The MBoard

Ever since I finally got around to buying a Playstation Two for this Christmas, I've come to the conclusion that with great power comes great responsibility. Read: Spending. There are some must have titles outthere for the old machine and lacking them would probly feel like having the Mona Lisa in your room framed in one of these newfangled things that isn't really a picture frame but a sheet of glass clamped to pressboard. Now before I get caught up in a ZeroPunctuation like monolog (which is probly the best game reviewer ever) or a drawn-out rant about old and new art and style, I'll cut to the chase and ask you guys:

Is Guitar Hero 1, 2 or 3 worth shelling out 90 euro moneys which is about 132 yankee bucks?

I resisted GH for a while, but then I had some christmas money burning a hole in my pocket and sprung on GH3 for the Wii, and I've definately had my money's worth.

It's guarenteed to put a smile on your face... the essence of fun.

Definitely worth it. It will last you a long while, and even when you start getting bored of it, you'll find yourself continuously coming back for more.

I love GH3 and I hear 2 is even better (but 2 has all cover songs, and I've only played a bit of it so I don't know for sure).

I really have no addictive personality, not even a little. I can't play the same game for long periods of time. I played GH a few times and that's about it... and I OWN it.

You just have ants in your pants. I heard the first one isn't that good.

I meant the third one on Wii. Sorry about that.

And I played the second one a few times, too.

I heard from both JC and others that the Wii version is inferior audio-wise.

Doesn't make it any less fun, though, I suppose. I would've gotten it for Wii if I wasn't planning on getting Rock Band (and using the GH3 guitar) later.

I've heard that GH2 has a better song list, but they're all covers anyway and GH3 has a pretty damn good song list anyway.

Agreed! Someone came up to me with that argument and I countered with that same response.

I like all three a lot. #1 has a good song list, but the engine hadn't been fine-tuned yet so #2 beat it in gameplay mechanics, which 3 beats it again.
Guitar Hero 2 for PS2 is the way to go, GH3 is slow as death and takes forever to load and save while GH2 was made FOR the PS2 so it's runs better.

Get GH2 for the PS2, and not 3 unless you get a better system.
#3 can actually lag on the PS2, which is a no-no for rhythm games (Kaiju Megadome=lag whore).

Hope this helps. It's worth it.

Beware the cheap controllers.

Be Gentle.

Yeah, be pretty gentle, just no smashing or anything and it should be fine though. Remember: it's never the controller, you just suck.

Bought it. Dig it. 2nd game, btw.

Good man. It's worth whatever you paid.

Yeah, be pretty gentle, just no smashing or anything and it should be fine though. Remember: it's never the controller, you just suck.

I am indeed quite terrible at it, but the controllers break under minimal wear.

My whammy bar broke and now has no spring to it.

The Rock Band equipment is even worse.

You KNOW you're playing cheaply made accessories when the game flat out warns you to just contact THEM if anything breaks, and not the store from whence the fine plastic garbage was purchased.

Any GameStop employees here can tell you, that doesn't actually stop anyone.

Yeah, whammy bars are sensitive, mine didn't break until a few weeks ago when my brother was pissed at the Guitar not registering the notes he's hitting, so he smashed if off his head a few times and broke the whammy bar. I kicked him in the head, took the Guitar, and scored a good 300K+ on Sweet Child of Mine for a new high score.

It's always the Guitar, OR it CAN be the lag caused by big/HDTVs, which there is a calibrater for it (not on GH1 though).

Anyways, I hope you become an addict. Try to beat Expert in less than 2 months, that's how long it took me.

My friend This guy I know has a broken whammy bar that you have jiggle TOTALLY from right to left (and it shouldn't even be able to go right) to get it to work. For the longest time I thought that was normal so when I got mine I didn't know why it wouldn't go right, luckily I didn't bother to push it to the limit.

Anyways, I hope you become an addict. Try to beat Expert in less than 2 months, that's how long it took me.

I've had it two months and I'm still playing Medium... and I still need to 5 star two more songs... >.>

If you're 5 starring songs on medium, you're playing on hard.
Same for all levels.
If you're 5 starring songs on expert, you're really good.

I started hard for a bit, but then I started horribly failing on some of the 2nd set of songs like "You Really Got Me" and some others.

Well, it's not bad if you just keep on keepin' on.
Practice mode is a God.

You guys will think I'm crazy, but I think all guitar heroes(Rock Band too) suck.

Apparently, they don't, since they're popular.

Then again, I believe Halo sucks.

Indeed, a hell of a lot of popular stuff sucks.

The Black Eyed Peas define this.

Guitar Hero is decent that's for sure. Sometimes it's fun, but only with other people.

