Activsion kills guitar hero
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If true, Best. News. Ever.
They completely destroyed the franchise by pumping out release after release, barely supporting them with DLC past the first few months after promising continuous support. I'm pretty sure within the coming months something similar will happen to Rock Band, but considering all Harmonix do is Rock Band and Dance Central, which have DLC every week without fail (RB certainly) it would be a huge suprise.
They completely destroyed the franchise by pumping out release after release, barely supporting them with DLC past the first few months after promising continuous support. I'm pretty sure within the coming months something similar will happen to Rock Band, but considering all Harmonix do is Rock Band and Dance Central, which have DLC every week without fail (RB certainly) it would be a huge suprise.
About time, never the best game concept once its been done once.... What ever any company made of it, it was never going to be a long standing franchise as outside of different songs there's not a lot more that could have been added
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Why are you shocked guitar heroes sales kept on plummeting with each release - nobody cares for thse games anymore, they have been done to death and once you've played one you have played thm all.
Just remember in a few years time cod will be in this exact situation - milk the Market whilst you can and axe the lot once profit starts taking real hits
Just remember in a few years time cod will be in this exact situation - milk the Market whilst you can and axe the lot once profit starts taking real hits
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Guitar Hero would be better if they cleaned it up a little and actually had a decent track list and a bigger selection of DLC. I don't know about you guys but I want my in game player to actually look like a real person, not a cartoony piece of crap and especially in the newer ones where they just have stupid devils and skeletons and stuff it's ridiculous.
Got to agree, it's the too many releases that's killed it.
I bought Guitar Hero 3 and the guitar and also DJ Hero.
I very rarely play them and have never totally finished either properly.
Then you've got the fact they've released about a million different versions and various bits of DLC on top of that. The 'You've played one, you've played them all' is certainly true. But part of me thinks that if they'd staggered the releases a lot more and made each one a big bumper with loads of tracks they may have fared better.
I doubt they are total failures, but Activision are so shrewd that they've probably just dropped them because they aren't making enough of a return.
I bought Guitar Hero 3 and the guitar and also DJ Hero.
I very rarely play them and have never totally finished either properly.
Then you've got the fact they've released about a million different versions and various bits of DLC on top of that. The 'You've played one, you've played them all' is certainly true. But part of me thinks that if they'd staggered the releases a lot more and made each one a big bumper with loads of tracks they may have fared better.
I doubt they are total failures, but Activision are so shrewd that they've probably just dropped them because they aren't making enough of a return.
Is that the latest true crime game that was meant to be out in a few months? True Crime Hong Kong? Or something?
If it was then damn. I was looking forward to that. Is was meant to have some innovative melee martial arts control system. Sounded like it was going to be good.
Excuse me for saying this but activision are real bas&£@ds.
If it was then damn. I was looking forward to that. Is was meant to have some innovative melee martial arts control system. Sounded like it was going to be good.
Excuse me for saying this but activision are real bas&£@ds.
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5?!
What's happening with Modern Warfare now? Last I heard was that the original heads of Infinity Ward had gone to another publisher, possibly EA, and were going to carry on making "Modern Warfare" games while Activision kept the rights to Call of Duty and continued to publish it alongside Treyarch developing. Though there was also a legal battle going on between the former bosses of Infinity Ward and Activision?
They have also killed the new true crime game tooI was looking forward to that one
This I am incredibly annoyed about. The developers seem to have done so much work already on creating a truly realistic Hong Kong. There was even a new video on the Xbox dash showcasing some new gameplay.
Is there no way another publisher could pick it up? Was it being done by an in-house Activision team?
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Well if its as bad as true crime la then thank god
We'll find out at a court hearing in May
Respawn Entertainment is essentially everyone who was at IW when they were developing MW2, but have since all left since that bust-up with Activision last year to join this new company and start work on what I hope will be the next true MW3 installment.
According to rumours acti has got 3 of those 5 devs working on MW3 to get it out for this November, because of the mass exodus at iw they didn’t have enough people to do the job.
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All i can say is thank god for that! Ever since activision/neversoft took over the Guitar Hero franchise from Harmonix, the series has been taking a swan dive.
Guitar Hero 3 was fantastic, the songs were great, the game engine was great (ghost notes and all) and the charting was great but then they release GH:WT which in theory should have been fantastic but was seriously let down by too many dull songs and incredibly boring or OTT charting of songs.
After that the series just felt like all life was sucked from it, with possibly the exception of GH:Van Halen which felt more like a classic Guitar Hero game and I have to admit it's my favourite Guitar Hero game since GH3
I wonder how Harmonix feel about this news? Considering they were the ones who originally developed the Guitar Hero franchise and to see quite a "reputable" company kill there baby must be quite hard...
Guitar Hero 3 was fantastic, the songs were great, the game engine was great (ghost notes and all) and the charting was great but then they release GH:WT which in theory should have been fantastic but was seriously let down by too many dull songs and incredibly boring or OTT charting of songs.
After that the series just felt like all life was sucked from it, with possibly the exception of GH:Van Halen which felt more like a classic Guitar Hero game and I have to admit it's my favourite Guitar Hero game since GH3
I wonder how Harmonix feel about this news? Considering they were the ones who originally developed the Guitar Hero franchise and to see quite a "reputable" company kill there baby must be quite hard...