JD: The different incarnations of the Guitar Hero franchise offered gamers the chance to experience all the glory of rockstardom -- the cheering fans, the thumping amplifiers, and the strange, terrible sense of emptiness after seducing the umpteenth groupie. This last one is, we can only assume, in a downloadable content package that has yet to be released.
These groundbreaking video games changed gaming forever and drew in scores of fans in the process.
The Guitar Hero franchise died in the wake of Activision's lust for Call of Duty, but we should be dusting off those plastic guitars for a new Guitar Hero game.
Guitar Hero was good. The problem was Activision started creating many versions. Guitar Hero had the every one year cycle like COD and people felt they were being robbed.
Why in the hell would one want to spend time to learn a button mashing order when you can lean to play a real guitar in the same time frame.
As the world reels from the shockwaves of the seismic news that Microsoft is acquiring the proverbial swamp of the video-game landscape, Activision Blizzard King, it only seems natural that our minds should now shift towards what the fallout will be for presumably years if not decades to come.
Another Prototype would be awesome.
As for Singularity, I don't necessarily need a sequel, I just want to see Raven be able to flex their creative muscle again; not just be relegated to assisting with CoD. A lot of the old guard is still with the company.
That's part of what I'm hoping to see come from this acquisition. Revive teams like Vicarious Visions and Ravem to actually allow them to work on their own new projects again.
I'd like to see Activision get the Transformers license again and continue the War and Fall of Cybertron games. the movie games were crap and the game that combined both movie and Fall and War of Cybertron sucked a new Prototype would also be good as well.
Re-imagining of River Raid and the original adventurer Pitfall. Oh Zork is also a great game.
Just one: Milked to death...
Guitar hero got me interested in playing the real guitar (which is way better) so I thank it for that.
It took some time but I've eventually gotten pretty good at it now.
So... yeah. Guitar hero for the win, surprisingly.
@sikbeta
The Guitar Hero franchise wouldn't probably be a billion dollar franchise if Activision didn't milk it. releasing 1 Guitar Hero game every other year could have resulted people not caring. Both Activision and EA(Rock Band) had to make as much money as they can. judging by Guitar Hero:Warriors Of Rock and Rock Band 3, its over.
That you can never replace real instruments and real friends.