Topic: Guitar Hero: World Tour

[MysterD]

As we know, the next GH game (Guitar Hero: World Tour) is coming to the consoles, obviously.

Well, rumor has it -- a PC version might also be planned for this one.

Hmmmm....maybe GH3 PC sold well, after all...?
Did anyone ever hear any reports of GH3 PC sales?

Here's the news.

Guitar Hero: World Tour PC Rumor [July 31, 2008, 08:49 am ET] - Viewing Comments

GameCyte has the latest rumor on possible PC plans for a console product based on a listing on the Entertainment Software Rating Board Website. They point out a listing for an unannounced PC variant of Guitar Hero: World Tour is on the site, recalling that Aspyr has already created a PC port of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Their requests for a comment from publisher Activision were met with: "that title has not been announced yet."

[angrykeebler]

If I ever see someone playing Guitar Hero in front of a PC by himself I would just shoot him and put him out of his misery. Its for the best.

[Cobra951]

I have similar feelings about these games . . . but why is the PC getting singled out for justifiable homicide?

[gpw11]

The games can be really fun, but only in a social enviorment - something the PC doesn't really provide.

[Xessive]

If I ever see someone playing Guitar Hero in front of a PC by himself I would just shoot him and put him out of his misery. Its for the best.

I concur.

[MysterD]

GH: World Tour DLC been announced already.

Guitar Hero World Tour Launch DLC Announced
by Maarten Goldstein Oct 09, 2008 7:47am CST tags: Guitar Hero World Tour, DLC
Activision today announced the launch week downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour (PS2, PS3, X360, Wii), which will be in stores October 26.

Immediately available upon release will be the Classic Rock Track Pack, which will include "Rock and Roll Band" by Boston, "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner and "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield.

October 30 will see the release of an R.E.M. Track Pack. It will include "Horse to Water," "Man-Sized Wreath" and "Supernatural Superserious" from the band's new album Accelerate.

The R.E.M. pack will be an Xbox Live Marketplace exclusive for two weeks, before making its way to the PlayStation Store like the other DLC.

Also available during launch will be "No Rain", the 1992 hit from Blind Melon.

All songs found in song packs can also be purchased individually. The announcement made no mention of a Wii release for the songs, though the Wii edition of Guitar Hero World Tour has been confirmed to support downloadable content.

[MysterD]

X360 Review
7.9 from IGN

[MysterD]

Looks like GH: World Tour PC will be shown off by Intel at CeBit, a European Trade Show coming up.

[wizall]

F that.  I went through a pretty feverish GH phase playing solo.  Sure, I enjoyed it more on a social setting, hammered, but trying to nail some of the trickier songs is fine, by yourself, is fine. 

Though I will say, for some reason the PC thing just seems wrong.  But I was cynical of Rock Band, also, and that took off.

[MysterD]

GH: World Tour - PC Version officially announced.
Planned for this Summer

[Xessive]

Oh for God's sake! Why do they keep porting games to PC that no PC gamer would buy then bitch about PC game sales being lower than expected? WHy?!

[gpw11]

Wasn't one of the older GH games released on PC?  Apparently a shitty port if I remember correctly.

[Xessive]

Wasn't one of the older GH games released on PC?  Apparently a shitty port if I remember correctly.

Guitar Hero III was on PC. For the sake of exploration and for my curious nature I checked it out. It's retarded. I tried it on the 360 with the plastic guitar as well for reference, I realized that even though I didn't like the game it was at least playable. On PC it just doesn't make sense. According to several sources online the plastic guitar (USB) does in fact work on PC, regardless I revert to Keebler's previous statement:

If I ever see someone playing Guitar Hero in front of a PC by himself I would just shoot him and put him out of his misery. Its for the best.

Getting caught spanking the monkey would be less embarassing.. and less sad.

[Quemaqua]

What the fuck?  Like it matters what you play something on.  How is it any less sad than somebody staying up until three in the morning by themselves trying to master Hanger 18 on expert on a fucking plastic guitar with buttons?

[Xessive]

What the fuck?  Like it matters what you play something on.  How is it any less sad than somebody staying up until three in the morning by themselves trying to master Hanger 18 on expert on a fucking plastic guitar with buttons?

The thought is that on a console it encourages teamplay. PC just has the long standing reputation of being the singleplayer or online-only system. I agree that either way it is sad, which just affirms why I don't like GH or Rock Band, DD Revolution or any other iteration of the genre for that matter. Except maybe that GH style one which uses an actual guitar, I might get into that. I don't think it's out yet though.

In all fairness I will say that games like GH are pretty good for hand-eye coordination. But then so is whack-a-mole and that's awesome.

[Quemaqua]

Yeah, but it has that reputation because people don't fucking develop the proper stuff for it even when they should.  Idol and I wanted to play Age of Booty on PC together, local coop.  Guess what?  The demo didn't offer it and I couldn't find a single indicator anywhere that the full game did either.  PS3 demo had it right off the bat, so guess which version we bought?  That isn't the PCs fault, it's the fault of the idiot developer too stupid to give PC users a full-featured game (or an entirely different demo).  And when I was a kid, I used my PC way, way more for multiplayer stuff than my consoles.  My friends never wanted to go play Super Mario together.  We took turns playing Civilization instead.

[Xessive]

Yeah it's really bitchy that in most cases the devs just don't bother. A lot of games that offer coop gameplay on consoles drop it when they get ported to PC. I get why they'd drop any splitscreen stuff but I never understood the logic behind cutting the coop option altogether.

[W7RE]

It's $15.01 on Amazon right now.

Is GH worth playing without a guitar controller? I might jump on this deal, but I don't have a guitar and don't really want to buy one. (I absolutely loved Amplitude, which had similar gameplay but used a standard PS2 controller)

[MysterD]

How much does a GH guitar cost by itself?

[Pugnate]

If I ever see someone playing Guitar Hero in front of a PC by himself I would just shoot him and put him out of his misery. Its for the best.

haha I agree.

edit:

I do agree that it would be OK if it were done right like it is on the consoles, but we know that would never happen.

[W7RE]

How much does a GH guitar cost by itself?

$50 seems like too much to me, even if that price includes a guitar controller. If the games had more songs that I cared about it would be more worth it. I actually thought about getting Guitar Hero Metallica for a while just for the fact that I'd actually like most of the songs, but I decided the price was still too high. I guess I just don't care for the way the games play on the guitar controllers. I tried RB2 and GH3 at a friend's place once, and to be honest Amplitude was 5 times as fun, and it used a controller.