While it'll be nice to revisit stuff from the first Guitar Hero with new note charts and new instruments, we can't help but feel that GH:GH is the least exciting guaranteed multi-million-seller of 2009.
While it'll be nice to revisit stuff from the first Guitar Hero with new note charts and new instruments, we can't help but feel that GH:GH is the least exciting guaranteed multi-million-seller of 2009.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 5:03PM Shagittarius said
I believe its usually , 'Third verse same as the first'. Because its true and it rhymes.
Violent Femmes said so...
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Violent Femmes said so...
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 4:26PM Magresda said
In all seriousness, given that I haven't played guitar in a rhythm game since RB came out, I'm actually pretty excited about this game. The GH games have had quite some good songs, and revisiting their master tracks on the drums sounds good to me. Just hope they don't mess up the track list like with GH:A.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 4:46PM MarkHawk said
First thing I noticed too. +1 thing improved.
My big issue with GH:WT (among other things) was hit detection indication. In Rock Band I know if I hit a note, loose a streak, or was too late on hitting a note. When ever I played GH:WT I never new if I was hitting the notes. The notes just seem to fly by unaffected while in Rb the notes clearly shattered in front of my eyes. Hope thats improved.
Regardless, I wont be picking this up till it hits Target Clarence
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My big issue with GH:WT (among other things) was hit detection indication. In Rock Band I know if I hit a note, loose a streak, or was too late on hitting a note. When ever I played GH:WT I never new if I was hitting the notes. The notes just seem to fly by unaffected while in Rb the notes clearly shattered in front of my eyes. Hope thats improved.
Regardless, I wont be picking this up till it hits Target Clarence
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 7:42PM (Unverified) said
Seriously. I can't play drums on WT because of those stupid GIGANTIC PURPLE EYESORES. They make it too hard to see what's going on when there's a ton of notes on the screen at once. Too bad the star power meter looks the same as WT and isn't a simple bar like the good Lord intended.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 5:11PM Alex R said
JOOOORRRDAAAAN!
SOOOOTHSAAAAAYYYERRR!
TROGDOOOOOORRR!
The are missing out the 'Fuck you' from 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!'.
Tisk tisk.
Alas, I await GH: Buckethead, and GH: RATM. Buckethead will be for guitar only, Rage will be for vocals only. And I want the album versions. Not your dirty little child-friendly verses.
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SOOOOTHSAAAAAYYYERRR!
TROGDOOOOOORRR!
The are missing out the 'Fuck you' from 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!'.
Tisk tisk.
Alas, I await GH: Buckethead, and GH: RATM. Buckethead will be for guitar only, Rage will be for vocals only. And I want the album versions. Not your dirty little child-friendly verses.
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 4:28PM (Unverified) said
They removed "blow" in "guaranteed to blow your mind" hahahaha
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 4:31PM (Unverified) said
Do people REALLY like playing Through the Fire and Flames?
Or is it just to look cool.
I reckon its a pain in the ass.
Awesome song though.
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Or is it just to look cool.
I reckon its a pain in the ass.
Awesome song though.
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 4:36PM MarkezJM said
I do happen to like it, and a lot of the really quick strumming. However on the difficulty setting I enjoy playing it at I don't ever seem to succeed in finishing it. The next difficulty down it's just boring for me. I'll take Knights of Cedonia over it any day :)
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Posted: Mar 6th 2009 12:53AM (Unverified) said
Yeh I know what you mean.
But when you try and get 100% on expert for the achievement, its just horribly annoying.
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But when you try and get 100% on expert for the achievement, its just horribly annoying.
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 4:41PM (Unverified) said
And another attempt to cash in on the Guitar Hero name... are people seriously going to pay $60 for this? Think about the amount of time it must take to make a game like Halo 3 or Metal Gear Solid 4 versus the time it takes to slap together some note charts for music you already had the rights to...and they cost the same. Wow.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 4:52PM Troy Powers said
Well, with song downloads costing $2, if this disk has more than 30 good songs...I guess that makes it a good deal.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 7:10PM (Unverified) said
There's a lot of songs from GH and GH2 that I sometimes want to play again, but don't want to find my old PS2 instruments. Add the ability to play drums and sing now, as well as play bass on the songs from GH1, and you've got something that might be worth buying.
Besides, it's songs picked by Harmonix, so they must be better than anything Activision would put out otherwise ;-)
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Besides, it's songs picked by Harmonix, so they must be better than anything Activision would put out otherwise ;-)
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 7:21PM (Unverified) said
Well think about it this way, they didn't really have rights to a master track of killer queen. And it would be cool to watch someone play through the fire and flames on drums or sing the gay lyrics to it.
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Posted: Mar 6th 2009 1:08PM (Unverified) said
Rock Band and Rock Band 2 look EXACTLY the same in my eyes. The only difference being the little circle for your streak, which is skewed backward. Yet, people everywhere applaud their genius. Rock Band 2 wasn't a new game. It was a giant track pack. It's Rock Band 1 with a new, generic menu system, and at least 80 new tracks on the disc. Talk about a mediocre sequel.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 4:54PM Troy Powers said
Hopefully they'll do like Rock Band 1 & 2 and allow you to import all the songs from one into the other.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 5:11PM Burritoclock said
I thought they already said this was not going to happen?
