not a big fan of nuget overall, but i love stranglehold. Meh on the fact that his likeness is in the game but + for his best song

Bobman32x

@Kevin Flynn: My dream is the same as yours, but with Sarah Palin tagging along.

twinturbo2

Crecente looks like Nugent. Nugent rocks the guitar. Wang Dang Sweet PoonTang on GH:WT?

minor_problems

I sort of agree with GunsGermsSteel. I can't see how putting in a few well known's in GH:WT makes it a better buy for someone trying to figure out if they should get it over RB2. All these lame characters are starting to make the game look, I dunno...what's the word I'm looking for....hokey?

torgojones

Yay, racism rock!

justhesh

If you lose to The Nuge in a duel, does he get to gut and barbeque you?

curtisawa

Um, who cares? With customizable characters, it doesn't matter who's "in" the game. Every single rocker that's in Guitar Hero: World Tour can be replicated in Rock Band 2. Every single rocker that's in existence can probably replicated in either game. Why is having the digital likeness of a rocker a selling point? Give me something I can't re-create like Cthulhu or a T-Rex.

GunsGermsSteel

Hunt Ted Nugent

Punkateer

simply an awful piece of dreck.

Cell9song

@balls187 upside yo head: If you were gonna go with the Ted Nugent hate, at least go with a good band and mention Goldfinger's song, "Fuck Ted Nugent".

NinjaMarion

I only like nugent because hes from Deh twa.

Onegai

I wouldn't be terribly disappointed if I never saw that album art again.

jfm3

@Morpork: Travis is confirmed to be in the game. Go look back at some of the footage of Travis at Activision's E3 confirence. You will see footage of Travis' avatar in real time.

Mr_Raccoon

@Morpork: Yup billy is pretty much confirmed. Here's a news post from the smashing pumpkins site: [www.smashingpumpkins.com]

Methusalah

Ultimate pass.

Madeira

Fuck Ted Nugent,
You like to hunt,
so fuckin what?

ICP.

balls187 upside yo head

All I can think of when I hear Ted Nugent is meatwad asking for a pizza, and his fiery arrows.

odyeiop

holy Hetfield

mcpeepants

Billy is confirmed, there are videos of him doing the mocap and gameplay footage with him in it. There is also a video of Travis banging the drums, but he's not confirmed I guess.

Morpork

I'd rather play as Tiny Tim than Ted Nuggent.

PASS

iameleveneight

I had cat scratch fever once. Like, the illness, not the song.

Also, clicking my 'Home' button and seeing that picture of Ted Nugent is not something I ever want to have to do again...

ArgentAngel

My all-time dream is to go Ewok hunting with this guy.

Kevin Flynn

It is, quite literally, a free for all in peripheral-based music pretending games at the moment no?

superbabyproject

World Tour can keep it's Wango Tango.

Mommar

I can't say I'm a huge fan of Uncle Ted, but there's no denying that "Stranglehold" was the best choice for a Nugent song to use in a rhythm based game. You may not agree with the man's beliefs, but he does have some musical talent. When the rumored list of World Tour songs surfaced a few months back, I'm not ashamed to admit I was perhaps most excited about this very song's inclusion. Now that it's been confirmed? I am slightly more likely to pick up this game.

Goataroo

This just became a must-buy for me.

Yeah.

dphrygian

@balls187 upside yo head: ...

Did you just quote Insane Clown Posse?

...

REALLY?

Spoony Bard

Ted Nugent is a fucking moron. And his music blows.

jerimas

@GunsGermsSteel: Cthulhu would be the best thing ever. At the end of every set he should rain destruction upon the crowd.

Personally I'd like to see Dethklok, though as you pointed out you can probably just make them anyway.

deadjesterx

Nugent is a douche. Not interested.

GrandfatherParadox

The song list for this game looks terrible. Hendrix is decent, the rest is trash.

loctastic

I personally hate to see that racist bastard make another dollar. Here I was hoping he was flippin' a burger somewhere in the projects......

J

FranksnBeans

Is that scraping sound the 'Nuge or the bottom of the barrel?

VicViper

"NEWS FLASH: Another celebrity is in GH:WT as a character!"

Meh.

Wake me up when they start talking about GH:WT's play modes and capabilities beyond "It's got these dudes" and "It's got a song editor". Activision's being incredibly quiet about how the game actually PLAYS... while Rock Band's been talking up tour challenges, band world tour, battle of the bands, drum trainers, etc.

What's GH:WT bringing to the table to make it distinct beyond the Dragonforce MIDI Editor and Digital Nugents? Convince me you're actually going to be fun and I'll spend $60, otherwise, forget it.