Yuri, you must be like the kid at Wal Mart that tries it once, in practice, on easy, on SLOWEST, on your favorite song and only get 70% of notes and therefore hate it.

I know that kid!

I hate it when people play videogames who suck at them in general.
Then they badmouth the awesome games and priase the easy pieces of crap, like Disney games, just because they can beat the first few levels on easy.

I hate them all.

Who the hell praises Disney games?

Not even Kingdom Hearts was all that great. I'm sure it was fun, but from what I've seen, it's just another RPG.

Oh, I played it, it was okay, but overall I lost interest a few levels in when I couldn't figure out what the HELL I was doing anymore then going into a battle competely underleveled.

There's a few I like.

Kingdom Hearts is popular no doubt, but there are two Mickey games I remember playing on the NES back then, but I can't remember what they were called. I was having some fun.

There's also Mickey's Dangerous Chase on the Gameboy. That game was #####ing difficult, thus I liked it. The ending was #####ing bull##### though.

I had a Mickey game on Game Boy that I was never able to beat as a kid. There was a driving level and a jetski level, all in 2D before it was MANDATORY for those types of mini-games/sub-levels to be 3D. It was a great game, and all the combat was block-based, kind of like a cross of SMB2 and Blockdude on TI calculators.
 I also had one on Game Gear that I could totally rape, too easy but oh so much more colorful.

Anyway, the Mickey game was the only Game Boy game I owned that I was never able to beat. When the time came to sell my Game Boy, I vowed that I would not rid myself of it until I could beat the game.

I did. It was marvelous.

So, uh, I guess I did praise a Disney game. But it was an old one!

Was it the one were you kind of had different "Suits" like a bomberman and a magician?
If it is, it wasn't that good.

Nope, not that one. No suits. You could play as different characters though - I think it was only Mickey and Minnie, but I remember Donald and Goofy making appearances. They might not have been playable, though.

Just found it:

(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/0/585800_3033_front.jpg)

And look who made it!

I had a Mickey game on Game Boy that I was never able to beat as a kid. There was a driving level and a jetski level, all in 2D before it was MANDATORY for those types of mini-games/sub-levels to be 3D. It was a great game, and all the combat was block-based, kind of like a cross of SMB2 and Blockdude on TI calculators.

That's Dangerous Chase. The first level required you to do stuff like whack bulldogs with blocks. I couldn't beat it either, but years later I did. The ending was more dissappointing than the one in Super Mario Bros. 2.

Game spoiler:
[spoiler]After all that ##### I went through, chasing Pete for Minnie's present, going through different hazards, risking my LIFE, I finnally get back the present. What is it? A #####ing bird. THE SECOND LEVEL WAS A #####ING MARKET, I COULD'VE BOUGHT ANOTHER ONE.[/spoiler]

Yep, yep! There was like a factory level or something near the end that always got me.

And yeah, I didn't even remember the ending, so it must not have been all that great.

Anyone ever play Home Alone 2 on the Gameboy?

That game was a pile of crap.

Play it on console, it's the worst game ever. (I talked about this earlier today... What the #####?)

OMG NO A VACUUM CLEANER O NOEZ I R DED.

Yeah I don't even think they casted a vacuum in Home Alone 2.

OMG, Why are we talking about all the old gameboy games I used to own all of a sudden?

yeah, I played it. Beat it. Hard as hell. Confusing as hell. Stupid as hell.

Random people grab you and strangle you to death, even the hotel clerks.

Well one of them WAS played by Rob Schneider...

Yep.
I still have it somewheres.
I tried to trade it in years ago and the owner wouldn't buy it off me, smart man.

I've played real Guitar, and I have played Guitar Hero....And I have to say nothing beats the REAL thing. Guitar Hero is alright but its really quite cheesey when you get right down to it....

Don't spend your money on a fake Guitar...Buy a real one.  Sure it takes some time to play a real guitar, but it takes time to learn how to play Guitar Hero too!

Which is more fun? Playing a small library of songs on a piece of computerized plastic OR playing anything you want(within reason, practice makes perfect!) on a real Axe?

*cough*
Peavey T-60s Rule.
*cough*

1,000,000 POINTS!

YOU
ARE
FAGS!

I have to tell you, as a major South Park fan, one of my favorite moments ever in the show is in the Guitar Queer-O episode.

When the kid is playing Guitar Hero "acoustically" and the other people in the restaraunt starting clapping along and saying "Ooh, I love this song!"

After this Guitar Hero dissing I'm gonna feel like an idiot for saying this.
I just added 200,000 total points to my GH3 online stats.
They didn't upload.
My sister's online name signed in instead of mine without me knowing (it doesn't inform you of this kind of stuff) and I play for 2 hours and get some of my top scores. All uploaded to my sister's online account and not mine.

