i know it's old, but i just bought it saturday and it fucking rocks my ass off.
for anyone who doesn't know, it's a ps2-only game (i know, boo) that's played like dance dance revolution with the whole scrolling screen that feeds you instructions thing. this makes it sound gay, until i tell you that you play it on a guitar controller.
if you don't have a ps2, hopefully you'll have a friend with one (my case).
i refer you to the songlist. there's some really cool shit on it.
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hahaha. that's hilarious wolfer. my wife mentioned it'd be funny to videotape me and i told her i'd divorce her for that shit.
i'd only buy a wireless if it was an explorer. how do you like it?
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it's sweet, i like it better than the OE version. the strum bar is smaller so it's easier to handle quickly. the fret buttons are smooother too. plus it's wireless so i get to do my best "angus young" all over the living room.
I just picked up GH3 for the PC (guitar and game bundle, $80), and I have to admit, this game is worth every penny, and worth picking up any console needed to play it. I cannot think of any game this smooth and addictive.
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I play occasionally with friends. We play Rock Band more often now. For some reason it bores the shit out of me after just a few songs, especially once I've played them all.
Regulator: please, please! leave me out of your gay pedo. fantasy.
Still hacking away at that old punctuation problem, I see.
The few times I've seen someone play Guitar Hero, it looked gay and unfun.
This is after almost three decades of exposure to that dullest of party-stoppers: someone whips out a guitar and someone else does too, so perhaps I'm mis-calibrated.
Please advise, heroes of video game rock-n-roll.
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This is why I waited so long to play it, cause it looked gay, and because I already play real guitar quite well and didn't understand why I would bother "playing" songs I already felt I mastered.
Then I played Guitar Hero.
Please save all your gayfuck reviews until you actually play it and see how ya feel, dingles.
____________________ "You must have weak asslips. I like to sculpt mine on the way out, like table legs under a lathe" - Vasudeva
I think a video game that actually teaches you how to play guitar would be a way better idea and wouldn't amount to wasted time when this trend inevitably becomes about as cool as Pong.
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it seems that people who want to play video games... play video games!
likewise, it seems that people who want to play guitar... play guitar!
i don't know why this is confusing. it's like 'why play gran turismo when you can just get in your car and drive 90 miles an hour?'
mundhra say long time ago: ...that's played like dance dance revolution with the whole scrolling screen that feeds you instructions thing.
it's a rhythm game, that's all. i found it really helped ramp up my dexterity after not having my bass for 9 months.
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mundhra: ah the old video game vs real guitar debate!
i don't know why this is confusing. it's like 'why play gran turismo when you can just get in your car and drive 90 miles an hour?'
Not really the same thing. Learning to play guitar is learning a skill and a hobby that can and will last a lifetime. It's worth the hours invested in practice.
I see my nephew and son spending hour upon hour in front of the TV trying to learn to push a few buttons in time to a series of colored dots and it just seems like poorly invested time to me.
That's just my opinion so try not to get all insulted. My opinion holds little merit among my Swarmy peers. It's like the dildo on the dresser in Fight Club; it's not a threat to you.
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Yes, like Mun said - it's based on timing. But because of the controller's design and the visuals/sound on screen, it's pretty realistic. The way the game is designed is that the notes you strum/press trigger the guitar sound, which most of the time is the actual guitar from the original track. When you miss a note, there's actually a gap in the guitar track, and a few sound effects that sound like a flubbed note, potentially ruining the song and really screwing with the timing. Some songs are so well coded that you genuinely feel like you're playing the song.
But, it's a video game, and the entire point is to not have to know how to play guitar to be able to battle Slash or some other famed guitarist. Also, dance dance rev. is gay because guys shouldn't dance, because that's mega gay. Guitar is manly and cool.
____________________ "You must have weak asslips. I like to sculpt mine on the way out, like table legs under a lathe" - Vasudeva
I see my nephew and son spending hour upon hour in front of the TV trying to learn to push a few buttons in time to a series of colored dots and it just seems like poorly invested time to me.
Is it possible that their perception of you is an albino klingon spending hour after hour in front of the computer trying to push a few buttons to impress people on a website?
This game is fun. Despite my aspirations to take over the world with wisely invested time usage--I like having fun sometimes.
mundhra: ah the old video game vs real guitar debate!
i don't know why this is confusing. it's like 'why play gran turismo when you can just get in your car and drive 90 miles an hour?'
Not really the same thing. Learning to race cars is learning a skill and a hobby that can and will last a lifetime. It's worth the hours invested in practice.
I see my nephew and son spending hour upon hour in front of the TV trying to learn to push a few buttons in time to a series of colored dots and it just seems like poorly invested time to me.
That's just my opinion so try not to get all insulted. My opinion holds little merit among my Swarmy peers. It's like the dildo on the dresser in Fight Club; it's not a threat to you.
when you say 'not really the same thing', it sounds like 'exactly the same thing' to me. i'm not insulted by your opinion, i just think your argument is horribly flawed.
people bitch about guitar hero vs guitar because it's 'fake vs real'. people faking playing guitar vs people really playing guitar. i've never heard someone bitch and say 'some kid's fucking playing zelda when he could be picking up a guitar' because zelda is a videogame, not 'fake guitar playing'.
what i'm saying is: 'NEWSFLASH: guitar hero is a video game'.
____________________ But the whole of modern so-called civilized existence is an attempt to deny reality insofar as it exists. When did Don last look at the stars, when did Norman last get soaked in a rainstorm?
mundhra: ah the old video game vs real guitar debate!
Oh shiiiiiiiii...
tantrum: I like having fun sometimes.
You stupid FAGGOT.
In looking at this more than it's probably worth, I suspect at least part of the deal here is that the combination of rhthym play plus actual coherent music gives you, the playing faggot, the substantial illusion of actually playing guitar well, without having to actually be able to do so.
If that's accurate, though, it would be less engaging to people who could actually play very well, and that doesn't seem to be the case.
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____________________ But the whole of modern so-called civilized existence is an attempt to deny reality insofar as it exists. When did Don last look at the stars, when did Norman last get soaked in a rainstorm?
The reason guitar aficionados like this game so much, despite it just being Dance Dance Revolution on a stick, is because the atmosphere of the game is designed to give them wood.
If you FUCKING LOVE FOOTBALL then you will play the shit out of Madden every incarnation, although you know playing real football involves more than just joysticks and buttons.
no this game is more like if they had a car mechanic hero game, fixing cars and pretending to fix cars its sort of the same thing one is a skill the other is just lame when you compare the two but as long as you have fun playing the game who gives a fuck, its still gay though i think, unless you are a hot naked chick in which case its cool.
