Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: Flames_of_chaos on March 19, 2008, 02:37:52 PM
Title: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 19, 2008, 02:37:52 PM
Trailer and source (http://www.videogameszone.de/?article_id=636582&page=2&mag=23)
The special controller that connects to the GBA port and wraps around the DS Lite (http://www.videogameszone.de/?menu=browser&article_id=636582&image_id=794016&mag=23)
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The game is played with one hand in the guitar grip, holding the DS sideways - Hotel Dusk- and Kawashima-Style. The non-touchscreen shows the usual GH-"music-highway” with the indicators for the button-presses. Strumming is done with a pick (seems like it comes bundled) on the touchscreen. The gameplay itself seems absolutely the same as previous Guitar Hero iterations. You perform perfect note-strings, gain multipliers, gain star power, use star power and feel pretty damn cool.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 19, 2008, 02:53:40 PM
Hand Hero 3
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Post by: vudu on March 19, 2008, 02:55:37 PM
It doesn't look nearly as retarded as I thought it would. Still, I just don't see the point.
I bet it's hard to properly strum on the touch screen while pressing buttons and trying to see the upcoming notes.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 19, 2008, 02:57:54 PM
i wonder how you avoid accidentally closing the damn thing when your Hand-Solo action gets intense.
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Post by: Spak-Spang on March 19, 2008, 05:01:16 PM
You know I am curious about this...I think it could be really cool...and it could really suck.
It really depends on how much thought they put into the game...and so far I think it is fair to say it could go either way, but it is at least leaning to much cooler than anyone could have imagined.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 19, 2008, 05:13:44 PM
Did you guys see the trailer at all? Its pretty self explanitory you slide you hand through the little hand strap and use four fingers on the four buttons sort of like a 4 button piano accordion. And you strum with a stylus shaped like a guitar pick. The only retarded thing I saw was that sometimes your virtual guitar goes on fire and you have to blow the fire out with the microphone.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Nick DiMola on March 20, 2008, 09:57:23 AM
Use of DS microphone = instant fail.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 20, 2008, 01:37:36 PM
The only other thing that fails is the battle mode is similar to GHIII which leaves a sour taste and apparently the burning guitar is only in the battle mode. I wonder if you yell into the mic to activate starpower.
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Post by: Nick DiMola on March 20, 2008, 01:42:14 PM
I seem to remember reading that you use it to activate star power, also a major problem for me.
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Post by: ReverendNoahWhateley on March 21, 2008, 02:29:30 AM
Okay, see, it's this kind of potential that prods me to own a DS instead of a PSP. Well, that and slavish Nintendo devotion. But mostly, it's all about the imagination and untapped things.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: UncleBob on March 21, 2008, 11:28:57 AM
More Guitar Hero:DS preview: http://checkoutblog.com/entries/2008/3/21/guitar_hero_on_tour_for_the_nintendo_ds.aspx
My main question is - will the guitar accessory fit into a normal DS?
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Post by: animecyberrat on March 21, 2008, 01:00:47 PM
I must be the only person in the world who didn't like Guitar Hero. I thought Rock Band was fun for a couple minutes, cuz I'm a drummer, but the demo drums at Best Buy were broken and it wasn't very fun for too long. Still this looks interesting...Wonder how they intend to release bonus song packs and stuff for it though.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: vudu on March 21, 2008, 02:00:04 PM
I must be the only person in the world who didn't like Guitar Hero.
No, you're not. I hate Guitar Hero with a passion.
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Post by: Mario on March 22, 2008, 09:46:28 PM
Me too.
For once i'm happy to be a DS Hevy owner.
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Post by: RABicle on March 25, 2008, 12:27:25 AM
Laughing so hard.
Also Mario earns the full fist by referring to the old DS as DS Hevy. DS Phat sounds stupid and retarded.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: ReverendNoahWhateley on March 25, 2008, 04:57:16 PM
DS Phat, aka, DS In Effect, DS Too Legit, and DS WORD! (to your mother).
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: darknight06 on March 27, 2008, 08:39:10 PM
Hate it all day long if you want, it's a music game other than EBA on the go. Will buy first day pending the review of it's songlist.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Mario on March 30, 2008, 12:08:13 AM
It's not a music game, it's a rhythm game. Jam Sessions and Electroplankton are music games.
