I think the next guitar game will be "Air Guitar Hero" for the kinect.

@the doctor's photo note


thats not how the song goes, it goes:
"It gets so lonely, being evil... what i'd do to see a smile... even for a little while... and no one loves you when your evil...... IM LYING THROUGH MY TEETH, your tears are all the company that I need!"

awesome song tho.

Let me play you a sad song on the world's tiniest violin...

is upside down

I think one of those tombs should have been reserved for Starcraft: Ghost.

Nova, We hardly knew ye...

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...it was DDR with multiplayer.
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You mean, like DDR already is? :|

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Have you ever played it with a couple of friends while everyone was drunk?
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...Anything done with friends while drunk is fun.

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It's sad, too. The first few really did breath some fresh life into gaming.
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...it was DDR with multiplayer.

GuitarHero Franchise
"Death by Guitar(hero) warrior(s) (of rock)"

Just for clarification, Harmonix and Red Octane did Guitar Hero 1 & 2. Red Octane owned the name rights so when it was bought by Activision, Neversoft created the Guitar Hero games from that point on. I love Harmonix for a lot of the music they got me into and for inspiring people to play music.

You know, it might be a cello.

The violin is backwards because, now that Guitar Hero is gone, no one will learn to be able to play it the correct way....

It's sad, too. The first few really did breath some fresh life into gaming.

Frets on Fire are still alive.

I don't get why so many people hate Guitar hero...

Have you ever played it with a couple of friends while everyone was drunk? ~Hilarious...
Especially when the guy who can't sing at all screams into the microphone as if he's Ozzy Osbourne.

Meh, Rock Band is better.

As soon as I saw this "Warriors of Rock" version come out, I told all my coworkers that this is the end of Guitar Hero.Many other games have gone that route and seldom few have made it out of the transforming character forest. It's too bad though, the first few were bleeding new life into gaming.

[url=#user_comment_55264]@Coisa[/url]: No More Guitar Heroes, kill your way to the top ten using your ebay bought light guitar-saber as Travis Rockdown.

every 3 months my ass Valve :| eh, atleast they gave us portal, TF2, L4D, L4D2... HEY!!! dont make a sequal to a game and ignore episode 3! thats lame! (if this comment prevents me from getting my TF2 crowbar for pre-purchasing HL2:E3 then i fail.

Why are we talking about dead games? and why isnt their a "reserved" for half life 2 episode 3? i mean jeez its been what 4 fucking years since the last release?

At least someone knows when to let a series die, rather than milking a long rotten corpse.

I'm not entirely surprised, there was really nowhere left for the series to go without going the Madden route.

Hell... it's about time.

Do you hear that? its the tiniest violin in the world.

abp has been rebooted. you need to draw a zombiehand a la left 4 dead cover coming from the unholy soil!

And there, like dust in the wind, goes the hopes and dreams of all who had hoped for Cowbell Hero.

That violin is backwards.

Speaking as someone who played most of the Guitar Hero games and enjoyed a pretty good portion of them, I can't be happier then to hear this news. Maybe now I'll see less of an influx of people who claim to "shred" on squeaky baby sized guitars.

:(

Now how am I meant to get extra songs for it (considering I don't have the net to download the DLCs :P)

Thank god, now to kill off Rock Band.

[url=#user_comment_55260]@Nerg[/url]: You'd best get used to it. Jo knows that about 65% of his audience are involuntary celebates and this is as close most of them will ever get to an actual woman.

No more guitar heroes... THIS YEAR... =/

The position of this violin makes my skin crawl.

Unfortunate that the first time I'm moved to comment it's because I'm disappointed.

:(

I only ever played number 3

[url=#user_comment_55247]@KarmikCykle[/url]: MTV Games (publisher) shut down, harmonix (Developer) did not. "The beat of Rock Band marches on. We’re continuing to invest in the franchise and the brand that we have built, and will do our best to serve all loyal band game fans." - John Drake, Harmonix

every time I keep seeing frank west I get a horrible idea that due to the recent events Capcom going to story wise recreate final fight. All they need is some Asian with Reeboks and a penthouse for the crippled blonde holding katey hostage.

[url=#user_comment_55252]@DM1293[/url]: Uh, no. Not much time anyway. Until the end of this month. http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/10/guitar-hero-and-dj-hero-dlc-dead/

Ironically, Hellgate is only dead in the west and lives on in Korea, where it's still being developed further (it will be coming to us in a year or two too) and APB is going to be revived as an F2P by some company that bought it.

No more games.

DLC?

Only time will tell.

Speaking as one who never caught on to the whole rhythm game band wagon ..... It perplexes me why they have lasted as long as they have.

Cue zombie hand in spiked fingerless glove emerging out of APB's grave

For me Guitar Hero/Rock Band stopped being cool when I found out it was more enjoyable to listen to the actual music then to smack technicolored frets in the right order to be rewarded with music to listen to.

