Activision 'reinventing' Guitar Hero

Warriors Of Rock was a step in the right direction Setlist wise... add the insane/difficult tunes from that with classics e.g. how they added Hotel California and Sweet Home Alabama to GH:WT... and youve got yourself a good set of songs

Dear Led Zep, If you can work with Puff Daddy, then you've already sold out and abandoned your integrity as rock musicians. Just let them use your tunes in a game, already.

@ShiningV67 Theres an entire project to be released in the next month by Ubisoft called "Rocksmith"( Oct. 18, def closer then the realease of next-gen consoles )... which already utilizes the ability to plug in any real guitar with extensive modes from teaching people the fundametals of playing guitar and various practices... all the way to allowing seasoned players to just have fun... and with you playing a real guitar... any song in the game will have tabs that are 100% accurate so no more scrolling through poor videos on youtube or reading incorrect tabliture... Besides Harmonix already is attempting to utilize real guitar capability in their game rockband... Unfortunatey Activision is far from having any real innovation in the near future... especially if their not capable of dropping "series titles" in order to take a leap of faith and create a new series, rather than just milking a game soley on its name... And believe me I loved GH2 and 3... but lets faith it when u start seeing taylor swift in a game series that prides itself on classic tracks or simply hardcore elements of rock... it's obvious they could give a crap about die-hard fans if they can make a quick buck

interesting... should I be surprised?

@Spahettificator I stand corrected.

People, they NEVER said anything about the Guitar Hero series being cancelled. They said they were taking a break.

"Then we also let the studio explore technology pathways, and so they'll do a variety of different prototypes." Didn't Kotick say he wanted to take the fun out of making games? That he wanted to milk every little penny he can out of the games? Well congrats, Mr. Rotick (sic), you successfully did that! Now you get to collect the fruits of your intelligence! I just wish Rotick and Cracktivision could rot faster...

Here is a way Activision could re-invent Guitar Hero: add a new instrument! . No, really! Being able to plug in a REAL guitar or bass would be the ultimate improvement! I already have a cable with a guitar jack at one end and a USB at the other end. I can plug my guitar into my computer for a guitar teaching software and tuning. Problem is that this software is NOT FUN! Guitar Hero could become a guitar game that actually teaches to play guitar at the easiest level, then gets serious the more difficult you get! Game would include guitar-to-USB cable. And no fancy pack with guitar included! Just plug in your own guitar. Seriously, some real guitars are sold cheaper than the plastic guitars from the Guitar Hero or Rock Band series. Activision wants to take their time developing a game that would get them hot again, then think Playstation 4! It's supposed to hit the shelves sooner than your next GH game. Okay, I'm done. You can start bashing now...

Blame the Guitar Hero spinoffs for the fall of Guitar Hero, not DJ Hero. I can't imagine many (if any) people saying to themself..."DJ Hero, ugh this Guitar Hero thing is getting ridiculous" DJ Hero 1 and 2 were better than the last few Guitar Hero games.

If they want to make this one a good one, they'd better add Apocalyptica and Dethklok.

Problem is all the games are the same. It doesn't matter how you change what's going on in the background. You're button matching to a beat. End of.

I hope I don't have to buy a giant plastic platform with plastic audience in front of it. I mean every new guitar hero pushes us to spend money on more and more gigantic plastic gears to play the game.

No Bobby!!! Thats a bad Bobby!!! (Said whilst spraying him with a hose) Stop humping that dead franchise! Bad Bobby!!!!

No Bobby!!! Thats a bad Bobby!!! (Said whilst spraying him with a hose) Stopping humping that dead franchise! Bad Bobby!!!!

I prefer Rock Band myself, but I also enjoyed GH. Too bad DJ Hero didn't sell well, because I really liked it (even though I sucked at it); it had a lot of good music!

Tony Hawk... Guitar Hero... know what's next? COD.

Just... let it go, Activision. Just let go.

wasn't it just a couple months ago they said they were canceling this series?

DJ hero was a bad idea and at least they know that. As far as GH i would like to see Activision make it great again. First GH 2,3,and 4/WT was good and second i knew alot of the guys that worked on those games and it sucked to see them let go when GH:WoR got sent to canada. So Activision bring those guys back and make a great game again.

Kotick is unbelievable.

I absolutely loved Warriors of Rock. It had a great setlist and gameplay. I'm interested in how they'll innovate the gameplay.

I thought they were done with flooding us with music games...this sucks!

(tl;dr) Guitar Hero went downhill after GH: World Tour. GH3 was my favourite game from the GH franchise, maybe because it was the first GH I played, I dunno. It had a good 'setlist', you had to unlock the songs etc. Then Guitar Hero: World Tour brought the 'band' into it, with the mic and drums so you could play more than 2 player, which was fun. I remember playing it with a few mates. It also had a good setlist, more songs than GH3, the song maker and the create a rocker. Then GH5 & GH:WOR got released soon after, along with Band Hero, DJ Hero, the GH Spin-offs (e.g. Aerosmith ) and it was as if you were shoving guitar hero in everyone's face (i.e. ''Milking the franchise'' as some would say.) But going back into GH5/GH6, the setlists weren't great for both games, and there was seriously nothing different other than the songs between them and World Tour. That's the problem with Activision. When they've made an amazing blockbuster game, they start to dish out sequels and sequels and sequels, which look exactly the same as the original, until no-one wants to buy a game from that franchise anymore. Then Activision move onto the next thing. Let Guitar Hero rest in peace, or at the very least give it a few years so that you can improve on the franchise while it starts to get the 'fresh' feeling once again for consumers.

