The Passing of Greatness: Guitar Hero. JUST KIDDING!!!

No but seriously, its done.  

Today, we are gathered, not to mourn the loss of wonderful franchise. A franchise that, while it did spew novelty from all corners of its money sapping box upon its initial release, might have been beaten dead. A franchise that soon *was* beaten, until dead, and then brought back to life as a crappier version, beaten dead again revived, hanged, and is now finally being buried. It is sad that moms all over the world are no longer able to pour hundreds of dollars into low quality plastic peripherals for there 26 year old son who as already played this game 5 times, so that he can be the best on the new hardest song. You have to get it for him! If you don't, then he won't be able to go to his local GameStop and play Dragonforce on the interactive and impress everyone with his ANNOYING CLICKING. No, we shall not mourn this, instead... yes... instead we will celebrate.

BECAUSE GUITAR HERO IS FREAKIN DEAD!!!!!!!!!!

Holy CRAP it's about time! I mean seriously Activision. Yea, I'll admit, Guitar Hero was cool, until about.. GH2. Then I realized I had played this game, and now I am paying $70 for some new songs. The band idea was cool too, too bad Rock Band did it first Activision! I am not going to buy another "drum set" just because yours has cymbals. They. Are. Not. Real. Cymbals.
Oh right, you might not know what I'm talking about. I'm sorry I just got so caught up in the moment!!
Some amount of days ago (professional huh?) Activision announced they were axing the franchise. Saying stuff like:

"Despite a remarkable 92 rating on DJ Hero 2, a widely well-regarded Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, as well as a 90-plus rated release from our most direct competitor [Rock Band 3], demand for peripheral-based music games declined at a dramatic pace. Given the considerable licensing and manufacturing costs associated with this genre, we simply cannot make these games profitable based on current economics and demand. Instead, what we'll do is focus our time and energies on marketing and supporting our strong catalog of titles and downloadable content, especially to new consumers as the installed base for hardware continues to grow."
-Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg

This was about when it needed to end...

Which, essentially, means: Yea, those things were cool, and you chumps thought it was cool for a long time, and we milked you sorry saps for millions of dollars, but now it seems like we just have all these boxes lying around. So we are gonna stop now. Maybe we shouldn't have rammed this down your throat so much (teehee) Oh well, don't worry, we still plan to pump out DLC so keep your credit cards trained on XBLA!!

So there ya have it. It's been fun GH. Well, it was fun. About 4 years ago it was fun. Then you really just became that giant block of cardboard I had to walk around every time I walked into a video store. Sorry kid who plays GH in stores and thinks that makes him a bad ass, you are just going to have to find another way to piss of all the normal people. Try Tony Hawk Ride. I hear it's awesome. (lol)