Taskmaster99 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Just read quite a few articles on this: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979039052 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Activulture has picked that carcass clean. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 because, you know, what we need are more Call of Duty and World of Warcraft games. Oh well, at least they got 1/3 of it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagitekAngel Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Activision either would have bled their developers dry or run out of fucking songs to license. The collapse was inevitable. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Activision either would have bled their developers dry or run out of fucking songs to license. The collapse was inevitable. That was pretty much it. Most of the good songs have been used and the rest either won't work for one reason or another or can't be licensed. Also, other than minor tweaks here and there, the game has pretty much stayed exactly the same from sequel to sequel. I think people are just tired of it. Can't milk that cow forever. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algus Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Hooraay, no more exclusive song nonsense! Please now, can I have more Aerosmith on Rock Band? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Its weird about Activision's name coming up being they make Rock Band... Neversoft made GH. Neversoft said that GH6 was the last GH while they were making it, and they pulled out all the stops. They put in all the hard custom songs that we had on GH2, available to the masses. Its by far the best guitar hero, if anything, for the career. There's actually a story line, and a good one at that. Its pretty fun if you haven't gotten it already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 (edited) Sad to see this series go but they really did milk the cow a bit too much on this one. I got tired of the series sometime last year. I didn't even bother getting the last ones that were released or that DJ hero thing. But I still need to go thru and play the games thru as drummer some time... We need a poll now.. Which was your favorite Guitar Hero / Rock Band game.. Edited February 10, 2011 by Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taskmaster99 Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 My favorite was the Rock Band Metal Track update. That was about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Guitar Hero 80's is still my favorite. Too bad they only released it on the PS2. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 ...and just in case we needed another case against DLC -> Guitar Hero, DJ Hero DLC done after February Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 ...and just in case we needed another case against DLC -> Guitar Hero, DJ Hero DLC done after February /me adds this to the ps3 is hacked thread.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 ...and just in case we needed another case against DLC -> Guitar Hero, DJ Hero DLC done after February I believe that says that no NEW dlc will be coming after February. Your DLC is still yours if you already have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryanw Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Good riddance. I can't imagine the original Super Mario being release multiple versions a year back in the day with only minor tweaks (I'm thinking Bros. 1 -> Lost Levels type of deal every year). Essentially that was what Guitar Hero was doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck D. Head Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 We need a poll now.. Which was your favorite Guitar Hero / Rock Band game.. Shredz for C64..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 ...and just in case we needed another case against DLC -> Guitar Hero, DJ Hero DLC done after February I believe that says that no NEW dlc will be coming after February. Your DLC is still yours if you already have it. Ah, didn't catch that. That's definitely less enraging. Nonetheless, there will come a time when this stuff won't be served anymore and that is definitely not a good thing for video game preservation. "Grandpa, how come you keep telling me I'm not getting the full experience with my PS3 emulator?" "Sit back and let me tell you about corporate shenanigans and DLC..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raskar42 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 in the words of tina turner.. we don't need another hero. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixitguy74 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 I tried Rock Band a few times, but didn't care for a guitar shaped set of controler buttons. Now the Power Gig looks promising with it's real six string. http://powergig.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 I saw that news story on Yahoo News. When the game first came out, I was kind of intrigued from the look of things, at a distance. Then one day in Best Buy, I actually saw someone playing. The soundtrack was playing some Van Halen tune, with Eddie getting in 30 licks/second on his real guitar, while the dope playing Guitar Hero pressed the pastel chicklet keys on the plastic "guitar" at no relation whatsoever to the music. I was astonished. I'm no musician, but I had assumed there would be SOME sort of correlation to the real guitar and was surprised there was not. What a kiddie toy; it should have said "Fisher-Price" or "Playskool" on the "guitar." All that was left to do was wonder when this silly fad would pass, and wager on how many years we'll be seeing discarded/broken/incomplete plastic toy "band sets" in pawn shops, thrift stores, and garbage dumps. And of course, ponder the impressions of our society that some distant-future archaeologists will form, as they unearth that nonsense from under the sediments, eons from now. They'll surely chart a downgrade in human intelligence from the useful stone-age tools unearthed previously, to that useless junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Glad to see this series has finally bit the dust.. Activision, like nearly every property they own, has milked it beyond death. I enjoyed the series when it came out and played it quite a bit (I was also really into the Japanese rhythym games like DDR and BeatmaniaIIDX back then). I also got Part 2 when it came out on the 360, and again, played it quite a bit. Then everyone started busting it out at parties, and that was fun, too.. for a while, anyway. It started to get stale by that point and I realized it would be tough for them to possibly keep it from staying that way. It's a very simplistic concept afterall and is far less complicated than Konami's 7-key-and-a-turntable setup of IIDX... I eventually quit playing and I never bothered trying anything from GH3 and on. By the sounds of it, I haven't missed much since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuplayer Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 When the game first came out, I was kind of intrigued from the look of things, at a distance. Then one day in Best Buy, I actually saw someone playing. The soundtrack was playing some Van Halen tune, with Eddie getting in 30 licks/second on his real guitar, while the dope playing Guitar Hero pressed the pastel chicklet keys on the plastic "guitar" at no relation whatsoever to the music. I was astonished. I'm no musician, but I had assumed there would be SOME sort of correlation to the real guitar and was surprised there was not. What a kiddie toy; it should have said "Fisher-Price" or "Playskool" on the "guitar." You didn't see anybody playing on expert. It's a lot more difficult on expert. It's still far from playing a real guitar, but it's not a cakewalk. I really stopped caring so much about Guitar Hero and Rock Band around the time I got my free Guitar Hero Van Halen game. I also disliked the grind required to unlock all the songs in Rock Band 2. That was actually my first taste of disenchantment. It was fun working my way up to playing competently in expert mode, but it stopped being exciting when Van Halen came out. I've got to find out how the real guitar for Rock Band 3 is. Not the button-fret one, but the actual guitar. I actually considered getting it. Maybe I still will. It will be quite the step up from the clicky plastic guitars. It would be good to dedicate myself to learning a new skill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tr3vor Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 I love me some Guitar Hero: Metallica. besides that, good ridance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Activulture has picked that carcass clean. Oh wow, I love that name. Almost as good as my own CrapDivision! But yeah, Activision squeezed the golden goose dry, then had it for lunch the next day. It's really shameful how they've been acting, but you know, Activision. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 I bought a few of the games when they were on sale. I started with Guitar Hero II. Moved on to Guitar Hero III. Then I got Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s. I tried Rock Band 1. The one that killed it dead for me was Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. I got rid of Rock Band and Aerosmith a long time ago as neither one was fun to me. I've recently decided to get rid of the rest of my Guitar Hero games. I don't care that my DLC will become useless. The whole musical instrument thing was fun for a while, and that's all it really needed to be. Not every game has to be something worth playing 20 years from now. For me, the guitar games just didn't have any legs. I wonder what store game sections will do with all the space freed up when the music instrument games disappear? They'll suddenly have about triple the space once those big instrument packs are gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 (edited) What? No Guitar Hero: Aerosmith fans? Anywho I hear they are coming out with an "American Idol: Aerosmith edition" soon. Edited February 11, 2011 by Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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