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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 6:36AM gogozombie said

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The Volcano gods do not find this funny. You've just doomed us all!
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 6:36AM Mortegro said

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It is unclear if Bjork would approve or not.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 7:01AM sjenky said

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@Mortegro Let's send a reporter to her house, and find out :)
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 11:42AM Measlesopolis said

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@sjenky
he he he he I'll never tell
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 1:22PM Muppethero said

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@sjenky That is just rude! mean! and completely unforgivable! Why o why would you wish that on a reporter!
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 6:38AM GuitarHero666 said

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Come on...
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 6:54AM TJF588 said

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Now you get it. There are no guitar heroes. Mankind is doomed.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 7:07AM rob47 said

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Hmmm that doesn't seem legal. Iceland is very protective of their environment (they wouldn't let the Top Gear team have antifreeze incase it polluted the glaciers.)

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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 7:08AM The Great Cornholio said

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The time and money spent on advertising this game are easily tripling the effort spent on making it enjoyable. Rock Revolution has some competition for the $5 and under bin at Gamestop
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 7:24AM Crayola Q Pants ESQ said

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I'm all for a dig at Guitar Hero nowdays, but this does just smack of desperation.

Although, it probably will generate some buzz for them and possibly even make people forget about that ridiculous air drum-kit for a few weeks.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 8:33AM RadiantViper said

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@Crayola Q Pants ESQ
Nothing can make me forget how terrible that drum kit looks. Nothing.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 7:41AM prodigy69 said

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that's not big or clever!
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 7:50AM oOWallaceOo said

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I want to punch those guys in the face
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 7:52AM oOWallaceOo said

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I want to punch these guys in the face
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 7:54AM oOWallaceOo said

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@oOWallaceOo

Appartently the comment system wants me to punch them twice
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 8:21AM DredPirateStorm said

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So they are advertising their game by polluting in a volcano? That doesn't exactly get me interested in buying the game.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 9:36AM LiqwidZero said

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@DredPirateStorm

Polluting a volcano?

It's magma. It's going to burn the controllers, causing to harm to itself or anything else. It just burns and melts. Burns and melts.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 11:10AM davebo said

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@LiqwidZero Either way, plastic should be recycled not melted in a volcano. As a result of this egregious offense to Mother Earth, I'm officially boycotting this game. Of course, it's not a big sacrifice on my part boycotting a game I had no intention of buying. I think at this point too many people have too much money invested in Rock Band DLC to just drop that franchise for a new one.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 4:44PM LiqwidZero said

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@davebo

"From dust were ye made and dust ye shall be."
- Simon & Garfunkel, "Sparrow"
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 8:22AM Rocketboy said

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Remind me never to buy Power Gig... I'm just not cool enough.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 8:47AM oJMan240o said

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Too bad the Rise of the Six String guitars are about as real as those plastic ones they are dumping. Plastic and guitar strings isn't going to work out well for them. Can't wait to see them getting sued to hell when their product snaps in half due to string tension after someone replaces the super super light gauge strings that come installed with normal strings. I'll be laughing my ass off. Now, that being said, the music game genre really doesn't need another entry.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 9:44AM LiqwidZero said

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@oJMan240o

Rock Band 3. Always a good decision!
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 9:55AM Prboi said

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@oJMan240o

They make fully functional guitars that can be used outside of the games as well. It won't be a cheap toy with buttons on it. But it will cost a lot more I'm guessing
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 9:09AM den69 said

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This just screams fake to me...
Like they took 2 films and combined them, one of them throwing a bunch of guitars out of a plane and one of them flying over a volcano?

Dumb marketing hoping that people will remember the game because of the fuss this will cause...
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 9:50AM M1sterLee said

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Hi, we wasted a whole lot of money on a game you don't care about (and probably never heard of) and then even more on a stupid advert. Please give us your money so we can waste that too.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 9:55AM Lerkero said

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I have the feeling they will be making this trip again to dump all the unsold copies of Powergig.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 9:58AM Prboi said

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Let's see people play Through The Fire And Flames on expert now
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 10:21AM commonperson said

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Ok, this ad just seems sad. So far I've see little to no real game play footage and every ad is just douchey hipsters in unrealistic situations (like the fake living room, or this.) And honestly, their real competition isn't Guitar Hero fake guitars but Rock Band's product. They need to be focusing on that but really there's probably no real competition. Any how we'll see but I almost feel sorry for these guys. It's like bailing out a sinking ship with a hat with a hole in it.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 12:22PM commonperson said

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@ccc But here's the thing. Rockband is doing the exact same thing (real guitars) as well as real keyboards. Also, they are implementing it on the established framework of the Rock Band Network where artists can contribute their on tracks and allows you to carry over years worth of tracks. As well the controllers (from all reports) are far superior to those provided by Powergig. So far all I've seen are gimicks and interviews with people who seem to be very... disapointed in a product they haven't even launched yet (the interview with the one designer did more damage to product then any hipster d-bags in fake living rooms ever could do.)

Now, I don't know if it will be good or bad. It's near impossible to tell as all that I've seen is animatics and no actual game play footage. If it's done well it could be amazing but they aren't competing with Guitar Hero and their plastic guitars, they are competing with Rock Band and their actual Gibsons and their keyboards, and their drum sets and their three part harmonies. They need to wow me not try to ingratiate me with "edgy" advertising that looks more like a Mountain Dew ad then anything else.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 11:03AM Sepirioth said

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So thats what really caused the volcano to earlier this year... it WASNT Top Gear after all
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 11:56AM Scruffian said

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*Sigh* - I am a big Guitar Hero fan, and maybe it's just me, but this really doesn't win me over to wanting to play Power Gig. Maybe instead of telling me the franchise I love so much is dumb, you should show me some wicked gameplay and win me over that way.

If I want to play a real guitar... I'll play a real guitar. And, If I want to play a music video game where I can just enjoy myself and not stress out having to spend so much time learning a song... I'll play Guitar Hero.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 12:49PM shimrra74 said

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EXTREME !!!!!!!!

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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 1:34PM Tegolin said

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@ccc The thing is, playing and learning real guitar isn't like GH/RB.
I predict a lot of these kids will think that in a month they can pick it up, then fail and never play it again.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 2:25PM zabelzero said

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This is a good commercial. Very good
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 8:17PM HeMiCuDa said

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Fake or not GH sucked so i say good riddance
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 10:20PM mietha said

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With pro mode, this game no reason for existing anyway. No amount of dumb ads (which will hopefully get them fined/sued out of existance) can change that. As stated, I have yet to see a single screenshot of gameply, but a WHOLE lot of running off at the mouth. Kid Rock, Eric Clapton, and Dave Matthews are all morons.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2010 11:07PM tsr5029optonlinenet said

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at several thousand degrees C i highly doubt throwing plastic guitars in the volcano actually hurt it any. at those temperatures you wont ever get the poisonous gases that plastic releases
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Posted: Aug 11th 2010 12:04AM ShadowXIII said

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@tsr5029optonlinenet

I completely agree with this, I'm sure more pollutants are released *making* these.

Can't please anyone these days...I mean FLYING over one of those is dangerous enough......heat could cause engine failure, raw sulfuric acid could do just about anything...and people cry that a few plastic guitars is gonna ruin the earth.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2010 12:23AM PS3fan707 said

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Yay for pollution! I wonder how the hell they recovered the camera strapped to the falling guitar.
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