I'm #####ing pissed.

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Checked hers.
I'm ranked 2005th.
She's now ranked 1987th.
Which is retarded, because she's played about 20 songs on medium.
#####ing Activition retards.
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^looks completely stupid.

Okay here's why people continue to buy and love Guitar Hero and there's no argument to this so just shut up: It's FUN.

THE END. That's the only answer anyone should require to "Why don't you just play real guitar?", which I hear all the time.

YES you can learn to play a real guitar, yes it's a lot cooler, more expensive, more rewarding, blah di blah di blah. But so what if someone likes to play Guitar Hero? If it was a bad guitar game then I could get behind people thinking it's SO ridiculous but everyone has fun playing it. It's not like normal people really choose it OVER learning real guitar, and it's not like normal people actually think they're good at guitar from playing it. And the learning curve is FAR different from real guitar, there is NO comparison.

No one ever asks "Why play DDR when you could just go dancing? Why play this game when you can actually hunt a real deer?". The answer would usually be something about how the game is not the same as the actual thing.

My answer to "Why play GH when you can learn real guitar?" will always be;

"Because it's a fungame, you asshat. I'd LOVE to learn real guitar but it takes more time and money that I don't have in my life right now and GH is an easy pick up for a few minutes every now and then. But the bottom line is that it's a fun good game, slag off."

And yes I have used that response before, and yes I would like to learn actual guitar.

I'm actually really interested in learning to play actual guitar, but for me Guitar Hero is like, an entirely different thing. It's a video game, and I never compare it to an actual guitar. I have fun playing it.
I think I already mentioned, but my friend has the same argument as Mike:
It's a known fact that he spends a LOT of time playing GH, and his comeback whenever people tell him he should just practice real guitar is always "Because Guitar Hero is fun and simple. The end."

I agree. When you play a real guitar, you don't have a scoring system and you don't have to think about chaining up some mad combos or the ability to bring over a bunch of random friends and teaching them how to play with you in a matter of minutes.
Each has their own ups and downs, and they're entirely different aside from being guitars.

Air Guitar Hero is really lame though.
I'm guilty of doing it with other Guitar Hero nerds, we just watch each other's fret hands and know exactly what's happening.
Not that we do it in crowds, but sitting on a bus and talking about our strategies on different songs and doing the hand motions gets us a lot of odd looks.

Seriously.


Seriously.

I was going to buy this shirt recently;

http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/airguitarhero/male

I still might.

I want this shirt:
http://mypartyshirt.com/bluebarracudas

Never saw that show. Was it like Guts?

In a way, it was similar. I'm pretty sure they even aired back-to-back. Just imagine Guts in an ancient historical setting. The show way cool.

I once told a few of my friends that I was on the show when I was younger, and won a box of ring pops. Apparently they believed me for a while. Even though they know it's a joke now, I still want the shirt. Someone told me I should get it an Xtra Small and dirty it up a bit, as if it was the same shirt I wore "when I was on the show", but I'd rather actually just buy a shirt I could wear.

I was going to buy this shirt recently;

http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/airguitarhero/male

I still might.

I really want that shirt.
REALLY want it.

Well, I just beat the Hard Tour in GHII yesterday.

Now I started Expert, I beat 8 songs. Now I'm tired of it, my hands hurt. >_>

I did a bunch of songs in Medium last night, everything up to and past playing with Tom Morello. I'm getting a lot better at medium quickly, but I improve quickly in this game-I just don't get to play often.

My brother forced me out of bed last night at 2:00AM to get Guitar Hero III to work for him.

It turns out the cable was just out a little bit. -_-

Guitar Hero is easy to get good at but really hard to get awesome at.
It takes a loooong time.

People who suggest playing the real guitar instead of GH may aswell suggest digging your own trenches instead of playing Medal of Honor.

OKAY, so, in Guitar Hero 3, I just 4 starred Raining Blood and Number of the Beast making it so I have at least 4 Starred all of Expert career. Not counting the Bonus songs. I have 5 stars on all songs up through the 5th tier.

My next goal is getting 5 Stars on all songs on Hard, I have Knights of Cydonia and Raining blood left.
I can never nail the end of Knights of Cydonia, it feels off.
Raining Blood is just crazy stupid/ridiculous.

People who suggest playing the real guitar instead of GH may aswell suggest digging your own trenches instead of playing Medal of Honor.

That's absurd.
You can't die by playing the real guitar.

Unlike the drums.

Playing guitar has led to tons of deaths... Just not directly.

It really has, y'know. Huh.

