Konami has had just the game you seek for years in Japan, however I don't see it getting an American release anytime soon. You may be able to find it in some arcades that specialize in Japanese imports, however.
Why do some elitist musicians hate on Guitar Hero?
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Actually, I do own an acoustic guitar. I have fun with it. (Granted, my first love is percussion and yes, I do own a drumset.)
However, I still have lots of fun playing Guitar Hero. Why? Because Guitar Hero isn't about playing guitar. It simulates performing for a crowd. I, sadly, do not have the time right now to join a rock band and put in the time I'd really want to in order to sound good to perform at large venues. Guitar Hero simulates performing on stage to an extent. Plucking on my guitar in my living room doesn't simulate playing in front of a crowd.
It's kind of funny that several elitist musicians bash on the game because it's a "cheap plastic toy", and that people should, instead, buy real instruments. However, I have known two people personally (which is not by any stretch a large number) who got Guitar Hero, enjoyed it so much, that they then went out and bought their first guitar and started to learn how to play one legitemately.
I would think ANY musician would agree that something that gets more people into playing music is a GOOD thing, and that they should embrace something like Guitar Hero not as a replacement for guitar playing, but rather an entry point for new guitar players.
(And in fact, one of my friends who enjoys Guitar Hero the most is also an amazing classical guitar player. If he can get over the fact that he's playing a plastic toy, I think anyone can.)
From what I understand, Clear Channel fucked over those previous two concerts because they went through a change of their concert promotion unit (even changing the name of it) and they had to cut costs. So they cancelled several concert tours (other excuses were "broken knee") and VGL happened to be one of them.
Since then, VGL has broken ties with Clear Channel and is now doing it themselves.
But also from what I understand is that VGL is gonna continue touring, so if you're really worried, go ahead and sit out on this tour and see if they're reliable yet and just go see them if they have one after this year.
(Disclosure: I host a video game internet radio show/podcast/whatever you want to call it and interviewed Tommy Tallarico on my show and asked the question "why should we trust you a third time after some people already got raped by Ticketmaster charges twice" which is where I got my information for this response from.)
The wording is correct. There is a feature in Burnout to view the shared clips of people on your friends list, and of the last 20 players you played online in that game. All the message does is notify you that there you've shared a clip.
If you got that message from me (nobody has, but let's pretend), you would then have to go into Burnout, go to the Xbox Live menu, select My Friends Clips, find my gamerpic in the list of friends in your friends list, THEN you could see ALL of the clips I had shared, whether I notified you of them or not.
It works the same way for "reccomended" clips, which are essentially you liking a clip someone ELSE shared.
So the wording is correct, but the assumption based on that wording is incorrect. I blame EA/Criterion for making it this confusing.
From what I can tell of what you download, it's just like how it saves a replay in Burnout. So it's not actual video, but rather data on what objects go where that is then rendered in the game engine.
No, I'm not new here, I know what I say will not make a lick of difference, but I'm gonna say it anyway.
You do NOT need to spam your friends list to get the achievements in Burnout 360. The achievement is awarded BEFORE you get to the "Want to tell your friends?" screen. There are three options: Tell nobody, Tell ALL of your friends, or Tell SOME of your friends. For some reason, people assume to hit the middle option, even when the top option is the default.
I have gotten those achievements without sending a single message to a single person on my friends list.
Because those companies typically contract out the housecalls to independant local companies, and the company that RR happened to contract out to your house also happened to have a contract with Comcast, and was probably driving the truck that said "Comcast" on the side.
I've never had a Comcast employee at my apartment - it was always an independant company that was working for Comcast at the time, and I wouldn't be surprised if that company also had a contract with Adelphia to service their customers...
If it helps to put my opinion in perspective, I've been playing drums and percussion for about 16 years (yes, I'm young) and I still enjoy the Japanese arcade game Drummania, as well as other rhythm games such as Beatmania and Guitar Hero.
You will never hear me personally say that they will teach you how to play drums, be a DJ, or play a guitar (just like Dance Dance Revolution does NOT teach you how to dance, but rather how to stomp on arrows) but the experience is a simulation of the experience of playing in front of a crowd.
I do know a few people who have played Guitar Hero and enjoyed it so much that they then went and bought a starter kit like you mentioned to learn how to play the real thing. I think that should make any musician happy, no matter what they feel of Guitar Hero itself as a computer program.
