Looks like bullshit. Fury of the Storm is harder than Fire and the Flames (the solo, that is). Unless this is gonna be GH: Break your instruments after 5 songs mix, then this list has to be bullshit.
If it's not bullshit, I really, really, really like it. RATM and Pink Floyd. Epic as fuck.
"Satch Boogie" by Joe Satriani
How the hell do they expect normal human beings to play that?
It's nothing compared to Fury of the Storm...especially since FotS is about 3x as long as Satch Boogie.
Looks like bullshit. Fury of the Storm is harder than Fire and the Flames (the solo, that is). Unless this is gonna be GH: Break your instruments after 5 songs mix, then this list has to be bullshit.
If it's not bullshit, I really, really, really like it. RATM and Pink Floyd. Epic as fuck.
"Satch Boogie" by Joe Satriani
How the hell do they expect normal human beings to play that?
It's nothing compared to Fury of the Storm...especially since FotS is about 3x as long as Satch Boogie.
I personally have no problem with them putting insanely hard songs in the game, as long as they're in the bonus song list; it's not required that you beat them to finish career mode. I really like challenges like TTFAF and Raining Blood, but having RB in the main setlist made the game less fun. It took me 16 tries to beat that song on Expert, and I had been doing really well up until that point. It should be the case where the setlist is challenging to the point where the last couple sets of songs take two or three tries to beat, and maybe the final encore/battle thing takes five or six, but then all the insane songs are thrown into the bonus playlist. That way, you first go through the challenge of career mode, and then you're presented with the extra challenge of all those other songs, but at least beating those extra songs isn't required to "beat the game" on a fundamental level.
Good news everyone, Finally a Queen track in a music game and in Guitar Hero Metallica of all games.
Full playlist:
METALLICA tracks:
* All Nightmare Long * Battery * Creeping Death * Disposable Heroes * Dyers Eve * Enter Sandman * Fade To Black * Fight Fire With Fire * For Whom The Bell Tolls * Frantic * Fuel * Hit The Lights * King Nothing * Master of Puppets * Mercyful Fate (Medley) * No Leaf Clover * Nothing Else Matters * One * Orion * Sad But True * Seek And Destroy * The Memory Remains * The Shortest Straw * The Thing That Should Not Be * The Unforgiven * Welcome Home (Sanitarium) * Wherever I May Roam * Whiplash
Other artists:
* ALICE IN CHAINS - No Excuses * BOB SEGER - Turn The Page * CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Albatross * DIAMOND HEAD - Am I Evil? * FOO FIGHTERS - Stacked Actors * JUDAS PRIEST - Hell Bent For Leather * KYUSS - Demon Cleaner * LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Tuesdays Gone * MACHINE HEAD - Beautiful Mourning * MASTODON - Blood And Thunder * MERCYFUL FATE - Evil * MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP - Armed and Ready * MOTÖRHEAD - Ace of Spades * QUEEN - Stone Cold Crazy * SAMHAIN - Mother of Mercy * SLAYER - War Ensemble * SOCIAL DISTORTION - Mommy's Little Monster * SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - War Inside My Head * SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Toxicity * THE SWORD - Black River * THIN LIZZY - The Boys Are Back in Town
I'll probably buy this game because I love to play Metallica on Drums in Rock Band. Having Queen, Thin Lizzy, Social Distortion, The Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bob Seger also on that game is a great Bonus. This is probably the first music game were more than 50% of the songs interest me.
That Metallica track listing sounds like it's going to be more of an endurance trial than anything else. Disposable Heroes is about 8 and a half minutes long, and the Mercyful Fate medley is 11 minutes and change. A lot of those songs are 7 - 8 minutes long.
Consists of: Another One Bites the Dust Crazy Little Thing Called Love One Vision Fat Bottomed Girls I Want It All I Want to Break Free Killer Queen Somebody to Love Tie Your Mother Down Under Pressure
Also, next week they'll put out a three pack of Electric Six. I wonder if I should buy it :X
Consists of: Another One Bites the Dust Crazy Little Thing Called Love One Vision Fat Bottomed Girls I Want It All I Want to Break Free Killer Queen Somebody to Love Tie Your Mother Down Under Pressure
Also, next week they'll put out a three pack of Electric Six. I wonder if I should buy it :X
Those are great songs, but the lack of Bohemian Rhapsody is disappointing.
Those are great songs, but the lack of Bohemian Rhapsody is disappointing.
The problem is that for the first half of the song it's nothing but vocals and piano. It wouldn't really work that well on Rock Band.
True, but Don't Stop Me Now could still work well for Rock Band, but is still not under the pack. I'm considering the pack myself, but I'd have to see if it's fun for the instruments first.