Wouldn't it be more from the crack and the mentally unstable people with the guns that shoot 'em during performances?

That would be why I said not directly. Playing guitar gets them the fame and money to get the blow. Or to Cobain themselves.

DS GUITAR HERO?!

http://uk.ds.ign.com/articles/860/860511p1.html

For reals.

What the...?

That's awkward.

Sweeeeet.

Probably the best video-game-related news I've heard in a very long time, aside from anything about Brawl.

I'm very hyped.

That's... unnecessary...

I hope the guitar dongle fits into the regular DS's GBA slot.

Ahaha, that would suck.

I remember how much it sucked to have an old DS when all the accessories or whatnot were coming out and it was all built around the DS Lite.

And then I traded my old one in for a DS Lite and everything got better.

So are we getting some crazy pick for the touch screen or something or are we just using a stylus or what?

*clearly doesn't care enough to read the whole article*

Getting a special pick stylus that stows away in that little GBA-slot peripheral.

They already have a pick stylus, it was for jam session, doesn't look very good to me. I'd rather use a regular stylus.

I'd rather never play that. Am I seriously the only person who thinks that's the lamest #####ing thing ever? I like Guitar Hero but I'll admit that it's incredibly retarded, but this takes the down syndrome cake.

I won't be getting it. I can't see myself strumming by using the stylus to be honest.

I've noticed that actual Guitar Hero sucks ass in public or with more than two people. If I see someone playing this I will jockstyle (http://nnneeerrrdddsss.ytmnd.com/) rush them.

I can't stand GH, so although I admire the package and stuff the game comes with, I wouldn't waste my time with it.

My answer is, just buy Guitar Hero for the console.... because it is a better experience and I would not be used to it anyways, so take this advice into consideration, because I have GH on the DS, and it isn't that good of a game, it lags ALOT.

...what? There's no GH on the DS yet.

Nice one yuri.

We'll call you when you when you can take your head out of a hole.

Nice one yuri.

We'll call you when you when you can take your head out of a hole.

WHAT?! You don't know me! You don't even know my number!

(P.S. It was a joke  >:()

Worst excuse for comedy ever.
Fail.

You know, I never go into a joke thinking "OH MAN THIS'LL CRACK EVERYBODY UP" so it kind of pisses me off when people are like "Grr, not funny" as if it actually bothers them that I made an attempt to lighten the mood.

If it's a JOKE, it's not supposed to be taken seriously, regardless of how funny it is. So if someone asserts that they made a joke, why do other people try to put that person down instead of just saying "Oh, okay"?

I remember I made a joke like that on MChat when I was new and someone did that exact same thing to me when I said it was a joke, and it's like "Excuse me, Princess, I didn't know you were a douchebag."

My answer is, just buy Guitar Hero for the console.... because it is a better experience and I would not be used to it anyways, so take this advice into consideration, because I have GH on the DS, and it isn't that good of a game, it lags ALOT.

What a coincidence, I have GH for the DS, it really does blow.

... I take back what I just said.

EDIT: Before WIND posted I said "That did not just happen." and then edited it.

It did. Super gut nao?

HE'S MAKIN' A TOPIC! LOOK OUT! *prepares for lulz*

...HAHAHAHA!

Super gut nao?

That's the most annoying part of this thread, so far...

HE'S MAKIN' A TOPIC! LOOK OUT! *prepares for lulz*

Here we go...

I was really hoping for an all out flame war like everyone describes from noobs. Oh well, maybe next time : (

If you're going to make a joke, make sure it reads as a joke. Otherwise when you say "I was jokiiinnng" it just sounds like a piss poor excuse for making a stupid post.

Okay, I agree with that much. I guess I just hate it when people have to be all condescending about it. No one HAS to say "Well, it wasn't funny" 'cause it clearly wasn't. It feels to me like kicking the person while they're down while beating a dead horse.

But maybe I'm just being arrogant, spouting my opinion off every time something happens that I don't like. I guess I should stay away from YouTube comments for a while.

YouTube comments are possibly one of the worst things ever.

Haha, no kidding. I really couldn't tell you why I ever post anything.

I was really hoping for an all out flame war like everyone describes from noobs. Oh well, maybe next time : (

Like everyone describes... hah.

Nah, MMM has lost that. For some reason, people don't even get banned anymore. They just stop coming at the right time.

I've never seen a flame war.

Not flame wars, no, but the way that spammers were treated back in the day. Like me, when I was a wee member named "Junpei" 6 or 7 years ago.

I've never seen a flame war.

It's real easy, just get two flamethrowers and have it. Loads of fun, usually ends in severe burns for both parties, though.

And/or death.

No. Never death.

Whoa. Whoa. Wait.

People DIE?

