Guitar Hero: Hendrix In The Works

Ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash has let slip that there will be a Guitar Hero title centered on 1969 Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix.

Slash, speaking on tribute games Guitar Hero: Metallica and Aerosmith, said to Rolling Stone: "Those are two ones that I think gives it some credibility. And they're doing a Hendrix one, which is great."

As one of the original Guitar Heroes, Slash speaks with authority and enthusiasm on how the real-world music industry interacts with the plastic-guitar-jamming franchise. "You have to understand how the game works and what band really fits in to that," explained Slash. "AC/DC is probably the top one. They don't need the boost, but that would be the top one," he added.

Official confirmation of the game, or information on platforms or a release date, has yet to come from Guitar Hero series publisher Activision.

Thanks for the info to Shacknews.com.

Comments

[pootoob]

I don't know... I just can't see this. Hendrix would be rolling in his grave

[Mootallica]

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

[coolo]

NOOOOO

[bada-bing]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.

Im with you bro!
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

[bada-bing]

^^.....'Im with you bro!' dont know why my comment was 'in' your quote! Anyway well said my man \m/

[roarinflames]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

+1000

i dont anything else needs to be said
perfect defense for good clean fun

[Chewy120]

^ +100000

[Shiroshu]

This will only be good if you have to play the songs differently every time.

I can't see Jimi ever approving of this either.

[malicelilkitty]

roarinflames wrote:

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.


+1000

i dont anything else needs to be said
perfect defense for good clean fun

Its just a game.. .I don't know why people take things to seriously. That's why this society is so screwed up... Everyone is tooooo anal about everything....

[dancesisidance]

Shiroshu wrote:
I can't see Jimi ever approving of this either.

Yeah me neither, due him not being alive an all.

[MorbidBeliever]

This must be interesting... for 14yo kids... Come ON!!!

[Ultima2876]

I can't either since he's six feet under. So it doesn't matter what he would think.

[tdrules]

why would he approve of something light hearted and getting people to the music he wrote anad loved

[RonMexico]

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

[iksero]

MorbidBeliever wrote:

This must be interesting... for 14yo kids... Come ON!!!

I'm 20, and I am interested by this. therefore i just shot your arguement to s***.

[TheBurningFish]

Commanding Guitar Hero players to go get a real guitar is like telling GTA players to get off their asses and shoot people.

It's a fun game that helps break down genre barriers and open up people to new kinda of music.

Granted, stupid kids that walk about record shops going "Z0MG I CN PLAI TAT ON TEH EXPERTZ!!!!onehundredandeleven!!!" are the cancer of music.

[aaciseric]

Sounds cool, Slash has been making alot of UG news lately.

[iksero]

good for guitar hero. hopefully kid's will pick this up and say: "Hey, this Hendrix guy is pretty good!" there is NOTHING wrong with that.

[cam_sampbell]

Hopefully we'll be seeing more fans of Hendrix and not just the ones who are like 'ZOMG! PURPLE HAZE!' or whatever

[Adamtbh]

i think peoples main issue is wtih guitar hero news being posted here when its not really music

Checked.

[acidhammerdrums]

Adamtbh wrote:

i think peoples main issue is wtih guitar hero news being posted here when its not really music

Yeah... songs appearing in a video game aren't actually music.

[korbhag]

MorbidBeliever wrote:

This must be interesting... for 14yo kids... Come ON!!!

The average gamer age is 39 years old so get your facts right before bashing GH...

[Martin259]

I hope they don't do cover songs, Remember Rage Against the Machine on GH2, That was horrendous.

TheBurningFish wrote:

Commanding Guitar Hero players to go get a real guitar is like telling GTA players to get off their asses and shoot people.

It's a fun game that helps break down genre barriers and open up people to new kinda of music.

Granted, stupid kids that walk about record shops going "Z0MG I CN PLAI TAT ON TEH EXPERTZ!!!!onehundredandeleven!!!" are the cancer of music.

I agree, I like the band Dream Theater and I was listening to a Song by them, It showed up on my MSN personal Message and some kid goes "i completed it on xpert 2day", Wow that annoyed me. But it is a fun game which I like. I laugh at some people whom reckon they can play real guitar by this game.

[Martin259]

MorbidBeliever wrote:

This must be interesting... for 14yo kids... Come ON!!!

14 year old kids? Why should age matter to what you like as in video games? My friend's brother is 21 and he likes this game so.....

[Frededk]

Well if you are one of those people who say that guitar hero players should pick up the real thing, would you tell a person who plays Hitman to stop playing and become a real hitman?

[Martin259]

Frededk wrote:

Well if you are one of those people who say that guitar hero players should pick up the real thing, would you tell a person who plays Hitman to stop playing and become a real hitman?

Exactly, Never before have I seen a game where so many people comment it as "Learn to do the real thing".

[Clutch32192]

I wonder wut button will set ur guitar on fire
or wut button will get u high
RIP jimi

[Cultlife]

I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts
[/quote]


This.

[davidgilmour]

hendrix isnt the best guitarist he was good for his time such a overrated player

[Brattarocks]

i see where this is going.... theyre gonna keep making guitar heroes for diff bands hoping people will start to collect them like they do CDs....

[Kurdt2k]

Im 24 and love GH...Im not delusional, I know Im not playing a real guitar (which btw, I can), and everyone who plays it also knows the same. Its FUN. All the elitist pricks who keep bashing it, get off your miserable high horses and just appreciate it for what it is...a light hearted COMPUTER GAME.

[McGnrAcDcfan227]

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

you, my friend are seriously ***** IN THE HEAD

[Danejerez]

What's with the Foo Fighters picture?

This sounds like a bad idea. The way I understood it was that they can't get licenses to put Hendrix songs on guitar hero. That's why they made up a character that is an obvious rip off of him and didn't make him playable like Slash or Tom Morello. Does that mean this game will be all Hendrix cover songs? that would suck.

Speaking of sucking, my main beef with guitar hero isn't the fact that kids are proud of their guitar hero skillz or that they "totly p0wn on xprt". I just can't stand it when a song that I've liked for a long time is constantly associated with guitar hero. If I ever listen to a song I liked before guitar hero and song kid hears it, they ALWAYS are like "oh dude, that's my favorite song on guitar hero, have you beat it on expert?" To which I have to tell them that it exists as a song outside of the game and some people got their musical tastes the old school way and didn't have it fed to them.
Sorry, ranting.
In short, this game spells disaster.

[XHAIL]

davidgilmour wrote:

hendrix isnt the best guitarist he was good for his time such a overrated player

I'll agree that he wasn't and isn't the greatest, but i don't think he is overrated. He had a ton of soul and did things people couldn't even think were possible to do with a guitar during that time. Innovative, soulful, passionate, but not greatest. There is no greatest because there is no way to measure greatness.

[TJ1991]

I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. Too obvious perhaps? Anyway cool, I won't be getting it but I love Guitar Hero.

[captainoid]

McGnrAcDcfan227 wrote:

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

you, my friend are seriously ***** IN THE HEAD

Oh God, don't get me started. Yes, Hendrix was good, he was an innovative player FOR HIS TIME. People seem to forget that:

1) There are better technical players today

2) Jimi was sloppy live

3) Towards the end, he started to dislike his own hits, and wanted to do more acoustic and exotic pieces, but his fans didn't go for it.

The elitists are gonna bite my head of for this, but I really couldn't give a ****.

[Sancho839]

Martin259 wrote:

I laugh at some people whom reckon they can play real guitar by this game.

have you honestly met someone who said "i can play guitar hero, so that means i can play guitar"?

[Martin259]

Sancho839 wrote:

Martin259 wrote:

I laugh at some people whom reckon they can play real guitar by this game.

have you honestly met someone who said "i can play guitar hero, so that means i can play guitar"?

Infact, I have.

[Alexishxc1337]

Danejerez wrote:

Speaking of sucking, my main beef with guitar hero isn't the fact that kids are proud of their guitar hero skillz or that they "totly p0wn on xprt". I just can't stand it when a song that I've liked for a long time is constantly associated with guitar hero. If I ever listen to a song I liked before guitar hero and song kid hears it, they ALWAYS are like "oh dude, that's my favorite song on guitar hero, have you beat it on expert?" To which I have to tell them that it exists as a song outside of the game and some people got their musical tastes the old school way and didn't have it fed to them.
Sorry, ranting.
In short, this game spells disaster.

Because your music taste is the center of the universe of course.

[Renfordoggz]

Well I don't mind this game or the whole concept of it either, the thing I have a problem with is all these cocky kids coming up to you and saying they're better at guitar cos of guitar hero.. I never got the "sense" in tht lol

[NorCalLos]

Guitar hero/rock band and video games in general are good for musicians because it opens up a whole new revenue stream for musicians (especially independent artists) outside of radio and cable tv at a time when it's getting increasingly more difficult to make a decent living as a musician. Also, the songs reach an audience that they wouldn't have otherwise reached.

Guitar Hero/Rock Band are bad for music because they encourage what is crappy about rock music, which is posing like you're all bad ass when you are not at all talented. I guess it's kinda cool because it gives the people that have rock fantasies, but no artistic voice an outlet for their fantasy without them having to start a band. Maybe in the long run, it will keep "musicians" with nothing to say out of the real music world and have a positive impact on the quality of music being put out.

[WaveCaster97]

am i the only one who thinks he might have gotten a game based around him mixed up with just a downloadable content pack of hendrix which has already been confirmed? besides the way they release games this would be scheduled for about june 2010.. more logical to be a DLC pack next month

[vanzahan]

Alexishxc1337 wrote:

Danejerez wrote:

Speaking of sucking, my main beef with guitar hero isn't the fact that kids are proud of their guitar hero skillz or that they "totly p0wn on xprt". I just can't stand it when a song that I've liked for a long time is constantly associated with guitar hero. If I ever listen to a song I liked before guitar hero and song kid hears it, they ALWAYS are like "oh dude, that's my favorite song on guitar hero, have you beat it on expert?" To which I have to tell them that it exists as a song outside of the game and some people got their musical tastes the old school way and didn't have it fed to them.
Sorry, ranting.
In short, this game spells disaster.

Because your music taste is the center of the universe of course.

haha, well done Alexishxc. Danejerez, what does it matter how kids get their musical taste. it doesnt matter where they hear what, it only matters if they like it or not. if he heard it on guitar hero and he likes it then so what? if he asks you if you beat it why dont you just say no...

[flipthatchicken]

Why do they refer to Slash as ex-GNR guitarist, rather than current VR guitarist.

[dudewithapen]

Hendrix is over-rated...

A Buckethead, John Petrucci, Andy Timmons, Joe Satriani, Def Leppard, Steve Vai, Tony MacAlpine, George Lynch, Zakk Wylde, Trivium, Killswitch Engage Guitar Hero would be much more fun, and versatile, instead of hippy acid blues :X

Flame away, guys!!!! lol

[Sancho839]

Martin259 wrote:

Sancho839 wrote:

Martin259 wrote:

I laugh at some people whom reckon they can play real guitar by this game.

have you honestly met someone who said "i can play guitar hero, so that means i can play guitar"?

Infact, I have.

okay, well, that particular person is a loser. but i know plenty of people who play this game, and play it just for fun.

[protestthehero8]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

[Martin259]

Sancho839 wrote:

Martin259 wrote:

Sancho839 wrote:

Martin259 wrote:

I laugh at some people whom reckon they can play real guitar by this game.

have you honestly met someone who said "i can play guitar hero, so that means i can play guitar"?

Infact, I have.

okay, well, that particular person is a loser. but i know plenty of people who play this game, and play it just for fun.

I play it just for fun too, its an enjoyable game. And yes, That person should have loser wrote on his forehead in a permanent pen.

[yamerhammer31]

TheBurningFish wrote:

Commanding Guitar Hero players to go get a real guitar is like telling GTA players to get off their asses and shoot people.

It's a fun game that helps break down genre barriers and open up people to new kinda of music.

