WTF? Guitar Hero :mad:
 

This has to be like the hardest game ever to get a copy of. Nobody around here seems to have it. Fucking ridiculouus.

Anyway, any of you played it or what?

I have it, and actually the EB I manage has like 3 sets. It is hawt shit for the record?

I've been looking for it too. Amplitude is one of my favourite games.

The game has exploded in popularity since word started to spread. I got it pretty soon after it came out when they had tons of copies, now all of my friends are also having trouble getting it.

But, to answer your question, it is an awesome game and should not be missed. The soundtrack is pretty decent, some good songs on there, but missing some obvious ones.

What is this??

http://www.guitarherogame.com/

It's basically one of those rhythm games, like Dance Dance Revolution, but you play the guitar. It's got 5 buttons on the frets, and you basically play along. They have 30 licensed tracks (re-done by their music team,) and 30 tracks by lesser-known bands, mostly their friends or the bands of people on the game's team.

It seems kind of lame when you first look at it, but once you get good at the game and start playing the more difficult songs (especially on Expert mode) it really does feel pretty realistic to playing the guitar.

Pretty sweet game, worth a look at the very least. I think a lot of Best Buys have the game on display still.

Yeah I want this.

But the godamn publishers won't release it in Europe.

It's coming out here in April-ish last time I read about it.
Only limited stocks though or something because they can't make enough.

can you try and play anything on there?

Din is on the soundtrack. They're relatives of one of the hottest tickets in Boston in the 90s, Tribe.

Gameplay have it down as a April 6th for the release. Dunno if that's 100% or not, it fucking better be though.

http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/...uctcode=PT2136

I have it, it is pretty sweet.

Jealousyyyyyyyy :'(

My friend has the game. So far I've managed to graduate from easy mode to normal mode. Not good enough for the expert mode yet.

Bumposity.

So I've been playing this for a good 2 weeks now. FUCKING AWESOME.

I'm pretty much a guitar noob, but I think I'm getting the hang of it pretty quickly. For those of you who have played it (especially the harder levels), how close would you say this comes to the real thing?

The "realism" only goes so far since the 5 buttons/chords you are hitting are in the same place on the guitar. But, when you play some of those last songs on Expert, like "Bark at the Moon" and "Cowboys from Hell", you basically have to hit every note.

I guess what I'm saying is you won't walk away from the game and be able to play the real guitar, but if you already do, it might improve your technique.

12 days....:'(

Well I wasn't expecting to be able to play guitar afterwards, just wanted a comparison. :D

Wicked addictive. I played a copy of it at Best Buy last night and got hooked.

Me, El Freg, and DS just played this for a few hours straight. Man, it's addicting as hell.. we're only doing medium difficulty stuff, but since we've barely played it it can be pretty hard at some points.

I didn't find much of a comparison at all, myself. Then again, when I played it, I was trying it from the perspective of DDR without all the exercise. ;)

My friend commented on how fast I was losing, even though I can play a passable geetar.

That blue fret button is so hard to reach sometimes. I always end up either over extending or underextending my pinky. :mad:

Also, do you get the feeling that the next one with have an actual story mode, instead of playing songs for a measly bit of cash.

Try playing an edim/C. Your puny world will be rocked by real guitar work. :p

I'm well aware of that. What with using the whole length of the neck and strings instead of buttons and all.

Maybe I'll take up the keytar.

Wait until you start fucking around with the orange one, Funky.

WTF? Guitar Hero :mad:

It's more the way your hanbds have to stretch for certain chords. Don't mind me, I'm a cripple. And bitter. :mad:

I need to get me this game.

I wish there were more songs. I mean, I enjoy the ones that are there, but I just wish there were more. WHEN IS GH 2 COMING OUT?

6 days.....:'(

Dunno when the sequel hits.

They have a lot of good songs, but I remember reading on gamespot that a bunch of people they were to contact for song licensing thought they were being pranked, so they couldn't get songs like Stairway to Heaven or anything by Van Halen.

Also, REJOICE! Caveman, rejoice. :cool:

That 'Even Rats' song is pretty sweet, tbh.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6146944.html :shifty:

I'm counting down too....

lol, thats actually a pretty decent track list.

Wooo it's in the post! :cool:

\m/

Ditto!

Been playing Frequency and Amplitude again this week.

Frequency ruled. I think I managed to get up to the last lot of songs before I became fed up of sucking at it so much :'(

Never got round to getting Amplitude, was it any good?

I managed to do all of Frequency, it felt like such an achievement, those later levels really made you work. I think I punched the air after finishing it.

