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No touch-screen strumming for Guitar Hero DS; peripheral promised - Joystiq@import url(http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/style.css);Win a trip for 2 to L.A. for the So You Think You Can Dance dance-offPrototype, Ghostbusters ... 50 Cent?! Highlights from Sierra's Spring 2008 Event! Check out our Grand Theft Auto IV page for a felonious good time! Gangsters, guns and coffee: check out our Grand Theft Auto Retrospective! Your one-stop shop for all things Mario Kart Wii! Keep on Kartin' A Mario Kart retrospective Listen to the Joystiq Podcast (because your ears can't read) Main RSS | CategoriesXbox 360WiiPS3PSPNintendo DSPCMacPS2About JoystiqSend us tips!Breaking News »4.28Guess who's leaving EA? Bing goes!4.28Prince of Persia officially returns this holiday4.28Play as Snake! 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In addition to the horrible decision to build a peripheral for a portable device, Vicarious plans on leaving much of the game's visuals as-is, making them two-for-two in a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality that may prove problematic when moving an established console title to an entirely new platform.We'll give Vicarious Visions the benefit of the doubt, and assume the decision to ignore the touch screen was to avoid comparisons to Jam Sessions. Still, here's hoping Vicarious will let us rock out and still fit the darn thing in our pocket.Tags: agdc, agdc07, austingdc, guitarhero, guitarherods, peripherals, vicariousvisions Read Related Stories Guitar Hero: Aerosmith announced, GHIII getting 'Dream On' for free (73 days ago) Joystiq impressions: Guitar Hero: On Tour (DS) (13 days ago) Counting Rupees: Battle of the brands (32 days ago) (Page 1) Reader Comments bloohSep 10th 200711:33AMface fisted Reply CronoSep 10th 200711:40AMAre you freakin kidding me? The ONLY way to make a decent GH game on a portable is to have a guitar peripheral that the DS plugs into. Otherwise its not guitar hero, its "hold the d-pad and rub" hero. Reply BurritoclockSep 10th 200711:51AMTrue, except that the DS screens are tiny and any peripheral will be extremely hard to use. Just all around seems difficult to do, but here's to hoping they can pull it off somehow. Another complaint I would have is that the DS speakers SUCK... BAD! How can you here it. OnimushaSokiSep 10th 200712:14PM"'hold the d-pad and rub' hero" ... I voted you up just for that part alone, LoL elmersglueSep 10th 200711:50AMi think it would be sweet if someone makes a guitar game where there's just strings on the screen, and you actually have to strum or pick using the stylus. Maybe even label the strings with the actual note (EADGBE) and make it REALLY challenging instead of the colors... a true guitar simulation, only...minus the finger and fretboard part. Wait, writing all that made me realize it would be an interesting twist on how the guitar hero series deals with specifically the fretboard, the DS is the perfect platform to deal with the strings. Reply KaziSep 10th 200711:57AMJam Sessions AKA Hiite Utaeru DS Guitar M-06. BurritoclockSep 10th 200712:03PMI am praying to Jesus that this is supposed to be ironic or something... although you didn't reference jam sessions at the end... which worries me...Anyway, Jam Sessions is in no way as fun as Guitar Hero, it's not even in the same realm, or universe. It's fun though, but my GOD am I sick to death of the "real" guitar versus guitar hero BULLSHIT. elmersglueSep 10th 200712:20PMthe reason i didnt reference jam sessions is because thats not really what im talking about. As far as i know, jam sessions consists of holding down the d-pad in certain directions and strumming one string on the screen and that plays the chord you selected with the d-pad. I'm talking about something more along the lines of actually putting all 6 strings on the screen (and maybe 4 strings for the bass) and then having you follow along on the top screen guitar hero style. Similar to the buttons layout, only instead of concentrating on the holding down on the strings part (guitar hero) the game would concentrate on picking or strumming the strings (all 6 of them, not just one bar in the middle). The game will take care of the fretboard. Imagine rocking out on a solo and all you have to worry about is hitting the right string at the right time with the right tempo. elmersglueSep 10th 200712:24PMOh and i just thought of this...how about for strumming, since a lot of the time you'd be strumming the same strings for chords and that would get old fast, the game would throw arrows in certain directions on the top screen as well as what strings to strum (ddr style). So i guess in a way it would be a simplified jam sessions but with the actual strings on the screen. Fernando