What do you want for the next Guitar Hero?
 

This thread is dedicated to designing a game for the now-dead Guitar Hero franchise. Why? Because this series is all about music, so I think we'd know what to include. This goes from songs, to new features, to story. Here we go:

SONGS:

STORY:

FEATURES:

CHARACTERS:

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Cardboard Cutout Sundown
This Heat - Horizontal Hold
Zu - Tom Araya Is Our Elvis
Derek Bailey - Stella By Starlight
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Telephone
Boom Bip & Doseone - Slight
Naked City - Thrash Jazz Assassin
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
Swans - Lunacy
The Velvet Underground - Heroin (Violin Part on Guitar for this one)
United States of America - American Metaphysical Circus

Those would all be great picks for the next guitar hero game.

Forget guitars, they should make a Saxophone Hero game!

I like the way you think, good sir.

Time to paint myself as one of the biggest GH / RB nerds here...

I've played these games since GH3. I bought a PS3 specifically to keep playing Rockband on my old roommate's profile to keep my global rank (peaked at like 310 on drums). I have over 200 DLC tunes, plus everything that can be imported (for a grand total of like 777 songs). Hell, the main reason I bought a TD-9 last Summer was to step up to Pro mode drumming (it's honestly pretty freaking sweet).

However. Guitar Hero and Rockband are over. GH has been dead and gone for years now due to flooding the market and horrible licensing / importing issues. It's never coming back (especially if you read the insanity that was being planned / prototyped for GH7). Harmonix recently announced a plan to diminish weekly DLC and will more likely than not be stopping entirely sometime in the Spring.

Maybe it's just me but it seems like the guitar itself (the instrument) is losing popularity in the mainstream. When I see a new Guitar World magazine on a shelf and recognize the same faces as when I used to buy it in the mid 90s I wonder what's really happening to the state of guitar based music. I get the impression it's growing old. And a video game where you click a bunch of coloured buttons to replicate playing the instrument doesn't help squat.

I think Rocksmith was a promising step in a good direction but ultimately lacks game. It's more like an semi-interactive e-tutor. Guitar Hero was a button clicking game (super fun button clicking, but still just button clicking). Personally I'd like to see a step towards a drum-centric Rocksmith style game, but again, very VERY unlikely to ever happen.

So what I really want from the next Guitar Hero game is, no guitar, and this is coming from someone who owns like 15 GH / RB games (and 10 real guitars).

Even though I don't play Rock Band that much anymore, I'm a bit disappointed to hear this. I hope that they'll at least keep the Rock Band Network running for a while (even though quite a lot of it's library consists of just metal and novelty songs), but with more than 2000 songs available as DLC, I'm not too surprised that they want to stop now.

The full catalog is actually up closer to 4000 now :yikes:

As for RBN from what I understand it won't be going away on the 360 but will likely fade away from the ps3 sooner than later (it's more of an issue on the Sony / Microsoft side of the fence)

And yeah, novelty song DLCs are lame.

A 'Jazz Band' would be the best way to way to go, Sax, Guitar, Bass, Piano, and Drums, all in a Rocksmith format, with a jam feature where you can select what instrument you want to play triggering a solo.

I like it! I don't know how they'd be able to pull off the piano though. Seems like it would be too many buttons.