Actually, at the latest New Years Party I went to, two people brought Guitar Hero and, while we have people there that are AMAZING on acoustic guitar, we all had more fun playing 2-player Guitar Hero - especially the aformentioned people that are amazing on acoustic guitar.
And the chicks dug it.
Now, you're right in a sense that it doesn't make you feel like you're playing guitar, and it's not supposed to. It gives you the simulation of rocking out with an instrument in front of a crowd, however, thanks to the visuals and audio in the game and how they react to how good or bad you are doing.
Re:Does any one have a link to what JT said?
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They were removed from GamePolitics.com for being an anonymous flame, but here's the kicker that got everyone fired up...I pulled it from MetalGearSolid.org's news section:
Your "gamer friend" will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.
There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.
The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.
All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid "gaming" really is.
You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this "culture of death?" Of course not. Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives.
Let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer "buds," knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess.
Sad. Sad for all of you."
Clicking on that link above will give you MGS.org's response, which is exceptionally wonderful.
Until May 2006, when Final Fantasy XI for Xbox 360 is released in the United States and Canada, Final Fantasy XI is a PS2 exclusive. PS2 releases are approved by SCEA, not Microsoft Xbox Division.
However, the beta is out now, and if the retail game is anything like the beta (which I'm sure it will be in this aspect) - it requres 5GB on your hard drive to install. It won't work on a Core system. So the question is valid.
I'd be driving home during the afternoon rush hour and I heard several ads, both prerecorded and read by the DJ, for both Advent Rising and Psychonauts, Majesco's recent "AAA titles". I tend to never, ever hear about video games on that station.
Their downfall was definately not their lack of advertising.
Instead of this, why not get a real dog?? Are we really living in such a digitized world than even pets need to be fake (electronic)? Or will the excuse be that many people live in dwellings where they aren't allowed pets? Cause guess what folks...lots of homeless animals are just waiting to be taken home from shelters and the like. Would the kids really prefer to a computer graphic to a living animal?
I'll bite. Every time Nintendogs gets mentioned, I hear exactly what the poster here is saying.
Personally, I own the game because I already have two cats and I'd get evicted from my apartment if I took in some dogs, not to mention the headache of getting my 5 year old cats who have lived together all of their life to accept a dog coming into their territory. I happen to like my apartment and it's location, and don't wish to move to a house where I can have 84938493 dogs and 4839284932 cats.
I also do a lot of business travel unfortunately - kinda hard to take a dog with me to hotels all around the country. But the DS travels just fine.
Your "excuse" also holds merit to a situation I was in years ago - college dorms don't allow pets. So, I played PF Magic's Catz and Dogz while I was in college to be able to have pets again. It was a long way home to the cats my parents had.
Another reason that I've seen some parents latch onto Nintendogs is that they can see if their child can actually take the responsibility of introducing a pet into the house. Yes, the parents do take care of the pet as well, but if they expect the child to be a part of the caretaking process, what better way to see if they can handle it by using a virtual pet? Granted, it's not the best test, but it's a good first start to placate the child while the parents perhaps look through humane societies finding the perfect new family member. (The Nintendogs manual does spend a lot of time reminding you that Nintendogs are not real dogs, since they stay puppies throughout the entire game and don't get sick or die.)
I'm sure that an AC like you probably won't accept any of these reasons and claim that everyone should have two real pets for each virtual pet they happen to have as a video game, but there are real and noble reasons to have the game in my mind. And, yes, I do donate to the Humane Society (including the Georgia license plate that benefits animal care) in lieu of not being able to have more than two pets in my place of residence at a time.
New worlds include Beauty and the Beast's Beast Castle, Mulan's Land of Dragons, the Lion King's Pride Land, and Timeless River, a black-and-white world based on old Mickey Mouse shorts, like 1928's Steamboat Willie. Also new are two "live action" worlds, where a cartoon Sora, Donald, and Goofy fight alongside realistically modeled human beings: Port Royal, based on 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean, and Space Paranoids, based on 1982's Tron. Square Enix has not yet announced if "real life" actors will reprise their in-game roles, but the first Kingdom Hearts' big-name celebrity voice acting leaves us optimistic.
iD has been sued several times by the victim's families of school shootings. Maybe not for Columbine, but they were sued in connection with the Peducah, KY shootings, along with Sony, Square (for FF7), Activision, and some retailers. Kinda like the Strickland v. Sony lawsuit in Fayette, Alabama, but that's more against GTA than Doom.