Or more accurately not have the music full of plunks.

@A Bag of Opinions: Nope. MTV Games just shut down around the same time. The fake guitar subgenre is dead now.

To be fair APB is going to necro pretty soon. Looking forward to it.

didn't everyone hate this game

Isn't it no more of the Hero games in general?
D=

Well i will say only one thing: YAY ! altough i doubt any desent games will come out this year well mayby one

So...is Rock Band still going strong then?

*Sniff...*

I'm a huge Guitar Hero fan, we're gonna miss you...

Huh, well this is news to me.

I only played one of the games once. It turns out I have a really poor sense of rhytym, so I didn't get really felt up to trying the other games.

[url=#user_comment_55156]@Chris[/url]: Well, have you tried playing the worlds smallest plastic violin? It's not easy! D:

Im not really sad about it, it was time they stopped making them, there was like 8 games that were the same thing >_> Though i wanna try True Crime Hong Kong but they cancelled it too D:

Nice dress you have there :3

[url=#user_comment_55210]@vomit[/url]: Best place to mess up tense ever. Everyone become less stupid that day indeed.

She's holding it backwards.

@Mr. Al: Spelling is not grammar >.>

While Guitar Hero was cool for the first two games, when Rock Band came along, Activision stuck to the Hero method of 'FUCK YEAH WE ARE OVER THE TOP' without actually being over the top. Rock Band knew what it was, and worked on tightening up the existing formula. Always felt more precise.

I expected this for Guitar Hero for a long time, but the death of DJ Hero really hit me hard. I love those games, I'll miss DJ Hero so much :'(

Eh, Bemani games are (still) where it's at.

Kind of sucks about DJ Hero though.

You mean they canceled Guitar Hero: Air Supply?

Well, it's not like Guitar Hero's sequels would be much different from the priors, except for the new songs. Which can be milked through DLC.

and good riddance.

Guitar Hero just hit the ground running too fast. But I guess there's only so far you can take that hog until it runs out of gas.

*Snap!*
-Perfect!-
-Drama!-
-10,000 points-

Fantastic!
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What, a journalist can't make a few PP off a funeral? What has this world come to?

...and everyone become less stupid that day.

RIP...



*whispers*
Rock Band is still on for tonight right?

i think we all had it coming, they kinda overdone the series.

I am suprisingly okay with this.

APB is totally going to become a zombie.

[url=#user_comment_55193]@SRG[/url] It's underwater with the legs encased in cement.

@ Mr. Al

Nope.jpg

Honestly, I am not sad that they killed off Guitar Hero - just for the REASON they did.

WOW, every photo note and comment on this strip so far have spelling issues(not mine though)! Gz, guys :D

Just wanted to say that this is really well done.
Kudos!

Wait where's True Crime's Grave they kill that franchise too.

Where is the exhumed grave of Duke Nukem Forever?

This series died a long time ago. Their just getting around to burying the corpse, since it's finally starting to stink up the place.

Too bad nobody at Activision cares that the series didn't die, they killed it. They'll just keep strip-mining franchises until the cows come home. *sigh*

And now the world is a slightly better place.

OH GOD thank you! I really hate this games.

There should be an open grave and on it´s stone should be written:

Reserved for Rift

Cant say Id shed a tear.

I want BGaE 2.

Also, you know you've still got Rock Band, right?
What Destati said.

Hellgate instead of Tabula Rasa? FOR SHAME.

AND I SAW
SATAN LAUGHING WITH DELIGHT
THE DAY
THE MUUUUUSIC DIED

AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST

The spirit of Guitar Hero will live on in its half-brother, Rock Band.


For the curious, many of Rock Band's creators were on the team that developed Guitar Hero 1 & 2.

[url=#user_comment_55162]@Taltos[/url]: God I hope so. Hellgate: London was a game I found enjoyable. It was released way before it was ready though.

Ahh Hellgate london... You are missed. Also Whats wrong with the commentors and the inevitable "Mine"? Time to grow up :).

[url=#user_comment_55159]@Gun[/url] Nah, someone stole the corpse and it will be revived, gangsta style.

Ironically, both Hellgate and APB have received revivals of various sorts. Each is currently in the process of being rebuilt and re-released. So this comic is a bit premature.

It's the same game over and over with just different music. Rock band added more instruments but how many plastic toys do you need to do exactly the same thing?
It is a fun party game but it has it's limits.

APB is getting a F2P release. They're completely re-balancing it and re-working the way progression works.

So might it be appropriate to have a zombie hand coming out of that grave

That doesn't look like the right way to play a violin XD

Ah yeah, Dark Lord Kotick and his Activision kingdom latest victim, and no one can buy the IP because Acti will ask a high price for them.

I never really played so much, but that was a fun game. Must investigate this news.

sometimes they comeback

undead apb will soon