GET GH:VAN HALEN FREE!!!! and MONTHS EARLY

[Fun498]

community.guitarhero.com/news_posts/269

It seems as if you pick up a specially marked GH5, you get a sticker. When you mail in this sticker along with your receipt and manual code, you get a free copy of GH:VH EARLY. The fine print says 6 weeks after you mail everything in. so I'm hoping mid-October we'll get our copies. The retail date is December 22. So cross this off your Christmass lists! Activision's Santa Clause is a-comin!

[cool29801]

Just because it's called the spam forum doesn't mean it deserves real spam.


GH MAKE ME ANGRY

[Fun498]

Of course that is only because of your taste in games. A free game is amazing. Better than 20 songs nobody ever heard of for RB. With two games importing to GH5 and now this, I think RB is starting to lack.

[cool29801]

Oh, so this is a serious post. It was worded like a direct spam post, I thought you became a spambot.

I don't understand... 20 songs that nobody has ever heard of..?

And I wouldn't consider it free, seeing that pre-ordering and reserving games is definitely not free. If anything, you might save yourself 20 bucks or so. It's like the advertisements on cereal boxes. Cut out the label and mail it back for a free* (insert valueable here)

[CJB100]

fun its just YOUR taste of music. period. end of story. Ask anyone here what they like better guitar hero or rock band and i can 99.9% garuntee you they'll say rock band. (and i'm talkin pre-c&d)

Two different tastes of music. You talk about 20 songs you've never heard before? The whole entire guitar hero IV game with some exclusions like jimmy hendrix is all [censored]. All the songs on that game that are good are ones already on rock band 2 or up for downloadable content for the rock band series.

Rock band on the other hand, has an amazing on-disc collection of songs, paying tribute to rock legends like metallica and ac/dc, as well as including new WELL KNOWN rock bands like linkin park and system of a down. And if what you are talking about the bonus songs, then quite simply put, don't frikin download them. Although they are all fairly decent in my opinion anyways. But quite honestly im not sure you know too much about what you're talking about.

Free games ARE amazing as you have said, but it's not free if you have to buy Guitar Hero V: [censored] Edition.

However all that being said it is as I have said YOUR taste in music and if you for some reason like Guitar Hero's song selection, then yes, two games for the price of one (because there is no such thing as free in the business world) is much better than one game for the price of one.

EDIT:: and for the record, I love van halen, but hate guitar heros crappy fretting jobs. Even if i were to buy the game, I would by it alone, and not get it with guitar hero v.

[Fun498]

This thread wasn't supposed to involve GH/RB comparisons. I just said its a great offer. I never said I like GH or Rb better either. I was kind of mad that Cool brought up just a random direct hate against GH. I was informing you guys of a good deal, nothing more or less. And yes, WT was [censored].

[Triple D]

If someone wants GH:VH, well this is the offer for them. In no way was the first post an attempt to claim GH was supreme, and I fail to see how it was "real spam." Like some sort of friend or something, Fun was letting us know how to get the upper hand on the situation by getting this game for free and early.

Anyway, I doubt that Fun was going to stoop down and make biased comments about the two games if you hadn't come in here to flame GH, cool.

As for the 20 songs that nobody has ever heard of, he's talking about the 20 songs written by Harmonix employees you could download for free when Rock Band 2 came out. I also wanna mention that the bonus songs from GH1 and 2 were generally my favorites from any GH or RB. So just because they've never been heard of doesn't mean anything, you just gotta listen and then make a decision.

[cool29801]

I flamed GH? I said they make me angry. It would have been flaming if I said that GH games suck and are made by crap companies now that make crap songs for the game and ruin it by not fretting songs the right way and by making to many games to kill the series while trying to crush homebrew projects and similar games.

Even so, it's an open thread, in none other than the spam forum.

Also, in honesty, read the title and the words, then tell me it doesn't sound like a spam bot.

[sensay]

FUN498: Valid point, useful for anyone considering getting the game.

Cool29801: Misinterpretation on your part, i also saw no flaming of GH gameplay from what you said.

Cjb: I think you in turn misinterpreted cool (as did you all) and defended rb (rb pwns all btw)

Triple D: Wise man, 'nuff said.

Can we all get back on track now ffs?

[CJB100]

For the record:

1) Yes cool i can definitely see why this might look like a spam thread. It sounds like a blatant advertisement. However that was just coincidental. Fun was just trying to let us know; before now he didn't know that most of this forums populations hate guitar hero and activision.

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2) Triple D, you're right. The original post was not an attack on rock band at all, although it does make fun sound a bit like a gh fanboi. However cool was merely trying to make a funny and the very next thing fun said was indeed, although not a direct attack, a very negative and somewhat biased opinion on the game. He doesn't really sound like he knows what he's talking about imo but idk so that's not really for me to say i guess.

