Activision CEO introduces Guitar Hero World Tour

I bet you're one of the few people who believes Activision hasn't hurt the GH franchise...

To Demosthenes:

Because we've been shown the light by Rock Band as to how Activision 'improved' Guitar Hero. Make it harder and unenjoyable. I'm good at these games but there's a fine line between enjoyable difficulty and guitar smashing frustration......

Well, I bought GH3. I was excited.

Then, came the "UNPLUG ZE UNCOMPATZIBLE PERRRRRIFRIALZ!!", because I had a Rock Band Guitar Plugged in.

"strange..."


Then, I pick my favorite GH personality, Judy Nails. She has giant Gozangas and they move when the wind blows, and she's dressed like a two dollar whoooore. I always liked her because she moved less than any of the rest of the toons, oh no, now she shakes her ass in the camera and flaunts her breasteses.

"ok"

Next, Brett Michaels shows up to sing in the first set.

"um..."

Then, Halfway through the game, Tom Morello shows up to make me play a completely random guitar riff and breaks my strings and kicks me in the face while strippers dance on stage and the RED BULL mascot assaults me from the rear. All of this is quite strange compared to my last 3 guitar hero purchases (yes, I even bought GH:80's).


After slogging it through with Morello (cheap shotting him twice to make him lose), I get to Slash, who has another random song, and he beats me on the first powerup he hits me with. WTF.

"#%^( this, who wants to play Rock Band"

hammer ons and pull offs are the smaller boxes. Not that hard, really.

idk bout you, but my eyes have gotten used to the ho/po in rock band. there's lots of anti-activision feelings out there (personally i'd say anti-neversoft) because they're just carrying on the exact same style created by harmonix, not adding anything new and original except for gameplay modes that only encourage competition and not a whole lot of fun. plus, now that rock band has shafted GH3 up the ass, neversoft has no choice but to start making their own full band game in order not to lose the franchise. they are basically total sellouts

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Your tinfoil hat is in the mail, sir!

It jumped the shark with GH3.

Furthermore, can we stop acting like Harmonix invented drum/singing peripherals for the rhythm genre? It has been done before them. Yes, they did it well. But they also fucked up royally. The RB guitar is shit and the HO/PO are unnoticeable. I love both games for what they bring to the table. And GH is not plagiarism. I guess there can only be one shooter game/rpg/platformer. They're taking the formula and trying to improve on it, which anyone should be happy about. Competition breeds creativity. Why must there only be one game? You don't need to show brand loyalty here. Who fuckin' cares? If it's fun, it's fun.

But is Activision actually improving it? Therein lies the question because so far the art is STILL shit, they still have no sense of dynamics to the character, etc.

Also, for the record, Harmonix DID invent the singing games. Or do you think the trademark of a Harmonix game, a Freezepop song, is in Karaoke Revolution by chance?

Dude, spell check. Seriously.

"its really disappointing that plagarism like this is legal. rock band for life, pull the life support off of gh alredy..."

Then i guess, since Halo is a FPS like Doom, its really dissapointing plagarism like that is legal. Perhaps Bungie owes ID Software a truckload of royalties. You sir, are a tool.

on a 4:3 tv the hopos aren't nearly as noticeable as on a 16:9

Interesting. They seem just fine on my TV, and it's a small one.

it's not as if GH1, GH2 and GH80's didn't have the same interface either.... Hell, RB2 will probably have the same interface as RB.

I believe an Explanation is in order....

GH1 Was the first game. Nuff said. A few Characters and a few guitars and what have ya.

GH2 Step up GH1 by changing the Graphics, the Venues looked better, the Characters (although made slightly cartoony) looked prettier. And you could buy new outfits for them. They also stepped up the Innovation by adding Hammer-ons and Pull-offs. Making it slightly more like a real guitar.

GH: 80's was made by activision. They basically copy and pasted the code from Gh2, and changed the look of the characters to make them more....80s? They added new songs and added things to venues to make them more "80's" as well.

For GH3 they "remade" the whole game. or at least the HUD. Gameplay was similar to other GH's. Hitting notes was made "easier." Making the game harder appeared to be a difficult task so they loaded songs with "Triple power chords." They recreated the characters...bad idea in my opinion, every character i knew and loved in the other GHs were beautiful, these ones made me wanna throw up. They improved "DLC." instead of a few new songs a year...they gave us about 1 pack a month, most of the packs being holiday related... The venues were changed.... AND battle mode...oohhhh battle mode what would we do without you.... Battle mode is basically trying to play mario kart in a mirror drunk, its stupid. Using "taktics" In my opinion its basically who ever gets lefty flip first wins... Besides that: "Online play: huge feature amIrite? liek NO gamez have online play..."
and co-op career...as if u didn't have enough fun in single player career, now u can choose a friend and rox out...

GH Aerosmith and GH On tour...

They seem to have the exact same design as GH3...and as far as i'm concerned...so does GH: World tour.

As for rock band i can't say much. They haven't released a sequel so i don't know if the interface will change or not. But they HAVE given us a steady amount of DLC which is nice. Who needs a Sequel with the same interface when you have DLC?

And thats all i have to say about that.

Someone prove me wrong please...

No, no. Rock Band's been out less than a week. At least here in the UK. My tears of pain and abandonment are now tears of joy.

THANK YOU.

I loathe the way you have to anally hit every note at the E-X-A-C-T right instant in Rock Band. I like to have a good time while playing these games and with GH I can do that, but Rock Band makes my eyes bleed and bores me to tears with the way you have to stare at the screen without blinking to make sure you don't miss a note by .000000001 seconds, because everyone knows that on a real guitar if you hit a note it .000000001 seconds late it doesn't make a sound.

RB could do a heckuva lot better job making the guitar parts feel more like you're actually playing the guitar and less like you're playing simon says while some unrelated music plays in the background as well.

You sound like someone who never played a GH game before 3 came out. The challenge in a music/RHYTHM game is to hit the notes at the proper time. It doesn't make sense that a game based on RHYTHM should allow the player max points for being off said RHYTHM. Go play GH II or hell, even GH I and try to be .000000001 second off. You'll get your ass handed to you.

And for the record, if you've ever played in a band you'd know how noticeable it is when you're a split second off rhythm.

I'm pretty sure you won't be able to add AC/DC, Led Zep and others (otherwise, imagine the field day the RIAA will have with this game. "UNLICENSED COVERS").

I'm more than prudent with the "Create-a-song" feature. User-created content is not always the way. How many YouTube videos are genuinely funny or impressive, when 99.99% of them are completely stupid?

Oh, and PS: lady, you win the Internet with "It's called Rock Band, I think". Wouldn't be surprised to see a shirt with this sentence on it.

/: That comment was for Sir Fidilious Wong... This site never does anything I tell it to.