About to go through it all again on hard just so I can see the last two songs

11/6/2007 10:06:00 PM

haha. this is awesome. GH III took 4 of the top 5 spots for top selling game last week with the 360 version leading the way.

http://www.vgchartz.com/aweekly.php?date=39390&console=&maker=&boxartz=2

11/7/2007 1:28:08 PM

I'm so pissed that beating the battles doesn't unlock those tracks in quick play. I want to play TDWDTG without having to deal with the stupid power-ups

Something tells me Harmonix wouldn't have done that

11/7/2007 2:25:22 PM

^ive been thinking the same thing, i really wanna play that song too

11/7/2007 2:37:03 PM

Something tells me that Harmonix wouldn't have done a lot of the things that are wrong with GH3.

11/7/2007 4:20:57 PM

they should have included it with the game but look at my post a page or two back.. they are going to offer it and the other battles as DLC, hopefully for free.. yeah right.

that'll be gay if it isn't free though, we already have it just not in a song form

11/7/2007 4:32:19 PM

when will they release the first new song available for download

11/7/2007 5:16:40 PM

this morning.

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/11/08/in-game-content-Guitar-Hero-III.aspx

Quote :

"In Game Content: Guitar Hero III Content: Velvet Revolver Pack Price: 500 Microsoft Points Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) MILD LYRICS,MILD SUGGESTIVE THEMES] "She Builds Quick Machines" Off of the "Libertad Allbum", "Slither" Off of the "Contraband Allbum", & "Messages" Off of the "Libertad (deluxe version)". As performed by Velvet Revolver. For all song credits please visit http://www.redoctane.com There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see http://www.xbox.com/live/accounts. Content: Foo Fighters Pack Price: 500 Microsoft Points Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) MILD LYRICS,MILD SUGGESTIVE THEMES] "The Pretender" Off of the "Echoes Silence Patience & Grace", "All My life" Off of the "One by One", & "This Is A Call" Off of the "Foo Fighters (self titled)" as performed by Foo Fighters. For all song credits please visit http://www.redoctane.com There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see http://www.xbox.com/live/accounts. Note: there are also two free trailers now available that preview this content."

11/8/2007 9:17:20 AM

i would just have fucking 400 pts right now

i guess ill buy enough to get both of those packs

11/8/2007 5:23:59 PM

yea def. getting the foo pack

btw now my green and red buttons stick, gonna go exchange at lunch tomorrow

wonder if anyone else is having these issues

11/8/2007 5:30:55 PM

sucks theres no way for us poor PS2 folks to get packs :/

11/8/2007 5:36:53 PM

wow neither of those will be bought by me.

11/8/2007 7:21:18 PM

^^

danny, poor my ass unless you suddenly got a pay cut

[Edited on November 8, 2007 at 7:39 PM. Reason : yeah i think i might miss the downloadable content ]

11/8/2007 7:39:09 PM

i bought them

slither is fun

11/8/2007 9:55:24 PM

The DLC is way too expensive. All the songs should be available individually at $1 apiece.

11/9/2007 12:20:56 AM

thats just not gonna happen

11/9/2007 6:01:51 AM

I just found out yesterday you can rent the guitar from blockbuster as well as the game, FYI

not sure if they did that for II, but this is the first time i've seen something like that in there

[Edited on November 9, 2007 at 7:40 AM. Reason : .]

11/9/2007 7:40:26 AM

^^ well then i'm that much more likely to get Guitar Zero or Frets on Fire and then downloads hundreds of songs for $0 apiece.

11/9/2007 8:47:17 AM

I'm gonna sell my brand new silver PS2 w/ GHIII package if anyone is interested. Also has 32mb mem card, extra controller, remote.

11/9/2007 9:08:43 AM

wtb downloadable songs on wii.

11/9/2007 9:10:03 AM

^is that possible?

11/9/2007 9:39:31 AM

FOR the first time owners

First GH game I've owned... I have it for Wii...

I played through on easy and medium... and the later songs on medium I had trouble with but was able to get through them... other than 2...

today I calibrated the delay for the first time and it made a WORLD of difference. I was able to go through the 2 songs I had trouble with (knights of cydonia and raining fire) and got through them first try... and then played a couple songs on hard and found those to be more manageable also...

There always seemed to be a bit of a difference between the notes on the screen and what I would actually strum and get right, I found myself leading it by a significant amount pre-45ms calibration

11/11/2007 4:09:29 PM

my calibration offsets it by 81 ms

11/11/2007 6:10:16 PM

yeah if the notes don't line up exactly with the music you'd have to be pretty insane at sight reading to get them down, couldn't you tell that something was massively not right when your strumming was not matching up at all with the music? that would drive me mad, i guess that's one benefit to having an old crt tv

11/11/2007 6:47:57 PM

i never had to adjust the offset with my xbox on any TV i've played on, but a lot of my friends insist it's necessary. i think for most people the problem is they initiate the strum when they hear the sound, but the strum doesn't register until the strum bar deviates a bit from center (roughly 45 degrees), which takes a little bit of time.

11/11/2007 7:26:12 PM

Congratulations! You Scored 1,000,000 points!
You
Are
FAGS

11/11/2007 9:41:12 PM

My Samsung has a "Game Mode" setting for certain video sources... it basically bypasses all of the processing the TV does on the color for the TV, and makes the response about 10ms. I hit the notes when I hear the sounds though, not when I see them line up with the line.

