Guitar Hero vs ROCKBAND

[Bulletproofboy]

Well Harmonix made every Guitar hero game except, Guitar Hero 3...

Whats better

Guitar hero or rock band

[Monstro]

Rock Band, no doubt about it. The games soul is in it's dev team, not the branding on the box.

[MartyMcFly]

Kind of pointless to ask :rolleyes:

This is the Rock Band forum, everyone will say Rock Band. But go to the Guitar Hero forum, most people would say Guitar Hero.
...even though RB is the greater of course.

[SilentCapybara]

There are two ways to look at it of course, it all comes down to personal preference:

If you like an excellent multiplayer experience, and having the feeling of being in a band; Then go with Rock Band

If you have always dreamed of being the center of the spotlight, shredding to classic and modern tracks; Then go Guitar Hero

Basic Idea; Rock Band was made to feel like you are part of a band. The single player lacks, but the magic shows when you have four willing people to play, and you all rock together.

Guitar Hero is for people who have always wanted to fufil a rock legacy. The single player is well developed and it's a great thing when you have two people shredding it out!

Bottom Line: If you want fun multiplayer with minimal single-player - Go ROCK BAND

If you want hardcore shredding and stealing the show - Go GUITAR HERO

Hope that can clear up some debate,

~ SilentCapybara

[ZodiacDragons]

the guy above me pretty much stole what i was gonna say lol. BUUUT he did leave out an important detail. Being a drummer i dont find as much joy at shredding guitar hero than slamming down that killer beat.

to me guitar hero WAS the **** and i love to play it but i just find drums much more attractive. it comes down to what people want to do

[SolidSnake1162]

Rock Band is alot better than Guitar Hero

[Phrank-E]

I ignored all the RB hype because I was so stoked over the GH3 setlist, after playing RB tonight... I'm totally burnt out on GH, I honestly don't know if I can ever pick it up and look at it the same way again

This is a fairly strong endorsement

[ThePaska]

Rock Band forums = Rock Band wins.

If we are comparing Rock Band to GH III, Rock Band wins hands down, there are so many little problems with GH III that Rock Band looks perfect compared to it. I will say though that a big part of the appeal of Rock Band for me is that everyone can just pick up and play it. For GH if you couldn't do the guitar then you couldn't play it, but in Rock Band there is vox and drums as well, so there is something for everyone.

[sarahscrossing]

Guitar Hero III is a sack of fail. It makes you feel you're hardcore button mashing rather than playing a rhythm game. If you played guitar hero 1 and 2, then compare that to 3, you will see a difference. GH died when HMX made Rock Band.

[Atsumi]

Rock Band for me.

There's more of a selection of things to do.

[Transbrak]

whats a guitar hero.......hehe rock band all the way

[Bulletproofboy]

your joking ^^^a

that made me laugh

[powdrdmilkman]

whats a guitar hero.......hehe rock band all the way

Heh, seriously. There is nothing on GHIII that Rock Band doesn't do 10x better.

Only problem is problems with the hardware. My blue drum pad just crapped out and I haven't gotten my guitar back for its broken strummer yet. :(

[pretty_pink_pistol]

yea, rock band all the way. with GH3, it seemed like the quality just kinda dropped for me (at least on ps2). the graphics were terribly chunky looking (which i heard they did on purpose for whatever reason), and all the neat little things are missing from the gameplay. like the singer in co-op mode o_O whats that about? And when you activate star power, they don't do anything anymore? lame~
but in rock band, the presentation is there along with the awesome gameplay. the character style from guitar hero (and KR for that matter) are still there, but even better because you can personalize 'em. i can see why they had to drop work on guitar hero, they put everything into rock band. and it definitely shows lol

[Manda]

I still like to go back and play GH. Even the third one, yes.

Rock Band allows the use of 3 different peripherals and 4 instruments, switches up the guitar from lead to rythm for variety, and (this is my favourite aspect) let's you continually get overdive so you can keep the 8x streaks longer. Also, the guitar is reasonably easier below expert, which allows someone like myself - who fails a song on hard in GHIII within 20 seconds - to get used to orange button and allowing oneself to move up the ladder.

Guitar Hero is for people with no interest in playing drums or vocals. And when it comes to III, for people who want to push themselves to their limit and show off just how fast their fingers can fly.

