With the price drop I would say the PS3 is the more attractive option right now…assuming you are not heavily into online gaming (Live still kicks the shit out of PSN, aka the silent ghost town, as a social network).
More on topic I’m pretty psyched for some Tom Petty.
sinfony
4182
Totally forgot about Rock Band Network. That makes the 360 the one to get, hands-down.
wumpus
4183
The PS3 price drop is crap, considering
- you can get an Arcade for $199
- you can get a 120gb HDD off Ebay for $70 shipped
so that’s $269. The only real discriminating factor price-wise is the WiFi. If you need that, then the price factor does tip in the PS3 direction.
Umm…I was factoring in Blu-Ray for a guy who is about to drop some coin on a brand new plasma. But true, for a purely gaming rig the 360 still wins.
Do we have a ruling on note charts for “I Wont Back Down” or the Eve 6 track? They both rate kinda low on difficulty which sometimes means boring charting.
wumpus
4186
I’m calling it. I predict more Guitar Hero 5 thunder-stealing DLC next week! I expect all the “big name” songs they hold rights to and haven’t released, but are now GH5 tracks, are fair game.
I’d put “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at the top of that list, and maybe “Spirit of Radio” since RB2 already has so much Rush.
sinfony
4187
See, now you have my hopes up. When they don’t release Spirit of Radio, I’m going to be crushed.
Shadarr
4188
I was hoping for a similar thunder-stealing DLC pack for GH:Smash Hits and it didn’t happen, so I’m not getting my hopes up again.
My PS3 guitar rack disagrees:
Dreamgear Warbeast http://www.dreamgear.net/shop-by-platform/sony-playstation-3/warbeast-guitar.html
Peak Starpex http://www.go-peak.com/
The Warbeast especially, is easily the best rhythm game controller I’ve tried for any platform.
wumpus
4190
Well, there’s still no PS3 version of
- Mad Catz Bass controller
- Mad Catz Telecaster guitar controller
- Stage Kit
The PS3 just needs to crawl in a hole somewhere and die; the winners this cycle were the Wii and the Xbox 360. It’s a waste of resources.
I wish I wasn’t so interested in the premium Mad Catz Strat. That’s a lot of money to part with.
I doubt it will be this holiday, but that guitar is definately on my list when I have some extra cash. Certainly if one of my guitars goes, that’s what I’m replacing it with.
As for this week’s DLC, here’s a shout out for “World Turning.” I’m surprised I haven’t heard some love from some of the other blues fans.
Harmonix’s games have really turned me around on some bands that I thought I hated. Boston. Rush. And, now, Fleetwood Mac. Not that I really hated Fleetwood Mac, but I didn’t really appreciate them the way I do now. Especially since I’m like the 95% of the world who only really knows them for the tracks off of Rumors.
CSL
4194
Yeah but Rumors is awesome.
sluggo
4195
I just DLd and played this for the first time tonight, and I second this: “World Turning” is a blast to play on guitar.
sinfony
4196
Been trying to play through some challenges on Expert guitar, and I’ve reached the point where I just can’t really enjoy the guitar in this type of game. It’s too abstract and game-y; what’s difficult to play in Rock Band often has little or nothing to do with how difficult the song is on a real guitar. Perhaps that doesn’t bother most people, but I just can’t get into it anymore.
sinfony
4198
The first one that jumps out is “Cherub Rock.” In Rock Band, once the distorted guitar comes in, you always have at least one finger down on a button, you’re moving the other fingers across chords, and you’re changing the chord shape. On a real guitar, the low note there is played on the open E string, and the rest of it is played with one chord shape that you slide up and down the neck. The song is also totally undercharted - those are chords (well, root-octave, but still two strings) in the verse, not single notes. It just feels entirely wrong. What I’m doing in Rock Band does not approximate what I would be doing on a real guitar, and I don’t like that. It’s not like they made a bad game, it’s just the limitations of the controller. Open-string droning is very common and crops up in a lot of these songs, but it’s not something that Rock Band has implemented, and it can’t really be implemented satisfactorily (since you’d still have to lift your hand off the other buttons, unlike the real thing).
The guitar solo, too, is a pale imitation of the real thing. Where the real solo has a lot of whammy dives and…I don’t know if there’s an actual term, I’ll call them grace-note slides (quiet slides up or down the neck coming into or out of a note) that the game just charts as holding a single note or even just one note. Go to the very beginning of the solo and you’ll see what I’m talking about - you can hear the pitch of the guitar sliding up and down, but the chart just has two single notes.
Guess we were all wrong about “all GH5 thunder-stealing, all the time” predictions. But hey, Bat Country!
I repeat, BAT COUNTRY!!!
I’ve been wanting this song in Rock Band since the game first came out. YES!
