Guitar Hero 5: September DLC announced all at once

@The Article:

MEH!

Weaksauce!

3 songs a week? You'll have to do better than that Acti. Sadly what I have played of 5 is mostly MEH with a few high notes here and there. I defend GH constantly against the RB fanboys, but this one has as much filler as RockBand 2.

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Um, hello. Have you forgot about Rock Band?

ignore Guitar Hero, the true reason Guitar Hero got to it's peak was because of Harmonix, and they've moved on past the now money-hungry Guitar Hero Franchise.

I know, that's pretty dumb on their part.

LOL, yeah rock band... I played grand theft auto: rock band. it's basically the same thing except instead of stealing cars, you sell rockband to european gamers for 500$

You know, it's not entirely Activision's fault. Place the blame on Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment too. Their songs aren't offered on the export, yet there is plenty of EMI, Universal Music Group, and indie tracks. Activision and WMG/SME haven't reached negotiations because WMG and SME want giant cuts out of the profits, essentially destroying profit made from DLC. This is why MTV/Harmonix stopped licensing WMG songs, remember?

Like they said many times, but you didn't do your research, they are negotiating deals for more WT songs. The WT export is a one time fee, and once you pay it, you will get any more WT songs that come out. Same with Smash Hits.

Joystiq never reports "this" information. It was in the fucking press release for crying out loud!

Well, Harmonix is definitely the developer on the people's side of things. Which makes it all the more painful that I like GH's core gameplay oh so much more than RB's.

Pick your poison for me, either get the (what I perceive as) much better gameplay from the asshole developer who just wants to fuck me over, or get the (what I perceive as) much less fun gameplay from the developer that is on my side against big business.

And yes, I know most people don't prefer GH's core gameplay to RB's, but I can't help what I like. It's not my fault!

Harmonix are on the ppls side of things PLS there on the american side they took ages to release even RB 1 to the rest of the world we (Australia) still dont even have a release date for number 2 yet i was expecting the BS thing where they put it out against the new GH to make consequential profits

the only good thing in my mind about RB is the DLC if activision stopped making the Band specific games and released more DLC theyd rock but as it is if they release a band that ppl dont like well theres a bunch of songs that youll get no access to

i wouldnt care about paying for each song out of the past games so long as i had the option to get the specific ones i want

@dAnixx: If it was Grand Theft Auto: Rock Band then you ~would~ be stealing cars. (Hence the "Grand Theft Auto" bit. It means "Stole a f*cking car" in legaleeze.) If you're trying to insinuate that Rock Band is overly expensive in Australia I'm sure there's more articulate ways you could do it. Not to say I don't agree. I own Rock Band, love it, am getting Beatles:RB next week; but it is far too expensive anywhere but in the US.

"You know, it's not entirely Activision's fault. Place the blame on Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment too."

So I should buy a gimped game anyways?

I really don't care who's fault it is.

Gimped? GH has better gameplay than RB. Deal with it. The track selection is the only thing that is lacking, but you KNOW that if you buy RB DLC with ANY regularity you know that it isn't difficult to spend 60 bucks every three months on downloaded songs so I don't see the huge difference that makes Acti the asshole here. Is it the fact that you don't want to spend it all at once? Is it that hard to remember what songs are on what disc? Would you realistically switch discs for each song? I doubt it. (Yeah, haha, RB you don't have to. I'm waiting for it.) It's not that big a deal to me.

@VaultBoy

You are entitled to your opinion, however wrong it may be, but the majority agrees that Rock Band has better gameplay than ANY Guitar Hero, including the much-improved GH5. Deal with it.

its not too late but then how will they rape people for buying things on the Zune & Xbox Live Marketplaces?? I mean when you are left over with like 200 moon bucks then what do you do? BUY MORE!!

I love Sony for using actual money instead of having users convert.

and then when you have 70 moon bucks left for the 79 moon buck song whaddya do you buy 500 more its a diabolical plan

plus then the song that sells at the exact same price as the ITunes song looks cheaper as even tho there both 99c when one says 99c and the other says 79MSpoints which would you buy? (MS logic i stil see people who want to buy office 03 over 07 so maybs there right)

y'know...after all my random purchases, I'm left with 33 FUCKING MICROSOFT POINTS! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH 33 MOTHER FUCKING MOON BUCKS?! FUCK THE SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, 5 dollars for 3 tracks? Oh my.

At least they are sucking it away at half the pace. RB puts out at least twice as much DLC per week.