There's certainly nothing wrong with wanting to challenge yourself, but at the same time for people (and there's a lot) who think Rock Band is "inferior" just because it's not f***ing insane, it's not just about being able to push yourself. It's a game for crying out loud, and I thought a key word that went along with game was "fun". I don't think Rock Band would succeed if the guitar was as difficult as in GHIII, can you imagine if it was and included Through the Fires and Flames? Y-ikes!

[Magnus]

I don't know if anyone felt this way. I played Rock Band and loved it a lot more than GH3, but a serious comparison now.

While Rock Band has you play one guitar, Guitar Hero naturally forces you to play more than one guitar at one time. Which explains why some songs are a lot harder than they should be, namely TTFAF. The hard part of the song is a constant swap off of guitar solos between two people in reality, and then you have to play it as one person.

So, GH easily wins in difficulty. For guitarists. Drums? God, those are brutal.

And that nice sleek black board you hit the notes on.. And how sleek the notes are. Ugh. When I tried to go back to GH3 for some practice. It was ridiculous. I was having trouble seeing the notes on the Grim Ripper's board. And the whole board you play on looks so FAT. I mean, my God. The chunkiness scared me away from playing GH anymore.

[BAzombie]

Guitar Hero III is a sack of fail. It makes you feel you're hardcore button mashing rather than playing a rhythm game. If you played guitar hero 1 and 2, then compare that to 3, you will see a difference. GH died when HMX made Rock Band.

The worst business decision made in video gaming.

HMX should have just let the name Giutar Hero fade away into gaming histroy.

Rock Band is what they wanted from the start, and now they have to deal with Activision's bull****.

[cmg4894]

There are two ways to look at it of course, it all comes down to personal preference:

If you like an excellent multiplayer experience, and having the feeling of being in a band; Then go with Rock Band

If you have always dreamed of being the center of the spotlight, shredding to classic and modern tracks; Then go Guitar Hero

Basic Idea; Rock Band was made to feel like you are part of a band. The single player lacks, but the magic shows when you have four willing people to play, and you all rock together.

Guitar Hero is for people who have always wanted to fufil a rock legacy. The single player is well developed and it's a great thing when you have two people shredding it out!

Bottom Line: If you want fun multiplayer with minimal single-player - Go ROCK BAND

If you want hardcore shredding and stealing the show - Go GUITAR HERO

Hope that can clear up some debate,

~ SilentCapybara



This is what I was going to say. GHIII has gotten way to complex. It's not fun, it almost looks like it was made for the 1% of the players that FC everything. I have to work myself up to play GHIII. I have to warm up for about 5 minutes, play and cool down for 5 minutes. You can't just plug in and play a few songs. Rockband you can. If you only have time for one song you can just play one song. (But WHO can only play one song. Come on now we all know the truth) The little flaws in GHIII that most of us would over look we can't because Rockband doesn't have them. The GH series is dead.

[kiwichi1221]

Rock Band hands down. Cause gh3 wasnt that great like gh 1 + 2.

[Riff.Freelance]

First I'll be honest I haven't even played GHIII.

I used to love GH I even bought 80's new which let's face it was paying $50 for half maybe one forth a game. Then the buid up to GHIII and RB was just insane checking every thing everyday waiting for the newest info. And the GHIII came out and the first glimse just killed all that joy. Boss fights, Sabatoge competitive play (string pops, etc.) and at first no pick and run with it co-op (it was eventually fixed with a patch according to net, but before if you wanted co-op you had to play a semi-story in that if P1 was on hard and P2 was on easy it stayed that way unless you started all over.) Where was the fun? New super bleeding difficulty, not for me thanks, and sad but true in my circle of real world friends I'm our best guitarist. (I play 1st and 2nd tier expert and all hard suck past that.) It was just too much change and felt all glam and no glory. So I waited to buy both games together, that never happened because the PS3 compatablity problem and honestly I'm not really missing GHIII. I would like to play it someday, but no rush and frankly with the DC RB is keeping me thrilled everytime.

The breakdown GH is a great series with brutal difficulty in the end so go for it if that's your thing. RB has the pick up and play for a bit feel good-ness I love and oh so much more with a good group of friends. RB is the best party game on the market to date.

Sorry if I was long winded. Merry X-mas and Happy Holidays.

[Rock_Starman]

I quit playing GH 3 half way through expert. The charts are terrible. For those that don't know they hired people that did customs/hacked the game/that 1% at scorehero to make them and that's why. Most of Harmonix seem to be musicians themselves so they have some idea how the songs should play rather than just going by how they sound.