Comments on: Rock Band PS3 patch adds Guitar Hero III Les Paul support

By: angry

angry — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:37:18 +0000

dude this is ridiculous. release the patch now before kneecaps are broken.

By: Tim Hanlon

Tim Hanlon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:11:23 +0000

@Ravonis - Apparently, Microsoft said “there will only be one guitar controller interface for the Xbox 360″ and that was that.

Sony’s openness has typically benefited the consumer (eg. Epic being allowed to support keyboard + mouse and user-generated content in UT3 on the PS3) however in this instance it worked against them.

By: Ravonis

Ravonis — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:41:56 +0000

The fallacy of people claiming that Harmonix “ripped off” Activision’s Guitar Hero. That’s just plain stupid.

Harmonix DEVELOPED Guitar Hero and moved on to make something BETTER called RockBand.

I can’t believe the patch still hasn’t been released to this date. Why do Xbox 360 users get to use GH controllers, but PS3 owners don’t?

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:41:13 +0000

ACTIVISION IS A FUCKING MONEY HOG!

By: jay

jay — Sun, 18 May 2008 02:37:04 +0000

it should just work and thats it

By: jangno

jangno — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:18:22 +0000

I played with the Nyko Frontman quite a bit. Though it’s not as comfortable as the Red Octane guitars, it is more comfortable than the EA strat. The only real problem that I have is that the dot on the yellow button can get a little bit uncomfortable/painful. But, on the positive side you don’t have to keep battaries in it. You can just hook it up to usb and play without batteries if you want to. All in all, it’s okay but I still want RedOctane to allow the RB patch.

By: Jangno

Jangno — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:14:56 +0000

I ordered my Nyko Frontman with dual compatibility from Amazon. I’ll post my review once it comes.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:56:32 +0000

I still can’t believe that Activision won’t allow the patch. I really want to be able to use the GH 3 guitar on rockband - I already owned GH 3 on PS2 and bought it again on PS3 specifically because I thought that the PS3 GH 3 guitar would at least work since the PS2 GH 3 guitars don’t (even with supposed hardware I bought that converts ps2 controllers into ps3 controllers..)

I am sooooo pissed at Activision for causing me a total waste of over $150 bucks because they won’t let rockband use their guitars on the game…..

not only does it make no sense for pissing off customers - but it makes no business sense for Activision who could be selling lots more GH 3 packs since the guitar could work with rockband with the patch. EVERYONE I KNOW HATES THE ROCKBAND GUITAR MORE!!! They would all buy GH 3 JUST FOR THE GUITAR - but no compatiblity and I’ve told them all about this issue so they haven’t wasted their money.

I host game night where we all play rockband on ps3 with crappy rockband guitars once a week so literally about 5 sales of GH 3 don’t happen plus the negative word of mouth I continue to spread. Nice work Activision - each month I wait pisses me off more!

Not only that but my wife won’t get into rockband as much as guitar hero - do you know how tired I’m getting of watching her get pissed off at the rockband guitar when it fails her on simple songs??? Then she gets mad and doesn’t play. She’s probably gonna blow up Activision HQ one day as a result - won’t be my problem then now will it? (j/k about that last part)

By: jangno

jangno — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:49:07 +0000

I guess that I am alone. I have been playing Guitar Hero on PS2 since it came out. When I discovered that game companies were going to stop development on PS2 games, or dumb them down, I decided to get a PS3. So I unloaded my PS2 and the entire GH series and bought a PS3 and Rockband. I enjoy the game, but I find the strat to be far less comfortable to play. I beat GH3 on PS2, but didn’t like it enough to buy it on the PS3. However, I would consider buying GH3 to get the Les Paul guitar. But, since it won’t work, that would be dumb.

I’m sure I’m not alone in preferring the Les Paul to the Strat and Activision is certainly losing out on any proceeds from a GH3 purchase from me. I wonder how much money Activision wants from Harmonix/MTV to stop blocking the patch. They should just ask for donations, I’m sure they could raise it if it was about anything more than the principle.

I should probably say that I don’t like GH3 because it is too difficult. I like a game to be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be impossible. What happened to the fun songs and the underground garage bands? My favorite song on GH1 was Even Rats by The Slip. I’m hoping that Harmonix redoes the GH1 bonus tracks for DLC on the PSN. None of the following games bonus tracks were as unique and entertaining.

By: Kratos

Kratos — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:19:21 +0000

Howabout you jackasses all get over it. Guitar hero 3 is freakin sweet i dont care if they dont release the patch! However saying that, I cant wait to get my self a copy of rock band!