The Guitar Hero franchise is one of the most saturated and whored-out franchises there is, with a new main sequel every year and plenty of spin-offs in between. Fortunately, Activision made the deal a little sweeter by kindly offering to let players import songs from Guitar Hero: World Tour to the freshly released Guitar Hero 5. The bad news?
Dtoid reader "Joker's Boner" discovered that the much-lauded import feature doesn't even come close to supporting World Tour's full tracklist. In fact, you can only import 35 of World Tour's 85 songs to the new game. After all the bluster about not having to swap discs and being able to play your old favorites in a brand new game, this ridiculous compromise has fallen way short of expectations. The info's now made its way to Wikipedia, but for some reason nobody else has noticed what utter horsecrap this all is.
Even worse, you are being expected to pay for this farce. Activision will take $3.50 (250 MS Points) for you to download a 1.27GB "GHWT Disc Import" file. Meanwhile, Rock Band 2 let you download all but a few tracks from the Rock Band 1 playlist for five bucks. I think we can all see what the better deal here is.
Even when Activision tries to offer something to its audience, it can't help throwing in a little bit of evil. What absolute fail. Hit the jump to find out what songs have been deemed worthy of import.
[Update: Word from Activision is that the import list isn't definitive. While these 35 tracks are the ones available right now, the list will be updated as licenses for songs are cleared and the tracks are updated to take advantage of Guitar Hero 5's new features.]
"About a Girl (Unplugged)" - Nirvana
"Are You Gonna Go My Way" - Lenny Kravitz
"Band on the Run" - "Wings
"Dammit" - Blink 182
"Demolition Man (Live)" - Sting
"Do it Again" - Steely Dan
"Everlong" - Foo Fighters
"Heartbreaker" - Pat Benatar"
"Hollywood Nights" - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
"The Joker" - The Steve Miller Band
"The Kill" - 30 Seconds from Mars
"L'Via L'Viaquez" - The Mars Volta
"Lazy Eye" - Silversun Pickups
"Livin' on a Prayer" - Bon Jovi
"Love Spreads" - The Stone Roses
"The Middle" - Jimmy Eat World
"Never Too Late" - The Answer
"No Sleep Till Brooklyn" - Beastie Boys
"Obstacle 1" - Interpol
"One Armed Scissor" - At the Drive In
"One Way or Another" - Blondie
"Our Truth" - Lacuna Coil
"Overkill" - Motorhead
"Re-Education Through Labor" - Rise Against
"Santeria" - Sublime
"Shiver" - Coldplay
"Soul Doubt" - NOFX
"Spiderwebs" - No Doubt
"Still Born" - Black Label Society
"Stranglehold" - Ted Nugent
"Sweet Home Alabama (Live)" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Today" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Toy Boy" - Suck Up in the Sound
"Up Around The Bend" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"You're Gonna Say Yeah!" - Hushpuppies
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12:40 PM on 09.01.2009
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For $5 you could NOT let you import the entire setlist. As far as I can remember it excluded the Aerosmith song, Paranoid, and Enter Sandman.
Okay yes you get less songs with this import feature but it IS cheaper and Activision put out this list months ago. This isn't news.
The fad of ripping on Guitar Hero is spiraling out of control. For all the series faults it deserves a little defense.
The story was corrected before you even posted your comment. As for this being known months ago, it's surprising no had talked about it. The first we had heard about it was from our tipster, and following these games is our job. To most people this will be news, I'm sure.
He didn't say that you could download the whole thing.
250 MS Points for a slap in the face. Remember kids, they'd "charge even more if they could."
This is news to a lot of people. Just because you knew about it, doesn't mean nobody else should know about it. Like the story says, it was on Wikipedia, but *nobody* noticed it. No blog picked it up when they should've, because it's a big deal. So, consider this a public information service.
money money money. mooooney.
You would have thought that Assassin would have made the cut since Matt Bellamy is a playable character in GH5.
so later they have an excuse to charge you for the rest of the songs.
42 songs available to users to import. 93% of the songs from the disc. Roughly 12 cents per song.
GH:World Tour has 85 songs. 50 songs are not part of the import. You can import 41% of the songs available on WT into GH5. 10 cents per song.
So...you're right on it being cheaper. 2 cents cheaper per song. But would you rather be an owner of RB1, with the option to play practically all of your favorites, or the owner of GH:WT, with the option to play less-than half of your favorites?
That's why people are ripping on it.
When I read it it wasn't fixed. If it's fixed than great.
I've seen this list in different places. That said it was before I really started hanging around DToid heavily so if it's not here already my fault. You guys are usually on top of things so I just made assumptions.
@funran
I am a total Harmonix fanboy. Always will be. I'm one of the editors for a Rock Band blog and I have a pretty impressive collection of contributions to the Rock Band forum. Rock Band will always be may favorite and my baby. Probably my favorite game of all time honestly because I've managed to squeeze so much out of it.
I don't even play GH DLC because it's a waste of time and money.
