This gives me hope for Herpes Hero.

LegendK1ll3r

@MehGinla: I would wear those to work and start granting peoples wishes ;)

Gunloc

Activision is just making sure no one beats them to the punch with a wildly popular dancing game. Oh wait.

Gouki4u

And now we've come full circle... The adulation and sychophantry all amounts to nothing, as Activision finally releases a version of the original concept they added a "guitar" and "hero" to. Nonsense... All of it. I could not stomach the words tossed at the game like "revolutionary" when DDR and its ilk sobbed quietly in a dusty corner of a dark room.

Garro

@Lazlo: Spoons, nice. Good work. Obviously the commercial would be set to Soundgarden....

dae_giovanni

Nothing will ever beat Xylophone Hero!

Buttah

Hey, I actually might be interested in a Violin Hero if they had it. Not so sure about harmonica, bagpipes, or xylophone though.

ReadNLearn

@Dullshimmer:
Spoons Hero(TM) and Triangle Hero(TM)...
Those babies are mine, so just keep on walking.

Lazlo

they're just raping the "[insert rythmic thing here]Hero" name. What's next?

Rutty

@Dullshimmer:

"Fat Lady Singing Hero"

OddSock ZA

Hmm... man Activision is really milking the "Hero" franchise(?) for all it's worth isn't it. What's next accordian hero, bagpipe hero? I mean where does it end?

Dullshimmer

Activision. Stop. No.

Ueziel

So will this be like DDR without proper timing required and more popular songs?

Akin

@Macko: I'm hoping for spinoffs into non-music genres. Sandwich Hero for instance.

liquid_kore

I hope we get plastic MC Hammer pants controllers!

MehGinla

I'm personally looking forward to Ukulele and Banjo Hero.

InfernoT

@F22: LOL!! It's okay...you're not alone. I remember the 80's too.

gibfather

Gee, I can't wait for Guitar Hero Hero! The game where you simulate playing a simulated guitar!

proplasticgeetar

so, we have ddr, in the groove, pump it up, and now this? youve got to be kidding me. can i dance while playing guitar riffs?

bigman88zz

There's still one music games they haven't got an idea from (or two)

Conga Hero and Taiko Hero

djricekcn

@Macko: sorry, I kinda forgot I've already posted ^^

Macko

@Joghobs: i felt the same way when guitar hero first came out and got popular. "what's the fuss, i've been playing guitar freaks for years..." anyway more power to them if they can do bemani better than konami can.

eddw1n

Anyway I'm really looking forward to the Oboe Hero!

Macko

@NoBullet: And Simon Says ripped off UR MOM!!!

OHHHH BURN!!

See what I did there?

Thassodar

Activision won't be happy until they fill their fans homes with at least 30 plastic peripherals... Can't say they don't deserve it at this point.

Demonbird

Is it just me? or theres been a lot of suing recently?

(plz tell me if i wrote that correctly)

Mactheridon

@Joghobs: And Konami ripped off Simon Says

NoBullet

Pretty soon Activision will just have a copyright over the word hero.

liquid_kore

it really puts me in my place because i bet over half of the youngsters that post here on kotaku have no idea where that picture up top is from...(sigh)

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO FTW!!!!

F22

@+: Not really, they are coming out with a new arcade, DDR:X

djricekcn

Dance Dance Revolution died a long time ago.

+

another Bemani game =)

djricekcn

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the Oboe Hero!!

Macko

@Joghobs:

I'm surprised no one else mentioned DDR.

C'mon, Activision. Seriously?

DolemiteToTheMax

@Lazlo: LOL

F22

@Lazlo: Comment of the Week!

Seinosuke

So... it's another Konami game ripoff?

Joghobs

Holy shit. If things go right in the future, I can have an 'Activision Hero' room! Every single Hero game in one fantastic place.

Ryumeka

@Barbara: You, dear friend, have obviously never truly danced :P

NimbusTLD

@Barbara: Avoiding a pulled groin.

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

I totally called this. Well, the version McWhertor wants anyway.
[kotaku.com]

SpishackCola

For Christ's sake, will they think of the cow?!

Moorio

Did anyone else get a mental picture of Activision dressed up like a pimp bitch-slapping the Hero franchise??

Activision: "Give me your money bitch, don't make me cut that pretty face of yo's!!"

Hero Games: *crying* "I'm trying, but I'm only good for so long!! You can't just keep changing my name and putting new hair on me and expecting people to be hap - *SLAP*

Activsion: "Do what I say, bitch!!"

Lazlo

@Barbara: You might get to wear tights!

zigurat

What's so heroic about dancing?

Barbara

@lucasreis:
Catch the pink dragon!! Catch it! :)

Lazlo

So...is this the Activision equivalent of putting both your dick AND balls firmly into Konami's ass?

Genocyde

Maybe they´ll release Heroin Hero from South Park next.

lucasreis

These guys are morons.

