Two Guys, One Game - Episode 9

Beasley Digital

4/17/2025

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00:00In my field, every day, I meet people from all walks of life that are Spex grads.

00:04Going to school here, it's like you become part of the entire family.

00:08Let's face it, most people don't like their jobs.

00:10But most people don't do anything about it, and these students are doing something about it.

00:13I've never felt like I've worked a day in my life.

00:16All that goes back to Spex High.

00:18You've got equipment in your hands, and you're doing things like that that are going to help you in your career.

00:23I think 10 years ago, this was basically a pipe dream for most people.

00:30Hey guys, it's Kaylee Riff Rock Girl, and I'd like to welcome you to our first Riff Talent Show.

00:38Let's give it up for our first ant.

00:45Hi, hi everybody.

00:46Auntie Anna Jones here.

00:47I bet you think that catching ants is very easy, but I'll tell you what, it's not easy.

00:53This is a thorax.

00:55This is a queen.

00:56It has wings.

00:57This is a worker ant, of course, it's much smaller.

00:59I am the Phantom Farter, and I will fart the National Anthem.

01:06I'm Jason, the Jewish phone screener, and I would like to play Hava Nagila Hava.

01:20So the guy who farted the National Anthem blew me away in the worst way possible.

01:31With the sparks.

01:32He literally blew you away with the sparks.

01:33Yeah, but that wasn't even...

01:34Was that our National Anthem?

01:35No, it was foul.

01:36That's what it was.

01:37Are these talents?

01:38Do any of these people have any talent at all?

01:39So, I don't think so.

01:40Who's the next guy?

01:41I don't know.

01:42The ant guy was pretty terrible.

01:43I mean, that's not a talent.

01:44Horrible!

01:45He told us a lot about ants.

01:46I feel smarter about ants now.

01:47Yeah, that's like we're going to a science fair.

01:48Right.

01:49That's not a talent.

01:50Jewhorn was kinda hot, though.

01:51Yeah, he was hot, but the talent was no good.

01:53No.

01:54It sucked.

01:55We need something different.

01:56We need a hero.

01:57Yeah.

01:58Someone to save the day.

01:59Someone to make us drop our panties.

02:00Yeah.

02:01Someone to turn things on.

03:32I don't know what number this week.

03:33I don't know.

03:34This was out for a while.

03:35And I think they kind of oversaturated the market because they had a Guitar Hero.

03:37And they had Guitar Hero 2.

03:38And they had Guitar Hero 3.

03:40And they had the 80s version.

03:41And they had, like, the Beatles.

03:42And then they had Green Day.

03:43And then they had all the other bands were doing Guitar Heroes.

03:45And all of a sudden, they're not around anymore.

03:47But then they're back with Guitar Hero Live.

03:49And I should tell you, I never played a single one of those Guitar Hero games.

03:54Never.

03:54I've played every single one.

03:56So this is the first time I've actually played a Guitar Hero game ever.

04:01And it showed.

04:02So they revamped the controller.

04:04It used to have five keys with different colors.

04:06Now you have six keys that are, like, situated, you know, two rows with three columns.

04:11And you play it accordingly like that.

04:13It's more like a guitar, right?

04:15Yeah.

04:16Because you have to push a bottom key and then maybe two top keys.

04:18Yeah.

04:19And from what I've read, people complained that Guitar Hero wasn't enough to like playing

04:23a guitar.

04:23So they came up with it this way.

04:25Then they could see more like you're playing a guitar.

04:26Here's the thing.

04:28Guys that play guitars are already getting babes, okay?

04:31All you've got to do is pull out a guitar and show them what you can do.

04:33And you can get chicks.

04:34Nerds like me, I've got to take a chick home and be like, you want to see me play guitar?

04:38And they play Guitar Hero.

04:39Yeah.

04:39So if I'm not getting the high score because it's harder, because it's more like playing

04:42a real guitar, it doesn't do me any good.

04:44And I'm not coming down to your local gig and saying, hey, you're not playing guitar

04:47right, but you're coming over to my place and destroying my chances.

04:50I did so poorly, the whole band was furious at me.

04:52Yeah.

04:53And that's the one thing.

04:54So they have two different modes that you play.

04:56So you can play, like, Guitar Hero Live, or you can play Guitar Hero TV, which is like

05:00you're playing along the music video.

05:02Live is they simulate like a concert.

05:04Like you're actually in a band and you're performing.

05:07But here's the thing, okay?

05:08When you start doing bad, everybody turns around.

05:10Yeah, the whole crowd.

05:11The crowd, your bandmates, everybody.

