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"Guitar Hero Live" Announced
- Thread starter killercow
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I would be happy to take the shame - and the guitar - off you.
looks like the old controllers wont work guys
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-14-guitar-hero-live-has-redesigned-controller-with-six-black-and-white-keys
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-14-guitar-hero-live-has-redesigned-controller-with-six-black-and-white-keys
Jawmuncher
Member
I'll wait and see what this is fully about but thank goodness RB4 will be keeping the standard gameplay.
Gravy Boat
Member
Nice, if only this information was in the very first post of the thread.
2 rows of 3, so
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they're definitely going for chord shaping over fret positioning
Gravy Boat
Member
The exact same as any other guitar hero game? Except instead of seeing your character bop about on stage, you see a crowd. I doubt there's any sort of interacting.
Well, since a real band member moves around the stage, how will they handle that with animations? It can become really distracting seeing your character moving around and interacting with the rest of the band members while you're trying to follow the notes. Especially with a new control scheme.
akidnamededdy
Banned
Somehow I am already sick of this genre again.
MagnoSauce
Member
Pretty sure this is made up. I don't think GH would abandon the 5 colored row, considering how it's pretty much an icon. Second, the 2 rows of 3 black and white keys sounds waaay too similar to the Beatmania controller. That doesn't prove anything, but it just screams fishy to me.
Shift Breaker
Member
It says something about what we've heard so far when it's a reboot of a game that's part of a genre that's been very low key over the past few years, using a specialised controller that's different enough to all previous iterations that you have to buy it for this one game, and one game only, and yet the ridiculous gimmick is that it has a first person mode.
my guess
yes, thats pretty much how its going to look.....
or they put 2 strings instead of the single strum bar.....yes, this is really weird.
The information posted on eurogamer is exactly the same as the first post. Nothing says that old controllers aren't compatible in Le Monde's article.
It's true. Notice the NDA 16H in the URL? The embargo lifts at 16H00 CEST.
And the UI would be similar to this
double colored note means you press both rows in that column
if they still have difficulties, i'd imagine it'd be something like
Easy - only one row of frets is used, and less notes are present
Medium - both rows of frets are used, but never at the same time
Hard - both rows of frets are used, and can appear at the same time, but no cross-row notes
Expert - cross-row notes appear, full beatmatch note charting
double colored note means you press both rows in that column
if they still have difficulties, i'd imagine it'd be something like
Easy - only one row of frets is used, and less notes are present
Medium - both rows of frets are used, but never at the same time
Hard - both rows of frets are used, and can appear at the same time, but no cross-row notes
Expert - cross-row notes appear, full beatmatch note charting
Groznyjgrad
Member
And the UI would be similar to this
double colored note means you press both rows in that column
I'd say this is pretty spot on, damn I'm not sure how I feel about it.
Also, one is kinda crappy while the other is great.
Groznyjgrad
Member
Yep, I loved Guitar Hero, never could get into Rockbands timing windows, but might have to switch for my Rhythm gaming fix this gen.
Zomba13
Member
First person view while weird doesn't matter. I see what they are going for with you being the rock star on stage looking out at the crowd. It's a cool idea but I like seeing the whole band play and the camera angles in Rock Band/older Guitar Heroes, not that you really look that often as you are focussing on the highway.
6 buttons of black and white sounds weird though. Obviously need to see how it works. At least RB seems to be sticking to the old formula and they are working on getting old instruments compatible (and at the least old DLC).
6 buttons of black and white sounds weird though. Obviously need to see how it works. At least RB seems to be sticking to the old formula and they are working on getting old instruments compatible (and at the least old DLC).
Living Proof
Member
Fucking disgusting. I almost don't believe the little bits of info floating around, stupid as they are.
A few people mentioned a supposed Rock Band reveal later today. Did I miss out on some announcement?
A few people mentioned a supposed Rock Band reveal later today. Did I miss out on some announcement?
Rock Band 4 was already announced a ways back
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Meh. I'll keep a wary eye on this one.
Confused me too, and I was already aware of this. Maybe a gameplay preview to go head-to-head with GH, or just lost in translation?
Yeah, but someone before ITT made it sound like there was some RB-related announcement scheduled for today as well (and just because the game itself is already announced, it doesn't mean there are no things to announce - old controller support, first songs etc.).
Skiptastic
Member
Changing the guitar layout sucks because I was really hoping for a GH guitar so I could play RB4. :/
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Someone in the last thread that Harmonix owns the patent for the five-colored key layout? Maybe that's why they changed it.
Rewrite
Not as deep as he thinks
Same here. GH guitars were always the superior choice to me for Rock Band. The strats suck IMO.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
lol fp guitar hero
they givin it to rockband
they givin it to rockband
nuttyevans
Member
Props for at least trying to do something different with it.
At least it'll have a good track list unlike Rock Band.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
I just love bass guitars and hot asses, so this game seems like a natural fit for me.
What's interesting about this is that one of the rumors surrounding the cancelled Guitar Hero 7 was someone mentioned that the big change-up coming to that one was a setup pretty similar to this, but with two strum bars on the guitar in addition to the six-button/two column frets. I wonder if that may have actually been a pitch that FSG had when Activision was getting ready to cancel GH7.
The rockband games have a great / varied. setlist and there is a 2000+ song library to choose from.
Living Proof
Member
I said reveal, not announcement. They haven't showed even a single screenshot, and some people have commented on Harmonix showing something off later today. I was just checking to see if that was accurate.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
I think some people were confusing Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
Outside of the unfortunate detour with boss fights in GH3 and World Tour, GH really hasn't had any big gimmicks from a gameplay perspective. If anything, Guitar Hero wound up focusing more on accessibility stuff that I wish Rock Band would have, like the quickplay mode and adjustable highway speeds that were unique to that player.
That being said, presentation has always been an issue for the series when Neversoft took over, so starting from scratch isn't a bad place to start.
IAmRandom31
Banned
All the change sound stupid
nothing sounds good
all is dumb
activision you suck
nothing sounds good
all is dumb
activision you suck
Interesting how we know next to nothing about both games, yet you're already saying that the new Guitar Hero game has a better tracklist and/or Rock Band 4 is shit. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the power of brands.
Chû Totoro
Member
Yeah kind of weird but me too. I used to enjoy so much GH, RB and even DJ Hero but now I'm just tired of buying new things so I can play a few new songs.
No more for me :/
The Broken Ska Record
Member
This sounds terrible, but that's just my kneejerk reaction to the whole thing. I'll wait till they officially announce it to say anything.
Hopefully we get some gameplay footage.
Hopefully we get some gameplay footage.