Apparently, the entire category that the Leeroy Jenkins question was found in was about computer games, however every video clip I can find ONLY shows the WoW question. Is there a clip online of all five questions? (Apparently the others were about Halo and GTA.)
I do a weekly talk show about video games creatively titled The Bobby Blackwolf Show. We record it live over a SHOUTcast stream and I take live callers via Skype (when they bother to call in during the live show.) It's very much about the listener, as I read chat comments from IRC while I'm recording.
We also interview people from the fringes of the industry - indie game developers (save for Funcom in the very beginning), game cover bands, Atari aficionados, etc...
Ironically, E3's initial purpose was to allow the retailers to see what games were coming out, so they could determine how much shelf space, if any, should be given to the product. The media was just a side part of it in the beginning - the booths were really to impress the retailers into buying their product and putting their product in the stores.
Now, that's changed. The retailers can't get any business done because the media swarms in thinking they should be VIP's and should have first access to all content. And that's why E3 seems to be getting worse every year - it's focus has been lost.
I'd say that there should be a day where there's NO MEDIA allowed - only people legitemately in the industry that have business to attend to. (Not those who buy their way into an exhibits only pass, either.) And before anyone jumps down my throat, I'd be one of the people not allowed in the one day, so I sure as hell ain't saying it for MY benefit.
You're welcome...I was one of the ones in there last night when y'all hit 23 users to get into the second lobby. I'll be keeping tabs on it as y'all go!
Did the non-reviewer try out the wireless mode of play, or would that make the non-review a true review?
There is not much wireless to speak of. Both my GF and I have DS's and Nintendogs, and the extent of "Bark Mode" is that you transfer your dog and trainer info over to the other person's DS and then the wireless shuts off. It then becomes identical to meeting another dog in the park where you play with your puppy and the other person's puppy.
We figured this out the hard way when my GF asked me if she saw the amazing catch my dog made with the frisbee, when I was throwing a tennis ball around on my screen. Eventually the dogs "go home" and that's the end of Bark Mode. Pretty disappointing.
...Is the government. Thanks to the other news that's been duped on Slashdot 8439284923 times in the past week, there is speculation that the government will attempt to make game ratings manditory and overseen by the federal government. If your game isn't rated, they want to make it illegal to sell.
Right now, getting your game rated by the ESRB costs more than the budgets of most indie games because of all of the material you must send to them. It will probably get even more stricter now thanks to the recent news. This won't hurt hobbyists who don't want to sell their product, but if you think that the government won't crack down on online sales of video games as well as in brick and mortor stores, you're crazy...
If being on it's "last stand" means by being the best selling handheld gaming device in the world (which the GBA is) then I would think Nintendo would want to be on it's "last stand" for quite some time.
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Wow, I had no clue that it had a US release, even if it was bundled with some hardware.
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I'm new here.
Keyboardmania on Wikipedia.
Actually, I do own an acoustic guitar. I have fun with it. (Granted, my first love is percussion and yes, I do own a drumset.)
However, I still have lots of fun playing Guitar Hero. Why? Because Guitar Hero isn't about playing guitar. It simulates performing for a crowd. I, sadly, do not have the time right now to join a rock band and put in the time I'd really want to in order to sound good to perform at large venues. Guitar Hero simulates performing on stage to an extent. Plucking on my guitar in my living room doesn't simulate playing in front of a crowd.
It's kind of funny that several elitist musicians bash on the game because it's a "cheap plastic toy", and that people should, instead, buy real instruments. However, I have known two people personally (which is not by any stretch a large number) who got Guitar Hero, enjoyed it so much, that they then went out and bought their first guitar and started to learn how to play one legitemately.
I would think ANY musician would agree that something that gets more people into playing music is a GOOD thing, and that they should embrace something like Guitar Hero not as a replacement for guitar playing, but rather an entry point for new guitar players.
(And in fact, one of my friends who enjoys Guitar Hero the most is also an amazing classical guitar player. If he can get over the fact that he's playing a plastic toy, I think anyone can.)
