Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February - Kotaku Comments

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Klayonic — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:00:02 MST

I think it's absolute nonsense how you have to ship your game back to them before they will send you the new one. I'm going to be without a game I payed $80 for, for a few weeks just because they cut a few corners to make extra money? Rubbish.

Klayonic

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Benjo — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:51:46 MST

I originally thought that I would be really excited for my new copy, but how different is it really going to be?

Benjo

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

CZroe — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:41:21 MST

@dowingba: Ah, yes. It is entirely likely that they didn't test DPLII after getting it going in the first place so they were unaware that they broke it. If they knew, they should be ashamed... the least they could do was replace the labels and box sleeves with ones that have the logo removed before shipping.

CZroe

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Squeek — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:24:44 MST

@SirGecko: This is precisely the reason I didn't pre-register.

First of all, their site is unsecure. You're putting personal information on an unsecure site. Hooray!

Second of all, the way they handle the transaction is just bizarre. We send you this, you send us that, then we send you this.

It's too much of a hassle and too open for an advertising string to bite. My television isn't even good enough to know the difference.

Now come on, where's our quickplay version of Devil Went Down to Georgia?

Squeek

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dowingba — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:55:22 MST

@CZroe: No, they obviously didn't make the game mono on purpose. What I'm saying is that they knew full well of the mono glitch before shipping and tried to get away with it anyway. If they honestly didn't know about it then they simply couldn't have tested the game, at all, ever.

dowingba

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

CZroe — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:50:23 MST

@schtum:

Who cares? Get a functional one now and pass it off to a friend when the guitars go on sale without the game... or don't. You might even get a second case to make a Wii Sports or Zelda Crossbow Training case, like the people who got their Zelda Twilight Princess discs replaced.

@dowingba: No, it wasn't intentional. I hear that you can momentarily glitch it back to stereo under certain conditions.

@vanderhoef: And I was playing on a 52" Sony XBR LCD and I didn't notice. People noticed because their surround-sound receivers didn't identify Dolby Pro Logic II. Doesn't make it OK for a music-centric game though.

@SirGecko: Really? I haven't heard this yet. An extra disc sells extra hardware. Sure, it discourages new sales, but they lose those profits by paying to receive the bad discs.

@SUGARAY: On the contrary. My friend plays it on my Wii despite owning it on PS3 just because of the lag the wireless cotnroller introduces (not the HDTV lag). If I wanted surround sound, I'd pair it with my DTS-Connect PC and play the PC version. There's a video of me doing just that on YouTube.

CZroe

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

PlaidNinja — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:08:07 MST

@SirGecko: Its part of a multi-step plan to expose your personal information to as many anonymous viewers as possible. You gotta put a return address on the envelope, right?

PlaidNinja

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

eugaet — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:34:19 MST

I'm not sitting in a fort, but I am sitting in an inbox full of spam. Damn you, Activision!

eugaet

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Sugaray — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:45:41 MST

The Wii version is no comparison to those of the 360 and PS3.There's some games that'll just never be able to live up to their next gen brethren and RS3 for the Wii is one of 'em.Expecting it to is even worse.

Sugaray

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

marcus_ivo — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:53:19 MST

@syl1985: Yeah any update on how Australians can get replacement discs? If we're still interested in the game by such time...

marcus_ivo

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Aegis: Gentleman mercenary for hire... — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:12:14 MST

UK news please!!

Aegis: Gentleman mercenary for hire...

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

SirGecko — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:16:55 MST

I really don't like the fact that they make you send them your disk before they will send you a new one.

SirGecko

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Zann — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:04:16 MST

You're not crazy, it'll definitely chug when you activate Star Power at times.

Zann

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Pornosaur — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:49:08 MST

hahah that was dumb, anyway. I swear that my GH III for the xbox 360 has the slightest hint of slow down when "star power" is activated, totally ruined the game for me. I swear it doesn I'm not crazy right?

Pornosaur

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Pornosaur — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:48:16 MST

@Dowingba

Pornosaur

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:23:48 MST

@vanderhoef: I thought it was only in mono if you asked for surround. (Or you know, mono.) If you ask for stereo, don't you get stereo?

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

ZinkO: USA WE DA BEST — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:37:06 MST

Iii?

ZinkO: USA WE DA BEST

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

BoneCrushinTrollBruzer — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:36:18 MST

wii play? me, i think this is a bigger scam to boost sales or something.

BoneCrushinTrollBruzer

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Mezodon — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:27:10 MST

I was interested in maybe buying this game, but I'm having doubts after they release a game that revolves around music of all things in mono and take months to rectify the problem for paying customers. I have enough other games to play, and in the end I'll likely decide not to support this one.

Mezodon

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

cheesecake000 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:15:15 MST

I have the exact fort described. Only I'm waiting for my replacement Rock Band instruments and Dj Max Portable 2. D: My supply of Pocky is running thin.

cheesecake000

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Anarchist_Gamer — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:01:13 MST

I didn't even notice the mono when I played the Wii version. Then again, I was playing on what looked like a 10 year old nineteen inch dorm-style tele.

Anarchist_Gamer

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

dowingba — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:54:42 MST

I'd like to also point out that I have the PS2 version, which has really crappy low-bitrate sound quality as well (but in stereo). Also, the graphics are quite a bit worse than the previous GH PS2 games. Seriously Activision, way to spit in the faces of long time Guitar Hero fans who've been playing the games since the first game. As it stands, Elite Beat Agents on the DS has about the same quality sound as Guitar Hero 3 on the PS2.

dowingba

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

dowingba — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:52:40 MST

Each day I hate Activision a little bit more for how they totally wrecked a great franchise like Guitar Hero. I really didn't think it would happen this fast, but with their first attempt at the game they've already failed in every way possible. Seriously, shipping the game in mono? I realize companies like to cheap out on Wii games because they think they can get away with it (most people for some reason think the Wii is less powerful than a PS2, or even a PSP), but you have got to be kidding me. The SNES was in stereo, for crying out loud. They won't admit it in a million years, but they tried to pull a fast one on everyone and they didn't expect Wii owners to be smart enough to notice their gimped version of the game.

Activision, Ubisoft and EA have all tied as the worst shovelware garbage game designers of this generation.

dowingba

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Digitalguardian — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:51:13 MST

Back to painting the fence Huck.

Digitalguardian

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

syl1985 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:50:20 MST

What about Aussies?!

syl1985

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Irenicus-the one and only — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:48:24 MST

@Hitokage: I would love a fort too, and wear a cowboy hat shooting the mailman with bottlecaps :P

Irenicus-the one and only

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

schtum — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:46:33 MST

When does it start shipping with the fix?

schtum

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Haz4rd — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:44:44 MST

Maybe my house IS a box?

Haz4rd

Wii GHIII Discs Expected In February

Ignatius — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:43:48 MST

I want a fort made of boxes in front of my house.

Ignatius