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Take A Look At The DJ Hero Controller

Added by Dave Snider on May 7, 2009

109 comments

What's up with the cropped pictures provided?

Activision has no less then three music related games coming out this fall. Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and the oft-rumored, now official DJ Hero are all due out sometime before Christmas. DJ Hero, one of the games at the heart of a legal battle with 7 Studios, finally had some pictures released of what the controllor will look like. Obviously, these are renderings and not the actual product so it's tough to say what the build quality of these will be but I'm already surprised that the table has buttons on the top instead of the side. I imagined that the game would mimic the left and right analog sticks by spinning the record left or right. No dimenisons came with these pics so we also don't know how big these things are or even if you can link two of them together. What do you guys think? Will this be fun?

Filed under : Band Hero, Guitar Hero 5, DJ Hero

109 Comments

GeekDown is online
on May 7, 2009

I'm not buying this game..I really don't want to play a game while having a turntable in my lap.

Blueblur1
on May 7, 2009

Looks terrible.

RobDaFunk
on May 7, 2009

Definately NOT Cool.

AvD
on May 7, 2009

Yeah, I'm with you guys on this one...

No thanks.

maladjusted
on May 7, 2009

I think this idea sounds totally retarded (no offence to all retards out there). If they want to simulate, and make a game out of, beat-mixing songs into one another- they should think again, I have several DJ friends who have tried to get me into that sort of stuff but it just isn't my bag... I'd rather listen to songs than stress with a pair of headphones and cue-pause-cue-stop-start-hold the vinyl-not take requests-look at girls... Guh... And if they want to sort of simulate scratching: why are there buttons on the turntable? Where is the mixer/crossfade? Why would you want to do exactly the same scratches every time? Turntablism promotes creativity- not copying something by timing multi-colored blips going down a pole.... Try harder people!!!

mccuthberto
on May 7, 2009

After seeing and hearing bits and pieces I was pretty hyped for Scratch. They seemed to get the whole creativity side of things. This, not so much. I don't hold out a lot of hope for Activision doing anything other than trying to shoehorn guitar hero into a different peripheral.

EndrzGame
on May 7, 2009

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

Curufinwe
on May 7, 2009

Lame.

papercut
on May 7, 2009

thats it?

TheClap
on May 7, 2009

So you don't move anything? You just push the buttons? Or does the vinyl move around? I need more info before making a decision.

Prosmack
on May 7, 2009

Pfrt, lame. Buy a real one and learn the real thing.

ssj4raditz
on May 7, 2009

That looks... strange.

EmptyQuarter is online
on May 7, 2009

I'm no Grandmaster Flash, but do you not need two decks to DJ? Otherwise you're just playing a record, or behaving like a kid at an 80s birthday party, scratching the shit out of your friend's parents' vinyl collection. Oh, those were the days.

Reverseface
on May 7, 2009

looks totally stupid totally party.

TripMasterMunky
on May 7, 2009

We need 2 turntables and a microphone...

blaakmawf
on May 7, 2009

No.

Prosmack
on May 7, 2009

Well technically you do not need 2 decks to learn to scratch. Turntableism (or something like that), would require two decks if you are also playing a tune to scratch to, or would "juggle" from one tune to the other, but I guess it can be done with another type of audioplayer that plays the tune you would scratch to. But I guess it would lower the selling aspect (and I guess handling of the game itself) of the machine since you would need to buy two for the "best experience". Oh and of course the mic comes with rockband, for the die hard fans that would actually buy this...

Lockeyness
on May 7, 2009

The idea for DJ Hero was already contrived when music games were still fresh. If it isn't Beatmania, I'm not interested. Even if it was, I don't think I would buy it. I can't see myself paying for the game and watching any sort of DLC roll out for it. I'm sure it'll sell millions and Wii owners will eat it up like a stack of pancakes. No thank you, Actiblizzion. The controller looks just as boring as the idea.

stealthdf2
on May 7, 2009

so the guitar hero cash machine is starting to get bled dry.
they are just taking guts from inside the guitars and putting them in a plastic case shaped like a turntable instead. and replace rock with rap and you have a new money machine that the sheep can bah to

Chromo
on May 7, 2009

Beatmania IIDX says HI.

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