Granted, stupid kids that walk about record shops going "Z0MG I CN PLAI TAT ON TEH EXPERTZ!!!!onehundredandeleven!!!" are the cancer of music.

hehe this argument is dumb and a complete waste of time...therefore this guy wins 10000 points for being the baddest ass here!!!

[Sputnik1]

does anyone else think this is kind of getting out of hand, if they are going to keep releasing new stuff why dont they just release the songs individually for online and then post updates for graphics and such. we dont need a new version for every band that we have to go out and buy each time. Guitar Hero: Styx "lol", Guitar Hero: Kiss, Guitar Hero: Judas Priest, I mean come on this is kind of pointless. and I really like Guitar Hero, they just need to think about chilling it down a bit, do things like Rock Band is doing a game every year or longer and releasing songs online.

[protestthehero8]

dudewithapen wrote:

Hendrix is over-rated...

A Buckethead, John Petrucci, Andy Timmons, Joe Satriani, Def Leppard, Steve Vai, Tony MacAlpine, George Lynch, Zakk Wylde, Trivium, Killswitch Engage Guitar Hero would be much more fun, and versatile, instead of hippy acid blues :X

Flame away, guys!!!! lol

yep..you sure asked for it. you're an idiot. as much as i like bands like trivium and killswitch engage, and guitarists such as zakk wylde, george lynch and joe satriani, it doesn't make any sense. first of all, why would you make a trivium or killswitch engage game? they're hardly popular, nor talented enough to have an entire game based upon them. and as for wylde and satch, do you think it would be possible to even play those songs on guitar hero? sure, some people might be able to do it, but it would be far to difficult for the average joe to enjoy, which, would therefore drop the company's profit by at least tenfold. thus, the companies would never go for it.

[Danejerez]

vanzahan :
Alexishxc1337 wrote:

Danejerez wrote:

Speaking of sucking, my main beef with guitar hero isn't the fact that kids are proud of their guitar hero skillz or that they "totly p0wn on xprt". I just can't stand it when a song that I've liked for a long time is constantly associated with guitar hero. If I ever listen to a song I liked before guitar hero and song kid hears it, they ALWAYS are like "oh dude, that's my favorite song on guitar hero, have you beat it on expert?" To which I have to tell them that it exists as a song outside of the game and some people got their musical tastes the old school way and didn't have it fed to them.
Sorry, ranting.
In short, this game spells disaster.

Because your music taste is the center of the universe of course.


haha, well done Alexishxc. Danejerez, what does it matter how kids get their musical taste. it doesnt matter where they hear what, it only matters if they like it or not. if he heard it on guitar hero and he likes it then so what? if he asks you if you beat it why dont you just say no...

Well, my point was more that people assume we all get our musical tastes from guitar hero just because the song is on guitar hero

[dudewithapen]

Valid points, but there are difficulty levels, and of course they wouldn't produce solos note for note. I think that most of who I mentioned has been around long enough for a wide variety of selections of moderate to more difficult songs though. I think an Ozzy guitar hero would do very well. I understand about popularity, but there's just so much guitar to play in Trivium and Killswitch, I think that would be alot more enjoyable.

[tele150322]

Shiroshu wrote:

This will only be good if you have to play the songs differently every time.

I can't see Jimi ever approving of this either.

because you knew him so well?

[Macabre_Turtle]

MorbidBeliever wrote:
that makes you a loser my friend... wasting time with a rubber toy... go on and play with your GI Joe as well... and get a job... bloody americans dont do a a crap and still have money to by a ps3...

1.It's plastic
2.GH games are all on PS2 as well, which usually costs I believe, about 80$. Not that big a deal.

[TC1223]

one game at a time jeez

[Martin259]

TC1223 wrote:

one game at a time jeez

Haha, Its only been June/July since Aerosmith came out, World Tour is out in November, Metallica is out in the first 1/4 of 2009. Haha, they are coming fast aren't they?

[oldschoolthrash]

TheBurningFish wrote:

Commanding Guitar Hero players to go get a real guitar is like telling GTA players to get off their asses and shoot people.

It's a fun game that helps break down genre barriers and open up people to new kinda of music.

EPIC FUCKIN WIN!

Granted, stupid kids that walk about record shops going "Z0MG I CN PLAI TAT ON TEH EXPERTZ!!!!onehundredandeleven!!!" are the cancer of music.

[oldschoolthrash]

^^^^^
My comment was in the quote...

so again, EPIC FUCKIN WIN!

[Ghanja_Fog]

wow guitar hero is just shitting out games arent they?
it seems like they wont stop until theyve gotten everyone hooked on it

[dvd_dq]

I don't mind and people should get educated on Hendrix,
because the fact is that he is most innovative guitarist of this century.

[Seryaph]

Deep down, I just don't think that Hendrix would be ok with this.

[tim western]

Greatest guitarist of all time heaps.

[Hendrixreborn]

hey guys,

again I am here to have my two cents.

well i don't see the problem with Guitar Hero and people playing it, I reckon its a good thing to have people who weren't born in the 60's and 70's to hear real great rock music. im 19 and I love Hendrix I just wish this game was out when I was getting into Hendrix and playing the guitar.

As a guitarist I also love the game because the more musicians we have in the world the better life will be, imagine if someone played this game and were inspired to write the next "Little Wing" that'd be amazing!!

And yes i believe Hendrix is the best Guitarist to have ever lived, and please do feel free to debate this, message my profile.

av a g'dun

~Xx peace xX~

[darthbuttchin]

I think itll be good fun personally

Checked

[Anjohl]

The problem with the music game genre in actual musician's eyes is that it appropriates msuic appreciation, without almost any of the hard work normally associated.

Example, normally, you find a band, you listen to the album, you like the songs, and you learn to play the songs on whatever instrument you own. GH changes this by picking the songs for people, giving them an easy and immersive way to feel like they are playing it.

Basically, it's like music appreciation for dummies.

Now, that said, I don't have a problem with it. My own personal opinion is that it drives kids to record and guitar stores, I can attest for that personally. BUT, I do think that there is a certain level of "guitar hero virtuosity" that should be the cap. I am sorry, but learning dragonforce on expert in GH is just a terrible waste of your life.

I enjoy the games, but when it comes to expert (Except for bass in RB) I have no inclination to "get better", because to me, it's a waste of time. The games are about having fun to me, and I am NOT a fan of carpel tunnel syndrome.

[Nicky Tuna]

omg.. creating games for dead artists is a shame, at least this kinda game, imo.

[Soroki]

I don't criticize Guitar Hero for the fact that it is a game and it is fun. I play it myself. I DO however find people spending endless hours trying to full combo the hardest songs on the game by playing them in slowest on practice mode to be a bit over the top. That's the point where I think it's entirely too much...

Honestly, I've found this is the case for many GH players though

1.Kid plays guitar hero
2.Kid decides to go buy a real guitar because he thinks it will be more fun.
3.Kid attempts to play guitar for a few months
4.Kid finds guitar too hard, and pawns his guitar to go back to Guitar Hero

[T.Rextacy]

Guitar Hero is ruining guitar. It's making cocky little kids think because they can play this game on expert, they can 'rip it up' on a real guitar.

I'll stick to Grand Theft Auto, killing and stealing is alot better than 'RiPPiZ0rIng iT'Z Up' on Guitar Hero.

[Bassist87]

Hendrixreborn :
hey guys,

again I am here to have my two cents.

well i don't see the problem with Guitar Hero and people playing it, I reckon its a good thing to have people who weren't born in the 60's and 70's to hear real great rock music. im 19 and I love Hendrix I just wish this game was out when I was getting into Hendrix and playing the guitar.

As a guitarist I also love the game because the more musicians we have in the world the better life will be, imagine if someone played this game and were inspired to write the next "Little Wing" that'd be amazing!!

And yes i believe Hendrix is the best Guitarist to have ever lived, and please do feel free to debate this, message my profile.

av a g'dun

~Xx peace xX~

thats true and i agree with you. But one thing can i play bass for you because everyone i know cant play hendrix on guitar. I can play it on guitar but i'd like to play bass for it too and someone who can play hendrix has proved to me that they are a really good guitarist. So any time you need a bassist please let me know unless you live halfway across the world lol.

And i think that this game will open more people up to hendrix and that will only improve his stature as a god.

[Donkey Fly]

Urgh...Hendrix = Overated.

Anyway...IMO,they should be concentrating on GHWT rather than bringing out lame band dedicated packs.

[adamshakermaker]

When I tell people I play guitar you wouldn't believe how many of them say 'so do I, well, guitar hero'. A lot of people think it really is just like playing guitar!

[Donkey Fly]

T.Rextacy wrote:

Guitar Hero is ruining guitar. It's making cocky little kids think because they can play this game on expert, they can 'rip it up' on a real guitar.

I'll stick to Grand Theft Auto, killing and stealing is alot better than 'RiPPiZ0rIng iT'Z Up' on Guitar Hero.

OK If that's the case...GTA is ruining actual GTA IRL for criminals. It makes cocky little kids think they can steal cars and kill people. They think just because they finish the campaign they are now apart of some kind of Criminal organization.

Get over it. If you think GH is ruining guitar then you obviously have intercourse with guitar on a daily basis meaning your penis is tiny.

[i_am_metalhead]

What makes Slash the all knowing Guitar Hero god?

From what I've heard, they are going to be making Hendrix songs available for download on GH but they aren't making a whole game revolving around him.

[Donkey Fly]

....Unless!....

Your the reciever...

[AdemaOnYourHead]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

+9001, there was no further need for discussion after this post.

[demondown666]

Adamtbh wrote:

i think peoples main issue is wtih guitar hero news being posted here when its not really music

to all defending guitar hero i understand you like your games. but yeah get off the real guitar site. F**K

[SmashPumpkins16]

i think people should rly not get mad at this its show a lot of kids that emo music sucks and that older music is still good and guitar hero is a fun game u people who say its ruining guitar ur dumb and this game will be fun people on here get really pissed at the dumbest things. i do think itd be cool if they make a guitar hero like all 60's and 70's instead of the eighties one lol

[Frankie_Stone]

I do hope there is an improve section where you can bash any button you want and your score is based on your facial expressions how much you are "feeling the music".

[Azwethinkwedo]

TheBurningFish wrote:

Commanding Guitar Hero players to go get a real guitar is like telling GTA players to get off their asses and shoot people.

It's a fun game that helps break down genre barriers and open up people to new kinda of music.

Granted, stupid kids that walk about record shops going "Z0MG I CN PLAI TAT ON TEH EXPERTZ!!!!onehundredandeleven!!!" are the cancer of music.

the first line of your comment was so true and funny.

its only a game, that gives people an insight into guitars and good music. besides, its fun

[NorCalLos]

Real guitarists play this:

http://www.fisher-price.com/us/products/product.asp ?id=41380

[hracjk]

This has got to be, for me, one of the best things ever! Not that I even like guitar hero, but it feels like Hendrix isnt awknowledged quite as much as before. With this game, eyes will be opened and i'm sure ppl will start gettin influenced by good music again!

[latkingz781]

This isn't what Jimi would have wanted. This is just another excuse for the record companies and his family to make more money off his dead body.

[Azwethinkwedo]

Donkey Fly wrote:

T.Rextacy wrote:

Guitar Hero is ruining guitar. It's making cocky little kids think because they can play this game on expert, they can 'rip it up' on a real guitar.

I'll stick to Grand Theft Auto, killing and stealing is alot better than 'RiPPiZ0rIng iT'Z Up' on Guitar Hero.

OK If that's the case...GTA is ruining actual GTA IRL for criminals. It makes cocky little kids think they can steal cars and kill people. They think just because they finish the campaign they are now apart of some kind of Criminal organization.

Get over it. If you think GH is ruining guitar then you obviously have intercourse with guitar on a daily basis meaning your penis is tiny.

hahhaahaha the reply made me laugh even more

[Azwethinkwedo]

am i wrong for STILL being puzzled as to why they made a whole guitar hero game dedicated to areosmith?

