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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: drohne on January 03, 2008, 08:02:43 PM

Title: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on January 03, 2008, 08:02:43 PM: yeah, i figure i'll buy one today. i understand 2 is a better game than 3, but is one guitar peripheral much better than the other? might also pick up the rock band disc at some point -- no enormous box of wacky pretend instruments for me
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: demi on January 03, 2008, 08:04:47 PM: Les Paul (3) is wireless, Xplorer (2) and Stratocaster (RB) are Wired

Les Paul > Xplorer & Stratocaster
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on January 03, 2008, 08:10:09 PM: hmm. wires are for gays. maybe i'll just get 3 then. or maybe i'll talk myself into rock band. thanks
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: demi on January 03, 2008, 08:11:02 PM: 3 isn't bad, i doubt you're a hard/expert player, which is where majority of the complaints come from

you can always trade in GH3 at walmart and get RB, lol
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: y2kev on January 03, 2008, 08:11:21 PM: If you're going to play *at all* with other people, Rock Band owns guitar hero. and tbh RB still owns guitar hero even if you aren't.

But GH3 is okay I guess. If you like eating poo.

The complaints come from medium/hard players I think. Like me.
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: CajoleJuice on January 03, 2008, 08:11:41 PM: I'm a hard/expert player and I'm not one of the complainers. Except for Raining Blood. DAMN IT
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: demi on January 03, 2008, 08:13:55 PM: PS3 Rock Band guitar is wireless, but you can't use Les Paul or Xplorer
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on January 03, 2008, 08:16:01 PM: or i could just download the ps2 version of guitar hero 2 and save myself $100

i'm just going to go run some errands and then let the spirit of pointless consumerism determine my actions

in true evilbore fashion
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: y2kev on January 03, 2008, 08:17:25 PM: When you get back make sure you post a WHAT DID YOU BUY ON THURSDAY AT 7:30 PM EST thread.
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: demi on January 03, 2008, 08:24:59 PM: Quote from: y2kev on January 03, 2008, 08:17:25 PM
When you get back make sure you post a WHAT DID YOU BUY ON THURSDAY AT 7:30 PM EST thread.

i got you this

8==D

was on sale
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: TVC15 on January 03, 2008, 08:47:11 PM: Guitar Hero 3 isn't really that bad. The boss battles are annoying, but there are only 3 of them. For what it's worth, I like the track listing on 3 better than 2.
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: demi on January 03, 2008, 08:50:08 PM: there are codes you can input to unlock all the songs on quickplay too, i used it on the wii version to dick around with songs i liked
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on February 02, 2008, 09:02:53 PM: since i'm sure you were all in suspense as to how this would turn out: i bought gh3 on 360 today. the tiny les paul looks even dumber than the tiny sg. but at least it has no wires

wires :supergay
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 02, 2008, 09:18:47 PM: wooooo wireless :bow
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 02, 2008, 09:22:50 PM: GH3 :gloomy
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on February 02, 2008, 09:25:20 PM: the clusterfuck of wires behind my 'home theater' setup would offend caligula's morals

WILD WILD HOMO
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drew on February 02, 2008, 09:34:33 PM: Do what I did...buy the Guitar Hero III box, then pickup II used on the cheap.

Quote from: Genghis Cohen on February 02, 2008, 09:29:17 PM
(http://archive.salon.com/health/sex/urge/2000/04/08/tom_finland/story.gif)

"Nice wires"

What this really means is you had that pic saved on your harddrive. :lol
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 02, 2008, 09:38:05 PM: I should take a pic of the wires emanating from my entertainment setup. It'd be gayer than a Cheebs and PD AIM transcript.
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: Smooth Groove on February 02, 2008, 09:57:43 PM: 360 wins again! :rock

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Drohne's hastening his 360's RROD status. :gloomy
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Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on February 02, 2008, 10:04:50 PM: i have this apprehension that i'm about to get some non-RROD malfunction that microsoft won't fix for free, but the ps3 version of gh3 is wild homo on a number of levels, so what can i do
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: Smooth Groove on February 02, 2008, 10:07:44 PM: Save $100 and download the PS2 version. HD graphics don't matter much for GH.
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on February 02, 2008, 10:09:41 PM: i actually did download the ps2 version of gh2 when i first made this thread, but i never bothered to play it -- i'm such a dedicated graphics whore that hd does matter here
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 02, 2008, 11:33:17 PM: What's wrong with PS3 GH3? Besides the game sucking shit

edit: You can get GH2 disc for $35 at EB/GS, how much is a GH3 guitar? It might be cheaper for the better game.
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on February 02, 2008, 11:54:08 PM: the ps3 version of gh3 apparently has worse graphics, plus you can't use the guitar with rock band, plus there isn't any ps3 version of gh2, which i may want at some point
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: Raban on February 03, 2008, 12:05:12 AM: I'm not a big fan of the dinky-ass Les Paul that comes with GH3. The Xplorer works better for me because the neck is much skinnier and comfy, my only issue with the Xplorer is the start/back buttons suck monkey ass.
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on February 03, 2008, 05:26:55 AM: it's pretty fun, first couple tiers don't seem particularly hard on hard -- though i guess that dragonforce bullshit is coming eventually. but where's clive :'(

oh, and the boss battles are indeed trash
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: demi on February 03, 2008, 05:28:42 AM: Dragonforce is unlocked when you beat the game, it's not mandatory
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 03, 2008, 06:38:34 AM: the wires behind my AV setup are INTENSE. Because of my layout, the consoles are by my couch, next to the projector, a bit out from the wall. I built a three-dimensional screen to hide the wires from site. Like a little tent.

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Like the tent in Tom of Finland's pants.
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Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 03, 2008, 11:27:26 AM: you can find GH2 for 360 pretty cheap used nowadays

i sold mine for $25

there is an insane cluster of wires behind my setup - counting htpc wires and ethernet, tv wires, optical cables for audio, video game console wires, power cords - there's 32 in total
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: drohne on February 03, 2008, 03:11:41 PM: well, i gave up on hard when i got to that zz top bullshit...it's just one big fucking solo, and i can't bring myself to practice songs in rhythm games. normal seems stupidly easy, but maybe it'll pick up.

i really like gh3's music selection -- there's one sequence that's like paranoid, anarchy in the uk, kool thing, my name is jonas, and evenflow. which is better than anything gh1 managed. and actually its note patterns on hard have at moments given me the sensation of making chord shapes on an actual guitar...which i don't remember getting from gh1 either. i think harmonix did a better job of producing interesting, musical patterns on normal, however. and gh3 doesn't have harmonix's style -- the loading screen maxims are neither funny nor true, the characters and arenas look stupid, the female characters are all whored up. it's more tony hawk than rock and roll.
Title: Re: i've randomly decided i want a guitar hero game for 360
Post by: hyp on February 04, 2008, 12:40:20 AM: at least you can use that GH3 controller on RB if you decide to get it.