Amplitude is more polished, and I prefer it (more fair scoring wise for a start), but the fact the level doesn't loop round like in Frequency annoys me (as in it runs down a road, and to go from far right to far left you have to press left 5 times and you can't see what the note is. It's impossible in that situation).
All the songs are available from the Normal level up, and there's an easy mode for Grandma's.

Found out there's a secret track in the Insane difficulty. I'll never see it as the game is actually harder than Frequency.

Right, the game came today and I've had a go on the tracks playable at the start and I don't really know how to say this but....

IT'S FUCKING AWESOME!

Considering I haven't played my guitar for about 8 years now, I was suprised how good my fingering on this was. Yeah, it's nowhere near like it is on a real guitar, but I've had no problems stretching my pinky all the way to the end fret buttons.

Still trying to used to the hammer-ons and pull offs during really fast sections, no doubt I'll nail them after lots of plays through.

So far th best score I've got is 61,000-something, hitting 128 consecutive notes and with a 98% total notes played. Just can't remember what song it was, probably the uber easy I Love Rock and Roll.

Gonna start career mode in abit, get more song unlocked :cool:

Didn't arrive today, despite the postman bringing a large package to the door at 8AM. If only there were someway to skip ahead 12 hours or so...

:'(

I've gone through career mode on easy unlocked the remaining songs. No One Knows and Cream almost killed me on easy with some parts, so no idea what they are going to be like on the other difficulties.

There are 5 more songs in medium career mode

It's still not arrived. Arrive damnit.

I'm loving it.
Making up for a lack of guitar experience with raw music game experience, and it's doing the job well.
Suprisingly I found easy to be easy, and normal to be slightly too hard for me right now (well to do at 98-100%).

Think my highest score on one track is around 150,000 on normal and I remember thinking a much higher score was possible :$

My highest score is about 81,000 on normal, easy is about 100,000 or something. I've busted my hands at work so I can't play for the next few days :(

Argh, medium is kicking my arse on the harder songs, just scraped through Fat Lip with a horrible score of 38,000 or something. Got to improve :mad:

Have you 5 starred all the Easy songs yet? I found that was a big help on moving to medium.
I've got 5 stars for all the songs on Medium now apart from 4 for Bark At The Moon and 3 for Cowboys From Hell (not counting the bonus songs either). The first time I saw those two I barely scraped through, but practice is good. It's not taken more than 3 goes for one so far thankfully - else I could get very bored of a song.
I tried a song on hard, and the extra note is a pain, but am going back to hard later.

Do you play standing up or sitting down?

I'm on the fourth set of songs at the moment, No One Knows and that Cream song is still killing me, and this time on medium.

I've only gone back to doing the first lot of easy songs, but just need to 5 star Thunder Kiss 65, currently on 4 stars :mad:

On a slightly bonus note, I 100%-ed I Love Rock and Roll :cool::$:cool:

I rest on my knee's when I play. Sometimes you can see into my window, so don't want anyone seeing me rock out untill I've mastered a stance \m/

:cool:

I 100%-ed Ziggy Stardust before I put it down to rest my arm. Only song I've done it on because I usually get over confident or too relaxed or whatever and end up missing a note.

My arm hurts :$

I'm actually suprised how some of the songs are quite easy, when I thought they would be murder, and the other way round.

I thought Steller would be piss easy the first time I tried it, but only managed to scrape through it.

Yet, Ziggy Stardust and a number of others are pretty easy to get through. I think if it's a slower beat you can nail them sooner than the other songs.

I dispise Killer Queen, I always fuck up the solo bit, dunno how Brian May etc managed to do it in real life.

Still not 5 starred those two Medium tracks, but have gone onto Hard anyway. Done the first 15 tracks once each, and got 4 stars on them all apart from one I got 5 and Killer Queen which I got 3.

It's not too bad really, and going back to medium made it seem slow afterwards.

Having 5 notes often fucks me right up though.

http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378

Really good score FAQ and tells you how the star ratings are worked out :)

So my cousins are into playing this now.

They suck so bad though, they only play I Love Rock & Roll over and over. :(

http://www.scorehero.com/userstats.p...1&style=1&.png

If you click it you'll see my scores, but not percentages, as I didn't write them down so couldn't upload them :(

Did Cowboys From Hell and Bark At The Moon with 5 stars on medium last night. It was a cause for celebration.

I did No One Knows on hard earlier too, not bothering trying to get 5 stars on Hard yet, more trying to survive. I've done up to and including Godzilla on hard.

Expert is scaring me and I've not tried it properly yet. I managed Iron Man in Quick Play though.