Twoflower

Given the option, are you going to play as Ted Nugent, or some guy you create yourself?

I want to know who these people are!

thefais

@badasscat: "except for him! And this is the result"

That's exactly my point! He might have turned out ok if he just joined in.... ;)

homernoy

Ted was amazing without the drugs, I'd pick him over Ozzy. Ozzy was a voice/image. Nugent was a brand. Sex and loud loud rock n roll.

wasnt going to get this, but might have to pick it up now...

Heisindc

@homernoy: The one person?? They all should have, and they all did, except for him! And this is the result.

badasscat

I think that is the first time that Sting and 'confirmed Rocker' have ever been used in the same sentence. I figured ol' Sweaty Teddy would have gotten the Aerosmith treatment with Guitar Hero World Trailer Park Tour.

ThickSkinned

Ted Nugent is the one person that should have done drugs when he was in that era (sex, drugs, rock'n'roll). He is unique in that he is the one person that would have benefited from it. Hell, at the very least when looking at who he is, it sure as fuck couldn't have done him much harm.

homernoy

I like reading the comments in these GH and RB threads and seeing how elitist the readers of this blog can be in thinking that their taste in music is what everyone's taste in music should be. NOT EVERYONE HAS THE SAME TASTE IN MUSIC. Yea, you may think that RB has a better setlist, but that is your opinion. Other people may think that GH has a better setlist, and that is their opinion. Personally, I look at the playlists and they aren't all that different. Seriously, some people need to really get their heads out of their asses sometimes.

ceilingFANBOY

@Lazlo:
Dammit it cut me off again. I hate it when my browser reloads w/o permission.

Anywho, is it just me or the rumored setlist looking more and more like reailty? Stranglehold plus guitar battle, Crazy Train, Tool songs, Blink and Smashing Pumpkins. Granted it may just be coincidence, but it's kind of shaping up. Not that I want it that way, actually. I love Rock Band, but the setlist is heading that direction.

Lazlo

World Tour seems like it's going to have more "legends" than 3 had....and that one had it in it's freaking title! Like Yahtzee said, it should have been Guitar Hero 3: Legend of Rock, since Slash was the only one in there that had been on the music scene for a long while.

Is it just me or is Guitar Hero relying more and more on actual artists as characters within the game to try to sell more copies?

Ryguy226

Is it just me, or is

Lazlo

Ted Nugent is so incredibly awesome. Mind-meltingly awesome. DRIPPING with awesome.

+ Watch video

tzaketh

I simply can't trust people named after the creamy center of a Milky Way.

I will not be playing at Ted Nougat.

doubtful

Oh, GHWT, the more time passes, the more you look like a rip-off of a better game, but with a really horrible soundtrack. There have been 76 songs confirmed thus far, and not counting those also appearing in Rock Band 2, here are the ones I'd actually care about: "Beat It"; "Demolition Man"; "Hot for Teacher"; "One Armed Scissor"; "Rebel Yell"; "The Wind Cries Mary". Six songs on the entire soundtrack, and RB2 even has another excellent Billy Idol song. I'll also count "Spiderwebs", but I'd imagine that would be on the No Doubt best-of coming out for RB2. It's obvious at this point that Activision is just trying to get a soundtrack they think will appeal to the lowest common denominator, while Harmonix is trying to get the most awesome songs possible. While Activision pays tons of money to make artists exclusive to their games- which really doesn't help anyone but Activision- Harmonix is giving us Stephen Colbert and dozens of 99-cent tracks and full albums from artists besides Metallica and 350 songs to play (with DLC, by the way, that can be purchased individually instead of only in packs, and are always cheaper than Guitar Hero's offerings) by the time their next game comes out.

Jeez, I sound like a fanboy with all my "Harmonix is infallible and Activision can eat it" talk, but at this point, that's how huge the gap is between RB2 and GHWT.

kicking222

ugh
shit sucks, man.

final_cut

@NinjaMarion:
Can't help but think of Goldfinger anytime the Nuge is mentioned...

+ Watch video

I will admit though, Cat Scratch Fever on Guitar Hero: Aerosmith was probably the best song on there, though that really isn't saying much. He neither persuades or dissuades me from wanting GHWT.

EVILLAMA

Is anyone actually excited to play as "X" rockstar in the game? I always thought the actual appeal of these games was ourselves pretending to be rockstars (note i'm not saying, "pretend to know how to play an instrument").

Having all these likenesses sort of killa this. It's actually a turn off for me.