11/11/2007 10:22:37 PM

It really bothers me they already have DLC

Seriously, they obviously had this ready for release, why not include it in the game?

Sigh

11/12/2007 7:51:29 AM

^then you'll be even more mad about rock band dlc, already announced like 40 tracks for week 1, haha

11/12/2007 9:21:19 AM

I just got this for Wii. Can you play against people online? I haven't found where to go to get this yet.

11/12/2007 9:37:50 AM

Quote :

"It really bothers me they already have DLC Seriously, they obviously had this ready for release, why not include it in the game?"

They have downloadable content because Microsoft is full of money grubbing jew whores and they know people will pay for said content, so why wouldn't they charge people extra for it?

11/12/2007 12:02:11 PM

there is no set time frame for extra guitars available for the wii

I'm thinking $30 extra bucks might be worth it though

11/12/2007 12:16:51 PM

^ guy at babbages told me yesterday that they were giving 20-30 bucks for tradeing in the game right now, so you might be able to trade it back and make it closer to the cost of just a guitar

11/12/2007 12:26:23 PM

I've never played Guitar Hero, so I'm out of the loop. Do they make changes to the gameplay every iteration such that you have to buy a new guitar controller each time?

I.e.
GH1 - guitar has 4 'frets'
GH2 - guitar has 5 'frets' - better buy another one if you want to play GH2
GH3 - guitar has 6 'frets' - better buy another one if you want to play GH3

11/12/2007 12:33:08 PM

Quote :

"They have downloadable content because Microsoft is full of money grubbing jew whores and they know people will pay for said content, so why wouldn't they charge people extra for it?"

Because the DLC is free on the PS3, right?

Oh wait, it costs exactly the same?

Hmmm...

11/12/2007 12:37:49 PM

i just beat it on easy...

blood rain or whatever, gave me the most trouble...


i'm starting on medium now...gotta get used to using the 4th (blue) fret... my pinky forgets to respond sometime.

11/12/2007 1:03:47 PM

Activision gets almost all the money from DLC.

11/12/2007 1:09:02 PM

Quote :

"I've never played Guitar Hero, so I'm out of the loop. Do they make changes to the gameplay every iteration such that you have to buy a new guitar controller each time? I.e. GH1 - guitar has 4 'frets' GH2 - guitar has 5 'frets' - better buy another one if you want to play GH2 GH3 - guitar has 6 'frets' - better buy another one if you want to play GH3"

Nope, thankfully. My friend has all 4 games for the PS2, and we use the same guitars for each one.

11/12/2007 1:17:06 PM

Quote :

"blood rain or whatever, gave me the most trouble..."

no kidding. I had five stars for everything and some perfect songs on easy, but it took some effort to even get three stars on that

11/12/2007 2:13:11 PM

Quote :

" Because the DLC is free on the PS3, right? Oh wait, it costs exactly the same? Hmmm... "

microsoft, harmonix, activision, whoever. point is still they wouldn't make dlc free because people will pay for it anyway.

11/12/2007 3:26:23 PM

I wanna play against people online.. Anyone want to have some faceoffs? How do I invite you?

11/13/2007 8:24:36 PM

if you add me, ill play you sometime

gamertag is the same as this

not playin tonight though

11/13/2007 8:39:01 PM

i need your 12 digit friend code

11/13/2007 8:40:47 PM

oh you have a wii

nm then

11/13/2007 8:42:44 PM

I can't beat One or Raining Blood on hard. Freaking impossible.

I had to bump down to medium and start over.

11/13/2007 9:16:37 PM

bought an extra guitar tonight for the wii. I just bought the game again and tried to sell back the game. Game Stop's system doesn't allow game only sell backs. I'll just hold on to it until they do accept sell backs.

11/13/2007 9:23:38 PM

Quote :

"I can't beat One or Raining Blood on hard. Freaking impossible. I had to bump down to medium and start over."

I JUST beat One and Raining Blood in the last hour. I feel so accomplished. but the final boss is like impossible.

11/13/2007 9:42:38 PM

i wish i could get better.

to all of you experts, can you pretty much pick any song ie. bonus or downloaded and 5 star it on hard ? Or is the whole secret playing every song so many times that you know the patterns and could play "acoustically" if you wanted?

I don't play that often, but not really that seldom either at least a couple songs every night and then there's always the nights where it goes for hours.

[Edited on November 13, 2007 at 9:53 PM. Reason : .]

11/13/2007 9:51:21 PM

i could pretty much five star the first couple of tiers the first time i played them, but naturally the tougher songs need practice

11/13/2007 10:00:17 PM

is that counting all your playtime on GH1 and 2?

I don't recall when I started playing, but it was when office depot had that slickdeal for the xbox 360 and i picked up GH2, probably at the beginning of this year.

I've played guitar for a couple years off and on, but no means am I anything above passable with that. Most all open chords, popular bar chords and a few scales, blues, A, pentatonic. I definitely can't sing while playing and still keep time so maybe that's why I get emasculated every time someone with absolutely no musical background 5 stars a song on hard when im missing notes on medium.

I could never force myself to sit down for those 3-5 necessary hours every night for teh real guitar, so i doubt im ever gonna do that shit with a video game. I just wanna be able to actually contend with my roommates on hard, rather than always know they're gonna hit more notes than i am.

/longwinded rant

11/13/2007 10:16:44 PM