Guitar Hero: On Tour promo video makes grown men cry

If you've been wondering just how you're going to play Guitar Hero on the DS, the answer is upon you. For the extreme in cringe-worthy videos, we present the Guitar Hero: On Tour promo, replete with some of the worst faux-rock music and singing your ears and eyes have ever been subjected to. If this doesn't make you want to impale yourself on the nearest sharp object, nothing will. We're not sure if they were going for irony here -- all we see is fail... oh, and the game looks pretty impossible to play too. Video after the break.

[Via Digg]

[Ben L @ May 30th 2008 10:41AM]

is that teenage Dexter?

[makishima @ May 30th 2008 10:49AM]

I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing. But it cant be. Dexter would have killed him right then and there for the crime of inflicting that wiggling on us.

[Conor Maher @ May 30th 2008 11:14AM]

rofl I was about to post the same thing :)

[ducky @ Jun 1st 2008 3:03AM]

I think you're all bashing it just because the first post happened to bash it. It doesn't look impossible to play at all. The gameplay may not match that of other consoles, but it doesn't look that terrible. Think for yourselves instead of just saying crap for the sake of agreeing with everyone else.

[IT-Accountant @ May 30th 2008 10:43AM]

Epic Fail.

[Deputy Doffoos @ May 30th 2008 9:30PM]

Speechless

After that video I just want to kill myself,

no really


jebus, the nightmares

[X-BLADE @ May 30th 2008 10:45AM]

One word: Freaks

Major fail.

[james @ May 30th 2008 10:45AM]

Love it.

[Todd @ May 30th 2008 11:13AM]

I vaguely reminds of me of the "Real American Hero" Budweiser commercials.

[Linkman2004 @ May 30th 2008 2:42PM]

You mean aside from the fact that those commercials are good?

[whowhatme @ May 30th 2008 10:46AM]

wiggle it like a madman! (ooooo wigglewigglewigglewiggle)

[xxxx @ May 30th 2008 11:06AM]

Did someone say... cocaine?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zF2Qvemd3DM

[Ray @ May 30th 2008 2:00PM]

"this video was banned from music television because you could see my junk..through my jumpsuit"

[Ray @ May 30th 2008 10:48AM]

oh yea, like anyone is going to yell "rock out" to use star power

[Elora HRanma @ May 30th 2008 12:14PM]

OBJECTION!

[Ray @ May 30th 2008 12:17PM]

saying it when your drunk doesnt count elora

[jak0b @ May 30th 2008 10:49AM]

wow he's annoying! I think that this video has convinced me not to buy a DS and GH:OT!
I think people would stare at me when I shout "Rock out" at my hand, in the park or bus.

Oh god please don't make one for the PSP!

[james @ May 30th 2008 10:50AM]

just press any button on the DS... "some tiiiiimes you can't yellllllll"...

[clowntree @ May 30th 2008 10:50AM]

It's disheartening to see activision take guitar hero from a top franchise to a gimmick in less than a year. Oh well, the nail in the coffin was rock band anyway.

[Ignatius @ May 30th 2008 10:53AM]

I think that Kotaku had it best when they merely wrote the title as "RIP Guitar Hero"...

[Jason Metcalfe @ May 30th 2008 10:56AM]

rock band > guitar hero

also that pick looks like it would scrape up my DS touchscreen quite a bit, I am foreseeing an epic fail

[Das Boot @ May 30th 2008 10:58AM]

Oh WOW, i am going to camp out the day before it comes out. I MUST HAVE IT! i can't be a true guitar hero person without having it and wiggling like a gay worm. . . . . . ok wait, the LCD has worn off. there is no way in Hades I would ever buy this. This video is totally effeminate. Good thing i never liked guitar hero or rock band.

[lcczx @ May 30th 2008 10:58AM]

我得找到那个手表再说！

[Mile @ May 30th 2008 11:02AM]

Hey, this is a family blog! Knock it off!

[Will @ May 30th 2008 4:05PM]

"I must find that wristwatch to say again"

[lcczx @ May 30th 2008 8:28PM]

i have to find the watch first.

[iEye @ May 30th 2008 11:03AM]

I'd rather be Rick Rolled...

[waffles @ May 30th 2008 1:23PM]

the internet called. wants to know where to send your shipment of win.

[itlnstln @ May 30th 2008 3:35PM]

Too bad iEye owes the internet so much fail from his other posts that he won't see any win for a while.

[Spinfusor @ May 30th 2008 11:04AM]

It looks like he's leaning in for the kiss...