RockerSep 10th 200712:24PMelmersglueI know what you mean. I suppose you play real guitar, just like me.They dont know what you are talking about. BurritoclockSep 10th 20073:01PMTo Fernando Rocker: WOW! A guitar has multiple strings?!?! Next you will be telling me that these so called "strings" go all the way up the guitar and that you don't just press the middle of the top five sections to play every note on a guitar. "Real" guitar is NOT for everyone, I did not enjoy learning to play the guitar which is why I quit. I had neither the time nor the desire to become good. Guitar hero is fun, I could beat expert after two short weeks. There is no comparison.To elmersglue: After you went into more detail there you actually have a great idea. That's probably what Jam Sessions should have been. There could even be harder difficulties that combine jam sessions with your idea. For example you would have all the strings and then also 5 "fret" buttons (d-pad and the left bumper)yes it would be harder than hell, but thats what a super hard/expert mode is for. However it's no reason to not make a guitar hero game. sjenkySep 10th 200711:52AMHorrible decision? I don't think jamsessions had anything to do with it either.How would one manage to play multiple chords at the same time through the touchscreen? I'd rather have the true GH experience than some overly simplified, 'taiko drum master DS' clone.. ever played it? WAY too easy, even on max. difficulty. Reply DonaldSep 10th 200712:01PMExactly. JSep 10th 200711:53AMIs the shirt that guy is wearing based on those GIJoe overdub videos? "hey kid, I'm a computer. Help computer".I need one of those. Reply Scott Jon SiegelSep 10th 200712:05PMYes, the shirt I'm wearing is from Fensler Films, a.k.a. the guys who did the GI Joe shorts. I'm wearing it because I'm a computer. JSep 10th 200712:15PMStop all the downloadin'!Awesome megaStrykeSep 10th 200712:15PMI'm a compootah! Stop all the downloadin'! KyeSep 10th 200712:08PMDamnit, I was looking forward to Ukalele Hero! Reply HirsbrunnerSep 10th 200712:33PMI'm holding out for Sitar Hero. KyeSep 10th 200712:37PMBanjo Hero FTW! Almack64Sep 10th 20071:14PMMan that's all old news, nothing will beat the sophistication that Harp Hero will be when it comes out. hvnlysoldrSep 10th 20071:15PMMiyamoto will smoke us all at Banjo Hero. HirsbrunnerSep 10th 20071:35PMCould you imagine trying to do Foggy Mountain on a banjo controller?! Holy crap! Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring)Sep 10th 20072:24PMI was hoping for Piano Hero... with the full 88 keys perioheral. AlienheadSep 10th 200712:27PMThe whole point of guitar is hero is playing on a guitar like controller. Touch-screen strumming WTF are you all talking about? That's just dumb. Kind of like Guitar Hero on the DS. Reply Dave SilvaSep 10th 20071:11PMOh no. Not Vicarious Visions. PLEASE, NOT THEM, ANYONE BUT THEM! Reply Hey ApplesSep 10th 20071:14PMI loves me some guitar hero, but I don't see how this will result in anything but a total bastardification of the franchise. Reply Fullmetal SalchemistSep 10th 20073:18PMMuch like your "bastardification" [sic] of the word "bastardization"? GeoffSep 10th 20079:38PMI'm going with "bastardisation". But that's because I'm a limey Brit. That Fuzzy BastardSep 10th 20074:25PMYeah, I too wish that Jam Sessions had six strings instead of the one mega-string---it seems like it would've been a lot more appealing if it had that extra bit of realism.Guitar Hero, though, needs no such realism---it's a straight-up fantasy fulfillment. I can't say I have any idea how you'd make a peripheral that makes it all work, but maybe the developers will prove smarter than me on the subject... Reply JulyFlameSep 11th 20071:40AMSo, a guitar peripheral that you plug the DS into?Instead of the Guitar peripheral plugging into the DS, DS goes into the guitar controller.That'd make sense. Watch your fingers and what you're supposed to be doing. Reply imalinuxfreakNov 26th 200710:32PMlord knows the last thing we need is another 'Learn-to-play-guitar-in-7-seconds-or-probably-money-back-gaurentee'^mouthful. Sometimes video games dont help learning things. All you need is some time and patience. DS suks, period. Although, i will give them a chance with this, I think that it isnt portable anymore when i set it on the table, and pull out my 2 and a half foot.... guitar controller from my back pocket and start jamming on the busride to school. its absolutley not the kind of thing we need, everyone will get one, and people will be bumping into everyone, and if someone lit on fire, we wouldnt be able to stop them because theyd be playing guitar hero and it would kill us all in a horrible fire. So, guitar hero for the ds will basically kill everyone. 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