Comments on: Guitar Hero 5 Tracklist Comes With A Bad Omen http://www.ampedgaming.com/2009/07/guitar-hero-5-tracklist-comes-with-a-bad-omen/ Gaming at its best Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:40:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: RupertPupkin http://www.ampedgaming.com/2009/07/guitar-hero-5-tracklist-comes-with-a-bad-omen/comment-page-1/#comment-253 RupertPupkin Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:38:45 +0000 http://www.ampedgaming.com/?p=3696#comment-253 I do consider myself a rock music connoisseur, and those songs are pretty weak. Weird choice with the Dylan version of "Watchtower" over the Hendrix one (who doesn't love Dylan, but you couldn't really pin him as a Guitar Hero). There are at least seventy better David Bowie songs than "Fame", and they could have included a song by Iggy Pop that hasn't been ruined by commercials for cruise lines. The game that saved rock is concentrating on the music that killed rock: "Brian Bright, project director for the game, has called the track list "fresh", with 25% of the songs released in the last 18 months, and more than 50% from the current decade." That decision, along with weak choices from the other half century of rock music, doesn't bode well for the franchise. How much longer do they have before they run out of groups for band-specific versions and we see copies of "Guitar Hero - Kings of Leon Edition", with bad wigs included? I do consider myself a rock music connoisseur, and those songs are pretty weak. Weird choice with the Dylan version of “Watchtower” over the Hendrix one (who doesn’t love Dylan, but you couldn’t really pin him as a Guitar Hero). There are at least seventy better David Bowie songs than “Fame”, and they could have included a song by Iggy Pop that hasn’t been ruined by commercials for cruise lines.

The game that saved rock is concentrating on the music that killed rock:

“Brian Bright, project director for the game, has called the track list “fresh”, with 25% of the songs released in the last 18 months, and more than 50% from the current decade.”

That decision, along with weak choices from the other half century of rock music, doesn’t bode well for the franchise. How much longer do they have before they run out of groups for band-specific versions and we see copies of “Guitar Hero – Kings of Leon Edition”, with bad wigs included?

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