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Guitar Hero III, 80s Tracks Announced
claudia martinez writes "The Guitar Hero franchise is spreading its wings today with the announcement of Guitar Hero III, due to released across four platforms. This time around the title will feature boss battles and a new online multiplayer mode with world-wide leaderboards. Wireless controllers based on the Gibson guitar should be available for all platforms, and some of the titles already slated for the game have been announced. Tracks will include: "Paint It Black" (by The Rolling Stones), "Cherub Rock" (by Smashing Pumpkins), "The Metal" (by Tenacious D), "My Name is Jonas" (by Weezer), "Rock And Roll All Nite" (as made famous by Kiss), "School's Out" (as made famous by Alice Cooper), "Slow Ride" (as made famous by Fog Hat), and "Cult of Personality" (by Living Colour). More tracks from the 80s version of the title have also been announced with Poison, Skid Row, and Billy Squier rounding out the already impressive set list."
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A real guitar would be too difficult. It takes a long time and a lot of practice to be able to hit chords with any speed at all. People want to play a game, not spend weeks and months just trying to get the basic stuff going. I also hate the microswitch clicking on that controller.
It would be cool if they made the controller more complicated though. More buttons on the neck that would at least attempt to simulate real chords better. It would be a lot easier than pushing strings but it could give you a little of the muscle memory necessary for playing a real guitar.
Realism does not necessarily equate to "fun". They found a fun formula and it works. It is impressive to see someone ace a song on Expert setting, but not in the same way as watching someone play a real guitar well. Both are impressive, but in different ways and for different reasons.
Unfortunatly the greatest guitar game of all time is missing one of the greatest, if not THE greatest Aussie ever to play the guitar, Angus Young. Come on guys, how can you make such a stupid omission :(
I do both, and I can easily see why people just want to play Guitar Hero. Guitar Hero is just plain fun, you don't even have to get up to expert level to have a lot of fun with it. Hell, the only reason I'm at expert level is because over the summer, my roommate and I had absolutely nothing better to do than play Guitar Hero constantly. But they really are two different experiences, and just because it's a blast to rock out on Guitar Hero doesn't mean you'd have fun playing a real guitar.
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99% of the people who didn't played this game yet are STILL unable to see that this is a GAME we're talking about.
Sure it's a game, but so are flight sims and look how realistic [as best as you can get on a home PC] they are.
I don't find realistic simulations to be all that much fun, myself. The learning curve is too steep and the activity often too mundane.
I would rather play a game like Afterburner than MS Flight Simulator; who cares about boring details like checking altimeters and retracting the landing gear after takeoff, I just want to get in a firefight with some Russian MiGs already, goddammit.
The same approach is the difference between learning to play guitar and playing Guitar Hero. Enjoying the latter has no effect on whether I should or do enjoy the former.