Man, I just had a -3 run on Anarchy in the UK on Expert.
I'm pissed. Stupid mistakes.

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^^ But that ranks me 503'd for wii players on earth.
Eh.

Just played for hours. Still can't beat the intro the  Through the Fire and Flames.

Some bad news about the bonus stuff in the Wii's version of Rock Band:

Rock Band for Wii (http://www.destructoid.com/rock-band-wii-bonus-songs-are-totally-underwhelming-81710.phtml)

I'm still getting it, though. I don't care for that other mumbo jumbo, the multiplayer is enough for me.

Eh. The Ramones, The Polics, The B-52's. I don't see how that's bad.

I wouldn't play it online at all anyway. Like Guitar Hero.

So the Wii version has bonus songs you have to pay for in the 360/PS3 versions?

How exactly is that bad?

Everyone's complaining that they don't get original songs.

I don't care, seeing as I just want to play with my friends.

I'm not getting it.
I don't have many Wii friends who don't already have Rock Band for the 360 so Wii without multi player is dumb.

It's times like this that I'm glad I decided to get Guitar Hero and Rock Band for my 360 and NOT my Wii.

I WISH I had a 360....

I probably won't buy because I think it's not a good investment. I live close to my high school friends but far from my college friends and really if it doesn't work out to play with both groups easily a party game isn't that worth it. I'll let other people get it and keep my stuff to games I can actually BRING to the west side of Ottawa (I like in the east end).

Rock Band seems to take everything that's gay about Guitar Hero and magnify it to a level that I'm not comfortable with.

I'm comfortable with it. I just don't care enough to play that often.

Rock Band seems to take everything that's gay about Guitar Hero and magnify it to a level that I'm not comfortable with.

I haven't played it or seen anyone play it so I don't know, but I'm starting to think the same. Even though I play a minimal amount of GH.

I can't enjoy Guitar Hero in the slightest unless I'm alone.

OH YES.
I just FC'd (100%, no overstrums) Generation Rock by Reveloverhead on GH3 Bonus songs. Pictures to come in a moment.

BUT YOU DIDN'T GET ALL THE STAR POWER PHRASES! YOU SUCKZ!!11!!


Good job... the only song I've 100% on hard was Strutter on GH2... and that song is as difficult as a Medium song. I probably can't ever 100% an expert song.

... Parasite, Expert, GH2. Really easy.

I'll try that eventually then.

WOW COOL.

Geek.

I love Guitar Hero, what can I say?

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SO, any Wii owner who took advantage of the Replacement Discs with Stereo/surround sound ALSO were compensated for, for the time they DIDN'T have GH3.

Basically I just got a faceplate in the Mail.
With a note, see for yourselves.

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I made a video if you want more shots of it.
-http://youtube.com/watch?v=duumwEKSwT8&fmt=18

I didn't know you could get a replacement disc. I don't really care but I like free stuff.

You lose guitar hero for a few weeks, It might only be America too.
I dunno.
Check out the site.

Losing Guitar Hero for weeks won't bother me much.

If GH fell off the face of the Earth, I wouldn't shed a tear.

IAMCHRIS4LIFE has 100%'d Through the Fire and Flames on Expert.
Holy cow.
Here it is. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=S5GpRJItqjw)

I can't believe someone actually did that.

... kinda sad really. >_>

Not at all.
See, he's already guaranteed a job in the videogame industry from Activision. They are basically paying him right now to even PLAY the game. He is only 16. He's been winning tournaments and stuff for a while now, and has made a lot of money off of it so far.
Videogames are his career now.

Forget I said anything.

Playing video games would be the best way to make money.

I think anyone in Major League Gaming or that plays videogames for a career is a tool.

I'd do it as a second job to be honest.

Hell, if MAKING them was my first one, it'd be a dream.

Haha, then you'd have an advantage.

"How'd he do that?!"
"I simply programmed in a little thing there that only I can specifically pull off under very specific circumstances in order to win every time."
"Haha, very funny. Seriously, good game."
"...yes. Good game..."

I think anyone in Major League Gaming or that plays videogames for a career is a tool.

Yes.

I don't see why Activision is paying to play GH. That sounds completely bull##### like everyone who tells you they're sponsored for skateboarding when they clearly not. I had a guy tell me he was sponsored for fingerboarding once, he wasn't even good--Just rich enough to afford all kinds of gay Tech Deck halfpipes and ##### like a total knob. Come to think of it, I have a few stories about that guy, the bullah.

What does Activision get out of him being good at their game exactly?

He represents them at competitions and them sponsoring him got their name into the Guinness World Record book. Something like that.

Not a bad deal.

Not a good one either.

