I think the thing that killed Guitar Hero is the terrible song choices, they went to mainstream pop instead of heavy metal/rock etc which was what made Guitar Hero 3 so good
ShadowZeal not only that but they tried to add much features to the game which ruined it for me. All they needed to do to survive was keep the SAME GH2 or GH3 engine(I prefer GH2 engine because the hammerons are intended to be harder with a smaller window, GH3 you could spam the orange button in between other hammerons & they still worked or you could press the red button 5x if there was only 1 red hammeron coming, very broken) and just have different classic songs & it everyone would LOVE IT still. They added weird features later on in World Tour & up. It was Guitar Hero NOT Rock Band. If I wanted to play as the whole band I’d play Rock Band smh & I remember they added these weird hammerons that had lines leading to the next & if you messed them up you didn’t have to strum to get the streak going back. I hate that when game company’s do this to great games, Activision did the same crap with Tony Hawk games, add too much crap that fans don’t want, we want the same game but with new content, very simple
You do realize that if Activision never got involved you would have never had the "masterpiece" refereed to in this video that is GH3. With ATVI and Neversoft involved it made the game great. Neversoft is also owned by ATVI as a sister company. The reason it became "saturated" was the lack of a music store which couldn't be done at the time so whenever they wanted to release new music on PS2 they had to release a physical disc before DLC was a thing for music games.
Most of the argument is from 3 onwards, that's when most of the "saturation" was happening. DLC was already well implemented in games at the time so there was never really an excuse. They did it to flog off new games and instruments. Activision is well know for the buchering of franchises, look at Tony Hawk.
Thats also true but still not as bad as what they did to Tony Hawk games. CoD games still are multi million $$ releases. Hawk games are now just a joke
I loved doing that song in battle mode. Cutting a guys strings during the chorus,and me getting hit with left flip without breaking stride. always satisfying
Lack of space for these endless controllers would have also been a factor for consumers, guitars and drums aren't small, and having plastic tat clutter up your room is something no one wants.
Plus, it's expensive (especially for players in Asia) even the second hand ones. Most of us just played with our regular controller and didn't bother to play other guitar hero games that requires a guitar hero controller to play it.
When I talk about the death of guitar hero, I mean as a game, not as a community. I realize that Clone Hero is still super alive and active, but what I am referring to in this video is the Guitar Hero line itself. Edit: Also, the part when I showed a video of a guy playing on expert and said it was me when I was little, was sarcasm. That video was from GuitarHeroPhenom, so all credit goes to him. I was actually terrible at the game when I was younger.
Many former GH3 Modders that made GH3PC for example, are actively helping the developer of clone hero to keep the feel of gameplay that GH3 had, infinite time between Hammer-Ons for example. They also refused to add the hated lanes that RB4 introduced. I love clone hero, ironically the only game not made by professionals is the best one!
When I first started, I couldn't even play Slow Ride on easy. now, I can play TTFAF on expert and get 73% without having practiced the song. I thank Clone Hero for that because it allowed me to get some really difficult songs (*cough* Rek3dge charts *cough*) and use them to practice. Guitar Hero 3 is a masterpiece, but I feel like a lot of the songs are either way beyond my skill level or are just too easy on Expert. I have yet to find a happy medium on that without adding custom songs, but I also feel like that's more of my own issue rather than a game issue.
MrRipper 98 was the best gh tbh, I really miss it, I got a xbox 360 guitar again but my disc tray won't open, and I have the open tray error, also my WOR copy got lost, I checked everywhere, I tried opening my xbox, but my screws couldn't even take off the hard drive cover, rip
Even without Clone Hero, there's also GH3 PC. There is (IMO) pretty much no reason for a remaster of a Guitar Hero game. Maybe at the very least the first couple games with support for PS3/360 guitars (and fixed HOPO's in GH1), but GH3 I see no point.
Really? Look on ebay or amazon, I see guitars on there for $40 and dongles for $15 or less. I'm looking to buy a guitar for clone hero but not sure what specific guitar to get
I remember how heavily criticized Guitar Hero 5 was due to the very mixed track list. I liked all of the new features in Guitar Hero 5, but as a kid I ended up hating it because there was barely any interesting songs in there. So then came Warriors Of Rock, which feels like the game Guitar Hero 5 should've been. It had all of the cool features Guitar Hero 5 had, but this time had a focused song list, which is all heavy metal. I think Neversoft knew that Warriors Of Rock was probably gonna be their last Guitar Hero game, so they put all their care into it and made it their swan song. And what a swan song it was! It was the anti-Guitar Hero 5! Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock is super underrated, and my personal second favorite game in the series, right after Guitar Hero 3.
GH3 was too easy if you’re a hardcore player like I was. The hammerons where very easy to do unlike GH2 & the charts in GH2 where much harder for the exception of TTFAF which is about it as hard songs in GH3. I LOVED me GH3 don’t get me wrong but getting 100% on every song on Expert except 1 song, did the same for GH2 but it took me forever to do it on GH2
"[The second game] feels worse than the first one" Bruh, the hammer-on feature was so busted you had to strum every single note. GH2's however works just fine. GH1 has been obliterated by the passage of time
I wouldn't say Guitar Hero 1 is completely unplayable, but it does feel rougher compared to the future entries. At least things got smoothed out as time went on!
Halo and COD aren't "dead" though, worse than they used to be?, yes, but dead? No. Halo might have a huge come back with Infinite. COD looks to maybe be taking a step in the right direction with MW. Where as Guitar Hero is dead, no new games, no one takes it seriously anymore.
@@bieseck77 rockstar kinda deserved it (in my terms because they did a good job on GTAV and GTA online anyway). But atleast those 8 years without new GTAs should be worth it *IF* they did a brilliant job on GTA 6 or GTA 5 : "insert title here". If I'm not mistaken, the next GTA should be a Vice City map or a neo-tokyo one with yakuzas on the prostitution business. it had to be.
It isn't dead as a game... it's dead a mainstream concept. The game and fans of the game are strong and it's even better than before with games such as Clone Hero and active song charters who put out plenty of music for people to play.
^^^^ I was actually going to say that, Clone Hero is a very thriving community, and because of how accessible it is on top of how easy downloading and adding charts are (compared to GH3PC, etc.) it's growing amazingly. Glad to see someone else shares the same views
Also, clone hero has solved me main issue: the songs. To me, most songs seemed either mainstream or just not as good at all over time. Gh3 had a fire setlist, same with 2. Aerosmith, van halen, and Metallica we're all great additions. It's a game that thrives on amazing music, and I found that it didn't really support it over time
Wait wait you said that guitar hero 2 feels worse than the first one? Have you tried hammer ons and pull offs in the first? Terrible! Guitar hero 2 was so much better than the first guitar hero just because of that reason not to mention I think it had a better song list.
Agreed, 2 was my favorite. 3 was really good except for the shitty ass wireless guitar that wouldn’t work. I remember using rubber bands to hold the neck and body together so the notes would register lol
I was very disappointed in Van Halen; not because of the songs or anything, but because it replaced Michael Anthony (the guy who actually played bass on the songs) with Eddie's kid, "Wolfgang." That just rubbed me the wrong way. It's like they were giving credit to someone else for work they didn't do. But, I'm guessing Michael Anthony probably didn't want his appearance used in it, so the band went with Plan B. :\ On the plus side, I think I got the PS2 version of the game for free by pre-ordering "Guitar Hero 5" from Amazon so it's not like it actually cost me anything extra. :)
Wolfgang was in GHVH because Michael Anthony had officially split from the band at the time the game was released. The fact that he wasn't in the game was a Van Halen problem, not a developer's problem. It's the same reason why there's no Sammy Hagar era VH songs on the game, because he just wasn't part of the band when the game was being made. GHVH was good for what they could actually work with. The ideal Van Halen GH game would be impossible to make because of the complicated licensing regarding David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, and all the other moving around Van Halen has experienced over the years. It's sad but it's the way it had to be.
Amazon, eBay, any online shopping site really. But just know that depending on the controller you get, it can get pretty expensive. I recommend the RedOctane Xplorer though, it's one of the best controllers you can get.
I used to be a huge GH player, I played guitar and drums on Expert, but I was never really a 100% FC person. I was just reasonably good. Anyways, I fucking loved to play these games, they were not only fun, but they truly sparked my interest for music, it's probably the main reason why I picked up a real instrument, and I'm a musician today. In fact, I would still play the shit out of those games if I still had my guitar and drums. It never became boring for me. My honest opinion as far as what they should have done, is inserting a MUCH MUCH bigger selection of music. Most of the people who played GH were metalheads, and there could have been hundreds of thousands of more bands, ranging from mainstream, to underground, to all kinds of metal added to the games. This applys also to rock music of course. It's the music library limitation that killed the series. I know this involves a lot of legal work to be done, but... It would be worth it, I'm sure of it. That's my opinion.
If you haven't heard of it: Check out Clone Hero, it's basicly a guitar hero redo, just the songs and charts get created by people playing the game, there's people out there charting entire albums or even discographies by bands, I currently have over 1650 songs in my game with variaties from all original GH games to meme charts that are just for fun, and everything in between, all in one game and database. It's totally killer and got me back into Guitar Hero super well
Yeah, I know about Clone Hero, thanks for telling me. But that's not the point, I used to play Frets On Fire on the keyboard before I got my first Guitar Hero game. I don't wanna play with my keyboard, I wanna play with a guitar controller, which I don't have anymore.
Oh shit, FoF, I completely forgot I played that lol, same as, and yes this is the original name, SUPER CRAZY GUITAR MANIAC DELUXE 3, which was also played on the keyboard. It's a shame you don't have your old controllers anymore, there should be cheap ones online, Xbox guitars with USB work on pc too :)
Haha, that's a big ass name. FoF was awesome, it was quite a popular game too. But some of the charts people made gave me cancer lool But yeah man, I have 5 Guitar Hero games for Xbox 360 just laying on a shelf, and I can't play them because I don't have the controllers xD But oh well, it is what it is.
