MrCreamyT
11-27-2007, 12:54 PM
I played lots of GH3 ranked multiplayer, and the system definitely had it's share of flaws. I was hoping Rock Band would really improve on it, and while they did a few things right, I'm also rather frustrated with this.
On the plus side I LOVE the solo bonus w/guitar. For songs that have really easy verses/choruses (which this game has a few of), it's nice that nailing a solo can pull you ahead so that not ALWAYS just a contest of "who doesn't mess up once or twice." However, this leads me to my main gripe w/mplayer...
Song selection! The idea of random song selection is ALMOST good (guitar hero 3 hosts get to pick the only song if it's a one song set...lame...), but because this game doesn't revolve around guitar-based songs this works out terribly. I can 98-100% a majority of these songs on expert a majority of the time, and apparently a lot of other ppl can to. This does NOT lead to fun gameplay...
At least w/some easy songs like Weezer you have the solo that I mentioned above, but...c'mon! I lost 2 times in a row to the same person on really stupid songs (the clash and in bloom) because I missed 1 note or star powered SLIGHTLY off. Then I played him a song w/real guitar (The Outlaws) and it wasn't even close. It is EXTREMELY frustrating to lose to a person who is clearly worse than you on a song you probably both don't even want to play.
But really , losing isn't the big issue, it's simply the fact that these songs are NOT fun to play if you're halfway decent at GH/RB guitar...even on expert.
PLEASE narrow the song selection (at least for expert!), or give players a choice of tiers or somethings. I've stopped playing it because of how simply boring it is to play tier 1-4 songs, and I seem to play them a majority of the time.
On the plus side I LOVE the solo bonus w/guitar. For songs that have really easy verses/choruses (which this game has a few of), it's nice that nailing a solo can pull you ahead so that not ALWAYS just a contest of "who doesn't mess up once or twice." However, this leads me to my main gripe w/mplayer...
Song selection! The idea of random song selection is ALMOST good (guitar hero 3 hosts get to pick the only song if it's a one song set...lame...), but because this game doesn't revolve around guitar-based songs this works out terribly. I can 98-100% a majority of these songs on expert a majority of the time, and apparently a lot of other ppl can to. This does NOT lead to fun gameplay...
At least w/some easy songs like Weezer you have the solo that I mentioned above, but...c'mon! I lost 2 times in a row to the same person on really stupid songs (the clash and in bloom) because I missed 1 note or star powered SLIGHTLY off. Then I played him a song w/real guitar (The Outlaws) and it wasn't even close. It is EXTREMELY frustrating to lose to a person who is clearly worse than you on a song you probably both don't even want to play.
But really , losing isn't the big issue, it's simply the fact that these songs are NOT fun to play if you're halfway decent at GH/RB guitar...even on expert.
PLEASE narrow the song selection (at least for expert!), or give players a choice of tiers or somethings. I've stopped playing it because of how simply boring it is to play tier 1-4 songs, and I seem to play them a majority of the time.
