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One thing that Activision has to consider is the sour taste they left in the consumer's mouth with the lack of DLC from previous versions. GH2 (or was it 3?) was touted as having "more DLC than any game" and it failed to live up to it. They are going to have to really have something special if they want people to return to them - and at a higher potential cost.
I'm hoping that the RB2 Ion drums will work with GH4, as I'd love to play some Eagles and VH. |
Originally Posted by Kelkee
The music studio is neat. But not everyone knows how to make music much less good music so Im not sure how this will work out long term. Initially there will be all sorts of goofy stuff uploaded. Im afraid that people will get bored with this quickly and not even mess with it.
What will be neat is to see what real artists can do with the studio. If real artists would even be interested. I have faith the cream will rise to the top with the way GH has set it up. There will be some great custom tracks available. |
Originally Posted by thelwig14
I have faith the cream will rise to the top with the way GH has set it up. There will be some great custom tracks available.
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Originally Posted by achau9598
One thing that Activision has to consider is the sour taste they left in the consumer's mouth with the lack of DLC from previous versions. GH2 (or was it 3?) was touted as having "more DLC than any game" and it failed to live up to it. They are going to have to really have something special if they want people to return to them - and at a higher potential cost.
I'm hoping that the RB2 Ion drums will work with GH4, as I'd love to play some Eagles and VH. |
Originally Posted by aktick
Yeah, I'll mess with it for 10 minutes to make some stupid little thing, but I'm looking forward to some good user created stuff to download.
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Originally Posted by aktick
Yeah, I'll mess with it for 10 minutes to make some stupid little thing, but I'm looking forward to some good user created stuff to download.
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I don't know how the music studio will compare to actual MIDI programming, but I've done a ton of that so we'll see what I can do.
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Originally Posted by rabbit77
I'm going to make Pachelbel's Canon in D the way Jerry C (I think that's his name) arranged it in that youtube video.
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Well, here we go ladies and gents:
The ultimate guitar hero, Jimi Hendrix, is finally coming to the Guitar Hero game franchise, according to Janie Hendrix, who oversees his estate. The Hendrix estate, which had difficulty locating the original masters until now, has delivered multiple songs — including “Purple Haze,” “Foxy Lady” and “Little Wing” — to GH’s developers, although it’s not yet clear which tracks they will use. The next edition of the game, Guitar Hero: World Tour, hits stores October 27th. |
Originally Posted by invisiblegt
Huge, but I hope they don't let missing masters stop them from releasing the others. I would rather have covers than none at all. |
Wait, wasn't there a Hendrix cover in GH1?
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Originally Posted by aktick
Wait, wasn't there a Hendrix cover in GH1?
Yeah, and it was really good. There were rights issues with the estate and at the last minute they yanked the vocals and released it as instrument only. |
Very cool about Hendrix. It looks like the there'll be two songs in game - The Wind Cries Mary and Purple Haze (Live), with more via DLC.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080718/...e_jimi_hendrix Back to the music creator, looking at some of the customs created for the GH games probably gives one an idea of what we'll see. There are some folks that will note spam just because the can, and some who'll be really serious about fun stuff. I think the rating system they're putting in will be a good way to ferret out a lot of the nonsense. I'll be curious to see how it goes, although I know I'd never have the patience or capability to do anything worthwhile. |
Im wondering now how they are going to handle covers that are of really pro quality.
Satriani's "Always with Me, Always with You" would be rather easy for someone that knew what they were doing to crank out if the creator is all they are claiming it to be. |
All I know is in those instances, grab those tracks ASAP because I bet they disappear soon after.
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The creator screams GarageBand to me.
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Originally Posted by Kelkee
Im wondering now how they are going to handle covers that are of really pro quality.
Satriani's "Always with Me, Always with You" would be rather easy for someone that knew what they were doing to crank out if the creator is all they are claiming it to be. Regardless, when it gets released, we all really need to help each other and maybe create a list so we can all find the best music. |
I wonder though, in a situation like Satriani where there aren't lyrics, if they can consider it infringement all the same.
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Originally Posted by shumway
I wonder though, in a situation like Satriani where there aren't lyrics, if they can consider it infringement all the same.
I can only see a possible infringement claim occuring if consumer X charged for his creations, but that can't happen with the setup as we will all be able to download for free. |
I hope it does work that way. I can guarantee that Activision sought legal assurances before deciding to implement this feature. I also look forward to that top 1% of songs that will really be worth downloading.
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Found a scan of that GI mentioning Dream Theater.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/zygote7/11.jpg Second paragraph, top-left. Also here is an audio confirmation by Matt Helgeson from Game Informer. The 5/21 episode around the 16:30 mark. He also mentions that Neversoft isn't shying away from instrument-centric tracks. They want each solo tour to be fun on their own unlike RB1 where most of the tracks chosen are watered down to gear towards band play and in turn, solo play suffers. Hardly worth noting due to the source, but someone on Portnoy's forum is claiming a friend saw the setlist and the Dream Theater track mentioned is The Dark Eternal Night. They are a close knit group on those forums, so it could be legit, but I wouldn't get my hopes up(sounds pretty hokey to me). Anyway, TDEN would be a huge get, it is a far better track than Panic Attack (in RB2). |
I'm really curious to see what sort of things get made in the track creator. As others have said, I expect that only a very small percentage of players will make anything worthwhile, but it'll definitely be cool for everyone to enjoy the output of those dedicated few.
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If certain people can create songs like "Impulse" then it will be awesome.
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RUMOR
Full setlist? Seems sketchy with the short "tours". Too much segmentation, but who knows... If true, it blows away RB2's setlist for me by a country mile. http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gen...topic=44444231 Spoiler:
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If fake, whoever did it did their homework. 85 songs + guitar battles + sample tracker maker tracks. All the songs we know about. Returning bands from previous GH games.
Although... Spoiler:
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