I realize I’m responding to a 6month old comment, but Nostalgia is sooo correct. Warriors of Rock is SUCH a badass game. It’s focus is mostly great METAL with a few lighter tracks. But great tracks, an awesome “Quest” and just a powerhouse of a game. Many of the tracks are tough even on Easy! I love the challenge. And I, like many others on here am an adult and still play this game. The series I mean, via the Wii. Definitely prefer it over Rock Band, but I never obtained an actual “Rock Band” guitar. Not sure if that makes a difference. I also just ordered the Green Day game as I realized I never got that one, and how cool to get a brand new game filled with 2.5 full albums of a band I really like after all this time w/nothing new! Should be here in the next 2 days. 🤓✌️❤️
@@MisterOz73 I'll do the same and reply to a 6 month old comment :D I started with Gh3 back in 2006 when i was 6 years old and having the same fun today playing clone hero on Expert. GHwor made me good in the first place because of though but awesome Songs but CH is just perfect for me. You can play about every song from all your favourite Bands (for me Rise Against and Trivium) that never had more than one song you could play on Gh.
@@MisterOz73 It´s very simple, just download the latest version from their website (clonehero.net) and open the application in the Clone hero folder. It doesn´t need an installation. For new Songs search either on youtube or Google for the Bands/Songs or download Song packs. Then unzip the files and place them in the Songs folder, Done. Connecting your Guitar is quite hard because there many different models. Again, just ask Google how to connect yours :)
Guitar Hero was my shit back then, I remember my mum getting most of the entries of the series for me because she loved the game as much as I did. It also reunited some of my cousins and school friends to play it with me and we would have a good time playing it. GH3, GH5, GHWT and GHWOR will forever be in my heart. Sure, Guitar Hero Live was okay but it felt like it wasn’t the same good old fun.
I am wanting to get world tour on my ps2 and warriors of rock on my ps3 along with aerosmith and metallica lol maybe van halen... definitely van halen as well lol
@@abufinkle680 I'm really glad you and your folks enjoy GH, because it also my jam, too. The best game that's ever existed in the history of rock and roll mastery and PlayStation.
@@iqueencindyi2807 I couldn't find guitar hero for a reasonable price anywhere, so I hit up some friends and found someone who was willing to sell me their old guitar hero controller and then I homebrewed my wii so I could play guitar hero on it without having to find the game :D The guitars themselves are pretty easy to come by and a lot of people are selling the games second hand on ebay and such, sucks that it isnt being sold anymore tho
If Activision were to do what Harmonix did with Rock Band 4, I would totally buy another Guitar Hero for current gen consoles. Keep the same 5-fret system that GH is known for, add some updated-but-familiar graphics, and release previous GH setlists as DLC. An online multiplayer system that allows for coop and versus would be awesome as well. I feel like that would sell a lot of copies.
Another major aspect was that eventually controllers broke and getting a new one was either near impossible to find, or had an exhorbitant price. The games were still fairly popular when they stopped making the controllers.
rb3 is the one that introduced pro instruments right? that was the most horrible idea ever... why buy a plastic guitar that is the price of a regular guitar? no one wanted spend that much money to get slightly better gameplay... same thung with gh live... i have lots of gh titles and i just thought: lol i need another guitar to play the game? meh
Yea, his comments on the downfall of the series were accurate, but you either had to be blind, deaf, or have no hands to try and say GH2 was worse than GH1.That's just like, objectively false. Better graphics, better setlist, better mechanics. GH2 was second only to GH3.
Hammer offs lmao I think you meant pull offs But either way GH1's meta is fun but if you play casually and you got used to 2 and 3 then it's absolute trash
@@TheBrazilRules No, just no. Even the devs said the HO/PO barely worked on GH1, and that GH2 vastly improved them. The notes are placed on a grid so you kinda have to hit them on time anyway?
WoR had a huge success! But the thing that killed it was Hurricane Sandy. I had a huge leaderboard ranking, and all my stats were wiped and finding players was hard online. I called Activision and they told me that they shut down the servers and were not going to bring them back in 2012.
Quantum Biscuits yeah it totally was. I felt like that game went back to the roots of the older games, it felt like a more modern take on GH3, and it provided a lot of challenge and amazing songs
Yeah, it was great. It had its setlist hiccups (1 tier I remember was really fucking boring) but the character creation was on-point, it became wacky again, and it generally had a superb setlist. Also, gotta love 2112
but Warriors Of Rock was the last good Guitar Hero. The gameplay is the same, but it feels somehow very different and much more enjoyable compared to other Guitar Hero games, excluding GH3
I recall playing Guitar Hero for the first time when I was taking my singing classes. That's right. While I was waiting for my singing mentor to come over or finish teaching another student at the waiting room, the small music class building had a playstation. One was a Tony Hawk skating game and the other one being Guitar Hero II. Me and my sister got hooked on it right away. So because of this, our parents gave us Guitar Hero III for christmas. Man what a blast that game was...
I don't think Warriors of Rock gets enough credit. Sure it was the 'final' game in an over-saturated market and the themes were way over the top, but it had a solid track list, perfected the mechanics for all instruments and like Rock Band, worked as a music platform with tons of DLC and the option to import huge chunks of the track lists of almost every previous GH game. I have spent many many MANY hours just jamming out with random players online with that game. Still have a dusty Wii lying around somewhere with hundreds of GH songs on it!
Agreed. WoR and GH5 would be my favorites. GH3 was also super fun and I spent a lot of time playing it, but I would slowly begin to like those other two more and more, especially because of the many songs. And since I loved death metal and trash metal, songs like "Laser Cannon Death Sentence", "Sudden Death", "Holy Wars", "If You Want Peace, Prepare For War" and so on, really had me staying. The only thing that always pissed me off, was that "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" never got into any of the newer games.. Like in Greatest Hits, it would've been perfect, instead of something like "Hey You" or "Take It Off". Anyway, that's just my opinion.
TheAphexTim True. Warriors Of Rock was great, but sadly, Guitar Hero fatigue kicked in to some people since Activision didn't have the ability to moderate like Rock Band did. Plus, the franchise did get sued by No Doubt because they did not like how Band Hero allowed them to be played as outside their songs.
The best GH games to ever come out in the series in my opinion was: Guitar Hero 3 Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock I thought the setlists for these games were on point. The rest of the GH games are kinda meh
Say what you want man, I freakin’ loved Warriors of Rock. Guitar Hero 2 & 3 will always be in my heart as games that got me grounded because I played past my bedtime (Guitar Hero 1 came out when I was 3) But like everyone is saying, I got Clone Hero to get me through these dark times.
Tyler Willard Yeah. I mean a lot of the bands I listen to today were on there (Five Finger Death Punch, A7X, Flyleaf) I mean it wasn’t as bad as everyone makes it out to be, but I will admit it had flaws but aye, I still enjoyed it
WoR is my second favorite game in the GH franchise, behind GH3. The soundtrack is one of the best and the story is surprisingly lots of fun and really hard.
Nikguin04 I have 3 second hand controllers, and they're doing great. You just need to clean them up, maybe retrobright in the case of the explorer, clean up the insides so the buttons don't stick. It's quite easy.
yea, i have 7 second hand controller they're working great too. but i would be so much nicer to get new ones cause they always come with some wear and scratches
3:13 "industry leach Activision" 4:38 "rival industry leach EA" HA! Good shots there. I genuinely chuckled at those. No better way to describe those companies. Especially EA
The greatest guitar hero moments were hitting that blue with the pinky then sliding up to the orange hammer-on straight after. When Guitar Hero Live came out with the goal of "making the game more accessible", they made a three finger fretting system that essentially destroyed the whole concept of Guitar Hero's creation in the first place - making you feel awesome at guitar... without actually being very awesome at guitar... at all. They wanted you to be fretting up and down those five frets in a way that looked totally awesome and required some linear, visual co-ordination. Although Guitar Hero Live introduced a 2x3 button system to make the guitars more "realistic", they defeated the whole purpose of playing a glorified air-guitar game - you're not actually playing a real guitar, you're just meant to look and feel awesome. If people wanted a realistic guitar game, they would go and buy Rocksmith. If they wanted to just play up and down the neck of a plastic guitar and feel pretty awesome without having to spend tens of years and thousands of dollars learning an actual instrument, they'd play Guitar Hero. There was a clear distinction that they crossed, and this decision ruined their game. The game was always made accessible with a three button easy difficulty, so their reason there for accessibility is poor. If they wanted to make the game more difficult, however, they should have at least kept the 5 fret system to begin with. Adding a second row/column of buttons is a reasonable option, however removing the 4th and 5th frets (thus rendering the pinky useless) removes the ability to feel awesome. Nobody feels awesome playing a guitar with three fingers. You can barely even play proper guitar with three fingers. They took away the experience that the gamer felt. That's where they went wrong.
While I do agree with you on this completely, I feel the need to point out that there were many people who played Guitar Hero with 3 fingers anyway, regardless of difficulty. So for some people, playing with 3 finger felt just as awesome as playing with 4, although I'm sure the majority of players use 4 fingers, myself included.
Kind of besides the point here, but did anyone else find it easier to play Guitar Hero with the pinky finger on the orange, and instead having to switch the index finger between green and red? I always found that far more practical and never understood why people would put their pinky on blue.
the beginning of this video almost made me cry. guitar hero was my life when i was a kid. it ruined friendships, made friendships, caused fights and even settled fights, i remember the first time drinking as a kid, the first thing i did was play raining blood, and i beat it, drunk at like 15. life was good at the time
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How is GH2 worse that GH1? The engine is far better, addressing the broken hammer-ons/pull-offs from the original, the art style is refined from the original and has charm, you could now practice song sections, play coop or even competitive with both players playing the WHOLE song instead of the "ping pong" thing when every player played a little bit of the song before passing to the other, the covers are better, even though recorded by the exactly same people of the original game, the argument of "GH2 is just a reskin of the original" is total BS.
