@Seinosuke: It sounded like you were saying GF is easier than GH or RB because it only has 3 buttons, but GFs 3 button game is a lot harder than both games...by far.

djricekcn

As someone who does not like much rock music, I am so hoping this will include some very nice rap music. With the success of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, the success of a rap/hip-hop game will hopefully have the same success.

TheAngryHeretic

That looks interesting, I'll have to see how it works. If it looks like that it'd be cool.

kylo4

All in all, this looks more like [www.jp.playstation.com] than IIDX or 5 keys

djricekcn

I'd really rather play IIDX. Or find a Crackin' DJ machine, which I can guarantee would be more fun still.

And the reason Bemani fans get pissy about RB and GH is because both Harmonix and Activision act like they're the only game in town and that they totally created the genre of music games when all they did was repackage it and release it to the masses.

Ueziel

@Jeff Paine: You only have Konami to blame for that

Boudabras

@Seinosuke:

Difficulty =/= Game quality

that aside, i think GF is pretty offensively difficult at the higher levels. it seems more focused on the strumming, while GH is more focused on fret work. plus the timing aspect really adds an extra level of challenge that made it more difficult for me.

honestly i simply prefer GF due to the music. the GH music doesn't do it for me. i think that's a fair opinion, but im sure people would be happy to disagree with me.

@Bigfoot:

Beat n' Groovy D:

Flashfire

Now all someone needs to make (so DJ Hero eventually becomes like RB and GHWT) with the the Live camera or Eye toy is a break-dancing/popping/locking/etc game. Then after both DJ Hero and Break-dance Hero (working on the name) have 2 or 3 iterations, put them together into "Served Hero" or "It's On Hero".

SpishackCola

@Sloth: Sign me up for forum commenting hero! I want to hit that tough double lolz after a screaming troll bar, then bridge into a difficult solo rant, gaining me fanboi worship star power to use on the outro, just before dropping the banhammer on the finish.

Although I can never seem to do it well in expert...

MrBionic

@Setzer IIDX: Append to that-
Guitar Freaks and it's 3 buttons is infinitely harder than any guitar song yet on RB/GH. Especially GH with it's "Special Ed" size timing window. That's more of an aside though.

@Jeff Paine: That comment can go wrong in so many ways. ._.;

Setzer IIDX

I've been looking forward to this since DJ Hero was originally trademarked. I cannot wait until they unveil the controller and show a demonstration video or 5.

Poisonous Taoist

I'm interested in this.

Br00klyn-Grenade

First Guitar Freaks and Drummania get raped, and now Beatmania? Good lord, what's next? Konami's already taking care of the Pop'n Music raping with their upcoming XBLA game Beat'n Groovy, so they've already beaten Activision to the punch with that

How about a Jubeat/Ubeat ripoff? Jew Hero?

Jeff Paine

@Seinosuke: The dig actually lies in the last and first entry of those lines.

Konami has a perfectly good music setup and doesn't bring it to America for over a decade. GH and RB get big and what do they do? They rip off RB and GH instead of just tweaking their own system.

To be fair, yes, Drummania home setup does use the same flat drum set. But hell, I'd still rather see GF/DM come over, add in their Karaoke Revolution magic, and pump out 80+ songs with some Konami Originals. But no, we get 40 covers.

Yeah, I'm pissed at Bemani getting ripped off. But not from Harmonix or RedOctane, but at Konami for ripping themselves off and then gimping it. I'm sick of them treating the American consumer like crap.

Setzer IIDX

Fuck scratching. Teach people beatmatching. That in itself is part of what makes mixing records fun to me, and it's basically a game on its own.

Sunjammer

Sounds interesting... could be fun. I'm a rock guy myself, tho, so I'll stick to World Tour.

solar_tf

@Sloth: Personally, I'm waiting for Pop'n Hero.

Bigfoot

off topic, but someone went on my AIM screen name that i use for kotaku commenters and other game websites so if anyone sent you any dirty messages sorry.

riffleraffle

Honestly, it sounds a little too easy. I mean, I don't have to have my 7-Buton IIDX setup, but three and the turntable? I'm skeptical.....even IIDX's "easy" made had 5.......

