Topic: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)

[Spinnzilla]

Next guitar hero, has some major changes for the series. 

Setlist:

3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"
A Perfect Circle - "Judith"
AFI - "Medicate"
Arctic Monkeys - "Brianstorm"
Attack! Attack! UK - "You and Me"
Band Of Horses - "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands"
Beastie Boys - "Gratitude"
Beck - "Gamma Ray"
Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself"
Billy Squier - "Lonely is the Night"
Blink-182 - "The Rock Show"
Blur - "Song 2"
Bob Dylan - "All Along the Watchtower"
Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name"
Brand New - "Sowing Season"
Bush - "Comedown"
Children Of Bodom - "Done With Everything, Die For Nothing"
Coldplay - "In My Place"
Darker My Love - "Blue Day"
Darkest Hour - "Demon(s)"
David Bowie - "Fame"
Deep Purple - "Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix)"
Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing"
Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"
Eagles Of Death Metal - "Wannabe in L.A."
Elliott Smith - "L.A."
Elton John - "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"
Face To Face - "Disconnected"
Garbage - "Only Happy When It Rains"
Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc."
Gov't Mule - "Streamline Woman"
Grand Funk Railroad - "We're an American Band"
Iggy Pop - "Lust For Life"
Iron Maiden - "2 Minutes to Midnight"
Jeff Beck - "Scatterbrain"
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
John Mellencamp - "Hurts So Good"
Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire"
Kaiser Chiefs - "Never Miss a Beat"
King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"
Kings Of Leon - "Sex on Fire"
Kiss - "Shout it Out Loud"
Love and Rockets - "Mirror People"
Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets"
Mötley Crüe - "Looks That Kill"
Muse - "Plug in Baby"
My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday"
Nirvana - "Lithium"
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
No Doubt - "Ex-Girlfriend"
Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)"
Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde - "Bring the Noise 20xx"
Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure"
Queens Of The Stone Age - "Make it With Chu"
Rammstein - "Du Hast"
Rose Hill Drive - "Sneak Out"
Rush - "The Spirit of Radio (Live, 2008)"
Santana - "No One To Depend On (Live)"
Scars On Broadway - "They Say"
Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lost You"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
Sonic Youth - "Incinerate"
Spacehog - "In the Meantime"
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
Sublime - "What I Got"
Sunny Day Real Estate - "Seven"
T. Rex - "20th Century Boy"
The Bronx - "Six Days a Week"
The Derek Trucks Band - "Younk Funk"
The Duke Spirit - "Send a Little Love Token"
The Killers - "All the Pretty Faces"
The Police - "So Lonely"
The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes"
The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil"
The Sword - "Maiden, Mother & Crone"
The White Stripes - "Blue Orchid"
Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak"
Thrice - "Deadbolt"
Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down a Dream"
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl"
TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
Weezer - "Why Bother?"
Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music"
Wolfmother - "Back Round"

Featured Artist:
Johnny Cash
Shirley Manson (Garbage)
Matt Bellamy (Muse)
Carlos Santana

Rumored:
Kurt Cobain

Exporting:

GHWT and GHSH will export to GH5 for the 360, PS3 AND the Wii.
So far the word "Some" has been used for the number of songs that will export early on, but Neversoft staff members said the exporting process will be an on-going one. 

Day One WT Exports:
"Activision WILL be adding more songs to this list, as they said, it is an ongoing process."

About a girl - Nirvana
Are you gonna go my way - Lenny Kravitz
Band on the Run - Wings
Dammit - Blink 182
Demolition Man - Sting
Do it Again - Steely Dan
Everlong - Foo Fighters (handy for a chord based bonus challenge for ESP sponsor gig!)
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Hollywood nights - Bob Seger and the silver bullet band
The Joker - The Steve Miller Band
The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars
L'Via L'Viaquez - The Mars Volta
Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups
Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Love Spreads -The Stone Roses
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Never Too Late - The Answer
No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
Obstacle 1 - Interpol
One Armed Scissor - At the Drive-In
One Way or Another - Blondie
Our Truth - Lacuna Coil
Overkill - Motorhead
Re-Education Through Labor - Rise Against
Santeria - Sublime
Shiver - Coldplay
Soul Doubt - Nofx
Spiderwebs - No Doubt
Stillborn - Black Label Society
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Today - Smashing Pumpkins
Toy Boy - Stuck in the sound
Up around the Bend - Creedence
You're gonna say yeah - Hushpuppies

DLC:

All World Tour DLC will work save for 6 songs.  Everyone is thinking it will be the 6 Hendrix songs because his character model is required to play his songs.