I remember rocking out on Guitar Hero 3(my favorite) and 2 with my friends. My older sister and her friends also played so it made my younger self feel even cooler. It also opened me up to the world of rock that I adore today, and gave me an appreciation for music. One of my fondest and most memorable memory is watching a couple of my sister's friends play Through the Fire and Flames on Expert. *Expert.* They had to pause the game every few minutes just to shake out their hands. It was insane. Those games were a very large and profound part of my childhood and I wish I could go back to those moments. A lot of kids these days will never know how fun and awesome it felt to play these games and feel like a rockstar every time.
Eric Cummings honestly fucking same. I went back and got even better at GH but eventually got bored of it, only playing select songs from certain games
We had "World Tour" and I can still remember the key strokes to Evelong... on medium lol. Came home from work one day to find my flatmate was playing drums, guitar and vocals! Drums on easy, using the bass peddle, singing and strumming away. He was still getting great scores! Nostalgia... and it wasn't even that long ago.
mabey not the best but it sure is underrated the tracklist was really good they had "six" from all that remains, "hangar 18" from megadeth, "the trooper" from iron maiden, "thunder horse" as you mentioned from dethklok and plenty others so i wish it got more recognition that it has
I loved GH2 and GH3 and even World Tour. After that I didn't really care. GHL (Guitar Hero Live) isn't bad, but the in game currency ruined it for me. I would prefer to use in game currency as a one time purchase for songs, not as a one use purchase.
JAC 073 Indeed. If you look at Rock Band, you can see they actually moderated their main releases, with the only time the released more than one title being with the track packs that contained DLC songs so players who were still on PS2 can play them (and players on Xbox 360 and PS3 can play it, and when they were done, they can use a code to get the songs on said track pack downloaded for play on the main Rock Band games). Guitar Hero just kept releasing too many games because Activision looked at the franchise and saw nothing but dollar signs.
I'm more of a rock band guy but I gotta admit the guitar is hero is legendary and was a great game and definitely is an important mark in gaming history.
the beatles rock band and guitar hero metallica are the only good full-band spinoffs in my opinion. the beatles rb's visual design still stuns me to this day, just look up the intro to it on youtube! Fun fact, it was done by the guy who animated Gorillaz!
Guitar Hero 1,2 and 3 were so great because of the novelty factor but also because the setlists were genuinely broad and were not afraid to feature lesser known songs. The biggest factor I believe killed Guitar Hero was the oversaturation of DLC and games themselves. The first 3 games had legendary setlists that the entire community could keep track of and relate to. After Guitar Hero 3, the games became absolutely littered with DLC tracks. It killed the community because everyone had a different setlist of songs in their game depending on what DLC they had, there was no longer a common setlist that everyone could talk about and relate to. It becomes less interesting if people are talking about difficult bits in songs you don't have for your game. The other big thing that killed it was that after GH3, the focus shifted towards more mainstream content in setlist and consequently an absolute dirge of songs that were dull and uninteresting to play through. It's the most common disease in gaming and entertainment in general - when something gets big - malignant, cancerous greed from the developers take over. Less is almost always more when something gains traction but game developers have never quite been able to grasp the concept of rejecting short term greed for long term sustained success. It's depressing.
I wouldn't say the entirety of the gaming market is this way, where they just release games just to make money. That's basically a stereotype perpetually kept alive by the advent of spending more for pre-rendered cutscenes, licenses, advertising, hemorrhaging money out of consumers through deceptive business practices, and all the things that would matter the most in the mass public eye. To us, as people who breathe and live for video games, we actually became sort of video game critics because we do love the products they've offered to us and the memories we've created through those products. It'll be up to us lot to guide the mass public towards better games and not honey traps.
While the Guitar Hero games are practically dead, the community that was created by it, is relatively still alive and well. One thing I feel like you missed (and may have been important) was the PC Edition of Guitar Hero 3 which was one of two games only made for PC (the other one being Guitar Hero Aerosmith). The community made by Guitar Hero, heavily modded the PC Edition of the game to incorporate custom community made charts/songs which helped keep the community somewhat alive. As of now, the community is growing again at a steady rate because of a free community made clone of the game named "Clone Hero" which is basically the same as Guitar Hero PC Edition but made more for the community. While the games are dead, the community is steadily thriving and growing. Guitar Hero was an amazing game many of us won't forget. Too bad it was over saturated to the point of downfall... If only they never did so. Imagine what would things be like today.
I completely forgot about GH:WT for PC... Yeah it was released on PC but let's face it, World Tour wasn't really that great at all. Bad song setlist, broken slider/tap notes, and other things that didn't really make it all too good to play on PC.
All these analyses of the death of Guitar Hero and rhythm games leaves out probably the most important thing that stopped many faithful fans from continuing, and that's HDTVs. Guitar Hero debuted when CRTs were still very common, and hooking up your console to one of these was easy. Playing rhythm games on a CRT is extremely gratifying because there is basically no display lag at all, as there is no image processing going on in the background. After the Guitar Hero 3 era is when me and most of my friends upgraded to HDTVs, and we really felt the lag. Add onto that the wireless controllers being inconsistent and the calibration settings being basically useless and you get a most unfun experience trying to play rhythm games. It got to a point where being good at the game wasn't enough to actually hit the notes, you had to do all kinds of math in your head to calculate exactly when to hit the notes, because it wasn't in time with the music. We all dropped it shortly after. I still return to it every now and then, but it's honestly just impossible to enjoy rhythm games on modern TVs. Right now, the best situation for playing rhythm games is either mobile or Switch handheld, and neither are ideal for interesting peripherals like guitar, drums, keyboard, or dance pad. Ultra low lag displays are now really expensive, niche items for PC gamers, meaning I need to spend over 1000 dollars for a good modern TV for rhythm games, or otherwise have a spare CRT sitting around with a bunch of extra cables and converters to put new games on an old display. There is no good way to play modern Guitar Hero, and that is a huge part of why it died.
It's not really that hard to get a good calibration on HDTVs, but I know a more casual audience probably wouldn't want (or know how) to deal with anything like that.
No matter how you calibrate it, it still throws me off. Even if the music and the notes line up with the timing window perfectly, the animation that indicates you hitting the notes always comes late (no way to fix that) so it never feels as clean and responsive as a no lag display like a CRT.
It was that way on PC for me unfortunately, but the PS2 version was always in sync on my TV (which isn't CRT). Maybe some copies of the game had that issue and others didn't?
You forgot to mention the popularization of HDTV's. The input lag made it next to impossible to play guitar hero, especially if you had been playing in CRT tv's up until that point. The input lag is anywhere from 40-150ms on an HDTV. I remember playing GH on an HDTV for the first time at a party. I could always play on Expert with the hyper speed cheat on and I was planning to show off. I failed instantly on every song I tried and people thought I was lying about my skill. It was the most embarrassing thing of my childhood lol. That's why today, you'll notice anyone still playing GH does so at their computer desk on a monitor because monitors have 5-10ms response times, generally speaking. Which is much closer to the original CRT tv's which had insanely low input lag. We're talking as low as 1-3ms though generally averaged around 5-10. So if you're someone who wondered why all the sudden you sucked, it very well could have been your tv if you were playing on an LED/LCD HDTV.
All you really have to do is calibrate your instruments to the TV, and the problem should be fixed. I should know; I've been playing Rock Band on my flat screen for years and had the only reason I wasn't hitting the notes was because of myself.
Oh my god if I could like this more than once, I would spam it until my hand got tired. I happened to be lucky enough to have an HDMI 720p TV with almost 0 latency, and to this day I play Clone Hero, but boy oh boy did I hate playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band at other's houses. It sucked because no one knew how to calibrate anything.
Your right. I haven't been thinking hard enough and now I realize that it's my TV. My TV is 2008 or 2011 HDTV VIZIO. I've been recently playing Guitar Hero 2 on the 360 version on medium just for fun and I have been playing on Xbox controller and I've been sucking so much at the game and I dont even calibrate the game. The harmonix Guitar Hero games are fucking difficult if you have a certain TV. I keep missing notes or randomly over strumming the controller or guitar. There is one glitch that keeps fucking me up which on the Xbox 360 version, there is a glitch where typically the green fret button will malfunction out of nowhere and get stuck, this isn't the guitar or controllers fault, even if you have a CRT, it still happens anyway and it's never been fixed since the April 2007 update for the game. What is also harder is that the harmonix Guitar Hero games are tied to a BPM (I dont know what it stands for) and depending what song you play, the fretboard and character animations go fast, it gets hard to play the game if you have an HDTV. That's why whenever I use the guitar or regular controller, I always fuck up on those games and I'm not as good as I used to be. I can't FC any song easily enough on all the difficulties. I can FC anytime on GH3 but the harmonix Guitar Hero's, it takes me a while to FC and I never even bother. In the end, the best way to play the harmonix GH games, it's better if you have a CRT instead of an HDTV, it gets hard if you have one because it can fuck you up bad.
To me, they just went too far away from what made the games fun. They should never have introduced multiple instruments, and instead focused on refining already amazing single player and multiplayer experiences that were guitar/bass only. They went way off the deep end with some of these ideas. The games based on individual bands were absolutely doomed to fail, and rightfully so. Who could justify the price tag for a music game so heavily centered on one band and one style of music? It’s a boring idea, and I really enjoy Van Halen and Metallica. To make it worse, they just continued to saturate the market with these niche concepts that in no way appealed to the audience that made the original games successful. GH3 was incredible, because it was a music game that was extremely immersive on all fronts. The guitar duels in single player were intense and gave a real sense of accomplishment when you finally won, multiplayer modes provided endless entertainment, and it was just overall incredibly stylized and fun to be around. The fact they strayed so far away from the core concepts and shot themselves in the foot with these boneheaded ideas is depressing, because I think music games still have a place in gaming.
To be honest, I feel like the drums was an amazing addition to guitar hero, I personally learned how to truly play drums just from playing drums on the guitar hero, and it was also what got me playing real guitar. Songs like everlong that teach you how to play 16th notes, and use your hands and feet at the same time. A lot of musicians that I know personally said that they all played gh (Drums and Guitar) and it inspired them to pick up an instrument.
