Topic: Guitar Hero World Tour (No Prince confirmed! WHAAAA!)

[EasyCure]

12-digit friend code please. Not that i can't afford a live subscription on my 12hr work day..

No one answered my question on how the vocals work dammit!

[UltimatePartyBear]

The point i was making was that it has happened and honestly there are still people out there that condem (rock) music for being evil and morally corrupting the youth, even without giving them the fodder that rock n roll stereotypes found in guitar hero offer.

Those same people have mostly moved on to blaming video games, and guess what Guitar Hero is?  It's a perfecta (that's one less than a trifecta, if you were wondering).

Honestly, there are things in the Guitar Hero games that don't sit right with me, but to the best of my knowledge the ESRB doesn't take religious references or iconography of any kind into account.  The closest content descriptors I can find that might apply are "Suggestive Themes" and "Violent References," neither of which are judged anywhere near as harshly as "Language" is.  I'm sure that's a can of worms the ESRB doesn't want to open.

Regardless, in the end you'll just have to add all the F-bombs back in yourself so that the game can hold on to that lucrative T rating.

No one answered my question on how the vocals work dammit!

As far as I know, all of these singing games work by scoring you for hitting the right pitch when you're supposed to.  They're no more sophisticated than that, so when there's no note for you to hit, any noise you make is just ignored.  You don't even have to sing the actual words.

[Ian Sane]

I understand this perspective for the retail game, but it sucks that DLC tracks are censored, too.  Why can't they just offer Explicit and Clean versions like they do on iTunes?

To me that would be a perfectly suitable solution.  But people freak about the dumbest stuff.  Again I'll mention hot coffee.  Hot coffee was a HACK.  It wasn't officially part of the game and was stupidly left in.  Maybe they did that on purpose but it wasn't like you entered a code and got it.  You had to know what the hell you were doing.  No one could accidentally stumble on it.  It wasn't part of the game.  But people freaked and the ESRB caved in.  Nintendo lost a lawsuit about epilepsy even though they had warning all over the damn box.

It wouldn't matter if a clean version was available.  The issue is that minors CAN download the explicit one.  Even if they had to steal a credit card number or their parents themselves entered it for them.  Those sort of logical excuses don't cut it.  Parents want blame for when THEY f*ck up.  You can offer two versions and put all the warnings in the world on the DLC but some dumb parent will ignore it and later b!tch or some Jack Thompson type will just make sh!t up about kids hacking the DLC, even if they aren't doing it.  Putting the rating on the box isn't even good enough to the watchdogs.  So f*ck it.  It just isn't important enough to stand firm in this case.  Not with this game.  Not with a rare game that isn't a murder simulator.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

"As far as I know, all of these singing games work by scoring you for hitting the right pitch when you're supposed to.  They're no more sophisticated than that, so when there's no note for you to hit, any noise you make is just ignored.  You don't even have to sing the actual words."

Rabbids have to play this game now.

[Spinnzilla]

Oh and I may have forgotten to mention that Blind Melon's signature song "No Rain" will also be DLC as a single. 

[EasyCure]

if it doesnt come with a fat bumblebee girl as a character that dances around the stage during the song, i don't want it.

[Spinnzilla]

if it doesnt come with a fat bumblebee girl as a character that dances around the stage during the song, i don't want it.

create a rocker tool.

[EasyCure]

FUCKYEAH!!

still wont buy it, but i'll make the bee girl if my name isnt Easy C. Ure

[Spinnzilla]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9JClV4zma4

Hendrix in action. that's probably the best thing i've ever seen.

[Morari]

I'd be interested to know whether or not you'll be able to create your character and make them a singer/guitarist like Hendrix. Certainly it would be a worthy option, instead of having two different characters (one for guitar and one for vocals) on screen with only one actual person playing the parts.

Other than that, I wonder how much different the Wii version will look from that. The footage was pretty nice, and certainly doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility for the Wii. That said however, certainly the graphics on the Wii won't look nearly as nice... especially for characters. That is, if GH3 is any indication.

Edit: Does anyone know if the new guitars will work with GH3? I know that it's been stated that the old guitars will work with World Tour, but nothing has ever been stated toward the other side. I'd hate to have four fake guitars sitting around just to play two games. I assume that there have been additions made to the bass' gameplay to also warrant the new guitar, right?

[Ian Sane]

I'd be interested to know whether or not you'll be able to create your character and make them a singer/guitarist like Hendrix. Certainly it would be a worthy option, instead of having two different characters (one for guitar and one for vocals) on screen with only one actual person playing the parts.

That would be cool but I doubt they would think to do it.  I do plan on using a mic stand to sing and play at the same time.  Partially for the challenge and partially because out of my regular gang of four, one of my friends is a real wet blanket about this sort of thing ("Someone might see me putting my hair down for a change!  How embarassing!").  The power trio format will likely be the only way we'll get to play through the whole game.  I'm paying for the whole damn thing and yet he's the only one who isn't excited as f*ck about it.

