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    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.

    And This Is Why Kurt Cobain Doesn't Belong In A Videogame

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    #1  Edited By skrutop

    This video that youtube user corporalgregg2 posted is just tragic to watch.  Whoever agreed to put Kurt into Guitar Hero should be ashamed of themselves.
      

      
    (sorry that I didn't credit you before, Greg)
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    #2  Edited By KowalskiManDown

    Bahahahaha epic.

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    #3  Edited By ArchScabby

    so?

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    #4  Edited By Radar

    Oh god.... Kurt Cobain rappin Flava Flave's (Public Enemy?) stuff...
     
    .....with XB avatars on stage... with a skeleton guy on drums?
     
    I think he may literally be rolling in his grave.

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    #5  Edited By KowalskiManDown

    They need to get DJ AM up in there, with a bit of Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast hahaha.

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    #6  Edited By GuinessBandit

    Agreed, especially the first minute. WTF is going on @ 00:07-00:10!!??
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    #7  Edited By floodiastus

    Fantastic, would be equally awkward to see Puff Daddy singing twisted sisters tracks though :)

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    #8  Edited By mattbodega

    Nirvana; the voice of 90's counter culture....NOW A PLAYABLE CHARACTER IN GUITAR HERO 5!
    Hysterical.
    Remind me who cares about licensee artists APPEARING   in Guitar Hero?

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    #9  Edited By KowalskiManDown
    @MattBodega said:
    " Nirvana; the voice of 90's counter culture....NOW A PLAYABLE CHARACTER IN GUITAR HERO 5! Hysterical. Remind me who cares about licensee artists APPEARING   in Guitar Hero? "
    Nobody I know of. I've always used my created character.
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    #10  Edited By Zaerus
    @creamypies said:

    " They need to get DJ AM up in there, with a bit of Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast hahaha. "

    This, if they make fun of Cobain with such heresy, why not take a piss out of the OD DJ.
    Like having him sing "Cocaine" or something
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    #11  Edited By birchman

    Wow. It's the damned youth that has brought upon this abomination of culture!

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    #12  Edited By xDARKxKnight

     
    Looks horrific...the XB avatars make it look even worse. The avatars dont fit into the game at all...
     
    Whats going on from like 2:35ish mark...how come the instruments are invisible? That a "cool" option in the game or something?

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    #13  Edited By Sabin

    Wow....I just...
     
    I don't even know what to say to that

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    @creamypies said:
    " @MattBodega said:
    " Nirvana; the voice of 90's counter culture....NOW A PLAYABLE CHARACTER IN GUITAR HERO 5! Hysterical. Remind me who cares about licensee artists APPEARING   in Guitar Hero? "
    Nobody I know of. I've always used my created character. "
    This,  
    Kurt Cobain should only play nirvana songs
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    #15  Edited By onyxghost

    That has to be the worst thing I've seen in at least a week and a half!

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    #16  Edited By joey

    But don't forget that Johnny Cash is also a playable character too.

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    #17  Edited By tebbit

    This is a terrible terrible sin.

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    #18  Edited By CoursinLarry

    For all we know, Kurt Cobain would have loved this.  Let's not forget that he once called "Weird" Al an American poet or something like that.  So, obviously the guy liked stupid shit.
     
    I can only hope that after I die, I'm made a playable character in the Guitar Hero franchise. 

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    #19  Edited By tooPrime

    People are way too freaking serious about this.  He did approved a Weird Al parody song in his life time.

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    #20  Edited By azteris
    @tooPrime said:
    " People are way too freaking serious about this.  He did approved a Weird Al parody song in his life time. "
    I fail to see the connection between approving of an artist who does parodies and that abomination of a video.
     
    I don't think this is the end of the world, but those two things aren't related.
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    #21  Edited By Griddler

    D: can't see video
     
    EDIT: Oh nvm, I had to turn off video at 'YEAHHHH BOYEEE' anyway.

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    #22  Edited By Ravenhoe

    What can I say, I have never played a single second of those Guitar / Rock Band crap, way too Huxleyain for me. Everybody who plays those game's is digging the grave for creativity and real music.  
    As to Kurt Cobain, I am not sure, he propbably would have found it hilarious, he was not that particulary self-conscious about his "counter-cultural" image, judging by his interviews. Anyway, my advice: Pick up guitar lessons, form a band, write songs, have fun, stay away from games like this. 
     
    H.
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    #23  Edited By tooPrime
    @Azteris said:
    " @tooPrime said:
    " People are way too freaking serious about this.  He did approved a Weird Al parody song in his life time. "
    I fail to see the connection between approving of an artist who does parodies and that abomination of a video.  I don't think this is the end of the world, but those two things aren't related. "
    I'm just sick of fake internet outrage.
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    #24  Edited By Lashe

    This is so insensitive. 
     
