Why did Guitar Hero die and do you think it will ever return?

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  • fretsonfire

    Frets on Fire

  • Frets On Fire is the only ever 'guitar hero-like' game I played, and it was just using a keyboard - learning to smash through T. D - Tribute on hard with your F-keys was incredibly fun. I felt like the actual guitar-shaped controllers ruined the charm of it, when I could just get my Fender out.

  • stepmania

    Advanced rhythm game for Windows, Linux and OS X. Designed for both home and arcade use.

  • The PS2 ones work easily on PC, there's even an open source DDR clone, stepmania. (https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania) only thing I don't like about stepmania is about 80% of the songs the steps aren't timed nearly as well as ddr, so it takes a bit more digging to find good ones. (there's literally thousands of packs people made though) You can also obviously play your PS2 games on PC with it as well.

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  • gslauncher

    Repository for the GrooveStats Launcher for the Simply Love SM5 theme.

  • There are also stepmania add-ons to add live leaderboard support using groovestats: https://github.com/GrooveStats/gslauncher

  • Simply-Love-SM5

    a StepMania 5 theme for the post-ITG community

  • That seems to be a fork of Stepmania, not a theme. The theme it is using is Simply Love, which yes is a very good theme.

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