Guitar Hero 2

[raphael_is_cool]

Have you completed it on hard?

I did recently. I took three tries on Free Bird before I nailed the bit that kept tripping me. Right at the end as well! There's not a chance I can do it on Extreme, I barely got through Hard.

Surely this game must have grown in popularity by now. If you play guitar it's still fun and a bit tricky to get used to (I still hate the strum bar a lot) and if you don't, then try it. Makes a great party game if you're prone to silly theatrics (which must be done, surely). I'm also pretty sure I've improved my fingerwork technique a little in playing the game.

Being a bassist myself it's also pretty cool to see you can do the bass tracks on a lot of songs as well as unlock some different bass guitars for co-op play.

What are people's opinions on the songs obviously having heard and played them now?

I think the strength comes through sheer number as there are a lot of good songs in a wide range of genres, but then there are too many dull metal songs, probably only chosen for the solos. I'm not too impressed with the 'bonus' tracks either, except for TROGDOR! of course.

And, who is your favourite character and what is your favourite guitar?

I like Eddie Knox in his suit because he's got that cool Rocket from the Crypt-type look and I give him the Cherry Red SG.

Sorry, if this is long/late/ranty but I'm bored.

[Mr. Snackpants]

I can't wait for March when this game comes out for the 360. I've played it a few times on various friends PS2s, but I didn't get to really play it. I can't wait.

[Peanut]

I've been through it a couple times. Most songs are much too simple on Hard, so I almost always play on Expert. In GH1 I exclusively played on Expert, but in GH2 some of the songs are just too fast, and my problem is I'm not all that great at double strumming. In fact, I'm terrible at it and I have no desire to practice it. Unfortunately I pulled my PS2 off my shelf, it was only about a 2 foot drop, but that was enough to pop open the disk tray and send GH2 flying. It has a couple huge smudges across it now that won't come off, so it doesn't work.

I'm more excited for the 360 version though. Achievement points and DLC for the win.

[Jed]

I waited for the 360 version and I'm glad I did cause it's got Pearl Jam now, the achievements look easy enough for the most part and DLC will be cool. It sucks that they didn't make a wireless guitar for it though, me and my friends have had a lot of trouble with pulling the PS2 across the floor cause of the short lead, I hope the 360's one is longer.

[Peanut]

There's still a fairly good chance that they'll make it wireless. The only thing holding them back is MS not wanting to tell them, "the secret" about their wireless technology. I read in an interview on Kotaku that they're trying to get it worked out, though.

[Jed]

Is there any chance of that happening before the end of March though, or will they hafta hold off for GH3? I was looking at online stores last night to get an idea on the price of the 360 version with a guitar and it's looking like it'll be about €100, I think that's a bit too dear so I'll either wait for it to drop in price or beg my friend to get me his discount in GAME.

[愛]

As Peanut and I talked about recently, the GH franchise has been sold to Activision, the creators of Tony Hawk 2054275682467238902: Sweet Grind Ollie. I suspect they won't get any input from Harmonix, because they were sold, too. Now it's going to be a bunch of emo rock songs that are shown on MTV. Guitar Hero 3 will most likely include these songs. So as a suggestion, go for the GH2 on 360.

And I don't see why they wouldn't make a wireless controller. It may be a while, though, so if money is tight, I'd give it some thought as to what you really want.

[OA]

Well, I have zero music ability and have never played any instument. But Ill tell you I had alot of fun playing that at a friends house...ill oick this up at sometime on the 360...

[Spitfire]

Know what would make this game really great? If when it hit the 360 there was a mode where you could input songs off your hardrive into the game and the game generated the riffs for you. That would be great, because honestly I can't stand most of the music in the game. Not because it's bad, some of it is old school stuff I grew up with, but because we have a display at work and I've heard every song in that game a million times each. Especially War Pigs and Mad House. And nothing is more annoying then hearing someone mess up a Ramones song or Symphony Of Destruction on Easy.

But if it goes 360 hopefully they won't be lame enough to have the same songs.

[raphael_is_cool]

I'm pretty sure the DLC will make it all worthwhile. I could see that being huge.

I mean they really need:
Any Led Zeppelin song
A song by The Who
Since You've Been Gone by Rainbow
Holy Wars by Megadeth
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love by Van Halen
Apache by The Shadows
Johnny B Goode by Chuck Berry
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Those Who Fight Further by Black Mages (Their version of the FFVII Boss Theme)

Got a bit carried away with my list there.

[Spitfire]

I think they should add some speed metal, that would be a real challenge. I'd love to see a Children Of Bodom song in there or Arch Enemy, or In Flames. Something that I know would be pretty hard to play. Needled 24/7, let's see someone get perfect on that song on the hardest difficulty. Then again There's crazy people like that. I never understood how people were so good at crap like DDR.

[Ra]

Originally Posted by Spitfire666xXxXx

Know what would make this game really great? If when it hit the 360 there was a mode where you could input songs off your hardrive into the game and the game generated the riffs for you.

YES! I was thinking the exact same thing while I was playing it in EB Games the other day. It's a good game, but the only song I seem to like on there so far is "Woman" by Wolfmother. If you were able to put your own songs on there, I would definately buy it. But, our primitave technology doesn't inable the personal song function, so I'll just play it whenever I can for free

[Peanut]

You'll never be able to input your own songs into GH. It'll never happen. There's no way. Plus, any song you can think of that deserves to be in Guitar Hero has been thought of. Trust me. They just can't acquire rights to any of them. They've already announced there will be 10 new songs in GH2 for 360 right off the bat, with the promise of DLC to come, so it won't be a total rehash.

People just get too carried away with this stuff. Now that Activision holds the rights to GH, expect nothing but MTV crap, or stuff you'd find on a Tony Hawk soundtrack. Especially considering Neversoft is now the developer for the series.

[Spitfire]

Yeah that's what sucks, the music games that do let you use your own music and generate tabs or arrows are horrible. But what you said makes sense Peanut. Would be nice though either way.