Guitar Hero II for PSII - ROTFLMMFAO

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:45 pm

So, Im pretty out of the console video game loop. I never heard of Guitar Hero I let alone II. But I just saw a comercial that had 2 guys jamming out to You Really Got Me (VH version) on what looked like fake guitars (Ive seen this version of air guitar at a Satriani concert) and it looks as if the fake guitars are some outboard unit you plug into your PSII and it reacts to your hand movements to trigger guitar samples and make you feel like your playing, all with concert footage and ambience to 'make you feel like a rockstar'. Im just realizing what Ive heard someone say before, the selling of complete ego-maniacal, fantasy dreams is a huge business in this country

God forbid if the people who buy and spend hundreds of hours on that thing actually used that time to learn to play. But that takes some effort. Its easier to skip that and go right to pretending your a rock god.

You would think its for kids but I suspect theres a lot of EVH and 60s era rock songs and licks and Im betting its marketed towards 20 and 30 somethings. I can think of someone I know who may get this. If I saw that in his house he'd never hear the end of it.

Necrovore · Post by **Necrovore** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:16 pm

I've seen it as well as played on the demo they had set up at Best Buy. What it is is a plastic guitar and has a wide toggle switch around the area you would pick at and 4 buttons you push on the neck with your fretting fingers. That plugs into the PS2.

The game is set up like that Dance Dance Revolution coin-op game you see in arcades see attached link for a laugh
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4K_1Ajdr21M
In Guitar Hero the premise is similar and that you watch the colors of the neck buttons flash across the screen and press them when appropriate, while hitting the toggle switch to mimic strumming. See this video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cueXmJDbbvU& ... ed&search=

Or an even better inspiring Guitar Hero
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DOYJs-DsiI4& ... ed&search=

EDIT:
I think this guy smokes either one of those though.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9XZghvfLlWI& ... ed&search=

When I played it at the store it held my attention for about 5 minutes.

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:10 pm

The really sad thing is that I guy I work with said Fender was in on the controllers, you can buy different guitar controllers than the one that comes with the game. But they still have the same four buttons, you can't learn to play at all........you'd think Fender would want you to learn something so that you throw more money their way later in life, wouldntcha?

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:47 pm

Lol. This thing has the potential to be a thousand good utubes. Along the lines of the chubby jedi kid.

BashCoder · Post by **BashCoder** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:01 pm

Flames1950 wrote:The really sad thing is that I guy I work with said Fender was in on the controllers, you can buy different guitar controllers than the one that comes with the game. But they still have the same four buttons, you can't learn to play at all........you'd think Fender would want you to learn something so that you throw more money their way later in life, wouldntcha?

Exactly what I thought when I saw it at Best Buy. My son is a good guitar player, and even he wants it! I think it could actually make you play guitar *worse* the more you play the game.

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:11 pm

Lol Nec. That one guy needs to die or something. Ive known a lot of dumb college kids, I went to school with a lot of em, but thats too much for me.

The funny thing is one ht oen motorhead vid. It really looks like it takes much of the same motor skills as playign guitar. Just 1000x more simplified. Think. You have to memorize the guitar-like patterns for every song and perform them. If the dumbasses spend taht time practicing a real guitar, sure they wouldnt be able to play any of those songs, but in that time they actually could learn to play a decent amount. Or m,aybe the reason hes so good at it is because hes a guitar player? I dont know I think guitar players would be worse at that game because their so use to certain ways we use our fingers ona fretboard like that especially in relation to the notes in a song, Id think itd be confusing trying to play that thing.

swid · Post by **swid** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:18 pm

It's different than playing guitar -- still fun, but a different kind of fun. Not really a substitute at all (although it does give non-guitarists kind of a sense of what it's like to play an instrument). I actually wrote the theme song for the first game, and my band has a song in each the first game and the second game, and I absolutely *suck* at playing them all in the game. It was a real eye-opener the first time I tried playing a song that I actually wrote and recorded, and still kept losing before the level was even over.

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:19 pm

Lol. That doesnt surprise me at all. Your too used to the real motor skills so that holding a guitar with these button thingies is totaly alien to you. Moreso then someone who doesnt play at all.

Thats pretty cool your band has a song in there. Thats one of the many things about games these days. The soundtracks are way beyond the corny midi type stuff from nintendo.

swid · Post by **swid** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:41 pm

Billy Batz wrote:Thats pretty cool your band has a song in there. Thats one of the many things about games these days. The soundtracks are way beyond the corny midi type stuff from nintendo.

I gotta say that Harmonix (the company that made it) is awesome like that. They pretty much geared as much of the soundtrack as they could toward classic bands, and then stuffed it to the gills with local Boston rock bands. As weird as the whole thing might seem to somebody who's already a musician, their whole company mission has been to try to get people into music and sort of give a taste to non-musicians of what it's like to play.

45auto · Post by **45auto** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:45 am

what can we expect from a culture that pushes a button to cue a sample loop & calls it music...

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:54 pm

45auto wrote:what can we expect from a culture that pushes a button to cue a sample loop & calls it music...

+ f'n 1

St August · Post by **St August** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:05 pm

come on guys its just a game.. Hell I want one.....

Country Boy Shane · Post by **Country Boy Shane** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:58 pm

I work at Best Buy and even though I work in the Camera area, everyone always asks me if we have it in stock and then I say...

No, but I would learn REAL guitar!

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:42 pm

Thats the main thing that strikes me when I watches those uTube videos. If you can get to be very good at that game (and your not already a musician) then you lack any sense because for that much work you can really play guitar!