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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: Alchemist on 26 Jul 2006, 07:14
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So, yeah. A friend of mine who works at EB borrowed it from his store and that's pretty much what I've been doing with my last few nights until 1am or so. Jesus hell, is that thing addictive. And, you know, Symphony Of Destruction, Ziggy Stardust and Bark At the Moon are included in the song lineup, so....w1n. All over the place. I can almost forgive them for including Stellar and Take It Off.
Make with the reviews, people. What songs would you like to see included in the next installment? Within reason, of course.
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If there is no Iron Maiden song in the next game, then there is something seriously wrong. I'll forgive them for not having Led Zeppelin, because apparently getting those licenses is tough as balls. It would be awesome if they could get Black Dog though.
Overall, the song lineup for the next game looks pretty good. Rush, Sabbath, Primus are all damn good bands. Of course, they also have the Kiss song, but it could be worse.
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Supposedly, they were trying to get Back in Black by AC/DC on the original album but were never contacted by the band. Hopefully now that the first one is a major success, they'll be able to get it on this installment.
I would like to see some grunge represented on there. I hate Nirvana, so plz stick to Alice and Chains or Pearl Jam or Soundgarden you fucking devs, you.
They need some Dio, too.
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I have no idea what songs are in the game at the moment, but I do know that when it comes to pretending to play guitar you can never have enough hair-metal.
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i love Gutiar Hero!!!
"Stellar" by Incubus is really fun. i pwn at it...on medium anways.
i would love so see some like... like "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" or "Seventy Times Seven" by Brand New on it. or like...idk..."460 To Nowhere" by Race The Sun.
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For the love of god, make that avatar smaller or take it down.
A few more tracks were revealed at an Australian event, so the confirmed setlist so far is:
Arterial Black - Drist
Psychobilly Freakout - The Reverend Horton Heat
Strutter - KISS
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Who Was in My Room Last Night - Butthole Surfers
You Really Got Me - The Kinks, as performed by Van Halen
YYZ - Rush
John the Fisherman - Primus
Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart - Stone Temple Pilots
Madhouse - Anthrax
Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue
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I love me some guitar hero. Just 3 songs left until I have it beat on expert. I would love to see Metallic listed on the next one.
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Two new songs confirmed for GHII today. Sweet Child o Mine and FREEBIRD. The only problem now is that I'll have to learn how to play a solo AND hold up a lighter at the same time:
http://uk.gamespot.com/ps2/puzzle/guitarhero2/media.html
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OK, this is for the playstation 2, right? Because I will damn well pick up one of them for this game. I can see Friday nights at my house playing YYZ going horribly wrong.
Or horribly right
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right, i think its around 70 bucks. And just grow a 3rd arm for holding the lighter. Of course nowa days people just holg up there cell phones.
And Lets here some Grateful Dead!
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Hat, this game is indeed for the PS2, thankfully.
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Oh my god.
FREEBIRD.
I am going to get this fucking game so fucking fast.
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It still needs Iron Maiden. Period. Led Zeppelin and the Who are also fairly glaring omissions, but like I said, getting licensing from Zep is apparently ridiculously difficult.
If a Nevermore or Testament song somehow got in this game, I would probably orgasm.
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The who would be great, i would buy it first thing.
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Although I don't have PS2, almost all my friends do and some have GH. I love the game and can't for 2... I hope they put Dragonforce and/or HammerFall on there. On the new difficulty that would just be INSANE (which is also the new name of the difficulty). My friend is going to buy it as soon as it comes out and I'm going to make sure I play it when he does to check out all the killer (and some bad) new songs.
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I beat it on expert a while back, and I am drooling for the next one.
However, I still have all those insanely hard bonus songs to occupy me until then.
Insanely hard. The freezepop song on expert is re-fucking-dicu-fucking-lous.
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You know what... on second thought, I'd rather see a Drum Hero than a Guitar Hero 2. Think how awesome it woudl be to set up a virtual Drum controller! :)
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I just started playing Guitar Hero on my friend's ps2. OMG, I love that game. I am really excited for 2, FREEBIRD!!!!
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Wasn't there a version of this in the arcades 2 or 3 years back? I know I played some guitar based "DDR Style" game in the arcade, but maybe it wasn't the same title. This has been bothering me ever since I played the PS2 game and it wasn't quite how I remembered the other one.
