glad someone else appreciated saxondale, brilliant,

Anyway, just for laughs, here's a video I found of Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian sucking ass at Guitar Hero 2, he can't even play his own song, on easy. :laughing:



Proof that Guitar Hero is not meant to be a musician's game, it's just a game.

Well, Scott Ian *did* say near the end, when he was botching the solo, that he's a rhythm guitar player, implying *that's* why he was having problems (in that section, at least).

Changing topics, here's something that happened to *me* recently that makes me want to headbutt something, if not everything. I volunteer at an elementary school, and after helping kids read a book about different animals who enjoy jumping, my instructions were to ask the kids to summarize what the book meant. One child said, "It's about animals who like to jump, because that is how God made them."

I cringed inwardly, hoping that whoever is instructing this child at home isn't also teaching the child that the reason giraffes have long necks is that they stretch them to reach leaves.

Couldnt agree more. You know the only difference between Guitar Hero/Rock Band and any other rhythm game is that these games came with controllers styled as a guitar rather than the old school standard controllers? The premise is the same.

The price may be a little much admittedly, and expanding from just the guitar to guitar, bass, drums and mic MAY be taking it a little too far (?) but its just for fun at the end of the day.

EDIT: And i dont have Rock band or the FULL Guitar Hero by the way, i just have GH2 and GH3 with one lone guitar controller but if i could actually afford ALL of the gear and decided to buy it, it would still be for shits and giggles rather than thinking i could actually play of the real instruments.

Guitar Hero is fun on single player but Rock Band is purely a multiplayer game, if you have nobody to play it with you might as well stick to guitar hero.

I do think both are way overpriced for video games.

I understand that casual gamers are a much larger portion of the market these days than they ever have been, and that Nintendo are catering to that. I haven't got a problem with them doing such a thing, because at the end of the day it gives them more money to put out more quality games.

But that's the thing. It seems to me that there is a lack of quality games. The biggest title that Nintendo has released in a loooooooooooong time is Wii Sports Resort, which says a lot doesn't it really?

Plus, this whole range of 'new control' games, that are basically just rehashes of old Gamecube games, is a bit of a slap in the face. Give us a NEW game, rather than a half-arsed re-release of a Gamecube title.

I also heard through the grapevine that at this years E3, aside from announcing Super Mario Galaxy 1.5 (why?) and the New Super Mario Bros (which I am genuinely excited about) their only other major announcement was some sort of unnecessary sensor system.

I just can't be bothered to see any more games involving throwing frisbees at dogs when there hasn't been a new Legend of Zelda game since the GC.

Exactly. Sony and Microsoft get the job done by appealing to the mature crowd, I have nothing against that, they're just continuing the marketing strategy that Sega started way back in the Genesis days.

Nintendo have always been the exact opposite, some think their conservative approach is a bad thing, I don't. It makes them distinctive and it's what has always set them apart from their competition. Nintendo have tried to capitalise on fads in the past and failed horribly (cashing in on the virtual reality fad with Virtual Boy), since then it's best that they start the trends rather then follow them.

Meh, I disagree. Of the first party games for the Wii. Galaxy, Brawl, TP, Mario Kart, MP3, Super Paper Mario and Punch Out have all been crowd pleasers. Capcom and Ubisoft has put out some quality games on the system as well, even Sega has put out a few good games among their usual crap.

Anyone who won't at least admit those first party titles are all good games is probably not a Nintendo fan to begin with, and their opinions are as meaningful to me as my opinions are to PS3 fans.

I would like to see them devote more time to new games yes. And they are, Nintendo don't put out as many first party titles as Sony does, but that's because they take their time. They delayed Brawl so many times it was ridiculous, sure it pissed us off, but we knew that in the end they didn't want to release an unfinished product, and they didn't.

Also there's still some new Wii games to get excited about. Super Mario Galaxy 2 being the main one, more than one Mario platformer on a Nintendo console is quite a rarity and a pleasant surprise. There's also New Super Mario Bros Wii, Sin and Punishment 2, Pikmin 2, the new Metroid by Team Ninja, a new Kirby game, and even a new Zelda game.

That's right, we're getting another Zelda for the Wii, SUCK ON THAT. :ar_15s:

Super Mario Galaxy 1.5? Ok that's just stupid.

It's a full fledged sequel, so far we don't know much about it, but from the video I've seen there's tons of new gameplay mechanics and powerups and the new environments look like an absolute blast to play. Seriously how can you not be excited about it?

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*orgasm*

Uh, you're wrong. Phantom Hourglass on the DS, and there's another Zelda game for that system coming this December, called Spirit Tracks. And like I said another Zelda for the Wii is on the way.

Nintendo are not neglecting their franchises by any means, it's just that Mario and Zelda isn't like Sonic or Madden NFL, they're not putting out a rushed, incomplete game every millisecond, they actually take their time polishing their games, and the fans are rewarded for their patience.

I would still rather stick to Air Guitar personally :D You can throw shapes without worrying whether you have missed a few chords.

Onto the redundant 'guitar hero over real guitars' debate. If a group of kids are not going to acknowledge the difference between pressing buttons on a piece of plastic and plucking strings on an actual instrument, then are these really the sorts of kids that you'd want buying guitars and starting bands in the first place?

Music games are different from actual music. I'd be impressed if a kid could perfect 'Through The Fire and Flames' on the hardest difficulty setting, but I wouldn't buy his album.

So yeah, Guitar Hero is the reason why there aren't more bands like Nickelback, apparently.

And that, my friends, is why Guitar Hero is the greatest game ever. If it means less kids making crappy music of their own, than those folks at Harmonix deserve all the praise they get.

I just want to decapitate any person that says "stop playing this, get a real guitar".

Hey kids, stop playing Call of Duty, become a real soldier, stop playing Punch Out, become a real boxer, stop playing Grand Theft Auto, become a real car hijacker.

I don't even want to know what word of advice you'd have for kids that play Kirby.