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[killercow]

Just announced and revealed in French's newspaper "Le Monde", "Guitar Hero Live" is taking the series back to its root with a twist:
You'll play in a first person perspective.

There won't be colored frets on the guitar but 6 black and whites one, in two rows.

It's currently being developed by Freestyle Games (DJ Hero).

Source:
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/articl...usicaux-font-leur-retour_4615214_4408996.html

Cached here:
https://fr.news.yahoo.com/nda-16h-rock-band-4-guitar-hero-live-082305741.html

Update:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a4BalkpkTs

GAMEPLAY VIDEO

https://youtu.be/f-rFR7fnx-s

Some owners of previous Guitar Hero games will be disappointed to hear that the songs and peripherals they already own do not work with Guitar Hero Live.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...er&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialoomph

 

[Deft Beck]

It won't live for that long with that approach.

 

[Squidofman]

Source link already dead....

 

[Blablurn]

I'm ready

 

[Salsa]

everything about that sounds absolutely terrible

 

[Zalman]

Please tell me this is a joke, because it sounds like a joke.

 

[glaurung]

First person Guitar Hero? WTFF?

Also, that article is dead now.

 

[archnemesis]

I'm getting a 404 error. Perhaps they pulled the article when they realized there was an embargo.

 

[L~A]

Someone dun goofed.

http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/04/14/nda-16h-rock-band-4-guitar-hero-live-les-jeux-video-musicaux-font-leur-retour_4615214_4408996.html


Embargo lifts at 4PM CET (5h from now).

 

[Recall]

Guitar Hero Remix Live Tour.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

what the fuck does a first person Guitar Hero even mean?

 

[Rewrite]

Sounds weird....

But curious.

 

[ekim]

everything about that sounds absolutely terrible

Why is that? I'm all in for some new approach in the genre. Lets wait for the Rockband announcement today.

 

[Alienous]

First-person?

I hope there are hitmarkers when audience members feint.

 

[Katana_Strikes]

Someone dun goofed.

http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/articl...usicaux-font-leur-retour_4615214_4408996.html


Embargo lifts at 4PM CET (5h from now).

Someone buy the domain name guitarherolive.com before Polygon.

 

[AzureSkies]

Someone buy the domain name guitarherolive.com before Polygon.

Someone already owns it lol

 

[killercow]

I'm getting a 404 error. Perhaps they pulled the article when they realized there was an embargo.

You can still get a cached version here:
https://fr.news.yahoo.com/nda-16h-rock-band-4-guitar-hero-live-082305741.html

Someone buy the domain name guitarherolive.com before Polygon.

Already sold

 

[TimmiT]

Someone buy the domain name guitarherolive.com before Polygon.

Someone already did and is trying to sell it.

 

[Ran rp]

where's my first person singstar

 

[harmonize]

so will I be able to put on my VR headset and feel like i'm there while i'm melting the crowds' faces? if not then no sale

 

[Tan]

what the fuck does a first person Guitar Hero even mean?

You see from the point of view of the guitar, duhhh.

 

[Pepin]

First-person isn't too bad - I imagine dodging bottles of piss thrown onto the stage with Kinect will be quite fun

 

[ArjanN]

what the fuck does a first person Guitar Hero even mean?

That they don't have to animate characters.

 

[bounchfx]

That they don't have to animate characters.

so what are the people in the crowd?

 

[barneystuta83]

Interesting approach and good that they are trying something a little different.

Hopefully when the info starts coming out we can find more about the controller/guitar.

 

[Cosmonaut X]

Call of Guitar Hero?

 

[Pepin]

so what are the people in the crowd?

Live action, real crowds

 

[twinturbo2]

Hopefully, Rock Band 4 gets the rights to Led Zeppelin so they can get all the sales, and so I can see an achievement/trophy that involves 100%ing the drum solo on the live version of Moby Dick.

The one with the 20+minute drum solo.

 

[ArjanN]

so what are the people in the crowd?

But they'd still have to animate the other band members. Really though, all that stuff is fluff anyway, when you're playing you spend all your time looking at the icons.

 

[lentini]

so what are the people in the crowd?

 

[toymachine]

Sounds weird....

But curious.

Not even sure what to think

 

[Gravy Boat]

Small thing but is it so hard for people to call this Guitar Hero and not Rock Band? Not just on here, but I've seen lots of people on other gaming sites call this Rock Band. They're from two different publishers.

 

[Gidim]

First person? Are they going to do interact crowds that interact differently with styles of music and depending on how you play? That could be interesting for a 'different mode' but I think the average player would like the option of either first person or what the older games had.

Though it can be cool in first person, watching a crowd mosh to a metal song and light up lighters for a ballad. Even boo you and start to get violent if you suck.

Again, its all about the context.

 

[Shuggananas]

Will there be iron sights and auto aim ?

 

[kulapik]

New button mapping? It's already dead.

 

[Bauer91]

So much for getting a GH guitar with a clickable strum bar for RB4.

 

[toymachine]

So much for getting a GH guitar with a clickable strum bar for RB4.

Maybe you can just use the first 5 buttons? >_>

 

[Jb]

Apparently they changed the way the notes show up to be a little closer to actual guitar tabs. Could be interesting.

 

[Zalman]

So much for getting a GH guitar with a clickable strum bar for RB4.

This is the real news here. Disappointing, but hopefully they make old GH guitars work.

 

[Bauer91]

Maybe you can just use the first 5 buttons? >_>

It says two rows though.

 

[Bgamer90]

Yeah... This sounds like "change for the sake of change". Don't think traditional Guitar Hero fans will like this if true.

 

[A.D. Skinner]

Whatever it is and however it'll work, I'm glad its different, because I love Rock Band and didn't want the genre to die thanks to Guitar Hero ripping it to pieces like last time. So whether it's a success or failure, Rock Band will be judged separately.

Still want to see and try it though. Someone also mentioned a Rock Band announcement today? I'll take it all!

 

[Cynn]

what the fuck does a first person Guitar Hero even mean?

It means a VR version later.

 

[ViciousDS]

That's cute..... I play real guitar already....I just want my standard 5 buttons. This is dead already to me.

Please Harmonix keep it the same!

 

[NYCmetsfan]

I'm having troubling visualizing what this will look like

 

[sappyday]

Won't the bar with all the notes coming down still take precedence? Won't that kill the whole idea of a first person?

 

[toymachine]

love how NDA is in the URL

Won't the bar with all the notes coming down still take precedence? Won't that kill the whole idea of a first person?

Imagine the note highway over a First Person view of *you* the guitarist/bassist. Sort of like Rocksmith/2014 but live action/recorded.

 

[Bgamer90]

I'm having troubling visualizing what this will look like

Yeah that's my problem right now too. How would first person mode be immersive if there are button prompts coming down the screen at the same time (my assumption until there's actual footage)?

And the new buttons are just going to make a large segment of the old Guitar Hero audience go to Rock Band; Really strange decisions to me.

 

[killercow]

Won't the bar with all the notes coming down still take precedence? Won't that kill the whole idea of a first person?

I'm sure they'll have a new way of showing the notes.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Gamesradar have a page ready to go

GUITAR HERO LIVE
Take your guitar controller in hand and step out in front of a live-action audience as you jam out to classic and contemporary hits.

http://www.gamesradar.com/guitar-hero-live/