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Yeah, they need to make drum hero so you can get a multitap, 2 guitars, a karoke revolution mic and the drum hero and have FULL BAND HERO.
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I don't know if it's a case of my brain making it up but I could have sworn I read they're actually doing that with the next Guitar Hero.
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Wasn't there a version of this in the arcades 2 or 3 years back? I know I played some guitar based "DDR Style" game in the arcade, but maybe it wasn't the same title. This has been bothering me ever since I played the PS2 game and it wasn't quite how I remembered the other one.
that would be guitar freaks.
to the previous poster, your brain must be farting.
theyre just making 2player more...real....jam...sessiony?
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I beat it on expert a while back, and I am drooling for the next one.
However, I still have all those insanely hard bonus songs to occupy me until then.
Insanely hard. The freezepop song on expert is re-fucking-dicu-fucking-lous.
I got 4 stars on it. Don't know how, because I can barely beat the song going back to playing the game, but I did it. :O
I tried to get 5 stars on every song. Only got 3 songs left in the normal lineup (Bark at the Moon and I believe Texas Flood are both at 4 stars while Cowboys from Hell is only at 3 because that song is fucking retarded on Expert). I think there were like 5 songs in the extended song list I didn't quite make, either.
I really need to go pick it up and play it again.
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Bump
http://www.guitarherogame.com/
The Guitar Hero 2 website is almost up and running. They have 14 of the final songs up to hear small clips from.
Edit: Also, the official list has been updated. Can be found in their forums here. (http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=3695)
1. You Really Got Me - Van Halen
2. Strutter - KISS
3. Who was in my room last night - Butthole Surfers
4. Warpigs - Black Sabbath
5. Arterial Black - Drist
6. Psychobilly Freakout - Reverand Horton Heat
7. YYZ - Rush
8. John the Fisherman - Primus
9. Shout At The Devil - Motley Crue
10. Madhouse - Anthrax
11. Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart - Stone Temple Pilots
12. Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns N' Roses
13. Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold
14. Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Rolling Stones
15. Crazy on You - Heart
16. Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
17. Jessica - Allman Brothers
18. Laid to Rest - Lamb of God
19. Message in a Bottle - The Police
20. Misirlou - Dick Dale
21. Surrender - Cheap Trick
22. Tattooed Love Boys - The Pretenders
23. Them Bones - Alice in Chains
24. Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight - Spinal Tap
They have an Alice in Chains song. <3
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November 7th!
I played a demo and co-op is everything I dreamed it would be. It's like having 80 songs, rather than 40.
November 7th!
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The song list has been officialized, too. (I would hope so, this close to release.)
http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=5783
It has TROGDOR on it. \m/
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This is probably a reason to get my PS2 fixed. That's super rad.
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Don't forget the Deathklok song in there was well
man, I half wish I had a PS2 for this, but I am okay with playing it at my local video game store
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The licensed songs are kind of disappointing in my opinion. Avenged Sevenfold? Lamb of God? Aerosmith? Warrant?
I'm going to at least wait until more info about the 360 version comes out. Specifically, what songs you'll be able to download and if they'll be better than the ones on the disc. If it turns out they aren't any better, I may cough up for the PS2 version, but maybe not. I'm really disappointed with the song choice this time around. It really feels like for every great song they chose (Hangar 18, Institutionalized, War Pigs, YYZ, Madhouse), they decided to choose a totally awful song to keep the game from being too good.
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The licensed songs are kind of disappointing in my opinion. Avenged Sevenfold? Lamb of God? Aerosmith? Warrant?
I'm going to at least wait until more info about the 360 version comes out. Specifically, what songs you'll be able to download and if they'll be better than the ones on the disc. If it turns out they aren't any better, I may cough up for the PS2 version, but maybe not. I'm really disappointed with the song choice this time around. It really feels like for every great song they chose (Hangar 18, Institutionalized, War Pigs, YYZ, Madhouse), they decided to choose a totally awful song to keep the game from being too good.
Beast and the Harlot, regardless of if you like Avenged Sevenfold, will make an awesome song on Guitar Hero. Seriously, it'll be fun.
There were songs I wasn't too fond of on the original Guitar Hero that ended up growing on me because they were just so fun to play. I imagine this won't be too different.
And really, not liking a game for being musically diverse as far as recognizable songs go is kind of silly. If you were making this game, and only included what you personally thought was worthwhile, you'd more likely than not alienate a large potential customer base.
