You Know What Pisses Me Off About The Guitar Hero Series? [rant]

**Kalyx triaD** · 10-18-2010, 02:47 PM

Their fucking utter and complete disregard for what I felt was their ace in the hole, their exclusive feature Rock Band couldn't provide...

Garage/Studio and GHTunes.

Sure the interface was polarizing and navigating the user libraries could have been improved, but I saw a lot of potential in the platform - especially since their premium DLC strategy was(is) an inconsistent mess.

There was even a way to search and preview tracks during the World Tour engine's era (WT, Met, Smash). You couldn't stack a download queue from the site, but I imagined they would have headed in that direction. I put in a lot of time in their mixing options and made some cool stuff, as well as discovered memorable tracks and remixes from talented peeps. So when GH5 was billed as having the next step of the feature, I expected great things, what we got was a slap in the face.

Somehow, they managed to mask the fact that options were taken away. And the previously midi sounding samples (which added to the charm), were replaced with murky 'relaistic' riffs that I never quite liked. The garage studio/music mixer presentation was replaced with some psychedelic bullshit that made no sense.

Worst of all, they completely wiped the thousands of preview files from the first studio creations and didn't even bother producing a new studio hub for the GH5 engine - literally killing a growing community. The old links now take you to a new GH site where you can search and buy GH setlist songs from iTunes. I don't appreciate the irony.

That sucks. That fucking sucks. What could have been the next Halo Forge community, or LittleBigPlanet, or whatever 'create-share-play' concept going around is basically nonexistent. An ill-treated feature that was once Guitar Hero's big gun to the fight. There's a lot of reasons they totally blew the music game war, and this is one of the big ones to me.

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10-18-2010, 02:47 PM	#1
Kalyx triaD Raw Video Footage Posts: 45,950	You Know What Pisses Me Off About The Guitar Hero Series? [rant] Their fucking utter and complete disregard for what I felt was their ace in the hole, their exclusive feature Rock Band couldn't provide... Garage/Studio and GHTunes. Sure the interface was polarizing and navigating the user libraries could have been improved, but I saw a lot of potential in the platform - especially since their premium DLC strategy was(is) an inconsistent mess. There was even a way to search and preview tracks during the World Tour engine's era (WT, Met, Smash). You couldn't stack a download queue from the site, but I imagined they would have headed in that direction. I put in a lot of time in their mixing options and made some cool stuff, as well as discovered memorable tracks and remixes from talented peeps. So when GH5 was billed as having the next step of the feature, I expected great things, what we got was a slap in the face. Somehow, they managed to mask the fact that options were taken away. And the previously midi sounding samples (which added to the charm), were replaced with murky 'relaistic' riffs that I never quite liked. The garage studio/music mixer presentation was replaced with some psychedelic bullshit that made no sense. Worst of all, they completely wiped the thousands of preview files from the first studio creations and didn't even bother producing a new studio hub for the GH5 engine - literally killing a growing community. The old links now take you to a new GH site where you can search and buy GH setlist songs from iTunes. I don't appreciate the irony. That sucks. That fucking sucks. What could have been the next Halo Forge community, or LittleBigPlanet, or whatever 'create-share-play' concept going around is basically nonexistent. An ill-treated feature that was once Guitar Hero's big gun to the fight. There's a lot of reasons they totally blew the music game war, and this is one of the big ones to me. [/rant]