P.S.-I'm talking about the one that was actually released here, I've never gottne to play one of the imports........

R3Verb

This makes no sense. People play guitar hero because learning the guitar is hard, but mixing mp3s on a laptop has the learning curve of a video game. You might as well actually learn how to mix.

what's next walking hero? email hero? hitting a beat on my leg hero? drawing hero?
drinking hero? sandwich eating hero?(hero hero) TV watching hero? video game hero? forum commenting hero?

BTW I also think guitar hero kind of sucks.

Sloth

@Setzer IIDX: why, i have no idea what you are talking you.

bigman88zz

And theyre just about to clear the shark with their latest attempt....

Modus_Operandi

I'm hoping this spurs a Sony/Harmonix team up to finally bring out Wavelength or whatever the hell they're going to call the 3rd installment of Frequency.

Benzak

I'm actually mildly intrigued by this and I've been avoiding the music genre like the plague.

the-hypnotoad

@Setzer IIDX: Yeah, Guitar Freaks and it's 3 buttons...oh em gee so difficult... Besides, it's not like nobody has ever made a game of the same type as anyone else. It's called a genre, and everyone is entitled to make their own game. Guitar Freaks, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band are all unique games, they just have similar gameplay. I'm a huge Bemani fan myself, but it's really annoying when other Bemani fans bitch about GH and RB.

Seinosuke

wheres my flute hero! or violen hero! hell, i'd even settle for tuba hero at this point!

uppitycracker

I think I'm good with Accordion Hero for now..

GOLD5

Finally! Something repping the hip hop community!

Bisu

Guitar Hero guitars for face-offs? Do we need any more of this on the planet? Wasn't Public Enemy, Aerosmith and Anthrax more than enough?

Enochrewt

\me goes off to drag out the playstation.

Sod that, it's too complicated.. I'm off to play *cough*BEATMANIA!*cough* all night..

Jayenkai

All mashups? Man, that's enticing... I love a good mashup.

I was crap at Beatmania, but that game was more focused on piano-like playing. This sounds more like a turntablism simulator. I'll wait to see how it pans out but it could be pretty sweet.

Twoflower

DJ Max is in my blood and soul.
But I'll gladly give this a try.

scotty

please god no more fake plastic instruments.

unless in the future you can let me hook up my old EZ Bake Oven to my PS4.

vunna

@Bigfoot:

Yeah, me too. Unless they show some awesome gameplay, I'll be sticking with the IIDX. We'll see...

CaptLtrl

el oh el ?!? dj hero hahaha no way

SelfKiLlEr

@bigman88zz: That's still an "In Before" post ya realize, right?

And besides, that's umpossible. We Konami fanboys are rabid.

Setzer IIDX

I still have my Tech 1s and 2s. I can't imagine scratching as a viable source of video game entertainment; it is a great add-on.

PsycheE

agreed. IIDX is a lot of fun and way more challenging then guitar hero or any of the american rhythm games.

naiku

@bigman88zz: whoops, guess i was too late

bigman88zz

Guitar Freaks> Guitar Hero > Rock Band > Rock Revolution
Beatmania > DJ Hero >? DJ Session ?>? DJ Revolution ?

Ah the circle of unoriginality. Can't wait until Konami eventually rips themselves off with this one too.

Setzer IIDX

well, i sure am glad i arrived prior to the posts about beatmania that will appear in the future.

bigman88zz

I think I'll stick to IIDX.

Bigfoot

I'll agree with others and state that IIDX is more fun than this sounds.
@scotty: Then I recommend beatmania IIDX.

Keen314

@djricekcn: Thanks for that. I just did a quick search to find a random video. :P

Bigfoot

@zanzibarlegend: My only concern with that is how well will a game like that sell. Look at the rap charts now, not a lot of rap/rock cross over. I would buy the rap/rock cross over game, but would the masses?

If they do a rap/dj game, make sure that the rap/dj portion are about 80-85% of the game.

Then release the downlodable track packs to feature the cross over. And instead of doing what GH did and make a DJ Hero Run DMC edition, just release a Run DMC add on to the game.

