Topic: Some real Guitar Hero IV info

[Spak-Spang]

Prediction:

Rock Band 2 will come out and have 1 or 2 new instruments.  It will be released with several new songs but the big thing will be all the old songs will be created with these new instruments already incorporated.

The new instruments will be a Mini Keyboard with like 12-15 Keys to play...and Perhaps some sort of String Instrument like a Violin...which would be awesome for some songs.

But definitely at least adding the Mini Keyboard idea. 

[NWR_insanolord]

How do you do a keyboard with the standard 5-note system and have it not be stupidly easy and nothing at all like playing a keyboard? And while a violin would be cool to play, how exactly does it "rock"?

[LuigiHann]

Maybe a keytar. Eheh.

Actually, for a keyboard game, you could have it so that there are, let's say, 20 keys, but it's the same 5 colors repeated 4 times. It'd work.

[NWR_insanolord]

You mean going through the order so it's the five colors in order and then do that 3 more times? I guess that could work. It would introduce a freestyle element that none of the other instruments have, you could get fancy with your hands if you had the skill and you so desired.

[Ian Sane]

Looking at the big preview IGN did recently this has become THE game I'm looking forward to this year.  I haven't got Guitar Hero or Rock Band in any form yet but I've played it and like it.  I don't want to get the gimped Wii version of Rock Band so this will probably be what I get provided they fully deliver on their promise to make the Wii version as close to the other verisons as possible.

The song creator mode is what is really grabbing my interest and the song selection seems a lot like the iTunes idea a lot of us were talking about.  If they don't welch on these promises this looks like the best music game yet.

I wouldn't mind getting Guitar Hero 3 as well to get an extra guitar BUT I'm iffy because of that original mono disc problem.  Are all the current games in store fixed?

[EasyCure]

http://gonintendo.com/?p=47065

Wii GH4 DLC can be stored to internal memory or SD card, can be played directly from SD card

I demand more praise for Vicarious Visions. Damn Harmonix and their ability to steal sales from the superior product because of an earlier release. Activision needs to start advertising this immediately, playing up the DLC and compatibility with GH3 guitar.

GH4 wins

[vudu]

I wouldn't mind getting Guitar Hero 3 as well to get an extra guitar BUT I'm iffy because of that original mono disc problem.  Are all the current games in store fixed?

Yes, the problem has been fixed for months.  I'd be very surprised if you managed to find an old mono disc still in stores.  If you're really worried, you can always ask the clerk when they received their copies that are currently on the shelf.