I don't get the appeal of being a music snob.
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I keep forgetting to pick this up.
I play it often at a coffee shop I frequent.
Much love for this game... it's improved my guitar playing skills to boot! (kidding)
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I'm not trying to be a snob, I just don't want to play a damn Warrant song in order to unlock the Suicidal Tendencies song. It's just like I didn't want to play that damn Sum 41 song the first time around. There were a couple bad songs in the first Guitar Hero, but this time it's just gotten more pronounced. The point is, Lamb of God and Avenged Sevenfold are very big bands, and thus very expensive to license. They could have gotten far better songs for the same amount of money.
And there's still no Iron Maiden or Led Zeppelin, so what the fuck?
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Just because a band is big doesn't mean it's hard to acquire a song license from them. I bet that it wasn't quite as hard to get as you'd think, if it's in the game.
They tried fuckall to attempt to get the Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin licenses, by the way. If they never hear back from the band (which was the case for AC/DC at the very least), there's nothing they can do, and if the band is pretentious enough to not want their song in a video game, well, they lose out.
I'm not going to say I'm happy about all the choices, but I'm not going to say that I'm just not going to get the game because there's a particular song on it I don't like.
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If there aren't enough songs I want to play, then I won't pay for the game. That's pretty simple, I think.
I know they were trying (apparently they were specifically trying to get The Trooper), but they hit some legal hitch that would have prevented it from getting into the game in time. That doesn't mean I'm not disappointed, though.
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Guitar Hero II drops in Australia on the 15th. I'm dusting off the PS2 which has remained untouched by me in three years to play this game. Although $140 for a game is a bit steep, but I'm not paying for it, I love friends who ask me what I want and pay for it during the birthday period.
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FUCKING TROGDOR IS ON GH 2?!? OH I AM SO BUYING THIS GAME... Agreed, now they just need Led Zeppelin, ACDC, The Who, and I'd say, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and maybe Blue Oyster Cult.
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Dude, Hendrix, SRV, and Blue Oyster Cult were all in the first game.
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were they really? I totally didn't get far enough into the game to know that. The only times I've had to play the game were like at friends' houses, and this oen time where I watched my neighbors house, htey had it, so I played it there. But I only made it to like the third venue, so I never saw any Hendrix, SRV, or BOC. Which songs of theirs were on it?
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There was an instrumental version of Spanish Castle Magic, SRV's song was Texas Flood, and Blue Oyster Cult's was Godzilla.
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FUCKING TROGDOR IS ON GH 2?!? OH I AM SO BUYING THIS GAME... Agreed, now they just need Led Zeppelin, ACDC, The Who, and I'd say, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and maybe Blue Oyster Cult.
They tried for Led Zeppelin (their fans demanded it. you should see some of the flaming in the harmonix forums... i swear every other thread is "WHAT? NO FUCKING LED ZEPPELIN? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS"), and I know for a fact they tried to get AC/DC's Back in Black but simply never got called back by the band's representatives. I read that in an interview over the first GH that was printed in EGM, and they tried yet again to put it in this one.
Dunno about the who.
But yeah, Hendrix, Vaughn, and BOC are all in the first one.
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My roommate and I went out and bought GH2 at lunchtime and played until I had to go to work. We got halfway done and it's frakking awesome. It's harder, and they tweaked a lot of stuff to make pulloffs and hammerons less irritating.
Also, the new version of the SG controller switched from shiny/sticky plastic on the fret buttons to smooth/textured plastic.
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As much as I am upset about the song choice, I will probably buy this game eventually. I'm just hoping I can resist until more details about the 360 version come out. Considering that there are a TON of games coming out right now, I think I can manage that much.
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Bought it today.
Beat it on Easy because you HAVE to if you want to unlock everything. :S
But I did go play a lot of the songs on Expert and they revamped the difficulty greatly. As silly as it sounds, adding in having to hit 3 buttons at a time for certain chords makes it quite a bit more difficult, and I imagine the creators have had more experience with how the game works in general so basic rhythms are a lot more complex.
The cover of Heart Shaped Box is really good, too. I'm not a Nirvana fan, but I do happen to like that song quite a bit. Thought it was worth mentioning.
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I really am enjoying GH2. Pulloffs and hammer-ons were improved a ton, and I think the line-up covers a larger variation and songs and genres. Some of the stuff is kind of obscure, but it's nice for a change.
