Another peripheral for Guitar Hero 4

By Robert Purchese Published 22 August, 2008

Neversoft not ready to say what.

Neversoft, developer of Guitar Hero World Tour, still has another instrument peripheral to unveil.

The equipment will be specifically tailored for the Studio mode where music and perhaps dreams are made, according to G4.

However, Neversoft's Brian Bright stopped short of confirming what the mysterious instrument will be. Speculation seems most intense around a keyboard or turntable peripheral; Activision has trademarked DJ Hero and Keyboard Hero in the past.

Still, rather late in the day to talk about additional pieces of equipment given the late 2008 release date. Unless, of course, the peripheral was never supposed to be part of the instrument and game bundle box. No sign of anything on retail sites so far, either.

Knee-slide over to our Guitar Hero World Tour preview to see what the Rock Band rival has in the locker.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • sickpuppysoftware #1 4 years ago

    a mixing desk?

  • gremly #2 4 years ago

    Bet it's a microphone! :p

  • yupyup #3 4 years ago

    If it's anything like Rock Band, it'll be a complimentary tub of vaseline.

  • DangerM0use #4 4 years ago

    Tambourine...

  • jaxon58 #5 4 years ago

    An amp that goes up to 11.

  • Drone #6 4 years ago

    Triangle. All the way.

  • Eraysor #7 4 years ago

    Cowbell!

  • mattigan #8 4 years ago

    Wahwah pedal, or effects pedal?

  • greenthumb #9 4 years ago

    microphone stand for singing and playing?

  • themagicaltaz #10 4 years ago

    I need a new appartment soon to have room for all these controllers...
    Edited by themagicaltaz at 22/08/08 @ 10:23

  • kestral #11 4 years ago

    beatboxer

  • madgerald Verified Studio Head of PR & Marketing, Colossal Games LTD #12 4 years ago

    Fullsize Steinway grand piano?

    How about one of those travelling musical box things with a little monkey?



  • NegativeZero #13 4 years ago

    Rhythm Guitar. :p

  • moggsy #14 4 years ago

    I hope it's a keyboard. Shame it'll only be integrated into the studio mode though - suppose I really want a 'Keyboard Hero' game.

  • iNsAn1tY #15 4 years ago

    Eraysor: Cowbell!

    Came in for the cowbell, was not disappointed.

  • rudedudejude #16 4 years ago

    haha dj hero wtf.

    or an inflatable groupie you can nail. Perhaps.

  • madgerald Verified Studio Head of PR & Marketing, Colossal Games LTD #17 4 years ago

    @moggsy - I hope it's a keyboard. Shame it'll only be integrated into the studio mode though - suppose I really want a 'Keyboard Hero' game.

    I'm with you all the way.

  • andywilkie35 #18 4 years ago

    "The equipment will be specifically tailored for the Studio mode where music and perhaps dreams are made, according to G4."

    Does that mean that G4 will be using it on their new album?

  • asphaltcowboy #19 4 years ago

    Will be a keyboard if it's to help do recordings...

  • TheBoyChris #20 4 years ago

    Please be a turntable... though I have no idea how that'd actually work with the game.

  • abcd #21 4 years ago

    I'm holding out for a bassoon

  • aldo_14 #22 4 years ago

    Accordion with an inflatable Tom Weir lookalike?

  • mcmonkeyplc #23 4 years ago

    A simvagina and simdildo to fuck, makes you feel like you have groupies

  • Zomoniac #24 4 years ago

    I hope it's a keyboard. Shame it'll only be integrated into the studio mode though - suppose I really want a 'Keyboard Hero' game.

    So do I in theory. But isn't the whole point of these games to get the illusion of playing, on harder difficulties at least, the song without having to learn the instrument? A keyboard with five keys would be a joke. I can't see a way of doing a keyboard mode that would be convincing on expert without making it actually be a keyboard. Which seems a bit ludicrous.

  • BoffBoff #25 4 years ago

    A mini recording studio, complete with egg boxes for the walls?

