Activision announces Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and DJ Hero for fall

Keep 'em coming Activision! Yeah!

Activision isn't just milking the brand, they are killing the whole genre of games with WAY to many releases. Just release DLC and slow down the release cycle before you kill music games for good! I understand that, everybody else understands that, why doesn't Activision?

Oh Boy! *Mickey's Laugh*

This makes it official, Guitar Hero World Tour....which was going to be their brand new direction and answer to Rock Band, was abandoned within 3 months of it's release.

I say 3 months because that was when about they started hyping GH:Metallica. And ever since then we had Smash Hits, Van Halen, and now these three.

I honestly give it about a month before we see the next Smash Hits announced.

"Does the world need this many Heroes hahahhhaah"

So, none of these games would work as plain DLC?

You know? Sending "data" over an "internet tube" to be stored on a "hard drive" as an "add-on" for an existing game?

Seeing that the existing GHs and RBs are now as prolific as a whore at a port-side dock, you just can't add this shit to those games?

It would be awesome if this scenerio was played out. People spending real money now to be a fake hero can stop being fucked when their current investments are made moot.

As long as we can upload the GHWT and GH:M songs to our hard drives for use in GH5, then I don't see any problem. It's just more songs. If you don't want to buy it, then shut the hell up and don't buy it. It's very simple.

I can't believe they're doing this. There's an article in the most recent Game Informer about whether or not music games are on their way out.

If we treat them like how Harmonix treats them, as a way to enjoy music and introduce new sounds to the masses, we have a revolution on our hands and a renaissance for the music industry.

If we treat them like Activision, we ruin them. We turn them into a constant rehash. Always reusing and subtly tweaking something and calling it new. Ever notice how every product that Activision has released since they got the Guitar Hero series has tried to mimic Rock Band? Adding instruments, DLC, tap bar on the neck of the guitar, tightening HOPO window, guitar "solos" (the purple line) and now family friendly game? They're flooding the industry with games because they can't make a game right the first time.

Each game that came out with a "new feature" was changed almost completely the next time to meet what Rock Band did because it didn't work. Vocals in GH:WT were broken because Neversoft thought the new system would be challenging. It's gone in GH:M. Battles in GH3 were ridiculous. Unless you were a god, you couldn't beat the last boss on expert without getting extremely lucky. What happened to that system? It's gone. Every original idea they've brought has been scrapped.

It's sad that they can't just come up with their own ideas and execute on them properly. Even DJ Hero is a copy off of an existing game, as well as another upcoming one.

I can't even play GH:WT because it bores the crap outta me. Meanwhile, I have 400+ songs on Rock Band 2 because the game is done right.

hopefully this means cheaper PS2 guitar controllers and/or cheaper guitar hero bundles this holiday season.

Actually I'm kind of glad they've flooded the market. Now I can't make up my mind which one to buy, because, again, they're flooding the market, so I won't buy any of them. Now I won't be disappointed when I buy Guitar Hero: Oakridge Boys while meaning to buy Guitar Hero: Generic Piano Classics from the Baroque.

Beat that horse!

They're lame for cranking out game after game without doing much of anything to improve the engine or the experience, but they're not doing anything to hurt the genre. That's like saying that all the quake clones that followed it were ruining the FPS genre. There were people who actually said this, that the FPS genre would die out because of this, but we eventually got Half-Life and tons of other quality games that followed.

Music games are hot and it's easy for companies like Activision to pump out crap and sell lots of units, but the cream always rises to the top. Whether that cream will be Harmonix or if someone else will step in and be the one to push it to the next level remains to be seen Heck it could eventually end up being Activision themselves, but it doesn't appear that they're interested in doing that. Eventually someone will do something to take the genre to the next level. There's nothing Activision can do to kill the genre though. It's established and it's driven by the music. They may hurt their own brand but as long as there's still quality music coming out for these games, there will be plenty of people eager to buy it.

With that said, fuck a bunch of guitar hero, band hero or whatever it is they call it. What they're doing right now is no different than Doom, Doom2, Hexan, Hexan 2, etc, etc ,etc. Re-skins of the same game, over and over again. I refuse to continue to fund un-development, which is what that is.

