Thread 715124343

Guitar Hero and Rock Band were absolutely massive 10-15 years ago. What happened?

>>715124343 (OP)
Oversaturation
Now it's a fortnite side mode

They got old.

Stop spamming your shitty fotm anime.

>>715124343 (OP)
I started to learn the guitar when I was like 9 years old but stopped because I preferred just playing Guitar Hero/Rock Band.
Probably one of the most retarded decision I’ve ever made to this day.
I could be proficient in an actual instrument, but instead I’m just good at a crappy plastic guitar game no one cares about anymore.

Activision shat out 9 of them one year and then attempt something with Live years back. Rockband got out safe with whoevers left working on Fortnite Festival.

play clone hero
it has online and works with all your instruments

please ;_;

>>715124679
That's a gay excuse

>>715124679
I imagine you can have a way with a keyboard if you think you're really good on GH

>>715124867
Guitar Hero Live would’ve been good if they used 5 frets instead of 3.
Reducing the number of frets just because they split the buttons in half was dumb.

SEW IT OOOOOOOON
FACE THE FOOOOOL
DECEMBER'S TRAGIC DRIIIIIVE
WHERE TIME IS POETRY

>>715124343 (OP)
People realized that playing a real instrument is cooler and better for you

>>715124343 (OP)
>What happened?
Activision bought GH and put out a million low effort spin offs and sequels that all still costed $100+. Nobody was interested in buying 2-3 new GH games every year.
>>715124940
This, but also play GH2 Deluxe, RB3 Deluxe, and YARG. They're not as easy to get running and you'll need a better pc for it but they all have way better engines.

Harmonix GH > RB >>>>>>>>>>> Activision GH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKhV1Z1nylo

>>715124343 (OP)
Activision milked Guitar Hero to dust, everyone got so sick of them they became dead franchises

Everyone moved on to Rocksmith

>>715125596
I wish I hadn't looked that up.

>>715124343 (OP)
You can kill a franchise by either never releasing anything or releasing too much, Guitar Hero is the poster boy for the latter
>>715124679
The good news is that it’s almost impossible to forget procedural memories and we’re in the golden age for learning guitar, pick it back up and it’ll come back to you. I played throughout high school and college lost interest for about a decade picked it back up about a year ago and am back to that level. There’s a billion free lessons and tips on YouTube.

>>715125719
>barring with your pinky
what the fuck

>>715125719
Can I get a QRD on Rocksmith? Is it actually helpful for learning beyond normal practice?

>>715125915
Deleo and Frusciante are really good at making you learn bullshit chords that get used once for 1 second in an entire song.

>>715125919
I played guitar for years before trying it and I find it incredibly helpful for learning songs rather than just staring at a tab on a screen, especially using the riff repeater to slow sections down so you can practice over and over. Having a score to beat or a percentage to make go up every time you play makes it a bit more fun

>>715125719
>tfw 2025 and still no Clonesmith with the pros of 2014 and + and none of the cons

>>715126497
that yellow note on the A string doesnt even need to be there

>>715124343 (OP)
People's taste in music changed.

>>715124343 (OP)
real answer is the music licensing is more insane than ever, there is also the peripheral trap of making the games expensive, plus the traditional 4 instrument band isn't popular anymore, DJ Hero was the saturation point

>>715125919
>Can I get a QRD on Rocksmith?
there's nothing better vidyawise imo. Take pic related for example. I know this website likes worshipping nips and all but this just laughable compared to what RS offers

>>715126718
It kind of does if you want it to ring out like in the start and end of https://youtu.be/HVPzWkdhwrw?si=E2v1zopWAKiMLe3v

>>715124343 (OP)
Last I checked the big problem was music licensing.

Konami's drummania and guitar freaks are still a thing. Latest entry just came out.

>>715126704
>pros of rocksmith +
Are there actually any? Everyone hates it except for clueless buyfags

>>715127413
Yeah it's this
I think the biggest problem boils down to two things for western rhythm games
1. The music industry is controlled by greedy jews
2. The audience don't want to play songs by literalwhos
Meanwhile it's the complete opposite on both fronts in Japan

>>715127565
+latency is lower because it uses ASIO by default or whatever
+note detection is noticeably better than 2014
+alot of care is put into lessonslop this time
and even though the song library is disappointing for the most part, you will succeed in extending your band/artist knowledge and what you find enjoyable because lesser known songs are charted.

>>715127413
This. Labels and corporations are greedy. They want obscene amounts of money to have their tracks in a game. They'll even retroactively for the removal of tracks from games if contracts aren't renewed. All that judaism led to the downfall of not only guitar and drum games but also dance games as well

>>715124394
/thread

>>715127982
What a shame they improved it only to ask for a subscription fee, a lot more people would have been willing to move on from 2014 if Ubi hadn't been so Ubi

>>715124679
I hate the whole “why play guitar hero when you could just learn real guitar” shit. They’re not the same thing. Guitar hero is its own skill, reading charts, fast reflexes, muscle memory, etc and you can like that, doesn't mean you're learning a useless "guitar". You’re not giving up one for the other. Real guitar is a whole different world. Yeah you need muscle memory too, but more than that, you need to actually get music. not just follow tabs, but understand rhythm, pitch, harmony.
Like back in high school I could play guitar, follow tabs, but I had zero feel. Couldn’t play by ear, couldn’t tune without help. It was all just copying.
Dropped guitar for like 10 years, came back, and something just clicked. I can figure out songs by ear, tune instinctively, jam without needing sheet music. That's what playing a real instrument is like not just moving your fingers, but actually knowing what sounds right. What I mean is: if you think “i could’ve learned guitar instead of guitar hero,” maybe not. You might not have been ready. Understanding music is its own thing entirely, and GH would have never taught you that.

>>715124940
>look up what songs are available
>it's all autistic speed metal shit and nothing fun

>>715126704
I imagine the audio engineering knowledge required to get something like that working as well as RS+ is pretty extensive. There aren't a whole lot of programmers who specialize in audio, so the pool of them that would be willing to work on such an open source project must be small too.

>>715129529
Fucking this. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact they are overcharted as fuck. Even songs that should be much easier got notes up the ass. You can really tell the difference between a community charter and a RB/GH chart.
>inb4 skill issue
if I wanted to speedrun carpal tunnel i wouldn't play fucking clone hero, i'd go for osu or djmax for some vomit 180+ bpm vomit edm.

>>715129310
The dumb aspect of the whole thing is that learning to play a guitar really well and learning to play GH really well are just different kinds of fun. Plenty of the best GH players in the world are people that also play guitar and bass, and will be the first people to tell you that they never go to one as a substitute for the other.

>>715129529
every gh and RB track is available off the spreadsheet, plus chorus has tons of songs for download

>>715124558
when will it stop being fotm?

GH could've thrived if they did the releases as DLC. It works with games like DJMax.

>>715128672
I think it's too late to save it since Ubi fired almost everyone who works on it but it'd be funny if Ubi was forced to make it more consumer-friendly in its final days with the whole stop killing games thing going on

>>715124558
>fotm

>>715124940
it lacks soul

>>715125596
diapers. diapers were in the bag

>>715132795
YOU lack soul

I have all-girl rock band anime fatigue. We need more shit like BECK