Is there a consensus on which instruments are the best?
I'm looking at picking up Band Hero for my daughter and after visiting the Rock Band and Guitar Hero sites I have found out that the current crop of plastic instruments are compatible across games. I have also recently found out that I can get Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero World Tour (with instruments) for $99 each as well as buying used copies of each game for under $10.
So my question is, "which game has the better instruments?"
So my question is, "which game has the better instruments?"
The best answer I can give is that the game with the better instruments is the one that you start with and get used to using. From a guitar/bass perspective, the only way to know is just by trying both kinds. For the drums, it matters a bit more since they're not as cross-compatible. I will just say that it is easier to use Rock Band drums with Guitar Hero than it is to use Guitar Hero drums with Rock Band. Back when both games were first coming out, faulty hardware was a much bigger problem with Rock Band than Guitar Hero, but most of those problems have been fixed.
Just from me, as someone who plays these games habitually, software is more important than hardware. And Guitar Hero World Tour is an absolute piece of trash. The game is horribly broken and the songs in general are not fun to play. All of the fun songs in GHWT are also in Rock Band. That's my best advice. You can get the World Tour instrument pack, but don't play that game. Go to Guitar Hero 5 or something else instead.
Just get Rock Band, it's infinitely better in almost every conceivable way.
Yeah what he said. To be honest I find that Neversoft is just jealous about Rock Band's infinitely better success and is trying to one up them by making DJ Hero. I'm sorta not excited about it, but I won't knock until I try it. I also think that my theory comes across as having some truth to it considering the fact that Neversoft packed a drum set with Guitar Hero: World Tour. Once again, I state that Rock Band is much better than Guitar Hero.
The one thing that Guitar Hero has over Rock Band is the character creation. There is a lot more options with clothes and customization, but all of the characters end up looking like Kieth Richards in the face at the end of the process. So this is definitely a back-handed compliment.
When you start to worry about the quality of plastic instruments, I start to worry about you.
Why is it wrong to worry about quality? If I buy a controller to perform a function, I expect it to work as advertised. I can say the same thing about the quality of plastic keyboards or plastic mice. They matter.
And I do not disagree that Rock Band is by far and away the better software platform. But what you get does depend on who it's being bought for.
I'm looking at picking up Band Hero for my daughter
I would suggest comparing Band Hero to LEGO Rock Band, also coming out this year. Both are aimed towards a younger demographic.
I never played the Rock Band Guitar but I very much like the GHWT Guitar which of the three I have used (X-Plorer and Les Paul are the other 2) I prefer the most.
I borrowed a copy of Rock Band 2 from a friend (no drums) and the kids played with it over the weekend. They had a great time but the songs do not mix with them very well.
I also downloaded the demo for Band Hero and I have to say that I do not like the star symbols in Band Hero but, the kids like the song list.
I will likely pick up the special RB2 set for $99 with the instruments and get Band Hero on its own. I think the pricing will be about the same.
The one problem I have with the RB guitar is that I can't always tell which button my fingers are on. Even with the raised dots I often find myself going too far or not far enough when the note change is more than two notes away (green to blue). I am investigating some thin stick on pads to use. Does anyone have any tips for this other than practice?
With two games coming out tomorrow, I'll give my two cents.
Band Hero really looks like a cash-in to me. There's really no difference between it and the last Guitar Hero games we had when it comes to interface. It's only really difference is that it's a setlist just filled with pop, rock, and Top 40 hits. It's not really special, it's more like "Now, That's Why I Call Music Hero." The hardest guitar, drum, and bass songs by the way are already in Rock Band as downloadable content.
Lego: Rock Band is somewhat whore-ish, but with the Lego brand on it, it has some great detail to be fun. It has less tracks and it's in that same genre, but the price costs less and it has it's own personal flair to it that really seperates it from other Harmonix titles. It also follows that epic sense of Elite Beat Agents/Ouendan where you solve problems and accomplish great things with the power of Rock. It also has RB1/2/DLC exportability and cameos by David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Queen and Blur. It just depends on what appeals more to you.
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If it's not bullshit, I really, really, really like it. RATM and Pink Floyd. Epic as fuck. It's nothing compared to Fury of the Storm...especially since FotS is about 3x as long as Satch Boogie.
I really like challenges like TTFAF and Raining Blood, but having RB in the main setlist made the game less fun. It took me 16 tries to beat that song on Expert, and I had been doing really well up until that point.
It should be the case where the setlist is challenging to the point where the last couple sets of songs take two or three tries to beat, and maybe the final encore/battle thing takes five or six, but then all the insane songs are thrown into the bonus playlist. That way, you first go through the challenge of career mode, and then you're presented with the extra challenge of all those other songs, but at least beating those extra songs isn't required to "beat the game" on a fundamental level.
