Guitar Hero 5 Helps My Sofa Ass Groove

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Guitar Hero 5 Helps My Sofa Ass Groove

Submitted by Vikki Blake on August 9, 2009 – 12:54 pm14 Comments

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I love Guitar Hero. I have no shame in that. I can’t quite rock Mr. Crowley whilst simultaneously completing two Rubik’s cubes like this guy, but I’m happy enough with the mad skillz of my inner rock goddess.

I still get all fangirly when a new title hits the shelves. But the downside to this phenomenally successful franchise? There are just too many songs, dude. I have two or three favourite tracks on each GH version, and it’s annoying as hell to have to lift my ass out of it’s sofa groove just because I wanna switch from Mr. Brightside to Sweet Child O’Mine to Reptillia. I had hoped that Greatest/Smash Hits would’ve fixed this dilemma, but alas not … according to Activsion, Sweet Child is not awesome enough (W.T.F.!?! FAIL, ACTIVISION – FAIL.)

Anyway.

Enter Guitar Hero 5 – the first title in the franchise to feature forward compatibility for songs from previous titles. A selection of tracks from Guitar Hero Smash Hits and World Tour will be importable onto GH 5 and Band Hero, and 152 of the 158 GH World Tour downloadable tracks will also work on the new title (no – I don’t know why they don’t enable the whole 158, either. Weird). Of course, all this comes at a cost and will be restricted to those of us rocking out on the PS3, Wii or 360, but my ass groove tells me I probably won’t mind.

Head of Music Licensing at Activision, Tim Riley, said to IGN: “It’s something we’ve wanted to do for a while now. They are separate licenses, so we need to go back and re-license previous content. So, songs from World Tour, songs from the download space, songs from Smash Hits that will technically work in Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero had to be renegotiated…We didn’t want to do it for a couple songs. We wanted to do it for a couple hundred songs. So we have a lot cleared and we’re in the process of clearing a lot more.”

All this and you can now play as the Man in Black himself, Johnny Cash. Awesome.

Source: IGN UK

Tags: activision, guitar hero, guitar hero 5

JoeFourhman

There's only 158 DLC songs for Guitar Hero World Tour?
Vixx

I know – that's what I thought. But it definitely seems that way!
http://www.aeropause.com mclazyj

While all of this is nice and dandy, it still does not make up for basically spitting on the fans of the series after that crapfest called Guitar Hero World Tour. And don't even get me started with almost destroying the musical genre single-handedly by releasing a billion and one Guitar Hero/DJ Hero type music games, with each having new and improved plastic instruments.

And yes, I do enjoy Rock Band more, and yes I am a Rock Band fanatic, but even Guitar Hero fanatics would have to admit that these all these releases must be tiring their pocketbook, when most could have been downloadable track packs. Aerosmith, could have been a track pack. Same with Metallica. Same with Van Halen. Remember, only about twenty or so of the tracks are actually from the band – the rest is filler. While I disagree with The Beatles: Rock Band in principle, all of the music is from The Beatles.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Sadowski/506807615 Tony Sadowski

Looks good. At least they're putting some effort into this one.

I don't have the hate-on for Guitar Hero other people do. That's because I haven't purchased or even seriously played anything after 3, which was crap.

If this one's good, I'm not above jumping back into the GH world and giving it a try.

Those Beatles are tempting, though.
Vixx

I see what you're saying, and agree that in several instances Activision got greedy and released titles when they could've released DLC, but without GH we'd never have had Rock Band. So whilst I too also prefer the RB series over GH, I still having oodles of love for the latter.

I see this as positive step from Activision and hope that this is their way of recognising the mistakes of the past and addressing them. Fingers crossed, eh?
http://www.aeropause.com mclazyj

It is nice to see them finally going the migrational DLC path, but they make it sound like such a chore that the users should grovel up and thank them. I mean, is it really that tough to re-negotiate the rights. Most of these bands appreciate people paying them money for their songs for a change.
morphiend

The funniest thing about this whole forward-compatibility (backwards compatibility?) is I bet the whole thing lingers on the music industry still not understanding how to properly monetize their property in the new technology world we live in. The licenses should have been to Dev. House A, for use in Series B (Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc). But due to the money-grubbing nature of all the labels, they license it on a per game basis and then try to re-reap the rewards of re-licensing the same thing over and over and over again.

“Still living off your catalog from 1982.” – McLars
morphiend

Oh, and I'd love it if the Cash cover of Personal Jesus, and God's Gonna Cut You Down made it out as playable DLC. That would make my day, especially if landed on RB instead since that's where all my DLC lies.
morphiend

There have been minor gameplay tweaks, at least in GH:M, so I can see them not being able to sell that as a track pack. BUT, keeping them all separate floating islands in the music-game ocean just seems silly. Why not build that bridge and connect them all and milk your tourists for even more money?
http://silenthillheaven.com Vixx

I see what you're saying, and agree that in several instances Activision got greedy and released titles when they could've released DLC, but without GH we'd never have had Rock Band. So whilst I too also prefer the RB series over GH, I still having oodles of love for the latter.

I see this as positive step from Activision and hope that this is their way of recognising the mistakes of the past and addressing them. Fingers crossed, eh?
http://www.aeropause.com mclazyj

It is nice to see them finally going the migrational DLC path, but they make it sound like such a chore that the users should grovel up and thank them. I mean, is it really that tough to re-negotiate the rights. Most of these bands appreciate people paying them money for their songs for a change.
morphiend

The funniest thing about this whole forward-compatibility (backwards compatibility?) is I bet the whole thing lingers on the music industry still not understanding how to properly monetize their property in the new technology world we live in. The licenses should have been to Dev. House A, for use in Series B (Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc). But due to the money-grubbing nature of all the labels, they license it on a per game basis and then try to re-reap the rewards of re-licensing the same thing over and over and over again.

“Still living off your catalog from 1982.” – McLars
morphiend

Oh, and I'd love it if the Cash cover of Personal Jesus, and God's Gonna Cut You Down made it out as playable DLC. That would make my day, especially if landed on RB instead since that's where all my DLC lies.
morphiend

There have been minor gameplay tweaks, at least in GH:M, so I can see them not being able to sell that as a track pack. BUT, keeping them all separate floating islands in the music-game ocean just seems silly. Why not build that bridge and connect them all and milk your tourists for even more money?