It was an awesome game. My favorite ones are: - World tour - GH3 - Metallica - WARRIORS OF ROCK!... WoR was, IMHO the best of the bunch. It brought the guitar back to GH. Pretty catchy songs. there were some very difficult. Some prog, some trash, some metal... it was just awesome. I still play it to this day. Hope my plastic guitar never breaks.
WoR its my favorite too.. Oh Man, I wish that this game in particular had been released for PC... Imagine that, today they surely modded it and put a lot of things in it (as it happens now with the World Tour)
I played most gh games and I enjoyed all of them, even live because I loved how there was an endless stream of songs that you could play. The tv feature was pretty cool too. I feel like I just had a lot of fun learning the new controller too.
I find live neat but I wish they could have controller support or the experienced players from previous games the song choices that they made was nice it’s like the gateway to the other songs in the previous games but yeah overall it sucked
I miss guitar hero. One of the few games that really only utilized pure skill and reaction time. You didn't have to do research in advanced or have pre-existing knowledge on the best "combos" or "strategies" to be good at the game. You just have to be fast and have good dexterity. It's a great equalizer. Of course, practice makes you a lot better...
i miss the Guitar Hero and Rock Band days. When those games were HUGE. I've yet to see a music game as great as Rock Band 2. I remember when Rock Band had that promo with Pepsi where you could get free DLC songs by entering a code from the Pepsi caps and there was a music video contest. Good times. Hell, I loved Guitar Hero World Tour, Metallica, GHWOR, Lego Rock Band, and Rock Band 3. RB4 is pretty solid as well. But it just doesn't have the same feel that I had playing RB and GH during the 2007-2011. era
@@qwertyuiopzxcfgh and Clone Hero dropped a nuke on its grave, annihilating any chance of a revival because it is literally the free, superior version of Guitar Hero. Also you can download the track list the entire Guitar Hero series for Clone Hero so Guitar Hero is now officially obsolete.
clone hero >
This comment.
u right my boy, GH won’t die
Acai i love u!!!!
I preefer Leafgreen
I will nut if they add online
I think the thing that killed Guitar Hero is the terrible song choices, they went to mainstream pop instead of heavy metal/rock etc which was what made Guitar Hero 3 so good
ShadowZeal not only that but they tried to add much features to the game which ruined it for me. All they needed to do to survive was keep the SAME GH2 or GH3 engine(I prefer GH2 engine because the hammerons are intended to be harder with a smaller window, GH3 you could spam the orange button in between other hammerons & they still worked or you could press the red button 5x if there was only 1 red hammeron coming, very broken) and just have different classic songs & it everyone would LOVE IT still. They added weird features later on in World Tour & up. It was Guitar Hero NOT Rock Band. If I wanted to play as the whole band I’d play Rock Band smh & I remember they added these weird hammerons that had lines leading to the next & if you messed them up you didn’t have to strum to get the streak going back. I hate that when game company’s do this to great games, Activision did the same crap with Tony Hawk games, add too much crap that fans don’t want, we want the same game but with new content, very simple
Dragonforce!!!
GHWoR wants a word with you
Not at all, did you watch the video?
Guitar Hero 3 graphics were good but I wasn’t a fan of the songlist, World Tour has the best songlist in my opinion.
Clone hero:
“I’m bout to revive this mans whole career”
Actually
*"I'm bout to steal this man's whole career"
Yo i know the creator and believe me he has no plans to take out guitar hero , revive the style of gameplay but thats about it
Clone hero is a big time copy right
Nemesis6129 I think you mean copyright infringement* but no.
@@nemesis6129 at least it has better chart importing
Activision. That's why it died.
This comment is spot on
You do realize that if Activision never got involved you would have never had the "masterpiece" refereed to in this video that is GH3. With ATVI and Neversoft involved it made the game great. Neversoft is also owned by ATVI as a sister company. The reason it became "saturated" was the lack of a music store which couldn't be done at the time so whenever they wanted to release new music on PS2 they had to release a physical disc before DLC was a thing for music games.
Most of the argument is from 3 onwards, that's when most of the "saturation" was happening. DLC was already well implemented in games at the time so there was never really an excuse. They did it to flog off new games and instruments. Activision is well know for the buchering of franchises, look at Tony Hawk.
MJAussie360 tony hawk? Lmao look at cod
Thats also true but still not as bad as what they did to Tony Hawk games. CoD games still are multi million $$ releases. Hawk games are now just a joke
*9 year old me looking around*
*sees nobody around*
*clicks HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT* 😂
They ever make fun of you for that, you tell em Bitch That’s Pat Benatar, one of the queen’s of rock!
God I love pat benatar
Were you only embarrassed because it was sung by a woman?..
MechaMinilla99 tbh I think it’s because it’s very different than any of the other songs
I loved doing that song in battle mode. Cutting a guys strings during the chorus,and me getting hit with left flip without breaking stride. always satisfying
Lack of space for these endless controllers would have also been a factor for consumers, guitars and drums aren't small, and having plastic tat clutter up your room is something no one wants.
Hmm you can get a wii guitar its really small
That's just one, they kept demanding you have the "newer" one for each sequel. So unless you sell/bin the previous one, it's all going to pile up.
@@Larry Fortunately, some of the guitar controllers could be taken apart to save a bit of space.
At least the DJ Hero turntable is small and square, easy to store.
Also, I totally read your comments in your voice :D
Plus, it's expensive (especially for players in Asia) even the second hand ones. Most of us just played with our regular controller and didn't bother to play other guitar hero games that requires a guitar hero controller to play it.
Guitar Hero Didn't Just Die | It Was Murdered
Guitar Hero didn't just die... it was murdered!
Presentation matters.
And Incenerated
MISS MURDER MURDERED IT
It was forgotten, not murdered.
Samantha Greenville To me, it was murdered. Mainly because Activision milked it to death by releasing too many installments in short time frames.
When I talk about the death of guitar hero, I mean as a game, not as a community. I realize that Clone Hero is still super alive and active, but what I am referring to in this video is the Guitar Hero line itself.
Edit: Also, the part when I showed a video of a guy playing on expert and said it was me when I was little, was sarcasm. That video was from GuitarHeroPhenom, so all credit goes to him. I was actually terrible at the game when I was younger.
Many former GH3 Modders that made GH3PC for example, are actively helping the developer of clone hero to keep the feel of gameplay that GH3 had, infinite time between Hammer-Ons for example. They also refused to add the hated lanes that RB4 introduced. I love clone hero, ironically the only game not made by professionals is the best one!
When I first started, I couldn't even play Slow Ride on easy. now, I can play TTFAF on expert and get 73% without having practiced the song. I thank Clone Hero for that because it allowed me to get some really difficult songs (*cough* Rek3dge charts *cough*) and use them to practice. Guitar Hero 3 is a masterpiece, but I feel like a lot of the songs are either way beyond my skill level or are just too easy on Expert. I have yet to find a happy medium on that without adding custom songs, but I also feel like that's more of my own issue rather than a game issue.
Great video but what about guitar hero warriors of rock the last guitar hero before next gen
MrRipper 98 was the best gh tbh, I really miss it, I got a xbox 360 guitar again but my disc tray won't open, and I have the open tray error, also my WOR copy got lost, I checked everywhere, I tried opening my xbox, but my screws couldn't even take off the hard drive cover, rip
Aren't we doing something illegal? With the songs? Copyright????
"Why Guitar Hero Died"
*_Laughs in Clone Hero_*
Crashy Let’s hope Activision doesn’t buy clone hero any time soon.
@@slepyps dont worry pal, Activision its dead by now... well, kinda: Microsoft buy it. We should thanks to homie Spencer and uncle Gates
Not so funny, still waiting to use that orange cymbal...
Tbh I just want them to Remastered Guitar Hero 3 on the PS4 it would make hella money
with the creation of clone hero I don't think there is a reason since you can get any song for free now :/
Even without Clone Hero, there's also GH3 PC. There is (IMO) pretty much no reason for a remaster of a Guitar Hero game. Maybe at the very least the first couple games with support for PS3/360 guitars (and fixed HOPO's in GH1), but GH3 I see no point.
Gamer -USUK- Hella..
+adammccormick95 Yeah. GH1 and GH2 should've been PS2 classics.
+Phil Spencer it's a Californian slang
I bought guitar hero live for the xBox 360, for $4, brand new, with the guitar, at the dollar store.
Says a lot. 😂
I can’t find a guitars anywhere
mrfreshkid09 the guitar hero live guitar is shit and a pain in the ass to use though
What the hell?
You can find it at below 5😣
That's like GameStop prices you get offered when you sell them 30 games
GH3 was THE BEST
Agreed
Gh3 and world tour are the ones that really made guitar hero what it is to me now.
It had numerous glitches
Ghlive mas my favorite
No Cap
They would make so much money if they remastered gh3
No they won't. We already have clone hero which is way better than gh3
I'd definitely buy it
Really? Look on ebay or amazon, I see guitars on there for $40 and dongles for $15 or less. I'm looking to buy a guitar for clone hero but not sure what specific guitar to get
when i did look there are no dongles n stuff :\
plus expensive stuff and usually drum dongles
Remasters never make a lot of money, and they're never the same.
GH2 felt worse than 1? At least hammer ons actually worked in 2
Exactly my thought as well.
I was thinking about that
gh2 was best
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock actually ended up being my favorite. I felt as though they put a lot of time and love into it.
My fav song is Calling and Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants
I remember how heavily criticized Guitar Hero 5 was due to the very mixed track list. I liked all of the new features in Guitar Hero 5, but as a kid I ended up hating it because there was barely any interesting songs in there. So then came Warriors Of Rock, which feels like the game Guitar Hero 5 should've been. It had all of the cool features Guitar Hero 5 had, but this time had a focused song list, which is all heavy metal. I think Neversoft knew that Warriors Of Rock was probably gonna be their last Guitar Hero game, so they put all their care into it and made it their swan song. And what a swan song it was! It was the anti-Guitar Hero 5! Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock is super underrated, and my personal second favorite game in the series, right after Guitar Hero 3.
