Yeah and I can throw this football over them mountains

I played GH1 like crazy. 2 wasn't that much harder. Trust me, I don't really care about impressing you. I'm also not the only one. Lots of people had done the same thing on the GH message boards. If you know how to use the orange button, the game is really not that tough. It also helps that I'm a guitar teacher and have a pretty good knowledge of most of the songs and their timing.

Who am I to believe? Someone named Rocketsauce or someone named freshticles?

Evenflow.

Great news that the old controllers will work. Will definitely pick up the game only version for PS2.

My goal on songs isn't to get 100% though. I feel most songs are mastered when i 6* a song, others I'm more than content to never play again after I get 10 or 20k passed a 5*. Don't get me wrong, I like seeing the gold stars pile up in expert, but even when you have a song mastered it can take awhile to do a full combo.

The only song you listed I have a problem 5* consistently is Jordan, and I just plain don't like playing that song. Just because it is insanely fast doesn't mean it is fun. Trogdor I actually like, but its really easy. Institutionalized can be 5* as long as you can fudge through the 3 solo parts and hit the chorded parts with star power. Blah blah blah.

I'd much prefer an extra button, 4 or 5 button chords (which im sure we will see), something along that line. The thing I want the most that would never happen is keep the 5 buttons, but have an open note (just strumming). I hate having to hold down a set of buttons when the real artist is just strumming away and thats it.

I'm also really glad to see the new guitar, I'm going to take back my 360 version of this game and just stick with the PS2 until they release it. I hate the explorer. Hate hate hate.

Personally I don't see the need for a 6th button (other than a little more symmetry with the real thing). I'm not sure what it adds. Technique wise it's not really any different than 5, it just requires moving your hand more. They can make the songs more difficult that way, but as you mentioned with Jordan, I'm not sure it makes them more fun.

Open notes could be an interesting addition though. Definitely different than just adding a new button.

Actually, I think an extra button would make things a lot more interesting, as instead of just switching between two hand positions, you'd now have three to worry about. Right now, anybody who's spent a decent amount of time on Hard or Expert is used to either having their hand in the "lower" or "upper" position. Changing that to "lower, middle, upper" would probably make the game feel really different.

Of course, there's the issue of having to get all-new guitars, so it's unlikely that they're going to go that route.

(counts fretting fingers on left hand)... Yeah, I hope we don't start seeing 5 button chords...

Something's not right...
In GH1/2, when you miss a note, only the guitar gets muted.
In Weezer video, when you miss a note, it sounds like the whole song is muted.

I thought they were getting the master track, with each instrument on its own track, not the song off a CD.

It's an early build.

Video of the new Versus mode: http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/794/794535p1.html

My buddy is working on GH3, as one of the guys who
place where the dots fall on the fretboard. Fun stuff!!

Will be interesting to see how the Beastie Boys song works out.
Personally I don't think the guitar should only ever control guitar sounds,
I would be cool with mapping it to scratching and all kinds of stuff.
But I'm sure that would piss some people off, hehe.

those new sound effects and animations are quite distracting

Not really impressed with that mode but I guess it may grow on me. The part where the notes would fade away seemed like something that would just irritate me if I were playing.

The battle mode is really weak, especially if both players are same-handed (lefties or righties). Who cares if they lefty flip you, just loo at the other person's screen. Who cares if the notes are all shaky, just look at the other person's screen. Who cares about difficulty up, I already play on Expert. So, the only ones that would even affect most people are the whammy, the one where you have to hit the fret a bunch, or double notes, which seems to be the most evil. I'll stick to pro faceoff, more than likely.

You can't look at the other person's screen over xbox live though. The battle mode reminds me of Crash Team Racing or Mario Kart. What activates those special attacks? Note streaks or just the d-pad?

True about XBox live. But I was primarily thinking about playing two player in the same room, the way it's done now.

As for activation, I'm assuming it's probably done the same way you activate star power, as I don't think there's any star power notes in those videos (I could be wrong). It also looks like each powerup you get overwrites the last one, so you can only have one at a time.

If I'm remembering the writeup I read about it a while back correctly, you can store up to 3 powerups. You get the powerups by playing the star power phrases that appear.

Bah! Reading!

That new guitar with better button placement (especially the xbox button), wireless and the addition of Weezer, smashing Pumpkins, The D, Beasties and EVEN FLOW make this a no brainer completely for me... I have played 'life wasted' a lot, but that won't even come close to the amount of times I'm going to be playing Even Flow, Jonas and Cherub Rock.... can't wait!

I could be interested. I'm all about rockin out on the Wii.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WlvMkvTLO...e=user&search=

New trailer.

Slash!

Wii guitar (note the Wiimote plug-in):



Bigger pic here: http://media.wii.ign.com/media/899/8...g_4689229.html

All four guitars side-by-side: http://media.wii.ign.com/media/899/8...g_4689229.html

Since that pic is a render, and not the actual thing, I wonder how close the actual product will be to that.

les paul guitar w/ no pick guard = :-(

Looks like ass, doesn't it?

One of the early articles from a couple months ago mentioned something about customizable faceplates. Maybe the faceplates will have the pick guards.