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Posted: Feb 19th 2011 8:39PM wcarnation said
But Guitar Hero sucked!
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 12:44AM ShooShooShooMF said
@Gritzor
Even if the game didn't suck to begin with, I'm not sure it deserves to have a song about the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Vallens, and the Big Bopper pay homage to it. I guess it is just a parody and I’m probably being melodramatic. But the guy who originally wrote that song was seriously affected by their deaths when he was a kid and he cried when he sang it. I don’t think this guy meant offense by this parody, but I think a case can be made that this is a little disrespectful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Y_XRiJsCI&feature=related
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Even if the game didn't suck to begin with, I'm not sure it deserves to have a song about the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Vallens, and the Big Bopper pay homage to it. I guess it is just a parody and I’m probably being melodramatic. But the guy who originally wrote that song was seriously affected by their deaths when he was a kid and he cried when he sang it. I don’t think this guy meant offense by this parody, but I think a case can be made that this is a little disrespectful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Y_XRiJsCI&feature=related
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 7:42AM wcarnation said
@Gritzor I loved Guitar Hero 1 and 2, but considering those were 2 games among 600...
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Posted: Feb 20th 2011 12:50PM 3dpenguin said
@ShooShooShooMF
Don McLean has a pretty good since of humor about the song being parodied. He has admitted that he was pleased with Weird Al's parody of the song, and that his kids would listen to it so much that at one point he found himself singing Al's words instead of his own. I think the person taking it too seriously is you.
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Don McLean has a pretty good since of humor about the song being parodied. He has admitted that he was pleased with Weird Al's parody of the song, and that his kids would listen to it so much that at one point he found himself singing Al's words instead of his own. I think the person taking it too seriously is you.
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 8:46PM antv said
Guitar Hero died the day that Harmonix and Red Octane went their separate ways.
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 8:56PM YimYimYimi said
@antv Yep. I was too young to really get into GH1, but GH2 was so awesome, GH3 was OK, and after Rock Band brought the drums and voals in, Guitar Hero was playing catch-up.
On a slighty related note, anybody remember Rock Revolution?
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On a slighty related note, anybody remember Rock Revolution?
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 10:11AM mguniverse said
@antv Guitar Hero 3 wasn't a bad game at all... those were some of the more memorable tracks for me.
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Posted: Feb 20th 2011 12:37PM antv said
@mguniverse
GH3 wasn't "bad" but that is when the new dev started cutting songs short and tabbing out the tracks for difficulty instead of accuracy, making the game more about memorizing button patterns and less about mimicking the actual notes and chords of the songs. You can play GH I & II without looking at the screen sometimes, because the placement of the notes makes sense within the confines of the 5 frets. Harmonix are music dorks, and that kind of thinking is still alive and well in Rock Band.
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GH3 wasn't "bad" but that is when the new dev started cutting songs short and tabbing out the tracks for difficulty instead of accuracy, making the game more about memorizing button patterns and less about mimicking the actual notes and chords of the songs. You can play GH I & II without looking at the screen sometimes, because the placement of the notes makes sense within the confines of the 5 frets. Harmonix are music dorks, and that kind of thinking is still alive and well in Rock Band.
Posted: Feb 22nd 2011 12:23PM (Unverified) said
@antv Guitar Hero II wasn't that accurate itself, but it was organized to make the songs fun. I thought almost every song in Guitar Hero II knew how to make the most out of whatever it was given, and gave mostly songs that were fun. Guitar Hero World Tour, for example, sucked horribly because of its dependence on a lot of "Modern Rock" and "Indie Music" that only consisted of playing chords in eight notes, with very few mid-difficulty songs, and almost all boring as hell or impossible.
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Posted: Feb 19th 2011 8:58PM Angel Mass said
Big deal, Rock band (the real stuff) is still alive and kicking
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 9:28PM Prboi said
There's only so much innovation a game like Guitar Hero can bring to the table before it starts becoming Rock Band. I'm glad Guitar Hero has been put to rest.
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 9:31PM JDBar said
Gotta admit... I remembered the friends and fun GH2 and GH3 brought me and teared up. I still chat with my Guitar Hero tour group every day over IRC, even though most of us stopped playing after GHWT.
The first time I played GH2 and stumbled through the Medium career.
The first time I beat a song on Expert.
The day I joined the Wii Rockers and all the friends that came and went.
The day I bought GH3 and 5 starred every song on Expert.
The day me and my best friend annihilated a local GH:A contest. We even brought our own sticker-adorned guitars.
Activision may have killed Guitar Hero, but they can never kill the memories!
The first time I played GH2 and stumbled through the Medium career.
The first time I beat a song on Expert.
The day I joined the Wii Rockers and all the friends that came and went.
The day I bought GH3 and 5 starred every song on Expert.
The day me and my best friend annihilated a local GH:A contest. We even brought our own sticker-adorned guitars.
Activision may have killed Guitar Hero, but they can never kill the memories!
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 11:01PM JDBar said
@chocobox
I take it you aren't aware of the community features the Guitar Hero website used to have? Back in the days of GH3 you could join a "tour group' (aka clan) and work together earning virtual "groupies" by playing the game and compete against other tour groups in official competitions or simply trying to be the number 1 tour group with the most groupies. Nowadays the website is absolutely crippled due to the carelessness of Activision and nobody uses these features anymore.
Needless to say, however, you're a dick.
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I take it you aren't aware of the community features the Guitar Hero website used to have? Back in the days of GH3 you could join a "tour group' (aka clan) and work together earning virtual "groupies" by playing the game and compete against other tour groups in official competitions or simply trying to be the number 1 tour group with the most groupies. Nowadays the website is absolutely crippled due to the carelessness of Activision and nobody uses these features anymore.