Oh, and the Trogdor song from Strong Bad E-mails is on it. I just can't get over how awesome that is.
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i played the original game at one of my friends party's...i keep forgetting to stum the thingie because i'm so used to fret tapping on some of the songs
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originally, when I first saw the game, that is... I thought to myself "oh man, if they make a second one with controllers that actually have like six 'strings' and actual frets, that'd be amazing!" now I realize that the general public that does not play the guitar would get all confused.
And, they totally have a controller like that. It's called a real guitar. I'm an idiot sometimes.
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I am angry. My memory card decided to corrupt the GH2 data after I 5-starred every song on Easy and Medium, which I only did PURELY so I could unlock the special guitars from the unlock shop. Time wasted because it wasn't even a challenge.
Also, I love how they have it so the 5th song in any particular bracket is an "encore" now. It's really funny in the last bracket, which is at Stonehenge. The crowd starts playing Freebird, and instead of saying "Do you want to do an encore?" it goes "Do you really want to play Freebird?" It asks about 4 or 5 "You really sure about this one? It's a rock anthem, so you can't screw this up" type messages after that one, too, which made me laugh.
And they did actually put the whole freakin' song in there. It's like 10 minutes of solo.
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I just beat GHII It Took Like A Day
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I played Guitar Hero (and 2) for the first time at my friend's house the other night while in the process of drinking an entire bottle of mead. My god, this is going to become an obsession, I just know it. I didn't do as well as I should have due to being ridiculously drunk, but once I realized there's no point playing the game on easy and not much point on playing it on medium except to get used to the controller, we were totally rocking 2P co-op mode. My friend was jumping around on furniture, which was awesome hilarious.
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my roommate and i started playing it on expert and we cannot get past the third song in the fourth block. the game gets far harder than GH1 ever did in the *third* block.
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Yeah, no joke. I had no problems with the first guitar hero except for a couple of songs on expert (pretty much just Cowboys from Hell and a few of the unlockable songs) and this time around, and I couldn't even 4-star every song, let alone get 5-stars on all of them. Misorlou is a very difficult song.
Which song are you having problems with, dennis? I don't know the tracklist well enough to know which the 3rd song is.
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"Laid to Rest". I donno the tracklist very well, myself.
I couldn't do "Freya" either, but my roommate passed it. And "Rock this town" i just can't get the syncopated rythm down.
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Actually it was 'Carry Me Home', but I passed it two nights ago. I got Laid to Rest the same night. Psychobilly Freakout last night, and I've had lots of practice on YYZ because of the demo.
Now i'm stuck on that Avenged Sevenfold song.
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I'm on Hangar 18 on Expert. Can't beat it. I get about 85% every time and just die. It's not so much that EXACT part that kills me so much as it is the fact there's like 5 minutes of insane solos before you get there and I just don't have the endurance to follow what's going on.
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For everyone without a Playstation at hand, there is a PC alternative, and it's freeware!
It is called Frets on Fire, it has been recommended to me two days ago and i've been playing since. It comes with only three songs in it's virgin state, but has an editor to make your own and the web is of course an endless source for everything...
Oh and by the way, if you're asking yourself how it works with a keyboard here is a hint:
(http://home.arcor.de/el_ballo/FoF.jpg)
(That is not me, everyone give a hearty round of applause for Ball :D)
Here are the necessary links: http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/uv/fretsonfire/
sourceforge mirror (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=182199&package_id=211274&release_id=466327)
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I beat the game a couple of hours ago on expert. Now I can finally play pro faceoff!
Freebird was giving me trouble, for the same reason Hangar18 was giving you trouble, except several times worse.
You know how in practice mode, the section labels for Hangar18 go "solo 1, solo 2... solo 7!, solo 8!!, solo 9!!!"? Well, in Freebird, they go "solo a" through freaking "solo s". Plus, it takes 5 minutes of slogging through the easy beginning to get to teh solos.
With a few hours of practicing HO/PO runs, I finally got it. Didn't even really need star power that much.
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I'm on Hangar 18 on Expert. Can't beat it. I get about 85% every time and just die. It's not so much that EXACT part that kills me so much as it is the fact there's like 5 minutes of insane solos before you get there and I just don't have the endurance to follow what's going on.
I find that after about an hour of warmup, I basically go "into the zone". I play like a machine.
