I laughed out loud at Best Buy today when I showed my brother this game for $5. Konami is funny, they tried to make this to compete with GH and RB, tried suing Activision because they weren't smart enough to license songs to appeal to American gamers, then turn around and team up with them to make the Guitar Hero Arcade game.

I went to GS today to look for a particular Gamecube game, so I figured I'd get this. I saw it on the shelf and I flaked so bad. I just couldn't urge myself to get it. :lol

Not even worth it...PASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I might buy it just for the hell of it. I love these games and I might get it just for the achievement points and for collections sake.

Hahah, this thread couldn't have been bumped at a better time...

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/10/ro...-not-worth-it/

Originally Posted by EarthBoundX5 Sneak King was the shit!!

all the BK games were worth it, and i got the set at $5, the drum sticks are worth it <3

Was at the mall today, picked up a copy
I'm sure it's bad, but for $5 I can hardly pass up any game

I picked it up today and played it a bit. Anybody who says this game is absolute garbage simply hasn't played it, period.

Now don't get me wrong, yes the game sucks, but as a guitar game it is very competent. The note charts are decent, the game functions just fine, and some of the covers of the crappier songs actually make them sound better. The graphics are decent, it has a nice freestyle mode and recorder (which alone makes it worth the 5 bucks to me) and it offers a decent challenge.

However, some of the challenges are flat out bullshit. The poison note challenges are stupid as hell; they pretty much make you play a song while putting notes you CAN'T play on the highway and if you hit 5 of them within one song, you're done. When I play these games, I want to hit every color I see so my brain is trained to hit those colors! It is so frustrating because you basically have to memorize the song in order to get through it so you know which colors not to hit. STUPID!

The drums suck in this game too. I'm using the GHWT set and it functions fine, but the kick pedal being in the middle of the highway without that bar like GH/RB has makes it completely awful to play. I guess if you re-learn how to play drums through this game then you might be okay but I HATE that orange kick note in the center of the screen like that.

Overall the game is certainly worth 5 bones and isn't awful, but it certainly isn't good.

Originally Posted by FaintDeftone I picked it up today and played it a bit. Anybody who says this game is absolute garbage simply hasn't played it, period. Now don't get me wrong, yes the game sucks, but as a guitar game it is very competent. The note charts are decent, the game functions just fine, and some of the covers of the crappier songs actually make them sound better. The graphics are decent, it has a nice freestyle mode and recorder (which alone makes it worth the 5 bucks to me) and it offers a decent challenge. However, some of the challenges are flat out bullshit. The poison note challenges are stupid as hell; they pretty much make you play a song while putting notes you CAN'T play on the highway and if you hit 5 of them within one song, you're done. When I play these games, I want to hit every color I see so my brain is trained to hit those colors! It is so frustrating because you basically have to memorize the song in order to get through it so you know which colors not to hit. STUPID! The drums suck in this game too. I'm using the GHWT set and it functions fine, but the kick pedal being in the middle of the highway without that bar like GH/RB has makes it completely awful to play. I guess if you re-learn how to play drums through this game then you might be okay but I HATE that orange kick note in the center of the screen like that. Overall the game is certainly worth 5 bones and isn't awful, but it certainly isn't good.

Yes you've convinced me this game isn't awful

Originally Posted by FaintDeftone I picked it up today and played it a bit. Anybody who says this game is absolute garbage simply hasn't played it, period.

I've played it, and I'll call it complete garbage.

I've got a friend who buys EVERY music game, regardless of quality. This is the only title he's ever traded in - we were never going to play it again and, even at $10 from Target, he felt like he'd been ripped off.

Originally Posted by Gothic Walrus I've played it, and I'll call it complete garbage.

I'm with the walrus on this.

Originally Posted by FaintDeftone I picked it up today and played it a bit. Anybody who says this game is absolute garbage simply hasn't played it, period.

Well I'll agree with you. I just picked it up today and from what I've played it's not completely terrible like people say. No one is saying that this game is as good as Guitar Hero or Rock Band or that it doesn't have many annoying aspects, but for $5 it's decent.

I don't understand why everybody is rippin on this game....its the greatest game to grace our greenish brown earth since ET on Atari.

Originally Posted by loc0bob I don't understand why everybody is rippin on this game....its the greatest game to grace our greenish brown earth since ET on Atari.

Oh that's really clever of you isn't it?
That surely was hilarious of you!

Great Job!

ill get it when BB puts it on a managers clearance for $2.

that way I can get some decent cases out of it.

I might pick it up. $5 is hard to pass for any game, like some said earlier, but I like the music games a lot, so even it's not good, it can't be THAT bad...

eh i might bite for 360 collection purposes.

I almost bit, yesterday, but I was worried it was awful because we still haven't sold any at work yet... and now I see that it's horrible so I'm glad I didn't waste the 5.

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Though it's almost certainly going to be a terrible mistake, I'm going to pick this up before I head up to NY. At least I'll get a good laugh out of it... hopefully.

i picked it up. i only own guitars and as a guitar game this game isn't too shabby. definitely worth $5 for the guitar career alone. it's a nice break from guitar hero, really. i like the graphics better than guitar hero as well.