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Monday, August 31, 2009

fake plastic instruments

Hey there friends! My roommate just self-birthday presented one of those $249 Xbox 360s, and I just played Guitar Hero 5 last night, this post is almost entirely about that.

Its a pretty big improvement over the last one graphically, the people look like people, and it has that smooth frame blending that makes it look real. It's also improved in frustration prevention, like being able to change your difficulty during a setlist and a party mode where players can drop in and out, but its pretty much just the same Guitar Hero stuff. I don't know if i'm getting more feeble in my years or what, but it seems to be getting harder and harder as the series goes on and some of the songs are totally repetitive.

I've always been a bigger RockBand fan, and I'm really looking forward to RockBand Beatles. I would have considered that blasphemous when I was younger and more pretentious, but no i'm just excited, and it got the Paul McCartney seal of approval. What I do consider a little tasteless is in Guitar Hero 5 Kurt Cobain is a playable character, and seeing his effigy singing Jimmy Eat World's ''the middle'' can't be unseen, it looks dead-on like him. He's wearing a Hi! How Are You shirt, which validates it about halfway. Hopefully a whole new batch of people will explore Daniel Johnstons music, but its kinda clear in the whole of Kurt Cobain's work that he doesn't want to be a puppet, and they went and literally made him a puppet, he can sing any song in the game or downloadable content and i'm not looking forward to seeing him sing iCarly or Hannah Montana : (

Also, It's not out until tomorrow, and I played it at a friends house who was struck by lightning and has been getting games early ever since. Below is my gamertag, add me as a friend if you'd like!


I don't have Gold yet, but I've had this same profile for a while. I don't have a headset or keypad, so email me if you want to say hello. You might see me on RockBand 2, or Call of Duty 4 or 5. There's also Team Fortress on the Orange Box, i've had trouble finding games but I used to love TFC.

This is a nice little treat after the crazy month I've had, its starting to settle down so expect to hear more from me very soon. Hope all is well out there, much love!

p.s. check out this achievement... OVER 9000!

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9 comments:

  1. what ever happened to the cloth diaper review
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  2. Very cool that you got over 9000 on that game. I have heard that it is rather hard to do.
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  3. What difficulties do you play at? I have Wii Band 2, and I guitar & bass on Hard & Expert, and drums and vocals at Medium.

    Good luck with the rest of the points :D
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  4. "benjahut"Sep 4, 2009 01:21 PM
    i have already sent you a friend request!
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  5. Why play guitar hero instead of a real guitar?
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  6. At the time of this credit crunch i had to sell my ps3 and all my games that came with it but i did find a great site that is just like guitar hero that you use your keybord to hit the notes: http://www.jamlegend.com/
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  7. to Luke - yeah, I have played frets on fire quite a bit, to the point of cutting off the bottom half of a keyboard to make it look more like a guitar.

    to Luca - yeah, were prolly about the same skill level, but I'm basically a monkey fucking a football when it comes to drums.

    to daniel - very hard. I had to buy a dog just to attempt it :P

    to anon - I've tried very many times to play an instrument, i just dont have the drive, I'm much more visually than aurally oriented. Also, I don't want to fight WW2, but I still play Call of Duty, get my logic?

    to everyone - dont expect a response to your xbox live messages until i get a mic or a keyboard, sorry!
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  8. To Riley - Yes i used to play frets of fire but i find most good songs are made by people that have no sence of music strums and i find my self going to the beat when it is a guitar game and as some have said we could spend our time learning a real guitar but it is more fun on a games becasue i may never see my self on a stage with crouds shouting my name but with a game there is fun with just five keys and the hole world to play with =)
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  9. You seem like a geeky girl Riley, so if you haven't looked into them... then the PAX 2009 trackpack is excellent, assuming you can download DLC songs. And anything else by Jonathan Coulton or MC Frontalot.
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