My main problem is that on sustained repetitive sections, I basically get tenser and tenser, waiting for that flub that it makes it extremely difficult to recover. In the zone (or maybe after a bowl), I stop building up that tension, and get higher hit rates.
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Freebird is easy for me. I've beaten the song on Expert in Quick Play. It's probably from the years of having heard the song, but it simply doesn't have any parts I find overly difficult, despite the length. Guitar Solo 7! and then 9!!! on Hangar 18 slaughter me.
Also, a friend recently pointed out a neat webcomic to me and I found this while going through the archives.
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/guitar_hero.jpg)
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Basically, the point of Hangar 18 is that Marty Friedman is a better guitar player than you.
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Freebird is easy for me. I've beaten the song on Expert in Quick Play. It's probably from the years of having heard the song, but it simply doesn't have any parts I find overly difficult, despite the length. Guitar Solo 7! and then 9!!! on Hangar 18 slaughter me.
Also, a friend recently pointed out a neat webcomic to me and I found this while going through the archives.
We're basically opposite in playing styles I guess. Hangar18 was pretty easy for me.
I don't find any parts in Freebird too difficult, except for going off time in long trill sections.
I love pro-faceoff mode. My roommate and I didn't bother with the easier difficulties, so it took us a while to get to try it out. It's awesome.
This one's pretty good, too:
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/music_knowledge.png) (http://xkcd.com/c132.html)
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The "title" text for that strip you just posted is "When Guitar Hero 2 comes out I'll have fresh conversational material for MONTHS." That comic is great.
Anyway, Guitar Hero madness has taken over one of the on-campus houses where quite a lot of my friends live. Over Thanksgiving break, I hooked my PS2 up to their TV downstairs. I decided to just leave it there because it's not like I have a TV of my own, so I might as well put it somewhere. There's enough video game nerds in the house that I felt comfortable enough that it wouldn't brake.
I go over there one day after everyone returns and attempt Hangar 18 again. A guy named Spencer was enthralled. Even though I lost at around 85% that time (I have beaten the song and then Freebird as of this post, btw), he goes "That is the most incredible thing I've ever seen. What other songs are on here?" I went and got 5 stars while playing Sweet Child of Mine after that, and he's been hooked ever since. In the process, just about the rest of their house now plays it.
It's fun having someone else that's at least good enough to play on Hard to play with. The multiplayer is seriously fun. Go play YYZ and play the bass section, because it's harder than the guitar section for that song.
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YYZ is one of my favorites.
Trogdor is also a blast.
Have you tried the handicapped 2 player mode? You can play with noobs pretty well.
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Do you think I could pick up chix by going to the Best Buy and rocking out on expert? ;)
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You'll at least be able to draw a crowd. I do it just about every time I go down to Wal-Mart.
If they just got the demo version, play "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" for best results. It's pretty easy, and people that don't play the game are way more impressed by the sheer amount of notes and 'speed' of the song than by any of the trickier things.
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The lack of Zeppelin and Floyd hurt me dearly. They better be there in Guitar Hero 3!
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I just about combusted when I saw that Trogdor was on GH2. (Huge Homestarrunner fan here) I'm really a fan of some of the obscure songs, some of which I can't locate outside of GH for the life of me! I just got it a week or so ago, and am now attempting to play through on the hard difficulty.
...anyone else having trouble with freakin' Jordan?
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I haven't even attempted GH2 on Hard. I can just see myself failing over and over and...AHHH! I'm just too frightened to try it.
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Yeah, I've been drawing crowds at a few different Best Buys throughout my area.
My girlfriend and I went to Gamestop the weekend after GH2 came out (I bought it the night it came out), so I had already played through the entire thing on Hard at that point.? The guys who worked at the Gamestop were playing it on a big screen TV and were sucking pretty miserably on Easy mode.? So, I figured for fun, I'd go in there and act like I had played the first one a little bit, but not the second one.
I loaded up the Butthole Surfers song on Expert (mind you, I hadn't played it on Expert yet) and got five stars... I figured I'd just impress the guys or something, but before I knew it, one of the guys came over to me with a BAG of free promotional crap!? Two t-shirts, bandanas, game demos, magazines, stickers, wristbands, etc. etc.
I instantly felt guilty.
But my girlfriend thought it was awesome.? She says we're going to take this racket on the road.? So, the real question is...? Who's with me!? I'll drive!? Let's go live a life of luxury through our Guitar Hero skillz!