Then again I just have idealistic hopes for video games.

TheAngryHeretic

@Setzer IIDX: My all time GF/DM song is probably still CP Tri. I'm also old school so I like Happy Man and Across the Nightmare. Centaur too =3

djricekcn

why not just get a real turntable? this music game fad is really getting ridiculous.

Xeros606

@djricekcn: Side note: don't care how much it's played, Luvly Merry Go Round is quite possibly one of the best songs I've ever heard.
Fast paced ska with B4U type vocals. Niceness.

Setzer IIDX

I'd rather have two turntables and a microphone.... @_@ because that's where it's at.

Human Bomb Committed Solaricide

@Bigfoot: better example

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djricekcn

btw, anybody remember MTV Music Generator? that game was the shit. my friend eventually opened a studio cause of that game, and became a full fledged DJ.

zanzibarlegend

@Jestersage: Yar, unless if he can get a S on something like Model DD8 =3

djricekcn

@TheAngryHeretic: totally agree with u. just throwing the groups that had rock and rap combos.

zanzibarlegend

@Sunjammer: i think that botch scratching and mixing records need to coexist. scratching is an art form, hip-hop invented it, and it went on to being used in many genres of music. i will agree that a mixing game would be hot.

zanzibarlegend

@Benzak: As am I waiting for that 3rd installment of Frequency ^_^

Too early to tell whether this game will fall under addicting & fun as Beatmania and Dj Max are.

synrg023

@Seinosuke: GF is pretty difficult.

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Bigfoot

Let's give them a chance... even though I would probably liek IIDX simply due to the songs.

@djricekcn: Agree. let's just say that GF difficulty put GH3's diffculty to shame, except everythign after rainign blood.

Jestersage

@zanzibarlegend: What about public Enemy, Run DMC, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick and a host of other rap artists. And not just main stream groups.

TheAngryHeretic

I never got into the GH/RB games, but this, this I can get into... Turntables; the only musical instruments I know how to use. Can't wait.

Ajey

I'll stick with IIDX thank you very freaking much. No poser for me.

silenthill4vid

If I can channel DJ Q-Bert with this game then I say bring it on.

Tull

@fuchikoma: Well, I was kind of going for the purely humor side of things.

MrBionic

@Sloth: "kind of hate GH?"
my you are one modest fellow.

i think linkin park, limp bizkit (at least up until significant other) would be ideal for a game like this.

zanzibarlegend

@Bigfoot:
@naiku:
@scotty:
@Sunjammer:
@Ueziel:

Man... such great comments this thread, I don't even have to add to them!

@MrBionic:
There actually is a game like that, but good luck Googling for "forum RPG" "imaginary forum game" etc... but there are fake websites and forums etc, and posting quests, etc.

fuchikoma

@Benzak: As much as I would love to see a follow-up to Amplitude, it just isn't going to happen. Harmonix only made those games because they couldn't get the backing to release peripherals for the idea that actually wanted to do: Guitar Hero. Frequency and Amplitude are just benchmarks along Harmonix's path toward the ultimate music and gaming hybrid. Rock Band is definitely not the end point.

Anarchist_Gamer

@MrBionic:
It's ok... so were they! XD

I actually wish I could find it, it looked pretty funny. I'm hoping someone remembers the name of it...

fuchikoma

@Estel: "informed sources tell us today."

Brian Crecente

@Ueziel:

As far as the US goes, THEY DID. If you want to be mad at someone for the lack of IIDX and Guitar Freaks over here, go yell at Konami.

Harmonix and Activision are just providing a service that Konami still refuses too, and it's probably too late at this point anyway. Rock Band and Guitar Hero own the market. Too bad for Konami.

I'll import my IIDX and Pop'n games, but I am never going to expect them to gain popularity over here.

CaptLtrl

@Crashproof: Go play Wii Music then =-P

djricekcn

@zanzibarlegend: I said it sucks not that I hate it.

Sloth

I want to see Viola Hero, where you rack up points by not playing.

