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Nebagram

05-18-2009, 09:14 AM

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/07/activision-finally-confirms-guitar-hero-van-halen/

My mouth is now officially missing a tongue. Holy shit, this will be beyond awesome. :D

kupomogli

05-18-2009, 09:34 AM

And people said Rock Band had better music.

LiquidPolicenaut

05-18-2009, 11:34 AM

I love Van Halen..and I will probably still try out this game but couldn't this just have been sold as DLC? We need yet ANOTHER one-band release? Yes, I know there are also more bands on it but...damn...Activision seems so damn money hungry with these releases!

tomwaits

05-18-2009, 12:26 PM

Hooray!! No Van Hagar!

garagesaleking!!

05-18-2009, 12:47 PM

this game should be pretty good

skaar

05-18-2009, 02:49 PM

I got bored of music games about a year ago... surprised nobody else has.

Should be fun for people who still like the genre though.

Daft Punk

05-18-2009, 02:59 PM

yeah this 1 band release stuff is getting old fast.

How many guitar games do we need in 2 years time to get people to stop buying them?

Track packs and DLC is the way to go.

BHvrd

05-18-2009, 05:16 PM

yeah this 1 band release stuff is getting old fast.

How many guitar games do we need in 2 years time to get people to stop buying them?

Track packs and DLC is the way to go.

I would usually agree, but playing as Van Halen is jusy WAY to appealing. They finally got me on this one, now if only there was a Guns N Roses one, that would be the only two I would ever need. :D

GrandAmChandler

05-18-2009, 05:24 PM

No Sammy, no buy. Activision is clueless DLC would have been the way to go from here. I haven't bought a GH game since Aerosmith, I'm done. Rock Band gets all of my money from here on out.

Guitar Hero Wham! is next.
:love:

LiquidPolicenaut

05-18-2009, 05:27 PM

I would usually agree, but playing as Van Halen is jusy WAY to appealing. They finally got me on this one, now if only there was a Guns N Roses one, that would be the only two I would ever need. :D

Although i agree that a GnR one WOULD be awesome (again...could also just be DLC), they would probably just fuck it up and add stuff from the "fake" GnR of Chinese Democracy. Hey...maybe they'll think its "teh rockzzorz" and have a "battle of the guitar gods" between buckethead and slash LOL *sigh* now I miss the real GnR even more :(

As for the single releases, I gotta say it again...why not just make it DLC?!? Hell, they could let you download the actual avatars to play as them IF you wanted to. GH:Aerosmith, Metallica, Van Halen, Guitar Hero 5, DJ Hero, etc. etc.etc....just too damn much already

tomwaits

05-18-2009, 05:51 PM

I'm sure the problem with selling it as DLC is that fewer people would be buying. Most of the 'music gamers' that I know don't even have their consoles online.

A Rock Band style track pack would make more sense, but Activision prefers $60 price gouges over $30 track packs.

megasdkirby

05-18-2009, 06:34 PM

yeah this 1 band release stuff is getting old fast.

How many guitar games do we need in 2 years time to get people to stop buying them?

Track packs and DLC is the way to go.

That would be a good idea, but when the servers die, so does the DLC.

Having the songs in a physical media is much better, IMO.

NoahsMyBro

05-18-2009, 06:40 PM

I would usually agree, but playing as Van Halen is jusy WAY to appealing. They finally got me on this one........

They really got you? They really got you?

:D

BHvrd

05-18-2009, 07:45 PM

They really got you? They really got you?

:D

Got me so I cant sleep at night. :D

http://img.printfection.com/14/50805/CzGIZ.jpg

dendawg

05-18-2009, 07:50 PM

...now if only there was a Guns N Roses one...

IMHO, there probably never will be a GH: G 'n R. Why? 'Cause there's no way in hell Axl will ever share more royalties w/Slash.

Lerxstnj

05-18-2009, 10:55 PM

Here's a David Lee Roth game for ya...

www.thetyser.com

Arcade Antics

05-19-2009, 08:03 PM

Which one is Van again?

JunkTheMagicDragon

05-19-2009, 08:21 PM

http://img.printfection.com/14/50805/CzGIZ.jpg

my good sir, i refer you to chapter M (for metal) of 'the alphabet of manliness', page 100, figure 1 for those following at home:

(caption under a pic of hippies in a drum circle)
Figure 1: Do not stick you thumb out. This is the symbol for "love," which has nothing to do with getting rocked.

rbudrick

05-20-2009, 03:35 AM

I can only say "meh." The musicians are all very talented technically in Van Halen, but their music never grooved me at all. I know some people would die for this band, but I always found their music somewhere close to pop rock with a technical flare.

-Rob

MarioMania

05-20-2009, 07:09 PM

Seems like Activision is milking the Francine...

