Guitar Hero 2

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:42 pm

In the recent released list of unlockable songs for the upcoming Playstation 2 game Guitar Hero 2, one of the songs is the ode to everyone's favorite burniator, \"Trogdor\", along side tracks by Rush, Nirvana, Anthrax and KISS. The game is due out 07 November in the US.

I'm gonna try this game when my brother gets it.

Note: the full-length Trogdor song is gonna be unlockable.

Firewheel · Post by **Firewheel** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:18 pm

I always thought this game seemed interesting, but... why play a game when I could just play guitar in real life? It's much more fun, I'm sure.

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:08 am

Firewheel wrote:I always thought this game seemed interesting, but... why play a game when I could just play guitar in real life? It's much more fun, I'm sure.

Unlike a real guitar, this gets you chicks.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:25 am

Plus real guitars are expensive and difficult to learn.

Hostile · Post by **Hostile** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:38 pm

Did I hear this right..... Playing a video game guitar is the way to get chicks over playing a real guitar? Where the hell have I been.....

Dakatsu · Post by **Dakatsu** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:06 pm

I personally think that a REAL guitar gets you chicks better than a fake one.

Real Scenarios as follows:

Scenario 1: I (me, Dakatsu, Kyle Lange, etc.) played a love song to my girlfriend. We made out for three hours afterwards.

Scenario 2: My friend plays the poser guitar, his girlfriend actually kicked him in the nuts for trying to be a poser.

Decide

Zuruck · Post by **Zuruck** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:04 pm

Wait...you played a love song for some broad and you only got to make out? Sorry but if you're not laying pipe after 45 min of making out (max!!) then she's not worth it.

Remember what they say...people either onstage or behind the bar are 50% better looking than usual.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:08 am

I'm looking forward to GH2.

I can't believe the bizarre ire this game provokes from various gaming communities.

Truth be told, I think there is a holy grail of edutainment for any group that can make a game as addictive and fun as Guitar Hero, but actually teach how to play an instrument. Most of what makes GH fun is that you have a complete band accompaniment as you play, instead of just plucking strings by yourself. If someone found a way to apply that concept to a real instrument, a keyboard probably being the most likely candidate, I think instruments would be a lot more fun to learn.

Oh, and Freebird is in here too. In all of its 9:27 glory.

Admiral LSD · Post by **Admiral LSD** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:32 am

Kyouryuu wrote:If someone found a way to apply that concept to a real instrument, a keyboard probably being the most likely candidate, I think instruments would be a lot more fun to learn.

The Software Toolworks tried something like that about 10-15 years ago. It was called the Miracle Piano Teaching System and bundled a MIDI keyboard with software for pretty much every platform that was popular at the time: PC, Mac, Amiga and even the NES, SNES and Mega Drive Genesis consoles. The inclusion of the keyboard though meant that it was fairly pricey (USD$500) and so never saw any real commercial success.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Piano
http://users.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/ ... Piano.html

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:06 am

Kyouryuu wrote:Most of what makes GH fun is that you have a complete band accompaniment as you play, instead of just plucking strings by yourself. If someone found a way to apply that concept to a real instrument...

Oh, and Freebird is in here too. In all of its 9:27 glory.

Google Backing Tracks. There are thousands. I have a load of midi tracks that are close enough to instruments and once you lay guitar over them, you can hardly tell the difference.

Freebird is 11 minutes

Paratrooper · Post by **Paratrooper** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:55 pm

They got Lamb of God \"Laid to Rest\" in that game, therefore that game pwns.

Spaceboy · Post by **Spaceboy** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:37 am

DDR is better.

TIGERassault · Post by **TIGERassault** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:14 am

Spaceboy wrote:DDR is better.

I banish you back to the firey pits of hell, you disgusting demon!

Spaceboy · Post by **Spaceboy** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:12 pm

*dances on little arrows to hell*

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:15 pm

Some videos of the songs have been showing up on YouTube lately.

If there's one big difference, it's that they seem to put a stronger emphasis on strumming than in the first game. The first game, to some extent, had an emphasis on hitting the right note and the song design was built on trying to create odd combinations of notes that would lose you. Even though it wasn't like DDR because the buttons were plausibly keyed to notes, it was like DDR in that creating amusing patterns with these notes was more important than replicating the \"strumming\" behavior.

Now, the notes seem more predictable, but they come in groups of four or more of the same note. This is what made Bark at the Moon so difficult in the first game.

Also, if you like Guitar Hero, check out some of Harmonix's other musical games. Amplitude is a lot of fun, although difficult to find outside of the auction circles.