MTV acquires Harmonix. Future Guitar Hero games are possibly handed over to Neversoft for development. An eight-year-old owns "Psychobilly Freakout" on expert (rumor -- he's also having sex with your girlfriend). What other weird, potentially series-crushing developments can possibly happen next?
How about Activision trademarking "Guitar Villain" and "Drum Villain"? According to GameSpot, the application covers "computer game software in a variety of forms, including downloadable games, games sold together with controllers, arcade games, and games sold with electronic toy guitars." Oh dear.
While no further information has been revealed on what (if anything) these "villains" mean (Activision refused to comment; Red Octane maintains they're hard at work on the 360 version of Guitar Hero II), it's hard not to feel that the series is dangerously close to jumping the shark. With the success of the Guitar Hero franchise, it would be crazy to think that the series would go untainted. But this soon?
I would eat dog food out of a toilet bowl once a week if it meant seeing new Guitar Hero content more frequently than once a year, but it's still hard to shake these bad vibes I'm getting.
What, if anything, would kill the series for you?
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10:24 AM on 01.18.2007
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Less emphasis on music, and more on pimping my guitar hero
Massive in game advertising
MTV Generation hosts at every turn with trendy catchphrases
Top of the pops "rock" music
Tons of new age punk acts
Few if any grass roots bands
Series Makers:
Easter Egg where Pearl Jam busts in, Brutally murder's any would be host in sight, and proceeds to rip out the set in the name of an anti-MTV anti-corporate liberation movement. "Rock Coffee"
What would kill the series ? Well a better series of course !
And to me this sounds and looks like Harmonix are working on a Guitar Hero Killer themselves.
Next stop > Platform spanning, multi-instrument wireless orchestra beatgame
Or more likely > something way cooler !
2) MTV produces the game
What would make the game
A concert mode where you play 12-15 songs randomized from the main list back to back with no break in between, in the Ultimate endurance trials
1)Start putting in songs that are not rock songs. I perfer to stay far away from country songs.
2)Them putting in any Good Charlettes song.
3)Having a larger selection of Emo bands.
Save it:
Same as what the guys before me said. Hopefully internet matchmaking on the 360 version. Also mixing Guitar Hero and Kareoke Revolution might not be a bad idea. We allready sing along to the song while jamming so why not? Or to make it easier, have second player sing.
if they sell out like kiss did int he late 70's
save it:
Guitar Hero Pro came out and added fingertapping capabilities on the fret board. That way they can add more Van Halen tunes...
Wurlitzer hero? Awesome. Fiddle hero? Awesome.
How about something like Piano hero? Something that actually teaches the instrument while you kick butt like the rockstar you are.
one person playin lead, one playin rhythm, one playin bass, and one playin drums? you can have your own talentless band/clan. maybe there could even be 'battle of the bands' type comps.
so long as the song selection remains tasteful, fucking up guitar hero is like fucking up toast. you gotta be real stupid to fuck up toast.
Slide Guitar Hero.
Oh, and if they ever run out of Dethklok or Spinal Tap songs.
"Thunderhorse" accidentally ended up becoming one of my favorite driving songs ever.
I'm just wondering if the next Guitar Hero will have "Bitch School" or "Sex Farm Woman" on there...
And I nominate "Mermaid-er" as the next song Dethklok song too.
of course MTV will still ruin the franchise on its own
And yes, even certain pop songs.