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Guitar Hero 5

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Before you facepalm, I wasn't actually stupid enough to buy this game, my friend got it for his birthday on Saturday and we played it there. For 5 minutes.

Here's the track list
3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite" ...Seriously?
A Perfect Circle - "Judith" Who the hell is a perfect circle?
AFI - "Medicate" LOL
Arctic Monkeys - "Brianstorm" Who?
Attack! Attack! UK - "You and Me" Seriously? A hardcore band in a Guitar Hero game?
Band Of Horses - "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands" Who?
Beastie Boys - "Gratitude" Not really a Guitar Hero song...
Beck - "Gamma Ray" Not really a Guitar Hero song...
Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself" Not really a "Guitar Hero song...
Billy Squier - "Lonely is the Night" Not really a "Guitar Hero song...
Blink-182 - "The Rock Show" Ok, I guess
Blur - "Song 2" Who?
Bob Dylan - "All Along the Watchtower" Not really a "Guitar Hero song...
Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name" I like this song, but Guitar Hero?
Brand New - "Sowing Season" Who?
Bush - "Comedown"
Children Of Bodom - "Done With Everything, Die For Nothing" Another hardcore song
Coldplay - "In My Place" LOL
Darker My Love - "Blue Day" Who?
Darkest Hour - "Demon(s)" More hardcore...
David Bowie - "Fame" That's not really a Guitar Hero song
Deep Purple - "Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix)" That's ok
Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing" Guitar Hero?
Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"
Eagles Of Death Metal - "Wannabe in L.A." Who?
Elliott Smith - "L.A."
Elton John - "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" ...Not really a Guitar Hero song
Face To Face - "Disconnected"
Garbage - "Only Happy When It Rains"
Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc."
Gov't Mule - "Streamline Woman"
Grand Funk Railroad - "We're an American Band"
Iggy Pop - "Lust For Life"
Iron Maiden - "2 Minutes to Midnight"
Jeff Beck - "Scatterbrain"
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
John Mellencamp - "Hurts So Good"
Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire"
Kaiser Chiefs - "Never Miss a Beat"
King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"
Kings Of Leon - "Sex on Fire"
Kiss - "Shout it Out Loud"
Love and Rockets - "Mirror People"
Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets"
Mötley Crüe - "Looks That Kill"
Muse - "Plug in Baby"
My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday"
Nirvana - "Lithium"
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
No Doubt - "Ex-Girlfriend"
Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)"
Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde - "Bring the Noise 20xx"
Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure"
Queens Of The Stone Age - "Make it With Chu"
Rammstein - "Du Hast"
Rose Hill Drive - "Sneak Out"
Rush - "The Spirit of Radio (Live, 2008)"
Santana - "No One To Depend On (Live)"
Scars On Broadway - "They Say"
Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lost You"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
Sonic Youth - "Incinerate"
Spacehog - "In the Meantime"
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
Sublime - "What I Got"
Sunny Day Real Estate - "Seven"
T. Rex - "20th Century Boy"
The Bronx - "Six Days a Week"
The Derek Trucks Band - "Younk Funk"
The Duke Spirit - "Send a Little Love Token"
The Killers - "All the Pretty Faces"
The Police - "So Lonely"
The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes"
The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil"
The Sword - "Maiden, Mother & Crone"
The White Stripes - "Blue Orchid"
Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak"
Thrice - "Deadbolt"
Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down a Dream"
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl"
TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
Weezer - "Why Bother?"
Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music"
Wolfmother - "Back Round"
I really can't bring myself to look at the rest. This game had the interface completely perfect for the first time too...

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A.) You've got no taste in music whatsoever
B.) You bearly know bands...
C.)This game has plenty of other reasons to suck.
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Pickzell wrote: A Perfect Circle - "Judith" Who the hell is a perfect circle?

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Pickzell wrote: Blur - "Song 2" Who?
You've gatta be kidding me. Get out.
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Pickzel wrote:Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing" Guitar Hero?
You need to get your ears fixed, and brainz(just in case you happen have one. uhh ehh... your OWN, stupid).
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Pickzell wrote:
Rush - "The Spirit of Radio (Live, 2008)"

Pickzell, you officially fail
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On a moderately related [to the way this thread is going] tangent,

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hurstshifter wrote:
Pickzell wrote:
Rush - "The Spirit of Radio (Live, 2008)"

Pickzell, you officially fail
OH NO HE DIDN'T!

I saw Rush perform that live in 2008!
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MarauderIIC wrote:On a moderately related [to the way this thread is going] tangent,

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Hey I did too have periods! No wait, that came out wrong... Nevermind.
hurstshifter wrote:
Pickzell wrote:
Rush - "The Spirit of Radio (Live, 2008)"

Pickzell, you officially fail
I didn't say every song on here was bad(at least if I did I misspoke). Hell, I like a lot of them, I just think when you add Attack Attack and Paramore to list of "Guitar Heroes" you've gone a little bit to far.



You know what! I'll summarize my thoughts on the game right now!!!
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Pickzell wrote:Hey I did too have periods! No wait, that came out wrong... Nevermind.
I know, I just thought it was humorous and tangentially relevant due to the first frame.
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With these yearly iterations with only about 20-30% songs that I know and like, it makes me glad that I have Gamefly and that their distribution center is right next to me in Pittsburgh. Spending way too much money on games before hand for a random hour or so of pleasure.
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MarauderIIC wrote:I know, I just thought it was humorous and tangentially relevant due to the first frame.
I don't understand, how was it relevant? The game came out over a month ago.
Pickzell wrote:You know what! I'll summarize my thoughts on the game right now!!!
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It genuinely saddens me how hard they're trying to do that. I'm glad TB:RB kicked its ass so badly.
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aamesxdavid wrote:
MarauderIIC wrote:I know, I just thought it was humorous and tangentially relevant due to the first frame.
I don't understand, how was it relevant? The game came out over a month ago.
I took it more as a "ages 9 - 15... who rate games without playing them".
Pickzell wrote:Before you facepalm, I wasn't actually stupid enough to buy this game, my friend got it for his birthday on Saturday and we played it there. For 5 minutes.
I really can't bring myself to look at the rest.
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Pickzell wrote:Blur - "Song 2" Who?
How the hell do you not know this song?
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Bludklok wrote:
Pickzell wrote:Blur - "Song 2" Who?
How the hell do you not know this song?
Yea, It kind of surprises me how he actually doessn't know this song >_>
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