  • LiamK #26 4 years ago

    "So do I in theory. But isn't the whole point of these games to get the illusion of playing, on harder difficulties at least, the song without having to learn the instrument? A keyboard with five keys would be a joke. I can't see a way of doing a keyboard mode that would be convincing on expert without making it actually be a keyboard. Which seems a bit ludicrous."

    I dunno. Aren't the drums pretty close to actually playing the drums?

  • CARL05 #27 4 years ago

    Wahwah pedal, or effects pedal?

    I'd bet money on that since it was considered when GH2 was released.
    Still got the ethernet style port on the guitar/controller.

    Although it would be funny if it was a harmonica or something similar!

  • Skurmedel #28 4 years ago

    A dynamic kidney-mic

  • daz_john_smith #29 4 years ago

    @CARL05
    +1
    That's exactly what I was gonna say. I was still expecting them to bundle an effects pad with the next next spinoff GH, but Aerosmith came with nothin', so thankfully I could avoid it.

    Maybe it could be some kind of midi hub that allows you connect up a real keyboard and/or electric drum kit (without having to use the drum controller).
    Edited by daz_john_smith at 22/08/08 @ 13:11

  • Zomoniac #30 4 years ago

    I dunno. Aren't the drums pretty close to actually playing the drums?

    Vaguely. The RB drums are terrible and behave nothing like drums, but the principle is the same. But playing drums is easy, playing a keyboard isn't. There are less drums than keys, and at speed it's rather easier to hit a pad 10" across than something barely the width of a finger.

  • Bumhug360 #31 4 years ago

    "If it's anything like Rock Band, it'll be a complimentary tub of vaseline."

    If its anything like Rock Band they will charge you extra for it

  • MrMarbles #32 4 years ago

    If it's anything like Rock Band it'll actually have decent note-charts.

    Oh! OH! That's right. I went there.

    Wow, this unfunny bitchiness is easier than I thought - no wonder so many people do it here.

  • holydrone #33 4 years ago

    A TOILET!

  • mattigan #34 4 years ago

    Pink obo

  • Zomoniac #35 4 years ago

    "But playing drums is easy, playing a keyboard isn't."

    Both are easy to play badly, both are hard to play well.


    "There are less drums than keys, and at speed it's rather easier to hit a pad 10" across than something barely the width of a finger."

    Not really. You have far more dexterity in your fingers than arms and legs and less distance to travel when playing a keyboard. Your fingers naturally work together as your brain is trained from an early age to coordinate hands/fingers. Drumming, and coordinated arm/leg movement is fundamentally harder to learn because your arms and legs do not actually have to, or have the opportunity to, work together for a couple of years after your hands are trained.

    Maybe I'm just lucky then. I've been drumming for roughly 12 years, all self-taught, and am very good at it, and have found it to be very easy from day 1, so have just assumed it's an easy instrument to play (certainly guitarists like to tell me it requires no talent!). Guitar and keys, on the other hand, I greatly struggle with. Keys mostly through not having very good technique, and guitar because the margin for error when you have 144 individual positions (not including open notes), just for single notes, on a small stick, is tiny, and I can't get my head around the incredible precision next to me. Perhaps I just have natural independence of limbs that others don't, but I find getting my way around 10 things that are between 8" and 22" much easier than navigating 150 things crammed on to a 2ft bit of wood. If you've got good rhythm and have the 4-way ability required to drive a car properly, which is a very similar skillset, I don't see why you can't pick up drums.

  • Mo0k #36 4 years ago

    Harp.

  • George-Roper #37 4 years ago

    @farticusmaximus & Zomoniac

    Playing Guitar Hero has no resemblance, whatsoever , to using a real instrument so take your self-indulgent 'I know best' attitude to a fucking real instrument use discussion forum, yeah?

    I wish people would just fuck right off with these stupid comparisons, about how certain instruments wouldn't work. For fucks sakes, all you're using is a differently shaped controller which lacks everything that makes a real instrument a real instrument. Nothing more, nothing less .

    Using a real guitar takes talent and, when done well, could elevate you to be a real rock star. One day. Possibly. On You Tube.

    Using Guitar Hero requires nowhere near the same level of hand/finger/eye/testicle co-ordination and could only ever elevate you to be a cunt in the eyes of everyone else. A cunt who thinks clicking buttons on a plastic guitar equates to 'rocking out'.

