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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] warbond@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Yeah, why the fuck don't we have a modern interpretation or a spiritual successor? (Please, no remastering.) I assume the answer is money, but I'm still disappointed.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think the franchise just lost it's novelty value. There wasn't really anywhere to take it that could expand the experience in a meaningful way. I remember loving the GH games and playing the shit out if them for years, but I also remember them going stale and boring because it was always just more of the same simple game mechanic with a new background track.

The rosy red glasses of nostalgia is making us biased.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah. The game came with a bulky peripheral which locked in a lot of gameplay. It also didn't help that arcades were pretty dead at the time of the Great Recession.

I feel like the genre would have had more legs if it started as an arcade game in the 90's.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I hate how right you are. I guess what I'm really looking for is a way to recreate that magic, but an accessible shot of nostalgia every now and then would do just fine. I guess I'll look into clone hero and see.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 2 days ago

Beat Saber and Moonrider kind of filled that niche for me.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Microsoft owns Guitar Hero

Harmonix owns Rock Band. And Epic Games owns Harmonix. Fortnite Festival is (unfortunately) the spiritual successor you mentioned, except you gotta buy every song because of course. (Free players have 5 tracks they get to do for free but if you want a decent library you gotta start buying em from the shop)

Clone Hero is the alternative

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Clone hero and custom songs is all you need.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

Frets on Fire also exists

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Any microphone support for vocals?

[–] IntegrationLabGod@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

I think there is for YARG which is to Rock Band what Clone Hero is to Guitar Hero.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not natively but there evidently are plugins or other apps that add it.

Nice! Gonna have to check it out, then! Thanks for the tip 🫶

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Rock Band 4 is on Xbox One, can be played on the Series S/X. I think there’s some kind of controller adapter that’s hard to find these days, though.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

15 minute YouTube video trying an explanation: Rock Band: How a Genre Died in 5 Years by ExtraCredits

[–] hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was road tripping across the country like 15 years ago to move all my stuff. I foolishly left my guitars under the back window in the Nevada summer heat and melted my guitar hero guitars. Sad day. I too miss that game.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I haven't been to a Good Will in quite some time, but when I used to go, Guitar Hero controllers of all types were plentiful and cheap.