Looks like I may actually be getting this game sooner or later.

Let me know when they make one that has at least half songs that I actually like and I'll jump right on it.

I'm totally underwhelmed by the songlist for GH II so far.

I hope they release a wireless controller to go with the X360/PS3 release. I don't want no guitar cords messing up my beautiful wireless world.

As for the songlist, haven't they only released about 2/3's of it?

Wiiiiiii!

Or for original xbox gamers either....

I just want the PS2 to USB adaptor to be recognized on the 360. I don't want to buy another guitar controller. I also hope GH2 for the PS2 will ship in both game-only and guitar controller bundles just in case I can't wait till 2007.

Edit - flag on the play, English syntax abuse, 15 yards, 1st down.

Agreed, I never would have imagined that More Than a Feeling would be one of my favorite songs to play but there it is.

There's a lot of merit in that. In an interview around last Xmas, one of the developers said they were adamant about getting Stairway into the orginal game's songlist. Then play testing revealed that it was really dull to play, so they axed it. I'm also largely underwhelmed by GH2's released list, but I never thought that Bark at the Moon, Cowboys From Hell, Ace of Spades, Ziggy Stardust, or Heart Full of Black would've been so damn fun to play either. In retrospect that sounds stupid, but still....

I did get to play all the way through the first one. Multiple times. Only one song that I disliked from the start earned it's way into my "fun to play" category, that being "Unsung" by Helmet.

The other songs that I didn't like before the game I still don't like. Typically, if I could skip them and still make it through to the next stage of the game ...I did.

The problem with 2 so far is that it doesn't look like there's enough songs I actually like to avoid being forced into playing the ones I don't. That's assuming they don't change some of the way the game works as far as singleplayer goes though. So maybe there's still hope.

It's gonna be a long time before I have a chance at owning a copy of the game anyway since my only console is and will remain the 360, so maybe things will change, or maybe the majority of the last third of unannounced songs will be ones that really make me want the game.

I'm not ruling it out. I'm just... skeptical. From what I've read, most of the bands I'd really love to see in the game wouldn't let the developers use their stuff in the game. That makes me sad

Look, they can't make an all-start lineup for the game, and then release specialty packs with lesser songs. I think they'll have good, fun, relatively obscure songs in the first release, and some real standout anthems in the follow-ons. Otherwise, how would they sell them over the regular game?

I'm in the same situation as bagga and would like to play the first one on 360 (once I get one, anyway). With improvements to gameplay in Guitar Hero 2, I'd actually rather see the original Guitar Hero songs come with Guitar Hero 2 for the 360 version. Another option would be making them available for download.

I didn't know about half the songs in Guitar Hero, and thought the others were lame (Killer queen? jeez).

But turns out most of them are great fun to play, even the indie band bonus songs (hell, I hadn't even heard of Zakk Wylde, or Spanish Castle Magic). I trust that these new songs will make me ROCK OUT WITH MY c*ck OUT, so have a little faith.

Also, I too ended up enjoying the "More than a feeling" song. It's quite relaxing ^_^

I don't think Sony owns ANY of the rights to the songs in the first release. If anyone has to worry about that sort of thing, it's RedOctane and Harmonix (and Activision and MTV, now), not Sony or Microsoft. I could be wrong though.