Guitar Hero: Rock Opera

[Orange_Clockwork]

It sounds original enough, but I get that Broooeetal Legend, too much. It may be nothing like Brutal Legend, but it'll be hailed as Brutal Legend, but with a guitar :-/.

Apart from that, I can see Izzy Sparks, off of Guitar Hero, doing an aerial flip, landing on the balls of his feet and pumping his pelvis in the classic rolling fashion as he gets mobbed by angry peasants who want to chip off his nob and mount it on their mantels, each in seperate turn depending on weekdays and labor times.

 

[The Random One]

And the bass player... uh...

There was a webcomic in which people played a hyper-advanced version of Guitar Hero Rock Band to bring hope to starving peasants in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. You could lose so hard you died. I stopped reading it and forgot its name.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I think you're crazy Yahtzee; on the other hand, as long as Jack Black wasn't involved in any way, way shape or form, I might be interested.

 

[superbleeder12]

fund it!

 

[kodra]

Errrrr...

So as an avid player of Guitar Hero / Rock Band games, I can tell you how much time I actually spend watching the awesome graphics subimposed beneath the fret board, and the answer is not a whole lot. All of my concentration has to be on that fret board otherwise I plink away into nothing. I could... see how the regular melee could work potentially, but honestly the idea of having to pay attention to a fight and a fret board at the same time makes me side with the "This is a terrible idea" or the "You're trolling your fans. From under your bridge. With you business cards" side.

 

[SithLibrarian]

I'd love to play Brendon Small's "Franz Kafka Rock Opera" and "King Arthur Rock Opera" in Guitar Hero

 

[Tyro Seri]

this is a great idea for a game! but we have to be able to create our own guys/girls, we should have a choice between using regular gibson/fender guitars or customising our own, and maybe famous rock legends should roles in the game like in Brutal legend.

you should try and send this to Tim Schafer

 

[sarahvait]

I prefer Gitaroo Man to any Guitar Hero game

Actually, Yahtzee's boss fight part pretty much sounds like the way Gitaroo Man played.

 

[Karlott]

I would play the absolute shit out of that game. Someone get on it.

 

[Sonicron]

If that game were actually made, I would finally give in and buy a goddamn guitar controller.

But it will never see the light of day, so I'll stick with my real instruments. Phew.

 

[senorcromas]

The idea sounds really, REALLY cool and all, but for some reason, the combat kind of sounds like a real time version of wild ARMs 4's HEX battle system to me... of course, that system was really awesome, inventive, and stuff... meh, who am I kidding? I can't come up with more epic idea... really awesome stuff, Yahtzee.

 

[The Cheshire Cat]

I see I'm not the only one that was somewhat disappointed that it was impossible to play Brutal Legend with a rock band/GH controller.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Heh. While putting off sleeping, I read this little article and now I've been thinking of a possible narrative.

It seems to me that the perfect ending to the game would be the cover of Devil Went Down To Georgia from GH3. So, fittingly, the game should be set in Georgia with the final boss being the devil. I still can't complete the bastard on hard but that's another story.

Any road, from this, we can work backwards. The PC, let's call him Dick for ease of reference, is part of a rock band that aspired to be a Metallica or an Iron Maiden but never made it. Think of chaps from Spinal Tap if they weren't famous. Now, after a woeful gig, Dick steps outside and starts to think he's too old for this. He chucks his guitar in a skip and storms home. The band shows up the next day for practice saying he left his guitar in it's case at the venue. Dick, purplexed, opens the case to reveal a golden guitar. He plays. They're awesome.

Now, I'm getting bored so I'll make this quick. Some churchy people are getting some bad vibes from the guitar and Catholics are fuming. An organisation like Iscariot XIII from Hellsing (only with more minions and less sort of invincible) rock up and your band hole up in your transit van. Shit happens. You defend yourself against the accusations. The devil shows up, shit hits the fan and he challenges you for your soul like the song.

Bang. Out of the park. If you excuse me, I'm going to watch some more of James May's programs of BBC iPlayer until I fall into a coma. Hopefully I'll slip out of it in time for uni tomorrow but I won't be making any promises to my lecturer.

 

[ChroniclerC]

I'm sure that this has been said a couple hundred times by now, but I would really like to see this game. And, since we already know that Yahtzee secretly rules the video game industry (*cough* [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/6228-Yahtzees-Prototype-vs-InFamous-Challenge]), odds are good that we will get to play this game someday. ^_^

 

[300lb. Samoan]

"By now you're obviously thinking this is the greatest idea for a Guitar Hero game ever and I am a visionary genius deserving of investment and/or worship"

+50 fire tributes
Achievement: Epic Design Document unlocked!

::snip::video lol::snip::

better hit up the motor forge for some troll repellant

 

[Jekken6]

I'd so buy that game.

 

[zoharknight]

You know, i'd acualy play that. It sounds badass. I dont really like music games like guitar hero and rock band, just seem boring to me, but this idea sounds fun ^^

 

[FROGGEman2]

Awesome.

At first I was "Eeeeh..." about the combat, but then I imagined it right, and now I'm like "Yeah".