Dude same. Best Guitar Hero game, period.
I liked motivation and I'm not okay (I promise)
Fury of the Storm gave me ptsd🗿💀
>GH2 was worse than GH1
who hurt you
buckethead jordan did
Right? I can't imagine a universe in which GH2 is worse than GH1.
Guitar hero 3 is without a doubt the legendary game. The songs on there are amazing. You’re right no other game comes close to it.
It's all good I bought a Xbox 360 just for this game haha
There's no other real Guitar Simulator like RockSmith, GuitarHero is just a dummy
GH3 was too easy if you’re a hardcore player like I was. The hammerons where very easy to do unlike GH2 & the charts in GH2 where much harder for the exception of TTFAF which is about it as hard songs in GH3. I LOVED me GH3 don’t get me wrong but getting 100% on every song on Expert except 1 song, did the same for GH2 but it took me forever to do it on GH2
idk Warriors of Rock is pretty close
@@STEEL4122 yea for a hardcore player 3 is very easy, 2 is actually a challenge
You should've talked about Guitar Hero - Metallica more. I feel like that game was pretty well made, and featured a lot of nice songs.
Jolty it’s awesome it’s so underrated
Jolty I got it for $5 at five below 😂😂
@@muneshxge and even worse. They were pulled from the store in 2015 :(
its my fav GH it did feel alot better than gh3 imo
Second best gh game
It’s all about LEGO rock band
It's all about Rock Band 3
As a kid I would only play songs like ghostbusters
Waynimations I just nutted
I will admit in childhood it was the shit.
I used to own LEGO rock band, but my little brother had no idea how Wii games worked, so one day i found he put it in the toaster.
"[The second game] feels worse than the first one"
Bruh, the hammer-on feature was so busted you had to strum every single note. GH2's however works just fine. GH1 has been obliterated by the passage of time
I wouldn't say Guitar Hero 1 is completely unplayable, but it does feel rougher compared to the future entries. At least things got smoothed out as time went on!
yeah, idk y he said that
yeah, i didn't know what he meant by that comment. gh2 and 3 are refined to last the tests of time.
The only real problems I have with gh2 and 3 is not being able to turn off the tilt sensor for star power
what killed guitar hero?: greed
what killed halo?: greed
what killed cod?: greed
Halo and COD aren't "dead" though, worse than they used to be?, yes, but dead? No.
Halo might have a huge come back with Infinite.
COD looks to maybe be taking a step in the right direction with MW.
Where as Guitar Hero is dead, no new games, no one takes it seriously anymore.
I hope that won't happen on GTA. Rockstar's kinda disciplined ngl (except what they did in LA noire)
@@jiiiyyyaann1210 it already happened, Rockstar milks and continues to milk gta 5 till eternity, not to mention no new gta in 8 years!
COD is definitely not dead though considering, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was the best selling game of 2019 in the US.
@@bieseck77 rockstar kinda deserved it (in my terms because they did a good job on GTAV and GTA online anyway). But atleast those 8 years without new GTAs should be worth it *IF* they did a brilliant job on GTA 6 or GTA 5 : "insert title here". If I'm not mistaken, the next GTA should be a Vice City map or a neo-tokyo one with yakuzas on the prostitution business. it had to be.
It isn't dead as a game... it's dead a mainstream concept.
The game and fans of the game are strong and it's even better than before with games such as Clone Hero and active song charters who put out plenty of music for people to play.
^^^^ I was actually going to say that, Clone Hero is a very thriving community, and because of how accessible it is on top of how easy downloading and adding charts are (compared to GH3PC, etc.) it's growing amazingly. Glad to see someone else shares the same views
Also, clone hero has solved me main issue: the songs. To me, most songs seemed either mainstream or just not as good at all over time. Gh3 had a fire setlist, same with 2. Aerosmith, van halen, and Metallica we're all great additions. It's a game that thrives on amazing music, and I found that it didn't really support it over time
I play CH daily. I have it open right now. I can never leave...
Phase Shift too
Photon Wolfsky Factual!
I still play Gh to this day. My top three:
3: World tour
2: Gh 3
1: METALLICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. Warriors Of Rock
2. Guitar Hero III
1. World Tour
3. Metallica
2. Warriors of Rock
1. GH3 Legends of Rock
I also play Clone Hero
Guitar Hero 3 was the best. Every song I hear on the radio or on someone's phone I always think of Guitar Hero 3.
Me too my friend
Wait wait you said that guitar hero 2 feels worse than the first one? Have you tried hammer ons and pull offs in the first? Terrible! Guitar hero 2 was so much better than the first guitar hero just because of that reason not to mention I think it had a better song list.
Plus the fact hyper-speed showed up in 2, and just made it loads easier to properly play the game.
Clearly this guy has terrible taste.
Agreed, 2 was my favorite. 3 was really good except for the shitty ass wireless guitar that wouldn’t work. I remember using rubber bands to hold the neck and body together so the notes would register lol
I've played Guitar Hero Metallica, Van Halen and Warriors of Rock, and I actually thought they were quite fun.
I was very disappointed in Van Halen; not because of the songs or anything, but because it replaced Michael Anthony (the guy who actually played bass on the songs) with Eddie's kid, "Wolfgang."
That just rubbed me the wrong way. It's like they were giving credit to someone else for work they didn't do.
But, I'm guessing Michael Anthony probably didn't want his appearance used in it, so the band went with Plan B. :\
On the plus side, I think I got the PS2 version of the game for free by pre-ordering "Guitar Hero 5" from Amazon so it's not like it actually cost me anything extra. :)
I tested Metallica at activisions studio years ago. That was a pretty fun experience. Strangely enough I’ve never played the official release though.
D Liggo And make sure you don’t get a world tour guitar. If you had one i’m pretty sure that the strum bar broke.
Wolfgang was in GHVH because Michael Anthony had officially split from the band at the time the game was released. The fact that he wasn't in the game was a Van Halen problem, not a developer's problem. It's the same reason why there's no Sammy Hagar era VH songs on the game, because he just wasn't part of the band when the game was being made.
GHVH was good for what they could actually work with. The ideal Van Halen GH game would be impossible to make because of the complicated licensing regarding David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, and all the other moving around Van Halen has experienced over the years.
It's sad but it's the way it had to be.
"Quitr fun"
Still here playing Metallica on the ps2 in 2019 ❤️
I miss that game :(
Sold my ps2 and guitar set ...
Clone Hero
Metallica on XB360
Dum do de dum... guess the riff...
Okay and it’s still goof
I still play guitar Hero! The community is getting bigger, slowly. Clone Hero revived the series, it is truly amazing!!
But how do you even get a guitar nowadays
eBay
Amazon, eBay, any online shopping site really. But just know that depending on the controller you get, it can get pretty expensive. I recommend the RedOctane Xplorer though, it's one of the best controllers you can get.
I used to be a huge GH player, I played guitar and drums on Expert, but I was never really a 100% FC person. I was just reasonably good. Anyways, I fucking loved to play these games, they were not only fun, but they truly sparked my interest for music, it's probably the main reason why I picked up a real instrument, and I'm a musician today. In fact, I would still play the shit out of those games if I still had my guitar and drums. It never became boring for me. My honest opinion as far as what they should have done, is inserting a MUCH MUCH bigger selection of music. Most of the people who played GH were metalheads, and there could have been hundreds of thousands of more bands, ranging from mainstream, to underground, to all kinds of metal added to the games. This applys also to rock music of course. It's the music library limitation that killed the series. I know this involves a lot of legal work to be done, but... It would be worth it, I'm sure of it. That's my opinion.
If you haven't heard of it: Check out Clone Hero, it's basicly a guitar hero redo, just the songs and charts get created by people playing the game, there's people out there charting entire albums or even discographies by bands, I currently have over 1650 songs in my game with variaties from all original GH games to meme charts that are just for fun, and everything in between, all in one game and database. It's totally killer and got me back into Guitar Hero super well
Yeah, I know about Clone Hero, thanks for telling me. But that's not the point, I used to play Frets On Fire on the keyboard before I got my first Guitar Hero game. I don't wanna play with my keyboard, I wanna play with a guitar controller, which I don't have anymore.
Oh shit, FoF, I completely forgot I played that lol, same as, and yes this is the original name, SUPER CRAZY GUITAR MANIAC DELUXE 3, which was also played on the keyboard. It's a shame you don't have your old controllers anymore, there should be cheap ones online, Xbox guitars with USB work on pc too :)
Haha, that's a big ass name. FoF was awesome, it was quite a popular game too. But some of the charts people made gave me cancer lool But yeah man, I have 5 Guitar Hero games for Xbox 360 just laying on a shelf, and I can't play them because I don't have the controllers xD But oh well, it is what it is.
I can also say 100% that the wireless XBOX 360 guitars work on PC with the correct receiver! :)
Warriors of rock was an amazing game man you never even mentioned it
His fucking rude ass.
I realize I’m responding to a 6month old comment, but Nostalgia is sooo correct. Warriors of Rock is SUCH a badass game. It’s focus is mostly great METAL with a few lighter tracks. But great tracks, an awesome “Quest” and just a powerhouse of a game. Many of the tracks are tough even on Easy! I love the challenge.
And I, like many others on here am an adult and still play this game. The series I mean, via the Wii.
Definitely prefer it over Rock Band, but I never obtained an actual “Rock Band” guitar. Not sure if that makes a difference.
I also just ordered the Green Day game as I realized I never got that one,
and how cool to get a brand new game filled with 2.5 full albums of a band I really like after all this time w/nothing new!
Should be here in the next 2 days. 🤓✌️❤️
@@MisterOz73 I'll do the same and reply to a 6 month old comment :D I started with Gh3 back in 2006 when i was 6 years old and having the same fun today playing clone hero on Expert. GHwor made me good in the first place because of though but awesome Songs but CH is just perfect for me. You can play about every song from all your favourite Bands (for me Rise Against and Trivium) that never had more than one song you could play on Gh.
