Activision announced earlier today Guitar Hero Greatest Hits during their financial conference call. The game will be comprised of the songs Guitar Hero fans liked the most from Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. All of these repackaged songs from the earlier games will be remade to work with all of Guitar Hero World Tour’s instruments. Guitar Hero Greatest Hits will be out sometime within the next two quarters for the Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3.
It's really annoying seeing that this is just going to be a repackaging of songs people already bought. Why don't they just re-release all of the older songs as DLC? Whatever, I'm just glad I'm not into these games. I can just play Simon Says while listening to my iTunes library on shuffle and have the same experiences. Oh no he didn't!
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5:32 PM on 02.11.2009
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This is somewhat intriguing since there were some really great tracks in the previous GHs, but some of them have actually become unplayable to me.
Depending on if they're all masters (which I assume they have to be), and the content they pack (which i'm assuming isn't much), I may have to check out.
Seriously cut it out Activision!
this is why I choose rock band
When old songs come out as Rock Band DLC, everyone gets stoked, but when they're put on a disc by Activision it's milking all of a sudden. I just don't get it.
anybody back me up on this? nick? critialdamage? god? anyone...
HungLaser, don't expect back up.
Not in a million years. Activision loves whoring franchises, and they will charge as much as humanly possible for this ridiculous fucking thing.
Especially since I don't have GH3 for my 360...yet. lol.
I would buy it. I don't care if it is 60 bucks. I always wanted to play Freebird in a full band. :D
OH! What if they re-release Thunderhorse from Dethklok and put in the version from Dethalbum! That would be awesome!
...but that would kill drummers. lol.
>golf clap<
Dude. You fucking rule \m/
I get the "well, you can get more songs for the money thing," but I don't necessary agree that's better for me (or gamers). For one, I enjoy being able to pick and choose my collection. If Activision throws together a greatest hits package, it can't be guaranteed that I'll love all of the songs on the disc. It's possible that some of my money won't be well-spent.
Now considering that they already have a game in place that should theoretically allow downloads of these songs -- Guitar Hero World Tour -- this rubs me the wrong way. Releasing the songs via DLC and also releasing the package seems like a good way to go, but there's no indication they'll do that (and they probably won't).
At the end of the day, I've become accustomed to putting one disc in my console and having the option to choose one of 500 or so songs. This seems archaic to me, and a cheap money grab. But again, it's smart business, and you can't say Activision haven't been smart with business.
Guitar Hero, is the new Tony Hawk.
On a positive note, I don't mind them making it playable with all the instruments from World Tour, but I'm fairly positive it's not the master tracks from those games. Something tells me that they're just going to port those songs directly from those games. Just watch.
If I'm wrong, I'll be happy.
I've got every guitar hero ( except Rock The 80's and Aerosmith ), just let me send them a pic with all my crap and then have them send me a 'voucher' to get all the games for free?
I mean, why the hell would I pay for what I already have???