End of an era.
For those of you who do not know, Clone Hero is a free game developed to fill the void that guitar hero and rock band left behind.
It’s not perfect but you can download custom songs and there is a pretty active community if charters.
I’ve been dying to relive those younger days with the drum peripheral but it’s damn hard to find nowadays. I wish I could find something for my Series X to play with my preschooler. She’d get a kick out of it.
Just to add that I took a look on CL and eBay, and the prices ranged from $350 to $900. That’s nuts!
I chucked my perfectly working drums years ago because my PS3 died and couldn’t play any more. Kicking myself hard rn
I chucked an old hard drive with something like 20 bitcoin on it from my college days without ever giving it a second thought. I think it was like $5 each then. Imagine my surprise when BTC hit $20k.
Me too man. I had two GH kits and a RB one. Never used them, they gathered dust, then eventually they went in the bin.
They were just so bloody bulky.I did manage to keep two GHWT guitars and the microphone, thankfully.
Clonehero is pretty good. People sell auduino guitars that work better than the old controllers. I converted my old guitar hero guitars into an auduino guitar.
What about the drums and mic?
YARG is still in development but has vocal support. I’ve been putting off trying it out since Clone Hero works for me, but I’ve been keeping an eye on it’s development.
Drum support was weeks away last I played a couple years ago. I haven’t been keeping up with development but I imagine they’re supported by now
Drums are implemented but unfortunately no vocals. Still pretty fun but not the classic experience
Worth noting you can mute the vocal track and kareoke over the songs
Clone Hero can run on any PC. And it works with any USB MIDI drum kit. You can find used cheap ones as low as $100 or buy a new professional E-kit for $2000. If you really want to learn to play the drums (instead of just dragging it out to play video games), the Alesis Nitro is a really great quality kit in the $300-400 range.
Is this game still playable on modern systems? Can you still buy the peripherals?
EDIT: I searched it myself and found the answer is Yes to modern systems, but No to peripherals. You have to buy overpriced adapters at retail and used equipment on ebay/craigslist.
I’m fortunate enough to still have my full collection of RB4 instruments functional after all these years, and I frequently bust them out with my wife and my friends when the booze hits just right.
In the announcement they really emphasize that you’ll keep the songs you’ve already bought. What they haven’t clarified is whether you’ll still be able to continue downloading dlc tracks that are already released. Severing that from the playerbase would really suck.
Although they are releasing one final DLC pack before this ends, so who knows?
What they haven’t clarified is whether you’ll still be able to continue downloading dlc tracks that are already released.
They are just stopping their weekly DLC release schedule. No reason to think anything is going to happen to current DLC. Just nothing new going forward.
End of an era
Good to know!
I didn’t even know this was still around
