Way to whore out a franchise, Activision - Page 2

**Loot** · 03-21-2009, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Sim Kid

They still put time and effort but they can probably just cover a companion cube with **** and enough people will say it's the best game ever.

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Originally Posted by Sim Kid

I have never played Portal. I assume from the fandom that the Weighted Companion Cube is the main character and they just reused the Source engine.

**X-3** · 03-21-2009, 07:13 PM

^Looks like you need to work on your Douglasnese or whatever.

**Loot** · 03-21-2009, 08:03 PM

I used Babelfish, sue me.

Panfan · 05-20-2009, 08:08 PM

New party modes arriving for 'Guitar Hero' encore - Game Hunters: In search of video games and interactive awesomeness - USATODAY.com

this setlist is awesome so far.

Panfan · 05-30-2009, 01:55 PM

Guitar Hero®

all the artists are listed.

Two Tom Petty songs? Are you kidding me?

and I wonder what song Queen & David Bowie is gonna be...

***CaptHayfever*** · 05-30-2009, 02:51 PM

^"Magic Dance", of course. Little known fact: Freddie Mercury voiced all the Muppets in that scene. At the same time.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

***the Octopus*** · 06-02-2009, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Sim Kid

Does a single game company that's not Independent actually care about pleasing their fans unless they put more money in their pockets?

Blizzard. It's just that, they've got so many fans it's impossible to please all of them.

Panfan · 07-03-2009, 12:14 AM

DJ Hero Taps The Grandmaster

another reason to be excited for DJ hero

LinkManDX · 07-04-2009, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sim Kid

They still put time and effort but they can probably just cover a companion cube with **** and enough people will say it's the best game ever.

I'm pretty sure that's the definition of "not exploiting your fans for money."

I would have said Blizzard until they announced no LAN for Starcraft II because they wanted to prevent piracy.

Panfan · 07-28-2009, 02:48 PM

Another DJ legend in DJ Hero: DJ Hero Scores The Fresh Prince's Other Half - dj hero - Kotaku

