Guitar Hero: Smash Hits

grimm2005

Looks like activision already have their next GH game on the way:

http://tinyurl.com/dkoqbr

A compilation of songs from all previous GH games with full band functionality.

Another blatant cash in if you ask me. Thats at least 2 GH games this year with GH5 probably on the way before the years end.

This is one reason I prefer RB to GH; rather than release a sh*tload of games and have them all seperate they make the few games they do release all backwards compatible so all the songs can be played in a single game and instead just release a sh*tload of DLC for the one game.

Twilightning

The series is just as bad as its publisher at the moment. I'd just say let it die. I much prefer Rock Band now anyhow. I must have downloaded about 12 songs the other day because of the great selection they have to offer. Journey, Judas Priest, Metallica, Dream Theater, Thin Lizzy... yes please!

grimm2005

Twilightning wrote: »

The series is just as bad as its publisher at the moment. I'd just say let it die. I much prefer Rock Band now anyhow. I must have downloaded about 12 songs the other day because of the great selection they have to offer. Journey, Judas Priest, Metallica, Dream Theater, Thin Lizzy... yes please!

Yeah, rock band is far better tbh. Theres over 600 songs now apparently and they can all be played through one game which is pretty damn cool it has to be said.
Rock band in my eyes is the true continuation of the GH series after GH2 since Harmonix did create the series.

D4RK ONION

I don't think anyone will argue with you there. The GH series died for me with 3 and it's enormous hit window, that let crap people look good

ShawnRaven

Guitar Hero was good in it's day, but it's time to be put to rest.
Either way, i won't be touching this one.

cedomination

Definitely not buying another gh game after World Tour.

Cully

I won't be buying it.. but mostly 'cos I won't be living in Ireland then :O

Recon

Just to have a different point of view to the rest of the replies...I heard of this and thought it was a great idea. The 48 best (maybe not the best but what I saw so far looked pretty good) songs from the first 4 games that previously could only be played just on guitar/bass.

I'll pick it up for €30-€40 after it comes out.

Mr E

I like the look of it too.... some great songs on there.
As long as they go back to the old tier structure, I'll probably get it.

Recon

They publised the songs from GH3 yesterday that are going to be in the game. I was a bit disappointed with the choice. Anyone else?

thealltimelow

song list
"Barracuda"
Heart
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

"Beast and the Harlot"
Avenged Sevenfold
Guitar Hero II

"Carry On Wayward Son"
Kansas
Guitar Hero II

"Cherry Pie"
Warrant
Guitar Hero II

"Cowboys from Hell" (Live)
Pantera
Guitar Hero

"Cult of Personality"
Living Colour
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

"Freya"
The Sword
Guitar Hero II

"Free Bird"
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Guitar Hero II

"Godzilla"
Blue Öyster Cult
Guitar Hero

"Heart-Shaped Box"
Nirvana
Guitar Hero II

"Hey You"
The Exies
Guitar Hero

"Hit Me with Your Best Shot"
Pat Benatar
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

"I Love Rock 'n Roll"
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Guitar Hero

"I Wanna Rock"
Twisted Sister
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s

"Killer Queen"
Queen
Guitar Hero

"Killing in the Name"
Rage Against the Machine
Guitar Hero II

"Laid to Rest"
Lamb of God
Guitar Hero II

"Lay Down"
Priestess
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

"Message in a Bottle"
The Police
Guitar Hero II

"Miss Murder"
AFI
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

"Monkey Wrench"
Foo Fighters
Guitar Hero II

"More Than a Feeling"
Boston
Guitar Hero

"Mother"
Danzig
Guitar Hero II

"No One Knows"
Queens of the Stone Age
Guitar Hero

"Nothin' but a Good Time"
Poison
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
"Psychobilly Freakout"
Reverend Horton Heat
Guitar Hero II

"Raining Blood"
Slayer
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

"Rock and Roll All Nite"
Kiss
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

"Shout at the Devil"
Mötley Crüe
Guitar Hero II

"Smoke on the Water"
Deep Purple
Guitar Hero

"Stellar"
Incubus
Guitar Hero

"Stop!"
Jane's Addiction
Guitar Hero II

"Take it Off" The Donnas
Guitar Hero

"Take Me Out"
Franz Ferdinand
Guitar Hero

"Them Bones"
Alice in Chains
Guitar Hero II

"Through the Fire and Flames"
DragonForce
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

"Thunder Kiss '65"
White Zombie
Guitar Hero

"Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
Stone Temple Pilots
Guitar Hero II

"The Trooper"
Iron Maiden
Guitar Hero II

"Unsung" (Live)
Helmet
Guitar Hero

"Woman"
Wolfmother
Guitar Hero II

"YYZ"
Rush
Guitar Hero II


"Bark at the Moon" Ozzy Osbourne Guitar Hero

D4RK ONION

Yeah, I was a little underwhelmed too. No Cliffs of Dover or Muse...

And there's going to be no JORDAN!! What the hell!

Recon

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Yeah, I was a little underwhelmed too. No Cliffs of Dover or Muse...

And there's going to be no JORDAN!! What the hell!

exactly! And why are they only putting 48 songs in the game? There's over 80 songs in Rock Band isn't there? So it's not like they can say there isn't enough room to put more than 48 sings on the disc.

D4RK ONION

Better still, why are they putting it on a disk full stop! This should be DLC, plain and simple...

Recon

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Better still, why are they putting it on a disk full stop! This should be DLC, plain and simple...

it'd be a huge download though. Although it should be able to be put onto the harddrive the same way you can do it with Rock Band for RB2.

Can that be done with the Metallica GH?

D4RK ONION

As to size problems, they could have released it in chunks. I'm not sure about the putting the songs onto your hard drive though.