Crashproof

@AsWater: Agree 100%. This genre has, in my opinion at least, run its course.

mva5580

I literally nearly hyperventilated because I thought IIDX was coming back to America in some form. I'd settle for a PS3 version and then I'd import that shit.

But this? I'll try. As I love IIDX and my friends love guitar hero, so this may just work.

Narsil

@Xeros606: because a real CDJ-1000 still costs like £800, and you need a pair so that's £1600, plus a mixer? (Pictured here is the 400, but iirc that one sucks.) While this game will be well under £100?

Also were you being ironic or did you seriously just become the 786,000th idi- er, person to use the 'why don't they learn to play a real instrument' argument? Because if you did it seriously then I am going to have to become the 384,729th to come back with the 'so why don't you join the army instead of playing Call of Duty' line.

quen

@djricekcn: At least you did not say Dragon Blade. As soon as those in the Arcade heard I will get GHWT, they want me to make Dragon Blade. GAH!

I prefer Akaisuzu or anything from Asaki.

Jestersage

I would also like to add that I would much rather use Traktor or SSL with actual turntables and mixer on a laptop than this.

RtFusion

I for one think a consumer backlash will come in the next few years due to the plastic instrument parade thats going about.

It was cool and fun when it was a novelty. But with the flood of unoriginality its gotten out of hand. As much I as love Harmonix I hope their next game doesn't involve expensive hardware.

AsWater

I have serious doubts on the response times and usability of the turntable controller. I would like to have the player to at least to have the ability to download other tunes as well. Furthermore, not only scratching but also beatmatching.

I mean, scratching on vinyl with a mixer is not the only action that a DJ can do. Again, beatmatching should be incorporated into the game. And for that, other genres of music should be there such as trance.

RtFusion

What's the source for this article? :P

Estel

@Setzer IIDX: Again, Rock Band was made by the same people who made the first two RBs.

TRT-X

this game has some pretty high hurdles to clear: the music has to be more than tolerable (obviously they're not going for the rock crowd with this one) and they have to have a REALLY good DJ controller peripheral for this thing to succeed.

laser beams

@djricekcn:
If it's not that, you played Crakin' DJ

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djricekcn

@UniComp: what you played is Beatmania, Beatmania II(DX) or III

it looked something like this I believe.

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djricekcn

Slowly but surely, we see the future of music:

Everyone playing remixes of songs that existed a FUCKTON of a long time ago on tiny plastic instruments.

The wfuture of Bill and Ted is coming true...

Jayl3w

If this game does not feature any tiesto, or armin van burren = fail.

That Boy Baked

I played an arcade game with a DJ controller. It was in Japanese and I couldn't figure out what to do. Wouldn't mind giving it another chance though, but all of these instrument simulation games make me want to spend the time actually learning the skill, not pretending I've learned it.

UniComp

@sdimacu: Will never happen, just import it

djricekcn

I wish they made another IIDX console game for US...

sdimacu

Need more info before I pass judgment...but I highly doubt this will pull me even remotely away from IIDX...

half-beast

Now this is slightly more up my alley. Nothing wrong with plastic rock guitars, but I have been waiting for soemoen to do something like this ever since the first guitar hero came out. Could be interesting... consider my curiosity peeked. I really don't DJ anything at all, I like to produce trakcs more. About time I get on with doing both.

Shiryu

Somehow I can't imagine a modern-day DJ Shadow releasing their debut album, which turns out to be one of the best hip hop records ever and one of the best albums of the decade, recorded solely on a DJ Hero deck.

It's probably cheaper to buy second hand gear and make proper music properly.

Collins1

@djricekcn: I always feel so god damn tall when I play on the IIDX arcade machines, now I see why.

In regards to DJ Hero, I'll restrain judgment until I see gameplay videos and the controller, but I already have a bad feeling about this.

DXY!

Nothing beats vinyl....

MechaTek

Beyonce Vs Jimi Hendrix?
hah!

akilshohen

@Seinosuke: Beatmania, on the other hand... Oh shi-

Seinosuke

@people who commented about me commenting about GF's 3-buttons: You don't need to show me a video. I'm not a troll, I didn't just comment about it without actually having played Guitar Freaks before. I have, and I just find it much easier to manage 3 buttons with 3 fingers than 5 buttons with 4. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I play real guitar, I don't know. But I don't find GF very hard. Mind you, I don't find GH or RB hard either.