TheRat I’m a dope and canNOT figure out how to use CH!!
@@MisterOz73 It´s very simple, just download the latest version from their website (clonehero.net) and open the application in the Clone hero folder. It doesn´t need an installation.
For new Songs search either on youtube or Google for the Bands/Songs or download Song packs. Then unzip the files and place them in the Songs folder, Done. Connecting your Guitar is quite hard because there many different models. Again, just ask Google how to connect yours :)
"Worst" is a word mate
Donkey Kong issa joke
He meant in that context
Guitar Hero was my shit back then, I remember my mum getting most of the entries of the series for me because she loved the game as much as I did. It also reunited some of my cousins and school friends to play it with me and we would have a good time playing it.
GH3, GH5, GHWT and GHWOR will forever be in my heart. Sure, Guitar Hero Live was okay but it felt like it wasn’t the same good old fun.
Lazy Squid my mom had never played a video game in her life until guitar hero. She also loved it
I am wanting to get world tour on my ps2 and warriors of rock on my ps3 along with aerosmith and metallica lol maybe van halen... definitely van halen as well lol
@@abufinkle680 I'm really glad you and your folks enjoy
GH, because it also my jam, too. The best game that's ever
existed in the history of rock and roll mastery and PlayStation.
Today’s days will never know the feeling when you finally complete a song on expert for the first time
I know!
People still play this game tho lol
Fearful_Rabbit yeah but there’s some people who can’t even get their hands on it this game is discontinued :(
@@iqueencindyi2807 I couldn't find guitar hero for a reasonable price anywhere, so I hit up some friends and found someone who was willing to sell me their old guitar hero controller and then I homebrewed my wii so I could play guitar hero on it without having to find the game :D The guitars themselves are pretty easy to come by and a lot of people are selling the games second hand on ebay and such, sucks that it isnt being sold anymore tho
just wait untill you find out about clone hero
where is our gh3 remaster >_>
TheShinyGlaceon just play c!one hero :3
Clone Hero
you weren't supposed to take this comment seriously xD
orip
If Activision were to do what Harmonix did with Rock Band 4, I would totally buy another Guitar Hero for current gen consoles. Keep the same 5-fret system that GH is known for, add some updated-but-familiar graphics, and release previous GH setlists as DLC. An online multiplayer system that allows for coop and versus would be awesome as well. I feel like that would sell a lot of copies.
Tleast guitar hero truly lives on through Clone Hero on PC
Agreed
Another major aspect was that eventually controllers broke and getting a new one was either near impossible to find, or had an exhorbitant price. The games were still fairly popular when they stopped making the controllers.
RIP my Rockband Drumset. Took the whole thing out of commission when the foot pedal cord decayed.
"Worst" is a word. You just used it wrong.
Worsed comment ever.
Dannyk 8232 😂😂
He also said "a DLC." Yikes.
@@godmagnus what
If it aint broke dont fix it
Oh yea oh yea yea
Okay sal, why don’t you go back to being tonight’s biggest loser huh
GH2 will forever be nostalgic to me, I remember playing it on my PS2 all the time as a kid.
gyu scholar me too, me and my dad would play :)
Nah, what really killed the franchise was GHL, because it was so terrible, and RB3, because it was so good.
johnbazy you sure it didn't die due to a bee allergy? Fancy seeing you here.
I invite anyone to make Clone Hero charts of my bee remixes
rb3 is the worst rock band and that is a fact. even rb:green day was better
Yeah sure. Except it got the best reviews, introduced the keyboard, and had the best song list.
rb3 is the one that introduced pro instruments right? that was the most horrible idea ever... why buy a plastic guitar that is the price of a regular guitar? no one wanted spend that much money to get slightly better gameplay... same thung with gh live... i have lots of gh titles and i just thought: lol i need another guitar to play the game? meh
GH2 worse than GH1? Dafuq?
Are you saying GH1's absolutely broken HOPO system wasn't fun? /s
Yea, his comments on the downfall of the series were accurate, but you either had to be blind, deaf, or have no hands to try and say GH2 was worse than GH1.That's just like, objectively false. Better graphics, better setlist, better mechanics. GH2 was second only to GH3.
Guitar hero 2 is the second best GH game in my opinion (next to legends of rock)
Guitar hero 1 is almost unplayable after playing 2 and 3. Everything about it is not as good. Hammer on and hammer offs were messed up as well.
Hammer offs lmao I think you meant pull offs
But either way GH1's meta is fun but if you play casually and you got used to 2 and 3 then it's absolute trash
Excuse me, how can you possibly say GH2 feels worse than the original? The HO/PO's dont even work in GH... Smh
@Big Mac quarter pounder is better
The HO/PO's do work in GH1. You just have to actually play them on time with the music. Probably you just don't know how to perform them
@@TheBrazilRules No, just no. Even the devs said the HO/PO barely worked on GH1, and that GH2 vastly improved them. The notes are placed on a grid so you kinda have to hit them on time anyway?
Right? In the first game you HAD to hold multiple buttons. GH 2 let you freely switch between buttons
@@TheBrazilRulesyou never played gh1 than bc to hit the hopos reliably you must strum them
You didn't mention WoR
Which is a shame, because it was actually really good. The best one since 3.
WoR was actually pretty badass.
WoR had a huge success! But the thing that killed it was Hurricane Sandy. I had a huge leaderboard ranking, and all my stats were wiped and finding players was hard online. I called Activision and they told me that they shut down the servers and were not going to bring them back in 2012.
Isn’t warriors of rock the third one?
iNormie that's legends of rock
You forgot to mention Warriors of Rock, that one was really good
Brendan Keller I was saying this same thing like how tf did he completely skip that game? That game was fun af.
Quantum Biscuits yeah it totally was. I felt like that game went back to the roots of the older games, it felt like a more modern take on GH3, and it provided a lot of challenge and amazing songs
Warriors of Rock was my personal favorite game of all time.
Brendan Keller it's still my most favorite
Yeah, it was great. It had its setlist hiccups (1 tier I remember was really fucking boring) but the character creation was on-point, it became wacky again, and it generally had a superb setlist. Also, gotta love 2112
Guitar Hero On Tour Decades was one of my favorite DS games. It got me into so much music I still listen to to this day
but Warriors Of Rock was the last good Guitar Hero. The gameplay is the same, but it feels somehow very different and much more enjoyable compared to other Guitar Hero games, excluding GH3
Who wants to play slow ride on easy?
Jarren Brown not Me, too hard, I broke my guitar the first time I tried it
Bulls on Parade easy on bass at slowest speed on practice.
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Now now, don't ask for the impossible.
i love playing cliffs of dover on hard, challenging but not hair ripping
I recall playing Guitar Hero for the first time when I was taking my singing classes. That's right. While I was waiting for my singing mentor to come over or finish teaching another student at the waiting room, the small music class building had a playstation. One was a Tony Hawk skating game and the other one being Guitar Hero II. Me and my sister got hooked on it right away. So because of this, our parents gave us Guitar Hero III for christmas.
Man what a blast that game was...
I don't think Warriors of Rock gets enough credit. Sure it was the 'final' game in an over-saturated market and the themes were way over the top, but it had a solid track list, perfected the mechanics for all instruments and like Rock Band, worked as a music platform with tons of DLC and the option to import huge chunks of the track lists of almost every previous GH game. I have spent many many MANY hours just jamming out with random players online with that game. Still have a dusty Wii lying around somewhere with hundreds of GH songs on it!
Agreed.
WoR and GH5 would be my favorites. GH3 was also super fun and I spent a lot of time playing it, but I would slowly begin to like those other two more and more, especially because of the many songs.
And since I loved death metal and trash metal, songs like "Laser Cannon Death Sentence", "Sudden Death", "Holy Wars", "If You Want Peace, Prepare For War" and so on, really had me staying.
The only thing that always pissed me off, was that "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" never got into any of the newer games.. Like in Greatest Hits, it would've been perfect, instead of something like "Hey You" or "Take It Off".
Anyway, that's just my opinion.
TheAphexTim True. Warriors Of Rock was great, but sadly, Guitar Hero fatigue kicked in to some people since Activision didn't have the ability to moderate like Rock Band did. Plus, the franchise did get sued by No Doubt because they did not like how Band Hero allowed them to be played as outside their songs.
True
WoR had a great story and I enjoyed it. Btw G5 is my favorite Guitar Hero, and in my personal opinion, the one with the best music list and visuals.
@@AnimeALX lol i thought the whole part where they turn into forms was weird
It wasn't neversoft's fault. It was Activision milking every penny.
The best GH games to ever come out in the series in my opinion was:
Guitar Hero 3
Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock
I thought the setlists for these games were on point. The rest of the GH games are kinda meh
Dude they are the best
I also really liked guitar hero Metallica but that’s probably because I’m quite a big fan for Metallica.
Those are my favorite
What about GH2?
One of the most hated GH games, Rock The 80s is my most favorite.
Guitar hero 3 was the best guitar hero, I had some of my best times playing that game!
Guitar Hero 3 will live on in my heart forever.
Guitar hero 3 is still lit even with a controller....
Say what you want man, I freakin’ loved Warriors of Rock. Guitar Hero 2 & 3 will always be in my heart as games that got me grounded because I played past my bedtime (Guitar Hero 1 came out when I was 3) But like everyone is saying, I got Clone Hero to get me through these dark times.
Warriors of rock was awesome. It seemed like even the "boring" songs had atleast one challenging part unlike the previous games.
Tyler Willard Yeah. I mean a lot of the bands I listen to today were on there (Five Finger Death Punch, A7X, Flyleaf) I mean it wasn’t as bad as everyone makes it out to be, but I will admit it had flaws but aye, I still enjoyed it
WoR is my second favorite game in the GH franchise, behind GH3. The soundtrack is one of the best and the story is surprisingly lots of fun and really hard.