And the outstanding GH5 soundtrack (from Wikipedia, may not be fully reliable):
A Perfect Circle - Judith (Mer de Noms, 2000)
AFI - Medicate (Crash Love, 2009)
Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm (Favourite Worst Nightmare, 2007)
Attack! Attack! - You and Me (Attack! Attack!, 2008)
Band of Horses - Cigarettes, Wedding Bands (Cease to Begin, 2007)
Beastie Boys - Gratitude (Check Your Head, 1992)
Beck - Gamma Ray (Modern Guilt, 2008)
Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself (Don't Stop, 1981)
Billy Squier - Lonely is the Night (Don't Say No, 1981)
blink-182 - The Rock Show (Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, 2001)
Blur - Song 2 (Blur, 1997)
Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower (John Wesley Harding, 1967)
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name (Slippery When Wet, 1986)
Brand New - Sowing Season (The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me, 2006)
Bush - Comedown (Sixteen Stone, 1994)
Children of Bodom - Done with Everything, Die for Nothing (Blooddrunk, 2008)
Coldplay - In My Place (A Rush of Blood to the Head, 2002)
Darker My Love - Blue Day (2, 2008)
Darkest Hour - Demon(s) (Deliver US, 2007)
David Bowie - Fame (Young Americans, 1975)
Deep Purple - Woman from Tokyo (Who Do We Think We Are, 1973)
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf (Rio, 1982)
Eagles of Death Metal - Wannabe in L.A. (Heart On, 2008)
Elliott Smith - L.A. (Figure 8, 2000)
Elton John - Sturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973)
Face to Face - Disconnected (Don't Turn Away, 1992)
Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage, 1995)
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Demon Days, 2005)
Gov't Mule - Streamline Woman (High & Mighty, 2006)
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band (We're an American Band, 1973)
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (Lust for Life, 1977)
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight (Powerslave, 1984)
Jeff Beck - Scatterbrain (Blow by Blow, 1975)
John Mellencamp - Hurts so Good (American Fool, 1982)
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire (Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash, 1963)
Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss a Beat (Off with Their Heads, 2008)
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (In the Court of the Crimson King, 1969)
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire (Only by the Night, 2008)
KISS - Shout it Out Loud (Destroyer, 1976)
Love and Rockets - Mirror People (Earth, Sun, Moon, 1987)
Muse - Plug in Baby (Origin of Symmetry, 2001)
My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday (It Still Moves, 2003)
Nirvana - Lithium (Nevermind, 1991)
No Doubt - Ex Girlfriend (Return of Saturn, 2000)
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do? (Frampton Comes Alive!, 1976)
The Police - So Lonely (Outlandos d'Amour, 1978)
Public Enemy feat. Zakk Wylde - Bring the Noise 20XX (?)
Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure (Hot Space, 1982)
Queens of the Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu (Era Vulgaris, 2007)
Rammstein - Du Hast (Sehnsucht, 1997)
Rose Hill Drive - Sneak Out (Moon is the New Earth, 2008)
Rush - The Spirit of Radio (Permanent Waves, 1980)
Santana - No One to Depend On (Santana, 1971)
Scars on Broadway - They Say (Scars on Broadway, 2008)
Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You (Sweet Oblivion, 1992)
Sonic Youth - Incinerate (Rather Ripped, 2006)
Spacehog - In the Meantime (Resident Alien, 1995)
Stevie Wonder - Superstition (Talking Book, 1972)
Sublime - What I Got (Sublime, 1996)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven (Diary, 1994)
The Sword - Maiden, Mother & Crone (Gods of the Earth, 2008)
T. Rex - 20th Century Boy (20th Century Boy Single, 1973)
The Bronx - Six Days a Week (The Bronx, 2008)
The Derek Trucks Band - Young Funk (Out of the Madness, 1998)
The Duke Spirit - Send a Little Love Token (Neptune, 2008)
The Killers - All the Pretty Faces (Sawdust, 2007)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil (Beggars Banquet, 1968)
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (Jailbreak, 1976)
Thrice - Deadbolt (The Illusion of Safety, 2002)
Tom Petty - Runnin' Down a Dream (Full Moon Fever, 1989)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, 1976)
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (Return to Cookie Mountain, 2006)
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk (Vampire Weekend, 2008)
Weezer - Why Bother? (Pinkerton, 1996)
The White Stripes - Blue Orchid (Get Behind Me Satan, 2005)
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry, 1976)
Wolfmother - Back Round (Cosmic Egg, 2009)

also:
3 Doors Down - ?
Dire Straits - ?
Jimmy Eat World - ?
Megadeth - ?
Motley Crue - ?
The Raconteurs - ?

Metal Man · 07-30-2009, 01:43 PM

Whoa, that's a lot of songs.

Luigiman7 · 07-30-2009, 08:52 PM

Needs more Franz Ferdinand.

Metal Man · 07-31-2009, 07:23 PM

Needs more Iggy Po--oh wait, they have him!

Needs more Frank Zappa.

Alex · 08-01-2009, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Jesus

This isn't anything new on Activision's part. Last year when they took over they basically did say they were gonna double the amount of Guitar Hero Products by the end of 2008...which they did. I'm probably gonna get shot for saying this but the whole rhythm fad in gaming is getting old and is probably gonna die very soon if it isn't already dead.

So then what the hell am I supposed to do then? Go back to shooters? I'm was never good at them and I suck at pretty much every other genre.

Luigiman7 · 08-01-2009, 02:05 PM

^ how about brain training games

that sure was a fun fad

Metal Man · 08-01-2009, 03:09 PM

Rhythm games are faddish, but I highly doubt they will die out together.

Remember the monster collecting game fad? The top franchises from that are still here.

Alex · 08-01-2009, 04:44 PM

^The only two monster-collecting games that come to mind are Pokemon and Monster Rancher. Were there more?

Link 456 · 08-02-2009, 07:02 PM

Ew.

The GH Setlists just seem to get worse.

Panfan · 08-02-2009, 08:04 PM

Really, because I think they're getting better.

**Loot** · 09-02-2009, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

^The only two monster-collecting games that come to mind are Pokemon and Monster Rancher. Were there more?