Seinosuke

I always wanted to play Beatmania, but it never made it to my city, i wish that after this announcement, Konami releases the new one for 360 or ps3, i got to find the ps2 too...

Daisuash

I honestly checked if it was April Fool's. But on topic, fuck music games. I'm done. With all the money I've spent, I could have bought an MPC already.

Also, DJ Hero is the worst name ever. Good luck Activision.

Deft_One

@Seinosuke: That's what I like about GF, you can tell someone who's never touched the game in their life by statements such as this.

DJ Hero, though ... I wonder if it'll have a double-play mode to closer emulate the experience of games like Crackin' DJ.

DarkTetsuya

This is perfect for the DJ music lovers.

I hope this is the limit of the hero series. I dont wanna see Cymbals hero or something.

Mactheridon

Dj Hero is a lame name but a fucking sweet sounding game.

SnakesSolids

@djricekcn: Oh god, my ears are bleeding!

The Magnificen7

It would be so easy and amazing to make a flute game. What with there being "blow into the microphone" functionality of games and whatnot, a "Flute Hero" would be badass.

That is to say, at least as badass as game centered around playing the flute could be.

AgentMoskau

I'm sold already. Lets get some house and drum and bass in there though, not too much hip-hip, it won't be fast enough for a rhythm action game to be any fun.

iLov3

@DarkTetsuya: You obviously didn't read my second comment. You should probably read other people's comments before you comment yourself, so you don't make an ass of yourself.

Seinosuke

I'm not saying scratching isn't neat. I'm saying scratching is really hard, and this game basically, my guess, won't be asking you to do any real flares :P

Beatmatching however is consistently rewarding and well within everyone's grasp. All you need is a good sense of rhythm and the ability to listen to more than one thing at a time. Some of the most awesome fun i've had, i think, has been doing a perfect transition from a country western tune into hard drum&bass.

I dunno how you'd build a game around it. But it'd be nice to at least include a MODICUM of what DJing is actually about.

Sunjammer

It's weird how these topics always bring out the exactly forty people who read Kotaku and play GF / DM. As a pretty big IIDX fan, though, I'll still say that if the music is good and the system is interesting, then I'll play DJ Hero. What the hell.

Best stuff in GF/DM is the pop-ish-rock stuff - Handsome Jet, Des-Row. I get Hito ni Yasashiku and Mind Your Step! stuck in my head a lot.

twobeef

@Seinosuke: I wasn't the one passing myself off as your typical 'lol 3 buttons' noob that doesn't know jack about GF.

DarkTetsuya

@urutapu:

DJ Hero sounds like an 80's porn star or something.

SnakesSolids

Can they think of a different name? I mean, "guitar hero" is an actual colloquialism...

urutapu

@twobeef: I still got Dragon Blade stuck in my head. Why is DB so popular in Vancouver?!

Jestersage

As a DJ, I'm not terribly interested in this. But I can see the attraction for people that have no access to a set of decks.

I have to admit that when I first read the headline and looked at the picture that the controller would look exactly like a CDJ-400. D'oh!

mind in rewind

Listen up gamers. Guitar Hero was just the start of a phenomenon that will turn the untalented into artists.

goombakiller

PVD Hero

Zeta1

Seriously, this is fucking stupid.

djstructure

DJ hero 2!
"including a mic to rap on tracks!"
"2 players co-op!"
"one scratching , one rapping!"

i can smell millions here.

SaintEmpire

meh, I'm holding out for didgeridoo-hero.

nikolaj

Now time for Gong Hero!

infestedDemon

I'll play flute hero for now....>.>

MellowJade

@Setzer IIDX: guitar freak was never truly released out here so we had no way of getting it, so activision took the economical route, supply and demand, pay attention in econ kid. As for unoriginality, rock band raised the bar by combining all these elements except for trying to cash out and make seperate instrument games. Either it's call competition, this forces devs to make better quality games, look at rock band 2 and gh: wt! Next thing you know you're going to be calling nba2k, saints row, and gow rip offs of nba, gta, and doom

if_deez

GF is way harder than GH, DM is WAY harder than RockBand. Just because Guitar Freaks has fewer buttons doesn't mean it's easier. GF has WAY more pick action. It's a different type of play.