[EasyCure]

I'd be interested to know whether or not you'll be able to create your character and make them a singer/guitarist like Hendrix. Certainly it would be a worthy option, instead of having two different characters (one for guitar and one for vocals) on screen with only one actual person playing the parts.

That would be cool but I doubt they would think to do it.  I do plan on using a mic stand to sing and play at the same time.  Partially for the challenge and partially because out of my regular gang of four, one of my friends is a real wet blanket about this sort of thing ("Someone might see me putting my hair down for a change!  How embarassing!").  The power trio format will likely be the only way we'll get to play through the whole game.  I'm paying for the whole damn thing and yet he's the only one who isn't excited as f*ck about it.

Agreed (about them probably not implementing a single guitar/vocalist character) and i'll be doing the same with the mic stand since i have one here being used as a hat rack lol.

As for the graphics, don't base them on GHIII Morari, if anything base them on on GH: Aerosmith. That game was a step up in the graphics and animation dept, so its a better representation of what GH:WT will be like.

I would assume the guitar is reverse compatible... obviously you cant use the touch strip but the buttons are no different then the GH3 version, so why not?

[Spinnzilla]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjxsz-IXxJw

to anyone who thought bass was going to boring.  my god.

[EasyCure]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjxsz-IXxJw

to anyone who thought bass was going to boring.  my god.

First: Even without seeing the video, i'd like to say bass is very underrated...

Second: After watching the video... not the best song to show off the bass, but its the first i've seen that shows off the "open string" input, and thats nice.. though it might take getting used to now that i've trianed myself into knowing there arent any real open notes in gh... damn!

EDIT:

showing love for my homies on bass:

RHCP bass riff compilation
mat freeman bass solo; for the love of Rancid!
Iron Maiden. Aces High. Nuff said
and one of my personal favorites, the very first song i learned to play on my bass way back when: Around the World by Red Hot Chili Peppers
hehe.. one more to relive my days as a 16 year old... ahh the memories..

[vudu]

to anyone who thought bass was going to boring.  my god.

I still don't quite get how bass is played.  (Mostly because I really haven't cared enough to look into it.)

Also, EasyCure, that video shows how they handle the **** in B.Y.O.B. ... sadly they just cut the word out, which sounds rather awkward mid-scream.  Oh well.

[BranDonk Kong]

The open string should be on guitar too...and that looks very, very easy (bass on BYOB). It's much more like playing the song for real. It would be harder without the open string.

[LuigiHann]

Wow. I expected the open strums to be used sparingly, not all over the place like that. Should be interesting.

[EasyCure]

to anyone who thought bass was going to boring.  my god.

I still don't quite get how bass is played.  (Mostly because I really haven't cared enough to look into it.)

Also, EasyCure, that video shows how they handle the **** in B.Y.O.B. ... sadly they just cut the word out, which sounds rather awkward mid-scream.  Oh well.

oh i noticed, and had an 'i am cry' moment.

The open string should be on guitar too...and that looks very, very easy (bass on BYOB). It's much more like playing the song for real. It would be harder without the open string.

i thought they use the open notes for guitar too.. and i dont think it'd make playing any easier, i think it'd make it harder especially on guitar.

[BranDonk Kong]

No way, it's just like chugging an open E string, and between notes/chords it lets you reposition your hand a lot easier. It does however, make it a lot more realistic, especially on BYOB. I really hope it is in the guitar too, though, but I'm almost certain it's not.

[EasyCure]

When you put it that way it it sounsd easy, but i'm thinking tempo wise it could be harder since they're throwing an extra note at you. i wonder if they'll add that to hamer on/pull-offs

[Morari]

I'm not sure if I like the way the open note looks. I obviously haven't played the game yet, but from looking at the video the signifying note seems a little inconspicuous and easy to miss visually.

[EasyCure]

The huge purple line that stretches from one side of the fretboard to the other is easy to miss!?

[Spinnzilla]

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/oasis_offers_new_album_on_guitar_hero/C157

good news, Oasis fans!  Their new album in '09 will be DLC for GHWT and a track pack will becoming on Nov. 6.

Oasis Track Pack:
"The Shock of the Lightning"
"Bag it Up"
"Waiting for the Rapture"

[Morari]

The huge purple line that stretches from one side of the fretboard to the other is easy to miss!?

In the context of that video, yes. It doesn't stand out nearly as well as the notes themselves, and certainly seemed a tad difficult to gauge the quantity of when presented in long strings.

[Ian Sane]

good news, Oasis fans!  Their new album in '09 will be DLC for GHWT and a track pack will becoming on Nov. 6.

That's exciting except for the new album part.   I guess I'm not really an Oasis fan since I only like their first two years or so of material.  But I would download Supersonic in a heartbeat.