Next weeks DLC for rock Band is:
Runnin' Wild by Airborne
Clouds over California by DevilDriver
Constant Motion by Dream Theater
My Curse by Killswitch Engage
Aesthetics of Hate by Machine Head
and
Sleepwalker by motherfucking Megadeth
Full playlist:
METALLICA tracks:
* All Nightmare Long
* Battery
* Creeping Death
* Disposable Heroes
* Dyers Eve
* Enter Sandman
* Fade To Black
* Fight Fire With Fire
* For Whom The Bell Tolls
* Frantic
* Fuel
* Hit The Lights
* King Nothing
* Master of Puppets
* Mercyful Fate (Medley)
* No Leaf Clover
* Nothing Else Matters
* One
* Orion
* Sad But True
* Seek And Destroy
* The Memory Remains
* The Shortest Straw
* The Thing That Should Not Be
* The Unforgiven
* Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
* Wherever I May Roam
* Whiplash
Other artists:
* ALICE IN CHAINS - No Excuses
* BOB SEGER - Turn The Page
* CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Albatross
* DIAMOND HEAD - Am I Evil?
* FOO FIGHTERS - Stacked Actors
* JUDAS PRIEST - Hell Bent For Leather
* KYUSS - Demon Cleaner
* LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Tuesdays Gone
* MACHINE HEAD - Beautiful Mourning
* MASTODON - Blood And Thunder
* MERCYFUL FATE - Evil
* MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP - Armed and Ready
* MOTÖRHEAD - Ace of Spades
* QUEEN - Stone Cold Crazy
* SAMHAIN - Mother of Mercy
* SLAYER - War Ensemble
* SOCIAL DISTORTION - Mommy's Little Monster
* SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - War Inside My Head
* SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Toxicity
* THE SWORD - Black River
* THIN LIZZY - The Boys Are Back in Town
I'll probably buy this game because I love to play Metallica on Drums in Rock Band. Having Queen, Thin Lizzy, Social Distortion, The Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bob Seger also on that game is a great Bonus. This is probably the first music game were more than 50% of the songs interest me.
Consists of:
Another One Bites the Dust
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
One Vision
Fat Bottomed Girls
I Want It All
I Want to Break Free
Killer Queen
Somebody to Love
Tie Your Mother Down
Under Pressure
Also, next week they'll put out a three pack of Electric Six. I wonder if I should buy it :X
For Electric Six? I WANNA TAKE YA TO A GAY BAR
I'm looking at picking up Band Hero for my daughter and after visiting the Rock Band and Guitar Hero sites I have found out that the current crop of plastic instruments are compatible across games. I have also recently found out that I can get Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero World Tour (with instruments) for $99 each as well as buying used copies of each game for under $10.
So my question is, "which game has the better instruments?"
Just from me, as someone who plays these games habitually, software is more important than hardware. And Guitar Hero World Tour is an absolute piece of trash. The game is horribly broken and the songs in general are not fun to play. All of the fun songs in GHWT are also in Rock Band. That's my best advice. You can get the World Tour instrument pack, but don't play that game. Go to Guitar Hero 5 or something else instead.
And I do not disagree that Rock Band is by far and away the better software platform. But what you get does depend on who it's being bought for.I would suggest comparing Band Hero to LEGO Rock Band, also coming out this year. Both are aimed towards a younger demographic.
I also downloaded the demo for Band Hero and I have to say that I do not like the star symbols in Band Hero but, the kids like the song list.
I will likely pick up the special RB2 set for $99 with the instruments and get Band Hero on its own. I think the pricing will be about the same.
The one problem I have with the RB guitar is that I can't always tell which button my fingers are on. Even with the raised dots I often find myself going too far or not far enough when the note change is more than two notes away (green to blue). I am investigating some thin stick on pads to use. Does anyone have any tips for this other than practice?
Band Hero really looks like a cash-in to me. There's really no difference between it and the last Guitar Hero games we had when it comes to interface. It's only really difference is that it's a setlist just filled with pop, rock, and Top 40 hits. It's not really special, it's more like "Now, That's Why I Call Music Hero." The hardest guitar, drum, and bass songs by the way are already in Rock Band as downloadable content.
Lego: Rock Band is somewhat whore-ish, but with the Lego brand on it, it has some great detail to be fun. It has less tracks and it's in that same genre, but the price costs less and it has it's own personal flair to it that really seperates it from other Harmonix titles. It also follows that epic sense of Elite Beat Agents/Ouendan where you solve problems and accomplish great things with the power of Rock. It also has RB1/2/DLC exportability and cameos by David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Queen and Blur. It just depends on what appeals more to you.
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