Regardless, I'll be looking forward to going up to TGA in Mass for their Street Fighter launch party and enjoying some IIDX-love en masse.

This is truly a shame. This really sounds like a watered-down Beatmania (or, even *gasp* ez2dj)...the shame part comes in Beatmania flopping BIGTIME when it came to US for PS2. Oh well, at least I got a cheap controller out of it!

JasonDJ

Ehhh.. ok this looks like Fail 0.o

I rather play DjMax,Ez2on or Beatmania.

KotakuFreund

You knew it was going to happen, I can't wait for Harpsichord Hero, Cello Hero and the infamous Accordion Hero sponsored by Weird Al

zombie16thc

This looks like a job for Super Greg.

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Koztah

Who cares for DJ Hero Activision. Where the hell is Cowbell Hero Dammit?!

shrek187

ooooh, as long as it doesn't look like a kids toy then this could be fun! Unless its bright green, then I'm sold!

candygirl_fangirl

I am actually very intrigued by this game. I honestly like to diversify my music I listen to and this looks like a nice change of pace. Rock isn't the only music that exists.

I know everyone is entitled to their opinions so I'm not going to use the whole one thing is better than another thing card, instead I just want to reiterate that it's just a nice change of pace.

D_DubDSU

Fantasic!

Now it is only a matter of time until someone releases
a Didgeridoo Hero! Or a Didgeridoo Band *OUTBACK* edition!

.......

Enough with the music games.

Really.

NintendoFanBoy64

Rap/Crazy Europeans > Rock stars.

I FORESEE GREAT THINGS

Voryn

Sounds similar to a game I designed for my uni class:

[tinypic.com]

I used basically a diagram of the controller for the interface, so that led to a circular interface for the turntables as well.

I also had a few knobs in there just to... you know, make things extra fiddly.

PurpleSfinx

oh... almost forgot.

/insert obligatory comment about how the original game that introduced this concept is much better than any attempts by any other dev even though i've yet to see it in action much less try it out myself

so much hate already for a game that isn't out yet... man

phrequency

well hopefully they nail the design and all that stuff... though i think it would've been nice to hear that harmonix were the ones developing it since they seem to have experience in music gaming dev'ing under their belts. though maybe the guys activision acquired may be up to snuff.

honestly though, who the hell came up with the title. i really hope it's a working title. i guess they wanted to attract their current base of consumers with the "hero" tag, but i think it kinda makes it spin-offy and cheap (i.e. as if they started putting hero after every instrument and churning it out expecting to make millions)

nonetheless, hopefully it's good.

phrequency

Sounds TURRIBLE!

pandafresh

Lol, check out all the people from "that-site-that shall-not-be-named" =)

I wonder where this will end up.
Are all the comparisons with IIDX justified?
Will it be a totally different game?
A DUMB game?

I want to see pictures of the controller first.
IIDX claims to be a "DJ Simulator" while in reality, it has zero to do with being a DJ. I really wonder how "DJ Hero" will be different and if anything, AT ALL like DJ-ing for real.

Iceman B.

@Iceman B.: You have a very good point. The fact is that actual DJing and playing IIDX are completely different. So comparisons like that should end there. Also, the description sounds like it's trying to differentiate it self from IIDX, so, give them some credit for trying NOT to blatantly rip off IIDX, because the sounds of it, they're not.

On other notes, Konami did try to release both beatmania and Guitar Freaks in the US arcades when they came out in Japan, and they flopped here, so I think that told them that their games aren't worth the effort here. On top of that, being angry at Konami of America isn't going to help. Konami of Japan holds all the rights to those Bemani games, and decide on what the US will get. So, my bets is KoA tried talking to KoJ about getting those games back here, they said no, and thus Rock Revolution was born. The unfortunate US home release of IIDX was not the fault of KoA, but of KoJ, where they said "Here is the engine and songs you get, oh, america likes bright purple right?" Plus, that redesigned IIDX controller, which is great, was KoA's doing.

