Guitar Hero 5
Game » consists of 13 releases. Released Sep 01, 2009
The fifth game in the core Guitar Hero franchise, and the third in the series from Activision and Neversoft. Though the game goes by the Guitar Hero moniker, it features full-band gameplay like its predecessor, Guitar Hero World Tour.
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Whatever. I'm done and done with music games. Their just a money siphon, I rather use my cash to buy something original and actually entertaining.
To be honest, if it wasn't for The Beatles Rock Band, I think I would be skipping music peripheral games entirely this gen. I got pretty burned out with it all, and the games have been too expensive, though I was totally considering paying $250 for The Beatles Rock Band bundle anyway. I want it THAT bad.
I'm not too happy with the way Activision is milking the heck out of the series. I only played World Tour one time when a friend came over, and while I was digging a lot of the soundtrack, I felt pretty glad that I didn't let myself fork over the cash for it and all of its instruments. Also, while I think I'm pretty decent at Guitar Hero, I'm certainly no expert. I thought World Tour ramped up the difficulty quite a bit. Anyway, now that I'm getting a next-gen instrument set, I'll be renting probably all the GH games to come out, so I hope GH5 won't let me down.
Edit: Ha, I replied too this without even realizing that Ryan Davis wrote it.
I got tired of the whole music genre game last christmas. In the end I didn't even pick up the Guitar Hero World Tour. Money wasn't the issue it was purely down to the wind being completely blown out of my sail. I just didn't have the desire to play on a plastic instrument again.
Ironically a plastic deck is more appealing to me just now as I think I will pick up DJ Hero after watching some of the videos from E3. It is doubtful that I would consider buying this new GH, or RB Beatles. However that is down to not liking that specific band.
Never got into this genre, simply because a game that demands I buy a specialized peripheral is an automatic fail for me. In the end its just a rhythm game, and there are better ones that are far less expensive, imho. (i.e. Audiosurf)
@coffeesash: You win, sir. /salute
oh right more GH......*looks back at rock band's weekly update to have jaw drop at the awesome iron maiden songs that were released today.
As someone who dislikes Rockband, I am very much looking forward to this. Every iteration of the GH franchise has gotten a little better than the last. Metallica was almost perfect (minus the fact it was Metallica, whom I can not stand).
I do love Rockband's presentation and features. I thoroughly dislike their highway and note chart systems. The closer Guitar Hero gets to the presentation of Rockband's games, the happier I am! So, while yes, Activision is milking the franchise, at least Neversoft is fully into making each one better than the last.
The Momentum challenges looks just as gimmicky as the battle mode stuff from GH3, though the Party Play feature sounds like a great idea. I've played the GH:WT, GH:M, and GH:SH demos, and I just can't go back to the wonky-looking notecharts. Rock Band's presentation is just cleaner all-around.
I love how people are bitching about the Left 4 Dead sequel coming too soon and yet Neversoft is just pumping out Guitar Hero's left and right.
Those who complain about new rhythm games are actually just pissed off that they can't play on Expert.
" I love how people are bitching about the Left 4 Dead sequel coming too soon and yet Neversoft is just pumping out Guitar Hero's left and right. "
" Those who complain about new rhythm games are actually just pissed off that they can't play on Expert."@natetodamax said:Guitar Hero is an expected yearly franchise, and moreover, it's not Valve." I love how people are bitching about the Left 4 Dead sequel coming too soon and yet Neversoft is just pumping out Guitar Hero's left and right. "
"I do love Rockband's presentation and features. I thoroughly dislike their highway and note chart systems. The closer Guitar Hero gets to the presentation of Rockband's games, the happier I am! "
I feel exactly the same way
Unless they actually feature songs that take advantage of multiple instruments like The Beatles' harmony mics and three guitars, then it's kind of pointless to be able to play the same track as 3 other people. Aside from some lame competition of who is the bestest drummer at some bar.
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