Activision 'kill' Guitar Hero

[BaronSqwelch]

wow...last one must really have bombed...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-09-activision-kills-guitar-hero

[speedlolita]

Finally!

EDIT: No More (Guitar) Heroes




Loool.

[Phar]

Cancelled True Crime as well, was looking forward to that one.

[importaku]

Hurrah, about time.

[Matt]

I'd like to think this would mean Rock Band would get more sales, but I fear the genre has been fleeced and may not recover for a long, long time.

[toythatkills]

Hurrah, about time.

Absolutely.

Now do Call of Duty

[Skull Commander]

Maybe a good time to end it, but don't understand the 'lol' brigade. I hope they do more DLC, but if they don't then at least I still have my WOR with over 400 tracks to go on with

[chopemon]

Terrible news.

I hope anyone here from Freestyle lands on their feet.

[Bort]

Maybe a good time to end it, but don't understand the 'lol' brigade. I hope they do more DLC, but if they don't then at least I still have my WOR with over 400 tracks to go on with

Just douche's being themselves.

It will be interesting if they just sit out a few years and try and come back.

[speedlolita]

IIDX not being made for PS2 anymore was much sadder news..

[Bort]

Go and pollute another thread that you actually have some interest in instead of pissing in Every thread.

This place has been almost worthless since the build up to the portable announcements. A really obnoxious stench has covered most of the forum.

[Guts]

It'll be back in some form in the not so distant future, but to me music game genre seemed like a fad, it was suddenly everywhere and that kind of craze often doesn't last.

Most people, myself included probably got bored with the whole concept of music games and didn't want to constantly keep buying new games, song packs, DLC songs etc.

[BaronSqwelch]

last one I played was World Tour....the fact every game is basically the same is both a blessing and a curse.

on the one hand it lasts forever really, do you ever get bored of your favourite songs? on the other hand....why buy a 40 quid disc when you can just pick up a steady stream of dlc?

[JP]

Always a shame to see studios close but I'm not really surprised.

I know it's happened to many genres but this genre in particular seems to have been pretty stagnant for ages. The last music game I bought was the Beatles one and that was only because of the band and even then for me it was far less enjoyable to play than older games such as Frequency, Amplitude, Space Channel 5, Mad Maestro, Rez, Vib-Ribbon, etc.

Hopefully the with the lack of popularity in these types of games will allow for developers to return to the more abstract games which will preferably be playable with a standard pad.

EDIT:
Although it's not I'm also going to include flower as a music game, it's very different to many others but it did remind me of the much more abstract feeling that these games used to give you.

[eastyy]

well for me personally i have just the one guitar heroes game and thats enough for me....though have to say i think on the harder difficulty its more akin to a torture rather then fun