Hugoku

@ceilingFANBOY:

Weren't you aware that on the internet, other people don't exist? Everyone else that seems to exist is really an NPC-- only the way that I see the world matters, and there are no shades of meaning. My tastes are absolutes that can't be sullied by the opinions of lesser beings.

In conclusion Rock Band has a better track list than GH, because I said so, and I'm the only sentient being in the world. Coincidentally, the world also exists purely for me.

tzaketh

@ceilingFANBOY: someone give this guy a medal.

Milkzhakes

Nugent kicks major ass

mr_grimster

@balls187 upside yo head:

Who's goin chicken huntin'?

On a separate note, none of this mullarky on which game to buy. I'm buying GH:WT for the instruments, and then I'll get the disc only RB2 and rent RB1 and copy all the songs. Huzzah! Problem solved.

SnakesSolids

All I have to say are the following three things:

1.) Ted Nugent is a man who wrote the following lyric:

"I can make a pussy purr with a stroke of my hand."

2.) There is a song called "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" on the same record as above lyric.

3.) The man impregnated a teenager.

Now that's rock and roll.

SirCletus

@NinjaMarion: @balls187 upside yo head: If you were gonna go with the Ted Nugent hate, at least go with a good band and mention Goldfinger's song, "Fuck Ted Nugent".

How is that going with a good band? They're just as bad as ICP.

...well, maybe not. Few are THAT bad.

KaneRobot

Glad I'm playing Rock Band. Nugent is a tool.

thegreatseal

Ted Nugent sucks and so does ICP end of story. Record Labels will sign anyone these days it seems...

VirgoKnight

The only Nugent song I'd want is Journey to the Center of the Mind by The Amboy Dukes...

+ Watch video

XbhaskarX

@FranksnBeans:No chance. Unlike many of his ilk, Ted knew how to invest his money. He's not even close to being broke.

@balls187 upside yo head:You quoted ICP. I have now logged your IP and your location to a squad of internet sodimizng robots. Please do not run, they will arrive shortly to make sure you never breed and thus risk spreading your tained genes onwards. For anyone who likes ICP, that's's something that can't be allowed to be passed on to the next gen of humankind.

Foxstar Sixtail

Ugh. They really shouldn't hire people for games if it'll turn off a large portion of the fanbase.

I mean, saying "You can play GHWT with you RB instruments" made me want to buy it, but everything else they've said, including this garbage, makes me want to avoid it like the plague.

I mean-Teg Nugent?
I like Polar Bears.

Ad-hominem

@thegreatseal: So someone who doesn't go with the vast performer herd is a tool? Now that's rich. Frankly, I don't agree with much of his right-wing rants (I'm a Republican, BTW), but he has the right to say 'em, and I like some of his music. One thing you can't say about him is that he's mellow. Not even a little bit mellow. Anybody who says he's mellow can get the f...woops, channelin' one of his sets ^_^.

relic1980

@badasscat: Yeah, he lived, they died or lost their minds (coughSydBarretcough).

relic1980

@loctastic: Wouldn't mind playing "If 6 was 9" myself...or "Little Wing". Anything for a veteran...

relic1980

@XbhaskarX: Very nice. He actually did a 40th anniversary version of that song, with the usual posturing at the end, but very well done (and much, MUCH harder ^_^).

relic1980

@Ad-hominem: Do you really think that this is going to turn away a large portion of the fanbase? First of all, I doubt that this blog is indicative of the entire fanbase of GH. Secondly, why would you avoid the game because it includes an artist that you don't like? That is silly. If you don't like the artist so much, just play his songs enough to pass them and then be done with it. If it is that god awful to you, just mute your TV while playing his songs. I would imagine that less people are going to refuse to buy this game because it includes Ted than the number of people who refuse to buy the game because it has the devil in it (yes, those people do exist). If nothing else, the number of people who will buy this game because it has Ted greatly outnumbers the number of people who will not buy it because he is in the game. Besides, while Ted's lyrics may not exactly be genius, his guitar skills are good, which is what should be the focus in a game called GUITAR HERO.

ceilingFANBOY

Corgan is already confirmed Brian. Way to go with your research Kotaku, as usual.

KID-A26

@mcpeepants: Dude thats exactly what I thought when I saw this picture... he looks just like James Hetfield! Amazing

JustOneFix

Nugent can shred man. I went to a Nugent concert about a year ago and man can that guy wail. He is sick. He has some of the sickest guitars too. I hope they make it into the game. His Red White and Blue guitar is tits.

Kuebel33

Ted Nugent looks like Weird Al impersonating Ted Nugent.

MeanMillz