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 5:07PM Burritoclock said
I will admit to being the biggest Rock Band fanboy around, but I have to admit that full band Free Bird will make this a buy on sell for me.
I really wish rock band would get some of these though.
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I really wish rock band would get some of these though.
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 4:56PM (Unverified) said
Remind me again why this isn't just downloadable content, or at the very least offered at a severely reduced price? Oh right, Activision executives don't have enough pools of money to burn, out of spite.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 5:43PM (Unverified) said
Remember when Rock Band 2 came out and fanboys were defending what was essentially a patch for the original game with bonus songs by saying it's a much better deal since it's cheaper than it would be in DLC?
I know that pointing out Rock Band-biased double standards is almost as old and stupid as Rock Band-biased double standards themselves, but yeah, 48 best songs now with full band support @ $2 each = 96 dollars worth of DLC for $60.
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I know that pointing out Rock Band-biased double standards is almost as old and stupid as Rock Band-biased double standards themselves, but yeah, 48 best songs now with full band support @ $2 each = 96 dollars worth of DLC for $60.
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 6:05PM oolz said
Jakka, you fanboy. 84 (+20 dlc) songs + feature enhancements + a platform that lets you carry over DLC and songs from the first game is HARDLY a patch. The only people saying that were gh fanboys..
this is 48 songs for $60. Is it a better deal than if it were DLC? Naturally, but DLC pricing isn't the model you're comparing this too. Compare it to RB2, which gave you 2x the songs for the same price, or even GHWT. Then it's easy to see it as the cash in, money grab that it is.
Calling them THE BEST is subjective, as I know there will be shit on there I'm not interested in. Plus, while the songs are great for nostalgia, they're not going to be the same. The charts will be different and the engine is different. They won't play the same as we remember them and gameplay is what made the first two games great even when it was songs nobody knew.
THe GH franchise is adrift in the creative doldrums. The only way this genre gets pushed forward will be if Harmonix chooses to do it.
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this is 48 songs for $60. Is it a better deal than if it were DLC? Naturally, but DLC pricing isn't the model you're comparing this too. Compare it to RB2, which gave you 2x the songs for the same price, or even GHWT. Then it's easy to see it as the cash in, money grab that it is.
Calling them THE BEST is subjective, as I know there will be shit on there I'm not interested in. Plus, while the songs are great for nostalgia, they're not going to be the same. The charts will be different and the engine is different. They won't play the same as we remember them and gameplay is what made the first two games great even when it was songs nobody knew.
THe GH franchise is adrift in the creative doldrums. The only way this genre gets pushed forward will be if Harmonix chooses to do it.
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 6:40PM (Unverified) said
I'd be satisfied if it were an upgrade, since it's literally the same game. If it let me dump GH: WT songs and GH:GH replaces it as the disk I need to keep, RB1-RB2 style. Buuut Activision is going the route of having to keep new disk after new disk around. I estimate that around the end of the year we'll have four versions of what should have been DLC for a single game.
And yes, DLC would be more expensive in the end but it would be the itunes approach, where you're not forced to listen to all the songs you hate, and Activision is still working on the CD model in this day and age. I really just want to play some Queen, and not any more Heart. Most especially since I've already got GH3, but not GH2 for 360.
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And yes, DLC would be more expensive in the end but it would be the itunes approach, where you're not forced to listen to all the songs you hate, and Activision is still working on the CD model in this day and age. I really just want to play some Queen, and not any more Heart. Most especially since I've already got GH3, but not GH2 for 360.
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 5:13PM The Commenter Formerly Known as said
That screenshot looks less like GH:WT and more like Rock Band. They have the transparent note highway and the lyric bar looks similar. So I guess if you can't bet them, imitate them.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 9:39PM (Unverified) said
mm, also notice the new scorebar, displaying how many stars they've earned so far, and the individual 'health' indicators on the left of each highway (which is in some ways worse than the WT interface, which provided a common display for all players to reference to assess bandmates health, and they're still choosing to emphasise the coloured lights at the expense of the actual dial)
Still, it's good to see they are slowly learning some basic interface-design tips from their competitor.
Still too much alpha on the lyrics background though, just waiting to be washed out by bright lights, star power "bulbs" are still a terrible excuse for a "meter", and the combo bar is still hard to read.
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Still, it's good to see they are slowly learning some basic interface-design tips from their competitor.
Still too much alpha on the lyrics background though, just waiting to be washed out by bright lights, star power "bulbs" are still a terrible excuse for a "meter", and the combo bar is still hard to read.
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 5:19PM (Unverified) said
I'm admittedly a bit of a GH whore, but I'll happily buy this if the song list is good.
New recordings of some of the old and simply dire covers from GH1 & 2 will be great and full band versions of some of the classics: count my thumbs well and truly up :-)
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New recordings of some of the old and simply dire covers from GH1 & 2 will be great and full band versions of some of the classics: count my thumbs well and truly up :-)
Posted: Mar 5th 2009 5:35PM DeadPlasmaCell said
"Not that we expected a severe visual overhaul out of a game that isn't even providing a musical overhaul."
I'd say master tracks and full band capability of tracks that were mostly crappy covers is a pretty decent overhaul.. It'll be like playing them again for the first time.
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I'd say master tracks and full band capability of tracks that were mostly crappy covers is a pretty decent overhaul.. It'll be like playing them again for the first time.
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