I Am Various warriors was fucking awesome. I beat that game 6 times
Loved warriors of rock.
With clone hero getting as popular as it is guitar hero might be coming back!
It's better than Activision's games. Lol
only problem is that you can only purchase used guitars at this point and clone hero devs probaly isnt going to make their own
Nikguin04 I have 3 second hand controllers, and they're doing great. You just need to clean them up, maybe retrobright in the case of the explorer, clean up the insides so the buttons don't stick. It's quite easy.
yea, i have 7 second hand controller they're working great too. but i would be so much nicer to get new ones cause they always come with some wear and scratches
Nikguin04 Well, there's no hope for that, because redoctane was bought by Activision, and they produce horrible quality controllers now.
3:13 "industry leach Activision" 4:38 "rival industry leach EA" HA! Good shots there. I genuinely chuckled at those. No better way to describe those companies. Especially EA
The greatest guitar hero moments were hitting that blue with the pinky then sliding up to the orange hammer-on straight after. When Guitar Hero Live came out with the goal of "making the game more accessible", they made a three finger fretting system that essentially destroyed the whole concept of Guitar Hero's creation in the first place - making you feel awesome at guitar... without actually being very awesome at guitar... at all. They wanted you to be fretting up and down those five frets in a way that looked totally awesome and required some linear, visual co-ordination. Although Guitar Hero Live introduced a 2x3 button system to make the guitars more "realistic", they defeated the whole purpose of playing a glorified air-guitar game - you're not actually playing a real guitar, you're just meant to look and feel awesome. If people wanted a realistic guitar game, they would go and buy Rocksmith. If they wanted to just play up and down the neck of a plastic guitar and feel pretty awesome without having to spend tens of years and thousands of dollars learning an actual instrument, they'd play Guitar Hero. There was a clear distinction that they crossed, and this decision ruined their game. The game was always made accessible with a three button easy difficulty, so their reason there for accessibility is poor. If they wanted to make the game more difficult, however, they should have at least kept the 5 fret system to begin with. Adding a second row/column of buttons is a reasonable option, however removing the 4th and 5th frets (thus rendering the pinky useless) removes the ability to feel awesome. Nobody feels awesome playing a guitar with three fingers. You can barely even play proper guitar with three fingers. They took away the experience that the gamer felt. That's where they went wrong.
x23rizky Say it again for the people in the back!
to me gh live was much easier which dissapointed me
While I do agree with you on this completely, I feel the need to point out that there were many people who played Guitar Hero with 3 fingers anyway, regardless of difficulty. So for some people, playing with 3 finger felt just as awesome as playing with 4, although I'm sure the majority of players use 4 fingers, myself included.
Kind of besides the point here, but did anyone else find it easier to play Guitar Hero with the pinky finger on the orange, and instead having to switch the index finger between green and red? I always found that far more practical and never understood why people would put their pinky on blue.
yeah, I switch between green and red with my index finger, feels more comfortable using my index finger since its the stronger finger
Guitar hero 3 is still aliveeee
the beginning of this video almost made me cry. guitar hero was my life when i was a kid. it ruined friendships, made friendships, caused fights and even settled fights, i remember the first time drinking as a kid, the first thing i did was play raining blood, and i beat it, drunk at like 15. life was good at the time
Hey will you read my comment on the top not all the way just look at the comment when you see it okay and if you like it also will you replie back to me please
About if guitar hero was in the 90s that comment
Man I played Guitar Hero: Metallica so much
It's the absolute fucking best
best one out there due to great portion of metal music in it
I still have it for ps2
How is GH2 worse that GH1? The engine is far better, addressing the broken hammer-ons/pull-offs from the original, the art style is refined from the original and has charm, you could now practice song sections, play coop or even competitive with both players playing the WHOLE song instead of the "ping pong" thing when every player played a little bit of the song before passing to the other, the covers are better, even though recorded by the exactly same people of the original game, the argument of "GH2 is just a reskin of the original" is total BS.
I'm not sure. We tended to hit more notes without fails on GH2 than in GH1, so I'd call that a definite improvement.
It's because you cant have battle royale with guitar hero. Holy shit I just came up with the next battle royale.
That's what people said about tetris
Where's Warriors of Rock
Ikr that game was awesome!!!
Heck wheres rocksmith? Thats guitar hero WITH A REAL GUITAR
@@somethingelse4898 Very underrated, albeit not my favorite songlist.
Man. This game was my childhood. Hours and hours of my life was spent on this game. The nostalgia boner is real here
I remember rocking out on Guitar Hero 3(my favorite) and 2 with my friends. My older sister and her friends also played so it made my younger self feel even cooler. It also opened me up to the world of rock that I adore today, and gave me an appreciation for music. One of my fondest and most memorable memory is watching a couple of my sister's friends play Through the Fire and Flames on Expert. *Expert.* They had to pause the game every few minutes just to shake out their hands. It was insane. Those games were a very large and profound part of my childhood and I wish I could go back to those moments. A lot of kids these days will never know how fun and awesome it felt to play these games and feel like a rockstar every time.
the video coulda just said "ACTIVISION" and last two seconds
Squid Kid paused and said "then EA"
I stopped playing guitar hero because i learned how to play the real guitar.
Eric Cummings how bout both
Jozeph I still play guitar hero every once in a while.
This is when you get clone hero, download carpal tunnel hero 2, and put your guitar chops to work
Eric Cummings honestly fucking same. I went back and got even better at GH but eventually got bored of it, only playing select songs from certain games
Eric Cummings nah you learned how to play few simply songs not guitar.
*Looks around*
Presses beginner mode
We had "World Tour" and I can still remember the key strokes to Evelong... on medium lol. Came home from work one day to find my flatmate was playing drums, guitar and vocals! Drums on easy, using the bass peddle, singing and strumming away. He was still getting great scores! Nostalgia... and it wasn't even that long ago.
And now there's Clone Hero, have fun lads
JaysonTM nah that doesn’t exist
It does exist...
you mean guitar hero 69?
Love your charts
I can't tell you how many hours of sleep I've lost due to Clone Hero. Worth it lol.
Its 2020 and I'm still playing guitar hero 3, metallica, and world tour.
Me too what you playing on? I'm on ps3
@@ericcartman1425 Xbox 360 and Wii
@@trappedinthebakerhouse get a ps3 we could play guitar hero world tour duel mode
Guitar hero 2 was the best instalment of the series.
THUNDERHORSE
J Thunderhorse, Jordan, The Light that Blinds, Six, TROGDOR! Do I need to say more? 😂
@@STEEL4122 all bonus songs lol and gh2 was the best
Collide, The New Black, Arterial Black, X-Stream!
Trogdor homie
mabey not the best but it sure is underrated the tracklist was really good they had "six" from all that remains, "hangar 18" from megadeth, "the trooper" from iron maiden, "thunder horse" as you mentioned from dethklok and plenty others so i wish it got more recognition that it has
I loved GH2 and GH3 and even World Tour. After that I didn't really care. GHL (Guitar Hero Live) isn't bad, but the in game currency ruined it for me. I would prefer to use in game currency as a one time purchase for songs, not as a one use purchase.
6 is way to underrated tho, it’s such a good ending to the story tbh
The best songlist, for me, is Warriors of Rock's
I just threw up in my mouth after reading this.
Warriors of rock did have the entirety of 2112 on it withthe members of rush narrating the parts in between, and that was pretty fucking cool
Lars Umault's stage had the best setlist! Rammstein, Pantera, Alter Bridge, Five Finger Death Punch and Slipknot!
We're not going to talk about Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock? That game was fucking amazing
I’m still playing 3 and Aerosmith to this day
same here man!
Easy answer, too many games at once killed the "need." Once demand went back up they changed the controller and killed all interest.
JAC 073 Indeed. If you look at Rock Band, you can see they actually moderated their main releases, with the only time the released more than one title being with the track packs that contained DLC songs so players who were still on PS2 can play them (and players on Xbox 360 and PS3 can play it, and when they were done, they can use a code to get the songs on said track pack downloaded for play on the main Rock Band games). Guitar Hero just kept releasing too many games because Activision looked at the franchise and saw nothing but dollar signs.
On 9:16 the music synchs in with the Chart :P
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I'm more of a rock band guy but I gotta admit the guitar is hero is legendary and was a great game and definitely is an important mark in gaming history.
the beatles rock band and guitar hero metallica are the only good full-band spinoffs in my opinion. the beatles rb's visual design still stuns me to this day, just look up the intro to it on youtube! Fun fact, it was done by the guy who animated Gorillaz!
I was always disappointed that they gave us spin off games like Green Day but nothing cool like ZZ Top. :)
I started back playing RB:Beatles last week.
You didn't really play guitar hero if you didn't play the NEW Guitar Hero DSi XL 4D featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series and Knucles
Guitar Hero 1,2 and 3 were so great because of the novelty factor but also because the setlists were genuinely broad and were not afraid to feature lesser known songs.
The biggest factor I believe killed Guitar Hero was the oversaturation of DLC and games themselves. The first 3 games had legendary setlists that the entire community could keep track of and relate to. After Guitar Hero 3, the games became absolutely littered with DLC tracks. It killed the community because everyone had a different setlist of songs in their game depending on what DLC they had, there was no longer a common setlist that everyone could talk about and relate to. It becomes less interesting if people are talking about difficult bits in songs you don't have for your game.
The other big thing that killed it was that after GH3, the focus shifted towards more mainstream content in setlist and consequently an absolute dirge of songs that were dull and uninteresting to play through.
It's the most common disease in gaming and entertainment in general - when something gets big - malignant, cancerous greed from the developers take over. Less is almost always more when something gains traction but game developers have never quite been able to grasp the concept of rejecting short term greed for long term sustained success. It's depressing.