He said they were importing DS's, not DS-lites. DS-fatty's are in short supply in Japan as well.
From what I understand, Clear Channel fucked over those previous two concerts because they went through a change of their concert promotion unit (even changing the name of it) and they had to cut costs. So they cancelled several concert tours (other excuses were "broken knee") and VGL happened to be one of them.
Since then, VGL has broken ties with Clear Channel and is now doing it themselves.
But also from what I understand is that VGL is gonna continue touring, so if you're really worried, go ahead and sit out on this tour and see if they're reliable yet and just go see them if they have one after this year.
(Disclosure: I host a video game internet radio show/podcast/whatever you want to call it and interviewed Tommy Tallarico on my show and asked the question "why should we trust you a third time after some people already got raped by Ticketmaster charges twice" which is where I got my information for this response from.)
The wording is correct. There is a feature in Burnout to view the shared clips of people on your friends list, and of the last 20 players you played online in that game. All the message does is notify you that there you've shared a clip.
If you got that message from me (nobody has, but let's pretend), you would then have to go into Burnout, go to the Xbox Live menu, select My Friends Clips, find my gamerpic in the list of friends in your friends list, THEN you could see ALL of the clips I had shared, whether I notified you of them or not.
It works the same way for "reccomended" clips, which are essentially you liking a clip someone ELSE shared.
So the wording is correct, but the assumption based on that wording is incorrect. I blame EA/Criterion for making it this confusing.
From what I can tell of what you download, it's just like how it saves a replay in Burnout. So it's not actual video, but rather data on what objects go where that is then rendered in the game engine.
No, I'm not new here, I know what I say will not make a lick of difference, but I'm gonna say it anyway.
You do NOT need to spam your friends list to get the achievements in Burnout 360. The achievement is awarded BEFORE you get to the "Want to tell your friends?" screen. There are three options: Tell nobody, Tell ALL of your friends, or Tell SOME of your friends. For some reason, people assume to hit the middle option, even when the top option is the default.
I have gotten those achievements without sending a single message to a single person on my friends list.
Because those companies typically contract out the housecalls to independant local companies, and the company that RR happened to contract out to your house also happened to have a contract with Comcast, and was probably driving the truck that said "Comcast" on the side.
I've never had a Comcast employee at my apartment - it was always an independant company that was working for Comcast at the time, and I wouldn't be surprised if that company also had a contract with Adelphia to service their customers...
If it helps to put my opinion in perspective, I've been playing drums and percussion for about 16 years (yes, I'm young) and I still enjoy the Japanese arcade game Drummania, as well as other rhythm games such as Beatmania and Guitar Hero.
You will never hear me personally say that they will teach you how to play drums, be a DJ, or play a guitar (just like Dance Dance Revolution does NOT teach you how to dance, but rather how to stomp on arrows) but the experience is a simulation of the experience of playing in front of a crowd.
I do know a few people who have played Guitar Hero and enjoyed it so much that they then went and bought a starter kit like you mentioned to learn how to play the real thing. I think that should make any musician happy, no matter what they feel of Guitar Hero itself as a computer program.
Actually, at the latest New Years Party I went to, two people brought Guitar Hero and, while we have people there that are AMAZING on acoustic guitar, we all had more fun playing 2-player Guitar Hero - especially the aformentioned people that are amazing on acoustic guitar.
And the chicks dug it.
Now, you're right in a sense that it doesn't make you feel like you're playing guitar, and it's not supposed to. It gives you the simulation of rocking out with an instrument in front of a crowd, however, thanks to the visuals and audio in the game and how they react to how good or bad you are doing.
Clicking on that link above will give you MGS.org's response, which is exceptionally wonderful.
However, the beta is out now, and if the retail game is anything like the beta (which I'm sure it will be in this aspect) - it requres 5GB on your hard drive to install. It won't work on a Core system. So the question is valid.
I'd be driving home during the afternoon rush hour and I heard several ads, both prerecorded and read by the DJ, for both Advent Rising and Psychonauts, Majesco's recent "AAA titles". I tend to never, ever hear about video games on that station.
Their downfall was definately not their lack of advertising.
I'll bite. Every time Nintendogs gets mentioned, I hear exactly what the poster here is saying.