[Serjem]

nooooo dont ruin hendrix with this gh shit... like oyu did with slash... oh ma god... who's gonan be next?... clapton?

[bucketned]

howabout we make another game with songs that arent all from the same fawking artist
id be so burned out of these bands if they were the oly ones i could listen too

[OMGitsPinkFloyd]

Lol. this is the most retarded issue that people on this site argue about.

[SurfinWithSatch]

Just an observation, why do so many Slash articles start with "Ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash" instead of "Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash" he left GNR over 10 years ago and has moved on (successfully in my opinion), so why oh why is it still being brought up left right and centre.

[T.Rextacy]

Donkey Fly wrote:

T.Rextacy wrote:

Guitar Hero is ruining guitar. It's making cocky little kids think because they can play this game on expert, they can 'rip it up' on a real guitar.

I'll stick to Grand Theft Auto, killing and stealing is alot better than 'RiPPiZ0rIng iT'Z Up' on Guitar Hero.


OK If that's the case...GTA is ruining actual GTA IRL for criminals. It makes cocky little kids think they can steal cars and kill people. They think just because they finish the campaign they are now apart of some kind of Criminal organization.

Get over it. If you think GH is ruining guitar then you obviously have intercourse with guitar on a daily basis meaning your penis is tiny.

why exactly would you care how big my penis is? that's just sick. nobody said anything about anyones penis, so why would you?

GTA doesn't kill people, people kill people. GTA doesn't come with a gun does it? it doesn't have commercials telling you if you play it, you'll become this amazing marksman. If i wanted to kill someone, i'd buy a gun, not a video game. i'm not gonna go buy a rifle just because 'i can shoot one in a video game'. i've seen people neglect their actual guitars just because it's easier to play guitar hero.

[TK1]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

its the people who bash instrument players OR people who boast about how good they are at guitar hero that annoy me. i could care less about the actual game, im decent at it, and its fun. thats all that matters.

[Deece]

I just dislike some of the the players (key word being "some"). EG.
- OMGZ i luv metallica. "One" is such a good song!

- Cool what other ones of theirs do you like?

- Umm... ehh.. Entering Sandmen? u no dat wun?

[theotherguy7145]

I don't like the fact that kids are getting into the music through video games. Although it is good that they're getting into this music. GH ruins classic artists though!
E.g. I can play most songs on guitar hero aerosmith on a real guitar, and people only give a damn when someones can play it on a lil plastic controller with 5 buttons. :/

[Nebjy]

Now this is something I would possibly go out and buy...


but then I realize I could just play them irl and that 100 dollars could have gone to a new amp.

[Jet_Black88]

There are two great things about guitar hero -

It can turn people on to some really great music. Bands that I never really paid attention to beforehand are now some of my favorite bands, and the first place I heard them was Guitar Hero.

It can turn people on to playing guitar. Soon after the first guitar hero came out, I decided to learn for myself, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.


This game does good for the rock and roll industry.

[Nilpferdkoenig]

Soroki wrote:

I don't criticize Guitar Hero for the fact that it is a game and it is fun. I play it myself. I DO however find people spending endless hours trying to full combo the hardest songs on the game by playing them in slowest on practice mode to be a bit over the top. That's the point where I think it's entirely too much...

Honestly, I've found this is the case for many GH players though

1.Kid plays guitar hero
2.Kid decides to go buy a real guitar because he thinks it will be more fun.
3.Kid attempts to play guitar for a few months
4.Kid finds guitar too hard, and pawns his guitar to go back to Guitar Hero

1. Kid buys Guitar Hero
2. Kid thinks that real guitar would be more fun
3. Kid buys guitar
4. kid plays for at least an hour a day and has the time of his life and has dedicted the rest of his education to music and is totally failing at school because of it.

Thought I might adjust that

[_A.D.I.D.A.S._]

I can have just as much fun with a real guitar then guitar hero. I don't mind Guitar Hero too much. I just don't like the idea of spending $200 bucks on a Guitar Hero set when I can get a decent starter guitar, or some equipment.

[red_hot_chili18]

nice wana see the track list before considering a purchase tho

[grungemetal717]

guitar hero has many pros and cons:
PROS:
-Exposed younger kids to bands that have actual talent before the new millenium started killing music,
-Helped some find musical tastes,
-Inspired some to actually learn to play guitar
CONS:
-Cocky people think they're the shit cuz they can play on expert. More respect for the beginning guitarists than those who play guitar hero on expert.
-Overrating everyone who has been in this game(except Slash) like Dragonforce.
With the new Guitar Hero, #1 it is mislabeled, #2 too much new crap, #3 the song creator is going to screw every guitar, bass and drum manufacturer because people will say "why spend hundreds on an actual instrument when i can just make one in a video game?"

[Jimmmoripage]

waste of $$
what is it like $80 per game
if you buy only a couple of the guitar heros you would have had enough for a real guitar
and its a waste of so much time

[Ninjamonkey767]

This is the first time I've seen a news title on UG that isn't totally misleading.

[EXAchilles]

Well if it's an exclusively Jimi track list that would be awesome. Although I kind of doubt the legitimacy of this claim because of the Spanish Castle Magic controversy in GH1. Jimi's estate didn't want anyone imitating his voice, so all the tracks SHOULD be Master Tracks.

In that case, I'd love to play Castles Made of Sand, Purple Haze, Hey Joe, and of course All Along the Watchtower. Machine Gun would just be too much.

And I think this'll be great for the youth who are still developing their musical tastes. It should give them a taste of good music and let them broaden their horizons.

Now if they could only get the Stones...

[von tratt]

Well, here's the reason why people don't like Guitar Hero. Me and another guy are the only real rockers in my class. Other wannabes are only playing GH 12h a day and think they know GnR and other bands like that, cuz they've played welcome to the jungle 1000 times. In my eyes, welcome to the jungle is now ruined by this game. I hope AC/DC doesn't join GH

[F8iscruel]

activision is really raping this series for all its worth, dont get me wrong i love guitar hero but its kind of boring playing it now. and aerosmith was a let down nothing to hard it was all basically hard difficulty on expert. metallica should be a challeng and world tour will give me a run for my money for sure, but in all fairness hendrix was not that amazing of a guitarist, he was an amazing composer and inovator (

[Scorge]

TheBurningFish wrote:

Granted, stupid kids that walk about record shops going "Z0MG I CN PLAI TAT ON TEH EXPERTZ!!!!onehundredandeleven!!!" are the cancer of music.

uhhhh...don't you think you kinda blew that way out of proportion in the exaggeration department???
seriously, i would buy you a steak dinner if you can really find me someone who says shit like that and takes themselves seriously. no one really does you know...

[nic2991]

Well, here's the reason why people don't like Guitar Hero. Me and another guy are the only real rockers in my class. Other wannabes are only playing GH 12h a day and think they know GnR and other bands like that, cuz they've played welcome to the jungle 1000 times. In my eyes, welcome to the jungle is now ruined by this game. I hope AC/DC doesn't join GH

So in youre eyes, if people arent real "rockers" like you, they cant enjoy decent music?

[twat]

Wow. Half the news on this site is now about guitar hero.

May as well call it www.ultimate-guitar-hero.com now.

[clapton-floyd]

Hendrix isn't the greatest guitarist ever.

Although he has made some great music, and a guitar hero Hendrix is justified.

[Kyoh]

Pro Guitar Hero here. Why?

I think its great that more and more people are being exposed to this great music. So what if they're exposed to it by a game? They still love the music for what it is: Music. Some kids may never have heard classics like Sweet Child o' Mine if it weren't for Guitar Hero, so yeah, I think its a great game.

Guitar Hero doesn't create these cocky people espousing their own accomplishments anyhow. They're cocky people to begin with, and are only using Guitar Hero to show off. If they didn't have GH they just would've found some other way to be cocky, so this point is moot. There are ignorant, egotistical people in the world, NOT because of GH.

And if you break it down to its bare bones, GH is a game about timing and precision, just like Super Mario. You gotta jump over the Piranha Plant in time to land on the koopa. Now you have to hit the right button when colored button crosses the line. GH was innovative enough to incorporate great music into this style of gameplay and make a smash hit, so good for them.

Im still not buying the Hendrix GH though, I'm sticking to Rock Band. :p

[zekk]

The hendrix family is so full of shit. Twenty bucks says he would flip his bitch if he knew about this. Coperate bullshit is not why he made his music,

[soadguitarfan]

Sputnik1 wrote:

does anyone else think this is kind of getting out of hand, if they are going to keep releasing new stuff why dont they just release the songs individually for online and then post updates for graphics and such. we dont need a new version for every band that we have to go out and buy each time. Guitar Hero: Styx "lol", Guitar Hero: Kiss, Guitar Hero: Judas Priest, I mean come on this is kind of pointless. and I really like Guitar Hero, they just need to think about chilling it down a bit, do things like Rock Band is doing a game every year or longer and releasing songs online.

Yeah, because ultimately, the Guitar Hero executives obviously want to save the general public money, and not continually find new ways to market the same thing to us. You should email them about it.

[Rocker Extreme]

Danejerez wrote:

What's with the Foo Fighters picture?

This sounds like a bad idea. The way I understood it was that they can't get licenses to put Hendrix songs on guitar hero. That's why they made up a character that is an obvious rip off of him and didn't make him playable like Slash or Tom Morello. Does that mean this game will be all Hendrix cover songs? that would suck.

Speaking of sucking, my main beef with guitar hero isn't the fact that kids are proud of their guitar hero skillz or that they "totly p0wn on xprt". I just can't stand it when a song that I've liked for a long time is constantly associated with guitar hero. If I ever listen to a song I liked before guitar hero and song kid hears it, they ALWAYS are like "oh dude, that's my favorite song on guitar hero, have you beat it on expert?" To which I have to tell them that it exists as a song outside of the game and some people got their musical tastes the old school way and didn't have it fed to them.
Sorry, ranting.
In short, this game spells disaster.

They had a Hendrix song on the very first guitar hero, which was "Spanish Castle Magic" but due to legal rights they would not let them put vocals into the track.

[dobby240]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

a few weeks ago i would have bitten your head off about how bad that game was... i went out an bought it today because my freinds are all playing it and my god its funny xD

but yeah i really enjoy the game, love playing guitar for real even more though.

[xcmasta91]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

+100000

[sottpwn]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.

Im with you bro!
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

Wow someone here has brains!

[Like I Is]

Is it that big of a deal?

[(s)ANIT-21]

Ok Hendrix is awsome and i love his music BUT he is not the greatest guitar player, In my oppinon Steve vai is way ahead of hendrix, he could be the greatest... Guitar Hero?? I sux at it so cant say much ha!

[PumpkinPieces]

pootoob wrote:

I don't know... I just can't see this. Hendrix would be rolling in his grave

Hendrix jammed on a broomstick while listening to the radio and records, this is the same....only more interactive.

[therescue06]

F8iscruel wrote:

activision is really raping this series for all its worth, dont get me wrong i love guitar hero but its kind of boring playing it now. and aerosmith was a let down nothing to hard it was all basically hard difficulty on expert. metallica should be a challeng and world tour will give me a run for my money for sure, but in all fairness hendrix was not that amazing of a guitarist, he was an amazing composer and inovator (

can i punch you in the face please

[strat0blaster]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

+1

Additionally - anything that gets kids interested in music = a good thing anyway. I'd rather see them playing actual instruments, but it's a start.

Too bad people aren't as serious about making a talented band work as they are about Guitar Hero, though - Gamer Musicians are less flaky than actual musicians.

