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    Image of Will Anthony Will Anthony
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    why buy something that looks like a real guitar to play 'pretend' guitar... it's stupid. i can't wait for this fad to die.
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    10/07/09

    @Will Anthony: Because some people find rhythm games to be fun?
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    Image of dreamparacite dreamparacite
    10/07/09

    @ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.: Yes but when you pay $100+ for a fake guitar you might as well just buy the real one and learn it. :\
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    ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. promoted this comment dreamparacite was starred dreamparacite was unstarred
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    10/07/09

    @dreamparacite: The price is ridiculous indeed, but his comment is about rhythm games in general.
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    Image of Cory Youngs Cory Youngs
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    wouldnt the "shredderz" buttons make it more difficult for lefties, seeing as how they seem to hinge in the middle of the fretboard and only depress on the bottom half of the fretboard (as played by a righty)?
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    Malfunktion v2 promoted this comment Cory Youngs was starred Cory Youngs was unstarred
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    10/07/09

    @Cory Youngs: As a lefty I approve of this message. Mad Catz, get your shit together.
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    Image of DJ Magneto DJ Magneto
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    You can buy a real guitar, albeit not the greatest, for the same price.
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    Image of Dangerwillrobinson Dangerwillrobinson
    10/07/09

    @DJ Magneto:
    I play real guitar and bass, have been for over 5 years.

    I also enjoy a good game of rock band with the friends.

    Why don't you lay off?

    And no, you can't buy a guitar anywhere in the realm of playable for that price.
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    Malfunktion v2 promoted this comment Dangerwillrobinson was starred Dangerwillrobinson was unstarred
    Image of Malfunktion v2 Malfunktion v2
    10/07/09

    @Dangerwillrobinson: Maybe not an electric guitar, but my Yamaha F355 was a mere $20 more and it's a great piece of equipment.
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    Image of KaneRobot KaneRobot
    10/07/09


    @Dangerwillrobinson: My friend just got a rare Tokai from the 60's (was essentially a Strat clone) that is valued at 1000 dollars even in the mediocre condition it is in...for free off some guy cleaning out his garage on Craigslist. And it sounds fantastic, much better than the used Ibanez he spent 400 bucks on.

    Anyway - other than that I agree with you. And I love this comic.
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    Image of Dangerwillrobinson Dangerwillrobinson
    10/07/09

    @KaneRobot:

    Wow, my friend just got one as well, funny. He didn't get it for free of course, lucky friend of yours!

    I was of course pointing at new guitars on the market, as you can't find anything that good for under $150 or so.
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    Image of mutedia mutedia
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    yeah, there's a relic trend going on.. make your new guitar look like a well-played smoke stained all-dinged up guitar... meh..

    but this guitar looks very nice with the bigsby tailpiece and all that chrome
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    Image of ThisCharmingMan ThisCharmingMan
    10/07/09

    @mutedia: Yeah, this goes hand-in-hand with fender's new 'Road Worn' series. Buy a guitar that looks like utter shit, that does not have any of the vintage parts that players actually care about.
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    Image of Madeira Madeira
    10/07/09

    @mutedia: It was a trend over a decade ago when Fender first started offering relics.
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    Edited by Madeira at 10/07/09 1:15 PM Madeira was starred Madeira was unstarred
    Image of mutedia mutedia
    10/07/09

    @Madeira: yup I've seen some work being done... slapping a guitar with a belt buckle.. I Don't care for most of it. it's like jeans that look pre worn, I Don't need any help wearing them out. thank you.
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    Image of don000 don000
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    As a telecaster nut, I must say that while it's very pretty, there are a couple things wrong with this. The bigsby tremelo never existed on the '52 blackguard telecaster, and those teles also has blonde necks instead of rosewood. This looks like a 50's tele mashed with a 60's tele.

    Whatever, I'm just talking to hear my own voice; it's obviously a very pretty guitar.
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    wanion promoted this comment doubtful approved this comment don000 was starred don000 was unstarred
    Image of wanion wanion
    10/07/09

    @don000: but I'm pretty sure the '52 blackguard did have a d-pad. No one knew what that was all about at the time.
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    Image of Joe_Kickass Joe_Kickass
    10/07/09

    @don000: You can hear your voice through typed out text?
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    Image of wanion wanion
    10/07/09

    @Joe_Kickass: He has a reverse Newton
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    Image of wanion wanion
    10/07/09

    @wanion: eh, that also works with voice, apparently...sorry, wrong device.
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    Image of mescalineeyes mescalineeyes
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    Hey Fender & Madcatz, I'm real happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but Rickenbacker had one of the best guitars of all time. Of all time.
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    Image of Jbrain95 Jbrain95
    10/07/09

    @mescalineeyes: Hey mescanlineeyes, I'm really happy for your post about rickenbacker being the best guitar company, but Gretsh's are the best guitars of all time.
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    Image of mescalineeyes mescalineeyes
    10/08/09

    @Jbrain95: if they're so good, you might want to look up how to spell their name right ;)
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    Image of deathzerozx deathzerozx
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    Mad Catz has a long history of making controllers and accessories that have a short life span. Either breaking or falling apart, i'm sure it'll be no different with this expensive peripheral.
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    Image of Koztah Koztah
    10/07/09

    @deathzerozx: Some of my MadCatz PS2 stuff outlasted my official Sony gear...

