If you have a PS2 do yourself a favor

[Jackal]

and buy Guitar Hero. I have never had so much fun playing a game. Between this and SotC I'm on the verge of actually making love to the console.

[Eraser]

Funny you should mention it, Guitar Hero 2 is apparantly in the works:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=63136

[MKJ]

i was thinking about it but im worried its too gimmicky. i love harmonix games and have them all but this feels a bit too "fun for 10 minutes"

[Jackal]

i was thinking about it but im worried its too gimmicky. i love harmonix games and have them all but this feels a bit too "fun for 10 minutes"

I own every Harmonix game and this is by far the best one yet, exponentially. You'd be doing yourself a diservice by not getting it. My friends aren't gamers by any stretch and we spent nine hours straight on saturday playing it head to head (my friend went out and bought it after 15 minutes of play).

[MKJ]

head to head? dont you need the guitar controller?

[Jackal]

head to head? dont you need the guitar controller?

You can play without it (using the normal controller) but its not nearly as fun. My buddy went out and bought his own copy so we had 2 guitars.

[mrd]

I play guitar... would I find this really easy? heh

Looks kinda fun.

[andyman]

and buy Guitar Hero. I have never had so much fun playing a game. Between this and SotC I'm on the verge of actually making love to the console.

my cousin showed me this when it came out, and i bought it a few days later. I have had it for about 3 months now, and it is one of the funnest games ever!! Everyone that I have showed it to thought the same, and they aren't gamers.

I am still trying to beat Smoke on the Water on Expert mode to complete the first stage.... it's fucking impossible. My cousin is on the last stage of expert.

this game definitly beats out frequency and amplitude, but before this came out, those two were tops

[andyman]

I play guitar... would I find this really easy? heh

no.

you wouldnt take as long to get the hang of it, but learning knowing where your hand is in relation to the buttons takes some time to get used to.

[andyman]

fuck now i want to play it

[tnf]

I can't find it anywhere though...

[andyman]

go to circuit city or best buy, they should have one. well... call first

[MKJ]

if im getting it i want 2 guitars, cause theres two of us here. its prolly impossible to buy a guitarcontroller seperately, no?

and i dont know how hard expert is but it cant be harder than the last stages from amplitude on insane

[tnf]

go to circuit city or best buy, they should have one. well... call first

neither one has had any for the last 3 weeks.

[tnf]

if im getting it i want 2 guitars, cause theres two of us here. its prolly impossible to buy a guitarcontroller seperately, no?

and i dont know how hard expert is but it cant be harder than the last stages from amplitude on insane

actually you can find just the controllers on ebay. I know because i bid and won on one of them thinking it was the whole system. it wouldn't let me retract my bid, so I just pm'd the guy and said I wasn't paying for just the controller.
$36 for the controller plus $18 shipping...hell no.

I don't know how he reacted - haven't checked my own msg's.

[MKJ]

hmm, interesting.
just found out its not on sale here in europe till april 7th.. how annoying is that.
fucking hell, last year sucked for games and now everything is released at once :@ still need to grab SotC too

[Jackal]

I play guitar... would I find this really easy? heh

Looks kinda fun.

I've been playhing guitar for 10 years and some of the songs rape me. You will however be somewhat ahead of the curve.

[MKJ]

having a musical background or just feeling for rythm always helps in these games. most of the freq and amp songs were fairly 'easy' to me because i simply anticipated where the track was going. a friend of mine had trouble with the simplest songs though

[Jackal]

if im getting it i want 2 guitars, cause theres two of us here. its prolly impossible to buy a guitarcontroller seperately, no?

and i dont know how hard expert is but it cant be harder than the last stages from amplitude on insane

You can buy an additional guitar. Apparently there are a bunch of companies that make their own versions of the guitar but they dont work anywhere near as well. Make sure you get the Red Octane guitar.

[andyman]

if im getting it i want 2 guitars, cause theres two of us here. its prolly impossible to buy a guitarcontroller seperately, no?

and i dont know how hard expert is but it cant be harder than the last stages from amplitude on insane

actually you can find just the controllers on ebay. I know because i bid and won on one of them thinking it was the whole system. it wouldn't let me retract my bid, so I just pm'd the guy and said I wasn't paying for just the controller.
$36 for the controller plus $18 shipping...hell no.

I don't know how he reacted - haven't checked my own msg's.

http://www.redoctane.com/specialty-gh.html

[mad]

how do you play the game? i mean how do the controls work?

[MKJ]

strike the chords displayed on the screen on cue. at least that what i can tell from screenshots. it sounds real easy (just like freQ & Amp) but it gets really crazy. theres also a tiltsensor so im guessing that has some use

[Jackal]

Here's how the gameplay goes. You play along a track just like in amplitude, as a note comes you have to fret the note and strike the strum paddle at the same time. As you go along you build up "star power", when this fills up you have to bring the guitar up to a 90 degree angle (like you're rocking a guitar solo). The controller is quite sohpisticated despite how it looks. It detects hammer-ons and pull-offs, which become key in the face-melting songs.
The game has a great soundtrack, very eclectic. It has some punk, metal, pop, alternative, etc. In fact, beyond the "famous" songs you can unlock a bunch of indy songs that bands put there names in to get in the game. I just discovered that The Slip (a fucking ace band I've seen a bunch of times) has a song on it.
I fucking love this game.

[andyman]

Here's how the gameplay goes. You play along a track just like in amplitude, as a note comes you have to fret the note and strike the strum paddle at the same time. As you go along you build up "star power", when this fills up you have to bring the guitar up to a 90 degree angle (like you're rocking a guitar solo). The controller is quite sohpisticated despite how it looks. It detects hammer-ons and pull-offs, which become key in the face-melting songs.
The game has a great soundtrack, very eclectic. It has some punk, metal, pop, alternative, etc. In fact, beyond the "famous" songs you can unlock a bunch of indy songs that bands put there names in to get in the game. I just discovered that The Slip (a fucking ace band I've seen a bunch of times) has a song on it.
I fucking love this game.

yeah and the game has FREEZEPOP!!!!!!!!! i just about shit myself when i saw that

also as far as gameplay, you can hold a fret button all day long... it only activates when you hit the strum bar (unless it's a hammer or pulloff)

I made a video a few months ago... I'll post it as soon as it's uploaded.

[andyman]

here we go http://andyman82.com/files/rokk.mpg

how the game is REALLY played!!!