-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
The Official All-Encompassing Guitar Hero SUPER THREAD
- Thread starter TheGreatDave
- Start date
- Status
Ashour said:
http://www.twitpic.com/ck3iv
Anyways gonna go play some GH tonight. Hoping to order GHVH tomorow
I haven't used the guitar for real yet, but from just jiggling it a couple of times in the box:
1) It has a rubber coating on it which is nice.
2) It was LOUD as all fuck.
Edit:
Don't know if this was mentioned yet, but you can't use the Gamestop 160 points until 9/4 for 360 version.
1) It has a rubber coating on it which is nice.
2) It was LOUD as all fuck.
Edit:
Don't know if this was mentioned yet, but you can't use the Gamestop 160 points until 9/4 for 360 version.
T-1000_Model3
Banned
I should have known better than to wear my freakin' VanHalen '07 tour t-shirt. The clerk at GameStop made a wise crack about it,something like GHVH isn't even out yet.
~haha~ wise ass. :/
Actually the track list for GH5 is pretty good. Plus I need something abit change of pace between my WolfenStein game sessions anyways.
Question,how much are usb mics? I have a friend who hates video games but loves to watch me play Guitar Hero. He found out his favorite guitarist (Santana) is in the set list and wants to try his hand at singing all the songs now,while I play guitar. Should be cool,never played GH coop. with a friend before.
~haha~ wise ass. :/
Actually the track list for GH5 is pretty good. Plus I need something abit change of pace between my WolfenStein game sessions anyways.
Question,how much are usb mics? I have a friend who hates video games but loves to watch me play Guitar Hero. He found out his favorite guitarist (Santana) is in the set list and wants to try his hand at singing all the songs now,while I play guitar. Should be cool,never played GH coop. with a friend before.
T-1000_Model3
Banned
Baker said:
Not bad I guess,though the last time I bought a mic was 1998 for a web tv.:lol
Eh,I'm a cheap bastard though,I'll try Ebay for one if theyre over $15.00 new.
Hope someone offers free shipping.
Yeah I got the GH5 bundle today because I needed a new guitar. The strum bar is essentially perfect (and it's not nearly as loud as the LP/Xplorer), the fret buttons are mushy as hell and are complete shit compared to the Strat's frets, imo. Hopefully I'll get used to them and the fat neck soon, otherwise I'll seriously consider selling this and just getting a Strat 2 again. :/
TheGreatDave
Banned
Multiplayer is actually fun 
WT download was super fast for me.
WT download was super fast for me.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
I'm way impressed with the visuals and animations in this game. The menus and such still kind of suck but they certainly improved in game.
The guitar on Sympathy For The Devil is like impossible to hear. It was hard to tell what I was playing except for the solos.
The guitar on Sympathy For The Devil is like impossible to hear. It was hard to tell what I was playing except for the solos.
Jesus, I think I just played for 4 hours straight with Great Dave... Corkscrew was there for the first half as well.
I almost cried tears of joy when I realized that crash and ride cymbals have been charted to the green pad when playing GH5 with a RB2 kit... almost. It doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but it ends up solving a lot of problems I had playing GHWT where you had to move your hands all around the kit.
Some of those charts are still a fucking mess on the RB2 kit, though... Plug In Baby, All The Pretty Faces, Wolf Like Me... I forget which, but I did fail out of one. You remember Dave?
Highlights also include Dave picking Zakk Wylde Guitar Battle as our very first song to play in our brand new game... and also Dave being so disgusted with the amount of alt-strumming in Wolf Like Me that he just aborted it. :lol
I almost cried tears of joy when I realized that crash and ride cymbals have been charted to the green pad when playing GH5 with a RB2 kit... almost. It doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but it ends up solving a lot of problems I had playing GHWT where you had to move your hands all around the kit.
Some of those charts are still a fucking mess on the RB2 kit, though... Plug In Baby, All The Pretty Faces, Wolf Like Me... I forget which, but I did fail out of one. You remember Dave?
Highlights also include Dave picking Zakk Wylde Guitar Battle as our very first song to play in our brand new game... and also Dave being so disgusted with the amount of alt-strumming in Wolf Like Me that he just aborted it. :lol
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
So have they said how to get GH:VH? I saw nothing about it in the manual or other instruction packaging. I assume it has to do with the unique code on the back of the manual?
Kobun Heat
Member
noGame Informer said:
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
I tried to make black hair but it's more of a dark brown, I was disappoint.Baker said:
TheGreatDave
Banned
Mo the Hawk said:
:lol Wolf Like Me is just so awful. And I did even worse on it than I did in RB2, I still think I have some calibration issues. I never even touched GH:WT's calibration menu!
I can't remember what you failed out of. I know I brought you back in about 5 seconds though. Their system is pretty forgiving, clearly. You're really good too, I got a bunch of extra stars from your mad drumming
Also, Back Around. Great song, but the drum chart is just totally indecipherable in spots. Hurts my brain, it does.
I had to leave my real drum kit back home while I'm away at college, so all of my skill points are being put into fake drums again! :lol
TheGreatDave said:I can't remember what you failed out of. I know I brought you back in about 5 seconds though. Their system is pretty forgiving, clearly. You're really good too, I got a bunch of extra stars from your mad drumming
I had to leave my real drum kit back home while I'm away at college, so all of my skill points are being put into fake drums again! :lol
TheGreatDave
Banned
So I'm gonna write up some pros and cons:
PROS!
