Guitar Hero Live - New Guitar Hero Game (360/X1/PS3/PS4/WiiU + Mobile)

**RLKDragon** · Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 2253 Location: Chicago, IL

Super mixed feelings, I have. Excited/interested that a new GH game is coming out, but looking at the screenshots, the FMV audience and band, and the guitar mock up with three buttons has me worried.

I do hope this isn't going to be some rush job just to say "Hey, we brought back Guitar Hero! You love us, right? Pay us money."

**louster200** · Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 1581 Location: YYZ, Indiana

I'm trying to be positive about the new Guitar Hero... but the new approaches don't interest me. Two sets of three buttons doesn't give much challenge IMO, the 'live' feature would've been cool when streaming the games were popular through Ustream (never forget Jordan FC), and the other features like the new interactive music videos look like something I'll forget about after a week.

:( It bums me out. Thankfully Rock Band 4 is shaping up to be something great.
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**yakityyakblah** · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 3985

Make it 8 buttons, preferably 10, but 8 is enough. As it is, this is too intimidating for newbies, and too limited for hardcore players.

**THABEAST721** · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 2000

I will wait to see if there is anything more, but based off that trailer I will definitely not purchase this.
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**RobGHH** · Joined: 01 Feb 2012 Posts: 846 Location: UK

It looks to me like a flash game GH knock off, Tap Tap Revenge anyone?
If there had been an option for 5 button that would be great, but right now it seems to alienate anybody who loved the 5 button setup (this guy). Full band is obviously gone too, so any song revealed that would be fun on drums is an opportunity missed.
The two lanes of buttons looks like either it would be extremely confusing if fast parts came up, or oversimplified to compensate for the lack of fluid motion up and down the fretboard. This guitar will feel no more realistic than the standard GH guitars, forcing everybody to use only three fingers.
And, unless focus mode makes a return (I wouldn't be surprised if it was absent) custom songs are probably gone too.
On a (fairly) positive note, GHTV sounded interesting, and song goals are always a good thing. What do I know, it's only been revealed for a few hours.

Hero Power is inexcusable in every way, shape and form however.
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**Graf** · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:08 pm Post subject:

So it appears that Star Power is replaced with Hero Power, which apparently comes in multiple flavors. The large button next to the strum bar has "Hero Power" written on it, and the website says this:

**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

Here's a video of full song from start to finish on ~~Advanced difficulty (looks like this game's version of Hard~~) Whoops, I meant Normal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkzWcM6raIY&feature=youtu.be

Here's another video on Normal (Medium): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpYDVN0grWA&feature=youtu.be

Some thoughts:

The whole going-on-stage scene lasts for way too long. I get that it's probably partially a loading screen, but I hope there's a way to skip it because that will get old really fast.

Looks like the "Hero Power" notes just have little lightning bolts on them. It's pretty unclear if he even has "Hero Power" to use at all or what it does, I don't think he activates it in either video which explains why the scores are so low I guess. (98% and 2 stars?)

The UI seems to only display note streak. I really hope they put your score and multiplier (if there is one) on there too in the final version. If one of the "features" is to compete with friends on leaderboards they need to put your stats on the UI as you're playing so you can know how you're doing. Hopefully this is just an early build and those features will be added later.

When there is no guitar for extended time (like in the Fall Out Boy song) the highway disappears. Kind of weird.
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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

**TerminX13** · Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Posts: 991

Also, that first video is on Regular, not Advanced (He switches right before he starts playing)

Diffs are Rookie/Regular/Advanced/Veteran

So. Veteran footage when?
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**smokyprogg** · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 2418

Um, it better not just show the score on the results screen. That's a baffling decision if so. Why not just have the note highway without the note streak at that point? idgi
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**GuardianDemon** · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 1792 Location: Ireland

Huh. It's been a long time since I've been on this site. Feels like 2008 all over again.

On the new game.

They screwed up. They screwed up Baaaaad. Rockband is maintaining previous dlc and attempting to maintain legacy hardware support too.

This on the other hand chucks all your dlc, all your hardware, all your previous games, all of it out the window and into the vast open ocean.

The visuals are... blegh. I never liked games with IRL acting and you can see in the reveal trailer that its highly staged and.... that right there says it's gonna translate into the full game. Maybe it won't, but first impressions matter.

The highway is... decent, My major issue with it is its rather bland, as well sa really transparent. I had a big problem with Rb(3?) where the fretboard was far too transparent and it made it hard to read and play. It needs to be just a tad bit more solid.

The controller. Oh god what is that? The controller looked good, when I thought that it looked like every 3 frets was kind of a new level, but then i saw that only the far upper most frets were the only playable ones.
It's a cross between Rockband and Rocksmith. It uses some buttons, and then puts them stacked. And even reporters are saying it feels cheap. Really cheap.

The few artists revealed so far. Skillex? Ed Sheeran? Oh god sake.... DID YOU NOT HEAR US ALL THOSE YEARS AGO?! The echoes from years past is still ringing off in the distance. WHY IS THIS/THAT/ ARTIST/SONG HERE?!

And then the big kicker. The very reason WHY its only 3/3 frets. The mobile platform. Most rhythm games on phones use 3 buttons/area's to hit, and this copies that, though admittedly it adds a second layer. But that doesn't change this HORRIBLE gut feeling that I have: That the game has been dumbed down JUST so it can be used on tablets and phones, without being any different on a games console.

Was I hyped for it yesterday when they teased a new GH game? Absolutely!!! GH was my MUCH preferred game to play on over RB back then because the hardware was solid, the game engine had been PERFECTED and it gave me a choice of instruments, which again, the hardware was perfect!
But now? The hype died. All this has to it is the name. It looks like the soul has been sucked out of it.

I guess I'll finally have to make a jump to RockBand properly. I dislike some of its choices, HOPO timings, it's hardware sucks. But this... GHL... It's an abomination.

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**singemfrc** · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 4407 Location: California

Upon further review I am optimistically intrigued about the "TV' function. It looks like on this GH, Live = OnDisc and TV = DLC.
I used to love playing Lumines levels on PSP with the music video in the background even when it wasn't a song I was a fan of. To me thats a much better background that either the old cartoon avatars or the new generic live audiences.
From the review I read it makes it seem like songs will just "be available", there wont be actual DLC, I wonder how theyre going to make money on this model if that's true. If it's popular, artists may want to pay to include their video in the game, and it may spur on some more interesting music videos being created. If it's not popular, the whole thing may crash and burn quickly.
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