And just sucking, in general.

this week, i'm not 100% sure, but they've said that post GH5 DLC will not be compatible with GHWT. end of the line, guys!

actiwhores(nice name) defends that it's still a good game and that it's still "fun".

I'm not sure whether to pick up Rock Band 2 or GH5... RB2 is looking like a better idea. I sure as hell don't want that Beatles crap though. I think the market Harmonix is losing with making a Beatles game is larger then the market they hope to acquire.

/\ sounds like a well thought out statement. logic is a weapon you wield masterfully. good day sir, thanks for the enlightenment. i trust you will not be requiring of me the usual toll next time i cross your bridge.

Informed readers of Joystiq are on to this scam Activision has going, but I fear that most of the world has no clue what they are doing. Please make sure to tell your friends, family, and neighbors to stop supporting this franchise.

Because GH5 comes free with the purchase of GH:Van Halen (which really is the only artist themed title I'd ever buy (unless they made a Dream Theater title (like that would ever happen (ha! (sob) ) ) ) )

Because they want to keep making money. They cut it off at the release of each new game so that they FORCE you to buy the newest game just so you can get their newest DLC.

they're a bunch of money whores, quit playing Guitar Hero, it's shit.

or maybe because they changed quite a few things? the gameplay changes from rock band 1 to rock band 2 weren't big at all (in a good way though). the gameplay changes from world tour to GH5 are pretty major.

No, quit using logic, Slyphon Filter.

It's because Activision is satan. Activision was behind 9/11. Activision joined the Axis powers during World War II. Activision killed your brother and raped your sister. Activision caused 99% of all gang violence in Los Angeles. Swine Flue, West Nile Virus, SARS, All Activision.

The apocalypse?
That's going to be Activision. The Mayans predicted it.

Who the fuck is this Hafkie with his profile set to private defending Activision to the death? An employee? Guitar Hero fan? Activision Fan? Only he knows the truth.

How about a little bit of knowledge for everyone to get caught up to speed on things.

Lets see:
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero Legends Of Rock
Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero 2
Guitar Hero Metallica
Guitar Hero Aerosmth
Guitar Hero Van Halen
Guitar Hero Smash Hits

Did I miss any games? Thats just this generation on the 360

Rock Band
Rock Band 2
Rock Band Beatles
Rock Band AC/DC Track pack
Rock Band Country Track Pack
Rock Band: Lego
Rock Band Metal Track Pack
Rock Band Classic Rock Track Pack
Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2

Did I miss any games? 360 as well.

The difference is that Rock Band is a platform with the ability carry all of your content over except for Rock band Beatles which is it's own game. Activision releases a new iteration of Guitar Hero once every financial quarter! The difference is that most of the Guitar hero shit doesn't play nice with each other and has to be played individually.

People should be thanking the heavens that Harmonix released Rock Band. Were it not for Rock band, Activision would have NEVER made their own band kit and platform.

It's just retarded. Do I like the Guitar Hero games? Yeah, if you only count World Tour and GH 5. Thats because I like playing the drums while my fiance shreds on the guitar =)

My problem is more with Activision than anything else. Look how they have watered down the quality of the Call Of Duty, Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk franchises. The funny thing is that EA has made Tony hawk irrelevant with Skate and offers an equal if not better product in Rock band when compared to Guitar Hero. If EA can come up with some big time FPS they might be able to give a technically better product than COD. I think they have the tool in place Crytek if it can adapt it to consoles.

"Who the fuck is this Hafkie with his profile set to private defending Activision to the death?"

Once upon a time, I remember you john posting and defending sony to the ground..all with a private profile ;D So you really have no ground on that matter.

But I do agree that Activision is doing to GH what they did to Tony Hawk. It's a shame.

"Look how they have watered down the quality of the Call Of Duty, Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk franchises."

Noooo, let's leave Call Of Duty out of this. They haven't had a bad game yet and even if you don't like the Treyarch titles (I personally don't), they at least added Nazi Zombies to the last game. There's no downturn in quality here.

Pee sucks too.

not everyone is into really heavy metal ya know.

yea i know lol sorry

I'd rather have challenging songs than ones that register a 2/10 on the difficulty scale :|

Nothing's worse than buying a song, and clearing it 100% in one try.

@jynxycat

These games (RB, at least) aren't about "beating" the song; they're about feeling like you're playing in a band, without years of practicing scales.

If you want crushingly hard games, play something like Ikaruga (or so I've heard).