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Frets on Fire - Todays Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Aug 9th 2006 at 8:05AM
Have you noticed the seemingly unending buzz around the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero? If you don't have a PlayStation, but are curious about that type of game, you might like to check out Frets on Fire, a free guitar-themed music game for Windows and Linux. Although it doesn't feature the licensed popular music that the commercial name-brand game contains, it still has some pretty hot tracks and frantic gameplay.
The game has some serious attitude, the likes of which you won't see in most (but not all) retail games. It's not graphic, but the language in the game could be considered somewhat colorful or offensive to some. I realize that's not really a big deal for most, but it's worth mentioning. You can view a video demo of Frets on Fire after the jump (note, as the game does, the demo includes a couple of potentially offensive words).
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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HED854 said 9:48AM on 8-09-2006
This great game has won the Gamedev competition at Assembly 06. Note that the game features a track editor :)
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Meaty Puffs said 6:50PM on 8-09-2006
Been playing this game for a couple days now, and it's so much fun. I can't find any more songs for download to import though. Anyone know of a place where we can find more songs?
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damage said 9:48PM on 9-15-2006
Is a good game!!, this is the url to dowload others songs http://frets.freenerd.org/ but is a little bit good
See u!
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HED854 said 11:35AM on 8-10-2006
I just found this link on the Frets on Fire website comments : http://frets.freenerd.org/
Mostly WIP songs, btw, but this sounds very promising.
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Yan said 8:29AM on 8-15-2006
IT'S A TROJAN HORSE ACCORDING TO AVG! I can't believe you guys did not scan it before showing it to the public!
Click on my link, it's the proof!
To add insult to injury, it does not work!
And it's displaying obscure error messages like : OpenGL.GL.GLerror: [Errno 1280] invalid enumerant
Come on guys! Clean up your act!
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Alpha2 said 2:49PM on 8-17-2006
the trojan response is a false positive, The latest update of AVG clears that up. I tried it yesterday, there's lots of potential! I already want to start editing songs to work with it.
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Alpha2 said 2:53PM on 8-17-2006
The trojan issue has been taken care of and works fine as of last night.
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Yan said 7:48PM on 8-22-2006
Thanks guys!
Ya know, I really appreciate your site. I know I got a bit rude, sorry. Spyware is not rampant these days.
Thank you very much for your response!
Yan.
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Yan said 7:50PM on 8-22-2006
I meant spyware is so rampant. Sorry.
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frustratedmusician said 1:01AM on 11-05-2006
I just started playing this game for 3 days yet, and boy, I'm oh so addicted to it. So, will this be an outlet for a frustrated musician? Hehe...Would you guys know where to get more songs though? Thanks
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linda k heaps said 10:25PM on 11-05-2006
I just want to know, can anyone link me the good version of Frets On fire, I ended up getting the wrong one.... >.<
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