Poll: DJ Hero: Going too far?
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I've noticed how the awesome rock of Guitar Hero has steadily degraded during the course of the franchise. I don't know the first Guitar Hero's line-up, but I liked GH2's, and loved GH3's. World Tour's music wasn't as good, and now there's a DJ Hero? It's enough to make me very sad.
It surprises me that so many people have set the standard for music video games based on Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Both those games have been done before (Guitar/Percussion Freaks, by Bemani, the same people who made DDR), and DJ Hero...
YES, DJ Hero...
Has been done before as well. It's the incredibly popular DJ simulation game Beatmania, which essentially was the first music simulation game with a peripheral (choke on that, GH/RB nerds).
To be honest, I'm glad they're coming out with DJ Hero. Guitar Hero and Rock Band did a good enough job messing things up by not having much variety in the music selection (Bemani games have tons of genres), and the fact that alot of insanely good "guitar" players weren't even included in the game (Zapp and Roger, Lee Ritneour, George Duke (multi-instrumental), Shinichi Osawa, not to mention alot of other greats that weren't included because FUNK APPARENTLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ROCK AND ROLL, etc.). Even if the songlist sucks, at least they're TRYING to appeal to everyone.
Sorry if that sounds a bit rant-ish, it's just Guitar Hero/Rock Band could have been so much better if they didn't prepetuate the stereotypical guitar being used only for Rock.
Good luck, DJ Hero.
YES, DJ Hero...
Has been done before as well. It's the incredibly popular DJ simulation game Beatmania, which essentially was the first music simulation game with a peripheral (choke on that, GH/RB nerds).
To be honest, I'm glad they're coming out with DJ Hero. Guitar Hero and Rock Band did a good enough job messing things up by not having much variety in the music selection (Bemani games have tons of genres), and the fact that alot of insanely good "guitar" players weren't even included in the game (Zapp and Roger, Lee Ritneour, George Duke (multi-instrumental), Shinichi Osawa, not to mention alot of other greats that weren't included because FUNK APPARENTLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ROCK AND ROLL, etc.). Even if the songlist sucks, at least they're TRYING to appeal to everyone.
Sorry if that sounds a bit rant-ish, it's just Guitar Hero/Rock Band could have been so much better if they didn't prepetuate the stereotypical guitar being used only for Rock.
Good luck, DJ Hero.
They went too far a long time ago.
Instead of releasing a large number of good songs on one game, they buy the rights to maybe ten good songs per game (out of the 70 or so on each) and a bunch of crap, then they make you buy each game to get the good music off all of them instead of letting you download them.
I also have a problem with the old DLC (guitar hero 2-3) not being compatible with the new games (everything after.)
Instead of releasing a large number of good songs on one game, they buy the rights to maybe ten good songs per game (out of the 70 or so on each) and a bunch of crap, then they make you buy each game to get the good music off all of them instead of letting you download them.
I also have a problem with the old DLC (guitar hero 2-3) not being compatible with the new games (everything after.)