Guitar Hero 5 To Allow Duplicate Instruments, Easy Switching 43
Activision confirmed the existence of Guitar Hero 5 last week, and now they've released details about some of the game's new features. Quoting 1Up: "... the new Party Play mode allows players to swap instruments and difficulties on the fly — even in the middle of a performance. You'll also be able to play Guitar Hero 5 with any combination of instruments, be it four drum kits, two microphones and two guitars, or any other possible configuration of four players." They also listed a few of the songs, which include "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan and "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash. Meanwhile, their music-game rival Harmonix has revealed the full set list for Rock Band Unplugged, coming out early next month for the PSP.
Re:can someone explain guitar hero? (Score:5, Insightful)
But why not just, you know, learn to play an actual guitar?
Because Guitar Hero is a game, which people play for fun.
Playing a real guitar requires years of hard work and dedication. That'll be a smash at parties.
Besides, one controller for RL Guitar costs more than all of Rockband.
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Re:can someone explain guitar hero? (Score:4, Interesting)
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You have a really funny idea of the term "profitable". If you don't have a passion to play a real guitar, its worthwhileness as an investment is nil.
Take the amount of time it would take to make it job-worthy (e.g. capable of playing gigs either solo or in a band), take into account how much you'd reasonably expect to make (how common are people who play at bars vs. people with record contracts vs. people with record contracts that actually succeed?), and then compare that to training in any serious field (
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Leave the damned guitar at home. (Score:3, Insightful)
And yet again, the number of people who can play well enough to be teachers is much smaller than the pool of total players. And it still takes a lot of dedication to be good enough to teach guitar. Further more, people who just randomly bring their guitars to parties are FUCKING ANNOYING. You know why? If they weren't ask to, there's been no accommodations made for them, and they expect everyone else to bend over for them. If there's music playing, that needs to be turned down/off. They need relative quiet
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Where? I mean maybe piano and guitar teachers are different, but I take high level lessons from a woman with multiple degrees in music, multiple Master's degrees in music, including piano performance and piano pedagogy from that little known music backwater, Juilliard, who performs with the Seattle Opera and Seattle Symphony amongst many others, and she charges $52/hour.
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Because it's gay [www.tu.tv].
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Um... You can get a Fender Squire for $100.
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I've never played it so I'm probably unaware of the appeal. But why not just, you know, learn to play an actual guitar? Seems like that will be satisfying long after the game gets boring.
It's easier to pretend to play a dumb looking plastic guitar than to learn how to play a real one.
Re:can someone explain guitar hero? (Score:5, Insightful)
But why not just, you know, learn to play an actual guitar?
Because I'm too busy driving my Ferrari and shooting Nazis, all while making geometrical shapes line up and vanish into thin air.
Excuse me, my genetically engineered Neopet wants to go for a walk.
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all while making geometrical shapes
Tetrominoes... Not just "geometrical shapes", tetrominoes!
Re:can someone explain guitar hero? (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, I can play drums incredibly well (30 years experience), and I'm pretty decent at bass, too. Despite that, I find playing Rock Band/Guitar Hero to be fun. It's a game. It's a totally different experience.
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Led Zeppelin said they weren't signing up, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
I would love to see these songs in there, not going to happen though.
Led Zeppelin -
Stairway to Heaven (Live from How The West Was Won)
Achilles Last Stand (Live from Knebworth)
Kashmir (Live from Knebworth)
Dazed and Confused (Live from The Song Remains The Same)
Pink Floyd -
Comfortably Numb (Live from P*U*L*S*E)
High Hopes (Live from P*U*L*S*E)
Uriah Heep -
Sunrise (Studio)
Gypsy (Live from Future Echoes Of The Past)
July Morning (Studio)
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To be fair to Guitar Hero: Actually, this is some stuff that Rock Band doesn't have. I've wished before that Rock Band let you do dual vocalists.
To be fair to Rock Band: Everything? Well for starters, since they've explicitly said you can play GHWT DLC in GH5, I'm taking that to mean you still can't export GHWT songs to GH5, like RB1 did for RB2.
Re:Led Zeppelin said they weren't signing up, but. (Score:4, Funny)
I would love to see these songs in there, not going to happen though.
- John Cage: 4'33"
- Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music #3
- Napalm Death: You Suffer
- Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XE2N4mxeRw [youtube.com]
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True story: My computer randomly picks a song out of my music library to play as my alarm clock in the morning.
I was late for work the day it picked John Cage's 4'33" [wikipedia.org]
(I eventually came to hate most of my music library as a result of this mechanism, and have now relegated the script to limit its selections to a playlist of songs I don't particularly like (and don't also happen to consist only of 4 and a half minutes of silence)
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Other options:
- Anything by Sunn O)))) [youtube.com]
- Saint of the Pit [youtube.com] by Diamanda Galas
- Any song without guitars (or traditional instruments for that matter. La lettre d'explication [youtube.com]by Yann Tiersen comes to mind).
On a more serious note, I'd love to see some Math/Post-rock type stuff on Guitar Hero. Stuff by Mogwai [youtube.com], Radiohead, Sigur Ros [youtube.com], or 65daysofstatic [youtube.com] would be fun and challenging. It'd be even cooler if you managed to work something like Fuck Buttons [youtube.com] into the guitar hero controller scheme.
(If the developers are p
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Wow, Sigur-Ros and Fuck Buttons! What an awesome party that would be! Musical prozac gets me SO PUMPED!
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*too afraid to comment*
Please, think about the Wiildren! (Score:3, Insightful)
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Um... you can. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/11/official-guitar/ [wired.com]
Whoever modded this insightful needs to do research, this was obviously a troll.
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Please look at the "Wii" portion of that table. And then note the title of the GP post is "Please think of the Wiildren!"
Incidentally, the chart is still wrong, in that you can use GH / GH:WT instruments in Rock Band. The other way around (Rock Band in GH:WT) is a no-go however.
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you can use GH / GH:WT instruments in Rock Band.
Well, Rock Band 2 I should have said. Rock Band 1 the chart is probably accurate; I don't have the game for Wii.
Why not play real guitar? (Score:1)
Is that really so different from asking someone why don't they just go out and jack cars instead of playing gta?
I guess it is kind of since it's unreasonable to expect someone to go out and commit crimes, but playing an instrument is ok.
When will someone make a keyboard for these games? (Score:2)
Forget endless models of guitar, drum kit, bass etc.
Someone just make a keyboard peripheral for these music games, thats about the only thing that will get me interested...
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They did. It's called synthesiagame (http://synthesiagame.com) Just bring your own midi music.
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I think Beatmania might be what you're looking for!
Guitars are Lame! (Score:3, Interesting)
When will they support the Accordion [phobe.com] for real? I'm sick of mere online versions [noinc.com].
A perfect World (Score:1)
Is it me... (Score:2)
Or do most of the newer Guitar Hero releases basically just add features that really should've just been in a single release in the first place?
When most companies design a game, they create a list of features and implement them into the game and release it. The Guitar Hero guys seem to make the same list, but make a whole new game for each feature.
I love Guitar Hero, but unlike most games I wont buy every version, I bought Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band but nothing since then, it just seems to be getting a li