jaxson50 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 The company that makes Guitar Hero said there is so little interest in it they will stop production.. THERE IS A GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Was it removed from the market, or did they just stop making it? And how has it affected you so profoundly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 My brothers friend holds a guinness world record for the longest guitar hero marathon. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/Search/Details/Longest-video-games-marathon-playing-GuitarHero/67192.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 Was it removed from the market, or did they just stop making it? And how has it affected you so profoundly? Sales have been so poor they have stopped production, when my 7 year old grandson who has never played guitar insist that he doesn't need us to buy his a guitar and pay for lessons because he has guitar hero...it affects me... I want don't think living vicariously through a computer is a good thing...someday they may just come out with "spouse hero" and a whole generation will stay home and............... with the TV... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 What makes you think we haven't already lost a generation to it. Kids don't even go outside anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Give them all a guitar. A generation of Leslie West's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 You can already go the Second Life, create a person, and find a wife and all sorts of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinner 13 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Give them all a guitar. A generation of Leslie West's. Lash, I almost spit out my coffee. +1 good sir... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 +2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyhair Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Good! Now....... if only Glee, American Idol, Madonna, and Mariah Carey would follow the trend, life would be good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 That would be a great start. Unfortunately those shows won't be cancelled any time soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Guitar Hero is not as popular as Rock band and that's probably why. My girls and wife love rock band... I go the basement man cave and play my real guitar usually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artie Owl Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 God, I get so tired of the baby boomer fears of all the things they don't like or understand. If you don't take into consideration all the kids that were inspired into learning to play an actual guitar by this game because they knew what they were doing was just a game and not the real thing then by this point you choose not to understand what appeals to a generation. We ALL knew it was a damned fad, yet daily I would see threads here posted by the same people over and over again about how threatened they were by it, it was sad. It was a great way to expose kids to all types of rock and roll and blues that built all the music they listen to today, as opposed to the electronic/techno/auto-tunned stuff they're bombarded with today. Take pleasure in it's failure, I know I will because I won't have to see a daily thread about how it's corrupting our youth. Just like Marilyn Manson did right gang? (shakes head) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 I'm with you Owl....if it inspired ANYONE to pick up a real guitar, it was a good thing. So what if OTHER PEOPLE want to press buttons on a plastic guitar instead of sling the strings on a real one? More gear for you! :) P.S. Rock Band is still around and going strong from what I can tell...so don't get too happy you guys loL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grawbad Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 They said it was due to lack of interest in the music Genre. I think that is crap. It was due to their over-saturation of the market and a new 150 dollar package every year with small less featured games throughout the year. Your typical buy someone out and ruin the product. I think guitar hero made a lot of people from kids to adults pick up a real guitar. Some of those might have stayed playing the real thing and some probably found out it wasn't for them. What guitar hero gave all those people is the sense of satisfaction when you have done well that most people don't get these days. Its in that feeling they learn what the real thing can bring you so they try their hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 What makes you think we haven't already lost a generation to it. That would make it 2 generations, the first was the lead guitarists we lost to the Grunge movement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 God, I get so tired of the baby boomer fears of all the things they don't like or understand. It's just the baby boomers, is every person out there that think they grew up in the best of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG FAN Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Guitar Hero wasn't discontinued because of lack of interest in the music game genre, it was discontinued because Rock Band outsold it by leaps and bounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Golly - if only I had bought one... No raindrop wants to believe the flood is his fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff-7 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 I'm interested to see how the new Rock Band with the actual guitar pans out, hopefully it's a good instructional tool and could get a lot of new players in the mix eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hmmm, they flooded the market with Guitar Hero and Rock Band games featuring every artist that ever had a hit single. Pumping out more new variants of the game every week. I'm guessing they're suffering from too much Self Competition. And, on the same old side note I always bring up in these video game threads. I don't believe for a second that Guitar Hero has been in any way detrimental to Real Guitar Playing. I don't believe for a second that all these kids playing video games would be leaning something as complex as a Guitar instead of playing a video game. Maybe they'd be outside paying Cops and Robbers, or maybe they'd be throwing rock at cans (or cars). But I don't think there's any video game that could quell the drive of a budding musician. If anything, Guitar Hero exposes young budding guitarists to all eras of guitar music. Kids today know who Mountain is, kids in my 80's High School didn't. I think that alone is worth singing Guitar Hero's praise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artie Owl Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Thank you Firstmeasure, I completely agree, and I shouldn't have generalized "baby boomers" as the only group that's down on guitar hero and such, it's not fair and I'm sorry to all, but I stick by the essence of my post. A big factor when it comes to these types of games is the plastic peripherals, because of the constant re-relseasing and the cost of the digital add on content; it was only a matter of time. People got tired of the plastic piling up and having no where to put it and having it be out dated in less than a year. Stuff like DJ Hero, Tony Hawk's Grind, or perhaps the most notorious prior to the rock band drum kit, Steel Battalion, will never sell for as long as a simple First person shooter like Call of Duty or Halo, and certainly not nearly as well as games like Mario, or other easy to access, family games. They basically start off as a fad and that's the end of that it's only a matter of time. BTW here's that Steel Battalion controller, it was a giant robot game from Japan (go figure!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 All that controller could probably drive a real Giant Robot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzboy Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Good Riddance if you want to learn guitar buy a real guitar and learn how to play it, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 A couple years ago, i was talking to my nephews who where, then, at that ripe "Guitar Zero" age. I asked if they played it. They said, "No. For a little more money, you can have the real deal." My sister is a good mother. BTW, if my signature tag had anything to do with the demise of the Guitar Zero, I'm tickled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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