I am a Guitar Hero!

So I picked up Guitar Hero II for the XBox 360 on Saturday. Damn, that's fun! Hours upon hours of gameplay in HD. :)

I played for about 6 hours on Saturday and another 4 on Sunday. I've already completed the game on Easy and nearing completion on Medium difficulty. I've been shredding my face off.

I know I look like a 'tard with that little itty bitty guitar, but the game is way too fun for me to care. I'm jumping around and doing all kind of tricks and stuff :D (tee hee!) Occasionally I catch myself messing up on songs I know by heart, because I know what the guitaist is doing in the actual song is contradictory or not applicable to playing the game. Dude, the guitar is not real! D'uh :)

I just wish there were more songs though, dude. Or some way to get some more other than through XBox Live. Like I know if they released some sort of API through Microsoft XNA for creating songs, I'd be all on top of that! Come on, how hard could it be? You get an audio file and, I don't know, some XML file that indicates tempo changes and note indications, upload it to some server, and there you go! Your own custom Guitar Hero II tracks. Rock your face off!

I would make songs like:

• Alice Cooper - I Wanna Rock!
• AC/DC - Back In Black
• Metallica - Enter Sandman
• Billy Idol - White Wedding
• Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
• Black Crowes Hard To Handle
• Blink 182 - The Rock Show
• Fuel - Jesus Or A Gun
• Generation X - Ready, Steady, Go!
• Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
• Kiss - Detroit Rock City
• Lit - Ziplock
• Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
• Living Colour - Cult of Personality
• Mighty Mighty Bosstones - You Gotta Go!
• Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Allow Them
• Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
• The Mooney Suzuki - Alive & Amplified
• Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
• P.O.D. - Boom
• Presidents of the United States of America - Cleveland Rocks!
• Rage Against the Machine - Testify
• Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now In The Fire
• Ram Jam - Black Betty
• Soundgarden - Superunknown
• Van Halen - Right Now
• Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
• Sugar Ray - Mean Machine
• Velvet Revlover - Slither
• ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

Of course, I'm sure they had to contend with licensing and royalties, etc. But if it's for your own personal amusement, who cares?

Oh well. Maybe in Guitar Hero III. But for now, Bang Your Head! Hey, post a comment and let me konw what songs YOU would want to have in Guitar Hero.

Labels: Games, Music, Programming