Poll: Rock band or Guitar Hero?

[Mr. Fister]

I like Guitar Hero 3 and Aerosmith, but World Tour was as mediocre as could be, and the upcoming setlist for Smash Hits looks like they randomly picked songs out of a hat. I've played Rock Band on drums, and I really enjoyed that, so I might be jumping ship the next chance I get....

 

[Audemas]

Rock Band has a better track list so Rock Band gets my vote.

 

[The Irrelevant Gamer]

I came to late to the party with these games, and hopped on the Rock Band train while it was boarding at the station, and before Guitar Hero had other instruments. I don't see the need to jump ship now that I have hundreds of tracks from Rock Band 1 & 2, and all the DLC. It's more a matter of investing in just one band game rather than having a preference.

 

[Khazoth]

Rock Band is generally easier then Guitar Hero and allows you to customize your own characters.


Guitar Hero makes you feel more important when your playing the guitar.

 

[Gamer137]

Rock Band games have better setlists, more DLC, and most are from the original bands and not cover bands. I prefer Rock Band.

 

[waggmd]

Which game series is getting the Beatles. I think that shows which is the better series. The Guitar Hero series went down hill after Harmonix left.

 

[Dr. FreeBird]

I Said GH because I'm in Australia and its shit RB came out not long ago and i grew a bond with GH in the time RB wasn't out

 

[NBSRDan]

Rock Band - it took what Guitar Hero started, and perfected it.

 

[TOO S0BER]

Neither. I don't see a point in RB or GH. If I wanted to play music, I would play a REAL instrument. Not a cheap, plastic knockoff...

Same goes for sports and racing. If I wanted to play football, I would play the real sport. As for racing, joining Nascar or whatever.

 

[AbuFace]

Where's the option for both? There are bits and pieces from each that I like. I'd be all for mating the two games and creating "Rock Hero" that surpasses both titles.

Neither. I don't see a point in RB or GH. If I wanted to play music, I would play a REAL instrument. Not a cheap, plastic knockoff...

Same goes for sports and racing. If I wanted to play football, I would play the real sport. As for racing, joining Nascar or whatever.

Really, you'd up and join Nascar? I suppose if you wanted to shoot guns you'd go join the army or mafia, right? While it's fine to prefer a real life activity to a video game rendition of one, if you apply that logic to everything then you'd never play a video game, which is clearly not the case for you as you're posting on a video gaming forum =P

 

[Srkkl]

Rockband 2 kicks some ass, I've probably played that game more than any other game. EVER.

 

[KampfVerein]

Rock Band, bar none. In design, in philosophy, in DLC support, in everything. The classier choice.

However, the RB instruments are notoriously bad, so secretly marry your Rock Band software with your Guitar Hero instruments, and enjoy the best of both worlds!

 

[Vuljatar]

Rock Band. This is why:

Rock Band has:
More songs. Way, way, way more songs For less money.
Better songs.
More accurate charts and more realistic difficulty. (That second part refers to the "slide notes" in the new Guitar Hero games, that make it so that my mother who has a crippled left hand and has never played either game in her life can pass the TTFAF intro. Also the Guitar Hero games have such a wide timing window that the game is artificially easy.)

Guitar Hero has:
Better peripherals.
A few AWESOME songs that I wish Rock Band had. (Free Bird, Crazy Train, TTFAF, Hot for Teacher, etc.)
More "creative" charts--sometimes this is a good thing, sometimes it isn't.

 

[Meado]

Rock Band has near 700 songs avaliable for download, plus the original playlist (making it over 800), plus the new network thing they're making, all avaliable on one game. Cost doesn't matter much because you can pick and choose which songs you want.

Guitar Hero has 8 games (not counting Greatest Hits) with about 50 songs each, none of which can be played on the other versions meaning you have to own all of them to get the full setlist. That's half as many songs taking up 8-times the shelf space at a much higher cost, and you have to change the discs.

Guess which one I prefer.

 

[Saxon777]

I dislike Rock Band for the same reasons Yahtzee does

And the fact that I have stuck with Guitar Hero since it came out...

 

[Vuljatar]

On the subject of difficulty, I honestly find that Rock Band has the best of both sides. It has more easy, fun, "party" songs, and more difficult songs. Constant Motion, Rude Mood, Warriors of Time, and Caprici Di Diablo are more difficult than anything the Guitar Hero series has.

And the fact that I have stuck with Guitar Hero since it came out...

Which really means you've changed sides. The only similarities between old-school Guitar Hero (1, 2, and 80s) and the new Guitar Hero are the name "Guitar Hero" and the fact that it's a rhythm game. Harmonix made the old-school GH games, and then Activision purchased the name and proceeded to rape it to death while Harmonix made Rock Band.

 

[pompom8volt]

I refuse to vote because both games have ups and downs. i haven't played worl tour but guitar hero usually has better/more interesting guitar game play, but rockband was always the better party game. i guess i can't really say though since i haven't played world tour.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

Rock Band doesn't insist on you choosing the one and only hard drive in your console as your storage device for every player individually every time you do anything.

Rock Band lets you build your own avatar.

Rock Band timing feels better to me.

Rock Band has much longer song lists and you can choose which tracks to pay to add to it.

Guitar Hero doesn't make you go quite as far back out to swap instruments between sets.

Frets on Fire supposedly lets you play the 1300-or-so song combined song list ... if you can find it.

Now if Harmonix would kindly confirm that they actually intend to release an instrument set in stores outside North America at some point during this or the coming decade, that'd be progress.

 

[mikecoulter]

Why is not playing either a fail?

I play real guitar, in an actual band. Do I call you fail? No...