August 27, 2008 -
If the heathen lyrics in Guitar Hero or Rock Band are starting to warp your mind, you may want to check out a new Christian-themed guitar game.
GameDaily reports that Guitar Praise: Solid Rock will ship in late September. A blurb on the game site says:
Grab the guitar and play along with top Christian bands! Shred those riffs or blast the bass…you add a unique sound to the solid Christian rock. But watch out: if you can't keep up, the artists will take a break and stop the music. Crank it up and try again - you'll soon be rockin' with the best while praising the Lord! Order the second guitar and jam with a friend!
Guitar Praise: Solid Rock sells for $99.95. An extra guitar for two-player games is $69.95.
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Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
You have got to be kidding me.
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
if it's got stuff like As I Lay Dying, Demon Hunter, Skillet, Disciple, or anything similar, it could work. Newsboys? fail.
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Wow, lots of replies. I'm not sure how big a deal this is myself though. The way I see it, there's apparently a market and someone's going to make money catering for it. Ok, I'm not sure there'd be much demand for Guitar Praise in Europe (Godless heathens that we are ;) ), but there's every reason to suspect it could do well in the US so why wouldn't a game like this happen?
Gift.
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The counter-product would be Rock Band 666. Approach the drumkit at your soul's peril - selling it is the only way you'll be able to keep up with it on Expert as you're forced to keep up with some of the fastest drummers on Earth that are in bands that have three drummers!
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Tap Z or R twice and do a barrel roll.
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Chargin' mah lazer
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Wait...what? WHY?!?!
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Does this thing include "Creeping Death" by Metallica? That's like Christian rock...
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Wait, was this game made by the same company that gave us Dance Praise? You know, a Christian-infused DDR clone. (edit) I looked at their store....they did.
Looking further in their store, I found a decent deal for a 4-port USB 2.0 hub. I wonder if it's any good...
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But the 4-port USB hub will filter out any innappropriate content, such as feminism and tolerance.
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I'd say that femanism and tolerance are two words that don't belong in the same sentence. From personal experience with feminists and how they have treated people who.... aren't feminist.
"I'm not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
"I'm stel not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
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Well, that 4-port USB hub is blessed with holy water, so it'll prolly 3p1< PH41L within 2 hours of initial use...
Anyway, this game is going to get minimal attention, poor advertising, and few sales. It's a game fit for parents who want to give their kids something to keep them busy, but without the hooplah of a T-rated game.
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Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Just be glad it's not Country Music Hero
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My wife actually wants someone to release a country guitar game. It would probably broaden the market a bit.
E. Zachary Knight
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E. Zachary Knight
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OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
My fiancee would love that as well. Honestly, I'd love to see more genre-themed expansions to Rock Band & Guitar Hero in general, rather than a billion and one mock-up weak variant games that aren't nearly as fun or exciting.
"I'm not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
"I'm stel not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Actually something like that could be pretty cool. Purely insturmental numbers like Foggy Mountain Breakdown are way more complex than anything on Guitar Hero currently and the speed at which it goes would likely send most people into raving fits of madness.
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With the instruments already on the market, all they have to do is add the country theme and songs as an update. There are quite a few country and bluegrass songs Iwould love to play in Rockband or Guitar Hero.
E. Zachary Knight
http://www.editorialgames.com
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/okceca
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1325674091
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Lame.
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Maybe they should have it demons are trying to stop your music and playing well "kills" the demons on-screen...
That would rock!
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Because Christianity has no Heroes.
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What this game needs:
Demon Hunter
Mortification
Antestor
Crimson Thorn
Divinefire
Horde
Extol
Unfortunately, I sense crappy, acoustic 'rock' crap on the horizon.
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Leave it to the christians to make what looks like an unlicensed game.
I hope they get sued for copyright infringement.
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Again, on what grounds are they infringing? You cannot copyright gameplay.
E. Zachary Knight
http://www.editorialgames.com
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/okceca
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1325674091
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Maybe it's a posting in relation to the Gibson patent infringement lawsuit, or Konami's?
It's a knockoff product, but it doesn't look to be illegal in any way.
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
for what platform is this?
looks interesting
Ahh
I love threads on Christian music.I'm a Christian,and I do not like it.At all,not one bit.
Re: Ahh
I'm not overly fond of it myself, as a Christian. That said, I can accept and understand that there are people who do like it, despite it not really being appealing to me.
"I'm not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
"I'm stel not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
You know what good "Christian Music" is?
