I have to admit it's a possibly wise move. Band/Guiter hero type games, while fun for a little while got boring and became serious business once you'd had enough of the handful of decent songs (there is only so much YMCA a young Fayt and friend can take). Plus with DJ Hero being something I laugh at every time I hear it being mentioned, I can't really blame them for axing it. The best way to save it would be to come up with a music game that focuses on more than a minimum of one genre (and all it's excess sub categories). I recommend Band vs Orchestra vs DJ Hero.
I'll have to be honest with you on this one. I'm quite glad that Activision took out it's Guitar Hero franchise. They were loosing the battle against Rock Band it just became more and more repetitive each game they made and tagged GH on. It also became more and of an endurance test than anything else. Rock Band all the way, baby!
While I agree that Guitar Hero needsd a rest, I was really looking forward to the True Crime reboot. I love open world games when done well and True Crime looked like it was shaping up well. I can't believe they scraped it. Well that's just great, we can go on to more COD and WoW until those series are drained of what little diginity and originality they have left. What a let down by Activision, I only hope they realise their mistake.
How many Guitar Heroes were there in total? Doesn't matter. There were way too many, with not enough variation between them. The franchise started out well, but it became a cash cow too early into its lifespan, so it had to be put down. Stuff like Mario and Sonic, on the other hand, will be milked until the end of gaming.
Let's look at the history of the Guitar Hero series since Activision took over in 2007: 2007: Guitar Hero II for 360, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s and Guitar Hero III. OK, not bad. A port, an expantion to the previous game (quality of said contractual obligations expansion not withstanding) and a main series game. A main game and expansion is not a bad business model. 2008: Guitar Hero: On Tour, Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, Guitar Hero World Tour. Here we see the beginning of the end. While they continue the model of one main game and one expansion, they released two DS games in the same six month period. 2009: Guitar Hero Metallica, Guitar Hero: On Tour Modern Hits, Guitar Hero Smash Hits, Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and Guitar Hero Van Halen. Six games in one year. That's three World Tour (Van Halen was released after GH5, but was based on World Tour) expansions, one handheld game, one main series game and one GH5 expansion. It doesn't help that the only two of these six games worth playing were Metallica and GH5. 2010: Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock. Activision appeared to have learned their lesson, but, really, Warriors of Rock was only made to test the market to see if more Guitar Hero would be a viable option, especially when you take note of how they were planning to release three times more games than in 2009. Remind me of who in the hell would want 18 Guitar Hero games in one year? That's a total of 14 games (13 if you don't count the 360 port of Guitar Hero II) in 4 years. I'm not surprised that the ridiculous oversaturation has effectively killed the franchise. The thing that pisses me off though is that it most likely has taken Rock Band (which has been better made since the first damn game and the only Guitar Hero that is argualby better than even Rock Band 1 was Guitar Hero II, which was made by the same team as Rock Band) with it. As for True Crime, its sucked since day 1, so it was mostly just a walking zombie.
i don't really have an opinion about True Crime but I think they're making the right move with Guitar Hero. i think people are getting bored of seeing these new Guitar Hero games coming out.
I only rarely play Guitar Hero when I get bored and it's at a electronics store or arcade. My rhythm and beat is still too terrible to continually play, though I did manage the easiest song in arcade once. *yes, point and laugh, I'm hopeless* So it really doesn't matter on neither since I never heard of True Crime either. Though I do agree on that being way too many games. Okay... *reaches up and pulls on anti-flame helmet and mask, holding flame shield in front of me* I think the milking will continue with Mario, *starting to fall to the dark side of a game every single year* Sonic *HOW many games are now coming out a year for that milked dry and really bad game franchise now?* Final Fantasy *again, dark side with one a year series games, and they're getting pretty damned terrible, too* and Pokemon. *cowers under flame shield, starting to see once a year games, and also the games since Silver are really pointless unless you buy five other games from the series to catch all the pokemon, not including the fact that there's never any new plot* I am now going to stay behind this flame proof rock and wait for the flamers.
