Guitar Hero III gets offline mode with patch on 360
by Justin McElroy 
{ Oct 29th 2007 at 12:58PM }
The bad news is that there's no word of similar treatment on the Wii or PS3 versions so far, but hopefully it's not too far off. We're not sure what's so difficult about offline co-op quickplay that it had to be addressed with a patch, but we're happy that Activision seems concerned enough about it to act on it so quickly. Of course, that's not much comfort to those without internet or (we're looking at you new Arcade owners) a hard drive to save the patch on.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
AirIntake @ Oct 29th 2007 1:07PM
Ahh, good. I was wondering where the co-op quickplay was. I hate to have to back out of so many menus to change difficulty, as I play on hard or expert and all my friends play on medium.
Ash @ Oct 29th 2007 1:07PM
This is good news. But what about those people who bought the game who don't have xbox live?
AirIntake @ Oct 29th 2007 1:10PM
You don't need to pay for Xbox Live Gold to get the update, you just need the 360 connected to the internet and signed on to a free Silver to get the update. If your box doesn't have internet, just carry it somewhere there is some. If you don't have a Silver account, just make one for free.
Chris @ Oct 29th 2007 1:11PM
I got mine of Sat. Target sold it early. Just wanted to brag.
Bloo @ Oct 29th 2007 1:38PM
That's like bragging you have a bigger mole on your left cheek then someone else. No one cares and it's not impressive anyhow.
Chris @ Oct 29th 2007 4:20PM
God you all are so jealous of my greatness it almost hurts!
David @ Oct 29th 2007 1:11PM
Please stop abusing the idiom "we're looking at you, [party]." Seriously.
baby sea tuna @ Oct 29th 2007 1:14PM
+1
Justin McElroy @ Oct 29th 2007 1:19PM
Are you looking at me, David?
DemonGSides @ Oct 29th 2007 1:23PM
But its a Joystiq staple. Its like their catchphrase! I don't think my fragile existence could survive without it!
David @ Oct 29th 2007 1:28PM
haha, yeah I was thinking of saying "I'm looking at you, Justin."
colin @ Oct 29th 2007 9:27PM
bonerific
Colin @ Oct 29th 2007 1:14PM
They probably weren't too concerned. My guess is that it was supposed to be in the game, but they couldn't get it in in time for the game to ship by the release date. That's whatever I think when I see patches adding features this soon after a game comes out.
Paul @ Oct 29th 2007 1:23PM
That's all well and good, but when will they address that I can only play Devil Went Down to Georgia as a duel?
skokefoe @ Oct 29th 2007 1:38PM
Does the PS2 version have co-op quickplay already, or are us oldskool guitar heroes just screwed?
Saq @ Oct 29th 2007 1:46PM
How about they patch to allow online co-op career? :P
John M @ Oct 29th 2007 2:03PM
My friend works at Gamestop. I was just up there and he told me that so far 2 of the PS2 versions and 1 360 version did not include the game inside!!!!
He had to call another store and have them verify that the games were missing before eventually giving the customer a copy.
Now the problems with off line co-op. This game was RUSHED out.
John M @ Oct 29th 2007 2:05PM
Xbox live gold accounts cost but SIlver (for downloading content) is free. So, unless they dont have an internet connection they should be ok.
As for PS3 all online play is free.
andyg8180 @ Oct 29th 2007 2:47PM
K so thats one patch down... I wonder if they are going to patch the star power... Is anyone else getting a quick stutter when you unleash star power? I talked with 3 people and they do... THIS should be fixed... Kind of annoying... I thought i was going to Red Ring...
Paul @ Oct 29th 2007 4:08PM
I was getting that too with Lars Umlaut, but it went away when I switched to Slash.
Katsu @ Oct 29th 2007 4:36PM
All my friends are seeing their star power engaged without warning. My first guitar was broken... the yellow fret button was DOA. So I got a replacement guitar and now the problem is that the stupid star power is deployed without my consent almost all the time. It's gotten to the point where I try to stay very very still so the star power doesn't auto-deploy. It's VERY annoying.
samfish (MSDF- Nurse Outfit!) @ Oct 29th 2007 2:19PM
Gather 'round, chil'en, ol' samfish gots a story ta tells y'all!