Personally, I own the game because I already have two cats and I'd get evicted from my apartment if I took in some dogs, not to mention the headache of getting my 5 year old cats who have lived together all of their life to accept a dog coming into their territory. I happen to like my apartment and it's location, and don't wish to move to a house where I can have 84938493 dogs and 4839284932 cats.
I also do a lot of business travel unfortunately - kinda hard to take a dog with me to hotels all around the country. But the DS travels just fine.
Your "excuse" also holds merit to a situation I was in years ago - college dorms don't allow pets. So, I played PF Magic's Catz and Dogz while I was in college to be able to have pets again. It was a long way home to the cats my parents had.
Another reason that I've seen some parents latch onto Nintendogs is that they can see if their child can actually take the responsibility of introducing a pet into the house. Yes, the parents do take care of the pet as well, but if they expect the child to be a part of the caretaking process, what better way to see if they can handle it by using a virtual pet? Granted, it's not the best test, but it's a good first start to placate the child while the parents perhaps look through humane societies finding the perfect new family member. (The Nintendogs manual does spend a lot of time reminding you that Nintendogs are not real dogs, since they stay puppies throughout the entire game and don't get sick or die.)
I'm sure that an AC like you probably won't accept any of these reasons and claim that everyone should have two real pets for each virtual pet they happen to have as a video game, but there are real and noble reasons to have the game in my mind. And, yes, I do donate to the Humane Society (including the Georgia license plate that benefits animal care) in lieu of not being able to have more than two pets in my place of residence at a time.
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iD has been sued several times by the victim's families of school shootings. Maybe not for Columbine, but they were sued in connection with the Peducah, KY shootings, along with Sony, Square (for FF7), Activision, and some retailers. Kinda like the Strickland v. Sony lawsuit in Fayette, Alabama, but that's more against GTA than Doom.
Apparently, the entire category that the Leeroy Jenkins question was found in was about computer games, however every video clip I can find ONLY shows the WoW question. Is there a clip online of all five questions? (Apparently the others were about Halo and GTA.)
We also interview people from the fringes of the industry - indie game developers (save for Funcom in the very beginning), game cover bands, Atari aficionados, etc...
Ironically, E3's initial purpose was to allow the retailers to see what games were coming out, so they could determine how much shelf space, if any, should be given to the product. The media was just a side part of it in the beginning - the booths were really to impress the retailers into buying their product and putting their product in the stores.
Now, that's changed. The retailers can't get any business done because the media swarms in thinking they should be VIP's and should have first access to all content. And that's why E3 seems to be getting worse every year - it's focus has been lost.
I'd say that there should be a day where there's NO MEDIA allowed - only people legitemately in the industry that have business to attend to. (Not those who buy their way into an exhibits only pass, either.) And before anyone jumps down my throat, I'd be one of the people not allowed in the one day, so I sure as hell ain't saying it for MY benefit.
You're welcome...I was one of the ones in there last night when y'all hit 23 users to get into the second lobby. I'll be keeping tabs on it as y'all go!
There is not much wireless to speak of. Both my GF and I have DS's and Nintendogs, and the extent of "Bark Mode" is that you transfer your dog and trainer info over to the other person's DS and then the wireless shuts off. It then becomes identical to meeting another dog in the park where you play with your puppy and the other person's puppy.
We figured this out the hard way when my GF asked me if she saw the amazing catch my dog made with the frisbee, when I was throwing a tennis ball around on my screen. Eventually the dogs "go home" and that's the end of Bark Mode. Pretty disappointing.
Everyone whined when E3 was in Atlanta for two years...
...Is the government. Thanks to the other news that's been duped on Slashdot 8439284923 times in the past week, there is speculation that the government will attempt to make game ratings manditory and overseen by the federal government. If your game isn't rated, they want to make it illegal to sell.
Right now, getting your game rated by the ESRB costs more than the budgets of most indie games because of all of the material you must send to them. It will probably get even more stricter now thanks to the recent news. This won't hurt hobbyists who don't want to sell their product, but if you think that the government won't crack down on online sales of video games as well as in brick and mortor stores, you're crazy...
If being on it's "last stand" means by being the best selling handheld gaming device in the world (which the GBA is) then I would think Nintendo would want to be on it's "last stand" for quite some time.