    Particularly the MadCatz memory card. The MadCatz controller is semi-dead..
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    Image of dartiki dartiki
    10/07/09

    @deathzerozx:
    Actually, I had the Fender Precision Bass that they came out with, and it's far better than any Rock Band instrument that I've had so far. I've had it since it came out, and it still works better than any of my Rock Band 2 instruments.
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    Image of RoboticSpacePenguin RoboticSpacePenguin
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    I actually just played on this last night. I really liked the fretboard buttons. They are much easier to press and slide your fingers across. I really didn't like the touch sensitive button. I kept hitting it accidentally between songs which would put me into lefty mode without me realizing it.
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    Image of michaeldillon01000 michaeldillon01000
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    For 110 you can get a piece of crap guitar that probably can't keep tune. If you want a good starter guitar, you are paying at least 300-350. Plus you need an amp and cables.

    If you are dropping just 100 bucks, might as well be this.
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    Koztah promoted this comment michaeldillon01000 was starred michaeldillon01000 was unstarred
    Image of Koztah Koztah
    10/07/09

    @michaeldillon01000: "
    11:54 AM

    For 110 you can get a piece of crap guitar that probably can't keep tune. If you want a good starter guitar, you are paying at least 300-350. Plus you need an amp and cables.

    If you are dropping just 100 bucks, might as well be this."

    A Squier bullet strat is about that much and though I don't own one (Ltd or ESP for me) it still stayed in tune better than my ol' starter Ibanez Gio which cost considerably more. Then again, I may have had a fubar bridge.
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    Image of Slothboy Slothboy
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    Oh snap. DO WANT!
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    Image of meowmixx meowmixx
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    [PSPGo vs 'real' console price overdrive mode]
    For $110 you can buy a real guitar! WTF!
    [/PSPGo vs 'real' console price overdrive mode]

    Looks damn sweet. :o
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    Edited by meowmixx at 10/07/09 11:41 AM meowmixx was starred meowmixx was unstarred
    Image of smcallah smcallah
    10/07/09

    @meowmixx: I really don't like this argument. Because it is pointless and ridiculous.

    A real guitar won't play Rock Band. So what is really your point? If someone wanted to play real guitar, I'm sure they know how much money they could spend to play it.
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    Image of meowmixx meowmixx
    10/07/09

    @smcallah: Yes, yes, yes. Hence the PSPgo overdrive mode. Maybe you missed that, though - no hard feelings :)
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    I've never been a fan of bigsby's. Still, this looks hot.
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    Image of Handsome Al Handsome Al
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    This is sexy. I would lick the neck up and down while fondling the whammy bar until the people at GameStop tell me to leave.
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    KillerBee promoted this comment Edited by Handsome Al at 10/07/09 11:31 AM Handsome Al was starred Handsome Al was unstarred
    Image of KillerBee KillerBee
    10/07/09

    @Handsome Al: HAHA I'd love to see that go down.
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    Image of ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    Love the wood look, but I don't think I can convince 110 of my dollar bills to agree.
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    Image of Archaotic Archaotic
    10/07/09

    In reply to Mad Catz's Wireless Fender Telecaster Is Distressed
    Unsurprisingly looks quite a bit more expensive than the normal one. Shiny.

    I'm still happy with my old Guitar Hero 2 360 controller, though. No need to update.
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    Edited by Archaotic at 10/07/09 11:28 AM Archaotic was starred Archaotic was unstarred
    Image of Slothboy Slothboy
    10/07/09

    @Archaotic: Yeah, I'm with you on the GH2 axe. I like the way the buttons feel, on some of the newer controllers I have a harder time feeling if I've switched to a different button or not.

    That having been said, this thing looks pretty freaking sweet.
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    Image of Archaotic Archaotic
    10/07/09

    @Slothboy: The old GH2 guitar is ROBUST, too. My original Rock Band guitar wore out within a month. The GH2 guitar, I've had since the game hit the 360 and it works BETTER than the replacement guitar Harmonix sent me.
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