They are killing the franchise with this and they´re missing the point completely. Guitar Hero is a term used among fans of music and guitarrists, everyone with a little brain knows that. Jimi was a guitar hero, Page is a guitar hero, Angus Young, Zakk Wylde, Vai, Satriani, you name it. There is no DJ HERO! What´s heroic about being a DJ? Oh, I press buttons, so cool... and Dance hero? Oh, I move my legs, I think I´m a spider now... FUCK THAT ACTIVISION! Slowly die and rot...

lucasreis

@Rutty: Sex Hero! XD

Dynosaulo

+ Watch video

Allllllright!

NeoStarr

Now I have really high hopes for Sex Hero! Although retailers probably wouldn't be happy about the accessories..also Microsoft and Sony about their DLC...

Macko

@Lazlo: I agree, comment of the week. I'm nominating this and you also got a +1. It was funny.

I hope DDR sues them if this gets made though, DDR is the moneymaker here in the Dance genre.

kylo4

@liquid_kore: SNK has that one.

dadeisvenm

Wait... I GOT IT!

FAME: HERO

no? how about....

Krush Groove 3: Hero's of the Streetz.

dadeisvenm

Dance hero?

More like Dance fag...

lordhewlett

As a big DDR player I approve this. Konami could sue the little guy away in In The Groove's case, but this will be much more interesting and could open the door for the little guys again. One can dream!

For anyone who doesn't know (that is everyone minus maybe one other guy who reads this comment), In The Groove is (was) like DDR but with better graphics and a higher maximum difficulty.

Activision, a few pointers from an enthusiast (assuming you are going to make a DDR-like):
1) Pick good songs (I think they're going to get this one)
2) Hire people who are respected for making good stepcharts in the Stepmania community, or get your team to do their homework before making charts
3) Have extremely difficult charts appear in a variety of music, not just super-fast hardcore music.
4) DDR (etc) playing geeks are the biggest geeks in the world. Open a forum for us and you'll get a lot of helpful feedback.

headcase88

@Barbara: real men wear tights. It a true image of manliness... especially the groin piece.

dadeisvenm

@lenandude: I meant I would prefer if they release only one GH every year or two, not two.

lenandude

@+: Your information is wrong. The latest DDR game, DDR:X (Anniversary) came out 1 week ago this month. I bought it and my feet hurt like hell, lol.

Mik_el

Activision is soooo stupid. They are murdering Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. They need to stop focusing so much on money and making sure they put out how ever many titles per year and start taking more time to make sure they are putting out quality games even though it might take a little longer than they want it to. And they need to make IW the only developer of Call of Duty and they need to let them take however much time they want and let them do other games when they feel like it. With Guitar Hero they should make one (only one) every year or (preferably) two so that each one could be higher quality and have better graphics (even though they don't matter too much for GH) because I love Guitar Hero but I don't want to get tired of it anytime soon and I (and many others) wouldn't mind waiting two years for another (higher quality) GH game.

lenandude

@Dynosaulo: Attorney Hero

Rutty

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

lenandude

@Garro: Well Konami was content to let GF/dm stay in Japan, so it's their own fault.

I'm sure Konami's lawyers are standing by, though...

DarkTetsuya

Triangle Hero.

Eltigro

When's Mad Maestro Hero coming out?

Devdan

Once again Activision proves just how unoriginal and void of anything new or exciting they are.

Harmonix better get cracking on these new IP's so Activision can copy them. Right now all they can do in the meantime is trademark anything that they can think of that could be made into a game. Dancing, DJing, hmm, if we were Harmonix what would we do?

Scott3D

@headcase88:

1) You think they're going to pick good songs? I'd be worried that they'll pick mainstream songs - most of Konami's are already too mainstream (I don't just mean the licensed ones or cover versions that are literally mainstream - many of the originals are pretty bland as well). That said, a bit of cheese never really hurt DDR I guess, and yeah, I even like most of the Naoki songs, so whatever...

3) I disagree - putting crazy-fast charts on not-that-fast music is silly. Not every song has to be stupidly hard. Save the hard charts for songs that sound hard. Making charts fit the music is what the game should be about.

I've got ITG!, it was good and all, but does the world really need 11-foot songs (even 10)? If you can reliably AAA all the 9-foot songs without bar-raping so that they're not even a challenge or physical exercise... maybe you're too good to play. :) If you can't, why do you need something harder?

(Disclaimer: I passed like one 9-foot song in my entire life.)

My request for Activision would be:

PLEASE GOD NO GUITAR MUSIC

I don't really care if it's cheesy but everything in the damn game should be dance music (any genre, cheesy dance-pop or whatever is fine, not picky about it, but please nothing that totally isn't dance at all - Konami had a few like that, they all suck).

Also there's lots of good hardcore and drum and bass so when they do need fast music I hope they look that way and don't make up songs that are utter crap where the only point is to be fast (Paranoia and relatives, I'm looking at you). Okay it's rare to find anything more than 180bpm, so maybe there still have to be some stupid songs, but...