Confirmed DLC:
Rolling Stones Live Track Pack:
"Prodigal Son"
"You Gotta Move"
"Under My Thumb"
"I'm Free"
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

Free Guitar Hero: Van Halen copy?!

Pre-ordering GH5 or buying a specially marked copy of it during September will get a copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen for free and months earlier than it December release.  Sadly, this offer is only good in the United States.

Upgrades on Wii:
-Exporting as mentioned before
-32 gig SDHC card support
-Track Packs and Album downloads now available
-8 wiis can connect online
-RB instruments compatibility pretty much confirmed
-EVERYTHING the PS3/360 version has
-Roadie Battle with the DS (more on this later).

more to come.

[BwrJim!]

This is the first title to really focus on the wii version from all the impressions I have read.   I have III and Metallica..  and I am not sure why people are so fired up about the Wii version?  What makes it superior to the others and while it is great with all the wii love, is there really that big a difference to the end consumer?

[EasyCure]

The track exporting, plus the chance to get a FREE copy of GH:VH made this new sequel much more appealing to me...

[UltimatePartyBear]

Some of this sounds too good to be true.  We need official word from Vicarious Visions that they'll have these features working in the Wii version.

[Spinnzilla]

Some of this sounds too good to be true.  We need official word from Vicarious Visions that they'll have these features working in the Wii version.

New DLC/SDHC info straight from VV:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/101/1013118p1.html

New Online features and DS conductivity:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/100/1009916p1.html

About Importing:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/101/1012208p1.html
and
http://wii.ign.com/articles/101/1012485p1.html

[UltimatePartyBear]

Well.  Freakin' awesome.

[Ian Sane]

I have this strange feeling that the free GH: Van Halen means you have to pre-order the whole she-bang with all the instrument controllers I would have no need for.  That's the version they always push.  They would likely not be so generous to give away an ENTIRE GAME with just a disc-only copy of GH5.  And if it is America only with no option in Canada well that would be useless to me anyway.

Importing tracks is of no concern for me.  Swapping discs isn't some huge chore so I don't care.  Having the option is nice but if they didn't have it I wouldn't even notice.

I look though the list of songs and I see some great tracks I want to have.  But I also see tons of **** that I NEVER would want to play in a million years.  My friends and I found World Tour to be somewhat frustrating because in the story mode we would sometimes have to go through up to three tracks in a row of what we considered to be pure garbage.  You start making deals with your friends so you get to sing the song you really want in exchange for singing Korn.

What I want is complete control over what songs I get.  Instead of a fixed setlist the game should come with 85 credits to use in the track store.  And then there are no sequels unless they add a new instrument or something and all songs are available to buy for all versions of the game (it just disables any new features that don't apply).  This is what I want and this is what I'll buy.  I'll only make an exception if I find a cheap used copy of the game.  Or since I already have one game if they made ALL the songs on this one downloadable then that would be okay too.

You know what this is?  It's the same **** as with the music industry where they clinged to CDs and were dragged kicking and screaming into providing retail song downloads.  Only imagine instead of CDs by artist you could only buy boxed sets of various artists.

[Spinnzilla]

I have this strange feeling that the free GH: Van Halen means you have to pre-order the whole she-bang with all the instrument controllers I would have no need for.  That's the version they always push.  They would likely not be so generous to give away an ENTIRE GAME with just a disc-only copy of GH5.  And if it is America only with no option in Canada well that would be useless to me anyway.

Nope, just the standard disc only game will do for the free copy of GHVH.

I look though the list of songs and I see some great tracks I want to have.  But I also see tons of **** that I NEVER would want to play in a million years.  My friends and I found World Tour to be somewhat frustrating because in the story mode we would sometimes have to go through up to three tracks in a row of what we considered to be pure garbage.  You start making deals with your friends so you get to sing the song you really want in exchange for singing Korn.

This has changed since GH: Metallica.  You can freely choose which songs from each set you want to play first.  Also, you're no longer forced to play all of the songs.  Opening up a new gig depends on the number of stars you have earned, not songs played. 