He's making no solid contributions to anything whatsoever aside from making a very minor impact on the advertisements of an already best-selling video-game franchise.

Plus, any time somebody riffs on people who play videogames for a living, you just get that dumb response along the lines of "HEY THEY'RE PLAYING VIDEOGAMES AND GETTING PAID, THAT'S THE LIFE HUH?"

No.

I can't quite explain what I mean but that wouldn't be a very satisfying life to me, and it would just set up some sort of facade that makes me feel as if I'm doing something worthwhile.

I'd want to do something at LEAST creative and constructive, so a videogame playing career would fill no hole or void.

It does nothing for society.
It's only a dream to hardcore gamers who do nothing BUT play videogames.

Problems: Girlfriend would say - "Hey, wanna come over tonight?"
Your response- "Sorry, I have to play another 4 hours of videogames to meet my quota, sorry."
GF- "##### you."

The problem with that hypothetical problem is that you believe such a person would even have a girlfriend.

I know TONS of people who are "that guy", sans the "I don't have time for my GF" bit.

I have no girlfriend and I've known quite a few people who mistake me as "the gamer kid". I only play games because I have nothing else better to do. I'd MUCH rather hang out with friends, so if a girlfriend asked me for my time, I wouldn't have a problem. They think otherwise though.

Didn't someone say on the old board that some guy got addicted to World of Warcraft? He never had anytime with his girlfriend or his college classes. When graduation came around, he told her he wouldn't be graduating with her, so she dumped him.

If it wasn't here, I must've read it somewhere.

I don't know about that but someone in my year was too busy with WoW to participate in his work.

I've been playing GH3 online for about an hour so far tonight. All online.
I beat one guy, the rest quit out.

I freakin' hate that.

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I'm about to #####ing kill my controller right now.
It just stopped letting me hit 3 note chords and green notes in the middle of a pro-faceoff.
I'm #####ing pissed.
It has NOT had any problems 'till now.

Maybe you shoud like GH3 less so then you don't care as much.

NEVAR

Like, you should like it about a human amount. Not some freaky amount like you do.

I like a human amount.
I'm a big human.
I have a lot of love to give it.

And too much time to give it too.

At least he's better than one kid I know. This kid is obsessed and plays it non-stop, and boasts about how good he is, but he actually sucks and even I can beat him on most songs.

On the other hand, I have friends that are obsessed and AMAZING, too. It's impressive to watch some of that stuff.

Before this last week, I went like 2 weeks without playing at all.
I'm still only like the 6th best from my High School. Freaking sophomore being able to 5 star Through the Fire and Flames and Jordan.

You shouldn't even KNOW that you're 6th best in your entire school.

We have had some small tournaments, during classes and lunches and stuff, just because.
I hang out with all of them too.

So Guitar Hero DS comes out on the 22nd.

And...

...I decided I'm going to get it.

I guess the main reason is that I haven't played my DS in a really really really long time and I feel that this is enough motivation.

I'll let you guys know how it goes.

I'm sure you'll have hours of fun. 17 to be precise.

I'm not expecting much. If I go in with low expectations I'll at least get a nightly diversion out of it.

I figure it's stupid since the whole point is that it's portable, but I would never let myself be seen playing it in public, and if I'm at home I'd rather play the actual full-featured console version.

So, in the end, I'm getting it for the multiple 3-hour car trips I know I'll be taking up north and back home all summer to my condo.

... I hate everything I've seen of it.
If I pick it up, it was on sale.

Just decided I'm not getting it.

Though I don't necessarily don't want it.

Get something worth spending the 3 hour trips on. You'd probably get bored of the GHDS in like 30 minutes.

I think it's the sort of thing that if I see somebody else with, I'll think "hey, that's fun" and ask to try it out. It'll be fun for the exact amount of time I'm given to try it out. And it'll never be fun again.

Hooooly crap.
I just played the sickest online round I've played in forever.
Just look at these scores.

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For Before I forget, you need 314,648 to five star it.
We both 'six' starred it (averaged a 4.0 multiplier), but he seven starred it, averaging a 5.0x multiplier for his points.

Jeeeezum. We both only 6 starred Kool thing though.

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And now my guitar does strum half the time when I'm holding a blue note.
It's pretty #####ing retarded that I get 3 or 4 stars on songs that I 5 star with no problem.

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I keep this thread alive.