Dragon Quest Monsters, Monster Kingdom, Digimon (To some extent), Bomberman Tournament, Fossil Hunter, and plenty of others I'm forgetting.

And this setlist is amazing. It's loads better than the first GH, that's for sure.

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03-21-2009, 07:13 PM	#22
X-3 No avatar, no justice, no dreams, no hope! Join Date: Jan 2004 Gender: Posts: 15,472 Thanks: 732 Thanked 1,158 Times in 751 Posts Blog Entries: 10	^Looks like you need to work on your Douglasnese or whatever.

03-21-2009, 08:03 PM	#23
Loot whelp I'm a bloody moron Join Date: May 2001 Location: LEGITIMATE BUSINESS Gender: Posts: 12,471 Thanks: 226 Thanked 1,167 Times in 611 Posts	I used Babelfish, sue me.

05-20-2009, 08:08 PM	#24
Panfan Analrapist Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: I'm awesome, and I **** dolphins Gender: Posts: 18,540 Thanks: 1,384 Thanked 2,201 Times in 1,311 Posts Blog Entries: 15	New party modes arriving for 'Guitar Hero' encore - Game Hunters: In search of video games and interactive awesomeness - USATODAY.com this setlist is awesome so far.

05-30-2009, 01:55 PM	#25
Panfan Analrapist Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: I'm awesome, and I **** dolphins Gender: Posts: 18,540 Thanks: 1,384 Thanked 2,201 Times in 1,311 Posts Blog Entries: 15	Guitar Hero® all the artists are listed. Two Tom Petty songs? Are you kidding me? and I wonder what song Queen & David Bowie is gonna be...

05-30-2009, 02:51 PM	#26
*CaptHayfever* Smash SuperMod Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: (n) - the place where I am Gender: Posts: 27,004 Thanks: 1,780 Thanked 2,370 Times in 1,423 Posts	^"Magic Dance", of course. Little known fact: Freddie Mercury voiced all the Muppets in that scene. At the same time. And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

07-03-2009, 12:14 AM	#28
Panfan Analrapist Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: I'm awesome, and I **** dolphins Gender: Posts: 18,540 Thanks: 1,384 Thanked 2,201 Times in 1,311 Posts Blog Entries: 15	DJ Hero Taps The Grandmaster another reason to be excited for DJ hero