[travd92]

XHAIL wrote:

davidgilmour wrote:

hendrix isnt the best guitarist he was good for his time such a overrated player


I'll agree that he wasn't and isn't the greatest, but i don't think he is overrated. He had a ton of soul and did things people couldn't even think were possible to do with a guitar during that time. Innovative, soulful, passionate, but not greatest. There is no greatest because there is no way to measure greatness.

yeah, there is a way to measure it.

one word: petrucci. XD

but seriously, i really am sick of not only seeing video games with all these older groups and people, just the music industry in general. why are we living in the past now? everyday i get on UG there is some sort of news about a new guitar hero, lost recordings, possible reunions...i'm sick of it. can't we focus on something in the music world that is happening now?

[Soadfan8]

no. no. fuck that

[thecheat3224]

Shiroshu wrote:
I can't see Jimi ever approving of this either.

Considering you probably never knew Jimi Hendrix or talked to him, what are you talking about?

[JOE_DESTROYER]

NOOOOO WHY DOES GUITAR HERO HAVE TO RUIN EVERYTHING COOL?!?!?!

[Jayez]

lol, those saying jimi wouldnt approve of this. jimi was always down for anything, hed probably be cool with it

Checked.

[Kevin Saale]

travd92but seriously, i really am sick of not only seeing video games with all these older groups and people, just the music industry in general. why are we living in the past now? everyday i get on UG there is some sort of news about a new guitar hero, lost recordings, possible reunions...i'm sick of it. can't we focus on something in the music world that is happening now?

That's because everything coming out now pretty much sucks.

To everyone bashing GH and saying NOOO. Get over it, Mootalica pretty much summed it up and all you elitist bandwagoners are just bashing your head on the wall, albeit, in a very elite way.

[DJThor]

RonMexico wrote:

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

SRV is, baby!

[sanks1]

Whos better than? Nobody comes to my mind

davidgilmour wrote:

hendrix isnt the best guitarist he was good for his time such a overrated player

[ShadesOfNight]

it just had to happen really. im suprised it didnt happen sooner in all honesty
i dont agree with it....but it was inevitable

****ing guitar hero

[Roopelatvalafan]

+ 99^99^99 to that guitar hero rocks.. i think it is great, that rock get a big boost it needs, metal has for to long been seen upon as something for only insane people, but now people begin to understand it a little... gaming is a great media o open up peoples mind.. and i cant see the issue in people not playing "real" guitars.. it is a fun game.. and i can still own them all * 10^99 on my real guitar shred thing.. haha ..

[Caressing Death]

pootoob wrote:

I don't know... I just can't see this. Hendrix would be rolling in his grave

Would you be if you were Hendrix? People like you shouldn't be allowed to play instruments. If inspiring millions is a bad thing to you then you really are a sad person.

[lukkyluke]

this game series is starting to get old and i think hendrix wouldnt want his music sold out like this, sure its fun if you have got friends around but really its starting to get quite repetetive

[Roopelatvalafan]

only thing is, that if metal begins to get popular, we will get alot of shit faced pop metals bands that all super sucks.. pray the devil (and no i am not a satanist) that it will not happen

[NorCalLos]

only thing is, that if metal begins to get popular, we will get alot of shit faced pop metals bands that all super sucks.. pray the devil (and no i am not a satanist) that it will not happen

Metal is pretty freaking mainstream the last several years, at least here in the states. It's not too much on radio (unless you consider Avenged Sevenfold or Coheed and Cambria metal), but it's about as popular as is possible without radio. In fact, it's getting kind of old. Same with punk. Even real punk doesn't have the same edge since all the watered down stuff flooded the market.

[johnwh92]

TheBurningFish wrote:

Commanding Guitar Hero players to go get a real guitar is like telling GTA players to get off their asses and shoot people.

It's a fun game that helps break down genre barriers and open up people to new kinda of music.

Granted, stupid kids that walk about record shops going "Z0MG I CN PLAI TAT ON TEH EXPERTZ!!!!onehundredandeleven!!!" are the cancer of music.

that is about the funniest and truest thing i have haerd in months

[xxxFMDxxx]

Meh don't really care for GH. Funny this got posted cuz today was the day Hendrix died

[kurko26]

Guitar Hero: Making losers feel like winners since 2005.

[xxxFMDxxx]

Funny this was posted on his death anniversary. Dont care for GH much.

[alnicoV]

well heres my two cents:

moo, i have agreed with you in the past but no one bashed gh before you said to stop bashing it lol. and guys, the new bandwagon to hop is the one where you say "guitar hero is fun and just a game" but on the other hand, what few bashers there are, it really is just a game and a fad, no one will care in a couple of years and lets face it people will still be playing guitar lol.

secondly, im not going to act excited bout this cause i really dont care. and nor will hendrix care well cause...he's . i personally just dont enjoy the game. i like playing it at parties (especially when people try to play it with their feet), but when im at home, i'd rather jam some music on my electric or pluck a little bit on my nylon string. personally when i do play games i'd rather play starcraft, starfox, or battlefield.

and if people want to play gh whatever (though the posers can be annoying) cause whenever someone asks me which i like better rb or gh i proudly answer: neither, my real guitar is the best.

and my last point is: i love hendrix, but i think srv is just as deserving as well as randy, those two dudes are amazing and at least should get a downloadable content package

[alnicoV]

oh and one more thing, the worst thing about gh is dragonforce though, to everyone no idk any of their songs but then again neither do they lol

[Chrisiphone]

It should be a download pack, instead of a full game.
Its easier and probably cheaper.

[Hops44]

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest left-handed Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix."

fixed.

[MTVget0FFtheAIR]

personally, i'm against the guitar hero games, especially the artist feature versions. i hope they don't do too many more after this...but for the love of money, you know many more are on their way. they're going to ride this franchise into the ground. they always do.

as for hendrix, as a purist/elitist i absolutely hate to see this happen. but thinking solely of the game, i suppose this is one of the best choices they could make. beats the hell out of Guitar Hero: Blink 182!

[Jimmy5790]

mootallica makes a good point, but i still can't believea video game is the feature story on ultimate-GUITAR, oh and while it is just a game and it does bring rock to the masses you can't say it doesn't piss you off when you look for a good guitar cover on youtube only to find CLIFFS OF DOVER EXTREME DIFFICULTY btw cliffs of dover is just an example

[NorCalLos]

I'm pretty sure he didn't headline woodstock.

[RocksAwakening5]

Hmm, I cant say whether I think its a good idea or not. I just dunno...

[Natrone]

Here is something to think about for anyone who hates guitar hero: In the next 10 years there will be a few new and amazing bands with very talented guitar players that everyone will love. One day there will be an interview question to the effect of "what got you into playing?" The guitarist's answer will be "Guitar Hero. It got me into music and made me appreciate music and guitar and really inspired me to start playing."

Oh, and also music will be better because more people are listening to music with substance because GH has opened many people's eyes to classic rock.

*holds up flame shield*

[Badmotorfever]

Guitar Hero is the ultimate "wannabe" game. It turns kids who like bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers into pricks who think that because they can play something on expert, they are the king of the effing castle.

Seriously, being able to play "Through the Fire and Flames" on expert seems to have the same significance with kids as a real life pokemon or the Holy Grail.

I also really despise Activision for going down the EA path of releasing unnecessary sequel after unnecessary sequel. I'm pretty glad "Guitar Hero: Van Halen" was just a rumour. Glad to see some people have spines still.

The GTA argument also doesn't work. I play GTA and i'm doing all sorts of things - stealing cars, blowing up trucks, shooting pedestrians, stealing money, getting involved with almost every kind of crime.

Guitar Hero however, seems to easily emulate guitar playing to the point where the player is totally engrossed in the game and it opens some retarded virtual universe for them. For them, they are cool. They can "play" songs and therefore enjoy the completion value (because of course, real guitar takes months of practice, guitar hero takes seconds to put in your disc drive).

Maybe if GTA came WITH an AK47 replica, Banshee model, syringe attatchment, or cardboard hooker, it might be similar.

[JFenderBender]

dude that would be sweet if there was an acid trip mode where all the notes turned into something and you had to try to play the song while the screen was going crazy

and they need to put an improv mode too
hendrix liked to do that

[JFenderBender]

Badmotorfever wrote:

Guitar Hero is the ultimate "wannabe" game. It turns kids who like bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers into pricks who think that because they can play something on expert, they are the king of the effing castle.

Seriously, being able to play "Through the Fire and Flames" on expert seems to have the same significance with kids as a real life pokemon or the Holy Grail.

I also really despise Activision for going down the EA path of releasing unnecessary sequel after unnecessary sequel. I'm pretty glad "Guitar Hero: Van Halen" was just a rumour. Glad to see some people have spines still.

The GTA argument also doesn't work. I play GTA and i'm doing all sorts of things - stealing cars, blowing up trucks, shooting pedestrians, stealing money, getting involved with almost every kind of crime.

Guitar Hero however, seems to easily emulate guitar playing to the point where the player is totally engrossed in the game and it opens some retarded virtual universe for them. For them, they are cool. They can "play" songs and therefore enjoy the completion value (because of course, real guitar takes months of practice, guitar hero takes seconds to put in your disc drive).

Maybe if GTA came WITH an AK47 replica, Banshee model, syringe attatchment, or cardboard hooker, it might be similar.

true but im better at guitar than guitar hero and you have to admit you have some good reflexes and good hand eye cordination if you can play expert

but that doesnt make you a musician if thats what your saying

[Erik_Aero]

I don't know if anyone's said this yet, but I hope the same thing that happened to Slash doesn't happen to Jimi. With all the people that played Guitar Hero III being hardcore Slash fans (not all, but you know what I mean).

[PUNKfromNORWAY]

GH have given many good bands more fans, but I think they are making too many games, it's good that ppl begin to listen to real music(just my opinion) rather than techno and that...

[xvasmx]

yay Hendrix!!!!!

[SoftParade1967]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

+1

[couagr2121]

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest left-handed Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix."

fixed.

And right behind him is Kurt, probably the Jimi of the 90's as far as totally reinventing how the guitar can sound.

[couagr2121]

Sorry meant that to be a quote Hops44

[faint_spirit]

i like games, and i like guitar hero, but really, all the new editions are getting ridiculous.

[rageagainst64]

its gonna be weird, playing as a dead guy and all.

but jimi definitely deserves it, more than 'smith and 'tallica IMO

couagr2121 wrote:
And right behind him is Kurt, probably the Jimi of the 90's as far as totally reinventing how the guitar can sound.

no.

[treweof]

In my opinion a lot of people don't realize that the thing is, that Guitar Hero only gives the kids what the company wants, therefore they may be familiar with a couple tunes, but if they would listen to other artist, they may like those better... The company leads them. I don't really think, that they're gonna' be getting into music because of GH, cause if they have some free time, there playing...
Personally, I don't have any problem with the game itself, although, I'm sick of what youtube finds, if I'm tiping in a songs name...

[tsukoyomimoon]

Shiroshu wrote:

This will only be good if you have to play the songs differently every time.

I can't see Jimi ever approving of this either.

I hate that, I have every show Hendrix appeared in and he plays differently every time, nailing songs is ridiculously hard, and no one has the studio versions.
I have three ways to play voodoo chile, they all sound right but wrong at the same time
Sorry for the rant.

Guitar hero is nice, the only thing annoying are those kids that think they can play guitar because they play Guitar hero

[jamesdjharrod]

RonMexico wrote:

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

Yes, yes he is.

[TommorellotheII]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

Amen brother, Amen.

[jamesdjharrod]

tsukoyomimoon wrote:

Guitar hero is nice, the only thing annoying are those kids that think they can play guitar because they play Guitar hero

The ones who can play it perfectly on expert, and their friends are like "you're amazing", and yet they wouldn't know a pentatonic from a piezo

[guitarmaniac88]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

Thank you!! I started because of Guitar Hero, just 10 months ago, and I can play almost all of the songs from 3, like One, Impulse, and Raining Blood. The game boosted my abilities, and Hendrix is one of my favorite guitarists ever, because he knew you didn't have to lay really fast to be a legend.