How many damn games do we need

BHvrd

05-20-2009, 08:05 PM

my good sir, i refer you to chapter M (for metal) of 'the alphabet of manliness', page 100, figure 1 for those following at home:

(caption under a pic of hippies in a drum circle)
Figure 1: Do not stick you thumb out. This is the symbol for "love," which has nothing to do with getting rocked.

http://rockandrollreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/flipping-the-bird.jpg

hbkprm

05-20-2009, 08:10 PM

an't talkin' 'bout love

DigitalSpace

05-20-2009, 09:02 PM

an't talkin' 'bout love

Thread over.

otaku

05-22-2009, 03:24 PM

can't wait for it to hit

jdc

05-23-2009, 08:42 AM

I might pick up GH again because of this. I'm curious to see how much hammering and pulling that they throw into this one.....and curious to see whether the level of difficulty will be correct. Playing Eddie's stuff in real life isn't necessarily hard.....you have to get the proper feel and phrasing down, which is something that doesn't always transfer well to these games. I'm also interested to see how the graphics portray the guys in the band. Should be fun as hell.

Nionel

05-23-2009, 11:21 AM

Seems like Activision is milking the Francine...

How many damn games do we need

I came to this conclusion as well, especially after seeing that this year alone Activision is releasing Guitar Hero Metallica, Guitar Hero Smash Hits, Guitar Hero Van Halen, Guitar Hero 5, and Band Hero. There's also DJ Hero, but since that's not actually a guitar game I won't count it against them. Still, this is getting a bit ridiculous, even if I do like both VH and Metallica.

Kroogah

05-23-2009, 02:05 PM

Nobody's posted the Bobby Kotick quote yet?

To explain why Activision is releasing 4 GH games plus Band Hero in 1 year, here is Activision CEO Bobby Kotick explaining why Activision dropped the Ghostbusters game (and 50 Cent and Brutal Legend):

"[Those games] don't have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million dollar franchises. ..."

So, who's buying COD:MW2 when it hits the DS?

Gapporin

05-23-2009, 03:45 PM

I'm still waiting for the Rock Band: Jethro Tull expansion pack to come out, complete with additional flute controller.

j_factor

05-24-2009, 02:49 PM

Pretty stupid that they won't include any Hagar material, considering they have bands other than Van Halen on here.

Nebagram

05-24-2009, 03:10 PM

Lerxstnj

05-24-2009, 03:26 PM

I'm still waiting for the Rock Band: Jethro Tull expansion pack to come out, complete with additional flute controller.

I would buy that!
These music games need some prog rock!

Frankie_Says_Relax

07-12-2009, 03:46 PM

Too bad it's already got at least one serious bug...

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/guitar-hero-van-halen-ditches-michael-anthony-sammy-hagar-209285

As much as I love Diamond Dave, the complete absence of Sammy (and I would assume) the charting hits that he sang with VH makes this a "wait for the GameStop summer sale next year to pick it up for $10 and maybe another pennied out wired guitar".

between 5150 and F.U.C.K. there are plenty of Hagar era songs worth being in there.

joshnickerson

07-12-2009, 03:55 PM

Slate

07-13-2009, 09:06 PM

Therealqtip

07-13-2009, 09:12 PM

ugh i like when companies make the same game every 2 months, oh wait it's just Activision, i liked it when only 1 game every year it was something new every time basically. and also has anyone seen those achievements? those are achievements that nobody will get 100% on. They're all like get 5 stars on every song as drummer, singer bassist and guitarist, on expert!

sebastiankirchoff

07-14-2009, 12:15 AM

Eh, I quit Guitar Hero after World Tour. They are good games, but they never really caught onto me. Maybe I should try out Rock Band or something.

Queen Of The Felines

07-14-2009, 12:24 AM

"You'll start out seeing the modern Van Halen, but eventually unlock the classic images of the band with huge hair and tight pants."

So David Lee Roth starts out nearly bald and you can unlock his hair? :hmm:

Blitzwing256

07-14-2009, 12:31 AM

call me when they make rockband or geetar herow zz top

JunkTheMagicDragon

07-14-2009, 07:48 AM

can you unlock a 'make david lee roth shut the hell up' mode?

Kid Ice

08-13-2009, 10:52 AM

Thanks to the inclusion of Judas Priest's "Painkiller" I will be purchasing this on day one. Thank you Wolfgang.

kupomogli

08-13-2009, 11:13 AM

To explain why Activision is releasing 4 GH games plus Band Hero in 1 year, here is Activision CEO Bobby Kotick explaining why Activision dropped the Ghostbusters game (and 50 Cent and Brutal Legend):

"[Those games] don't have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million dollar franchises. ..."

Wow... Activision has out-EAed EA!

What a douchebag. joshnickerson is right. EA is bad but this is definitely worse.

I remember when Activision announced all those games that were getting cut. Scarface 2 was announced and shot down in the exact same press release.