05:13And I'm going to tell you right now, if there's one thing that sucks if you're in a band and

05:18you're not playing very well, is when the fan turns around and starts giving you s***

05:21about how bad you are, okay?

05:24And they do.

05:24Yeah.

05:25It wasn't my choice to cover One Direction.

05:26It's not my fault I'm not playing One Direction, right?

05:29I didn't choose One Direction.

05:30And you know what's not going to make me play any better?

05:32Is having the drummer give me the finger and tell me how much I suck.

05:34Yeah, one of the problems too, like it picked, like listen, I didn't make it very far in

05:40this game, okay?

05:41I played like three live shows and out of the whole live shows, I think I thought one song

05:47was okay.

05:48So that was a problem for me, because I was like, I don't want to play Fall Out Boy.

05:53So like when I'm playing on stage, live, and I'm doing real bad, and the band's looking

05:58at me, and they give me the finger and the phone and stuff at me, I just want that band

06:05to know, I am not above packing up my tiny classical guitar and starting my own band.

06:11That's true.

06:12So go on there!

06:13Yeah, he quit the band.

06:14He quit.

06:14He quit the band.

06:15I quit.

06:15You know how easy I can quit?

06:17I quit it up and I can just go, boop!

06:18Yeah, I quit.

06:22Until you play the songs, you can't unlock them, right?

06:25At least that's what it seemed like.

06:27You had to do the live thing to go forward.

06:30I eventually ended up playing the game without using these on a setting where you just have

06:35to flip that.

06:37The basic?

06:38The basic.

06:39That's what I did just to get through this madness.

06:42I hated it so much that I was just like, okay.

06:46I thought it was a blast.

06:47I loved it.

06:48I got totally burned out on Guitar Hero in the past, on when it came back now.

06:52I was like, yeah, I'll give it a whirl.

06:54And I had a blast.

06:54I love it.

06:55They have the live mode where you pretend like you're playing a concert.

06:57And then they have the Guitar Hero TV mode, which has two channels.

07:01So you can choose which channel you want to play.

07:02Sometimes they have heavy metal.

07:03Sometimes they have indie rock.

07:04And they pretty much take a collection of new songs and a collection of all the old songs

07:08they've had on previous Guitar Hero.

07:09And you actually play along to music videos.

07:11It's legitimately like MTV when MTV was cool.

07:14There's music videos.

07:15There's no TJ Laban pouring liquor down bro dudes' throats to make them fight for reality

07:20TV.

07:21There's no Situation.

07:22There's no Jersey Shore.

07:23It's straight up music videos.

07:25And you get to play along.

07:26And I loved it.

07:27To me, it was a blast.

07:28Right.

07:28This is not going to get you big.

07:30Well, if you're in this attire, then you get all the bigs you want.

07:33At least in the riff hallway, you get a lot of bigs.

07:36All of the bigs.

07:37All of the bigs.

07:38The navigation, to get through, to find the difficulty settings and to find how to go into

07:43the live mode, how to go into the Guitar Hero TV mode.

07:47I feel like it was really hard and real clunky to try to navigate through.

07:50In the past, other Guitar Hero games, I thought it was much easier to get where you need to go

07:54and set your level of, of, of, like, difficult.

07:57I had no idea how to get around.

08:00Uh, at the beginning, they ask you a bunch of questions, like, what hand do you want to

08:04play the guitar and all that stuff.

08:06And I was like, what am I supposed to, how do I select the.

08:10So you can see how you stack up against the rest of the world.

08:13Could you imagine how bad I would have looked taking on anyone from anywhere around the world

08:17when I could not strum in basic mode?

08:21I mean, that's why I stayed away from it.

08:23I was like, I am not going to embarrass myself in front of an eight-year-old child

08:27who will shred some song on this controller that I can't even get the basic strumming right.

08:33If you can't get the strumming down, I'm sure there's four-year-old children that were playing the game.

08:37Yeah, they were.

08:38If you're a fan of Guitar Hero, I think you're going to love this game.

08:42You're going to nitpick at probably some of the changes, but generally you're going to like it.

08:47If you're like me and you didn't like the idea of Guitar Hero in the first place,

08:52it's not going to like change your mind and say, wow, I'm a huge Guitar Hero fan.

08:56Yeah, and the changes in the controls to me aren't to the point where you're like,

08:59I'm really playing a guitar.

09:00No.

09:00So if you are that guy, you probably just want to stick with Rob's.

09:03I think we're going to do it for this episode of Two Guys, One Video Game.

09:07Remember, if this is a game you want us to try to review or take a look at,

09:09make sure you send us an email at DaveAndChuckTheFreak at WRF.com.

09:13Otherwise, we'll see you next time.

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