[deckerbastard69]

RonMexico wrote:

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"



1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

+1mill
he was good but not the greatest

knowing my freinds ill probably be forced to play it

[jamesdjharrod]

but, yeah as a game guitar hero's pretty much the best

[tsukoyomimoon]

jamesdjharrod wrote:

tsukoyomimoon wrote:

Guitar hero is nice, the only thing annoying are those kids that think they can play guitar because they play Guitar hero


The ones who can play it perfectly on expert, and their friends are like "you're amazing", and yet they wouldn't know a pentatonic from a piezo

Yeah the kind of kids that don't know the difference between a bass and a guitar

[pootoob]

Caressing Death wrote:

pootoob wrote:

I don't know... I just can't see this. Hendrix would be rolling in his grave
Would you be if you were Hendrix? People like you shouldn't be allowed to play instruments. If inspiring millions is a bad thing to you then you really are a sad person.

Lol. I wasn't saying it was a bad thing. I was just saying that Hendrix seems like the kind of person who wouldn't want a guitar hero based around him. maybe he would, who knows, but personally I think he wouldn't.
By the way - Osama bin Laden inspired millions too.

[yearzero]

Anything that gives younger people the chance to listen to Jimi is fine in my book

[1010]

I think its cool and all but a whole game is just to much. Same with aerosmith and metallica, do they really need their own games, or wouldn't dlc work much better as you wouldn't need to get the whole thing.

[palefire]

while i agree that Guitar Hero and Rock Band are perfectly fine games (which i like to play myself), please, PLEASE stop making moronic comments like

"telling someone to pick up a real guitar instead of guitar hero is like telling someone who plays GTA to go shoot ppl!!!!"

No it isn't.

One is encouraging people to take up a musical instrument (even if they're being a prick about it).

The other is incitement to murder. You know many people who've been jailed for learning Stairway to Heaven?

AND SECOND,

please drop the stupid "Hendrix isn't the best! They should make Guitar Hero *insertrandomobscuremetalguitaristhere" comments. No, they shouldn't. You know why? Because they'd probably sell a few thousand copies if they're lucky.

Even if you don't like Hendrix, there are hardly any (arguably none) as iconic and well established as a guitar 'hero'. He has been an influence on every generation since and remains a household name despite having been dead for decades.

Do you seriously think someone who happened to play Donnington once five years ago is really a better choice? And if you do, and you're THAT desperate to play their songs....


...go learn guitar.

[irbdmck]

tele150322 wrote:

Shiroshu wrote:

This will only be good if you have to play the songs differently every time.

I can't see Jimi ever approving of this either.
because you knew him so well?

OWNED!!!!! and besides that guitar hero is fun

[Gmurcielago14]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

None of us actually hate the game, but I just cant stand the fact that someone can get a high five because they played a song on a piece of plastic, when I can play it on a real guitar.

[guitarmaniac88]

I have heard Guitar Heroers complain that some songs or too hard too play, just wait until they come out with somehting like GH: Buckethead, or Racer X, then they would have a reason to complain. I'd buy it though...

[guitarmaniac88]

jamesdjharrod wrote:

tsukoyomimoon wrote:

Guitar hero is nice, the only thing annoying are those kids that think they can play guitar because they play Guitar hero

The ones who can play it perfectly on expert, and their friends are like "you're amazing", and yet they wouldn't know a pentatonic from a piezo

Tell you the truth, I don't even know what piezo is, but I am judging it is a scale or something, since you are saying pentatonic.

[guitarmaniac88]

wow, comments are flying in fast, I wonder why...

[lzrdsixsix6]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

it's foolish, that's why. it should be called guitar hero....if it was called something different it wouldn't be as gay

[SkidRow92]

i'd buy guitar hero buckethead

[lostprophet20]

He was great and all, and I mean no offense, But Jimi Hendrix is not the greatest guitarist of all time.

[travd92]

Kevin Saale wrote:

travd92but seriously, i really am sick of not only seeing video games with all these older groups and people, just the music industry in general. why are we living in the past now? everyday i get on UG there is some sort of news about a new guitar hero, lost recordings, possible reunions...i'm sick of it. can't we focus on something in the music world that is happening now?


That's because everything coming out now pretty much sucks.

To everyone bashing GH and saying NOOO. Get over it, Mootalica pretty much summed it up and all you elitist bandwagoners are just bashing your head on the wall, albeit, in a very elite way.

to be honest, i'm seeing newer and better things happening now that range from classic rock to technical death metal. andy timmons? between the buried and me? john mayer? lamb of god? come on. some of the greatest music on this earth has been made in just the last five years.

[E V H 5150]

TheBurningFish wrote:

Commanding Guitar Hero players to go get a real guitar is like telling GTA players to get off their asses and shoot people.

It's a fun game that helps break down genre barriers and open up people to new kinda of music.

Granted, stupid kids that walk about record shops going "Z0MG I CN PLAI TAT ON TEH EXPERTZ!!!!onehundredandeleven!!!" are the cancer of music.

Yeah. It's cool when people are good at things, but really when the best you can say is that you're good at a video game, I can't respect that. I don't hate guitar hero. It's a fun game, yes. And they've got a few good songs there. But I just can't agree with the obsession. Video games are good- to a point. Just like I'm annoyed by people who have to say they play guitar every time you see them. It gets annoying.

[Adam_G]

Learn to play the real thing! Same goes for mario. Why play the game when you can stomp turtles in real life?

[columbus]

lostprophet20 :
He was great and all, and I mean no offense, But Jimi Hendrix is not the greatest guitarist of all time.

agreed

[ihavenoname93]

guitar hero please. just stop. your not helping anyone. just stop

[ihavenoname93]

travd92 wrote:

Kevin Saale wrote:

travd92but seriously, i really am sick of not only seeing video games with all these older groups and people, just the music industry in general. why are we living in the past now? everyday i get on UG there is some sort of news about a new guitar hero, lost recordings, possible reunions...i'm sick of it. can't we focus on something in the music world that is happening now?


That's because everything coming out now pretty much sucks.

To everyone bashing GH and saying NOOO. Get over it, Mootalica pretty much summed it up and all you elitist bandwagoners are just bashing your head on the wall, albeit, in a very elite way.


to be honest, i'm seeing newer and better things happening now that range from classic rock to technical death metal. andy timmons? between the buried and me? john mayer? lamb of god? come on. some of the greatest music on this earth has been made in just the last five years.

not really, and your examples prove just that.

and can somebody tell me what makes jimi hendrix the greatest of all time?

[Tordyboi]

ive read alot of posts about everyone complaining about GH nerds that think they can play guitar.

Let them think that they can play. Just dont give a ****.its in their nature to talk 'bout their skillz with each other, So if someone you dont know talk GH to you, its probably because you look like a computer nerd. The only reason it gets to you is because you are stupid. Why care? its a stupid game. BTW: would you please stop telling everybody what to like and not like? you people get so oversensitive about GH. If you dont like it, doesnt mean that other people cant.

[goon316]

Guitar Hero is a great drinking game and very fun. You dont have to learn how to play guitar just because you are playing this game BUT if you are spending hours upon hours in practice mode your time would be better spent on a real guitar. However I'm not about to tell someone how to spend their time. I'm sure plenty of people would tell all the guys that bitch about guitar hero that they spend way too much time on their real guitar and they should get out of the house. Its all personal preference. IF you like it, great, if not, does it really bother you that much that someone else does? Live your own life and let others live theirs.

[redsoxfan5150]

Noooo! Hendrix is probably rolling over in his grave. Why would his family approve of this?

[Pr3vieWX360]

Hendrix is ****in awesome. This would be the only 1 band guitar hero game i would seriously get.

I know its guitar hero yada yada o noes but this sounds mad fun. i for 1 am happy. Its more for the fans, random people who arent into hendrix probably wont get a hendrix based game. Just my opinion

[TehShiz]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

I agree, but a hobby? When something like that becomes a hobby, you've got a problem. Also, just because a lot of people flame guitar hero doesn't mean its an anti-guitar hero bandwagon. They each have their own reasons, one mainly in the section of again, WHY IS THIS NEWS ON UG? Thats not music. It's a music game, but it's not music. Not anything most UG members care about.

Also, don't start up the Jimi Hendrix is overrated arguement again people... You obviously don't know much about history if you think he's overrated. He may not be the greatest guitarist of all time (and when most people say that, they don't always mean THE greatest), but he's not overrated.

[NorCalLos]

Judging by the number of comments, the article is here because U.G. readers are interested in the story.

[Victor Escobar]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

Right on man.I play real guitar and Guitar Hero,that doesnt make me a poser or anything does it.

[celldweller454]

I cant say i didnt see it coming

[brentondig]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

+ Infinity.

My ONLY problem with each and every guitar hero game is that some songs are re-recorded, or covers of the originals. Then again, I'm a stickler for the original songs, unless covered by another big band, say Megadeth cover Metallica (lol) or something like that.

[down n dirty]

davidgilmour :
hendrix isnt the best guitarist he was good for his time such a overrated player

THANK YOU! everyone thinks hes god even at that time there were way better guitarists... tony iommi, who by the way is over rated also, and not many years after that david gilmour and joe perry hes not that great and his songs werent amzing they r pretty mediocre its like saying kurt cobain was the greatest or green river and mudhoney were the greatest musicians in the history of the world

[tomsawyer67]

Dude 3 things

1 guitar killed every old song that wasnt already overplayed by the radio. only a few songs are left untouched such as killing in the name which i could listen to for the rest of my life and not get sick of.

2. to all of you jimi dislikers, look down at the pedal you are using and chances are you wouldnt hav it if it wasnt for jimi.

3. to the idiot who made the gta reference: oh my. that sucked like a ...

[lt22]

malicelilkitty wrote:

roarinflames wrote:

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.


+1000

i dont anything else needs to be said
perfect defense for good clean fun



Its just a game.. .I don't know why people take things to seriously. That's why this society is so screwed up... Everyone is tooooo anal about everything....

EXACTLY!!!
Anyway, people are entitled not to like guitar hero, but you don't have to project your view on everyone else in the world. Some people will always like GH, some people will always not like GH. If you don't like GH, then why did you click on the story? If you did so purely to bash Guitar Hero, well then I am sorry to say that you have no life. Besides, bashing it just gives it more attention, and if you don't like it, you shouldn't be wasting your attention on it.
Personally I think it's a great way for a new generation to get into rock and metal. This game is especially awesome because it will get younger people back into classic stuff like Jimi Hendrix.

[NIrvana_267]

HOLY FUCK THIS IS GNA BE SOOOO AWESOME

[NIrvana_267]

(only because I've been a Hendrix fan my whole life, and i really like guitar hero)

[HolySmoke]

it's not like a hendrix guitar hero would cheapen him anyways. More money has been made off his name then probably anyone in music. Plus an all Hendrix guitar hero would kick ass! much better than aerosmith or metallica

[DString]

I will have to check this out. I have Guitar Hero , it's a fun party/family game. No violence just fun acting like a rock star, what wrong with that.

[darkfire_storm]

dancesisidance wrote:

Shiroshu wrote:
I can't see Jimi ever approving of this either.

Yeah me neither, due him not being alive an all.

ha! that's funny. i'm siggin' that.

[ten_years_after]

RonMexico :
"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

+1000 hendrix is not the greatest, hes the most popular but no he wasnt the greatest, and its so annoying when kids watch hendrix play and then they think its ok to play increadibly sloppy and make stupid faces while they play

[dagget]

wheres guitar hero: dream theater>? :P

[AidanTDR]

i think when people say that Hendrix is overrated and the like, its just because they're used to listening to shredders play really fast and cleanly, which is great, i like shred too. but there are many many people who can play faster than Hendrix, but they do not have the same feel, or anything close to Hendrix. Take the All Along The Watchtower solo as an example. In my opinion this is the greatest solo ever, and i don't even listen to Hendrix, but the feeling is perfect and the playing is solo emotional. Hardly anybody, if anyone, can do that as well as Hendrix did.

apart from that rant, i'm interested to see whether they can pull off a guitar hero hendrix game.