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Post by: decoyman on April 03, 2008, 03:00:13 PM
Weird thing... my estranged? wife just finished the French translation for the case of the game. She got it through an agency that does a lot of video game stuff. Kinda cool.
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Post by: darknight06 on May 09, 2008, 08:12:41 PM
Oh man, there will be a Nintendo official DS Lite plus Guitar Hero bundle coming out this summer alongside the stand alone title. DS just sold another 5 million units.
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Post by: pillsbury dough boy 1 on May 17, 2008, 09:40:08 PM
i really thought this games would blow for the ds but it looks like an ok game
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Post by: nickmitch on May 18, 2008, 06:26:12 PM
It's official Activision's marketing team is retarded. (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/222607.html)
This is the most awesome thing I have ever seen.
There should be two official .gifs or meme from this:
1. WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE 2. So who do I make this out to?? Yo momma?!?!
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: UncleBob on June 17, 2008, 12:09:16 PM
Bad news! Guitar Hero: On Tour came in the other day. I opened one up in an attempt to rig it up to our display DS (it didn't work)... It appears that there's no DS game case included in the big box. :(
Lame. I'm sure the wonderful folks at TheCoverProject (http://www.thecoverproject.net) will come up with something. :)
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 18, 2008, 08:04:48 PM
Bad news! Guitar Hero: On Tour came in the other day. I opened one up in an attempt to rig it up to our display DS (it didn't work)... It appears that there's no DS game case included in the big box. :(
Lame. I'm sure the wonderful folks at TheCoverProject (http://www.thecoverproject.net) will come up with something. :)
So its the guitar grip on one part of the box and the game card + manual and other inserts in the other side of the box?
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Post by: UncleBob on June 18, 2008, 08:51:00 PM
Yup. And the stylus is in the Guitar Grip, of course.
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Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 19, 2008, 12:37:05 AM
What a load of crap at 49.99 they should of at least included a gamebox.
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Post by: Ghisy on June 22, 2008, 04:06:34 PM
I might be interested in this. Do we know if the other versions (Euro or Japanese) come with an actual DS gamebox??
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Post by: EasyCure on June 22, 2008, 10:14:20 PM
i just sawt he commercial for this. freakin awesome! maybe its cuz 'm still dirnkin but that commercial rocked so hard.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: UncleBob on June 23, 2008, 11:27:12 AM
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Post by: vudu on June 23, 2008, 02:14:49 PM
I find it highly amusing there there's an admin at that site who doesn't have Photoshop.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: UncleBob on June 23, 2008, 02:40:23 PM
It is a pretty expensive program...
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Post by: vudu on June 23, 2008, 02:43:01 PM
Yeah, but the Cover Project doesn't do much else besides make covers using Photoshop. It would be like having an NWR mod who didn't play video games (*cough Rize cough*).
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Post by: UncleBob on June 23, 2008, 03:29:08 PM
But TCP doesn't make money and the folks there are all volunteers. And there are other programs to use to make covers besides expensive Photoshop. I wouldn't blow that kind of money if I didn't have to either...
I'm sure if you want to donate the money to Doom to buy Photoshop, he would take you up on the offer. ;)
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Post by: Kairon on June 23, 2008, 09:57:46 PM
But TCP doesn't make money and the folks there are all volunteers. And there are other programs to use to make covers besides expensive Photoshop. I wouldn't blow that kind of money if I didn't have to either...
I'm sure if you want to donate the money to Doom to buy Photoshop, he would take you up on the offer. ;)
You don't really need photoshop for that kind of thing after all there is always GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Ghisy on June 24, 2008, 06:07:36 PM
So where does one buy an empty DS game case? (in Europe...)
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on June 24, 2008, 10:17:46 PM
I'd assume Nintendo of Europe has an online store like NoA's and it would be in the DS section under parts and accessories if it were organized the same way as the American one. Knowing NoE, though, everything will probably be alphabetical but the letters will be in the wrong order.
