also, owning the first two/three games just made everyone in your extended family go “well that’s cute, but why don’t you learn a REAL instrument” causing everyone to drop the series like a hot potato out of embarrassment in order to pick up 4 months of guitar lessons, then quit that too.
Saw this too in my teen years over Guitar Hero. For about a year, all my friends suddenly wanted to play guitar, then they gave up after the summer.
I kinda had a soft spot for the first game, cause before that, I was just a Metal head. Guitar Hero introduced me to David Bowie, The Ramones and Edgar Winter. Suddenly I had these awesome classic rock songs I was hearing which led me to go and look for albums by Bowie and others, which radically steered my musical interests in new directions and learned stuff outside heavy metal on guitar.
Guitar Hero also had to compete with Rock Band at the time; a game franchise that took their formula, expanded it into multiple instruments and did everything much better.
Remember guitar hero? That franchise had like 7 games in a year. Killed it permanently.
Holy shit, 2009:
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
Band Hero
Guitar Hero: Metallica
Guitar Hero: Van Halen
Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits
Guitar Hero Arcade
Guitar Hero III Backstage Pass
So technically 8 games in 2009. And that was after 6 games in 2008. Mind blown.
It is a very good example of capitalist overproduction. I stole it from jim sterling.
thank god for jim sterling
That's not even including the 'Rock Band' franchise that released their The Beatles edition
I remember on tour that shit was so ass
You had to have like a grip that you put on top of your DS, and it only had like four buttons
Terrible game
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You know, I've actually been playing guitar for over a decade now because of that game. Thanks guitar hero.
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It was FCPREMIX's fault
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Post your art comrade.
Saw this too in my teen years over Guitar Hero. For about a year, all my friends suddenly wanted to play guitar, then they gave up after the summer.
I kinda had a soft spot for the first game, cause before that, I was just a Metal head. Guitar Hero introduced me to David Bowie, The Ramones and Edgar Winter. Suddenly I had these awesome classic rock songs I was hearing which led me to go and look for albums by Bowie and others, which radically steered my musical interests in new directions and learned stuff outside heavy metal on guitar.
Guitar Hero also had to compete with Rock Band at the time; a game franchise that took their formula, expanded it into multiple instruments and did everything much better.
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