As much as Guitar Hero went to **** I'm going to miss it. I love my crappy plastic guitars. Now with Harmonix not doing well, it's not looking good. It's a shame about True Crime, the game looked pretty decent. The problem here is that they have killed a milked franchise so they can milk another. They said they want to concentrate on CoD, Starcraft and WoW. You can't rely so much on only 3 franchises. They need to takes risks and create new IP's and they just aren't doing it. Many of their studios have either be closed down or had staff fired. This means they aren't going to want to make new games and instead milk the ones they have. EA at least let their developers try new things, not all of them work but still. Activision are too economically minded and worry too much about keeping shareholders happy and almost ignore the rest of their stakeholders. They aren't very sustainable. CoD will eventually fall, so what next? They can't rely on Blizzard for everything.
I've played Gutair Hero and True Crime, they were okay games, but can get boring after awhile - when I first heard the news I was pretty surprised but on the other hand honestly I knew those games weren't going to last that long.
I was wondering when this was going to happen. There have honestly been way too many Guitar Hero games, I feel personally that things started going downhill not long after World Tour, when they decided to try competing with Rock Band. I've never tried True Crime, I'd like to, just to see why they've ended up axing it. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't feel too much like going back to them after I've finished them. I'll unlock all the songs, play through them a few times, and that's it. Maybe every so often a friend and I will rock out together, but even then it's only a handful of songs and then we end up finding something else to do. My younger brother's really the only one who regularly goes back to replay songs after he's already beaten the game and gotten 100% on all the songs. He's actually taking this news bit pretty hard, he just got Warriors of Rock for Christmas but hasn't finished it yet.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong there. You can complete the Pokédex with three games and the use of a Wifi connection. One from DPPt, one from HGSS, one from BW, and the wifi connection to use the trading options. Those games are all different, and thanks to wifi, they've left the 'buy the game——Twice!' mentality behind to a certain extent. You'd be right about the new plot, except for BW, which is deviating rather strongly from the norm. Sure, there's still the gym quest, a staple of all main Pokémon games, but the actual storyline is different. (If you're talking about a complete revamp, there are console-based spinoffs for that). But yeah, Pokémon is a cash cow. The important thing to note is that it's a healthy cow that'll be mooing for quite some time yet.
Quit Frankly, I'm pretty glad this Fad is wearing down and is gone now, i loved Guitar hero 3, and I liked world Tour, and Metallica was my favorite, the main thing I'm trying to say though is that Guitar Hero was wayyyyy to overrated, and I lost interest in the games wayyyyy too fast. I could only play on Hard mode and it was pretty ridiculous watching the losers with no lives destroy on expert mode(no offense to anyone that can do this, but just too many people brag about it and its really annoying). True Crime, ehhhh, I never really got into the series too much i liked NYC(i think that was the one I'm thinking of with the black dude as the main character) and i Also liked SOLA, But in the end its just like Grand THeft Auto. I also Heard that Rockband is gonna be giving up soon too, I'm not too informed about that so can't really bash me about that cause it's jsut a rumor I am hearing.
As one of those people who play Rock Band and Guitar Hero on expert, yeah, it really takes a serious interest in the genre to get to that level, but its not worth bragging about. So you're good at a game? Big whoop. I really only practiced to get to expert entirely because I see Rock Band as a great way to enjoy music.
I will agree that in past games you could effectively see True Crime as GTA but your a cop. However, you can't just call it a GTA game. What was good about this next True Crime game coming out this year was the steering away from GTA type gameplay and mechanics. You had free-running type events, more and diverse close fighting forms, better emphasise on story-telling by moral choices being made, and more cinematic type gameplay events. With all the changes being made I was hoping for a good open-world game, but now that's not going to be. Just don't call it a GTA clone. It wasn't going to be like that. I t was going to be more original. But that was shot down, unfortunately.