Guitar Hero needs to go to the doctor's office bcuz its been raped to many times. I'm looking at you Mr Kotick. God he is one ugly dude lol

cough cough.

Guitar Hero (November 8th, 2005)
Guitar Hero 2 (November 7th, 2006) (One year later)
Guitar Hero 2 (360) (April 3rd, 2007) (5 months later)
Guitar Hero Rocks the 80's (July 24, 2007) (3 months later)
Guitar Hero 3 (October 28th, 2007) (3 months later)
Guitar Hero: On Tour (June 22nd, 2008) (8 months later)
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (June 29th, 2008) (7 days later)
Guitar Hero World Tour (October 26th, 2008) (4 months later)
Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades (November 16th, 2008) (1 month later)
Guitar Hero: Metallica (March 29th, 2009) (4 months later)
Guitar Hero: On Tour Modern Hits (June 9th, 2009) (3 months later)
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits (June 16th 2009) (7 days later)
Guitar Hero: Van Halen (2009)
Guitar Hero 5 (2009)
Band Hero (2009)
DJ Hero (2009)



Rock Band (November 20th, 2007)
Rock Band 2 (September 14th, 2008) (10 months later)
Rock Band Unplugged (June 9th, 2009) (9 months later)
The Beatles: Rock Band (September 9th, 2009) (3 months later)
Lego Rock Band (2009)


"Hero" in 2005: 1 game
"Hero" in 2006: 1 game
"Hero" in 2007: 3 games
"Hero" in 2008: 4 games
"Hero" in 2009: 7 games

RB in 2007: 1 game
RB in 2008: 1 game
RB in 2009: 3 games


Total games in the "Hero" music series by the end of 2009: 16

Total games in the "Rock Band" music series by the end of 2009: 5

The "Hero" series averages 3.2 games a year

The "Rock Band" series averages 1.67 games a year

what is sad is people will actually buy this garbage and actuvision will keep regurgitate it every year.

what is wrong with you people? "killing the genre?" "killing the franchise?" look, it's a lot of titles. if you don't want them, don't buy them. i like having new ones to look forward to and play.

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
With a BANG but then a whimper.

No, we actually don't need this many Heroes, and the milking of this IP has become sad, but I do have to say that DJ Hero will be the first "Hero" title that I buy for myself. I bought Guitar Hero World Tour for my girlfriend last Christmas, but DJ Hero hits home for me. I just hope they have old school hipihop, and not crap from today.

wtf Why does my avatar only show up sometimes

Yeah, I quit Guitar Hero after they tried to compete with RB by adding instruments. This is just getting sad, Activision.

Next year Activision should release Guitar Villian and it will kill the Heroes. Of course the only flaw is then they'll milk that.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/22/scratch-the-ultimate-dj-the-first-trailer/

FUcK GH buy this instead and dont support them ANY MORE THEY NEED TO STOP

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/22/scratch-the-ultimate-dj-the-first-trailer/

Dont support GH ANYMORE THEY HAVE TO STOP!!!!!

Huh, I never saw a "4" on any part of the Guitar Hero: World Tour title. It's funny how they are totally skipping a number. I thought only noobz called it GH4, I guess I was wrong.

why not just ignore these games if you dont like them... i dont get it.

ill buy them, and keep on buying them. guitar hero.. rock band.. it dont matter..

i buy them cause i like them and hope for more to come out.

why is no one pissed about the mario franchise? or sonic? or any of those games?

Moo Activision. F*cking moo.

This is really laughable, but also very depressing at the same time. I sure am going to miss music-based games once GH whores everything a bloody pulp.

People who are buying GH games:
Even if you are a GH > RB fan for some absurd reason, just know this. Activision in NO way cares about you, the consumer.

They need Guitar Hero Pantera

lol today I just passes Satch Boogie and I said to myself "the only thing I need is another guitar hero to increase my hand callus force" and apparently my wish came true xD