[BwrJim!]

besides me, who else has metallica?

[Spinnzilla]

I own Metallica.  Which I want to export as well. 

Also, GH5 has done away friend codes, it uses your wii console number instead.

[nickmitch]

Also, GH5 has done away friend codes, it uses your wii console number instead.

BEST. NEWS. EVER.

[BranDonk Kong]

The Conduit can do that too. The tracklist for GH5 is garbage - but all the new-to-Wii-goodness that they're including is great. It seems they decided to just pick a track off of Pinkerton for the sake of...picking a track off of Pinkerton, and chose easily the worst song (Why Bother?). Not that it's a terrible song, but it's the worst song on the album.

[TJ Spyke]

I was only semi-interested in the 2 games (because I am only interested in some songs on each), but if I can get both Guitar Hero 5 and Guitar Hero: Van Halen for the price of 1 I might get them.

[Spinnzilla]

The Conduit can do that too. The tracklist for GH5 is garbage - but all the new-to-Wii-goodness that they're including is great.

Really?  I think it's the best on disc-setlist we've had in a music game to date.  It's a music lover's dream IMO.

Also, here's some Wii gameplay:

In The Meantime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcX5LbKofBQ

Tomorrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_r6HYOby8o

2 Minutes To Midnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtjHlCC6yBA

Done With Everything, Die For Nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFFkwHVFeqk

The models and lighting look great, several steps above the ugliness that was GH3/GHWT.  But dammit, those "dead eyes" the characters have really throw things off.

[EasyCure]

I was only semi-interested in the 2 games (because I am only interested in some songs on each), but if I can get both Guitar Hero 5 and Guitar Hero: Van Halen for the price of 1 I might get them.

Exactly. That'd be good enough for me but all the extra bells and whistles really makes the purchase worth it in my opinion.

[Dirk Temporo]

Beck - "Gamma Ray"
Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself"
Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc."
King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"
Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure"
Rammstein - "Du Hast"

Wow, they actually bothered to get music worth listening to outside of a rhythm game!

[kraken613]

Really?  I think it's the best on disc-setlist we've had in a music game to date.  It's a music lover's dream IMO.

The Beatles: Rock Band....

[Flames_of_chaos]

As much as I want to support awesome effort from VV, Rock Band 2 pretty much seals the deal as the only band based music game I ever need with an exception of The Beatles: Rock Band.

[BranDonk Kong]

I'm a music lover, and I think the tracklist sucks. Rockband 1 and 2 were much better. Honestly I think it's more of a tracklist meant to appeal to people who pretend like they like a lot of different types of music - I'm not accusing anyone who likes the listed songs of being that type of person, I just think that's who they are going after. It's the German version of "Du Hast", which is awesome, mainly because you have to speak German, and also because it actually means "You Have", and not "You Hate" like the English version was changed to. There are a few standout tracks, but really it's mostly pure crap that won't be fun to play with other people.

[Morari]

It's the German version of "Du Hast", which is awesome, mainly because you have to speak German, and also because it actually means "You Have", and not "You Hate" like the English version was changed to.

While that is true, I've always felt that Du Hust was one of Rammstein's worst songs. It's downright boring to listen to.

[EasyCure]

Beck - "Gamma Ray"
Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself"
Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc."
King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"
Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure"

Wow, they actually bothered to get music worth listening to outside of a rhythm game!

Fixed

I'm a music lover, and I think the tracklist sucks. Rockband 1 and 2 were much better. Honestly I think it's more of a tracklist meant to appeal to people who pretend like they like a lot of different types of music

I'm a music lover, and i think the tracklist sucks, but then again so did Rock Band 2's. Only reason i bought it was because Circuit City was liquidating assets and I was able to get it for dirt cheap.

[BranDonk Kong]

Du Hast is a terrible song, don't get me wrong. I just think it's awesome that it's the German version. Most of Rammstein's songs are pretty basic, if I had to choose one for the game, I'd choose Feuer Frei. XXX was a terrible movie, but the Rammstein concert intro was pretty badass.

[Morari]

Feuer Frei would probably be one of the more obvious choices. I was always quite fond of Du Riechst So Gut myself.

[kraken613]

I do want to play Under Pressure, but I don't want to play it on the crappy charting of GH.

[vudu]

Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen is the best Rammstein song, hands down.

Although, I'd settle for anything off of Herzeleid.