Comments on: Was Konami planning a Guitar Revolution?

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:37:23 +0000

@Luke – Really?! Wow that would be an interesting turn of events! Hey if you have that e-mail lying around could you please forward it to us?

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:29:33 +0000

Konami are planning on bringing both the Guitar Freaks and Drum Mania games to Europe early next year. I emailed them a few weeks back asking and they confirmed this. Maybe these are the names for the European versions?

By: MazingerZ

MazingerZ — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:41:43 +0000

I wouldn’t care about which is more popular.

As long as Konami brings e-amusement worldwide, I’ll be happy, and the possibility to use it without a keitai in Japan.

By: Zach-M

Zach-M — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:08:47 +0000

I think it’s unfortunate that if Konami did release Guitar Revolution in the west, most people would probably accuse it of being a Guitar Hero rip-off, even though it came first.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:53:03 +0000

I have all the Guitar Freaks/Drummania for Ps1 and Ps2. I could never get a guitar for them though. I am getting a Ps2 guitar soon though.
Yes, Guitar Hero/Rock Band is a rip off of the Konami series.
I think the problem was the type of music in GF/DM. A lot of Japanese music would not
have translated well to an American audience.
I got Guitar Hero 3 for 360 and it was awesome. Due to it having one of my favorite bands Weezer.

Guitar Freaks had some sweet songs on it to. Local Art, BeforU, Glamorus Sky and Vanilla
Ninja.

I did sell Guitar Hero 3 for Rock Band and RB is amazing, beat it with guitar and drums on Med so far.

I grew up in the 90’s and the set list is great. Also my other favorite band is Garbage, that made it much sweeter. DLC is great too. Can’t wait for Buddy Holly.

Konami focused too much on the DDR series and didn’t even take a chance on bringing
a Guitar Freaks game over to the USA.

Maybe they will come out with GF/DM for the PS3 in Japan. I’d buy it.

They did take a chance with Beatmania, now their not even supporting it.

By: Mr. Shen

Mr. Shen — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:32:54 +0000

It’s unfortunate for Konami.

I really enjoyed the Guitar Freaks series, but I can see how it would have most likely done poorly in the states strictly for the reason of song selection: Konami’s Bemani games are known to contain truncated tunes and of the more obscure genre (obscure to the states, anyway).

True they could’ve licensed tunes like “Rock Hero” did, but maybe they didn’t see it worth as music games (as great as they are) haven’t had a very impressive sales record prior to Guitar Hero. I mean look at Amplitude, Frequency, Beatmania or even Samba de Amigo.

And yes, I’m aware that later iterations of Guitar Freaks contained full length songs, but you played that one in place of the three truncated ones.