http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/218158/activision-cancels-guitar-hero-franchise-true-crime/ About time, for me the franchise died with the third game, since Neversoft just sucked at note charts compared to Harmonix. They blame "the declining revenue of the music game genre", but I say they brought this on themselves by releasing too many games too fast and never really improving the formula in any way unlike Harmonix (Rock Band has bass, drums and vocals...the next GH game just happens to have them too).
Guitar Hero is so much better than Rock Band. Even the drums are accurate. I bet in 2012 there will be another game.
I think the fact they have a comedy amount of DLC for a comedy price to have it all is part of the problem. Suddenly what you thought was a £20 game in a few clicks becomes a £200 game (prices are caricatures of course to illustrate the point). They shot themselves in the foot by getting greedy IMO.
I hope it improves. Sports games were cool when it was the first using that engine. Its the just changing the rosters and such that makes the games seem bad.
But then where would we be if not for turning in loads of em at used games stores for a few bucks each in order to afford the good stuff? One or two of my friends bought every iteration they could get their hands on and played the hell out of them. I never really got to so for me they look like potential party material though I know damn well most of my friends have played the hell out of these games. Maybe I'll be able to pick up some guitars for dirt cheap soon.
As much as I love Guitar Hero there's probably a limit to how many times you can make trivial incremental gameplay adjustments before it loses its draw. I played the shit out of the first three games, played plenty of Rock Band and later GH games with multiple instruments with mates, many hours spent there, but at this point I feel no real inclination to play the game any more. I've pretty much had my fill. I don't really think a new setlist or an additional instrument could change that.
What do you mean? They made lots of money on the "dumb controllers", the Guitar Hero series would never have sold without them. Who plays Guitar Hero on a pad?
The makers of GH only worked on the games up until 3, then sold their creation and went on to make RB. (AFAIR) How did you never hear of that? ;-) BTW, I am glad its dead. I never cared for it much anyhow.
Good fucking riddance. As much as the "casual vs. hardcore" debate bores me, these things are just pseudo-gaming dribble that took away from actual gaming. They saturated they own market and they shot themselves in the foot. Good. Serves the fuckers right.
I was discussing this with my fiance the other night, and there's only a few Rock Band games where as there were just WAY TOO MANY fucking Guitar Hero games when those songs could easily have been DLC. I never even bought Rock Band 2 because I felt it was unnessicarry and should have just been DLC and a patch anyway. One the PS2 I can understand it since DLC is pretty unheard of.