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Post by: Ghisy on June 25, 2008, 05:13:34 PM
I've checked and there's no European store on NOE's website. Meh, it sucks to be in Europe, as usual...
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Post by: EasyCure on June 25, 2008, 05:25:17 PM
lets trade places, i want to see what its like
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on June 25, 2008, 08:00:52 PM
There's probably nothing stopping you from going to NoE's site. You may be able to get there by going to nintendo.com and using the region selector.
Ghisy, does the european site have one of those co.whatever codes? If so, try http://store.nintendo.co.whatever.
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Post by: Ghisy on June 26, 2008, 01:06:52 PM
It turns out there's no European store at all. But someone I know from another forum (who works at a games' retailer) will send me a DS game case for free! :o)
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Post by: Jonnyboy117 on June 26, 2008, 05:47:07 PM
Any impressions of On Tour? I've played it for about half an hour and... ewwww. The graphics are very impressive, but the strumming recognition is horrendous.
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Post by: vudu on June 26, 2008, 05:49:40 PM
Flames_of_chaos has a review (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=25438.0) up in the Reader Review section.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 28, 2008, 10:45:59 AM
Any impressions of On Tour? I've played it for about half an hour and... ewwww. The graphics are very impressive, but the strumming recognition is horrendous.
The only problem I had with the strumming is when the notes are bunched up together especially on fast songs. Thats why for me it sucks playing on Hard or Expert mode.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: vudu on June 28, 2008, 10:56:58 AM
HARD MODE IS HARD
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Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 28, 2008, 02:05:53 PM
If you ever get to try expert mode all you will barely notice a difference between the hard mode, just more notes bunched up together.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Halbred on July 02, 2008, 03:40:39 PM
I just got On Tour and I've been playing it off and on (Space Invaders Extreme currently owns my soul). I'm kind of at odds about the game. My fingers are fairly meaty, so the Guitar Grip is anything but comfortable. Having to keep my wrist bent is not fun, either. Strumming recognition is spotty. I'm not sure why Star Power activates automatically (seems to, anyway). Having to listen to "All Star" brought me to tears.
On the other hand, there is some very sophisticated tech in this game. The graphics are amazing considering the hardware, the fact that the Guitar Grip WORKS and works WELL is awesome. My meaty paws are my own damn fault, not the game's. It's not like they included my clubbed fingers in their focus groups.
I'm having trouble with the Lefty Flip. I have to play it left-handed, I'm sorry, butu I'm a lefty. Thus, it's very easy for me to get the buttons confused with their onscreen avatars. Far too often, I press Green when I'm supposed to be pressing Blue. Maybe I should just play righty...
So I have mixed feelings thus far. I appreciate the concept and technology involved, but actually playing the game is hit or miss.
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Post by: shammack on July 05, 2008, 02:05:58 PM
Just got this... the strumming has been fine as long as I only strum in one direction, but I haven't figured out how to get alt-strumming to work yet, which makes some songs pretty much impossible to keep a multiplier in. I'm only two tiers in (on hard), but I'm surprised at how strum-heavy the songs have been so far, which is kind of unfortunate because strumming is definitely the weak link of the game (besides the song selection). Hopefully I'll get the hang of it eventually.
Haven't had any problems with holding the thing uncomfortably or with it coming unplugged, but then again I haven't been playing for that long. (I'm using a DS Hevy, for what it's worth.)
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Halbred on July 10, 2008, 02:00:39 AM
So, uh, I saw that kickass On Tour insert at the cover site (see page 2), but there was no way to download the full thing. That I can find.
Does anybody have it, or will I have to make my own version? Because I can't.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on July 11, 2008, 11:35:59 AM
The guitar grip comes off easily if you have to reposition your hand especially if the strap is on.
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Post by: Ghisy on July 12, 2008, 07:13:39 AM
The guitar grip doesn't work with my crystal protection, BOOO! I have to take the protection off to be able to insert the grip. Major no-no. :(
Title: Re: Guitar Hero: On Tour Unveiled
Post by: UncleBob on July 12, 2008, 01:09:57 PM
Suddenly, I'm reminded of the people who were freaking out because generic GBA/GCN Cables would cover the L/R buttons on the SP.... ;)
