| Ninlenbox said: OOkay first of all i bought this game to play with all my friends. on the day i boughted we played for about an hour when all of the sudden 1 of my friends said can we play something else. i asked why but the answer was simple enough he said it sucks and i agreed. it was not one nor two people who were playing but 4 of my friends came over we were all playing at the same time and we all try each instrument. the guitar plainly sucks and drums are hard and complicated. singing lets not even talk about it. so yes this is not a game to play alone but i didnt i played with 4 of my friends and they all agreed it sucked. I want to cry. this game makes me cry because its so expensive and none of my friends or me liked it. WORST GAME EVER!!!!!! |
I will have to say that playing the game for the first time is kind of a bummer. It starts off with only a few songs unlocked and the process of unlocking them is repetative as you play through the venues. While we played a moan of "Not this song again!" would often be cryed out in unison.
Also, the hardware quality is lacking. I bought a package with a few friends for an XBox 360, a friend bought it for a PS3, and another friend bought it for another XBox 360. All three of our packages aquired the downstrum problem! Imagine, you have an overwhelming desire to rock, but your thirst must go unquenched as your damn guitar can't downstrum! "Curse you oh mighty gods of rock. Your mockery knows no bounds!" Sure, I can try to master the up-pluck, but I've trained for years with the downstrum. Luckily the fix posted on Kotaku worked perfectly. Aside from the guitar, our mic also seemed to have malfunctioned. After a half hour of plugging and unplugging, reseting and restarting, and head scratching and butt scratching, we desided to try plugging the mic into the computer. Alas, no hardware detected. Foiled again.
We'll probably try purchasing a new usb mic and pray that it works rather than returning the unit. And that's just it! That should speak volumes. After all these trials and trivilations, it is still so worth it. The game is fantastic! I've loved Guitar Hero since it's launch. I found my way to a store at 7:00 in the morning for Guitar Hero 2's launch so that I could play it before work, but I picked up Rock Band at midnight so I could rock all night! I haven't even done so much as glance towards Guitar Hero 3. My love has gone to a new mistress and she does it four different ways.
... but I digress. The game has issues. I'd recommend playing through and unlocking the songs. That way you and your friends have more of a variety.
As for the original post, I think it's launch was a huge success given the circumstances. It was a $170.00 game. Most people have no idea what it is and the commercials do a horrid job of explaining the game. In that regard, it should be compared to the original Guitar Hero. It'll have legs similar to Guitar Hero, but it won't come close to the sales of Guitar Hero.
