Thursday, July 03, 2008
Rock Guitar Band Hero
I got today "off" of work - well, half of it off, at least. The half after 4:00 AM. I spent most of the rest of the morning sleeping. Sorry for the delay in posting today.
With the hours I've been keeping this week, I never got around to picking up Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. And... I probably won't be. This'll be the first Guitar Hero game I won't be buying. Maybe I'll rent it at some point. And I don't think I'll be getting Guitar Hero World Tour this winter.
It's not that I'm uninterested in the songs or anything. But the boss-battles were a big turn-off for me with Guitar Hero III, I've got plenty to keep me occupied with Rock Band and the previous GH games (hey, I'm still nowhere near finishing any of the games on Expert). And then Rock Band II was announced for this fall with the magical words, "Backwards Compatability for Downloadable Content." Since I'll probably be near $100 spent on downloadable music for Rock Band, it'll be nice not to have to swap discs. And Guitar Hero World Tour sounds like... dare I say it... a Rock Band Wannabe. I might bite if the Rock Band controllers were compatible with GHWT, but I suspect this will not be the case. The compatibility issues right now are bad enough amongst the guitars without the space-consuming drum sets.
And if that wasn't enough to sate my musician poseur thirst and hunger for opportunity to crank up the hard rock, there's the upcoming "Guitar Rising" game from independent game development studio Game Tank, for which I already have a decent controller. I have high hopes for this one.
So... I guess this means "the king is dead, long live the king." The Guitar Hero franchise was absolutely amazing for a couple of years. But I guess the time has come to part ways. It's been fun!
Labels: Guitar Hero, Mainstream Games
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Fortunately there's only one boss battle in GH: Aerosmith, and it's pretty easy (just passed it first time on Expert, and Devil Went Down To Georgia on Hard took loads of attempts, and I only just fluked it in the end...)
I have been deeply and fundamentally stoked for Guitar Rising ever since I heard about it. I hope it actually happens, and on systems I have, not them fancy new-fangled ones (also, I will need to get a guitar...).
But Rock Band is awesome too, and Guitar Hero is lame like a grandma on bingo night. It used to be cool, right up until the point where Harmonix left. I have no interest in GH3 or anything thereafter (especially since all they're doing now is aping Rock Band anyway!). Still, even the old Guitar Heros, I have no interest in playing them. They're just a weak subset of Rock Band, now that Rock Band exists. A very rare case of a sequel entirely and totally supplanting the original. The only reason to ever play a Guitar Hero game at this point is because it has a song you can't play on Rock Band. And since you can't drum that song, it's not worth booting up!
But really I want Diablo 3.
But Rock Band is awesome too, and Guitar Hero is lame like a grandma on bingo night. It used to be cool, right up until the point where Harmonix left. I have no interest in GH3 or anything thereafter (especially since all they're doing now is aping Rock Band anyway!). Still, even the old Guitar Heros, I have no interest in playing them. They're just a weak subset of Rock Band, now that Rock Band exists. A very rare case of a sequel entirely and totally supplanting the original. The only reason to ever play a Guitar Hero game at this point is because it has a song you can't play on Rock Band. And since you can't drum that song, it's not worth booting up!
But really I want Diablo 3.
A hearty "BAH!" with a dose of "Meh" to any and all pseudo-music-playing games. Gimme something with firearms any day; or at least sharp sticks. =P
(Hmm, if you could play music by shooting people.... Hmmmm.)
(Hmm, if you could play music by shooting people.... Hmmmm.)
The boss battle idea was one of those things that sounded like a cool idea at the time.
Hey, I remember LOVING the ol' 80's Ralph Macchio movie Crossroads... the guitar duel with the devil's protege at the end was pretty cool...
But that was one of those game design ideas that sounds cool on paper, but IMO sucked on the screen.
Hey, I remember LOVING the ol' 80's Ralph Macchio movie Crossroads... the guitar duel with the devil's protege at the end was pretty cool...
But that was one of those game design ideas that sounds cool on paper, but IMO sucked on the screen.
Maybe I'm just too into the "serious" variety of music games (the ones that kick your ass with hard charts rather than lame boss battles, like beatmania IIDX and Pop'n Music...IIDX's 12s and Pop'n's 43s are exercises in pure PAIN) but the boss battles in GH3 were a major turn-off for me, and after playing the final battle at a friend's house it made me flat-out not want the game. Especially considering how awesome Rock Band managed to turn out being despite not having a battle-riddled "career mode." World Tour mode succeeds in giving you objectives, the flexibility to choose what you want to play, and optional random events to further test your skills.
It's really nice than the DLC for Rock Band will work with Rock Band 2. The only other new feature that I'd really like to see would be hard drive installation for the original Rock Band tracks. Basically, you'd boot Rock Band 2, select the option to do the transfer, insert the Rock Band disc, and it would copy the data to the hard drive. That might create some fun licensing woes, but if something like that were implemented in RB2 I'd be giddy with excitement.
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It's really nice than the DLC for Rock Band will work with Rock Band 2. The only other new feature that I'd really like to see would be hard drive installation for the original Rock Band tracks. Basically, you'd boot Rock Band 2, select the option to do the transfer, insert the Rock Band disc, and it would copy the data to the hard drive. That might create some fun licensing woes, but if something like that were implemented in RB2 I'd be giddy with excitement.
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