    Tossers.

    Edited by George-Roper at 22/08/08 @ 21:28

  • Moribundman #38 4 years ago

    Huge great throbbing plastic BIG man's willy. For male or female idiots to stick wherever they like.

  • Moribundman #39 4 years ago

    Plastic Dialysis machine.

  • Moribundman #40 4 years ago

    Tesla coil. Or Mexican nuclear jumping fridge.

  • Moribundman #41 4 years ago

    It SHOULD be a cowbell. It WILL either be some kind of musical keyboard or a guitar accessory.

    They're sharing peripherals and basic functionality with Rock Band. They probably want to say "Yeah, we do what Rock Band does, PLUS..." so the guitars are jiggy with Rock Band but with the extra GH peripheral you can wah wah for extra points and achievements/trophies/sod all but miis look strained.

  • Moribundman #42 4 years ago

    LOVING the fanbois upset that GH and RB are trying to demean musicians.

    HELL YEAH. I fervantly believe that getting a high score on these games makes me a better musician than you. I bet your band is WELL SHIT. I PWN your band. Because I casually play a jovial rhythm based game on a console; goddamn you'd better watch your cornhole coz us gamers are out to make the ladiezzz like US more than you.

    We're going to put in precisely sod all effort to play a COMPUTER GAME and all of a sudden the woman you hypnotised into liking you with your killer riffs will be going down on us.

    For fuck's sake grow up. Or maybe you and Feargal Sharkey can launch a two-pronged attack at karaoke stealing artists' rights to sing.

  • BlackKraken #43 4 years ago

    If the games going to be more realistic hopefully itll be a noise gate so everyone can actually hear what they're fucking playing without GZZZRRRRRRRGGGRRHHHRHRHHRHHHHHZZHZGRGRHHGRH.

    Damn fucking 3 single-pickup non-humbucker guitar. Though i doubt any of you understood that...

  • Law07 #44 4 years ago

    I did ^^

  • funkyd #45 4 years ago

    George Roper, Child Groper.

  • funkyd #46 4 years ago

    I have no idea what this could be.

  • George-Roper #47 4 years ago

    LOL @ funkyd

    I can just imagine you now. 22 stone, no friends, Guitar Hero and an imagination that turns your parents second, smaller, bedroom into a *gasp* real arena stage.

    You.

    Must.

    Fucking.

    ROCK!
    Edited by George-Roper at 23/08/08 @ 19:33

  • Zomoniac #48 4 years ago

    LOL @ George Groper!

    12 years of real drums, 10 years of producing and engineering, have a studio, and you're telling me what the difference is? Good lord. Clearly you don't understand the concept of fun. Why the hell do you play games anyway? Presumably to have fun. Well Rock Band and Guitar Hero are fun, and if you don't like them, don't play them, and don't look at threads on them, and don't bitch at people for not knowing the difference when they are very familiar with the difference. I know full well Rock Band doesn't make you a rock god. I play real music for that. What it does make you is fun and sociable. You should try it.

  • MrMarbles #49 4 years ago

    It's his swearing that I like the best - he's so macho. So buff. I want him so badly right now.

    I bet he's the type to jump on tortoises because he can't stand the fact that Mario isn't real. It drives him fucking mad.
    Edited by MrMarbles at 24/08/08 @ 14:12

  • George-Roper #50 4 years ago

    @Tits, err Tiste

    [link url=http://www.eurogamer.net/forum_thread_posts.php?thread_id=122026
    ]http://www.eurogamer.net/forum_thread_po...[/link]

    ROFL. You just got motherfucking owned, Mr 'I don't give a shit about GH' Man.

    If you enjoy clacking, err rocking, your way through GH just be a real man and own up to it. Everyone will think youre a cunt but, hey, so what?! Right?!

  • Wyrm #51 4 years ago

    If it's a turntable, how will it be any different to the real thing?

  • funkyd #52 4 years ago

    He is quite the moron, a good example of why I don't often brave the comments section.

  • Bealsy #53 4 years ago

    its a big dildo, so you can feel yourself being shafted for real instead of just forking out too much money for plastic shite accessories