Guitar Hero Could Make a Comeback, Says Kotick

[Ben Legend]

I think its anyones guess at the moment as to whether GH will return. But to outright say it won't is just daft.

Sorry GH but as long as you're sitting the race out, RB will continue to change things. (new instruments, pro mode, overdrive revival, thousands of downloadable songs, fun over difficulty substance over style...etc)

 

[dex-dex]

god damn it!
I thought that bastard was dead for good!

 

[RatRace123]

And yet true crime which was nearly finished isnt coming back. But the overproduced game is.

That's the real tragedy as far as I'm concerned, yes let's bring back the already dead franchise because we still might be able to sucker people out of more money with it, but screw the next installment in a cult franchise. We don't foresee making it a profitable yearly series so we'll kill it and make sure it stays dead.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Guitar Hero needs a long long long break. Then, if the new game tanks, no more.

 

[ZeroAE]

It needs to cool down and think of his actions.

 

[Waaghpowa]

How does one re-invent Guitar Hero?

You have to realise that this is Bobby Kotick. "re-inventing" in his mind is perhaps, I dont know, charging 5 dollars more for the controller?

That or just release the old ones and change nothing, just add DLC tracks with.

 

[mrdude2010]

http://imgur.com/gallery/lhxct

19 games, WE DON'T NEED ANYMORE!

Going to sound like a rockband fan boy, but here goes, Rock band is way better, and they understand that no one wants to change out one of 19 discs depending on what song you want to play, just hope rockband can stay afloat in this rough sea of little plastic guitars.

personally i infinitely prefer the guitar hero guitar and bass setup, but the songs in rock band tend to be better.. there are so many songs i would love to see in a guitar hero game there are definitely still things they could put in, but lately the track sets in guitar hero (most noticeably from 4, which had a few good songs, on) tended to suck as a whole... most of GH1,2,and 3 i liked, and i liked rock band 1 and 2 but after that it just got a little silly

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

Fun Fact!

Guitar Hero is coming back in 2012. The canceled the game that was coming out in 2011, they still haven't canceled or even announced the GH that is has already been in development for a year now.

I know that sounds odd, but I was listening to a podcast, Podcast Beyond from IGN, and one of the guys on it said that they only canceled one game, but there were two games in production.

 

[Temah]

And there was me thinking it would at least stay dead for a couple of months,I've somehow overestimated Kotick.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Reinvent. Does this fucker have any experience in game design? Or is he really just a cartoonishly evil businessman who somehow gained the reigns of one of the largest game companies in the world?

This prick gives capitalists a bad name.

 

[Eternal_Lament]

Hmm... Kotick says he'll reinvent Guitar Hero? I can imagine it now.

"Well, It's been two years now, and I think we are ready to reinvent Guitar Hero"
"What do you have in mind sir"
"Picture this, we set the game......in a warzone"
"Excuse me? What do you mean by a warzone?"
"You know, a warzone, like what they did with the latest SSX"
"Except that game didn't do well.....at all.......and I'm pretty sure people will realize that we just copied EA"
"That's the best part, we release the new Guitar Hero, claim it has been in the works before SSX, and then say how they copied us"
"I don't think that's going to work sir"
"Looks like someone is hankering for their paycheck to be cut"
"Uh, what I mean is...... What else were you thinking about doing"
"Well get this, we have a different setlist, with the setlist composed songs from the previous games and DLC, and whatever we don't have in there we sell for DLC"
"I think that's just going to piss off the fans"
"They'll be too excited about the guest musicians to pay attention to that"
"Who did you have in mind?"
"Well, I'm glad you asked. I was driving to work today when I thought to myself 'Who on the radio is popular enough to draw in fans?'"
"......Oh no"
"That's right, why don't we include Justin Bieber and Ke$sha? They're popular musicians"
"First off, calling those two hacks musicians is an insult to real musicians. Second off, don't you remember Band Hero?"
"Well I lay off so many development teams that it's hard for me to keep track of who it is I actually lay off, so I guess I don't really remember"
"Sir, I have to be honest, I don't think I can help you with this project. It's just so awful both to the world of video games and the world of buisness. Nothing you can say will keep me on ths project"
"Did I tell you that I plan on adding an 8 at the end of the title?"
"I'm leaving now sir"
"Did I also tell you that I plan on adding a keyboard periphiral that we will assure everyone is original?"
-Assistant has a sudden brain embolisim due to stupidity-
"Th-tha-that sound-s brill-iant s-si-sir!"
"Well, not to brag here, but I'm not the CEO of this company for nothing"

I have a half-feeling that I'm not too far off from the truth here.

 

[ace_of_something]

How is it all the articles don't mention their big competition and how it's doing? Ya know Rock Band?
Could that be part of why the GH games aren't selling so well?

 

[Harbinger_]

I wish someone would reinvent Kotick so he wasn't such a idiot.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Perhaps after a year or two without a new Guitar or DJ Hero game, interest in music games might recover.

You know that. We know that. But does kotick know that?

 

[Verlander]

Motion control guitar hero. We all know that's what's gonna happen. I'll only think of rebuying when it's all virtual reality holodeck style, and you can play direct at audiences, then get some groupie action for getting 100%

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Damn, I should have bet money it would come back...

 

[duchaked]

"Guitar Hero Could Make a Comeback, Says Kotick"

yeah, it's called Rock Band

 

[Smooth Operator]

Ya because we are really starving with the 20+ music titles they already pushed to the market...

 

[The Great JT]

WHAT HE SAID:
"Guitar Hero could make a comeback, someday."

WHAT HE MEANT:
"We're taking five years off, then we'll start milking the franchise again."

We are not fooled, Kotick.

 

[Irridium]

Even if something's dead and buried, it won't stop Kotick digging it up on the chance of more money!

They should name a form of Ebola after him.

After all, look what they're doing to Spyro.