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Guitar Hero coming to DS as Guitar Hero: On Tour?
11:52 AM on 01.27.2008, Nick Chester 34 comments

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Besides the fact that we know a portable version of Guitar Hero will be making its way to the Nintendo DS, we really know little else. Red Octane's Charles Huang had insinuated that the game might take advantage of a peripheral, but clearly that's not necessary for a portable Guitar Hero experience. 

Some new information has come to light, and unfortunately, it may just be the game's name. Trademork.com has uncovered a Activision's trademark filing for "Guitar Hero On Tour," which really could be anything. But given this French Web site's listing of Guitar Hero: On Tour for release on the Nintendo DS later this year (via GoNintendo), we're just putting two and two together. 

Games like Elite Beat Agents and even Daigasso! Band Brothers have proven that decent (if not great) rhythm games could be successful on the DS. Let's hope that rock n' roll on the go is just as fun.

 

 


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Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 01/27/2008 11:55
Sweet.
Peronthious's Avatar
Peronthious at 01/27/2008 11:58
I don't know about the iPod version; I found it pretty fun, and importing your own music is definitely a plus. To each his own, I guess.
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MishoM at 01/27/2008 12:07
Really the whole selling point of Guitar Hero is that you have the guitar and you can act like a member of Boston, (of if you're awesome, you act like a member of A Flock Of Seagulls), this is just missing everything that makes Guitar Hero so awesome. Unless they completely re-do this game, then I doubt it'll be to good.

However, if they give us a guitar pick-stylus and make it so that we have to pluck strings on the touch screen, I don't think it'd be to bad. But again, I don't think they'd go away from the normal. :/
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Nick Chester at 01/27/2008 12:07
I didn't realized Guitar Hero came on the iPod. Are you guys talking about Phase?
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 01/27/2008 12:15
Wait, are you suggesting that Elite Beat Agents isn't great? Just wait until Agent Chieftain gets here...
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Scary Womanizing Pig Mask at 01/27/2008 12:17
@Nick Chester
Yup. Phase was made by the team that made the orignal Guitar Heroes and Rock Band, so I consider it Guitar Hero for the iPod.

@Peronthious
Indeed. I did like importing my own music though. My main problem beside the control method was that because the music didn't stop when you missed a note like in Guitar Hero/Rock Band, it all felt detached. You weren't making the music, you were moving your fingers along with it, which I didn't like.

Sonic for the iPod is incredible though.
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SourGr8pes at 01/27/2008 12:18
AGENTS ARE.................

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AlucardX24 at 01/27/2008 12:55
*queue Ouendan dancing to Through the Fire and Flames*
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BA Chieftain at 01/27/2008 13:06
Rock band for the DS, with local wifi "any instrument in the GBA port" accessibility.

Not happening... just saying, it'd be bad ass.
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Your moms new boyfriend at 01/27/2008 13:28
Isn't On Tour that crappy GH belt buckle thing?
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liqideos at 01/27/2008 14:08
I always thought it could work for psp and ds if they made a guitar neck that plugged into the system and clipped on, and you just pressed the b or x button as a the strum bar, and you would still have the neck of the guitar on the handheld.

It'd be funky, but people are whores and would still buy it in droves.
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qo_op at 01/27/2008 14:11
I say we boycott GH until they give us a decent console version. After 3, theyve lost me.
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RitualNet at 01/27/2008 14:34
What about that Jam Sessions, that's supposedly like playing a guitar (if the guitar is DS shaped, with a screen instead of strings), that's a 'guitar game'. Would they do it like that?
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xdaytime at 01/27/2008 14:49
Cool, but why not PSP? I think a mini guitar that plugs into the psp's usb port would be awesome.
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MechaMonkey at 01/27/2008 14:58
Is it just me, or does Hendrix look like he's considering inserting that stylus in his nostril?
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Kyousuke Nanbu at 01/27/2008 15:22
Fuck Guitar Hero, I want EBA2 and Ouendan 3.
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Cowboy TTop at 01/27/2008 16:36
I don't mean to sound elitist, but unless they are doing something similar to Jam Sessions that allows free play to play what you want, I don't see the point in a DS version.