[chipman5544]

I think a guitar hero game is more deserving to Hendrix than anyone. So innovative as a musician and writer, he changed the way people looked at a guitar. I really hope that GH does him some justice, and also people will be able to really experience the greatness that is Hendrix. R.I.P Jimi ~Sept. 18 1970~

[newbie08]

I don't it's the game that people exactly are annoyed about, it's the *few* kids (not all) who brag about their skills, trying to make people feel bad etc.

[a7xf@n43v3r]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

Hah, I agree.

But there are still posers that take GH too seriously

[ironBLSmaiden]

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

Yeah your definitely right. he was good for his time, but Alex Lifeson came in around the same time even though he wasn't as big, and he gets almost no credit, and in my opinion he's way better than hendrix. and about the whole hime have more emotion thing, yea he did but u need someone who can play slightly faster, and show emotion, like randy rhoads

[UseYourBrain]

why wouldnt jimi hendrix be enthuiastic about his music being tributed in a video game to reach a 21st century audience.

[McAngusYoung]

Ok everyone with a stick up their ass can feel free to leave it there or just shut up! This isn't we're trying to make money of a dead legend or anything.....this is probably going to be more like a tribute type thing.....tp one of the best guitar players that this world has ever known....and like many others whos time was cut to short.....I love Jimi and i think that it would to have Guitar Hero Hendrix

[Xanron]

ironBLSmaiden wrote:


1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time


Yeah your definitely right. he was good for his time, but Alex Lifeson came in around the same time even though he wasn't as big, and he gets almost no credit, and in my opinion he's way better than hendrix. and about the whole hime have more emotion thing, yea he did but u need someone who can play slightly faster, and show emotion, like randy rhoads

I don't think you need speed on the guitar to be considered the best. I think if you play too fast it sounds artificial.

[McAngusYoung]

oh and for the people that try an say that there is one guitar player better than all the rest.....that will never be true because think of it this way.....there are like a billion different styles of guitar playing and everyone plays with their own style.....so how could you compare someone that say plays punk rock to somone who plays death metal? you can;t because they are to differnet ways of playing....and there is always going to be someone that can do something that someone else can't.....always!

[ZeppelinruleZ]

is it me or is it funny that they called slash the "ex-guns 'n' roses" guitarist instead of the velvet revolver guitarist?

[liamdude555]

Hopefully people will play this game and say, Hey this hendrix guy is cool. And then get into his music.

[thedarkblues06]

Gmurcielago14 wrote:

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.
None of us actually hate the game, but I just cant stand the fact that someone can get a high five because they played a song on a piece of plastic, when I can play it on a real guitar.

I agree with this guy. I mean, they think that because they play the game on Expert they are the best.

Nothing is more priceless, however, than when I play the same thing on real guitar, and they just give me the bird.

[theocao]

NOOOOO
WHY !
THERE IS NO GOD

[guitarsolo_17]

no please.not Jimi....music is easily ruined by this game.....we don't have to ruin a bunch of Jimi's greatest hits...

[gatechballer]

captainoid wrote:

McGnrAcDcfan227 wrote:

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

you, my friend are seriously ***** IN THE HEAD


Oh God, don't get me started. Yes, Hendrix was good, he was an innovative player FOR HIS TIME. People seem to forget that:

1) There are better technical players today

2) Jimi was sloppy live

3) Towards the end, he started to dislike his own hits, and wanted to do more acoustic and exotic pieces, but his fans didn't go for it.

The elitists are gonna bite my head of for this, but I really couldn't give a ****.

Dude you are a complete dumbass! Jimi was the greatest guitarist of all time, he wasnt sloppy live (he just did a little freestyle on each riff differently each time he played it) and OK...there might be faster guitarists and use technique more...but Jimi had style, which fans love to see, and it sounds just better than anyone who even tries to play his songs. Don't mess with the God of Guitar!

[gatechballer]

ZeppelinruleZ wrote:

is it me or is it funny that they called slash the "ex-guns 'n' roses" guitarist instead of the velvet revolver guitarist?

Ya but he got his fame from being part of Guns 'n' Roses.

[travd92]

gatechballer wrote:

captainoid wrote:

McGnrAcDcfan227 wrote:

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

you, my friend are seriously ***** IN THE HEAD


Oh God, don't get me started. Yes, Hendrix was good, he was an innovative player FOR HIS TIME. People seem to forget that:

1) There are better technical players today

2) Jimi was sloppy live

3) Towards the end, he started to dislike his own hits, and wanted to do more acoustic and exotic pieces, but his fans didn't go for it.

The elitists are gonna bite my head of for this, but I really couldn't give a ****.


Dude you are a complete dumbass! Jimi was the greatest guitarist of all time, he wasnt sloppy live (he just did a little freestyle on each riff differently each time he played it) and OK...there might be faster guitarists and use technique more...but Jimi had style, which fans love to see, and it sounds just better than anyone who even tries to play his songs. Don't mess with the God of Guitar!

dude, seriously. jimi is fantastic, but noway was he the greatest guitarist of all time. frankly because, its hard to measure greatness. everyone has a certain way of playing. jimi had a good funky, but mellow writing style that not many people can play as well as he did, but i'm sure as hell jimi probably could sweep and tremolo pick 17 notes a second. everyone has different abilities, so in conclusion, no one can be the greatest at every sort of playing style.

[EddieCraig]

Once guitar hero came out all the tards started playing guitar.

[CJE]

History's repeating itself, but getting worse. Remember 'Liquid Experience' the energy drink that was based on Jimi Hendrix? I guarantee that Jimi Hendrix did NOT want to become a part of a corporate franchise aimed at fat teenage metalheads. Now even more of the stupid kids in our school are going to wear bandanas and carry around their guitar hero controller gig bags like they're musicians.

BTW, Guitar Hero is a fun game, but you have to stop and think if a game is what he would've wanted.

[StealthyHayze]

Jimi is overated and just happen to be a "right guy at the right time". And i agree with Craig, most tartes i know all play guitar hero.

[PinkFloyd071]

Maybe "And they're doing a Hendrix one, which is great." could refer to the Hendrix tracks on GH4, just a thought...

[PinkFloyd071]

EddieCraig wrote:

Once guitar hero came out all the tards started playing guitar.

Once skiffle/blues/rock'n'roll/metal/grunge/punk came out all the tards started playing guitar. Tards have been picking up guitars for nearly every trend, but some manage to discipline themselves into decent musicians. Thats how it works.

[ewp805]

pootoob wrote:

I don't know... I just can't see this. Hendrix would be rolling in his grave

This

[schecter_r0cker]

pootoob wrote:

I don't know... I just can't see this. Hendrix would be rolling in his grave

Agreed, God... This is gonna be as bad as Guitar Hero Aero Smith I bed

[schecter_r0cker]

bet**

(Sorry for the double post)

[anon1mous]

i aggree hendrix would be rolling in his grave
R.I.P Hendrix

[claptonisgod04]

i don't get why people think he'd be rolling in his grave? he died in 1970 and its like 38 years later. Who knows what he would've approved of or not by now? its just a game people play for fun. Non guitar players could say the same thing about guitar being stupid so who cares?

[Rev2Ten]

I think it's just really funny how people label slash as the last guitar hero lol even Slash himself is like "dude what are you talking about?" and it's like people just over look him. ya know, Zakk Wylde is still chugging riffs, (along with beer) and if i remember correctly, he's an absolute machine on the guitar.

[vjh]

An actuial conversation I overheard:
"I like this 'hey jude' song"
"oh by across the universe?"
"umm I dont think so. some other band. I dunno"
This is why I hate the whole concept of Guitar Hero. It is having this same effect on people playing it. It is a good place for people unfamiliar to some of these songs to find new music, but of the millions of people who play Guitar Hero, maybe 70 will actuialy take an interest in a new genre. Most will just go download their favourite song from GH, and memorize that to death. Then they will stop liking the song, and the artist by association, when in fact they know nothing of the artist. It's sad to see kids who only know the music that is fed to them this way. What really makes it all too much, is that Xbox users will increase their gamer score and recieve acheivements for playing though this. They can brag about being ignorant with a score to show for it. If the power goes out, I can still play my guitar. I can brag about what I can play by getting on stage in real life not on a screen. I just want GH to stop creating a generation of ignorant kids who let all the great music of the 60's and 70's die becasue "it was just some guitar hero song"

[tonedeafidiot]

Slash has GOT to lay off the booze around the paparazzi.

[jonnyrotten45]

slash obviously doesnt get his playing style, because if you told him to play that set, or most sets again he couldnt do it because he wouldnt remeber, both because he was making it up and was under the influence,lol, and if thier trying to do the his woodstock set list, i say good luck because he does alot of wierd shit

[Sunburst PR]

I don't mind and people should get educated on Hendrix,
because the fact is that he is most innovative guitarist of this century.

He died LAST century... lol

[jonnyrotten45]

claptonisgod04 wrote:

i don't get why people think he'd be rolling in his grave? he died in 1970 and its like 38 years later. Who knows what he would've approved of or not by now? its just a game people play for fun. Non guitar players could say the same thing about guitar being stupid so who cares?

what? how?

[Th6r6a6sH]

jonnyrotten45 wrote:

slash obviously doesnt get his playing style, because if you told him to play that set, or most sets again he couldnt do it because he wouldnt remeber, both because he was making it up and was under the influence,lol, and if thier trying to do the his woodstock set list, i say good luck because he does alot of wierd shit

Slash needs to? What? did you perchance mean "Jimi"?
lol.

Anyway, I agree with vjh. if I hear one little runt of a rock star say they were influenced by playing "this guy Jimi Hendrix on Guitar Hero" (Actual kid reference), I will be insanely pissed like last time. There's no excuse for anyone to hear Jimi as a 97% score.

[MuffinMan]

Is it really necessary to make Guitar Hero games for specific bands?..

[ten_years_after]

hahaha god i can see it now, stupid kids are going to be bragging "i played this jimi hendrix song on guitar hero with my teeth"

[alienhominid]

why do all you people think that guitar hero is shit? when i play i play the songs that were my favourites before they were on GH

[Pho3niXnz]

I actually got into guitar after playing Guitar Hero 2, I love real guitar so much more than GH2 but it's still a fun game to play every once in a while!

[aedmiston]

At least this will be better than Aerosmith. Hendrix was far more guitar oriented than Areosmith so there should be plenty of decent tracks on the game. If I wouldn't have to go buy a 360 to play it I'd get it

[brentondig]

Soroki wrote:

I don't criticize Guitar Hero for the fact that it is a game and it is fun. I play it myself. I DO however find people spending endless hours trying to full combo the hardest songs on the game by playing them in slowest on practice mode to be a bit over the top. That's the point where I think it's entirely too much...

Honestly, I've found this is the case for many GH players though

1.Kid plays guitar hero
2.Kid decides to go buy a real guitar because he thinks it will be more fun.
3.Kid attempts to play guitar for a few months
4.Kid finds guitar too hard, and pawns his guitar to go back to Guitar Hero

Haha, my idiot friend did the same damn thing.