Edit: P.S. Am I the only one who mentally tried to figure out how to play the passage in that webcomic up there?? I think I got it down, but the tempo could change that, though.
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Edit: P.S. Am I the only one who mentally tried to figure out how to play the passage in that webcomic up there?? I think I got it down, but the tempo could change that, though.
Yeah, I think you are.
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I need to buy GH2. If only I had money.
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...anyone else having trouble with freakin' Jordan?
I tend to start laughing maniacally as the solo comes up because it's so hard, I can't help but laugh. Sort of like how guys who are getting shelled by artillery start to laugh in spite of themselves.
Furthest I made it into the song was 56%.
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Man, and I though Freebird was bad. I consider it cruel and unusual that Buckethead wrote Jordan exclusively to be a wicked hard song for GH2.
I don't think i can laugh when the solo comes along, I usually have a seizure instead.
...ooh, pretty colors EVERYWHERE
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Jordan wasn't WRITTEN for Guitar Hero. It was simply recorded for it. He'd been performing it on-stage for awhile, from what I understand, but had never sat down in a studio to record it.
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Oops, my bad, I guess the game led me to believe otherwise, and I'm not a Buckethead follower, I guess I have to claim ignorance there.
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I used to think that, so don't worry about it. I only found out otherwise by downloading Buckethead clips on Youtube.
Man, that guy can play the guitar.
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The lack of Zeppelin and Floyd hurt me dearly. They better be there in Guitar Hero 3!
Getting a Zepplin song on ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING, would require an unborn fetus, the shrunken head of a Mayan Warrior, and the Holy Grail. They almost never let their songs be used commercially, even in movies. Red Octane has tried to get Zepplin songs on both GH1 and GH2, and have been unsuccessful. Since they've asked for both of the current GH games, maybe asking again for the third would be enough pestering that they may give the permission. Let us pray that they will.
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Well, there was a Freebird in GH1 and a Stairway loading screen in GH2.
Freebird is in GH2.
Foreshadowing for GH3 possibly?
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Haha!
"They don't actually want you to play Freebird. They're just heckling you."
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I think the loading screens were much funnier in the first one.
"Eleven IS louder than ten."
"Always keep a bottle in the van. You'll find out."
"Don't give the drummer a mic. It'll only end in tears."
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"If anybody wants to wear a white belt, kick them out of the band."
"Don't let the lead singer upstage you. Lead singers are pansies anyway." Or something, I don't quite remember that one verbatim.
EDIT: I remember now. "Don't let the lead singer upstage you. Lead singers are egomaniacs anyway."
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Yarr
That's one thing that ticked me off about that game.
"You need a mini-fridge in your practice space, it's more important than a bassist"
...or something like that.
Well, then, let's take your bassist away, and see how far you get!!
(Actually, I think a few of those bands could probably get away with that. Oh, well. I guess there's a reason that it's not BASS hero)
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i'm trying to five star everything in expert. I've got the first two sections fives-starred, and most of the ones in the third section.
I foresee psychobilly freakout being a problem, since I can barely pass the bitch.
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The intro riff in that Living End song is painful, even on hard. I'm never going to five-star everything in Expert. I finally beat Freebird last weekend, but it was only through sheer strategery with my Star Power. Same with Hangar 18. I'll be pleased if I can five-star all of Hard, but Expert is... not practical for me, hehe.
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RE: the loading screens
The first time I was playing GH2, I was playing it into the wee hours of the night. Around 1 in th emorning, my pants were starting to bother me, as I hate clothes and wish I could be a nudist.
So, as I selected my next song and removed them, the loading screen said: "Removing your pants does not deploy Star Power."
And I was in awe.
I suck at this game so hard, though. I've got at least 4 stars in all of medium, 5 in most, but I can't play a hard song at all.
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Hee, I am so far behind the times that it's not even funny. So yesterday was the first time I'd done a song on GH1 that wasn't on easy...
I managed to pass Ace of Spades and another hard song from that set list on Hard. I was quite pleased with myself.
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"Don't wear your guitar above your waist. You're not in The Beatles"
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"Sooner or later, you should probably consider buying yourself a real guitar." xD
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The worst is when you get that screen... and you already own several real guitars. You just kinda feel like a loser all of a sudden. :(
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Alright, this is starting to piss me off.
I've got one more song to pass on expert to beat the game: Bark at the Moon. I CAN'T BEAT IT.
