Guitar Hero II Coming to 360 61
Eurogamer reports that Guitar Hero II is coming to 360 at some indeterminate time in the future. From the article: "'The tour will continue the rockin' gameplay Guitar Hero fans have come to enjoy, and will now include expanded Xbox 360 capabilities,' according to RedOctane president Kai Huang. Who sounds pretty hip. Well, I think that sells the console pretty much single-handedly. Sony: it's SO OVER. 'With Guitar Hero II for Xbox 360 rock rhythm, lead, or bass guitar tracks with downloadable content and the new X-Plorer controller, designed specifically for the Xbox 360.' Woo! Yeah!" All I know is that the axe is killer.
Addictive (Score:2)
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Yeah, I was sold after one song after playing the demo.
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By far the most fun I've had playing a video game as long as I can remember. I must have played there for like 20 min to a half hour, just in a trance. I put down the guitar and picked up the box and went to the register. I was sold.
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A Universal Controller (Score:3, Interesting)
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It means (Score:3, Funny)
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How about the PS3 or Wii? (Score:2)
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-Eric
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real guitar adapter (Score:2)
Re:real guitar adapter: Yes to an extent... (Score:4, Informative)
So to make the long story short, no you can't just plug a regular guitar into a box and have it output guitar hero controller data. You CAN however, take a real guitar, pull out the pickups, remove the strings, cuts wholes for the frets in the neck, run a bunch of lines through the neck using the slot for the neck truss bar (or cut your own), put in your own wammy bar, tilt sensor, start/select buttons, and strum bar/mechanism, and wire it to a sony PS2 controller board (make sure you wire properly, the left analog directional key needs to be hard wires in the down position, and the up and down analog directional keys need to be wired to the strum bar's up/down motions, etc., etc.,)
There are lots of people who have taken cheap guitars and did this to them (or broken guitars, or even their normal guitar and swapped out the neck and electronics, this is easy to do on Fender Strats since the neck is bolt on and the electronics are all attached to the pickguard).
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There are midi guitars/pickups out there, but they're pretty rare.
http://home.epix.net/~joelc/midi_git.html [epix.net]
Anyway, I actually play a little guitar, and I still loved guitar hero. If I wanted to play a real guitar, I would. You might as well ask why people play driving games when there's a real car in their garage.
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I think a more appropriate analogy is to ask why people play driving games with the dual shock controller, instead of with a wheel and pedals.
In my mind the guitar controller is a complete poser. It has one whole dimension missing. I mean, it has only five frets, and then there's a "pluck string" giz
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Uhm...it isn't exclusive (Score:1)
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Did Zonk make a stealth edit? As I write this, the title and link read "Guitar Hero II coming to XBox 360", with no talk of exclusivity.
For me, its big news, although its not /, worthy (Score:2)
Is it Slashdot newsworthy though? Not really. It probably should have just been lumped in with all the other X06 news.
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Not this gen, they aren't. As of the time of this post, that crown is snugly on the 360, considering that both other next-gens have a total market-share of 0.
it's all about what comes AFTER launch.
Exactly. So comparing marketing numbers until then is like comparing a VStar to a Schwinn.
so that's what they meant... (Score:2)
How is this a killer to Sony? (Score:5, Insightful)
Diamond plate/fender style neck/head [guitarherogame.com]
Full Size Eternia Strat Body replacement [tsunami-art.com]
And that is just a taste of what is out there...
Again how is this going to kill Sony? Sony will have GH2 BEFORE everyone else! If anything that means its a WIN for Sony. It is "nice" that the 360 will get it, but it probably won't happen for at least several months after Sony has had people playing it (you guys do know this comes out in a couple weeks don't you?).
As for the controller, well, all I can say is that it is nothing compaired to ones I have seen out there.
Oh, didn't you guys also know this will be out on the Wii as well? I think they are also looking for a PC version too, but it might not happen because most people would rather play this on a big screen with a decent sound system, and not many people have their PC connected to those things (although I do).
Re:GH on PC (Score:2)
I've gotta say though, I can't wait for third party GH songs to come out.
Confused... (Score:1)
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Oh, see when I play "real" instruments, I'm always thinking about my timing. I guess I've been doing it wrong all these years...
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When I saw my friend playing Guitar Hero, I wanted to slap him because anyone that actually wanted to learn to play guitar would get a real one, not a video game.
After about 3 months of watching him and other people I associated with sub-70s I.Q.s play the game, I got drunk one night and decided that I could own all of them because I actually know how to play a real guitar.
I was mistaken.
So I set out get better, and over
but will this game screw me up... (Score:2)
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I guess im just not adventurous enou
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I don't know. (Score:3, Interesting)
I love Guitar Hero and I will buy 2 the second it comes out. That said, I'm not sure about this. The downloadable content is nice, but I'm not sure if it would be enough to get me to re-buy the game (since it won't come out 'till next year at least and I'm not waiting that long).
If they offered me a way to transfer my profiles off my PS2 (and even better, to copy the tracks off Guitar Hero 1 and onto the 360's HD so you could play those also) I would plunk money down no question.
If they were going to release it on the same day as the PS2 version (which they won't) then I'd buy it then no question, including the 360 I would need to play it on.
But as a PS2 owner, I don't think it's compelling enough for me to wait to buy at all.
Maybe I could buy now, then get the 360 version and sell my PS2 version when that comes out...
Do you really want to support this company? (Score:3)
Online play? (Score:1)
Call me a troll but... (Score:2)
Kinda like bragging about being a trackstar yet the only track you ever saw was Konami's Track n Field.
It's not like an entry level guitar and amp are that expensive.
GH great for people with disabilities (Score:1)
Some of us have disabilities that prevent us from playing a real guitar but still permit (limited) console gameplay. That is why many of us play GH.
I, personally, was heartbroken last year when I discovered that my disability would prevent me from learni
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