Some thoughts on overdrive

[shadebug]

I see a lot of talk about people wanting to hit overdrive with a button and it annoys me, because it's missing the point.

First we need to properly understand how the game works and has worked since GH.

You are in a band at a live gig. The better you play, the more the crowd loves you. The worse you play, the less the crowd loves you. Play badly enough and the crowd will leave/kick you off stage.

The idea behind star power was that you were engaging in showboating and amateur theatrics to get the crowd riled up. If a performer is entertaining and energetic his actual playing ability will be less heavily scrutinised. Look at the sex pistol. They used to just turn off sid vicious's amp because he plain couldn't play.

So, back to star power and overdrive. To activate these the game makes you do something impressive, to let the game know that if you were really playing you'd be rocking out at that very minute.

Real guitarists, lift their guitar when they're showboating. They do far more than that but when they lift their guitar you know they're pandering to the crowd.

Real drummers go crazy on the drum fills, except the drummer in weezer, he just does creepy dances.

Real singers scream and whoop and do what they can to make themselves seem more interesting.

Real guitarists do not lightly flick the guitar up or hit the select button or press a pedal (well they do press a pedal, but that's for effects, I got no problem with using a pedal for an effects switcher).

Real drummers do not hit the same note three times and then hit the crash.

Real drummers do not tap the mic unless he thinks it isn't on.

Come on, play the game the way it was meant to be played

[S1ckH4nds]

Real guitarists do not have the crowd go crazy as soon as the meter fills up halfway, no matter what you're playing or how you're holding the guitar.

Yeah, I need to RMA my Strat... lol.

[shadebug]

it's the meter in your mind!

[DarkEternal37]

First of all, my Overdrive doesn't deploy...pretty much ever when I tip it up. So I've stopped even trying. Secondly, hitting the button is WAY more accurate and guarantees you get your Overdrive used at exactly the place you want it.

Am I going to ridicule someone for tipping their guitar up instead of using the button? Hell no! It's sweet and if your guitar works and you want to, by all means. But I'm going to keep hitting the button because my highest scores depend on it and sometimes, saving my bandmates depends on it too. There have been times I've tilted it up and waited about 8 seconds for it to deploy only to have the band fail because I was trying to save someone and it refused to activate.

[whypick1]

That's all fine and dandy except for when your tilt sensor doesn't work half the time and trying to get OD to deploy by violently shaking the guitar causes you to miss notes and possibly fail songs because you need OD to save your ass (see: Metallica DLC).

I'd rather mod a foot pedal in than RMA my guitar yet again (first one had the strummer fail after about a month).

[shadebug]

oh, no, I have complete sympathy. One of my guitars i have to use select because it really won't go into overdrive unless I tilt down, swing up, shake it all about and generally break any streak I had going nd occasionally whack my drummer round the face. On that one I hit select (until I get the tilt sensor fixed)

I'm talking about the people I see complaining that they have to tilt the guitar all the way up or that they got the pedal mod even though the sensor worked fine

[DarkEternal37]

occasionally whack my drummer round the face.

That seems like a perfectly good reason NOT to hit select if you ask me. S/he probably deserved it.