    Kurt Cobain killed himself over a videogame. 
     
    Damn you, Duke Nukem Forever!

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    #25  Edited By sgjackson

    This is one of the funniest things I've seen all week.

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    #26  Edited By Anarchist4Eva

    No opinion on this at all. Cobain was something of a caricature anyway. A talented musician in some respects. But a hopeless drug addict for sure.

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    #27  Edited By nrain

    This is plain wrong, if it were a living star who agreed to have his likenesses put in the game singing some shit fair enough, but someoone who's dead is just plain wrong.
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    #28  Edited By Dauragon

    I have a feeling if Kurt was still around he'd think this was pretty fucking funny.

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    #29  Edited By Th3_James

    well when i die, i hope to see myself recreated in a zombie game. Would be nice

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    #30  Edited By LeadNinja
    @Ravenhoe said:
    " What can I say, I have never played a single second of those Guitar / Rock Band crap, way too Huxleyain for me. Everybody who plays those game's is digging the grave for creativity and real music.  As to Kurt Cobain, I am not sure, he propbably would have found it hilarious, he was not that particulary self-conscious about his "counter-cultural" image, judging by his interviews. Anyway, my advice: Pick up guitar lessons, form a band, write songs, have fun, stay away from games like this.  H. "
    Why should playing videogames and playing in a band be mutually exclusive?
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    #31  Edited By MetalGearSunny

    Oh god. No.

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    @joey said:
    "But don't forget that Johnny Cash is also a playable character too. "
    Yes, seeing the man in black singing "Bring Tha Noize" will be....interesting...
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    #33  Edited By ryanwho

    That was great.

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    #34  Edited By Druminator

    That looks really stupid. Fuck Nirvana.

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    #35  Edited By HandsomeDead

    Seriously, why give a fuck?

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    #36  Edited By slinky6

    I hate Nirvana, but this is just ridiculous.   If you can't see why this is fucked up, you're an asshole.

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    #37  Edited By Zigsfi

    I feel like if this was a Rock Band game, it wouldn't be an issue. The developers of Rock Band seem much more focused on being true to the music, rather than the money. Oh well, won't be buying if Beatles Rock Band is out within a 2 weeks.

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    #38  Edited By CoolDrMoney

    The magic at 4:40 makes me rethink this whole Activision ruined the series thing. Seeing reanimated Cobain, Xbox avatars, and a skeleton play funk classics changes everything. Even better when it's two Cobains, silver surfer, and a skeleton.
     
    Oh wait, now I get it. You get past Cobain on vocals, and present Cobain on drums. These Neversoft guys are brilliant.

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    #39  Edited By CL60

    LOL at people complaining over nothing.
     
    And you can use avatars in GH5? :O

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    #40  Edited By VWGTI

    lol @ the end

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    #41  Edited By PureRok

    Meh. I don't even know who he is.

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    #42  Edited By Expletive

    If he were alive he might find it pretty funny, but the fact is he's not so this is pretty fucked.

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    #43  Edited By skrutop

    I'm with Jeff on this one.  I was in high school during the grunge and flannel fad when Kurt offed himself, so I can remember how shocked and sad many of my classmates were when they heard.   I'm not outraged or anything, but allowing Kurt to prance around to Stevie Wonder with XBLA avatars is just really damn odd.  It's like those Dirt Devil ads that CGI'd their vacuum to footage of a deceased Fred Astaire dancing around.

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    They should get 50 cent to sing smells like teen spirit, just to even it out.

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    #45  Edited By Suicrat

    Wait, why is it more fucked up that a dude who ended his own life gets his likeness trotted out in a(n admittedly) cheesy way, but not fucked up when they show other dead musicians?
     
    Kurt Cobain was an over-rated whiny bitch. He gave birth to modern emoism, you're going to sit here and try and defend that? Well fuck you, fuck Nirvana, and fuck Kurt Cobain.
     
    And before you go telling me I can't speak ill of the dead, well fuck you a second time, because I have no sympathy for a person who commits suicide. To do so would be a waste of sympathy.
     
    Also, the notion that he represents 90s counter-culture is absolutely fucking insane, he neither represents culture, not counter-culture. He represents death.

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    #46  Edited By CarpetRemnant

    Kurt Cobain would have found that shit hilarious, he wasn't Thom Yorke.

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    #47  Edited By clubsandwich

    wow....

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    #48  Edited By jakob187

    Ladies and gentlemen...let this be a lesson to you: 
     
    If you commit suicide, you'll be forced to look stupid by singing Bon Jovi in a Guitar Hero game.

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    after watching this great video, i think the game is better. but i still won't buy it.

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