I loved Scarface the World is Yours, huge fan of the character because I love the movie, but also because it was an amazing game and I always wished they made another one but expanded on it much more; like Miami actually being the size of Miami rather than as small as it was. The fact that the gameplay was amazing, how you pushed drugs, boated it from islands back to Miami, the shooting system, the car/boat where you call a driver system, all the islands and how many areas are actually able to be entered as well as how large they are(yet this is due also to how small Miami was,) and the biggest thing, is how every part in the game pulled from the movie was a perfect representation. Stuff you didn't see they obviously added their own which made it look atleast realistic. Tony's mansion for example, because while you saw alot of it, there were some parts you didn't see and they made it look really nice.

*edit*

Ghostbusters was also in the press release to be cacnelled as well, but the developers released another one saying how far they're done with the game and said they're going to make sure that it's released. Which it was. Companies are out to make money, but fucked up how Activision is now all about the money and tries to bring nothing new and cancels games that could be genuinely great games out of the fact that they're not going to make $100 million sales. I mean how hard is it to add some songs to a disc, etc? Not very. Sure they have licensing, etc, but adding the songs, putting the notes on there, not very difficult at all. Not like Final Fantasy 13 where Square is putting millions of dollars worth of work into it as they do every other FF, or Mirror's Edge with some unique gameplay elements, or FromSoftware's reinvisioning of the AC series starting with AC4, the additions made to that, or Oblivion and Fallout's huge open worlds. Just like EA they're releasing the same games over and over again, but the fact that these have even less graphical interface and by far less work on it to actually pull in much more money.

Kroogah

08-13-2009, 11:28 AM

Thanks to the inclusion of Judas Priest's "Painkiller" I will be purchasing this on day one. Thank you Wolfgang.

Psst....it's on Rock Band 2......along with White Wedding, Space Truckin' (DLC), and Master Exploder.

Kid Ice

08-13-2009, 11:44 AM

Psst....it's on Rock Band 2......along with White Wedding, Space Truckin' (DLC), and Master Exploder.

Yeah, I'm still stuck in Guitar Hero World for now. :-)

garagesaleking!!

08-13-2009, 11:53 AM

were most of their bigger hits before hagar came on? whats the most famous song they have with hagar in the group?

Kid Ice

08-13-2009, 12:07 PM

were most of their bigger hits before hagar came on? whats the most famous song they have with hagar in the group?

Jeez, a ton:

Why Can't This Be Love
Dreams
Right Now
Poundcake
Finish Whatcha Started

I can't stand Van Hagar but I've heard the songs a million times.

MASTERWEEDO

08-13-2009, 01:10 PM

Too many guitar games, almost as bad as the sports games that get a new roster every year.

SegaAges

08-13-2009, 07:09 PM

can you unlock a 'make david lee roth shut the hell up' mode?

Win!

And yes, it is confirmed.

At the title screen, press B, B, Y, Y, Y, R, R, R, Power Button

It works everytime.

Dude, they are putting out so many GH games that this happened:
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/08/guitar-hero-van-halen/

ianoid

08-14-2009, 08:27 AM

Gimme a "Guitar Hero: The New Pornographers" Edition!

Wait a second.

"Singer Hero: The New Pornographers Edition"

Yeah, That's much better. The New Pornographers have easy guitar parts but the vocals are pretty hard.

What about Pornography Hero? I'd like to see the controllers for that game.

Rock Band's suck up the songs into one big library system is so much better, I can't be bothered to buy all these band discs for Guitar Hero. I don't need to switch discs 5 times to play a few songs. And it's not like they improve the software (for either RB or GH) with each expansion pack, it's always the same second rate joining system that is overcomplicated and slow.

I'm sticking to Rock Band for these reasons, when it comes to adding on songs. Van Hagar or not.

Van lives in my house.

garagesaleking!!

08-14-2009, 09:39 AM

the only thing i like about buying the discs is you can sell them, the dl content is yours forever with no resale value.

otaku

08-14-2009, 10:48 PM

EB or someone was giving away free copies of this with GH5 if you pre order (so I did) I believe its a mail in but anyway should be sweet I can't wait for GH5 to come so I can send the mail in this all looks very sweet!

kupomogli

08-14-2009, 11:48 PM

the only thing i like about buying the discs is you can sell them, the dl content is yours forever with no resale value.

Just think about when XBL and PSN die how much rare DLC would be worth. For example. What if "specific DLC" only got a certain amount of sales and it was hard as hell to find.

I wonder if a DP member would show off his XBL or PSN DLC. I have 7,432 pieces of XBL downloadable content. This one is Contra. It was taken off XBL in 2008(I'm guessing, I have no idea.) This one is Flapjack Marauders, sold only 37 times, the rarest DLC evar(and also an obvious made up name.)

Then you have people selling their harddrive for insane amounts because people want to collect it.

Or for PS3 users. They could sell it all up to five times.