Topic: Guitar Hero 3

[vudu]

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Originally posted by: mysticspike
so, guys, what are your fav. songs??

Oddly enough, Raining Blood.  

[Nick DiMola]

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Originally posted by: Chasefox
So I heard they were working on the problem to get the stereo sound fixed, anybody heard any updates about it?  If they've fixed it yet, or when it might be fixed and they'll be shipping new, fixed copies of it?

From what I have been reading it looks like they are going to be reissuing discs to anyone who wants to replace their mono sound discs. Not sure when this is officially happening but soon I'm sure. I still honestly can't believe this problem made it all the way to production before anyone noticed it. It's a game BASED ON MUSIC, how the hell does that happen?

[Kairon]

Well, considering that I'd have never noticed that it was only outputting in Mono, I guess I can't get too mad at them.

[Fred333]

I never realized that either.

[Chasefox]

Haha, of course they release news now...well, it looks like I will have to pick up this game now...glad they manned up to the problem...I mean, of course it's going to cost them a pretty penny, but not nearly as much as everyone is making it out to be...

[Chasefox]

Btw, anybody know/think they'll port over GH I & II to the Wii?

[that Baby guy]

Well, I hope they make them into some sort of package deal or something.  It shouldn't be too hard for that to happen, right?

[NWR_insanolord]

It'll probably happen if the Wii GH3 sells well enough. So far it hasn't put up numbers as good as some of the other versions, but it seems to be sold out everywhere so maybe that's just because they didn't make enough of it.

I'm impressed with Activision's dedication to the Wii version with the replacement copies to fix the mono problem and the continued insistence that DLC is coming; as someone who games almost exclusively on Nintendo platforms I'm not used to third-party publishers working that hard on my games.

[Chasefox]

It is a nice change, certainly...and in terms of selling enough units, it has seemed to sell out most places, but at the same time I've heard people hold back simply b/c of the sound issues, but now that this is being fixed, well....let's just say it would be a waste of a guitar if there is only one game on the Wii that can use it....

[vudu]

I haven't played the first two games, so I can't say for sure, but I've heard that the timing and note structure is different in the first two games.  There's supposed to be a lot less notes to play but the timing requirement is more stringent.  Personally, the current way sounds more fun, so if they do port it over I hope they'd revamp the game play.

[Nick DiMola]

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Originally posted by: vudu
I haven't played the first two games, so I can't say for sure, but I've heard that the timing and note structure is different in the first two games.  There's supposed to be a lot less notes to play but the timing requirement is more stringent.  Personally, the current way sounds more fun, so if they do port it over I hope they'd revamp the game play.

If they port GH 1 and 2, I'm pretty certain they would have no choice but to revamp the game play (though I don't like the GH3 gameplay). They already spent the time rewriting the GH engine, so I'm sure they would just use the GH3 code base and reproduce the original songs in the new engine. Probably a fairly easy task, but I'm not sure of the legal end to the whole thing and if they could even use the data found in the earlier GH games because that may belong to someone else. I think just the name/concept was bought, which would mean they would need to get the master tracks for all the songs in GH 1 and 2 and create a new note pattern when they port those songs over.