Guitar Hero: Arcade

lentini · 01-06-2009, 2:21 PM

Anyone else played this?

Managed to track one down and have a go (or five) on this today while out doing work. It was alright actually. In case you've not heard of it, it basically a custom version of GH3 with some GH3 and DLC tracks and some modified GH:WT guitars strapped to it. The guitars are very heavy, the guitar strap is pretty uncomfortable and the strum bar has a lot of resistance and is very spongy. Also, there is no whammy bar....I kept moving my hand down to fiddle with it all the time (I mean the whammy bar, smutty people!)

So yeah, I spent 5 quid on it (it was a quid a go) but the lag was very evident and took a few songs to get used to it. Managed to bumble my way through Cult of Personality on Expert, even though there was very bad lag.

...and the lack of Even Flow on the setlist made me a sad panda

PlexShaw · 01-06-2009, 5:20 PM

Yeah, played it in London several months ago. Only played one song (Closer by Lacuna Coil) and it seemed perfectly fine but as I still own GH3 I decided against sinking anymore cash into it.

Semerie · 01-06-2009, 9:25 PM

yeh i played one of these in skegness, but i failed due to the serious lagg....

unplayable to tell you the truth!

Codehead · 04-08-2009, 9:44 PM

Stumbled across one of these last week in Gt Yarmouth. Had a go on medium (I've finished the hard tour in most GH games, but I didn't want to look a plonker in front of the chip shop racers). It was pretty bad, missed a bunch of notes, the strum bar/buttons felt spongy and awful, plus I was groping for the missing whammy bar too.

Still, I was surprised to see a steady flow of people pumping cash into the box to give it a go. Can only be good for the genre IMO.

oasismark · 05-08-2009, 2:18 PM

I had a go in Whitby last week.

It was crap!!

Heavy guitars and short straps.

All the decent songs weren't available, i tried 'Black Magic Woman' and 'For the love of God' and both said ' 'add another 7 credits to play this song'!!!!

As the timer was going down i had to rush and play 'hit me with your best shot'

Well boring!!

GamerThombus · 16-08-2009, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by oasismark

I had a go in Whitby last week.

It was crap!!

Heavy guitars and short straps.

All the decent songs weren't available, i tried 'Black Magic Woman' and 'For the love of God' and both said ' 'add another 7 credits to play this song'!!!!

As the timer was going down i had to rush and play 'hit me with your best shot'

Well boring!!

Hooray, my home town

and yea i played it too and it is pretty poor, the strummer was the worst thing about it i thought, a bit stiff