Game looks nice (yeah, shoot me)
Notecharts are good, bar shit like Sympathy.
The lobby system for online is really good. Very easy to get in and out of games.
Career structure is fun. Challenges you to switch instruments every so often, but avoids RB's nasty, evil World Tour structure, bar the final encores.
Loading times are MUCH better than WT.
Band Moments are a nice idea. I like holding off on my star power than UNLEASHING it when the time is right.
EASY ACCESS TO HYPERSPEED
Hyperspeed 2 in multiplayer didn't make my eyes hurt, so I guess they've increased the length of the highway (even though it really doesn't look like it in screenshots)
CONS!
Band Moment sections can make it hard to spot HO/POs. I fucked up a couple of them because I couldn't read the chart properly
Create A Character still won't let me make a face that isn't super long. Hair options are shitty for making somebody you don't want to punch. I gave up making myself after about 2 minutes.
Sorting options are good, but it's still no Rock Band. The "Page Down" button is nice though, but they need to add headers for artists, difficulties, etc. The "back" button is wasted by just having it duplicate what red already does.
Less options than WT for customizing stuff like flame colour.
So far, nothing overly challenging on guitar. I've still got shit to unlock though, but the setlist isn't amazing so far.
PROS!
Game looks nice (yeah, shoot me)
Notecharts are good, bar shit like Sympathy.
The lobby system for online is really good. Very easy to get in and out of games.
Career structure is fun. Challenges you to switch instruments every so often, but avoids RB's nasty, evil World Tour structure, bar the final encores.
Loading times are MUCH better than WT.
Band Moments are a nice idea. I like holding off on my star power than UNLEASHING it when the time is right.
EASY ACCESS TO HYPERSPEED
Hyperspeed 2 in multiplayer didn't make my eyes hurt, so I guess they've increased the length of the highway (even though it really doesn't look like it in screenshots)
CONS!
Band Moment sections can make it hard to spot HO/POs. I fucked up a couple of them because I couldn't read the chart properly
Create A Character still won't let me make a face that isn't super long. Hair options are shitty for making somebody you don't want to punch. I gave up making myself after about 2 minutes.
Sorting options are good, but it's still no Rock Band. The "Page Down" button is nice though, but they need to add headers for artists, difficulties, etc. The "back" button is wasted by just having it duplicate what red already does.
Less options than WT for customizing stuff like flame colour.
So far, nothing overly challenging on guitar. I've still got shit to unlock though, but the setlist isn't amazing so far.
Some of the challenges in the last two tiers are really damn tough. The last one on guitar you're pretty much going to have to FC the tap sections in 21st Century Schizoid Man, and it's hard as hell. The Scatterbrain and Done for Everything Die for Nothing challenges are tough as hell too.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Nice, I hated that before.TheGreatDave said:
Guitar impressions:
This is the best plastic instrument yet.
1. The strum is quiet and doesn't squeak (yet). It is made a rubbery matte material like the DSi.
2. The star power switch is hard core. You really have to raise the guitar to get it to activate. No accidental shit here, which is great.
3. Buttons are pretty mushy, but I'm fine with that.
4. Size is a godsend after using that bullshit Les Paul for the last couple weeks.
That's about it. I never use the touchpad so I dunno about that. It's pretty much the WT guitar made correctly. Worth buying.
This is the best plastic instrument yet.
1. The strum is quiet and doesn't squeak (yet). It is made a rubbery matte material like the DSi.
2. The star power switch is hard core. You really have to raise the guitar to get it to activate. No accidental shit here, which is great.
3. Buttons are pretty mushy, but I'm fine with that.
4. Size is a godsend after using that bullshit Les Paul for the last couple weeks.
That's about it. I never use the touchpad so I dunno about that. It's pretty much the WT guitar made correctly. Worth buying.
dreamcastmaster
Banned
Baker said:
I'm going to upgrade then! I've worn out my GHWT guitar. I thought I read that the touchpad had some improvements. I'll give it a go.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Touch pad has 3 raised line for green, yellow, and orange now. Still not gonna use it though.
Also I whammied every single whammy there was almost in Ex-Girlfriend and still didn't get halfway to diamond. Whammying is inconvenient for lefties too.
Also I whammied every single whammy there was almost in Ex-Girlfriend and still didn't get halfway to diamond. Whammying is inconvenient for lefties too.
TheGreatDave
Banned
CROSSPOSTING
I quite like that multiplayer mode. The one we played with Duck (Do Or Die) is like fucking Counter Strike for music games. Not much fun on hard tracks.
I quite like that multiplayer mode. The one we played with Duck (Do Or Die) is like fucking Counter Strike for music games. Not much fun on hard tracks.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
wtf this Queen song is such a rip-off of Ice Ice Baby.
TheGreatDave
Banned
NameGenerated said:
I did that too, I don't know what I did wrong. Felt like I did about as much as I could do.
TheGreatDave
Banned
The in-game invite system thing is a Godsend. And it's really great knowing you don't have to worry about having more than two guitarists, or one drummer.
- Status