Y'see, back in MY day when we didn't have all these new fangled, fancy consoles that dun connect to that thar...inna'net y'all keep goin' on 'bout, our games was actually finished when we boughts 'em from th' STORE. We didn't "down-load" 'em off the computer and we SHO' as a cricket is brown didn't have to get some sorta fixin' to make the game complete! Nah, we bought our games and if they wasn't all there, 100 per-cent, we grabbed out pitchforks, shook 'em round fo' a bit, put 'em down, picked up our pens and wrote a good ol' fashioned letter expressing our...displeasure at the situation. 'CASSIONALLY, if we was REAL lucky, we'd even get sumptin' from 'em in th' MAIL as their way o' sayin', "We sorry, Mr. samfish! T'ain't gun' happen again!"
Sean @ Oct 29th 2007 2:45PM
Yee-haw or sommat!
JJ Rooster @ Oct 29th 2007 3:50PM
Your bit started out redneck and then seemed to go to another color... Oppressor!
Ken C @ Oct 29th 2007 2:20PM
MS will quickly certify GH3 to patch an issue, but TF2 took almost two weeks to patch, Man money sure does talk.
jabbertrack @ Oct 29th 2007 3:14PM
The ONLINE producer for GH3 said on Major Nelson's podcast that the game has ONLINE co-op Career... which it clearly does not.
IMO Neversoft/Activision bit off more than they can chew with this game... they should have just went for GH2 with new songs and all the online trimmings. Releasing a game before it's finished... when a producer doesn't even know what version shipped is just sad.
Rob Accomando @ Oct 29th 2007 2:43PM
they need to adress the "not able to connect to other players" problem. On the player list, NO one had a signal. Only way I could play was to create my own game and wait 4 someone to join.
Ian Charles @ Oct 29th 2007 2:55PM
*sigh*
You dont need the HD to patch games. A memory card is fine.
Sieged Eagle @ Oct 29th 2007 2:56PM
I'm still waiting to hear that the patch to play GHIII with the RB's Statocaster is announced. Maybe that won't happen, but still, I'll keep my fingers crossed.
ShortFuse @ Oct 29th 2007 3:39PM
I'm VERY confused now. What do you mean offline co-op? I have the 360 version and I play Co-op Career offline and select Multiplayer... oooooh, i see now. you mean quickplay multiplayer. well my sister and i are both on expert so pro face-off is how we do it
nes @ Oct 29th 2007 4:15PM
the biggest gripe in EGM's review was there was no quick play multiplayer..and now looky looky..
Stink Snake @ Oct 29th 2007 5:11PM
Can they patch the fact that my lead singer and rhythm guitarist were replaced by muppets? It's distracting. I know Bret Michaels did the mo-cap for the lead singer; did the Energizer bunny do the mo-cap for the drummer?
Sean @ Oct 29th 2007 5:14PM
He keeps going...and going...and going...and going.
AzaMcWazza @ Oct 29th 2007 11:30PM
AFAIK there is no system for patching on Wii so don't hold your breath.
gonk @ Oct 29th 2007 11:38PM
it'd be nice if they patched it so it just automatically used the gamertag the 360 auto-logs in as. Also, if it automatically used my hard drive. Some other games don't need me to select my hard drive as the space to save/load stuff, since it's the ONLY HARD DRIVE CONNECTED
argh
Ralph @ Oct 30th 2007 4:31AM
This is bullshit. 99.9% of my guitar hero II play is offline co-op with my friends. Unless they come up with an updated game disc, Activision just screwed themselves out of a sale of guitar hero III for the wii. Probably better off. I didn't want to have to sacrifice my wiimote everytime I want to play it.
jeff @ Nov 2nd 2007 5:13PM
where is this option? its nov 2 and i still dont see the quickplay co-op option?
Jess @ Nov 8th 2007 8:33PM
Just installed the patch for Legends of Rock on the 360. I got one session of co-op play in, and now I've got the 3 red rings of death. Is this happening to anyone else after installing this patch? I'm flashing back to the patches from gh2...
JokerX @ Dec 29th 2007 10:53PM
is there any way at all to download this patch over the internet from a computer and install the patch somehow? my 360 is not currently hooked up to live to download it and i would really like to have the co-op option when i play against my friends without having to do a campaign