Remember the fabled location testing of IIDX Gold with GF/DM Vsomething? IIDX Gold made it over, and sadly failed, so...yeah, they've tried, and KoJ doesn't think the market in the US is worth it.
Long post is long. :(

Dexor

@phrequency: there was going be drums hero, but it got included in guitar hero... I'm still waiting for marimba hero.

VakeroRokero

Beyonce Vs Jimi Hendrix??

Talk about an acid trip!

VakeroRokero

@djricekcn: I never got to play that game. Having seen this video, I'm really, really sad about that. *This* (and not beatmania, which I have played and was not what I wanted it to be) is the DJ-type game I want at home.

p.s. Rhythm games are really fun. I'll never get why some people (the serious minority) dislike them. FPSs are kinda dull to me for the most part, but I'm not a "twitch" player. I can still see why some people enjoy them.

/doesn't get why gamers bag on some genres as though one can empirically verify one's opinion.
//not too old to game but perhaps to old to be part of gaming "community."

TheFlamingChicken

Please let the last level be Girl Talk's "Shut the Club Down".

0:00 Avril Lavigne "Girlfriend"
0:00 Jay-Z "Big Pimpin'"
0:00 The Kills "Sour Cherry"
0:12 Dolla featuring T-Pain and Tay Dizm "Who the Fuck Is That?"
0:12 Toni Basil "Mickey"
0:59 Rich Boy "Throw Some D's"
1:10 Aphex Twin "Girl/Boy Song"
1:56 Dem Franchize Boyz "Talkin' Out da Side of Ya Neck!"
2:05 Butthole Surfers "Pepper"
2:08 Michael Sembello "Maniac"
2:08 Ray J featuring Yung Berg "Sexy Can I"
2:08 Rod Stewart "Young Turks"
2:31 Ahmad "Back in the Day"
2:55 The Cool Kids "Gold and a Pager" (which samples "Fuck Tha Police" by NWA)
2:59 Youngbloodz featuring Lil Jon "Damn!"

Babylonian

@VakeroRokero: Well, there is always "Samba de Amigo", which I believe was just re-released for the Wii.

DeeBG

@Bigfoot: Jeeze any song playing at 400 BPM would give your fingers a workout. These games exist in full in MAME but not all are totally playable, but once they are it'd be great to hook it up to real/function-alike hardware at home (my current MAME machine is setup in the game lounge in our dorm and has a working 4 player quarter in-take but I had to disable it after the RA said all games in the room had to be set free play - still walked away with ~400$ in quarters in 6 days).

DeeBG

I can't wait for Activision to pick this up so I can battle against the likes of Craze, Q-Bert, and GrandMaster Flash. *rolls eyes*

def PD

As a DJ, I appreciate this. I probably won't buy it cause video games are too damn expensive.

ChainsawFacelift

Somehow i think that with a title like DJ hero its aimed at degenerates who use ''u'' instead of ''you'', and dont have the time money or intrest or attention span to learn making real music yet act like they are dj legends on their 3 buttoned game.

I cant wait for the first article about a retarded kid with retarded parents who drops out of school for a professional ''dj- hero carreer''.

Yet for some reason i actually do respect Bemani players (I'm not one myself tough no arcade close to me.)But i think that is because of the difficulty level of those games.

DutchOtaku

@Setzer IIDX: Originality is overrated.

Dalren

Can we use our own decks???

Im more into stuff like beatmixing and looping on 3 decks than this, but hey, I play guitar and Guitar Hero confused the hell outta me at first and now im pretty addicted to it, gonna have to have a go first myself and make my mind up, it probably wont come near my 1210s + Pioneers but ill give it a go!!!

Fieldog

Whether you like Guitar Hero or not, they've obviously struck a chord (pun intended) with an audience that can't seem to get enough. Rock music is only one genre they've covered. Adding their take on the DJ culture will be an interesting twist. Perhaps by PS4, we'll see Violin Maestro, or perhaps Jazz Jammer?

fatfoogoo