looks nice, but i dunno, maybe i'd be more down with it if it would be closer to the size of a real guitar. though i realllly love the rock band guitar. ah...im confuzed!

airdom

/looks at PRS Soapbar

/looks at wooden gaming peripheral

Yeah, I'd rather have the real thing.

I mean, for chrissakes, what's wrong with the guitar the game comes with? I've never felt the need to replace it...

Lightman

@Xallin:
man....this is almost end of 2008...

are people STILL posting that lame "FIRST!"?

it's soooo 2001....

icepick314

I'm still waiting for the third party controller that can actually be played with a pick.

I recall using something like that about ten years ago during a visit to Epcot. It's was purely a rhythm game, you couldn't use the fretboard, but it detected strumming patterns quite well.

LettuceD

at this point you have to ask "when is REAL guitar going to be used with Guitar Hero and Rock Band?"

icepick314

@Xallin: FIRST!!
Aww damn, beat me to it. I so wanted to get nominated for Banhammer monday :(

PS: Please don't nominate me.

scotty

Hmm....

I used to think that (us) gamers look retarded playing silly plastic instruments, but geez, I could look WAY more retarded playing silly wooden instruments!

FFS, if it looks like a real guitar, is as heavy as one, and almost as expensive as, why not get a real one? at least when it comes to that drum set, you know, you can actually play it.

PsyComa rides the lightning!

I dunno - I want my game controllers to be ... game controllers! They should not rival real guitars in material, price, size etc.

I love guitar hero and I like the creativity people show with modding their controllers. But I don`t like overpriced toys.

Bedlam

These realistic guitars dumbfound me. Now, I play and love both RB and Guitar Hero, but I also play real instruments. Therefore I guess I just play it as a fun game, and not trying to feel like a rock star. The smaller bodied GH controllers always offer more functionality for me as they are easier to move with and the buttons are closer together to hit notes faster. I hated the RB controller because of the button spacing and size of the thing. I guess what I'm getting at is where does it end with the psuedo-realism? Are people more worried about look than functionality when playing these GAMES?

I_Hate_This_Place

I think I'm in love. Crecente, would you accept any of my major organs in return for this guitar? A kidney, perhaps? A lung? What about a dog?

Acebuckeye13

@Letiumtide: The fact of the matter is that when these games are made, people will buy them and want more and more out of it. So they make better accessories and DLC and such. And people buy them! Also, people are too lazy to pick up and learn to play a real guitar. They want instant satisfaction.

Nightshade Zero

@Billkwando: Your wife's Hello Kitty guitar strap,huh? :P

Eviscerate

When I was your age guitars were made out of plastic not Wood.

Csorgo

This addresses one of the key obstacles to me becoming truly excited about rhythm games. I enjoy them, but I've never been able to cross the does this look absolutely ridiculous divide because, to be honest, we all look really retarded banging around these plastic toys with no real heft to them. I don't need to feel like I'm really a rock musician, but I want the experience to be pretty complete. Kudos, Peak-- where do I sign up?

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!

Looks pretty cool, but probably not for what they're asking. Then again people are paying for $300 drum kits, though I admit I want to try cymbals out.

WasabiJoe

I own enough heavy, real, guitars. For playing the pretend musician, I'm more than happy with the pretend guitar.

However I we do use my wife's Hello Kitty guitar strap.....so that adds a bit of realism, I suppose.

Billkwando

The Mad Catz real wood Strat looks a whole lot better.

[www.gamesradar.com]

Bottom video on that link.

Wayneski

@Xallin: Said with so much enthusiasm too.

everybest

Perhaps it's just because I never really cared for Guitar Hero, but I think it's entirely unnecessary, while the whole package of guitar hero is already under a hefty price tag, what kind of person NEEDS a wooden guitar to play Guitar Hero with?

Considering the cost of Guitar Hero and then that, I would assume that you could pop down to the local pawn shop pick up a guitar for $115 and actually learn to play guitar. Just me though.

Letiumtide

@Xallin: wow.

and i personally think this looks cheaper than a fake plastic guitar

zakky venom

My only question is if the strum bar is going to be a Rock Band one or a Guitar Hero one. I'm hoping for the Rock Band type...

trunks651

the real tuning pegs seem a bit unnecessary, but guitar as a whole looks good!

Nightshade Zero

This sounds great.

Finally, something that doesnt feel like I'm holding a plastic feather that sort of looks like a guitar.

I wish I could get one..

t3hOutlaw

FIRST!

