Johnny Rotten Bashes Guitar Hero III at Launch Event Posted by XanTium | November 28 13:51 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From oxm.co.uk: [QUOTE] After introducing himself by saying "[censored], it's rubbish, I hate the whole thing", the Sex Pistols singer then goes into the reason why he's there - to promote Guitar Hero III. "I'll give it to you basic and honest," he says. "The offer came in and I took it home and I played it with a bunch of kids. What I like is it weren't teaching you how to be a rock star, it was teaching you how not to be a rock star..." [/QUOTE] Full Story: oxm.co.uk (incl. full video)

why is this in the front page...

PS: I think MS didn't pay him much, because he was drunk (or hi) or maybe his xbox had rrod while playing guitar hero 3 (very graphics intensive).

good question

John Lydon is awesome.

As British people say "twæt".

Yeah he is really drunk!

MS wasted their money hiring him to speak they could have got a drunk bum off the street to do better then that.

thats how he always acts whenever he hosts things. no script, no preparation, and always sounds drunk. if you dont believe me watch "Sorry", its a skateboard movie by Flip with him giving introductions to skaters

No one pointed out he was bought to promote Rock Band? No one? Ok

Plus, he was at one point punk, there might be some of that left in him so good on him to rebel a bit

PLUS plus, he did record one of the better albums ever and one recognised by 99% of music knowing people so kudos to him, cos i haven't

The degree to which Johnny Rotten has sold out frankly sickens me. Anarchist indeed.

Um what he did was actually the opposite of selling out.

That was funny. He seemed to get more and more drunk as the clips went on.

God Save the Queen,

What a nutter must have a had a few or something before that speech lol!!

Oh right, because I always base my decisions and rating of a GREAT game on some drunk's comments about how he thinks its "rubbish".

This guy couldn't have screwed this up more. Congrats, retard...

Yet another celebrity makes an @$$ out of himself by taking advantage of their celebrity status to express their personal agenda(s)....

Someone please send this over to Matt Stone and Trey Parker....

I can't stand this guy or his band... What a tool...

Another case of a washed up celebrity trying to get attention. How stupid.

what an asshole...

wow, im almost surprised at how few people here know anything about mr lydon... but then again im not...

Most people don't know about him cause he is a nobody he hasent done nothing important besides play in a band and make a ass out of himself.

odd, coming from a person with a name like that...

say what you will about him, his philo is spot on...

"I AM ENGLAND!"

Hahaha That part cracked me up.

Actually, he didn't bash it at all. He said he loved it because it taught you how NOT to be a rockstar, and an asshole in your life and not to seek fame and fortune because it is all rubbish.

Way to spin a headline.

amen, this fool made a fool of himself...again...

WOW! its amazing how some people are.

No kidding -- thank you. Did any of you listen to the video instead of just reading the headline? He says he played it with the kids and he "fucking loved it." And as brywalker said, he was saying the whole fame and fortune thing was rubbish -- not the game.

Yeah he went off on a tangent, and expressed his feelings -- you expect this guy to be politically correct when he talks? Are you fucking kidding? This is Johnny Rotten -- you know -- "I wanna be anarchy" ??? Doesn't that pretty much say it all about this guy? Besides, any publicity is good publicity -- even if the media can't tell when it really is good publicity sprinkled with bad language and poor public speaking judgement...

This is almost bad as the whole "COD4 Beta profile copying gets you banned for a day" fiasco awhile back...

Exactly. Same thing I heard. That's who he is. Always has been. Don't have to be so pissed about it. Just go play it. So defensive against him saying its a bad game when obviously it's a good game. And he didn't even say it was bad. Even if he did, ever hear of sarcasm?

If you don't understand what he was on about..

All I can say is piss off..

This has made me laugh, People have read the headline and gone "OH GOD! NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING BAD ABOUT GUITAR HERO 3, ITS THE BEST GAME EVARRRRR", and posted with out actually watching the video. As it has been said, he isn't bashing it at all.
Rotten making an ass out of himself? Nah. He's back on form if anything after the horror that was "I'm a celebrity get me out of here", I just hope he trashed something afterwards.

Go play your s***ty guitar hero 3 and live in your f***ing dreamworld. If you have to stand up for the game you have problems. It is a joke just like he said. It doesn't mean it can't be entertaining and fun. Too many guitar hero players take themselves way too seriously. Look at me, I can press buttons along with the beat I'm a musical genious!

im brittish and have never heard that word?

I think he has a point though, not expressed correctly but hey, My mate brought guitar hero 1 for the ps2 because he liked the idea of playing the guitar but that guitar is so plasticy its like holding a kids tool in your hand (im guessing they aimed at young teenagers and kids more then adult gamers)
having said that he loves the game so its more like good game if you buy it for the game but dont expect to learn the guitar or feel like you are playing one (and as i recall him saying often have another finger grafted on if you want to play the difficult songs levels)

all content above is my personal ramblings they are not ment to be the word of god or any other set in stone fact so dont flame me (oh the first sentince is not a flame can be taken as one but isnt just curiouse where the author got the word from)

i like it. that's these boys playing?

no, that's kansas. but these boys scored 100,000 points to it, on expert level, in co-op mode.

that's pretty god damn impressive.

Actually, Guitar Hero III *IS* rubbish, but I was bent out of shape about the shoddy blogging on these sites lately, not that he would ever say anything bad about it.

Gonna have to agree here too. He likes how it teaches you not be one of those money grubbing, egotistical "rock stars". Him and the Sex Pistols turned down being in the rock and roll hall of fame because they want the band to pay them for the honor. They don't care about fame and support GH because it shows you how to just have fun with music. Also, he's not drunk, that's just how he is.

It didn't stop using vast amounts of money to fund his drug habit along with Sid Vicious. The Sex Pistols were nothing more than todays equivalent of a manufactured band, They couldn't play a note or sing they were placed where they were and claimed to be Anti everything, "Us Against The World" and all that other shit. All a complete pack of lies set up and put in place by that other sad loser Malcolm McLaren. Do you think Johnny Rotten gave all his cash to charity when he was in the Sex Pistols. Yes I bought the Albums, but I certainly didn't ride on the bullshit claims of a man who took the money and then told everyone it was not his motive.
His comments on this are nothing more than garbage and Hypocritical shit. He is not qualified to comment but still seeks to be in the limelight despite his claims.
He is "Plastic Punk" nothing more than a Wrist Slitter

Well ,Rotten was and still is the absolute king of punk ,manufactured or not ,he didn't sell out.
I think GuitarHero is ridiculous and I cannot grasp the idea that people find it rewarding to pretend playing a song on a flimsy plastic toy guitar ,instead of learning to play the real thing.
No flame intended people.