07-28-2009, 02:48 PM	#30
Panfan Analrapist Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: I'm awesome, and I **** dolphins Gender: Posts: 18,540 Thanks: 1,384 Thanked 2,201 Times in 1,311 Posts Blog Entries: 15	Another DJ legend in DJ Hero: DJ Hero Scores The Fresh Prince's Other Half - dj hero - Kotaku And the outstanding GH5 soundtrack (from Wikipedia, may not be fully reliable): A Perfect Circle - Judith (Mer de Noms, 2000) AFI - Medicate (Crash Love, 2009) Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm (Favourite Worst Nightmare, 2007) Attack! Attack! - You and Me (Attack! Attack!, 2008) Band of Horses - Cigarettes, Wedding Bands (Cease to Begin, 2007) Beastie Boys - Gratitude (Check Your Head, 1992) Beck - Gamma Ray (Modern Guilt, 2008) Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself (Don't Stop, 1981) Billy Squier - Lonely is the Night (Don't Say No, 1981) blink-182 - The Rock Show (Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, 2001) Blur - Song 2 (Blur, 1997) Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower (John Wesley Harding, 1967) Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name (Slippery When Wet, 1986) Brand New - Sowing Season (The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me, 2006) Bush - Comedown (Sixteen Stone, 1994) Children of Bodom - Done with Everything, Die for Nothing (Blooddrunk, 2008) Coldplay - In My Place (A Rush of Blood to the Head, 2002) Darker My Love - Blue Day (2, 2008) Darkest Hour - Demon(s) (Deliver US, 2007) David Bowie - Fame (Young Americans, 1975) Deep Purple - Woman from Tokyo (Who Do We Think We Are, 1973) Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf (Rio, 1982) Eagles of Death Metal - Wannabe in L.A. (Heart On, 2008) Elliott Smith - L.A. (Figure 8, 2000) Elton John - Sturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973) Face to Face - Disconnected (Don't Turn Away, 1992) Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage, 1995) Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Demon Days, 2005) Gov't Mule - Streamline Woman (High & Mighty, 2006) Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band (We're an American Band, 1973) Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (Lust for Life, 1977) Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight (Powerslave, 1984) Jeff Beck - Scatterbrain (Blow by Blow, 1975) John Mellencamp - Hurts so Good (American Fool, 1982) Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire (Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash, 1963) Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss a Beat (Off with Their Heads, 2008) King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (In the Court of the Crimson King, 1969) Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire (Only by the Night, 2008) KISS - Shout it Out Loud (Destroyer, 1976) Love and Rockets - Mirror People (Earth, Sun, Moon, 1987) Muse - Plug in Baby (Origin of Symmetry, 2001) My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday (It Still Moves, 2003) Nirvana - Lithium (Nevermind, 1991) No Doubt - Ex Girlfriend (Return of Saturn, 2000) Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do? (Frampton Comes Alive!, 1976) The Police - So Lonely (Outlandos d'Amour, 1978) Public Enemy feat. Zakk Wylde - Bring the Noise 20XX (?) Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure (Hot Space, 1982) Queens of the Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu (Era Vulgaris, 2007) Rammstein - Du Hast (Sehnsucht, 1997) Rose Hill Drive - Sneak Out (Moon is the New Earth, 2008) Rush - The Spirit of Radio (Permanent Waves, 1980) Santana - No One to Depend On (Santana, 1971) Scars on Broadway - They Say (Scars on Broadway, 2008) Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You (Sweet Oblivion, 1992) Sonic Youth - Incinerate (Rather Ripped, 2006) Spacehog - In the Meantime (Resident Alien, 1995) Stevie Wonder - Superstition (Talking Book, 1972) Sublime - What I Got (Sublime, 1996) Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven (Diary, 1994) The Sword - Maiden, Mother & Crone (Gods of the Earth, 2008) T. Rex - 20th Century Boy (20th Century Boy Single, 1973) The Bronx - Six Days a Week (The Bronx, 2008) The Derek Trucks Band - Young Funk (Out of the Madness, 1998) The Duke Spirit - Send a Little Love Token (Neptune, 2008) The Killers - All the Pretty Faces (Sawdust, 2007) The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995) The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil (Beggars Banquet, 1968) Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (Jailbreak, 1976) Thrice - Deadbolt (The Illusion of Safety, 2002) Tom Petty - Runnin' Down a Dream (Full Moon Fever, 1989) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, 1976) TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (Return to Cookie Mountain, 2006) Vampire Weekend - A-Punk (Vampire Weekend, 2008) Weezer - Why Bother? (Pinkerton, 1996) The White Stripes - Blue Orchid (Get Behind Me Satan, 2005) Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry, 1976) Wolfmother - Back Round (Cosmic Egg, 2009) also: 3 Doors Down - ? Dire Straits - ? Jimmy Eat World - ? Megadeth - ? Motley Crue - ? The Raconteurs - ?

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07-31-2009, 07:23 PM	#33
Metal Man Fairy-Slaying Maniac Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: 1592 Miles Away From Here Gender: Posts: 18,062 Thanks: 148 Thanked 683 Times in 482 Posts	Needs more Iggy Po--oh wait, they have him! Needs more Frank Zappa.

08-01-2009, 03:09 PM	#36
Metal Man Fairy-Slaying Maniac Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: 1592 Miles Away From Here Gender: Posts: 18,062 Thanks: 148 Thanked 683 Times in 482 Posts	Rhythm games are faddish, but I highly doubt they will die out together. Remember the monster collecting game fad? The top franchises from that are still here.

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Alex Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Tally-ho! Gender: Posts: 2,727 Thanks: 130 Thanked 100 Times in 87 Posts	^The only two monster-collecting games that come to mind are Pokemon and Monster Rancher. Were there more?

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Link 456 Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Land of Love Gender: Posts: 2,298 Thanks: 86 Thanked 74 Times in 58 Posts Blog Entries: 1	Ew. The GH Setlists just seem to get worse.

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