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Guitar Hero 5 To Allow Duplicate Instruments, Easy Switching
Activision confirmed the existence of Guitar Hero 5 last week, and now they've released details about some of the game's new features. Quoting 1Up: "... the new Party Play mode allows players to swap instruments and difficulties on the fly — even in the middle of a performance. You'll also be able to play Guitar Hero 5 with any combination of instruments, be it four drum kits, two microphones and two guitars, or any other possible configuration of four players." They also listed a few of the songs, which include "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan and "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash. Meanwhile, their music-game rival Harmonix has revealed the full set list for Rock Band Unplugged, coming out early next month for the PSP.
I've never played it so I'm probably unaware of the appeal. But why not just, you know, learn to play an actual guitar? Seems like that will be satisfying long after the game gets boring.
I would love to see these songs in there, not going to happen though.
Led Zeppelin -
Stairway to Heaven (Live from How The West Was Won)
Achilles Last Stand (Live from Knebworth)
Kashmir (Live from Knebworth)
Dazed and Confused (Live from The Song Remains The Same)
Pink Floyd -
Comfortably Numb (Live from P*U*L*S*E)
High Hopes (Live from P*U*L*S*E)
Uriah Heep -
Sunrise (Studio)
Gypsy (Live from Future Echoes Of The Past)
July Morning (Studio)
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New features! "basically everything rockband had"
That's all nice and fine, but will you finally let us use our Rock Band instruments in your game, Activision?
I would love to see these songs in there, not going to happen though.
- John Cage: 4'33"
- Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music #3
- Napalm Death: You Suffer
- Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday.
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To be fair to Guitar Hero: Actually, this is some stuff that Rock Band doesn't have. I've wished before that Rock Band let you do dual vocalists.
To be fair to Rock Band: Everything? Well for starters, since they've explicitly said you can play GHWT DLC in GH5, I'm taking that to mean you still can't export GHWT songs to GH5, like RB1 did for RB2.
I think this is honestly the first time I've seen someone else other than my friend who mentioned something off of the Division Bell. All other times I've read or heard someone talking about Pink Floyd, they only bring up the staple "Comfortably Numb" or "Hey You" from off The Wall, and DSotM in general. I've rarily come across any appreciation for their other albums, especially the Gilmour-era (Obscured by Clouds and Meddle is brilliant, but I personally hold Division Bell close). What a great way to go OT and to dust off the soap-box temporarily.
Bitter, not morose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XE2N4mxeRw
Is that really so different from asking someone why don't they just go out and jack cars instead of playing gta?
I guess it is kind of since it's unreasonable to expect someone to go out and commit crimes, but playing an instrument is ok.
Forget endless models of guitar, drum kit, bass etc.
Someone just make a keyboard peripheral for these music games, thats about the only thing that will get me interested...
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True story: My computer randomly picks a song out of my music library to play as my alarm clock in the morning.
I was late for work the day it picked John Cage's 4'33"
(I eventually came to hate most of my music library as a result of this mechanism, and have now relegated the script to limit its selections to a playlist of songs I don't particularly like (and don't also happen to consist only of 4 and a half minutes of silence)
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Other options:
- Anything by Sunn O))))
- Saint of the Pit by Diamanda Galas
- Any song without guitars (or traditional instruments for that matter. La lettre d'explicationby Yann Tiersen comes to mind).
On a more serious note, I'd love to see some Math/Post-rock type stuff on Guitar Hero. Stuff by Mogwai, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, or 65daysofstatic would be fun and challenging. It'd be even cooler if you managed to work something like Fuck Buttons into the guitar hero controller scheme.
(If the developers are particularly evil, they'll integrate Rock Band's vocal functions into the Sigur Ros tracks)
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
When will they support the Accordion for real? I'm sick of mere online versions.
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Wouldn't it be nice in a perfect world for the makers of Rock Band and Guitar Hero to get over their differences and make one game that would have the best Set List?; of course there would not be any competition in the Market so its doubtful that new improvements would happen to fast.
And yet again, the number of people who can play well enough to be teachers is much smaller than the pool of total players. And it still takes a lot of dedication to be good enough to teach guitar. Further more, people who just randomly bring their guitars to parties are FUCKING ANNOYING. You know why? If they weren't ask to, there's been no accommodations made for them, and they expect everyone else to bend over for them. If there's music playing, that needs to be turned down/off. They need relative quiet for tuning, then they want space to play in, and if not everyone wants to listen, you're still considered a rude asshole by the player if you don't hush up. And in the end, you're still just playing for yourself since no one else can play, and what you play is ultimately up to you and what you know.
With Guitar Hero, you can have multiple people playing, you're limited by the play list, not any one person's knowledge, everyone else can still carry on with what they want to do, people can swap in and out. Overall, it's a much more involving and social experience, and this looks like it will take it even further. So don't be a fan of GH if you want, no skin off my nose, but take your bullshit "Learn a real guitar instead" drek elsewhere.
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
They did. It's called synthesiagame (http://synthesiagame.com) Just bring your own midi music.
Or do most of the newer Guitar Hero releases basically just add features that really should've just been in a single release in the first place?
When most companies design a game, they create a list of features and implement them into the game and release it. The Guitar Hero guys seem to make the same list, but make a whole new game for each feature.
I love Guitar Hero, but unlike most games I wont buy every version, I bought Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band but nothing since then, it just seems to be getting a little silly - a lot like EA with it's sports games that are really little different from version to version.
Still, it's a cash cow I guess so it's hard to blame them for it if people continue to buy it - the same can be said for EA's sports games I suppose!
Real life has had these features for as long as I can remember.
Worst 'game' ever.
Wow, Sigur-Ros and Fuck Buttons! What an awesome party that would be! Musical prozac gets me SO PUMPED!
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I think Beatmania might be what you're looking for!
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