Recon

D4RK ONION wrote: »

As to size problems, they could have released it in chunks. I'm not sure about the putting the songs onto your hard drive though.

The good thing about the disc though is that the cost per song is relatively low compared to regular DLC. It'd be a pity if you can't put them onto the harddrive.

ShawnRaven

Activision really need to throw in the towel here. They blew it by fumbling the deal with Harmonix. Now they're trailing behind in their attempts to provide competition.

Let it go guys, Rock Band kicked your ass nearly two years ago, show some dignity and mercy kill the project.

D4RK ONION

What ShawnRaven said. They tried to wow us with their incorrectly (but difficultly) made songs and failed. Give it up.

Burning Eclipse

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Activision really need to throw in the towel here. They blew it by fumbling the deal with Harmonix. Now they're trailing behind in their attempts to provide competition.

Let it go guys, Rock Band kicked your ass nearly two years ago, show some dignity and mercy kill the project.

D4RK ONION wrote: »

What ShawnRaven said. They tried to wow us with their incorrectly (but difficultly) made songs and failed. Give it up.

Speaking as someone who is a huge Rock Band fan (easily spent hundreds of €'s on DLC alone) would either of you guys care to explain why Activision should stop making a series that sells well and makes a huge profit?!

ShawnRaven

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

Speaking as someone who is a huge Rock Band fan (easily spent hundreds of €'s on DLC alone) would either of you guys care to explain why Activision should stop making a series that sells well and makes a huge profit?!

I've no problem with any company going into business to make money, provided it's done right.

But Guitar Hero World Tour was an abortion on so many levels. The Guitar Hero series has been on a downward slope getting steeper and steeper since Harmonix left to the point where Guitar Hero has gone from a Pioneer game (at least on the consoles anyway) to a long running joke.

Of course, if they were willing to make GH a worthy contender to RB, which i thought they would have done anyway, I'd have a different view, but as it stands in my honest opinion, i personally think that the GH games since Harmonix left have been a farce.

D4RK ONION

ShawnRaven wrote: »

but as it stands in my honest opinion, i personally think that the GH games since Harmonix left have been a farce.

I think the evolution of Judy Nails is an apt metaphor for what went wrong between GH2 and GH3 ie: the switch over in developers.

From this

Alternative, fun and well designed, emphasising the content more than the packaging

To this

A stick figure, slutty, in-it-for-the-money emo girl, who tries to be overly showy but ends up being completely and utterly devoid of character.

PS: Metaphor aside I was genuinely horrified at what they did to all the characters

thealltimelow

by the way is anyone going to get this game

D4RK ONION

"Not I!" Said the Dark Onion

thealltimelow

i bet this will be 20 euros 2 weaks after it comes out

Burning Eclipse

ShawnRaven wrote: »

But Guitar Hero World Tour was an abortion on so many levels. The Guitar Hero series has been on a downward slope getting steeper and steeper since Harmonix left to the point where Guitar Hero has gone from a Pioneer game (at least on the consoles anyway) to a long running joke.

Of course, if they were willing to make GH a worthy contender to RB, which i thought they would have done anyway, I'd have a different view, but as it stands in my honest opinion, i personally think that the GH games since Harmonix left have been a farce.

I agree with everything you've written there! I didn't buy GH:WT because it was so utterly crap in comparison to RB, let alone RB2 which is untouchable as far as I'm concerned. And Dark Onion, I love that metaphor. Here's another parallel. GH II has Pandora, GH III doesn't, and WT makes her look idiotic! From good to bad to worse!

The only GH product I've bought since I first played RB is GH:Metallica and that's because, unpopular as it may be, I'm a huge Metallica Fan, and it caters in a big way to them!

But to my original point, these games are hugely successful and popular (perhaps not on boards, and certainly not on rockband.com) so why stop making them! Sure, try to improve the formula, but why stop!?

Recon

thealltimelow wrote: »

by the way is anyone going to get this game

I'm going to get it. I won't buy it for €60 but I'm more than willing to pick it up for under €40 off some online shop.

thealltimelow

40 euro thats still alot for that game maybe 20

D4RK ONION

€20 is ridiculously cheap. You'll be waiting a while. €30 is as low as this is going to sink. Rocks the 80s on the PS2 was 50 or 60 when I got it, and it didn't drop for ages.

The worst character crime of all is what they did to my BELOVED Izzy Sparks. That guy was my freaking GH Idol. An 80s Glam Rock/Metal Legend


And below in his F**CKING LADYBOY GH3 form... WHY ACTIVISION, WHYYYYYY?? Look at the state of his face, UGH even I'd forgotten how malformed they made him.

Greyjoy

There are a couple of older GH tracks listed that I'd like to play as a band but I'd rather they just released 'em as dlc. Unless you can import 'Smash Hits' into WT I might give it a pass. Several have already popped up as dlc for RB, if Harmonix are clever they could fill the gaps in the dlc library of older GH tracks rendering GH:SH redundant.

What EA/Harmonix could learn from Activision is how to market their game. GH has a much bigger presence in game stores than RB, heck the RB2 instruments still haven't made an appearance over on this side of the water despite being out in the states for a couple of months.

ShawnRaven

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

But to my original point, these games are hugely successful and popular (perhaps not on boards, and certainly not on rockband.com) so why stop making them! Sure, try to improve the formula, but why stop!?

Because I don't believe Neversoft can improve it, I think they're trying and instead of the series improving, it's regressing.

And i'd rather see it mercy killed, than going further and further into decline.
If I thought it could be improved with the current bunch of numskulls Activision like to refer to as developers, i would be all up for it.

But they've had what, two years now and zero signs of improvement?