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8all5sllaB
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| gitarzann wrote: | | On another note, can someone explain how TV works? I still can't navigate past the first block of songs in TV. Do you have to play all 20 minutes or whatever of those songs in order to unlock the next category of songs? I played for well more than 20 minutes today on GH TV in that first box and less than 1/4 of the bar on top of the box is red. Is that a bar that has to fill up and if so, how long is that going to take? I played a ton of songs, way over 30 minutes worth. Where the hell are the directions that explain how all this stuff works? |
The TV channels have a set time that they play from. I was playing the Metal channel earlier and it lasts 30 minutes, so for example at 12 noon the Metal channel will play until 12:30 and then the channel switches.
The red bar is the progress of time the channel has been playing up until the next genre plays. |
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jeffo2448
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What songs have you guys played on GHTV? Are they different than the on disc songs ?
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singemfrc 
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| Mxtchell wrote: | | That's pretty much it right there, the game was just thrown together and handed to us like we already know what to do |
Thats pretty much all games nowadays. Games used to come with detailed instruction manuals, now it's just "we assume you watched over our shoulder as we programmed this." I still have no idea what I'm really supposed to do on strum/trill lanes in Rock Band after 7 years.
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SlasherManEXE 
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:04 am Post subject: |
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Xbox 360 controller with a dongle LOL. Oh well, auto calibration isn't shit if you play on a CRT.
And GHTV will be so much more fun when I can actually hit notes
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parzrevenge
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:29 am Post subject: |
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Has anyone unlocked the secret song yet?
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MSH-Hitman
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| parzrevenge wrote: | | Has anyone unlocked the secret song yet? |
There's a secret song? What is it? |
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parzrevenge
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| MSH-Hitman wrote: | | parzrevenge wrote: | | Has anyone unlocked the secret song yet? |
There's a secret song? What is it? |
FSG made a song apparently
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MSH-Hitman
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| parzrevenge wrote: | | FSG made a song apparently |
Who is FSG? Can't figure out if that is a band name or an individual. |
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toymachine
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| parzrevenge wrote: | | MSH-Hitman wrote: | | parzrevenge wrote: | | Has anyone unlocked the secret song yet? |
There's a secret song? What is it? |
FSG made a song apparently |
There's two. You have to 5* everything in each festival
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parzrevenge
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| toymachine wrote: | | parzrevenge wrote: | | MSH-Hitman wrote: | | parzrevenge wrote: | | Has anyone unlocked the secret song yet? |
There's a secret song? What is it? |
FSG made a song apparently |
There's two. You have to 5* everything in each festival |
Does the difficulty matter? I just 5* everything on casual and cant find any new song(s).
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toymachine
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I'm just guessing here, I can reach out for official comment but I have a feeling it has to be Regular+
edit: now I think there's only one bonus song |
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Cabanon
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whats up with all of you guys having lag/calibrating issues ? I have none and no trouble FCing stuff, albeit yes on casual & regular.
the White2+Black3 combo is fucking me right up the ***.
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GuitarHailz 
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My thoughts:
I've only played maybe 8 songs on the story mode but so far I'm enjoying it. The characters in the background seem to overact more than a little bit but overall it's silly and fun and keeping with the spirit of Guitar Hero. I had a laugh at some of the signs people in the audience carry around. Overall it's enjoyable and I've been fairly impressed with the production value of the videos. And even if you hate it, most of us will probably ignore the background video while trying to hit those notes. I do love that when you're messing up it's like the drugs finally kicked in lol.
Regarding the guitars and gameplay: really solid. I love the 6 button setup and just like I expected, it's harder than I thought it would be. I'm getting 3 and 4 stars on Hard. I was never great at the old games but I could 5 star almost everything on Expert. Not so here. I'll really have to re-sync my muscle memory in order to hit notes. It feels like GH1 all over again in the best way. Then that feeling when it starts to click a little bit and you're able to keep a combo... it's unmatched. I definitely get a little high off of hitting those notes. ;) Riffs that would be easy in other games are made interesting and challenging in this game. To give an example, I had a harder time with Cult of Personality's riff than I did with the solo on Hard.
GHTV seems to be the real highlight for me. We turned on GHTV and just let it play, jumping in and out of songs between cooking dinner and it was a delight. Granted I'm not too picky in my musical tastes, but I enjoyed almost every song I played. Even had a couple from bands I've never heard of where I thought "I need to buy that later." I can see this being a fun way to get into new music and it has a pretty huge offering to start off. I hope that the game lives long enough to get plenty of new songs and content. My biggest concern is the fleeting nature of GHTV - that the game will die and all of this content will go away. So I hope it doesn't, at least not any time soon.
I haven't gone into the microtransactions aspect yet since I've only played the free stream of music, but I can understand the controversy. I can see myself hardly ever wanting to spend money on this game and just playing what's on GHTV at the time. Then again, I'm not the type to get really good and grind out FCs, replaying songs over and over again. It would be nice if they offered songs for purchase the normal way so that people who want to grind out FCs can do so. But it's a non-issue for me so it's hard to get particularly upset about it.
My big problem with the game is multiplayer. I am totally cool with no bass charts and both players playing lead guitar in a PFO kind of setup. But the decision to make player 2 count as a "Guest" even when signed in to a profile is truly baffling in 2015. I really enjoy the gameplay and tracklist so far, so if they were to fix this in a patch I would be 100% satisfied with my purchase. As it is, if I want to compete with my husband in score/leaderboards we each have to play the game solo which is really unfortunate. When we were playing GHTV all day yesterday we were constantly switching profiles so that each of us could earn money and make progress. It would be nice if having 2 profiles signed in generated progress for both profiles, like any other game in the last 7-8 years pretty much. I don't even know why the game prompts player 2 to sign in if it doesn't even matter.
We also had some issues with calibration as well, but I chalked it up to me just being bad. I will try messing with calibration tonight and see if I can perform any better. It's not unplayable or gamebreaking by any means though, at least not on my setup.
Overall I enjoy it and it's worth checking out. It's a nice balance to Rock Band 4's familiar set up. I get to try out some new songs and re-train my brain to play Guitar Hero, then when I get tired of that I can always go back to Rock Band and gold star songs on Expert. I couldn't be happier that each series went a different direction.
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parzrevenge
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Does anyone want to take one for the team and test out toymachine's theory? But the reason why I don't think it matters is that I still unlocked all the other pictures/vids just fine on casual. Plus when you change the difficulty to regular or higher, the stars are still there so visually there's no indication of needing to do this on a higher difficulty. This is really stupid either way tbh.
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I'm already working on it. I'm on Expert ATM playing career mode and I'm going to try and get all 5* in quickplay and I have one setlist with a "Great" and not an "Awesome", so I have the perfect layout to test on Expert.
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