[brentondig]

vjh wrote:

An actuial conversation I overheard:
"I like this 'hey jude' song"
"oh by across the universe?"
"umm I dont think so. some other band. I dunno"
This is why I hate the whole concept of Guitar Hero. It is having this same effect on people playing it. It is a good place for people unfamiliar to some of these songs to find new music, but of the millions of people who play Guitar Hero, maybe 70 will actuialy take an interest in a new genre. Most will just go download their favourite song from GH, and memorize that to death. Then they will stop liking the song, and the artist by association, when in fact they know nothing of the artist. It's sad to see kids who only know the music that is fed to them this way. What really makes it all too much, is that Xbox users will increase their gamer score and recieve acheivements for playing though this. They can brag about being ignorant with a score to show for it. If the power goes out, I can still play my guitar. I can brag about what I can play by getting on stage in real life not on a screen. I just want GH to stop creating a generation of ignorant kids who let all the great music of the 60's and 70's die becasue "it was just some guitar hero song"

Also, my friend who bought a guitar after playing guitar hero, then stopped playing guitar to go back to GH is JUST like the person you describe, as someone who knows songs from guitar hero, but NOTHING about said artist. I could tell my friend about, say, Foghat, and he will say, "That song sucks" (what an idiot). GH is pretty fun, but I'd rather play guitar (like I have been for 6 years) and educate myself about the music I'm learning like I have been for the same amount of time. I hate those GH fanboys, who after playing their game for so long, I'll ask what songs they have on their MP3 player, and they're just songs from Guitar Hero. Single songs by each artist in the game. I hate how it makes people think they know about artists from the 60s/70s/80s/and even 90s just because they've played their song in the game. If my friend buys GH: Hendrix, and says he likes "Purple Haze" *the song*, I'll LOSE it.

[Haha, Crackhead]

I like the idea of a GH: Hendrix.
I do agree that he is not the greatest guitarist ever. But, I love his music. I anxiously await this and Metallica.

I may get a few comments because of this.
But, I think they should make a GH: Nirvana. I mean, they had a very crazy and interesting, but short-lived, career. I think it would be perfect for what they were trying to go for with GH: Aerosmith.

[facemelter5000]

Clutch32192 wrote:

I wonder wut button will set ur guitar on fire
or wut button will get u high
RIP jimi

haha

[guitargod21136]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

+100000

[yarzo]

I could't understand why people played these games before. But after trying it out they are FUN! Rock Band for example is a blast with a whole bunch of people and multiple controllers. But the number one benefit of these games that some have mentioned already, is that they introduce kids to so many different songs and artists, which they probably wouldn't explore on their own. My 7 year-old was groovin' on The Clash's "Should I Stay..." ten times in a row She said "I really like this". I said "c'mon show me the horns" \m/

[nile_the_strat]

eh, i will agree that these games can be fun, but a lot of people take them a bit too seriously. and the game makers dont usually have the artist in mind when making the game. i dont really think they should do this to a guitar god's music without his approval, and since he can't approve, i dont think it should be done. hendrix was a perfectionist with his music and this will take away from his perfect works.

[joshua.mcdonald]

i have nothing against guitar hero, i in fact love it, and yes the only problem is people who go around thinking they can play guitar cause they can press buttons and think they stuff.
but yeah i think hendrix could be cool

[watevalah]

Not to bash guitar hero or anything... but guitar hero brings the term "wannabe rockstars" to a whole new level. XD Btw i would love to see how this version of gh goes....

[kdcisgod]

centered on 1969 Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix.

"greatest guitarist of all time" lol biased to the max
the game sounds like fun though

[Feel bad inc.]

"Guitar Hero title centered on 1969 Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix. "

Such objective reporting....

Checked!

[Dookie92]

Pretty cool.

[wicked_hobbit]

EddieCraig wrote:

Once guitar hero came out all the tards started playing guitar.

And the bad thing about that is....??? Don't say now we've got posers and noobs rocking out in their rooms acting like they know everything about guitar since that doesn't legitimately or practically bother anyone

[Jezuse]

i think guitar hero guys are just making games for bands for the cost of them never going to rock band. idk but wtf to many rythm games.

[GuitarJunkie]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

my thoughts exactly

[Nickman3000]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

I agree whole heartedly, especially about the cock-rock bit!!!

[Melodic_Rocker]

I'll probably be going out an buying the next guitar hero. I think it's fun, but some people take it too far. It does get annoying when me and some friends are jamming and I play a song and someone says "its that song by that guitar hero band" I just respond with "yeah (insert band name) is awesome, you should listen to some of their other songs.

My point is, some elitist ****s need to shut up and let people have fun playing a game without being a pretentious asswipe. And some people who take the game too far need to calm down and go and do something useful.

[Keegz_smith]

one things for sure ill buy it! plus im with slash that AC/DC would be great for guitar hero probably better than jimmy Hendrix definitely better than Aerosmith
that's just my opinoin so don't bite my head off

[funk rock warlo]

as much as I love hendrix I don't see this game truly doing him any justice since so much of his playing has to do with bending and the use of the wammy

it's just going to make the annoying guitar hero players even worse because it won't be as hard as dragonforces songs.

I'm not saying all guitar hero players are annoying btw I'm just saying the annoying ones will be worse

[vivaladavid]

oh god please stop,

[ihavenoname93]

jimi hendrix had the ability of a small child who has just discovered the whammy. just a tad less than what it takes to be the best ever. soul and style only gets you so far.

[Telecaster7]

i'd like to say this will be awesome, but i just can't see myself respecting it

it sounds good, in theory, but in practice i fear it will only make people think jimi wasn't that good, because "i passed the whole game on expert, like, with my eyes closed"

[Bendybaws]

GH rocks I learnt loads of stuff that transfer to playing in real life, I learnt the the red chord, the green chord and many more

[megadethdefying]

NEXT UP....


GUITAR HERO - JACK WHITE!!!


COMING SOON TO A STORE NEAR YOU

[ginger ninja102]

and it also helps people find grat new songs to play and listen to it pomotes bands it does heaps for musos

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

[Boom ch ka!]

Wheres that pic of the front page come from?


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Answ er mah question pl0x

[Cerberus7string]

with all these releases from guitar hero its like there tryna brainwash everyone take over the world everyone will be a guitar hero :O

[Jimmo474]

I think this is really sad. These games cheapen music for people who love it. Now every time i listen to the songs that i know and love all i will be able to think of is the stupid game. we will have a bunch of people saying they love hendrix but none of them will know anything about him other than what was on the game. People never go deeper than the songs on the game.

[raafaello]

Guitar Hero, lol.

[purebredmutt]

Is it really necessary for there to be a guitar hero game in the first place?

MuffinMan wrote:

Is it really necessary to make Guitar Hero games for specific bands?..

[TomleHat]

Guitar hero isn't that bad coz it is just a game after all, but I've got a couple of issues with it:

1. It discourages creativity. Whilst real guitar players will be making up their own songs and sharing them with the world, Guitar Hero players will be playing the game on repeat in their bedrooms trying to increase their score by like 1%. Cool!

2. Whilst its fun doing a range of weird things in a virtual world, playing a guitar is one of those things that feels much more satisfying in the real world. If you want to play computer games then fair enough, cut peoples throats, blow shit up and fire laser rockets at goblins, but playing guitar is such a cool thing to do in real life, and anyone can do it. If anyone has seen the parodies of the Nintendo Wii like Wii Dishwashing Champion, that’s basically how I feel about Guitar Hero.

[TomleHat]

With reference to the little side debate going on about Jimi, he was very innovative at his time, being an extremely creative guitar player that didn’t depend on a couple of riffs to get through a song. He was also one of the first to do things like playing guitar behind his head, playing with his teeth and setting his guitar on fire. The reason why Jimi is championed as the best is because:

a) he was damn good
b) he was widely known and very popular
c) he wrote, sang and played guitar to a large number of widely acclaimed songs

Most people who say “of course Jimi wasn’t the best” seem to judge a guitarist solely by my first point, that a good guitarist should be quick and accurate at playing complicated songs. Whilst he wasn’t the fastest guitarist ever or the one with the most complicated riffs, at least he played songs that a lot of people liked to listen to, and was the creative mind behind a whole bunch of good music.

Now i'll just wait here for some cool cats to shoot me down...

[FuZzY(aus)]

sounds like an intense game

[FuZzY(aus)]

Jimmo474 wrote:

I think this is really sad. These games cheapen music for people who love it. Now every time i listen to the songs that i know and love all i will be able to think of is the stupid game. we will have a bunch of people saying they love hendrix but none of them will know anything about him other than what was on the game. People never go deeper than the songs on the game.

better for them to know him then not know him at all

[hardrocker64]

He is already in the game just not his songs.

[SOADriff]

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

[phone].

i applaud you sir.

[-MetalUpYourAss]

GO GUITAR HERO

[diversioner]

dudewithapen wrote:

Hendrix is over-rated...

A Buckethead, John Petrucci, Andy Timmons, Joe Satriani, Def Leppard, Steve Vai, Tony MacAlpine, George Lynch, Zakk Wylde, Trivium, Killswitch Engage Guitar Hero would be much more fun, and versatile, instead of hippy acid blues :X

Flame away, guys!!!! lol

whatever,metalhead.
acid hippi blues...idiot.bet you dont know more then 3 hendrix songs.you dont have to like it,but have some respect to the dude whom without him your whole list of more versatile musicians wouldnt even exist.

[Wigert]

He would never approve of this.

[TheM0dernAge]

...this site isnt for looking up guitar hero tabs and techniques??? :O :P

[Donkey Fly]

T.Rextacy wrote:

Donkey Fly wrote:

T.Rextacy wrote:

Guitar Hero is ruining guitar. It's making cocky little kids think because they can play this game on expert, they can 'rip it up' on a real guitar.

I'll stick to Grand Theft Auto, killing and stealing is alot better than 'RiPPiZ0rIng iT'Z Up' on Guitar Hero.


OK If that's the case...GTA is ruining actual GTA IRL for criminals. It makes cocky little kids think they can steal cars and kill people. They think just because they finish the campaign they are now apart of some kind of Criminal organization.

Get over it. If you think GH is ruining guitar then you obviously have intercourse with guitar on a daily basis meaning your penis is tiny.

why exactly would you care how big my penis is? that's just sick. nobody said anything about anyones penis, so why would you?

GTA doesn't kill people, people kill people. GTA doesn't come with a gun does it? it doesn't have commercials telling you if you play it, you'll become this amazing marksman. If i wanted to kill someone, i'd buy a gun, not a video game. i'm not gonna go buy a rifle just because 'i can shoot one in a video game'. i've seen people neglect their actual guitars just because it's easier to play guitar hero.

I never said GTA kills people. Is aid it makes little kids think they CAN kill if they want simply cause you walk around doing it on the game. I never said i cared for your cock either.

[TheSilverBeatle]

pootoob wrote:

I don't know... I just can't see this. Hendrix would be rolling in his grave

Yeah Hendrix was totally against spreading joy through music and getting his music to a wider audience. He would totally be against this! He hated changing times and new technology!


...no wait...that was the exact opposite of what he was.

[08L1V10N]

this is a straight offense to hendrix

[damskippy]

Here's the thing, if you want to be a better guitarist, you won't waste time on a game. If you do play this massive waste of time and your guitarist buddies bury you with their speed and technique, it's because they've been doing what true musicians do...PRACTICE. I just cannot imagine playing this fake game when I could be doing what I love most (outside of the obvious), playing guitar. But then I am dedicated to the instrument. If you find playing Guitar Hero more fun than the real thing, you probably ought to pick another instrument.

[Lou108]

protestthehero8 wrote:

dudewithapen wrote:

Hendrix is over-rated...

A Buckethead, John Petrucci, Andy Timmons, Joe Satriani, Def Leppard, Steve Vai, Tony MacAlpine, George Lynch, Zakk Wylde, Trivium, Killswitch Engage Guitar Hero would be much more fun, and versatile, instead of hippy acid blues :X

Flame away, guys!!!! lol

yep..you sure asked for it. you're an idiot. as much as i like bands like trivium and killswitch engage, and guitarists such as zakk wylde, george lynch and joe satriani, it doesn't make any sense. first of all, why would you make a trivium or killswitch engage game? they're hardly popular, nor talented enough to have an entire game based upon them. and as for wylde and satch, do you think it would be possible to even play those songs on guitar hero? sure, some people might be able to do it, but it would be far to difficult for the average joe to enjoy, which, would therefore drop the company's profit by at least tenfold. thus, the companies would never go for it.

I thought Zakk Wylde was one of the "bosses" in the new one...

[StratDune]

now they had to insult someone like hendrix too...

