Guitar Hero Arcade

http://www.destructoid.com/how-guita...e-124513.phtml
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/j00...--124505.phtml
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2...n-the-wild.ars

This isn't much more than an arcade version of GH3, with a meager ONE song per play. You'll pay $1.00 unless you choose a premium song which takes 2 credits per play (no joke). Yawn. I hope there's no auto-fail aka "Force Game Over" at this price. It's been said that the guitars are actually not quite as good as the home version's counterpart, with the buttons spaced too far apart.

After 30-60 plays (depending on your song selections), you've spent enough to buy the latest GH for your 360/PS3. Destructoid blogger j00zt1n that an operator can drop the price, but they're stuck with giving you ONE song (about 3-4 mins).

This sounds like a bigger ripoff than Out Run 2 SP SDX - repackaging an old game in a new cabinet, adding maybe one or two features, then charging an astronomical price per play.

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Originally Posted by j00zt1n on his Destructoid blog

OKAY SO WAIT. I just dropped a dollar to play a port of a two-year-old game (with a worse controller), with a third the song list of said two-year-old game (many of which you need to pay another dollar to play), and had to compensate for poor timing judgment on the machine... And that's it? I get one song?

Guitar Hero: Arcade is the absolute epitome of a cash-in. And it's people like me, who insist on feeding more and more money to this ever-growing mass of repetition and creative stagnation, who will ensure that we'll see a sequel or four in the coming years.

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lol this is going to rack up the $$$, too.

Every bar near a college should buy one of these machines. They print money.

This fucking thing will replace every "Big Game Hunter" cabinet in every bar, sit and wait.

ha ha

reap what you sow

Lots and lots of money?

yeah, you're getting lots of money

Let's say Activision makes a ton of money on this, and they start putting money into more experimental shit that I'm interested in playing?

Damn, lemme break out the tiny, tiny fiddle.

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Originally Posted by gameoverDude

This isn't much more than an arcade version of GH3, with a meager ONE song per play. You'll pay $1.00 unless you choose a premium song which takes 2 credits per play (no joke).

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Considering most songs are 5+ minutes each this is hardly surprising.

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After 30-60 plays you've spent enough to buy the [home port].

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This is a major part of the mentality that killed arcades, and it sucks. I'm surprised to hear you say this.

60 plays of the home port isn't the same as 60 plays of me playing this game at a bar or arcade where I can enjoy the game with others and either show off any skill I have or look like a fool in trying.

Playing games in an arcade/bar/&c. is as much for the social aspect of doing so as it is to play the actual game.

What does suck about this concept is that it sounds like they're taking the safe route by having a limited song roster and shitty hardware. Beyond that, I'd have absolutely no problem putting a few bucks into this on a Saturday night while out with some friends despite having all the home versions. I'd rather have this than Big Game Hunter everywhere.

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Originally Posted by dog$

Considering most songs are 5+ minutes each this is hardly surprising.

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What planet are you living on?