I wouldn't say the entirety of the gaming market is this way, where they just release games just to make money. That's basically a stereotype perpetually kept alive by the advent of spending more for pre-rendered cutscenes, licenses, advertising, hemorrhaging money out of consumers through deceptive business practices, and all the things that would matter the most in the mass public eye. To us, as people who breathe and live for video games, we actually became sort of video game critics because we do love the products they've offered to us and the memories we've created through those products. It'll be up to us lot to guide the mass public towards better games and not honey traps.
Rock band bas much more dlc but they were cross compatible with each games
While the Guitar Hero games are practically dead, the community that was created by it, is relatively still alive and well. One thing I feel like you missed (and may have been important) was the PC Edition of Guitar Hero 3 which was one of two games only made for PC (the other one being Guitar Hero Aerosmith). The community made by Guitar Hero, heavily modded the PC Edition of the game to incorporate custom community made charts/songs which helped keep the community somewhat alive. As of now, the community is growing again at a steady rate because of a free community made clone of the game named "Clone Hero" which is basically the same as Guitar Hero PC Edition but made more for the community. While the games are dead, the community is steadily thriving and growing.
Guitar Hero was an amazing game many of us won't forget. Too bad it was over saturated to the point of downfall... If only they never did so. Imagine what would things be like today.
I completely forgot about GH:WT for PC... Yeah it was released on PC but let's face it, World Tour wasn't really that great at all. Bad song setlist, broken slider/tap notes, and other things that didn't really make it all too good to play on PC.
All these analyses of the death of Guitar Hero and rhythm games leaves out probably the most important thing that stopped many faithful fans from continuing, and that's HDTVs. Guitar Hero debuted when CRTs were still very common, and hooking up your console to one of these was easy. Playing rhythm games on a CRT is extremely gratifying because there is basically no display lag at all, as there is no image processing going on in the background. After the Guitar Hero 3 era is when me and most of my friends upgraded to HDTVs, and we really felt the lag. Add onto that the wireless controllers being inconsistent and the calibration settings being basically useless and you get a most unfun experience trying to play rhythm games. It got to a point where being good at the game wasn't enough to actually hit the notes, you had to do all kinds of math in your head to calculate exactly when to hit the notes, because it wasn't in time with the music. We all dropped it shortly after. I still return to it every now and then, but it's honestly just impossible to enjoy rhythm games on modern TVs. Right now, the best situation for playing rhythm games is either mobile or Switch handheld, and neither are ideal for interesting peripherals like guitar, drums, keyboard, or dance pad. Ultra low lag displays are now really expensive, niche items for PC gamers, meaning I need to spend over 1000 dollars for a good modern TV for rhythm games, or otherwise have a spare CRT sitting around with a bunch of extra cables and converters to put new games on an old display. There is no good way to play modern Guitar Hero, and that is a huge part of why it died.
It's not really that hard to get a good calibration on HDTVs, but I know a more casual audience probably wouldn't want (or know how) to deal with anything like that.
No matter how you calibrate it, it still throws me off. Even if the music and the notes line up with the timing window perfectly, the animation that indicates you hitting the notes always comes late (no way to fix that) so it never feels as clean and responsive as a no lag display like a CRT.
It was that way on PC for me unfortunately, but the PS2 version was always in sync on my TV (which isn't CRT). Maybe some copies of the game had that issue and others didn't?
Guiter Hero Live was an abomination to the series.
Agreed
You forgot to mention the popularization of HDTV's. The input lag made it next to impossible to play guitar hero, especially if you had been playing in CRT tv's up until that point. The input lag is anywhere from 40-150ms on an HDTV. I remember playing GH on an HDTV for the first time at a party. I could always play on Expert with the hyper speed cheat on and I was planning to show off. I failed instantly on every song I tried and people thought I was lying about my skill. It was the most embarrassing thing of my childhood lol.
That's why today, you'll notice anyone still playing GH does so at their computer desk on a monitor because monitors have 5-10ms response times, generally speaking. Which is much closer to the original CRT tv's which had insanely low input lag. We're talking as low as 1-3ms though generally averaged around 5-10.
So if you're someone who wondered why all the sudden you sucked, it very well could have been your tv if you were playing on an LED/LCD HDTV.
All you really have to do is calibrate your instruments to the TV, and the problem should be fixed. I should know; I've been playing Rock Band on my flat screen for years and had the only reason I wasn't hitting the notes was because of myself.
Oh my god if I could like this more than once, I would spam it until my hand got tired. I happened to be lucky enough to have an HDMI 720p TV with almost 0 latency, and to this day I play Clone Hero, but boy oh boy did I hate playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band at other's houses. It sucked because no one knew how to calibrate anything.
Your right. I haven't been thinking hard enough and now I realize that it's my TV. My TV is 2008 or 2011 HDTV VIZIO. I've been recently playing Guitar Hero 2 on the 360 version on medium just for fun and I have been playing on Xbox controller and I've been sucking so much at the game and I dont even calibrate the game. The harmonix Guitar Hero games are fucking difficult if you have a certain TV. I keep missing notes or randomly over strumming the controller or guitar. There is one glitch that keeps fucking me up which on the Xbox 360 version, there is a glitch where typically the green fret button will malfunction out of nowhere and get stuck, this isn't the guitar or controllers fault, even if you have a CRT, it still happens anyway and it's never been fixed since the April 2007 update for the game. What is also harder is that the harmonix Guitar Hero games are tied to a BPM (I dont know what it stands for) and depending what song you play, the fretboard and character animations go fast, it gets hard to play the game if you have an HDTV. That's why whenever I use the guitar or regular controller, I always fuck up on those games and I'm not as good as I used to be. I can't FC any song easily enough on all the difficulties. I can FC anytime on GH3 but the harmonix Guitar Hero's, it takes me a while to FC and I never even bother. In the end, the best way to play the harmonix GH games, it's better if you have a CRT instead of an HDTV, it gets hard if you have one because it can fuck you up bad.
To me, they just went too far away from what made the games fun. They should never have introduced multiple instruments, and instead focused on refining already amazing single player and multiplayer experiences that were guitar/bass only. They went way off the deep end with some of these ideas. The games based on individual bands were absolutely doomed to fail, and rightfully so. Who could justify the price tag for a music game so heavily centered on one band and one style of music? It’s a boring idea, and I really enjoy Van Halen and Metallica. To make it worse, they just continued to saturate the market with these niche concepts that in no way appealed to the audience that made the original games successful. GH3 was incredible, because it was a music game that was extremely immersive on all fronts. The guitar duels in single player were intense and gave a real sense of accomplishment when you finally won, multiplayer modes provided endless entertainment, and it was just overall incredibly stylized and fun to be around. The fact they strayed so far away from the core concepts and shot themselves in the foot with these boneheaded ideas is depressing, because I think music games still have a place in gaming.
They wanted to make competition to Rock Band. Guess who got their DLC up and never stopped making profit (as little as may be)
Connor music games are still going strong in Japan, look up beatmania IIDX
Connor or look up GuitarFreaks (GITADORA) for something more familiar
To be honest, I feel like the drums was an amazing addition to guitar hero, I personally learned how to truly play drums just from playing drums on the guitar hero, and it was also what got me playing real guitar. Songs like everlong that teach you how to play 16th notes, and use your hands and feet at the same time. A lot of musicians that I know personally said that they all played gh (Drums and Guitar) and it inspired them to pick up an instrument.
It was an awesome game. My favorite ones are:
- World tour
- GH3
- Metallica
- WARRIORS OF ROCK!...
WoR was, IMHO the best of the bunch. It brought the guitar back to GH. Pretty catchy songs. there were some very difficult. Some prog, some trash, some metal... it was just awesome. I still play it to this day. Hope my plastic guitar never breaks.
WoR its my favorite too.. Oh Man, I wish that this game in particular had been released for PC... Imagine that, today they surely modded it and put a lot of things in it (as it happens now with the World Tour)
GH Live suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.
It’s shit
Yep i was so hyped.....
I played most gh games and I enjoyed all of them, even live because I loved how there was an endless stream of songs that you could play. The tv feature was pretty cool too. I feel like I just had a lot of fun learning the new controller too.
I find live neat but I wish they could have controller support or the experienced players from previous games the song choices that they made was nice it’s like the gateway to the other songs in the previous games but yeah overall it sucked
Imperial Capital I got it for $5 at five below
Where is gh6?
WHERE DID YOU LEAVE GUITAR HERO: WARRIORS OF ROCK
Gh02t in the garbage can where they belong
Sir squiddy the 5th aah you are one of this guys
RIGHT???? GH6 was great!
Guitar hero 6 is the successor of guitar hero 3 dude,
If you haven't played it
Dont cuss on it "sir squiddy the 5th"
Probably it was too good game and had to be forgotten to make the explanation work
I miss guitar hero. One of the few games that really only utilized pure skill and reaction time. You didn't have to do research in advanced or have pre-existing knowledge on the best "combos" or "strategies" to be good at the game. You just have to be fast and have good dexterity. It's a great equalizer. Of course, practice makes you a lot better...
i miss the Guitar Hero and Rock Band days. When those games were HUGE. I've yet to see a music game as great as Rock Band 2. I remember when Rock Band had that promo with Pepsi where you could get free DLC songs by entering a code from the Pepsi caps and there was a music video contest. Good times.
Hell, I loved Guitar Hero World Tour, Metallica, GHWOR, Lego Rock Band, and Rock Band 3. RB4 is pretty solid as well. But it just doesn't have the same feel that I had playing RB and GH during the 2007-2011. era
didnt even know guitar hero encore existed
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the Guitar.
This video could be two seconds long: “Guitar Hero Live was made”
It died years before that, Guitar Hero Live was basically just necrophilia.
qwertyuiopzxcfgh Necrophilia haha
Yea but GH LIVE sucked huge ba... well you know
@@qwertyuiopzxcfgh and Clone Hero dropped a nuke on its grave, annihilating any chance of a revival because it is literally the free, superior version of Guitar Hero. Also you can download the track list the entire Guitar Hero series for Clone Hero so Guitar Hero is now officially obsolete.
Uhhh... what about Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
Animation and style of cutscenes in Legends of rock were 👌
Guitar hero Metallica was amazing