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3) Triple D, cool didn't flame GH. He gave a clear opinion.

GH MAKE ME ANGRY

Very clearly not stated as a fact. However;

Of course that is only because of your taste in games. A free game is amazing. Better than 20 songs nobody ever heard of for RB.

That right there can be interpreted and will be by most as "hey my opinion is fact. Better songs on gh than on rb." Although in his next sentence we see that he is indeed stating an opinion by using the word "I," the fact that this was not used beforehand makes the effect quite a bit less friendly. I'm really analyzing this here and I know that fun was not purposely starting an argument or anything but this IS how it will be interpreted by most. Just a small mistake on funs part about how it was written but it changes the whole feel of the one tiny little post. It wasn't very clear either, giving the impression of a hasty post.

I was kind of mad that Cool brought up just a random direct hate against GH.

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4)

20 songs written by Harmonix employees you could download for free

Just for the record, I think everyone should know that these were not all songs by harmonix. In fact none of them were. These were just done by lesser known bands, most of which recorded in studios near the harmonix headquarters. I've known about Opium for the Masses way before they were in Rock Band. I jizzed my pants when I found out they were free downloadable bonuses.

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Anyways I think everyone here can see that I can pretty much over analyze this whole thread if I wanted to but point blank is this thread wasn't made as an advertisement. Cool's mistake. Inevitably this was going to turn into a GH hate thread or a GH/RB comparison in this community but apparently because cool and fun are involved It has to be one of their faults that the topic went so very slightly off-course. C'mon, guys! Have you forgot what community we're in? Threads go off-topic here in a matter of seconds sometimes. It's no one's fault. So as politely as possible, Triple D, please stop sticking your nose where it doesn't belong:

Anyway, I doubt that Fun was going to stoop down and make biased comments about the two games if you hadn't come in here to flame GH, cool.

Upon funs second reply, cool told him the situation and attempted to put the discussion back on topic.

And cool, I personally woulda sent fun a pm simply asking if he made the post first, rather than address it directly in the thread. Cuz you know with you and fun's background that your post was gonna somehow be misinterpreted if the post really was made by fun. Which it was.

But yah cant change that now, so everyone should please go back on topic.

[~Triple-Jc~]

Aug 11, 2009 16:27:17 GMT -5 cool29801 said:

I flamed GH? I said they make me angry. It would have been flaming if I said that GH games suck and are made by crap companies now that make crap songs for the game and ruin it by not fretting songs the right way and by making to many games to kill the series while trying to crush homebrew projects and similar games. /quote]

ummm
pretty much my old sig. haha

[hzac]

Omg you .faggots cant go one thread without arguing. Grow the .[censored] up.

[moonflow43]

what is this, i don't even

[CJB100]

Aug 11, 2009 21:23:29 GMT -5 moonflow43 said:

what is this, i don't even

exactly

[Triple D]

3) Triple D, cool didn't flame GH. He gave a clear opinion.

A flame is really just a negative opinion, anyway. "Oh, Guitar Hero's hit window is wider than your mum's..." Whatever, we've all heard them before. And we've all heard Cool's opinion's on Guitar Hero, "GH MAKE ME ANGRY" is really just a euphimism for Cool's negative thought's on Guitar Hero.

I apologize Cool, I don't like making examples of people's posts or anything. It's just we all know what Fun's reaction was going to be, and you of all people should know.

It's no one's fault. So as politely as possible, Triple D, please stop sticking your nose where it doesn't belong [...]

Now, come on, I love to visit these forums occasionally, and I hardly call it out of my jurisdiction to make a comment as I did. I might not visit as much as others, but what if I actually did want GH:VH for free? I'd much rather just see this kind suggestion from someone here rather than what the thread became.

As a lesson for everyone, at the expense of myself sounding like a self-righteous jackass; we all know how fun would have reacted to a post like that, so why continue to post in such a manner toward him if you know all you will get out of it is this? Sounds like let's make fun of the stroke kid because he'll get upset and cry.

Anyway, I'm just saying, Fun is modelling for this free game we are all interested in. Who cares what kind of quality it is, he's only going to get better, assuming he isn't shot down to the point where he just gives up for greener fields. Model and let model, as they always say.

[Fun498]

Whatever. From now on, this subject matter should be in PMs and Xfire as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't belong on the forums and certaintly not here. Add me on Xfire if you want to talk about this.

FROM NOW ON: BACK ON GH:VH TOPIC

[CJB100]

Whatever. From now on, this subject matter should be in PMs and Xfire as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't belong on the forums and certaintly not here. Add me on Xfire if you want to talk about this.

FROM NOW ON: BACK ON GH:VH TOPIC

Right on.