Guitar Hero (2)

[Waddley]

Is the best thing in the entire world. Really, it is. Go get buy it right now and rock the hell out!

Anyone else have it?

[Cagliostro]

I wanna get this. I LOVE music games, and this is one of the few that I haven't invested a heap of money to be able to play. I'm a fool for the Dance Dance Revolution though, and will buy Parappa in any incarnation and really want Lammy to have a sequel. And I've got the girlfriend into Karaoke Revolution, which I like, but my music tastes are so off the mainstream that I usually only know a few songs on them. But it's just too damn much to buy the guitar thingy right now though. I suspect some day I'll give it a whirl.

So tell me...is it similar to playing a guitar, but not really? Just like DDR is like dancing, but not really...

[Waddley]

First, it is worth every penny you'd spend on it.

To answer your question... yes and no. The easy levels (which I JUST graduated from, but I have poor coordination and small hands) aren't like guitar-playing at all, because they're so easy. But when you get to expert, you're strumming every note of the song, and pressing the appropriate buttons, of which there are 5. So, yeah, it's similar. I mean, you're not going to be able to pick up a real guitar and play or anything once you've mastered the game, but... you still feel like a kick ass rock star

The levels go Easy- only using three of the five buttons, one at a time and it's pretty slow. Medium- using four of the five buttons and you start to use two at a time. Hard is using all 5, and more at once. Expert, like I said, is playing every guitar note of the song. It's insane. I'm still stumbling my way through medium.

Unfortunantly, no matter how hard you try, playing this game won't teach you how to play the guitar.

[Cagliostro]

Love the comic. I really need to check that out more often, as I remember a clever Shadow of Colossus strip from them folks.

Yeah, I think I could definitely get into it. And maybe it will help build up calluses so it won't hurt as much once I start the real thing once again. I definitely got some of the feel from Um Jammer Lammy, so I think I'd like this even more. I just wonder where I'll put the damn guitar. Already got mics and dance pads and an Eyetoy....mutter mutter mutter

[Waddley]

Yeah, I think I could definitely get into it. And maybe it will help build up calluses so it won't hurt as much once I start the real thing once again. I definitely got some of the feel from Um Jammer Lammy, so I think I'd like this even more. I just wonder where I'll put the damn guitar. Already got mics and dance pads and an Eyetoy....mutter mutter mutter

Doubt it. You're just pressing buttons. It's the roughness (and the sliding on) of the guitar strings that give you calluses.

BUT it could help coordinate your fingers I thought I was pretty well off before. I wasn't.

[Menolly]

...seriously beginning to think Beorn's one "big" Hanukkah present should be Guitar Hero III for the Wii, with the wireless guitar...

Thoughts?

[Brinn]

Outstanding Idea! I love my GHIII for the PS2 and so do all my friends.

P.S.
I'm 38 and most of my friends are around the same age so take that as you will. It is kind of silly seeing a bunch of grown men sitting around a TV playing a plastic toy guitar and loving it!!!! But it does ROCK!!!!

[Menolly]

*nodding*

I am thinking if Beorn doesn't enjoy the game, Hyperception and I will...

[emotional leper]

I'm holding out for my tax return and Rock Band

[Menolly]

I keep looking at Rock Band as an alternative. I haven't played either so do not know the pros and cons.

Y'all go ahead and sell one or the other game to me.

[emotional leper]

Rock Band is made by the people who made the original guitar hero. The Kit comes with a drum machine, a guitar controller, and a microphone. It can use up to two guitars, though, so friends make the game better (unless you can sing, drum, and strum at the same time.)

Up to four players play a song, one doing the drum section, two on guitar (lead/rythm or lead/bass, I believe), and one person sings to the song.

I was sold on it the moment I played the drums to 'Sufragette City' at Wal-Mart.

[Menolly]

...thinking I would have sworn I also saw keyboards with a Rock Band set up...

*nod*

I understand that. But, they are also both games, right? What is the difference in the purpose of the games themselves?

[emotional leper]

Guitar Hero is for up to 2 people.

Rock Band is for up to 4 people.

More People == More Alcohol Money == More Fun.

[Menolly]

*snort*

And that applies to a 14 year old how?

...sitting back, just waiting for the answer...

(remember, I still have your book)

[emotional leper]

The earlier you introduce them to alcohol, i.e., get them so shit faced they puke, UNDER CONTROLLED CIRCUMSTANCES, the less like they are to do it on their own.

When I was seven, back when my dad used to chew, I asked him what it was. He gave me a mouthful of fresh chew from his pouch. He DID NOT tell me I had to spit.

After I puked up and the tachycardia and palpitations wore off, I never wanted to chew again.

Too bad he never forced me to smoke an entire carton of camel non-filtereds, or I probably would never have started smoking.

Of course, children vary. I do know that I was brought up around alcohol, and despite my 'wild ways,' I've never been as stupid with alcohol as some of my peers -- I knew what it did to you, and I very quickly learned my own limits.

[Menolly]

The earlier you introduce them to alcohol, i.e., get them so shit faced they puke, UNDER CONTROLLED CIRCUMSTANCES, the less like they are to do it on their own.

When I was seven, back when my dad used to chew, I asked him what it was. He gave me a mouthful of fresh chew from his pouch. He DID NOT tell me I had to spit.

After I puked up and the tachycardia and palpitations wore off, I never wanted to chew again.

Too bad he never forced me to smoke an entire carton of camel non-filtereds, or I probably would never have started smoking.

Of course, children vary. I do know that I was brought up around alcohol, and despite my 'wild ways,' I've never been as stupid with alcohol as some of my peers -- I knew what it did to you, and I very quickly learned my own limits.

...



Who are you and what have you done with EL?

[emotional leper]

I garrotted him with his own guitar strings...

FOR MY LORD ARIOCH!

[Cail]

GHIII for the Wii is mono sound, not stereo.

Buy at your own risk.

[Menolly]

Ah...thank you Cail!

What is the word regarding that for Rock Band?

[Cagliostro]

The earlier you introduce them to alcohol, i.e., get them so shit faced they puke, UNDER CONTROLLED CIRCUMSTANCES, the less like they are to do it on their own.

When I was seven, back when my dad used to chew, I asked him what it was. He gave me a mouthful of fresh chew from his pouch. He DID NOT tell me I had to spit.

After I puked up and the tachycardia and palpitations wore off, I never wanted to chew again.

Too bad he never forced me to smoke an entire carton of camel non-filtereds, or I probably would never have started smoking.

Of course, children vary. I do know that I was brought up around alcohol, and despite my 'wild ways,' I've never been as stupid with alcohol as some of my peers -- I knew what it did to you, and I very quickly learned my own limits.

Y'know, I agree with this 100%. The first time I got drunk was with my parents. It was, of course, at my sister's wedding. On champagne. How I felt the next day certainly gave me caution with the stuff.

And the same on the cigarette front as well. Though I was a late bloomer on that.

As for chewing tobacco, there was a similar story, but not parents involved. Have never picked it up since.

As for chewing tobacco