I've been insanely busy the last couple of days so I've had little time to get on with this game :(

I did manage to do No One Knows on medium though the other night, still fuck up Crossroads though.

Managed to pass Cowboys from Hell on medium but only to a 3 star rating or something lame.

I went back to trying to five star the tracks on easy and actually found it slightly awkward at first. It throws you abit as it's not as quick as medium which I have spent more time on recently.

Wait a sec. The song No One Knows are you talking about the Queens of the Stoneage song?

Yeah.

Thats fucking awsome.

Hitting all of the last solo on Bark At The Moon on medium is amazingly satisfying.

Finished off medium last night, although the last lot of songs were pretty awfull 3 star ratings. So I went back to easy and five starred all the songs, which was pretty satisfying.

Started hard earlier today and I've so far got onto the second lot of songs, with only two of them passed. That included Ironman, which I was doing standing up, with pins and needles running down my whole right leg.

I can cope with the speed of the hard setting, it's just the addition of the fifth fret button which screws me over at the moment. I'm starting to get the hang of it though, it's just gonna take awhile I think.

Also, I found the first pretty gay thing about this game. I thought when I brought the songs/characters/guitars on medium mode, they would be able to be used on the other difficulty levels in career mode, but no, they are not :mad:

I wanna play as Death whilst attempting to do the hard difficulty :(

Yeah, that was mad gay.

Holy shit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_BgqlcCPF4

I can tear up everything on hard for the most part and a few expert songs.

judging by that video i think you'd all be better off learning how to play real guitar :'(

probably

Wait, does the Euro version have a different track list? :wtf:

Nah, it's a hidden track which can only be unlocked with a codebreaker or something. It's similar to the GTA Hot Coffee stuff, but with less pixalated boobies.

I am doing better on Expert so far than I was on Hard. Oh well. I really cannot stand most of the songs in the "4" section. I hate that fast shit. :(

Fuck. Want this game. :'(

For those that have it and have played it what is your fav. song to play?

Mine is Behind the Mask

I guess:

Iron Man
Smoke On The Water
More Than A Feeling
Spanish Castle Magic
Cheat On The Church
Get Ready To Rokk
Caveman Rejoice

Crossroads
Killer Queen
Bark At The Moon
Sharp Dressed Man
Even Rats
More Than A Feeling
Caveman Rejoice

Oh yeah, Killer Queen too.

At the moment:

Infected
Ironman
Thunder Kiss 65
Cochise
Smoke on the Water
Symphony of Destruction
Guitar Hero

A.) Can I rent this at blockbuster or hollywood with the guitar and everything?

B.) Can I have fun with this in the 5 day rental period?

A. Dunno, call and ask.

B. Yes.

So, it isn't available to rent from Blockbuster or Hollywood. But I looked online and I can SUPPOSEDLY buy a used version from EB games for $20. I doubt thats with the guitar though. I called, but no answer. Probably because it is easter.

NO ONE KNOWS

Yeah, probably.

The game itself is like $50 brand new, but with the guitar it's $70 - $80.

Yeah, prices say $70 new with the guitar.

I dont get how this game is supposed to be fun :-\

Is that because you've not played it?

You don't know how rocking out is fun?

No I've played it I just dont get the big deal I mean I can see how its good I just dont seem to have all that much fun with it.

Favorites to play:
Texas Flood
Ziggy Stardust
Unsung
Spanish Castle Magic
Callout

I guess I'm just going to have to buy it tomorrow at full price. :(

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Would I be a huge nerd if I wrote "Soul Power" on my Guitar Hero controller?

lol actually that is a hot idea

God, for some reason I'm having real problems 5 staring Steller. I have tried it so many times yet the best I can do is 4 stars :'(

I've just got Cowboys left on hard now, I've failed twice at 98%. I started 5 staring some hard tracks instead. Going back to medium completely threw my timing for the songs on medium. I'll get there eventually - probably when I have more free time to practice and things.

Also it's gotten to the point where if I read a song title, I get the song stuck in my head. Good job I don't really dislike any of the songs then.

Nah, I'll do "Soul Power" and you can be "Arm the Homeless" :cool:


Gunna go pick it up later tonight.

This is fucking stupid, I'm having so much trouble passing Take Me Out and You Got Another Thing Comming on hard, it's getting beyond a joke :mad:

I five stared Ace of Spades on medium even though I thought I fucked it up, so that cheered me up slightly.

Crossroads has been whooping my ass on Expert. I still suck at that HO/PO stuff and that second solo just annhiliates me.