Guitar Hero is dead? (No more DLC, no game in 2011)

**EfJay** · Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 74 Location: Quebec City, Canada

I wouldn't hold my breath for another Guitar Hero...
With 500 people losing their jobs, you gotta hope they were serious about ending it.
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yakityyakblah wrote:

Yeah, like Quebec is a real place. I mean come on guys.

**Deedooh** · Joined: 15 Feb 2011 Posts: 104

Hi guys!

Veteran (since GH1 on ps2) and expert guitarrist/drummer here.

This is a sad day indeed. Somehow I could see it coming, and I think I can outline some reasons aswell.

Was it the "oversaturation of releases"? I don't think so.

I think the number one reason was the release strategy of GHWT (which to me, at this day strangly enough stands out as the overall best "band"-game in the GH-genre to this day(!)). Neversoft knew at the time that they had a million of guitarrist fans, and yet, they still released a game full of "mellow" songs suitable for band play. Was this a smart descision? I don't think so.

And we know the outburst amongst the fans on GHWT.

I would rather have seen a strategy where the drums and singing would have become slowly "adapted" into Guitar Hero via their own solo games like a "Drum Hero" and "Sing Hero", later followed by a Rock Band competitor in "Band Hero" unifying all instruments.

If Neversoft would have gone this path, they could have both kept the large early steamroller fanbase by giving them a guitar oriented GH4 while slowly learnt them drums and vocals by those two other games, which ofcourse both would have had excellent songs, carrer & online modes for respective instrument as well.

Still, things become what they become.

In these later releases since GHWT I've noticed a demise of players online, and I think part the reason for this is the difference in grafical interface of online modes. I experienced it myself, and I talked to numerous players online feeling the same; they can't hit notes in online modes even half as good as they can playing solo. Why? Again - the interface changes since GH5, with the "scaled down" solo mode fretboard really seems to cripple play. Try GHWT, things are a mile better, and this is with a seperate layout for online play (as was with GH3). Somehow it seems Neversoft focused on graphical resulotion & effects improvements at a cost of functionally working things. And I even sense there's a change in the timing windows between solo (full screen singe fretboard) and online muliple fretboard play. Why Neversoft?

Well, that's my 2c (for now).

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