Anyways, the full GH:WT setlist was announced.
-- 311 - "Beautiful Disaster"
-- 30 Seconds To Mars - "The Kill"
-- Airbourne - "Too Much Too Young"
-- The Allman Brothers Band - "Ramblin' Man"
-- Anouk - "Good God"
-- The Answer - "Never Too Late"
-- At The Drive-In - "One Armed Scissor"
-- Beastie Boys - "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"
-- Beatsteaks - "Hail to the Freaks"
-- Billy Idol - "Rebel Yell"
-- Black Label Society - "Stillborn"
-- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Weapon of Choice"
-- blink-182 - "Dammit"
-- Blondie - "One Way or Another"
-- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - "Hollywood Nights"
-- Bon Jovi - "Livin' On A Prayer"
-- Bullet For My Valentine - "Scream Aim Fire"
-- Coldplay - "Shiver"
-- Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Up Around The Bend"
-- The Cult - "Love Removal Machine"
-- Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel The Pain"
-- The Doors - "Love Me Two Times"
-- Dream Theater - "Pull Me Under"
-- The Eagles - "Hotel California"
-- The Enemy - "Aggro"
-- Filter - "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
-- Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"
-- Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
-- The Guess Who - "American Woman"
-- Hush Puppies - "You're Gonna Say Yeah!"
-- Interpol - "Obstacle 1"
-- Jane's Addiction - "Mountain Song"
-- Jimi Hendrix - "Purple Haze (Live)"
-- Jimi Hendrix - "The Wind Cries Mary"
-- Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle"
-- Joe Satriani - "Satch Boogie"
-- Kent - "Vinternoll2"
-- Korn - "Freak On A Leash"
-- Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth"
-- Lenny Kravitz - "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
-- Linkin Park - "What I've Done"
-- The Living End - "Prisoner of Society"
-- Los Lobos - "La Bamba"
-- Lost Prophets - "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)"
-- Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama (Live)"
-- Mars Volta - "L'Via L'Viaquez"
-- MC5's Wayne Kramer - "Kick Out The Jams"
-- Metallica - "Trapped Under Ice"
-- Michael Jackson - "Beat It"
-- Modest Mouse - "Float On"
-- Motorhead - "Overkill"
-- Muse - "Assassin"
-- Negramaro - "Nuvole e Lenzuola"
-- Nirvana - "About a Girl (Unplugged)"
-- No Doubt - "Spiderwebs"
-- NOFX - "Soul Doubt"
-- Oasis - "Some Might Say"
-- Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train"
-- Ozzy Osbourne - "Mr. Crowley"
-- Paramore - "Misery Business"
-- Pat Benatar - "Heartbreaker"
-- R.E.M. - "The One I Love"
-- Radio Futura - "Escuela De Calor"
-- Rise Against - "Re-Education Through Labor"
-- Sex Pistols - "Pretty Vacant"
-- Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye"
-- Smashing Pumpkins - "Today"
-- Steely Dan - "Do It Again"
-- Steve Miller Band - "The Joker"
-- Sting - "Demolition Man (Live)"
-- The Stone Roses - "Love Spreads"
-- Stuck In The Sound - "Toy Boy"
-- Sublime - "Santeria"
-- Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger"
-- System of a Down - "B.Y.O.B."
-- Ted Nugent - "Stranglehold"
-- Ted Nugent's Original Guitar Duel Recording
-- Tokio Hotel - "Monsoon"
-- Tool - "Parabola"
-- Tool - "Schism"
-- Tool - "Vicarious"
-- Trust - "Antisocial"
-- Van Halen - "Hot For Teacher"
-- Willie Nelson - "On The Road Again"
-- Wings - "Band on the Run"
-- Zakk Wylde's Original Guitar Duel Recording

They has Muse 0.0

That makes me very happy.

There are some real gems on there.

Yes, I'm really impressed with this tracklist. They even have Colplay :) God damn this shall be awesome.

I smell Christmas present.

I'm not impressed at all, same old crap.

I'm beginning to think band-specific iterations of this are a better idea.

Downloadable content offers whole albums to play.

They've only had one Bad Religion song in Guitar Hero, makes me sad D:

Even though I'm not a fan of GH, I'd still like to play more than one song on there..

Downloadable content offers whole albums to play.

Does it allow me to trade the ##### music of Coldplay and Muse for that of better bands, free of charge?

Didn't think so.

I wish. Not that I'm ever gonna buy another "pattern" game like this. But I might play some GH3 today, since I've nothing else pressing until tonight.

Deluxe World Tour pre-orders will get a free BASS so pre-order now!

...... hein?

Know what game needs a Bass? Mega Man 9. Mm-hmm.

-- Dream Theater - "Pull Me Under"

-- Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger"

The first one surprised me. But it was about time they put the second in.

Know what game needs a Bass? Mega Man 9. Mm-hmm.

OMG HAHAAHAHAHSDAHSFDSAFDEDFGWFGW E CLEVER.

Apparently MM2 Wily music topped the GHTunes chart, but was removed for copyright reasons.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/11/mega-man-rocks.html

In other news, my GHWT is in the mail.

