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DJ HERO- I have seen the coming of ends...
Local H Jay
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http://kotaku.com/5049108/first-dj-hero-details-turntable-controller-mash+ups-guitar-co+opRecent Activision acquisition FreeStyleGames is hard at work on DJ Hero, a music rhythm game that will let gamers scratch to the beat of popular mash-ups with a laptop turntable peripheral, informed sources tell us today.
The game, which has been in development for nearly two years, is expected to hit shelves next summer and will likely include the ability to use Guitar Hero guitars for versus mode face-offs.
The controller, key to the game's success, has been through nearly a half-dozen iterations.
In the latest form, the device looks a lot like a simplified DJ Deck. There is a platter for scratching which will act like the strum toggle on a Guitar Hero guitar. Above the platter are three buttons for sampling. The controller also includes a cross fader and a sound effects dial which will act like the whammy bar in Guitar Hero.
Instead of flowing the musical notes down a guitar neck, DJ Hero will flow the music down and around a virtual record in a half arc. Either left top to middle bottom if you are left handed, or right top to middle bottom if you are right handed.
To play you will have to either hold a sample button and scratch, just hold a button or just scratch as the neon icons flow around the virtual vinyl.
Currently the wireless controller has grooves molded into the bottom so it will sit comfortably in a player's lap, though the team is also looking into legs for the deck so gamers can play while standing up.
The game in its current form features all mash-ups, think Beyonce Vs Jimi Hendrix, 50 cent Vs Beastie Boys. If they can nail the interface and get licensing for the music this could be a mammoth hit. Then again I love mash-ups.
what the fuck, seriously.
calling it now, it will tank so HARD activision will be consumed by blizzard so they can put out a new wow expansion once a year, therefore ending time itself
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This is crazy. You can get a digital USB turntable for 50 bucks and practice with one of those for real. That's less than the cost of a game.
And yet you'd still be missing the point just like you are now.
But it isn't.
So I am not interested.
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So you're saying that playing plastic instruments aren't silly and playing plastic instruments are... silly?
Btw, I type this as I'm playing GH3, so I'm not above my own silliness.
Good Christ, with the way your fingers must have to work you must be a hit with the ladies.
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Well I paused the damn game to post!
And for a second I thought you were awesome.
stupid goddamnit crap stuff game.
crap.
And the music sounds awful. At least Beatmania uses songs appropriate for a turntable game.
Well, for the most part. I don't get why it has the occasional piano ballad or symphonic metal track.
beatmania, as much as i love it to death, is as much about dj simulation as ddr is about dancing
i can't see konami winning a case
also this looks like it could be a lot of fun, i hope it does well