OT: Guitar Hero anyone?

[Jimothy JP7]

Switching between 6's and 7's is already a task, but switching from 7's to a plastic thing with 5 buttons on it... thats the real challenge. What do you guys think of the game? I think it's cool that people are taking interest in guitar playing, but some of the songs they have on the game make me want to go all rockstarish and smash the damned thing.

Ernie Ball should make Musicman controllers for the game. I'd love having a Petrucci plugged into my Playstation

 

[JSX]

I haven't played the game. But, personally I think it sounds stupid, it's not going to get you anywhere in life. Oh well....

 

[MusicManJP6]

It's a cool game/concept, but I think being a guitar player is actually kind of a disadvantage when playing GH. The first few times I played it, I would miss notes like crazy coz I tried to actually 'strum' the strum bar and it would bounce back and the game would think I hit it twice in a row. Once I started pushing it down and releasing instead of sliding my 'makeshift finger pick' across it like a string, I started doing better. The rhythms are not very accurate until you get to the 'hard' or 'expert' difficulties, and then it starts getting extremely hard.

All-in-all, for me, the game frustrates the hell out of me and i'd rather play a real guitar.

On the other hand, my little sister (20 years old) who does not play guitar, plays the game on Expert and has almost beaten both GH1 and GH2! The only song that she cannot get past is Megadeth's Hangar 18. The solos just have too many notes, for too long, and too fast!

 

[Jimothy JP7]

Yea I feel that. I can only play it on expert, and even then I can only play Laid to Rest by Lamb of God and Thunderhorse by Dethklok, and thats only because I know the songs outside of the game. I picked it up the first time and damn near broke the thing. I was hitting every note, but like you said, playing the game from the standpoint of a guitarist actually hurts unless on expert. It's especially frustrating when you can play the song in real life and then you blow when you're trying to play it on a game.

On another note, I think it's great that thousands of people across the country and thinking guitar is as simple and pressing this thing here with one finger and hitting this strum thing here and bam, I'm Vai.

 

[Big Poppa]

I think that it is on eof the best things to come down the pike. If you dut the elitist crap...It keeps guitar infront of you. It is the only thing that can simulate the feeling you get of nailing it. It will grow guitarists. Not many but this business is built in a pyramid. We need millions to try it to end up with 100,000 profiecient new players.

 

[Larry]

I think its cool concept. Whats even cooler is they have EBMM basses in the game. Stingray right?

 

[Jimothy JP7]

Yes, I enjoy seeing the Stringray when I'm trying to jam YYZ on my battle axe with strings haha. If it were me in the game, I'd be piss the bassist has nice stuff but I'm stuck on this run of the mill LP.

Agreed with BP, not only will it expand the market, as some players will want to to the plunge themselves, but people who don't play guitar everyday and play this game can actually kind of see musicians through the eyes of musicians and develop respect for people that can really rip.

 

[BigTony]

I played it at a friends. I got kicked off the stage. I wanted to plunge the guitar through his 42" plasma. I didn't though, maybe I should have

 

[Jimothy JP7]

I think I might know why you failed so miserably. On big screens you have to calibrate the console to make up for lag created by the larger display. I don't know how or why it happens, but it did to me at a friends house on his big screen, and I was about to break the thing over my knee and call it a night.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I would rather play a real guitar. I really dislike computer games!

 

[Bass-sic]

I know the guy that sings The Trooper by Iron Maiden on Guitar Hero 2.
Brandon Raye is an awesome singer. http://www.myspace.com/brandonraye

 

[TylerDowBryant]

I love playing guitar hero with my friends...I don't own a playstation, but all of my friends have the game...It is really fun...I am horrible at the game though...I get ahead of myself, thinking that I am actually playing a guitar...I am pretty horrible though...It has introduced my friends to a lot of good music though. I think it's a good thing.

 

[Sweat]

If I still played video games I would be all over it, but I lost my gaming interest many years ago, but if gets a few kids to pick up a real guitar then it is a good thing

 

[Danserrano]

i have a few friends asking me to teach em some chords b/c of guitar hero due to the thrill BP was talking about. I think it's cool, if we can drive around as pimps and killers like vice city why not be a guitar hero =D

 

[brentrocks]

the game sucks ass!!

i'm not a super guitar player, but that game is hard!!

waste of $$$...IMO

 

[73h Nils]

Awesome Game...I suck at it. I find it impossible, I always end up missing the right buttons cause they're so close together... I failed every song I tried, haha.

My friends were playing it drunk out of their minds last night. It was a sight to behold, one of them got 94% (Expert mode) on Hanger 18 after 7 beers?!...They did better than me, anyway lol

 

[jazzbo jim]

I think that it is on eof the best things to come down the pike. If you dut the elitist crap...It keeps guitar infront of you. It is the only thing that can simulate the feeling you get of nailing it. It will grow guitarists. Not many but this business is built in a pyramid. We need millions to try it to end up with 100,000 profiecient new players.

+1
I am also greatly digging TV shows like Rock Star Supernova, Canadian Idol and Dancing with the Stars for one reason.....LIVE MUSIC!
In a world where it's all about the bling and the dancers, it's nice to see folks creating music on instruments. Think about it...why did YOU pick up an axe?
Chances are someone on the tube or next door made you say " That's cool, I dig it, and I want a piece of the action"
Whether it was the Song Remains the Same, Let it Be or the Monkees it doesn't matter. We (you know who you are..) are all bound by this uniting force called music-an intangible force that takes strings, wood and emotion and creates something much bigger than the some of its parts.
My Rant....My World.....I'm glad I got on board!!!!!!

 

[phatduckk]

the game's pretty fun. we have it at work.

by talking to friends n stuff we all seem to agree that the games a bit tougher if u know how to "really" play the song. muscle memory tries to kick in but it cant

its a great game to bust out when a group of friends get together

 

[n!k]

The game is fun as hell. If you can't drink with your buddies and play a plastic air guitar and have a good time you are far worse off for it.

The subtle things they include about being in a band, touring, getting paid... it's such a beautiful thing for people to feel like they're in a band. Not everyone will be so lucky. I'm glad my friends who don't play instruments can understand what I feel from playing one. That doesn't make me any better of a person, or justify anything over them for having fun playing a game.

 

[Barry]

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