Guitar Hero Gets New Developer

GameDaily is reporting that the much loved Guitar Hero series seems to have been given over to new developers. NeverSoft, makers of Gun and the Tony Hawk series of games, are now advertising open positions on their Guitar Hero team. Harmonix, Activision, and Neversoft are all mum on the development at this point, but it's hard to argue with a big 'hiring' sign. Notably, Neversoft appears to be hiring for a PlayStation 3 version of the game. From the article: "Neversoft is undoubtedly filled with much talent, but we're not quite sure why RedOctane would give the development duties to them after Harmonix created two hugely successful games. Guitar Hero II really cranked it up to 11 with sales of more than 805 K units in December alone in the U.S. In fact, according to recent NPD data, the game was the fifth best selling game for all of 2006 with 1.3 million units sold in the U.S."

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Honestly though...

[ravyne]

Do we really want a company now owned, unfortunately, by MTV in charge of a game about music?

I'd hate to see our precious Guitar Hero slowly transformed from "All Music, All the Time" into a reality-TV-like Sims starring drunk and likely bi-polar college age kids with little or no personality.

Its best this game stay as far away from MTV as possible.

Re:No more "As made famous by..."

[xero314]

God, it's fucking horrible the way that poser vomits the end of Symphony of Destruction.

As opposed to how Dave vomits on the end of Symphony of Destruction. If you seriously think Dave can sing you are delusional and really don't have any credibility. I really enjoy megadeth, but it's certainly not for the vocal work.

That being said, the developer of GH has tried to use the original records when they were made available in a format that can be used in guitar hero. This requires the original master tracks. At the bare minimum a master for the Guitar, the Bass/Rythm (in the case of GH2) and a final one for everything else. You are going to have a hard time finding these for records made prior to 10 or so years as these things get lost, destroyed or disposed of. Even if the originals are available they need to get the rights to use those originals from the current rights holder which is often difficult, or expensive, to do.

If I'm paying 3 times the cost of a music CD for the game, I damn well expect real versions of the songs on it. Cheap ass bastards.

Your typical music CD has 10 tracks at most. GH had 50+ tracks and GH 2 had 55+ tracks with a fair number of those being the original records. Purchasing those alone, assuming you bough them separate or in some compilation would cost far more than the game, and that is with out the actual game itself. Not only that some of the songs are actually better when performed by Wave Group than they are by the original artist (more so on GH than GH2). But that last bit is just an opinion