Rock Band and GH3 Discussion Thread
Both of these games are coming out pretty soon, so I thought I'd set up a thread for it. I've played GH2 for a long while and I've finished everything on expert with the exception of Jordan, I'm pretty close to finishing it but not quite there. Anyway.
I got a chance to play Rock Band tonight, and I'll have another chance tomorrow. I'm not 100% sure if my facts are correct, but Harmonix developed the first two GH games and now they're collaborating with MTV to do Rock Band. If you're not familiar with it, it's a competitor to GH3 and features guitars, a drum setup, and a microphone. You can play with four people at once, and the idea is to work together.
The game looked pretty good, it was on a 360. The guitar controllers were heavier than the GH ones and looked much more realistic- the fret buttons were flush with the rest of the neck, which made keeping track of your fingers a bit tough. There was a second set of the same-colored fret buttons at the base of the neck, from what I understood you could use them for solos without needing to strum. I didn't try them out tonight. The general strum motion and button pressure was very similar to GH, so I was able to play pretty well.
The drum kit had four pads and a bass pedal, I expecting something tacky (like whatever those bongo things were for donkey kong) but it looked quite nice. It was also played fretbar-style on the screen; the four different note columns corresponded with the four drum pads from left to right. The microphone looked like a normal mic, and singing was graded on tone, pitch, and correct lyrics; the lyrics ran across the top of the screen from left to right. I'm not sure how you'd play and sing at the same time unless you had the lyrics memorized, but perhaps it's possible.
The biggest difference in the actual gameplay was the note indicators- instead of circles like GH, they were lines. It made them more difficult to time, but that could also be the fact that I was playing new songs. I also didn't really have any idea of how much star power I had or when to use it, but it's there.
I only went through three songs and only played the guitar (didn't want to look like a completely n00bsauce on the drums) but I liked what I saw. There were only 15 songs on the trial, I played Dani California by the RHCP, Vasoline by the STP, and Are You Gonna be my Girl by Jet. Apparently the released version will have 40 songs and they plan to have over 1000 available for download very soon.
I'm going to their display again tomorrow to play a little bit more, tell me if you have any questions and I'll ask them for you... I got a nice free shirt haha.
GH3 is coming out on the 28th I believe- I'll be buying this for my lowly PS2. I'm excited for it.
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Originally Posted by 81911
). Overall I definitely like it. I still can't decide how I feel about the set lists. I feel like, in general, a lot of the songs on GH2 were just more fun to play (at least after the additions for xbox360). But I guess I've only been through 5 of the set lists so maybe I'll like it more after I finish the game.