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Rock Band/Guitar Hero Thread

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I got to play a Strokes song on GH3 the other day, so that was awesome.

Rock Band has like 10 of the same songs from GH3 on their set list, which is stupid. Then again, RB does have Lords of the Underworld's song "Timmy!" as a bonus track :lol:
 
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I have GH3, but really haven't played it much since it came out (as Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 have taken up all of my gaming time). I used to be pretty good at GH and GH2 (could 4-star alot of songs on expert) but I noticed if I don't play for awhile I start to suck (I can't complete most of the songs on expert). For those with the 360 version there is already downloadable content with Foo Fighters and Velvet Revolver. I probably won't get Rock Band, but it's a cool concept.
 
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Planning on getting a 360 in the near future, and would like to try out the G.H. series.

Would you recommend getting G.H.2 used and buying disc 3? Or vice versa? Just curious if there's any useful reason to buy GH3 new.
 
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I've got GH2 and will be picking up Rock Band instead of GH3. I don't care about singing and drums, just guitar (and can use my GH2 guitar so I can just buy the game only). I like the song list better on Rock Band than GH3 and they seem to have fewer covers. But the ability to download the entire Who's Next album plus a full Metallica album (unknown which one at this time) seals the deal.
 
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Santa Claus brought us Guitar Hero III for Christmas. My son and I have been playing it virtually non-stop since Christmas morning. I've gone through the game entirely on both Easy and Medium already, and have started over again on Hard tonight. My son, who is seven, still can't get past Slow Ride on Easy, but he's consistently hitting 92% before screwing up the exit solo.

I am really impressed with the set list for GHIII. I cannot imagine what Activision must have ponied up to get the master recordings for some of these songs, let alone the entire compilation together. Considering royalty payments, I have to wonder if they even make any money off the thing.
 
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I'm sticking by my "This game is dumb" opinion, but it's a lot of fun. It's especially fun of co-op mode, but maybe that's because I don't mind playing bass. I got GH2 for Christmas. I plan on getting GH3 today, and maybe GH1, too. I got to play RockBand at Studepaber's over the weekend. It's good because more people can play at once. The guitar parts aren't as fun as they are on Guitar Hero, for some reason. And, supposedly, the guitar the Rock Band game comes with isn't as good as the one that comes with Hero. But your GH guitar works with RB.

There needs to be more difficulty levels. There should be one between Easy and Medium and one between Medium and Hard. Probably one between Hard and Expert, too.
 
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUzNcheoY6U]YouTube - Ben - GH3 - Through the Fire and Flames - 754K - 9 Years Old[/ame]

Silly 9-year-old can't even get 96% of the notes right.
 
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That same kid like...aced Freebird on GH2 I think, its unreal. I can barely pass Hard at times, I don't know how this kid does it. Oh, and I don't think I can do that DragonForce song hes playing...on Medium.
Beaten GH3 on Medium, working on Hard difficulty in Co-op mode. The set list is nice, Knights of Cydonia and One are a bitch to play. One lures you in, thinking its not gonna be bad...then you remember its Metallica and it'll kick your butt halfway through.
Played Rockband last night, buddy picked it up without the instruments. We just played with Guitar Hero guitars, it was still pretty cool. I like the look of the crowd, I'm not so sure the hammer-ons and pull-offs work as well as GH3 though, I think I got gipped a bit. I think Hard difficulty is better tuned on Rockband than GH. On GH it seems the jump from Easy to Medium isn't bad, but Medium to Hard is much more difficult to overcome. We were able to play Hard on Rockband without getting our butts handed to us as bad, I probably did 5-10% better on Rockband's Hard difficulty compared to GH. Just an observation so far, I was playing Bass half the time though.
 
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DEBuckeye;1047935; said:
If that kid spent the amount of time it must have taken to nail the video game actually learning how to play the guitar, he might be pretty good. Why not just learn to play the real thing???
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Because real guitars are for old people....didn't you see the Guitar Hero episode from South Park?

I got Rock Band over Christmas and was able to observe the mind-blowing bass abilities of Zurp. It's a good game for single player but it's a great game when you have 2+ people. Drums may be the most fun, although I have to stick with easy difficulty and can only do a few on medium. The guitar portion isn't quite as difficult as Guitar Hero on expert, but some of the songs area really tough (Blackened is a pain). Vocals are surprisingly fun unless you are tone-deaf, then it's pretty much pointless. Overall it's one of the best party games out there.
 
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