fell into the "Sure I like them okay" group with hardcore fans of either group making a minority of people.

Now let the speculation of an Activision acquisation of Harmonix begin..so they can destroy that franchise as well with weekly title releases.

 

[bswanson702]

....BUT their controllers were the best so that sucks.

 

[zehydra]

alas. To be honest, despite it being a blatant rip off of Guitar Hero, I still liked Rock Band better.

Still, it's always sad to see a series that you don't hate go.

 

[MarkDavis94]

It's all about live performance anyway

Aye thats true, its one thing being able to play a song, its another to be able to put on one hell of show whilst playing it, something red red green blue blue orange will never beat

 

[Veldel]

Yes the death to these asinine music games


Not good for the true crimes tho but i didnt care for it lol


I hope no music games come about for a long time

Thanks for the info I will have to tell my friend who loves GH

 

[The Rockerfly]

Meh, guitar her has been dying since whichever came out after World Tour. The series has been limping on ever since in an over saturated market

I do hope guitar hero comes back one day, it's sad to see the series dying but I'd rather see it die than limp on in the way it has been for the past few years

 

[Blaster395]

Next year they will kill off CoD, it will be a happy day

No, next year they will produce a new console that only runs COD games. It will sell because people will have no choice but to buy it if they want to play COD (and people these days would buy it even if it cost massive amounts of money)

On a serious note, Guitar Hero will likely return in about 5 years, once the market saturation has ended.

 

[Chrono180]

alas. To be honest, despite it being a blatant rip off of Guitar Hero, I still liked Rock Band better.

Still, it's always sad to see a series that you don't hate go.

Um, guitar hero was made originally by the people who now make rock band. Saying rock band is a "rip off" is like saying that Peter Gabriel was a "rip off" of Genesis.

Anyway, while I'm sad to see guitar hero go, most of the innovation in the music genre was made by rock band. Ok, Activision had DJ hero and introduced the double kick pedal, but Harmonix came up with drums, vocals, the network, pro mode, and vocal harmonies before Activision. Plus Harmonix had the better business model.

And while it's true there are idiots out there who think playing guitar hero is as good as playing a real guitar, saying that we should "play a real guitar instead" or whatever is like saying "Why play call of duty when you can go down to the firing range and shoot a real gun?"

 

[bswanson702]

I will throw my own two cents into the whole "just learn the real thing already"...don't forget that games are just that...a game. Its not about spending time doing the real thing because there are many fans of both RB and GH that do know how to play (and from the looks of it they make up around 50% of all players of these games if you believe their profiles). Myself being a musician that plays in Vegas I can say that I don't play the games for a realistic experience or as a tool to teach me to play better they are a way to unwind while still listening to a solid soundtrack. As a child of the 80s I grew up playing games to see how high of a score I could get and competition was based off the highest Pac-Man score or highest Super Mario score. With GH and RB it is the same thing. I am essentially playing a copycat game of Simon with a far better soundtrack.

Okay sure there are some db's who think they are the next Jimi or Eddi just because they can tap out a song on a plastic controller's five buttons. They are the exception. These guys are the "fun" guys to be around that take COD or Halo way too seriously and to tell them to pick up a real guitar is moot.

 

[zehydra]

alas. To be honest, despite it being a blatant rip off of Guitar Hero, I still liked Rock Band better.

Still, it's always sad to see a series that you don't hate go.

Um, guitar hero was made originally by the people who now make rock band. Saying rock band is a "rip off" is like saying that Peter Gabriel was a "rip off" of Genesis.

Anyway, while I'm sad to see guitar hero go, most of the innovation in the music genre was made by rock band. Ok, Activision had DJ hero and introduced the double kick pedal, but Harmonix came up with drums, vocals, the network, pro mode, and vocal harmonies before Activision. Plus Harmonix had the better business model.

And while it's true there are idiots out there who think playing guitar hero is as good as playing a real guitar, saying that we should "play a real guitar instead" or whatever is like saying "Why play call of duty when you can go down to the firing range and shoot a real gun?"

oh really? Didn't know that.