Does Bobby Kottick want us to hate all activision games, it seems like he just likes releasing the same games??

A real guitar is still more fun.

well im a fan of the guitar hero games ,i hope this new path they take, will bring out better games and some better tunes ,

You killed Guitar Hero the same way you killed Tony Hawk and Call of Duty: by putting out crap sequel year after year with no major innovations.

The music genre needs a hero! and that hero is none other than Parappa-Rapper!

I only moved over to Rockband 3 just last month. Guitar Hero 2 for the XBOX was the first version of this I bought. Guitar Hero World Tour was where Activision totally made a mistake. That version was what could have slowed Rockband down. But like Guitar Hero 2 before it they did not support, and only wanted the new release and new money. I looked at later versions of the game and they did not interest me in the slightest. I am NOT coming back. You have had your chance and blew it. You didn't just make a mistake with DJ Hero, you made a mistake with Guitar Hero customers as well. So much that most of us became sickened and fed up of being your customer.

GH will still flop, they can reinvent all they want but the music genre is nothing but Just Dance and Dance Central, People just don't care about guitar games anymore.

activision is evil they get on to something great and run it into the ground they are probably the reason whythe rhythm genre is dead cuz they released it to death then possibly in the future that could be the same for shooters where they will run cod into the ground

I love DJ hero, its is more diverse and a much better game style than guitar hero. The variety in songs is massive, the sample options in DJ hero 2 are fantastic and its a really easy game to use, or a really hard game to master. They shouldnt have given up on it!

" a very rigorous process, but we spend a lot of time talking to different customers in different customer ranges and different demographics, different audience interests" So...lowest common denominator? That's innovative, I mean pandering.

i was looking forward to true crime hong kong. it was finished right before it was cancelled. i wish there was at least some type of downloadable release. dumb move on activision's part. on topic problem with guitar hero sequels is not only that they're annual releases but most importantly that you can just download new songs through psn and live making guitar hero sequels, at this point, obselete. why pay 60$ for the newest annual release when you can just download the songs you want for your current copy of guitar here/rockband for much less. im assuming thats how it works at least, i have not played guitar hero since GH3.

"He explained that the company had overestimated the number of people who would be interested in re-creating a DJ experience in the context of a game." Um...last I checked when kids grew up they wanted to be rock stars and that meant playing guitar in a rock band, not be a DJ in a poorly lit environment. They can say all they want, Guitar Hero is a dead franchise, after releasing so many games after another it was kinda like flogging a dead horse, it didn't make any sense. All we can hope is that they've learned from their mistakes, but then again your talking about Activision here.

lmao @waldo6 comment. You are absolutely right, pal! xD

"He explained that the company had overestimated the number of people who would be interested in re-creating a DJ experience in the context of a game." I thought this from the moment they announced DJ Hero. It might have been a good game, but if not enough people are interested in it then it doesn't matter. Especially when you need expensive peripherals to play it and they only work with that game.

Hopefully they can make it different and better to run against Rock Band.

Hey Bob, just because no one wants to play the umpteenth mix tape that skips when you don't press the right plastic button you've released this year doesn't mean it's the Zep's fault.

Buy the elevator music pack for 29.99 only* *elevator cabin sold separately

lets be honest guitar hero being good in the first place had nothing to do with activision it was harmonix same reason rock band is better than activisions turd versions is it's harmonix now harmonix is doing dance games... the music genre is never gonna be mainstream again, it's niche... a fad blaming guitar hero's failures on dj hero is a joke, dj hero was a cool niche product and now is getting no more support, i will not support activision at all in their crass cash grabs.

This is the Funniest joke of the day.

This will never work. What is a new studio going to do? That's what happened with GH3 when HMX made Rock Band. Even if they made a deal with Zepplin (highly unlikely) or another major group, it will still be the same. Maybe making it less cartoony would help, but I doubt it.

Im surprised Activision isn't just releasing the first GH as an HD remix and saying "re live the game that started the legend now in HD!!!!!!! $59.99 plus requires new guitars and new song packs every month for $15." lol

Everyone, just don't buy this one. Then he may actually get the idea

Rock Band has already raised the bar multiple times in which Guitar Hero had to play catch up. That and the fact that Guitar Hero became a milked up oversaturated franchise with alterations instead of improvements. While your at it do it with Call Of Duty and actually produce something more than generic run of the mill shooter... then I'll buy it

GH: Call of Duty Soundtrack FTW

You know what's better than Guitar Hero? Real instruments!

You learn from your mistakes, I hope Acti did.

Rock Band has always been better then Guitar Hero. There is no way Activision could do better. Rock Band puts out a new game when it has something new to bring to the table. Guitar Zero put out a new game every 2 months. They never did anything ground breaking. Wash, rinse, repeat. Suck it Kotick, you ruined Guitar Hero and you're ruining COD. You suck because you milk everything into the ground to a point where people hate seeing your recycled, non innovative games.