Oh and my request for some other company: if this is a success, please make a gadget so I can plug my Cobalt Flux (PS2 connection) into Wii to be compatible with this game and Konami's. I don't really feel like buying and eviscerating a GC pad just to make a converter...

quen

SURE CAN'T WAIT FOR KONAMI TO SUE. I hope to god they do this is fucking ridiculous.

CaraSpezza

I can't wait for Salsa Hero. The Polka Hero. Breakdance Hero and The Greatest American Hero.

Orionsaint

cow tipping hero anyone?

Sutekh

@CaraSpezza: They won't, they already have deals with the Guitar Hero franchise, anyways.

Genocyde

@Genocyde: Ahh, the old 'putting the dog in the bathtub', eh? Nice work.

Great icon, by the way.

dae_giovanni

'Dance Hero', eh? Sounds almost...revolutionary. ;)

The only question is when we'll get a Recording Studio Hero, allowing players to take part of every facet of the music industry.

GhostWhoWalks

ACCORDION HERO!

Xallin

"If we were in charge, Dance Hero would involve serious amounts of "serving" and a group of gold-hearted, brightly outfitted underdog street toughs who band together for a dance off to save their struggling community and maybe learn a lesson or two about diversity along the way."

SHHHHHHHHH!!! Not so loud!!! You may get this made into a movie McWhertor

_Ted_

I can't wait for Sing Hero!

SuperSplashBro

DDR with even worse songs?

Maaaan... can't you people leave my sick enjoyment of games that cause bodily harm alone already!?

I mean... DDR is suck. You never heard me say anything otherwise, and anyone who says I did is a filthy liar who needs to shut their filthy lying mouth.

Filthy.

Jayl3w

@Lazlo: Actually the first thing that came to my mind was a mental image of Activision holding a large stick and standing over a horse of questionable health.

This is DDR's turf. Throwing "hero" at the end ain't going to change that.

TRT-X

Considering how stagnant DDR has become recently, I'm excited about this new game, even if the gameplay is pretty much identical. I am so tired of buying a DDR game that has 50-70 new songs, only to find that half of those are crappy techno/dance tunes made by Benami, and half of the remaining songs are horribly done covers of licensed music which may or may not have been all that great to begin with. And why in the world can't Konami sell dance mats separately from the games? And then there are the Wii DDR titles, BOTH of which cannot be bought without a mat, a fact which has kept me from buying the sequel because I already have a mat and don't need another one!

So, uh, yeah, a new DDR style game would be welcome, because DDR really needs some competition to force the series to improve. Right now, DDR is like the Microsoft of dance rhythm games, and that's not good for anyone.

PoloMarco

Dance Hero 2 : Electric Boogaloo?

Mecharine

@Mik_el: People have been saying that since I was still playing DDR like crazy. This is in 2001, mind you.

Genocyde

@+: And let me clarify. Guitar Hero/Rock Band killed DDR. It was fun when it was at Jillians. She was raped by Dave and Busters though.

+

Konami sued In The Groove to death. This should be fun.

Aresef

@F22:

Sir, I wholeheartedly concur. Now I'm going to go and re-watch the movie. :)

Really though, what are Activision thinking... If it doesnt involve stepping on panels what could they possibly do?

If it does turns out to be a DDR clone... *groan*

afrotrigger

im so ready for lego guitar hero or hero hero

minipiwi

Oh boy, theyre stepping on DDR territory here.

Konami, its time to kick it up a notch.

Altima NEO

@Barbara: Someone never saw "Footloose."

WolfmanWalt

@PoloMarco:

yeah i no rite. bemani is such a bad band.

Devdan

@DreamDivision: Let's Rock, baby!

LegendK1ll3r

@LegendK1ll3r: I can make your wish come true.

DreamDivision

@dadeisvenm:

...World Heroes? :D

Kenjiblade

I think this would work with the EyeToy, right? xD
Fancy clothes. check v
Crazy hairdo. check v

zerojad

Beatin' the Horse 2: Electric Boogaloo

FilthyAssistant

I'm holding out for "Triangle Hero"

Ding!

Ding!

Ding!

Koztah

@WolfmanWalt: Correction: Someone never saw Breakin'. ;)

emorottie

@liquid_kore: Then they'll move on to the word Heroes, and the Heroic and it will go on and on until they own copyright over the word Flabbagausted...

infestedDemon

I wanna go bomb the hell out of Activision. Whos with me?

shrek187

@_Ted_: I take it you don't remember that Fl0W game. I's like DDR be thuggin'

mintycrys

Well, if this game turns out to be a DDR clone, America has had Pump it Up and DDR for long enough to be able to call Activision out on it, unlike Guitar Hero, of which the source property Guitar Freaks was never really well known in America. But if Activision tries to do something hand-related to buck the trend....let's hope they try to copy Dance Maniax instead of Para Para Paradise.

mintycrys

Wow, yeah. Only Activision.

Spiderkid

Because you obviously know about DDR man.

DonnaCockatrice