GH3 had the right idea

[Draiman13]

i think the best setlist so far was on GH3 you gotta put some more disturbed out there and kinda head that direction more heavy guitars.

[tepidshark]

I disagree, Guitar Hero 3 had a bunch of random songs, and then basically all metal at the end. Rock Band has a more diverse set list.

[Bacon4thetakin]

I think that Guitar Hero III had the right Idea by putting some more recent things in, but there were too many random songs like the person above me said. In RockBand there are some random pop/rock hits like Dead on Arrival and Say it Ain't So. I think that if they put a little more hard rock/ classic rock in then that would be great. There has to be balance, but they don't need to get desperate, like put in another beastie boys song or something...

[tepidshark]

That is exactly the problem though with Guitar Hero 3 DLC. Every pack so far has had a song from 2007 in it. It is like they said to themselves, we should put whatever is hot right now in the game, instead of realizing that there is not a ton of amazing stuff that is coming out right now. Guitar Hero 3 DLC seems to forget that there has been at least 40 years of Rock that they can pull from.

[Leni Pocky]

Remember, GH isn't done by Harmonix anymore. It's bound to be cheese from now on. All I had to play to realize I HATE GH3 is Number of the Beast. WTF at all the 3-button chords.

Also, TTFAF is stupid. Therefor, I have to pass it so I don't seem like a jackass.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

That is exactly the problem though with Guitar Hero 3 DLC. Every pack so far has had a song from 2007 in it. It is like they said to themselves, we should put whatever is hot right now in the game, instead of realizing that there is not a ton of amazing stuff that is coming out right now. Guitar Hero 3 DLC seems to forget that there has been at least 40 years of Rock that they can pull from.

Wrong, The Latest Pack (Warner/Reprise) had a song from 2006 on it.
rofl, but i do know what you mean. and yeah.

[TobyD81]

Guitar Hero DLC has had a great deal of cheese: current songs you might not like in 3-packs you can't separate, the Halo 3 theme and We Three Kings, repeats from GH1, and singles from European bands you never heard of going for two-bucks-fifty? C'mon...

[dustinfoley]

The way i looked at it, was gh3 was the first gh i couldnt beat. I beat 1 2 and 80s. Not easily mind you i had to put a lot of work into it. GH3 though they made the songs so stupid hard for the last 2 tiers that it lost the fun of playing a music game.

Cliffs of dover was one of the only songs in the last tier that i enjoyed playing. One. number of the beast. hell the battle against lucifer i cant even beat on hard and ive 5s every song on hard and 80% of them on expert *last 3 tiers are 3 stars*

GH3 is appealing to a VERY small minority of the players. they are choosing to appease the people who complained the games were to easy. Now as a result you get a lot of bonus songs, none of which are fun to play, although in their own credit im sure the unknown european/global bands have popularity somewhere i personally enjoyed bonus tracks that were on the line of comical (freeze pop, bang comero, etc)

To me a game stops being fun when only 5% of the people who buy it can beat it.

But dont get me wrong gh3 had a lot of FEATURES they did right. Online play seems to make more sense then some random 12 year old picking songs on easy for you. You also can do best of 3, 5, 7 etc where each person gets to pick a few.

The top thing id like is an online band world tour though.

Also i must be missing something ive only seen 1 dlc pack for gh3 and it was mostly eurpean bands... Halo 3 was xbox only and free(im ps3) and we three kings was free also


the fact that activision is working on gh4 already, and forgoing the oportunity to make money off dlc tells me exactly where their interests lie. Id rather a company make money off me by continueing to please me with current products then by trying to push some newer, and much more difficult version of a game that used to be fun.

[AeroZeppelinSevenfold]

GHIII is a horrible game. the notes dont match the song some of the time and they make easy songs hard just because its expert. to much metal too. I love rock bands song choices.some bands i hate, i have actually learned to enjoy their songs in rock band. (falloutboy) GHIII sucks though, and i think guitar hero will be gone soon with the way its going right now.

[tepidshark]

Wrong, The Latest Pack (Warner/Reprise) had a song from 2006 on it.
rofl, but i do know what you mean. and yeah.

I meant every pack has had at least one song from 2007.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

I meant every pack has had at least one song from 2007.

like i said... i knew what you ment.

[TribalDancer]

I loved GH, the original, and still have some fantasy in my head that they will re-release it as a two-guitar setup in the future, possibly as DLC. It had Cream, Hendrix...I mean, c'mon!

[CS510]

GHIII is a horrible game. the notes dont match the song some of the time and they make easy songs hard just because its expert. to much metal too. I love rock bands song choices.some bands i hate, i have actually learned to enjoy their songs in rock band. (falloutboy) GHIII sucks though, and i think guitar hero will be gone soon with the way its going right now.

While I will never like FallOutBoy, I agree with everything else that you have said

For GHIII the combinations of buttons didn't imply a melody, as they do when they're constructed by harmonix, certainly created a loss of enjoyment. Also the difference in advancement of guitars, The Les Paul for GHIII, made the game ridiculously easy. (I got tired of phasing out, rolling my fingers over the buttons and getting 98% on "One". I plugged in the SG controller failed "One", and had a lot more fun)

I prefer the direction of Rock Band.
-1 The guitar is more precise, so you're rewarded for getting better
-2 The strum bar is more flexible and has less tension, so the strumming arm doesn't get anywhere near as tired, and again gives the player more control.
-3 Bars over Circles, in certain solos in GH2 i had no idea what i was seeing during some rapid sessions of H/P. which GH3 didn't improve upon. However Rock Band's bars makes the orchestration of buttons easy to follow.
-4 Everybody wins, in GHIII they gave the players battle mode which meant the dual was decided by who got the power up first (lame), having everyone participate with different instruments broadens the gameplay, and it's either you win together, or lose together.
-5 If you can sing along to the song in the car, you can sing along and get 90% on easy, and even save your buddy, who's doing drums for "Won't Get Fooled Again" on expert


simply put Rock Band is a more enjoyable game.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Ok i know theres not alot of Linkin Park Fans in here, but who has honestly played "No More Sorrow" on GH3???

I Have, and yet LP is my favorite band ever, and i will never hate them, i hate playing that song on Guitar Hero 3 soo badly.

1. The Opening, Brad Strums once, COUNT IT ONCE!!!!!!! and in GH 3 you strum alot in the beginning, and they have Phoenix's part involved, which ruins it already
(havnt Played watch this - http://youtube.com/watch?v=eVvYIjqC71w NMS On GH3)
(have played No More Sorrow (NMS) watch the AOL Sessions Video - http://youtube.com/watch?v=DghDdp5IFO0)

2. Why Add Bass to a Guitar Part??? It Ruins the Title Of the Game, "Guitar Hero" not "Guitar and Bass Hero"

3. Honestly (as a DLC) i wish Harmonix would do No More Sorrow and do it Correctly, it pisses me off and im officialy pissed at Red Octane.

What do you guys think of the situation??