Activision: DJ Hero Will Be "More Mainstream" Than Guitar Hero

[Gerazzi]

This game looks way too complex, even if it's supposed to be mainstream. Though with this and Band Hero the Guitar Hero wagon has finally been all whored out I geuss.

I, for one, don't care.
I'm white enough to be waiting for Rockband 3.

 

[Aedrial]

Eugh, I for one will not be buying this game, silly remixed techno... stuff...

 

[Cousin_IT]

im guessing mainstream is ativision jargon for "the cool, hip, Ibiza kids," because I fail to see how it could mean much else.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

wonder how many versions of this we'll be subjected to?

tho i think it would be cool to have "dj hero : Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5" or "dj hero : Boogie Down Productions"

 

[messy]

I thought guitar hero was mainstream, it's big enough that musicians like Jack White are worried it'll single handily ruin real guitar playing. So to be bigger then that will be fairly impressive, although I doubt actual DJ's will care as much because it'll be slightly closer to the actual craft and in DJ you don't create the basic thing yourself you mix and match existing stuff which hopefully you can do on this hero game (not that I'll get it, it'd just be nice)

 

[Low Key]

I wonder what Activision is basing their claims on. It certainly can't be from the rap demographic because that's what I'm apart of and I'm not buying that junk.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

Oh daisies, more casual gamers to ruin the industry with their games full of perpetual quick time events and mini games. I can hardly contain myself

 

[Simalacrum]

generally, speaking, I think most gamers prefer rock music, such as Mettalica... there are obviously those who like R&B and such, but... I dunno, it just seems like such a niche market rather than "mainstream"

 

[duchaked]

I can't recall ever in my life seeing someone playing the air turntable.

That situation can easily be remedied.

Spoiler

LOL

all I know is, the people I typically play Rock Band 2 with (and GH for practice) are really psyched about this game so I guess I'll give it a try (then again, I still have to give the drums a try too)

 

[Kanazuchi]

It does make me wonder though. IIDX had a pretty steep learning curve that didn't make it particularly conducive to the US general crowd. That, and the fact that every time I see IIDX at an anime con or arcade (and that's the only time I ever see it), it's always surrounded by a small handful of elitists who either mock the rookies or hog the machine. That's just plain old unfriendly. I used to run the video game room at our local con. One year, three people on the forums were clamoring for IIDX, and when I put it out, I only ever saw three people playing it.

Looking at Guitar Freaks and Drum Mania, they never caught on either, but Guitar Hero and Rock Band are hot properties. The soundtrack has something to do with that, what with GH's music being straight out of rock history and GF's being a wider range of guitar-centric music. Of course, I'm some sort of freak because I'll take '57 Metallic Grey and Ska Ska No. 1 over Laid To Rest and Raining Blood any day of the week.

That, and the game play was better. One of my friends who spent some time in Japan said, "We have Session over here, and a lot of the songs have karaoke text, so I was just saying we've had that for a while. What makes Rock Band better?" The controls have a lot to do with that. HOPO is a downright godsend, while DM's controller is not too far removed from the nightmare that is Rock Revolution's drum set. Also strangling GF's throat is the fact that Konami's idea for higher difficulty levels means that everything is a chord. (Hey Activision, are you paying attention? I played the GHSmashHits version Woman, and the garbage you added to it was not necessary! Knock it off!)

Getting back to DJ Hero, the *Hero franchise is big enough that its leverage could make DJ Hero more popular than IIDX would ever be. There's also something to be said about the controls. From what I can gather from my friends who DJ, the only thing that a IIDX controler has in common with their rigs is that one of the inputs is a shaped like a turntable.

 

[CheckD3]

So...they're saying that most the population are into rap and hip hop over the rock crowd? I must disagree with that, mainly because, while not trying to be racist here, but the hip hop/rap culture is more popular among african americans, where as whitey is more of the metal/rock groups. Plus, wheree are rap/hip hop is more of a together crowd, rock and metal are split into many different groups, meaning that the Guitar Hero games cover more people's likes in their set lists, having classic rock, heavy metal, ect. Meaning that if you take 10 people all with different styles of music, Guitar Hero would get over half the group, while only a few, between 1-3, would choose DJ Hero

Plus, while "spinning" the record may sound fun, most nerds want to imagine they're on stage playing guitar, since what do most people do when they listen to cool music? Air guitar