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| Author: | Tanuki [ 10 Feb 2011, 20:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6298334.html According to the company's latest financial report, the 2011 installment of the game has been axed, and "the company will disband Activision Publishing's Guitar Hero business unit." The company also confirmed that the DJ Hero series is being discontinued. That was...fast. |
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| Author: | DaFox [ 10 Feb 2011, 23:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
No surprises here. They pushed it too hard too fast and killed it. If we were getting say like the third GH this year and it was super innovative i'm sure it would still be relative. But.... alas they gave us like 10 doses within 4 years or so, everyone sort of just got sick of it. Edit: Not to mention losing Harmonix after the second game. |
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| Author: | Hydralisk_X [ 11 Feb 2011, 04:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
This is making its rounds on the internet today, but IRC they announced that GH6 (the most recent one) was going to be their last before it even released? |
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| Author: | Paradigm Shifter [ 11 Feb 2011, 13:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
When you look at a list of all the 'music' games that came out based on this idea since the first one (which only came out in 2005!) you can see why the genre died - too much, too fast = market saturation... and frankly, they probably would have done better had they released specific songs as DLC rather than as whole new games. I'm (as a general rule) not in favour of DLC, but I don't think there were more than one or two songs in each game that I would have actually been interested in. Except, possibly, the Beatles specific one. |
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| Author: | DaFox [ 12 Feb 2011, 04:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
and frankly, they probably would have done better had they released specific songs as DLC rather than as whole new games. Harmonix did that with Rock Band, they have a couple thousand songs to play on RB now. |
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| Author: | Abram [ 12 Feb 2011, 04:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
It's been axed? Pun intended? |
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| Author: | Paradigm Shifter [ 14 Feb 2011, 13:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
It's been axed? Pun intended? Perhaps it got Slashed? (How many bad puns can we come up with?) |
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| Author: | yogibbear [ 14 Feb 2011, 14:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
I got guitar hero 2 when it came out. Slaughtered the game getting everything on expert or whatever. Then never played it again and had no interest in ever playing it again. Much prefer actual guitars. |
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| Author: | suiken_2mieu [ 14 Feb 2011, 20:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
Eh this was bound to happen. I'm not surprised or shocked or whatever. I didn't like that the music genre was getting saturated (much like the shooter genre). Problem was the the expensiveness of the games they were making and no one wanting to go all out on buying a new set of peripherals. I do think it was dumb (also) that they didn't keep controller support. It wouldn't have been hard to do, but they axed that. |
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| Author: | Soduka [ 15 Feb 2011, 05:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guitar Hero Officially Dead |
, but they axed that. Heh. |
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