Chanting. And it should stick to that.
As a Catholic, I must state that Contempory Christian music is horrid and is the devil's music. It's anus-bleeding awful.
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I wholeheartedly agree. Gregorian choirs ftw. And enough with this New Age crap. What happened to "FEAR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART!!!! REPENT!!!"
Must've gone the way of the nuns in private schools...
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Does anyone else think $100 is too expensive for a guitar hero clone?
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Yes. Yes it is.
I mean, a Guitar Hero game full of music you'd find on the USED CDs rack at FYE. And everyone already has a guitar controller. $20 at best.
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
I haven't much to say about this except something a friend of mine said years ago in high school: "Why do they call it Christian Rock? If it's Christian, it isn't rock, and if it Rocks, it isn't Christian."
Me, I'd just have nothing less than an irresistable urge to somehow put in AC/DC's "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be" were I to get hands on this.
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I can understand where you are coming from, I have a rather extensive music library of a lot of varied music... But at the sme time, there are people who would like to see a game like Guitar Hero or Rock Band... heck, even Guitar Hero or Rock Band themselves release packs/songs that havemusic suited to their tastes. Are you going to say they can't have that just because that taste happens to be Christian Rock?
Me, I prefer a more Industrial scene... and don't see much int he line for some Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Oomph!, Static-X, Rob Zombie, etc. There's a few songs here and there, but nothing real substantial :)
"I'm not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
"I'm stel not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
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Taste and Christian Rock don't belong in the same sentence together, at least for the most part.
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on the subject. After all, taste is subjective.
"I'm not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
"I'm stel not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
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XD how well will this sell???
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Why doesn't it use the GH or RB guitar?
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it's not a console game, and i don't believe GH or RB are available on the PC
that and if either game is already released for the PC it doesn't make sense for them to limit their audience to only people that already own one of the previous games on PC
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It may be depending on your console. I believe that on the PS3 there is no compatability between GH and RB.
I believe they are compatable on systems with wired controllers.
E. Zachary Knight
http://www.editorialgames.com
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/okceca
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1325674091
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
According to their site its only being made for PC
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Probably intellectual property restrictions/limitations.
"I'm not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
"I'm stel not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
Haha, did anyone notice the $100 price tag for the package, not the mention the $70 extra guitar? WTF? First, they come out with a game with substandard music that, personally, I hope GH or RB sue for trademark violations, THEN, they have the gall to charge a higher price for this? At the very least, if you are going to cater to a neiche market, you should be charging LESS than your mainstream competitor..
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What grounds would they have to sue? This game does not use any of their art or other trademarks or copyrights. It is also not infringement to use a gameplay idea from another game as is apparent from the slue of FPS and RTS and RPG etc game on the market.
E. Zachary Knight
http://www.editorialgames.com
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/okceca
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1325674091
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Guitar Hero Knockoff Features Christian Music
I think he may mean the tech for the hardware, wasn't there some patent trouble with another company's guitar controlers?
Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.
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Pretty sure the prices are the same as GH3 was, but I may be wrong.
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Uhm you do realize that the GH and RB packages that come with a guitar are generally around the same price right?
But really no one's going to force you to buy this game so what's the real problem? Sounds like old fashioned bigotry to me.
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" if you can't keep up, the artists will take a break and stop the music"
they even sugar coat not crappy playing. They don't get booed off stage, they just "take a break", pressumably go off stage and pray, then give it another shot.
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Yeah.... That's the kind of thing that makes me feel a bit uncomfortable and not very trusting of the game as being anything of quality.
"I'm not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
"I'm stel not responcabel fer my comuter's spleling errnors." -- Xlorep DarkHelm
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The Flyleaf lead singer doesn't consider the band a "Christian Band", but I think all the members are professing Christians. I guess you can't blame them for not wanting to be pigeonholed into the "CCM" category. Come to think of it, I think that's Underoath's position as well.
I've heard of (and have listened to) several bands on their list, most notably Relient K, Skillet, Casting Crowns, Kutless, and dc Talk. Jesus Freak is a classic, but there are some other songs that don't appear on the list that I think should if they're going to be serious about this.
I think their whole stunt smells of fail though. While at least one of the guys there seems to have decent dev experience, I have very little hope that the title will innovate beyond what "secular" alternatives already exist in the market. Furthermore, the marketing of this product will almost certainly be inept. Why can't "Christian" game publishers ever do any better than Wisdom Tree?