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New Guitar Hero 2 Info
Heartless Gamer writes "New Guitar Hero 2 info revealed. The game will feature in-game endorsements and real-world venues. There will be at least two new characters: Dax DeVille, the Rockabilly formerly known as King Kendall after Harmonix' Jason Kendall, and a still unnamed Norwegian death rocker."
Can't have a guitar hero thread without the required link to http://www.guitarherobrokemyknee.com/. Thankfully fark photoshopped the guy today to mock him further.
I look forward to guitar hero 2 as I am starting to get bored with the backtracks on guitar hero even with my fantastic muted strings and mis-timed plucking on top of them.
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Zonk, this was supposed to be posted under the special advertising section
Do you even lift?
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A game for the emo kids...
I want to know what the new songs will be! man this game is the only reason I bought a sony well that and Katamari
New info has been leaked/released about new songs. The Setlist so far:
* Stone Temple Pilots' "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
* Anthrax's "Madhouse"
* Mötley Crüe's "Shout at the Devil"
* Reverend Horton Heat's "Psychobilly Freakout"
* KISS' "Strutter"
* Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"
* Butthole Surfers' "Who Was in My Room Last Night?"
* The Kink's "You Really Got Me" as performed by Van Halen
* Rush's "YYZ"
* Primus' "John the Fisherman"
* Drist "Arterial Black"
* Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name Of" (maybe)
* Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine"
* Free Bird by Lynard Skynard
(set list from joystiq.com)
Some of those have only been released in the past few days. For one, I am frickin' pumped
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I made my living for 5 years as a touring songwriter / frontman for a rock band, and I expected very little from Guitar Hero -- how could it be anything like playing a real guitar? But I LOVE the game -- the guitar controller is suprisingly good (I'd like it to be heavier tho'), and the easier settings let anyone jump right in and rock out. In my opinion, it is best in multiplayer with a group of friends. Personally, I can't wait for Guitar Hero 2.
(although just as funny)
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It must stuck to be born in the US and still get pwned grammatically by an ESL exchange student from Dubai.
Yeah, right.
When you're ESL, don't try to correct English unless you're 100% sure you're right. Otherwise, you might get shown to be a dumbass like this.
That and stuck != suck. [Insert SMB 'You Lose' sfx here]
Well gee, if you were a native English speaker or bothered with dictionary.com you'd know that it's also = it has. Go take a look here: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=it's&x=0& y=0
Or you know what, I'll just copy and paste it here for you and save you some precious time and effort.
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I gave up trying and went out and got a real electric guitar instead...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
You'll also get a much better rush from stealing actual cars and killing real people than you will from playing GTA.
...so I've heard, anyway.
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My girlfriend (insert slashdot GF joke here. I'll wait. K, thanks.) has asked for Guitar Hero for her birthday, which is mid-October. So GH2 won't be out till next year, but it would be a shame if the controller changes in 6 months. I'd like to think Red Octane would offer a version of the game sans controller for those who already bought their big PS2 Axe, but perhaps not... anyone know?
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Why does the article link to a source 2 steps removed from the actual information?
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Yeah, but that would require me to have actual talent or something. Although given a lot of the bands I've heard in bars, that's apparently not a very stringent requirement.
I read the internet for the articles.
I mean, I haven't played GH myself before...but I mean... a guitar with buttons instead of strings? Why do you all like that so much? At LEAST have strings, and it doesn't matter much where you press them down, but strumming a guitar is what's makes playing fun, not pressing an electronic button...Are they even pressure sensitive?
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Wow, so you mean, within just 5 minutes of picking up a real guitar, my friends and I can have a blast performing in front of live audiences in bars? With no practice at all, ever?
Cool! And here I'd been some kind of idiot, thinking that it took years of dedicated practice to be a capable guitar player - thanks for setting me straight!
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
This sort of opinion always annoys me. It may be hard to believe, but people have different interests. Most people have different ways too spend extra time when they don't need or want to be productive. Some people play music in a club, some people play the video game equivalent, some people might read a book or watch a movie about musicians, some may just listen to music. The difference between actually playing in front a crowd and the other options is that playing live requires some extroversion, some amount of talent (or at least some practice) and a lot of coordination with others. Basically a lot of work.
Kudos to those that have the drive to go play live. Not everyone can do that or is willing to do that, why deride those that entertain themselves in other ways?
Umm, yeah...and? What's your point? This is a game that takes a lot less effort to get at and enjoy than spending months practicing and paying for lessons. But I can be like you: you can make a lot more money writing a novel that only does modestly well than posting on Slashdot.
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Any chance we can get them to add Shredisode IV to the game?
This guy's the limit!
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I'm waiting for Guitar Hero 3. Here's the only information I could find on it. :)
Harmonix, I have one request - include a 'karaoke' mode where one can a) have the lyrics scroll by, karaoke style, and b) turn off the vocal track for the song.
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'cause they're weak.
Seriously though I don't understand learning an instrument and not wanting to play in a band / orchestra whatever. Its like learning a language and not wanting to talk to people.
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That song is going to be absolutely killer.
"Just because you're eloquent doesn't mean you aren't a fucking crackpot." -Wavebreak
I've been playing Amplitude, and have had Guitar Hero for a while and thought it was really good until I played Amplitude. It hasn't got a novelty controller but is better than GH in nearly every other way, better songs, different routes through the songs for more replay value, remixable songs, better multiplayer. Its just a shame that it didn't get the recognition it deserves as it didn't have a controller that appeals to casual gamers.
...and the new Guitar Hero needs to at least have mass amounts of individual frets so they can instead TEACH them how to play an instrument, instead of playing with a fake instrument. I forsee this leading to many horrible garage bands in the future. Maybe one out of ten thousand will actually be good, from this game.
I seriously wish they'd develop a game where it taught you something potentially useful in this particular case. Then maybe ew'd see a quick jump in the quality of music. I bet you could text-code thousands of lessons plus 3-d animated demos on a single CD-ROM, to where the original playstation could teach people.
C'mon guys, Japan's got some killer guitarists, including a couple of BLIND ones. Why not try teaching the rest of the world ALONG with entertaining them? I bet you could possibly get more business like that concerning the major potential of this market.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I play the piano and guitar to a reasonable level, but only ever for myself. I find it relaxing. For me at least, playing and performing are two different things. To think how this fits into your analogy, it's like learning a language to read books in that language.
Its not just performance really just playing with others is an entirely different dimension of music so much so that I would argue anyone who doesnt isn't a musician of a reasonable standard.
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And your argument would be wrong. I had a choice to be a pianist or to be a programmer. I chose to be a programmer. That doesn't mean I'm not a musician of reasonable standards- I play classical music of the highest caliber and difficulty. I just choose not to do it in front of an audience. And I'm sure there are more that are like me than are performers. It's all in choice, no matter what talent you have.
...this will spawn a new, great music game! Not games like the Guitar Hero ripoff Beatmania...
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The first game is very awesome ^___^ I cant wait for this one!!!!