Anything that makes it easier for you guys?
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I spent about three weeks working on it and failing at 98% EVERY time. The end of the song "meedly meedlies" just killed me every time. Then one day, I just picked up my guitar controller out of nowhere, with the added pressure of my girlfriend watching me, and said I AM GOING TO DEFEAT OZZY. So I did.
Only thing I can recommend, and this is how I was finally able to beat Freebird in GH2 on expert, is to conserve Star Power. Build it up as much as you can and make sure to NAIL those passages so you have more Star Power than you need... and then only use it when it's the solo and/or the end wankery... the parts where you're in super danger of failing.
I mean, I sound like absolute shite while playing those hard songs, but it's wise use of Star Power that gets me through 'em.
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So, I don't have GH2.
BUT, I did just beat GH1. I found out the keys to beating Bark At The Moon on Expert:
1) actually play guitar (helps you move around the fret buttons faster, know the neck without looking, etc.)
2) get so excited about being in the process of beating the song that your hand gets all jittery and pretty much moves around the neck for you :lol:
hey, it works :-P
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I like to refer to Number 2 there as... Duende.
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Bark at the Moon was a major pain. I had the same problem as kokeyjoe, I would fail at 98% every time. My breakthrough happened the same way, too. I just beat it one day.
It's basically, save up star power for the hard sections, and don't activate it until you absolutely need it. For me, it was a matter of lasting long enough through the third solo that the star power lasted long enough that I could make it to the end. Star power is distributed in such a way that you *have* to get through one of the solos without using it in order to beat the song.
General tips that I didn't find out until I read the score hero forums:
whammy only does something on sustained star power notes. otherwise, it does not give you any points or anything. just makes whammy sounds.
each star power phrase will fill up your meter a quarter of the way, if you don't whammy at all. whammying on sustained star power notes increases the meter at a fixed rate, no matter how fast you whammy.
you need two star power phrases to be able to activate star power.a full meter of star power lasts 8 measures.
basically, just read this thread at scorehero (http://scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378).
Also, here is the note chart for BatM (http://www.purplefrog.com/~thoth/guitar-hero/bark-at-the-moon-4.png).
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OK, so they revealed most of the 10 songs that will be on the 360 version that weren't on the PS2. Bad news? My Chemical Romance. Good news? IRON FUCKIN' MAIDEN. And Alice Cooper and Deep Purple. But mostly Iron Maiden.
And I should specify that these are additional songs on the disc, not downloadable stuff. So they haven't said anything beyond the fact that there will be songs made available for download, which is admittedly huge. Here's just hoping they manage to get that controller wireless by March.
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They finally got Maiden? That's great news! I hope it's "The Trooper" like they've always wanted to get. That first lead melody line would be so fun to play.
Although, if I had my choice, I'd like to try "Sign of the Cross" just once in Guitar Hero format. It's so epic, I'd seriously pitch a tent. Okay, maybe not seriously, but comically.
I wonder what Deep Purple song they got. "Highway Star," most likely. But "Burn" would be freaking fantastic. And for Alice... it's probably "I'm Eighteen."
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I can get 46% on Jordan on Expert.
Oh crap. I may have to get a 360 sooner than expected.
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From Gamespot: (http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/puzzle/guitarhero2/news.html?sid=6163891&mode=previews)
In addition to all the tracks from the PlayStation 2 version of Guitar Hero II, GHII for the Xbox 360 will include 10 new songs not seen in the PS2 game. While we don't know the full list yet, Red Octane has announced five of the new songs that will be in the game:
Pearl Jam -- "Life Wasted"
Rick Derringer -- "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo"
My Chemical Romance -- "Dead!"
Deep Purple -- "Hush"
Alice Cooper -- "Billion Dollar Baby"
And according to one of the videos, they also got "Possum Kingdom" by the Toadies, which is one of my favorite songs ever.
Also "Salvation" by Rancid.
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Hush?!? That's awfully surprising. A song from freaking 1968 or whatever. Crazy.
Also... Billion Dollar Babies? That would be SO FUN on bass. When I was 15, that was, like, one of my favorite basslines. I was amazed at how fast the dude played on the one part... and then I was not so amazed when I could do it myself, hehe.
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The Iron Maiden song is in fact, 'The Trooper'. Apart from that, Dennis's list is all that they have revealed. They're still keeping two songs secret, as well as what songs will be available for download and when.