[SkidRow92]

Xanron wrote:

ironBLSmaiden wrote:


1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time


Yeah your definitely right. he was good for his time, but Alex Lifeson came in around the same time even though he wasn't as big, and he gets almost no credit, and in my opinion he's way better than hendrix. and about the whole hime have more emotion thing, yea he did but u need someone who can play slightly faster, and show emotion, like randy rhoads


I don't think you need speed on the guitar to be considered the best. I think if you play too fast it sounds artificial.

...dragonforce

[Noahman]

i'm glad that people are going to be turned onto Hendrix but i hate those people who go around singing a song and that's the only song they know by the artist and they just know it from guitarists. and you can't just like one hendrix song or you're a hendrix poser.

[Im better thn u]

omfg ppl u bitch about pointless stuff and not like u knowed hendrix irl so how would you know he is rolling in his grave....maybe he would have been all for it and guitar hero is just a game...jeez

[sacredsanity08]

McGnrAcDcfan227 wrote:

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time
you, my friend are seriously ***** IN THE HEAD

in all honesty sir, Jimi literally isnt the best guitarist, never was. Plain and simple. He used more feedback and effects than tom morrello for christs sake. so, while innovative... not in theory great

[Xguitar13]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

+1,000,000,000 for you bro.

[joshgiesbrecht]

dudewithapen wrote:

Hendrix is over-rated...

A Buckethead, John Petrucci, Andy Timmons, Joe Satriani, Def Leppard, Steve Vai, Tony MacAlpine, George Lynch, Zakk Wylde, Trivium, Killswitch Engage Guitar Hero would be much more fun, and versatile, instead of hippy acid blues :X

Flame away, guys!!!! lol

Yeah... For sure, cause metal is the only thing that matters.. (SARCASM)

[apm505]

Really though guys FUCK guitar hero, and FUCK these legend edition packs. The problem with guitar hero is that it stifles the creative process and is just meant to provide valueless entertainment in exchange for your cash. All you people do is just throw your money away to these dumb electronics people who don't give to ****s about music just to make something cute and clever you'll get hooked on. If your gonna say OH WELL METALLICA AND SLASH SUPPORT IT, then shut up, they're dumb sell-outs just like you probably are. Guitar hero is just bastardizing the instrument we have tried to learn and master. You kids aren't guitarists you just download a bunch of ****ing Greenday tabs and play them for your 8th grade girlfriends. It's not about regurgitating songs over and over its about being an artist yourself and creating something that is unique. I don't give a shit if any of you care or want to continue wasting your money, just don't call yourselves musicians or artists or anything that would consider itself to have a creative spirit attached to it.

Peace

[jrandmb]

Ages from now they will run out of bands and do Guitar Hero: Spinal Tap

[Johny Burninate]

The problem with GH is that,you have to listen to people who talk about how much they love a band,wear their shirts,buy their merchendise and they only know one song.The majority of people(I know anyway) dont look up anything else buy the artist.Thats what pisses me off the most anyway.Really its the artist who are letting down their more "core fans".The sex pistols are a great example,I have been listening to the sex pistols since I was a little kid,got NTB,pirates,the bootlegs from my parents when i was little.Elementary,middle school all I heard was that that music was weird,annoying ect. A few years later,bam,gh3 puts anarchy on its set list all the sudden those same people love them.Its just annoying,im not saying i cared about it or it effected my choice in music but it just brings out the hypocrite in people.The "posers" need to be stopped lol

[fastnfurius7]

RonMexico wrote:

"Woodstock headliner and Greatest Guitarist of All Time Jimi Hendrix"

1) I appreciate UG's impartial reporting of the facts

2) Hendrix is not the greatest of all time

hendrix is the greatest of all time. many have come slightly close but none will ever beat him.

[sfaune92]

guitar hero brought me to rock & metal. Rock & metal brought me to guitar . Period...

This game is fun. And it brings people intro rock & metal instead of rap/rnb/hiphop/techno etc.

[Yerjam]

Danejerez wrote:

What's with the Foo Fighters picture?

This sounds like a bad idea. The way I understood it was that they can't get licenses to put Hendrix songs on guitar hero. That's why they made up a character that is an obvious rip off of him and didn't make him playable like Slash or Tom Morello. Does that mean this game will be all Hendrix cover songs? that would suck.

Hendrix is a playable character in Guitar Hero IV. Also, GH4 had "The Wind Cries Mary" and a live version of "Purple Haze". There's also a Hendrix track pack with "If 6 Was 9", "Little Wing" and "Fire (Live at Woodstock)".

[mdeguzman]

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

Amen...

[mdeguzman]

Renfordoggz wrote:

Well I don't mind this game or the whole concept of it either, the thing I have a problem with is all these cocky kids coming up to you and saying they're better at guitar cos of guitar hero.. I never got the "sense" in tht lol

lol i just laugh at them...

[mdeguzman]

AidanTDR wrote:

i think when people say that Hendrix is overrated and the like, its just because they're used to listening to shredders play really fast and cleanly, which is great, i like shred too. but there are many many people who can play faster than Hendrix, but they do not have the same feel, or anything close to Hendrix. Take the All Along The Watchtower solo as an example. In my opinion this is the greatest solo ever, and i don't even listen to Hendrix, but the feeling is perfect and the playing is solo emotional. Hardly anybody, if anyone, can do that as well as Hendrix did.

apart from that rant, i'm interested to see whether they can pull off a guitar hero hendrix game.

nice point made...

[Flabbio_Bass]

Mootalica has a good poi

Mootallica wrote:

I don't see why people criticise guitar hero.

It's a game.

Im with you bro!
It's a hobby.
It isn't the real thing.
It will never replace the real thing.
Yes, it's fun.
Hop off the anti-Guitar Hero bandwagon.
Don't tell people to pick up a real guitar.
- Many who play Guitar Hero are also instrument players (me included).
The game opens up people to a whole new genre.
Whats so bad about people getting into music from a game? Hey, it's the best avenue we've got at the moment for recruiting fans of rock and metal, since, the only stuff that has guitars which is played on the radio now-a-days is cock rock.

It isn't so bad.

Telling someone that plays guitar hero to pick up a real guitar is like telling someone who plas Grand Theft Auto To go kill real cops

[xorg3]

iksero wrote:

MorbidBeliever wrote:

This must be interesting... for 14yo kids... Come ON!!!

I'm 20, and I am interested by this. therefore i just shot your arguement to s***.

BOOM!

[Stratosplorer]

I think Hendrix would be displeased with Guitar Hero. He doesn't even technically play the same song twice, he always changes his songs at least a little. I don't think he would like people playing his songs on a plastic guitar pushing buttons the way a machine tells them to. It should make you play backwards, play behind your back, play with your teeth and change every song every time.

[IbanezRGSHRED]

I won't lie to you, Guitar Hero helped me alot when I was a beginner. Sure, it's unrealistic, but it helps with finger dexterity and pinky dominance. And it's fun.

[EpiDot]

vjh wrote:

An actuial conversation I overheard:
"I like this 'hey jude' song"
"oh by across the universe?"
"umm I dont think so. some other band. I dunno"
This is why I hate the whole concept of Guitar Hero. It is having this same effect on people playing it. It is a good place for people unfamiliar to some of these songs to find new music, but of the millions of people who play Guitar Hero, maybe 70 will actuialy take an interest in a new genre. Most will just go download their favourite song from GH, and memorize that to death. Then they will stop liking the song, and the artist by association, when in fact they know nothing of the artist. It's sad to see kids who only know the music that is fed to them this way. What really makes it all too much, is that Xbox users will increase their gamer score and recieve acheivements for playing though this. They can brag about being ignorant with a score to show for it. If the power goes out, I can still play my guitar. I can brag about what I can play by getting on stage in real life not on a screen. I just want GH to stop creating a generation of ignorant kids who let all the great music of the 60's and 70's die becasue "it was just some guitar hero song"

I am one of those few people. I loved the song FCPREMIX off of GH3. Now I'm into the fall of troy and bands like them

[trchrichie]

i dont think guitar hero will be able to make hendrix what they made slash,which is sad to me because hendrix was and always will be an originator ( no disrespect to any other bands and/or artists that helped define rock and rock or music in general)

[Nameless742]

Yeah, Guitar hero is not the real thing.
But mostly any other game is another imitation of real like.
Ex: Command and conquer
"OMG UR NOT RL GENERAL U WUSS"
Ex: Beijing Olympics
"OMG U R NOT TEH ATHLEET U R TEH NUB LOL"

[tom1thomas1]

Nameless742 wrote:

Yeah, Guitar hero is not the real thing.
But mostly any other game is another imitation of real like.
Ex: Command and conquer
"OMG UR NOT RL GENERAL U WUSS"
Ex: Beijing Olympics
"OMG U R NOT TEH ATHLEET U R TEH NUB LOL"

LOL thats funny and a bit true i guess but what I hate is kids that come to school and say "oh yeah that song i can get 95% on it! They're my favourite band now.' And then you ask them what songs/albums the band has and they'll name a handful that appear on guitar hero and nothing else

[tom1thomas1]

Nilpferdkoenig wrote:

Soroki wrote:

I don't criticize Guitar Hero for the fact that it is a game and it is fun. I play it myself. I DO however find people spending endless hours trying to full combo the hardest songs on the game by playing them in slowest on practice mode to be a bit over the top. That's the point where I think it's entirely too much...

Honestly, I've found this is the case for many GH players though

1.Kid plays guitar hero
2.Kid decides to go buy a real guitar because he thinks it will be more fun.
3.Kid attempts to play guitar for a few months
4.Kid finds guitar too hard, and pawns his guitar to go back to Guitar Hero

1. Kid buys Guitar Hero
2. Kid thinks that real guitar would be more fun
3. Kid buys guitar
4. kid plays for at least an hour a day and has the time of his life and has dedicted the rest of his education to music and is totally failing at school because of it.

Thought I might adjust that

1. Kid buys Guitar Hero
2. Kid thinks that real guitar would be more fun
3. Kid buys guitar and has the time of their life bragging about how they can play guitar hero and "that black and white pointy electric one" - which sits in a closet after a month.
4. Kid goes back to Guitar Hero, and throws away education to play that.

sort of combined them there eh?

[RANDUMB!]

I don't think that there is anything wrong with the concept of guitar hero. Loads of classics in a single place with a concept that makes people want to play the songs, and help them get an appreciation for the amazing guitar riffs and learn many new bands. The problem is the people who waste their lives playing the game. Who doesn't get pissed off when some person talks about how they played Dragonforce perfectly on Guitar Hero. Then they talk about how guitar can't possibly be any harder. SPEND THE TIME PRACTICING GUITAR HERO ON A REAL GUITAR, ITS MUCH MORE FUN!

My rant ends with this line.

[jailhawkk]

i donno this would be a cool game but i dont think i would buy it the graphics and game play of guitarhero arnt as good as they used to be

its amazing that jimmy hendrix is considered the greatest guitarist of all time yet he was only famous for 4 years and OD'd at just age 27 imagin if he was still alive to day

[southernboy3223]

to be honest i never even thought of playing a guitar before guitar hero i played that and was like wow thats fun then i thought playing a real guitar must ne even better went out and got one and i love it im sure thats happened for lots of ppl i know two other guys i play guitar with that said guitar hero sparked their guitar flame

[Met_Ali_15]

Well Guitar Hero was what led me to the move from that shitty rap crap to metal. It also introduced me to Metallica and Dream Theater, two of my fav bands of all time (along with Opeth )
\m/

[Lord_Doku]

I cant accept this. You dont make an game about an dead artist without his consent. And Activision doesnt have Jimi's consent, for obvious reasons. Its just wrong.

What Activision is doing is just bad. Uber baaaaad.

btw, what are the odds on an GH: Nirvana ? If they are gonna make GH: Hendrix, im suprised Nirvana didnt get thrown on the bandwagon( no pun intended) as the first of the whole set.

Oh no, what have i done. I gave them an crazy idea....