Why?

Why the hell are they removing them? Isn't the point of the music maker to make songs that WEREN'T in Guitar Hero? I mean, making an original song is nice and all... but playing MM2 Wily Stage 1 on Guitar Hero would be #####ing sweet. Copyright reasons... bah. Hate ##### like that, ruins the fun of some things...

I plan to get World Tour now, although it may take a while before I get it.

Copyright reasons is the only decent reason to do that.

I've had that song for a while.
It's darned fun to play.
I also have Green Greens, the chocobo theme, and quite a few others.

Abe, we'll have to play together.

Are you getting anything besides the game, or are you just getting the disc and using your GH3 guitar?

I'm getting everything since the pre-order came with free Bass and I'm a sucker for a "bargain"

And no, we shall not be playing, because you're really good at it and I've completed only 1 song on Medium.

You can always play co-op.

I did. He's insane. ._.;

I have no interest in being much better at it than I am already, it's just for a laugh.

I'm getting everything since the pre-order came with free Bass and I'm a sucker for a "bargain"

And no, we shall not be playing, because you're really good at it and I've completed only 1 song on Medium.

Band play, Abe. You can do whatever while I do guitar or bass.
I don't care to face you one on one, this game is more about co-op than beating people.

Aw, thanks Nova.

Also, I wish I had the drums or mic...
A USB Mic would be easy and cheap to get though, as I could just borrow a friend's mic for the 360.

I have no interest in being much better at it than I am already, it's just for a laugh.

Good man.

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I get World tour on monday and today the red button on my slightly trusty GH3 guitar decides to cut out if I press it while pressing a higher note.

Basically, I can't play any sustained chords or fast strum anything with red notes.

And because of this I can't even beat Hot For Teacher.

Now I need to burn even MORE money to get a friggin new guitar.
I have to chose between the new 50-something dollar guitar or a 3rd party piece of crap for 25....

They should stop making the GH guitars be unlike the Rock Band ones. The games makes you look stupid enough without the Fisher Price toy style.

I swear there was a ukulele size GH guitar, could've been modded or whatever..

YOU'VE GOTTA GET ONE OF THOSE

I'm not too good at soldering things, so making one is out of the question.


The new guitar looks interesting, but they don't sell single guitars yet...

I've decided which system I'm getting World Tour for. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtACozXghiY&fmt=18)

Yeah, well... PS3 version has Overworld from Zelda! And Green Greens from Kirby!

And that's about it...

The sad part is they're getting taken down. Which is beyond retarded.

Though I heard an easy way to avoid getting it taken down would be to name the song something that DOESN'T have the full name or something.

Like Wily Stage 1 from MM2 could be "Skull Fortress 2A" or something with no mention of Mega Man 2 in it.

Yeah, if I was going to do something based on an already existing song, I would call it something different.

I'm thinking of doing You Know My Name (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7j93Bf-EyI) once I get the hang of the program.

Back in the days of Napster, the cover of "Smooth Criminal" done by Alien Ant Farm was known as "Slick Thief" in the program.

Hah!

That is pretty awesome trivia.

If u ever get Guitar Hero ,any of them, u will love it soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o much!I say get the 2nd, 3rd, and World Tour! The Best Ones!!!




                           
                               

I'm better than you at Guitar Hero.

You know, when you say 'best ones', usually there's fewer 'best ones' than otherwise.

Keep in mind there are only like 6 Guitar Hero games and you just named half of them as the best ones...

HOLY COW I AM A GUITAR HERO GOD GUYS.

I JUST 5 STARRED EVERY SONG IN THE CAREER OF GUITAR HERO 2.
MISIRLOU.
INSTITUTIONALIZED.
PSYCHOBILLY FREAKOUT.
FREEBIRD

YEAH.
ALL OF THOSE TONIGHT.

I have earned "the log."
I am super duper happy.
Now I'm going to try to beat Jordan.

Now as in, a few days from now. Woo!

DO SOMETHING ELSE

... I BARELY passed Psychobilly Freakout on Expert.

Good luck on Jordan I guess... #####ing insane song on Expert, but it somehow incredibly easy on Hard.

Psychobilly was a little tough.
Nothing compared to Misirlou though.
It's the only thing that gave me trouble.
As in, I had to play it more than 3 times to 5 Star it.

I played it for half an hour straight.

I feel dirty.

What difficulty? It's easy on easy and not THAT big of a feat on medium, but if you're talking about hard or expert, congratulations. Heck, even BEATING the songs on expert is hard.

Expert.
I play on expert.

I haven't tried any song on hard in more than a year.

I easily 5 Star songs on expert.