[iEye @ May 30th 2008 11:06AM]

I don't know what is worse... this ad or the Dunkin Donuts Terrorist Ad... in both cases the agency should be dragged out into the street and shot... or tortured with that new fangled active denial system.

[John H. @ May 30th 2008 11:10AM]

Is it me, or did it get stupid in here all of a sudden?

[Jimmyy @ May 30th 2008 11:11AM]

Lol... he missd the first note

[John H. @ May 30th 2008 11:11AM]

Is it me, or did it get stupid in here all of a sudden?

[John H. @ May 30th 2008 11:12AM]

Is it me, or did it get stupid in here all of a sudden?

[Beau @ May 30th 2008 11:15AM]

It's definitely just you

[aintno @ May 30th 2008 3:47PM]

it got total fail pw3d...
hey kiddos...keep using buzzwords

[justin @ May 30th 2008 11:13AM]

Looks like somebody got the high score in Heroin Hero before starting this demo.

[Beau @ May 30th 2008 11:14AM]

Bud Light salutes "real men of genius"

[Jimmyy @ May 30th 2008 11:15AM]

How could you? I ust died a little inside =(

[Brian @ May 30th 2008 11:22AM]

How does it look impossible to play?

[Stiv @ May 30th 2008 11:22AM]

I personally think GH is boring and lame. It does possess, however, the tiny merit that the controller is shaped vaguely like a guitar and the actions you perform with your hands are not entirely dissimilar to what one would do with a real guitar – you know, like grownups use.

This thing? It’s 100% unlike playing a guitar. It is without merit. Fail. The video is also pretty awful. Not pass!

[Kaiser-Machead @ May 30th 2008 11:28AM]

So Dance Dance Revolution won't be able to help me set ladies' skirts on fire on the dance floor in the real world??

As for Peewee Herman and young Jonathan Taylor Thomas' house of craprock, I present the bird.

Being flipped.

[inimitable @ May 30th 2008 4:17PM]

Just because you aren't holding a real-fake guitar doesn't mean it can't have merit as a rhythm game.

That said, it looks horrible beyond redemption.

[dom.rout @ May 30th 2008 4:39PM]

I have to disagree. I had a big discussion about this with some fellow guitar players. It's very much a case of how much it feels like playing a guitar being related to the style and techniques you've developed playing real guitar. For me, the type of co-ordination involved between the two hands makes it a dead ringer. For those who HAVEN'T had the finger to a fret rule mercilessly driven into them through countless exercises by sadistic guitar teachers... not so much.

[Ryan @ May 30th 2008 11:29AM]

This ad is nothing but Super Turbo Mega Fail....Ultimate Edition.

These games are for the biggest geeks on the planet. Jesus Christ if you wanna play guitar just pick up a guitar and take some lesson...you wont be getting any chicks by showing your mad skillz on some stupid plastic guitar controller in your living room. When will people stop buying this garbage and simply go out and learn to play an instrument. At least that would get these nerds away from the TV set and possibly into a girls pants.

[Forrest @ May 30th 2008 11:34AM]

I spend plenty of time playing video games and yet I still get into a girls pants. I fail to see your correlation.

[Ryan @ May 30th 2008 11:45AM]

Forrest...so you fail to see the correlation between playing too many video games, staying indoors 24/7, or playing wow every day of your life with not being able to land a girlfriend, wife or even friend with benefits? You fail to see how being anti social, weak and out of shape from being a couch potato and lack of exercise would have a big effect on ones ability to attract someone of the opposite sex? So wait hold on...what your telling me is your confused by the fact that putting video games first in your life and staring into a television set all day might make it difficult for a person to meet a women who has any interest in them? Oh yea forrest you obviously must have it all figured out. Keep on playing Guitar Hero and live the dream buddy....live the dream.

[G @ May 30th 2008 11:52AM]

Clearly, anyone who plays videogames at all plays them 24/7 and never leaves the house. Anyone who plays Madden should instead learn to play real football and join the NFL, and anyone who plays CoD should buck up and join the special forces. Maybe then they could get laid. Losers.

[johnzilla @ May 30th 2008 11:55AM]

If I had a dollar for every time some arrogant ass told people to quit playing Guitar Hero and learn to play "real guitar" instead, I'd be rich.

Guitar Hero doesn't have anything to do with learning to play guitar. It has to do with KEEPING SCORE. It is just a game...a music-related game where you KEEP SCORE. That's it!!

And yes, I do play guitar (and bass, and keys, and saxophone). Guitar Hero is fun because I get to KEEP SCORE and COMPETE, not because it teaches me to play guitar.