Needless to say, however, you're a dick.
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 9:40PM InDurdenWeTrust said
Hilarious parody. The futon really set it up.
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 9:57PM Garst said
Was I the only one that found that as lame as the game?
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 10:01PM The1stMJC said
That was terrible, sorry I had to say it. Or it just sounded too awkward.
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 10:30PM Undying said
Its a good thing that it died. Unfortunately now there will be twice as many COD related things coming out every year.
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 10:58PM Tachyonic Cargo said
@Undying Three times as many, if the tentative release schedule Activision announced last year comes to fruition.
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Posted: Feb 19th 2011 11:01PM Staticmojo said
Thank the rock gods the crappy series is done. Rockband is way better anyway's.
Posted: Feb 19th 2011 11:02PM Dr AwesomeMAN96 said
..........................This is why I play Left 4 Dead.
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 12:22AM DarkNightRJ said
Red Bull and Sprite eh? Is that a mix or did they mean it as separate drinks? ....cuz that sounds kinda good.
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 2:13AM doc j said
@chocobox
Speaking of vile and repugnant... time for Halo!
Speaking of vile and repugnant... time for Halo!
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 2:47AM ecco6t9 said
People say this is a tragedy, i say it's tragic it took so long.
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 3:31AM Anticrawl said
Well in this case it's a wonderful thing. They put the old girl down before she had to limp to the barn another time. It would have been great if they ended the series on a good note with Guitar Hero 3.
Hell it's better than what SEGA does to their poor blue hedgehog.
Hell it's better than what SEGA does to their poor blue hedgehog.
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 8:43AM Xupmatoih said
I remember when I first played GH 3 at Sams. Then I bought it, and I made a new friend who Also had Gh3, I remember playing Non-Stop through the Co-Op "Campaign" and then beating him without mercy on Pro-Face off. Then I remember he bought Metallica and started giving ME a beating. I remember teaching My Lil' bro how to play(he was 7), and he worked his way to Expert on his own, and started Wowing his friends. Oh the good days when GH was good; I'll never forget them! :)
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 10:03AM drmoeller said
He should put this song on Rock Band
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 11:36AM SEGA Scream said
Tina Turner sang it best: "We don't need another Hero."
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 2:13PM rcf1105 said
Lots of people lost their jobs over this decision. This isn't really something to cheer. Nobody was forcing you to play the games.
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 2:26PM (Unverified) said
I hope the next game Kotick runs into the ground is COD!
Get your Portable ID!
Get your Portable ID!
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 3:37PM ColorblindMonk said
It's sad to see a franchise milked to death. Kotick must feed, however. He will find another.
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 4:28PM JCDoe said
Why Guitar Hero failed but Rock Band still lives on:
1) They lost Harmonix (actual musicians) and put Neversoft (game designers) in charge of the series.
2) They stopped focusing on songs with guitar shredding and became a Rock Band copycat.
Simple as that, really. If they'd kept actual musicians in charge, and if they'd focused on the GH "niche" instead of trying to be everything to everyone, they'd still be around.
1) They lost Harmonix (actual musicians) and put Neversoft (game designers) in charge of the series.
2) They stopped focusing on songs with guitar shredding and became a Rock Band copycat.
Simple as that, really. If they'd kept actual musicians in charge, and if they'd focused on the GH "niche" instead of trying to be everything to everyone, they'd still be around.
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 6:19PM mcnichoj said
Ignoring all the shitty spin-offs, Guitar Hero was a good franchise.
We also lose DJ Hero in all this, so amongst all the Rock Band fanboy celebrating I hope they took a moment to have silence and mourn a great franchise that never got its chance to be run in to the ground by Kotick.
We also lose DJ Hero in all this, so amongst all the Rock Band fanboy celebrating I hope they took a moment to have silence and mourn a great franchise that never got its chance to be run in to the ground by Kotick.
Posted: Feb 20th 2011 6:25PM fishoutofwater said
I won 75 bucks to GameStop playing Guitar Hero 5 at a local Community Day once...
All the "wasted time" playing that game had finally paid off.
R.I.P.
All the "wasted time" playing that game had finally paid off.
R.I.P.
Posted: Feb 21st 2011 12:35AM Zacxx201 said
I hope this song goes on RBN.
Posted: Feb 22nd 2011 5:55AM primal convoy said
I never really bought into the whole "Guitar Rock Brand" (sic) thing. Kudos to whoever convinced the itunes/torrent generation to pay almost double what itunes charges for a song just to be able to party glorified air-guitar or sing not-quite karaoke until their heart's content, but for me I couldn't see the point. I also haven't got the room in my tiny flat for all the garish overpriced fisher-price toys masquerading as "peripherals" either.
However, I DO like music games. Anyone remember "Beats" on the psp? Something like that would make me "come back" to the music genre, with the ability to use either dlc or your own tunes, loads of nice graphic equalizer backgrounds, etc.
Heck, you could also just use it as an alternative (music) media player, if the function was coded.
That and story based games with original soundtracks, like Parrapa or Lammy...
However, I DO like music games. Anyone remember "Beats" on the psp? Something like that would make me "come back" to the music genre, with the ability to use either dlc or your own tunes, loads of nice graphic equalizer backgrounds, etc.
Heck, you could also just use it as an alternative (music) media player, if the function was coded.
That and story based games with original soundtracks, like Parrapa or Lammy...
Posted: Feb 22nd 2011 11:04PM VaultBoy said
Complaining about accuracy on a five button single strum configuration? Note chart critics make me laugh.
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