That said I have no problem with Guitar Hero. World Tour sucked huge balls but otherwise I've always been able to find some enjoyment out of the series. And I couldn't care less if Activision published it. Maybe I'm not hardcore enough or cool enough but if I can have fun out of it then I'm happy. I can play Guitar Hero and have fun so yes I do buy GH. It's by no means my favorite and I don't even think this offer is a good deal. I think it's BS. I was just pointing out some errors I saw when I was reading it and consequently got a little peeved by the mounds of hate the series gets.
There's no way I'm importing these songs if I ever buy Guitar Hero 5, given that I'll have to pop the disc back in to play my favourites anyway. I'm still staving off World Tour DLC, since individual songs are 60% more expensive than Rock Band's on the PS3.
Having just brought Rock Band 2 (which has around 200 songs on my disc right now) this is quite a poor move. In other news, Lego Rock Band will apparently have a set to import, so go with that instead.
Look at GH studio for one. The thing is like a pod. And you can how upload like 50 songs now. And guess what there free to Download.
I am sorry but I see this thing as crap.
Jim did you not say in a past podcast something to the effect of "You are paying for what is on the disk not DLC that will be promised at a later date."
This is the same idea, it is a new game. Even tho everyone likes to say Activision is a money sucker, they are there to make games and to make money. When you say stuff like this you discredit everyone that worked hard on the game.
And I hate seeing things like "Yeah. Anyone who buys Guitar Hero is a fucking moron. Rock Band is better. Harmonix cares for its fans, not like Activision.I once slapped someone in Gamestop who tried to say WT is fun."
I am sorry Gene but you do not have the right to be so stupid as to "slap" some one for liking a game. That is one of the dumbest post I have seen on Dtoid.
Wow...bummer.
Yay. Yet another game disc. No thanks.
I don't even care about World Tour tracks because I fired Guitar Hero after III, but it's funny that Activision is still struggling so mightily to offer what Harmonix has offered for ages, and they're still failing so miserably.
It feels a little like how Sony trips over itself constantly to stay within a mile of the Xbox and Xbox Live. Like there's no competitive analysis going on whatsoever.
Also, the Kurt Cobain video I saw earlier today made me die a little inside (where he's singing You Give Love A Bad Name). Kurt's rolling in his fucking grave.
I almost feel bad with the ability to rent Lego Rock Band and have all the songs on disc. I wonder if they'll get around that...
You are retarded.
Guitar Hero 1 and 2 were made by HARMONIX. Not the guys who make Tony Hawk.
Secondly GH Aerosmith isn't ACDC. ACDC wasn't a full priced game sold with a guitar, it was a game which gave you the option to play it by itself or to download the entire tracklist to Rock Band 1 or 2. The only reason it wasn't download in the first place is because ACDC hates Digital Distrubution.
Rock the 80s is NOT Lego RB. Lego RB is for kids, has kid oriented songs that can evidently be once again imported to Rock Band 1 or 2 if you want the songs.
GH on tour has done 3 games so far. RB has 1 for the PSP, and they do downloads which GH on Tour does not.
Metallica is a POS compared to Beatles, everything for the Beatles game was redone, like specific background while playing for the specific songs. Specific venues and not some quick remoddling of the guys on stage with a band that just wants money instead of just releasing a download pack.
IMO only bands that deserve their own game are the Beatles and Led Zeppelin. As their music spans generations of people. Hell I am a HUGE Rush fan and don't believe they deserve their own game, just more downloads.
And do you have to pay a separate DLC "export" fee for that game as well?
PS. I have both games (World Tour/RB 2) and like them both equally. But atleast when I adjust the lag on one instrument is doesn't screw up the other in World Tour. In order to play with multiple people in RB2 I have to compromise and manually adjust lag somewhere in between. That is bullshit.
Hell yeah dude. Love that shit. RB importing is the way to go. Only reason I buy the full games is because it has the Harmonix logo on it.
That said I wish I was getting compensation for buying RB:U. :(
@Milo128
You need a history lesson. Hate when people jump in around GH3 and then wanna start teaching history.
@ Xzyliac
This is news because no one has heard of it. Also, the three missing songs from Rock Band 1's export feature were Run to the Hills, Paranoid, and Enter Sandman. (The Aerosmith song cover was still included.) Of those three, Enter Sandman was probably not relicensed due to Metallica's insistence on their own game, and Run to the Hills was rereleased as a master version available as DLC, leaving Paranoid as the only song whose absence is unexplained.
@ Discarded Couch Sandwich
Rock Band's AC/DC pack has a code inside to download the tracks to Rock Band 1/2. There's no export function on the disc, so renting it isn't worth it - you have to buy a copy. Hope that saves you a little money.
Rock Band 1 has 58 on-disc songs, not 45. Three cannot import, leaving 55 that can. That's 95% of the songs, or roughly 9 cents per song.
THANK YOU! I knew I was mistaken and you're right Run to the Hills certainly is in the store.
Also I think Sandwich said he was gonna borrow the game from a friend. Can't you use the export like 3 times or something like that? I'm probably wrong. The whole import/export thing is one of those things that's so simple I just don't think about it and forget how it works.