Do you think that there are too many guitar hero games?

• let me elaborate on that with a few titles Official Titles: Guitar Hero Guitar Hero II Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar Hero 5 Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Guitar Hero: Metallica Guitar Hero Smash Hits Guitar Hero: Van Halen Guitar Hero: On Tour Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits Guitar Hero 6 (under development) Dj Hero Band Hero Now I think its okay to have a guitar hero release every year or so, but not every three months (figure of speech). Now here are some ideas I thought of that guitar hero might release to throw the franchise into the ground. Unofficial make believe Guitar Hero titles: Guitar Hero greatest hits 2 Guitar Hero Emo Guitar Hero Death Metal Banjo Hero Violin Hero Rap Hero Guitar Hero Christian Rock Guitar Hero We have nothing but old stuff VOL.3 Guitar Hero Ozzy Osbourn Guitar Hero Oprah Winfrey Edition Guitar Hero Muddy Walters Guitar Hero The Who Guitar Hero Aerosmith II Guitar Hero Fall out boys Guitar Hero Nirvana Guitar Hero Smash Hits 4 Guitar Hero 7 Guitar Hero Nothing But Drums Guitar Hero Reggae Hits Guitar Hero dirty south Guitar Hero Taylor Swift & Kanye West showdown Guitar Hero Music from Medieval times Guitar hero 8 Guitar Hero Elvis Dj Hero 2 Band Hero 2 More music for teenage girls Guitar Hero Obama Guitar Hero Love Child Edition Guitar Hero 9 Guitar Hero ZZ Top Guitar Hero Conan O'Brien Guitar Hero Kids Bop Editon I don't know you decide

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  I had to laugh at your question and subsequent listing of "future titles"! heh heh... I was one of those people who went out and got Guitar Hero went it first came out and, yeah, I thought it was amazing. I'm not hardcore when it comes to these things so whilst I end up doing pretty well on them its very much a case of "getting through" on the hard, expert tracks, rather than perfecting them! However I found that it was great fun and I was able to show off my so called "fake plastic guitar" skills to a host of people who struggled to get through the easy tracks! I was suddenly a Rock God (well, we can dream can't we!!) I also bought Guitar Hero II and was equally impressed - it played just as well, brought new things in and had a great track listing (though my brother always insisting on playing Freebird did grate eventually!) . However, things went a bit sour on number 3, and the Rock the 80's sub game (full price though, shame on you!!!). It was no coincidence that Harmonix had jumped ship after Guitar Hero II and went on to make the (in my opinion anyway) excellent Rock Band series. With Activision getting Neversoft to do the now not so good Guitar hero games it just seemed as though it was now all about saturation - quantity and not quality. Ok, I have not even tried Guitar Hero 5, but World Tour and Band Hero I have dabbled with and they suffer from the same "not quite right" feeling that came with part 3 - to such an extent that I wont even buy World Tour for the £8 that HMV sell it at currently! So yeah, I think there are too many Guitar Hero games now (even though some of your titles are obviously only available on exclusive machines such as the DS titles for instance, which I agree with releasing as otherwise those players are missing out!), and it's likely there will be many more to come whilst people still buy them. For me though, I will stick to Rock Band. I have 1 and 2 with a bunch of DLC. I do also have Lego Rock Band, but only cos it was cheap, and all I will do is export them to my PS3 and sell it! I played and semi-enjoyed Rock Band Beatles, but that was mainly cos I only really drum nowadays, and the Beatles drumming wasn't that difficult (even for me!). I hope that Rock Band does not go the same way as Guitar Hero with oodles of titles. But overall I think Harmonix did a great job with the first two GH's and are currently doing a great job with Rock Band, and not going too bonkers with their releases.