Nov 8
It’s official: Activision still hating with GHIII DLC (SEXY UPDATE)
You may have heard how disappointed I was with the last two tiers of Guitar Hero III. In an obvious attempt to please me, Neversoft and Activision have teamed up to release two packs of three songs as downloadable content for the Xbox 360. Both the Velvet Revolver pack (which includes “She Builds Quick Machines,” “Slither,” and “Messages”) and Foo Fighters pack (which includes “The Pretender,” “All My Life,” and “This is a Call”) will retail for 500 MS points each, and are now available for download right now.
At $2 per song, I’m still very hesitant to pick these song packs up. It just seems like too much money to pay for a couple of measley songs that I am not absolutely in love with. Activision had this problem with Guitar Hero II, as you may remember, releasing mediocre songs at exorbitant prices. I had hoped that they would clean up their act and get some sort of bargain going, and only charge a dollar per song, but I guess not.
For now, though, I’m boycotting Guitar Hero III downloadable content. Activision, come back when you bring some Zeppelin or Hendrix.
UPDATE: I think it may just be the booze kicking in, but apparently we’re also getting the boss battle songs up for download free of charge in later November.
- Grande gracias to kagatoasuka (aka “The Love Machine”)
Categories: DLC, Failure, Microsoft, New Releases, Xbox 360, Xbox Live21 Comments so far
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the foo fighters songs in the past have been fun to play. and well velvet revolver is decent i may pick them up just b/c i want all songs possible in gh3
I guess if people keep buying them then they won’t drop the price.
I don’t think you guys understand that they have to balance notecharts for 4 different difficulties, battle mode, co-op, face off, and license the songs.
I just don’t think it’s possible for them to go any lower than this.
I understand that the developer has to put work into making them, but it’s simply not worth it from a consumer’s point of view. Mine, anyway. There are certainly people for whom it is worth it, and they buy the stuff.
lawl although I agree with you I don’t see where the work is on these packs some really good songs with the worst note charts I’ve seen pass this up unless you’re like me and really like both bands other wise forget it.
Well if you remember the downloadable content for GH2 then you would know almost all of those songs were just carried over from GH. Its not like they really had to do much work to put them on the 360. I mean they were already done.
Also if there are 71 songs on the game and the game is $60 retail, then the songs should be about 85 cents a piece. That is just my opinion
Yeah, I posted that before actually playing the songs and I’m really disappointed. “Pretender” isn’t fun AT ALL on hard.
And “All My Life” is just the same notes over and over. “This Is A Call” was fun to play though.
Haven’t really done anything with the VR pack yet.
Hellraiser: they did have to do some things to them, like add the bass/rhythm notes.
lawl: didn’t I say they should have picked better Foo Fighters songs? I totally called that. I even said, “This is a Call was a good choice.”
Sorry, but you’re no clairvoyant, Dex.
I am so.
Also, links don’t work apparently. http://www.megatonik.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1904&postcount=419
No, you don’t work apparently
They’ve worked for me, maybe you made a mistake…here is the code (with < and > instead of [ and ])
[a href="LINXORZ"]Click my link[/a]
Oh yeah, and it seems like no one realizes it but below the current comments is a live preview of everything you type, so you can see how it looks before you post it.
o.o love machine eh?
I want my motherfuckin’ songs with naughty words in them. Just imagine some Master Exploder by Tenacious D, Wish by NIN, Aenema by Tool, or The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died by QOTSA. Also, how about we get some digital chicks in the crowd flashing their digital titties. Guitar Hero is long overdue for an ‘M’ rating.
WHY IS MY COMPUTER SLOW AS FUCK!? 1.5 GB of RAM my ass.
That’s what happens when you overload it with porn.
If any Tool song made it into Guitar Hero it’d get an insta M rating
I know, which sucks.
Fuck the kids, I want my Mature rated Guitar Hero. Instead of shitty boss battles, you get to bang your groupies after the show.
Bang groupies and shoot heroin, that’s what I’m all about.
The thing people forget is that these packs will be bought by a very small potion of those with GH, and in order to be profitable at all, the price has to be higher, as they won’t be selling the millions upon millions of copies.
While that is somewhat true, I think it ends up about the same either way. If they make it cheaper more people will buy it but they make less profit per person, and like this it will sell less but they make more per person. However, their profit would probably end up about the same at the end if they made it just a little cheaper, but more people would get it.
I don’t know how much cheaper they can go though, considering it takes more work than just a normal unmodified MP3 and those are only a dollar less.