Xallin

Are the components of, like, a seriously higher quality? If so, then I can see it.

This thing uses 'real parts', such as the tuning pegs. Only thing is, tuning pegs have zero effect on gameplay. The only parts of a GH/RB guitar that really matter are those which, by nature, are not found on/nothing like a real guitar. The whammy is mentioned (I assume it will work for longer than all my current controllers have), but what about the frets and strum bar?

If they aren't significantly better than those found on a pack-in or equivalent, then this is useless to me. A more realistic size and heft are great and all, but if I'm paying a premium price, I want superior performance, not just looks.

dae_giovanni

I have a 3rd rock band guitar lying around that I would like to find a cheap electric guitar to mod. But I wont drop $100 bucks on one to cut up, so for sure I wont drop the money they want on one already done. But I would like the satisfaction of modding one.

SSgtTEX

@Billkwando: That's so...METAL.

AntiheroKing

I pray for a 360 version

Crash McCloud

@Xallin:

You, sir, are an idiot.

mikebrown999

Wow that one looks so cool.

Looks heavy too;

zethicus

@Xallin: @Nightshade Zero:

Too right. I actually went the route of picking up a real guitar and am trying to learn it on my own. (seriously considering getting lessons because I have no clue as to what I'm doing)

The game is so freakin easy to play and fun though that I keep going back to it. Granted that it's not going to impress any of the ladies like knowing how to handle a real axe will. Hell, when I was picking up the guitar from Guitar Center and one of the guys working there mentioned that's why he learned guitar was so he could pick up chicks.

BigPanda

Thats a sweet looking guitar. Would get one if the price was right. RB is such a fun game, things like this I don't mind extra $$$ for some extra quality.

Thrillkiller

@BigPanda: Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, everyone gets a guitar first to impress girls. It a scientific FACT. BUT... Most of time, those people get bored with it once they realize that it takes so much effort to play. The people that keep at it realize how much playing guitar is on it's own.

prelude97

the mad catz guitars do look much better than this one, but still though....

mad catz guts. xD

i guess i can wait. i already have the drums i wanted. :)

Soulgenesis

@icepick314:

+ Watch video

Ghar

@prelude97: You should say most. I was forced to learn the guitar at first, but then it was actually fun to play after playing it for.. 2 years.

dakimstar

I don't know what'd be worse. Playing Rock Band with a real wooden guitar, or looking at the headstock and seeing the word 'Peak"

*shudders*

Super_Koopa

hey as one of those old schoolers who gave up precious snes/genesis time to actually learn to play the real thing I must object to this quote "The Starplex is the same scale as a real guitar". Scale when referring to guitars means the length from bridge to nut and the neck on that fake guitar queer-o thing looks way short. Like the scale of the Hello Kitty licensed Strats. Just what it looks like from the pictures. Cmon someone has to have one of the million real strats hanging around for a real size comparo

RomeoLamia

I'm sorry, but this is just ridiculous. This might be the whitest accessory out there for the whitest game ever... Seriously, this is just crazy. but I guess all they want to do is "ROCK OUT DUDE YEAH!!!' so whatever, to each his own, because it certainly isn't mine....

KirstynJellyfish

Wheres the 360 version?

TeddiRevolution

The new "Hero" on the block, Solid Sna...er, Wood.

WhitePoop

@I_Hate_This_Place: I wholeheartedly agree with the point you're making here.

nworobes

@KirstynJellyfish: Racists don't get to have opinions on music games, sorry.

eastx

@Letiumtide: Your complaint is invalid. Same old crap. It never changes the fact that people love these games and usually don't mind investing further in a game/platform that gives them so much pleasure.

eastx

@I_Hate_This_Place: Exactly. Soon people will be complaining that their authentic nickel-plated Fender Super Bullet strings are getting in the way of the buttons.

rightok

It still looks cheapo as hell though. Like just another of the millions of real Stratocaster knock-offs that mimic the shape, but just can't seem to get the spirit right. I'll stick with plastic, thank you very much (if I can ever afford a Rock Band)

StanfordSH

@TeddiRevolution: I second that.

theuglyteradon

If this controller is supposed to cater for Rock Band fans obsessed with realism, why not have some useless tone/volume knobs, a pickup selector and a jack output while you're at it? It's not like the hefty price of this thing has anything to do with performance or function in the first place.

Valarien

@icepick314:
Agreed. But hey, so is when people post "epic" or "win" or "do want." If only they could get banned as well...

StupidDufus