Why? Because the DS already has Ouendan, Ouendan 2, EBA, Jam Sessions, Hanna Montana Music Jam, Nodame Cantabile, Daigasso Band Bros, Taiko Drum Master, Draglade etc.

In short the DS has plenty of music games that only require the DS and said game, many of which knock GH for six. Just leave GH on home consoles where its strength is.

With GH its about the guitar, with all those previous games its about using the DS and nothing more.
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Cowboy TTop at 01/27/2008 16:42
That's just my opinion above, its okay to disagree.
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Fading Star at 01/27/2008 17:38
Yay?
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grrza at 01/27/2008 17:59
This gets a big meh until they release some gameplay info.

Plus, no has questioned what they might do for content. A minicartridge cannot hold as many songs as a dvd. So, if they decide to go the wifi route, does that mean you're gonna have to sit through a download before playing each song? Or will you stream the songs and get stuck with buffering messages when the net inevitably slows down? Or, are they just going to stick with silly midi versions of the songs?
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BA Chieftain at 01/27/2008 18:01
DISAGREEING IS FORBIDDENZ!!

Also, I for one am RAVENOUS for a new EBA, despite owning half the games listed (importing is just outside my price rang emost of the time). I would welcome any and all music games for the DS, and would appreciate Japan ceasing all the bogarting of titles.
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liqideos at 01/27/2008 18:09
They bogart the good games because Japan isn't at a gaming fervor only because soccer moms are always looking for a Wii for all the wrong shitty titles, and the same applies to the DS. Why bring EBA 2 when it would be outsold by some bullshit like Petz Dolphinz?

You should import yourself into Japan if you want to play the optimal games.
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Redface at 01/27/2008 19:28
There is no iPod version of Guitar hero, you twats. That game is called "Phase", it is a game in it's own right, not meant to be compared to any major console release.

Gawd! Getting off my soapbox now...
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Necros at 01/27/2008 20:02
Do not want.
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ThelolDranger at 01/27/2008 21:22
Redface, you either didn't read, or ignored the post above. Who made Phase? Made by Harmonix, might as well be Guitar Hero, screw the name. You twat.
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Holiday at 01/27/2008 22:53
It's quite possible because it's already been done: Jam Sessions for the DS. Problem is the DS has a cheap plastic D-Pad that kinda limits you to four chords. Meaning that in Jam Sessions you can choose up to eight chords but the D-Pad only really works smoothly with four.
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jpitner at 01/27/2008 23:20
Then let's just go back in time and call frequency and amplitude nothing but guitar hero light. If you're going to call something else by a different name; may as well go on a company's entire history, then. It's Amplitude mobile way the hell more than guitar hero mobile. (that goes for that shitty phone "guitar" hero game as well; granted not made by HMX)
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Cowboy TTop at 01/28/2008 02:23
Guitar Hero is also a game that survive on the whoring of dl mainstream music. With DS card capacity probably giving out midi music, I shouldn't jump too soon at that assumption though, since Ouendan /EBA managed about 17 tracks of decent quality.

Either way, while with compression it might be possible to get 30 tracks on a card, I still won't be buying it. I'll hold out for Ouendan 3.

Ouendan!!!
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Inv4d3r G1R at 01/28/2008 02:41
I'm not very... interested.
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dethrock at 01/28/2008 10:41
@ThelolDranger

If it's called Phase, than it's not Guitar Hero. Just because the same company made it does not make it the same game. Amplitude and Frequency are made by Harmonix and they're rhythm games, does that make them Guitar Hero as well?
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Dan CiTi at 01/28/2008 18:41
If it's an Amplitude port/sequel of some kind I'll be pleased.
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