The Fable of Guitar Hero

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Ashtonian

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Right anyone not heard of this game? A small recap for those who haven't.

Basically just before the last consoles came out, activision made a game called guitar hero. It let you play along to your favorite (on the disk) songs by pressing the correct colour and strumming. Was a big hit so they made a franchise out of it, went as far as number 6. Each version got a new guitar and different songs, they had spin off disks for bands and even stuff to stick on the guitar. Half of the people left the company midway through and formed a new company and released rock band, which was the same game essentially but not important.

Anyway! this game has disappeared from existence i have found! I bought a cheap guitar at the weekend and some cheap games to go with it thinking that was a good impulse buy. It turns out you need a little fob to go with it on MY CONSOLE ONLY and guess what, i never had it. So i had games that were useless to me unless i used the controller, but that is a little bit sad. Trying to buy something, ANYTHING for this game has been a nightmare. You go online and new they sell for 70-200 pounds each. EBAY sell them for 40-50 each and everywhere else is sold out. Shops don't stock the things and for love no money you cannot get a receiver for the guitar i have because, that's life as they say. even all the discussions and news are from 4 years ago because no-one else talks about it.

So is this the greatest gaming mystery of all time? how something took over the market so quickly and then had disappeared into obscurity without as much as a encore for release? We are talking hundreds of guitars were second hand a few years ago and now they sell as if only 100 were ever made. Even the local entertainment shop claimed to have one in and it didn't exist.

I have resorted to waiting a week and buying one from someone i used to work with but it is crazy how rare the thing has become, like a sword quest relic, or a world championship cartridge. and what happened to all of the guitars? Have they ended up buried in the desert with all of the ET cartridges
 

That's what Activision do. They buy something, turn it into a money-making machine by saturating the market and producing titles twice as frequently as they should, the consumers lap it up short-term and they make a lot of money... then they get bored, Activision kills it/closes down studios and they move on to the next thing.

Liverpool itself was hit by them when we lost Bizarre Creations, a really talented developer who made Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars. Activision bled them dry then closed them down.
 

Pat's Van said:
sounds like it'd be quicker and less hassle to buy and learn to play an actual guitar
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A company did bring that out but far too late in the day for anyone to notice. It was a similar game but designed to help teach you.

Brennan said:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Guitar-He...s_VideoGameAccessories_JN&hash=item3f350f9fbf

That ?
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No that is for the 3rd guitar / first wireless one. You can get them sold, the guitar before my one sold, even the one after is sold in scraps. But my one doesnt exist anymore, and the ebst thing is, they also released a drum set and that has a reciever/dongle that looks the exact same.

Except each receiver is unique almost to that model of instrument. So there is a chance you could get one that doesn't work with your guitar.
 
Maxwell said:
I've got a guitar, GH2, GH3 and GH World Tour knocking about somewhere.

I've even got DJ Hero as well.

Form an orderly que ladies.
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I still have mine knocking about. Played on expert mode, probably could have learned to play a real guitar in the time I spent on it!
 
Ashtonian said:
Basically just before the last consoles came out, activision made a game called guitar hero.

Half of the people left the company midway through and formed a new company and released rock band, which was the same game essentially but not important.
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Also, just thought I'd pull you up on these points. Activision didn't make the game. They were the publishers but only because they bought Red Octane out after the original Guitar Hero.

The original team on Guitar Hero 1/2 were the guys who created Rock Band. So actually Guitar Hero 3 onwards was the copycat period, as the Rock Band games were made by the guys who created Guitar Hero. To say they're not important is odd as critically Rock Band was considered the better game. The Beatles Rock Band was especially brilliant, and the passion for its source material embarrassed things like Guitar Hero Aerosmith.
 

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