Comments on: Music Games (or, Games About Playing Music)

By: SHR! Game of the Year 2009: Mutter’s Picks | SuperHighResolution!

SHR! Game of the Year 2009: Mutter’s Picks | SuperHighResolution! — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:00:51 +0000

[...] corpse-humping the Guitar Hero Franchise. Let’s not forget this blog was founded on a comparison post of Rock Band and Guitar Hero! But DJ Hero is completely different: It’s the closest thing to Amplitude/Guitar Hero 1 [...]

By: MutterFudder

MutterFudder — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:55:53 +0000

For my money, the most fun to play in a group is Rock Band 2. However, the Trev and Joe are correct: GH2 had some of the best single-player guitar note tracks in the biz. GH3 never felt “right” to me, and as a single player guitarist, RB is somewhat lacking.

By: I Trevelyan I

I Trevelyan I — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:45:01 +0000

I still think GH II is the most fun out of all of them. But I suspect that it’s more nostalgia from the fact that the genre was new and interesting still, not overblown with massive “master tracks” that are really the selling point of the game nowadays.
I really never minded the cover songs, since you’re pretending to be in a cover band anyway. Playing Pearl Jam in GH III just sounded weird to me when I did it, and it wasn’t just the overblown retarded note charts either. To me, it was me playing a game “to the music”, and getting a good grade afterward. In other words, I think the master tracks make the games more “empty” and heartless. That, and we’re all a bunch of spoiled assholes that are sucking this well dry.
It’s going into SPACE! Give it a second!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:49:22 +0000

Glad to see Bodhisattva is “fast”. Well, it is Walter Becker after all…
Which one is the most fun to play, iyo?

By: MutterFudder

MutterFudder — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:28:36 +0000

Totally agree with GH2 being best of breed. And if I hear one more person say GH3 was better solely on the basis of GH2 being all covers, I’m going to rip out their larynx.

By: Definitely Joe

Definitely Joe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:07:45 +0000

Just a couple comments from a non-emo-non-fanboy of either game. However i do lose points for being “musically inclined.”
1. Nice article.
2. GH II is still the king when it comes to any game involving a guitar peripheral. Yes this includes RB and anything that shows up in the meantime.
3. GH III’s note charts are not overblown in their criticism. They are horrid. I could go on about it’s problems but for me it began and ended with strums thrown in the middle of pull-offs. (This is where i lose points for playing a real one.) Sure i could bitch about the lame battles and the easy HOPO’s, but for me those paled in comparison. When i’m sailing along on a nice solo of (insert song) and i lose my combo because of a rainbow of notes that for some reason other than to be assholes there’s a strum in the middle of it, that’s where i throw a flag for unsportsmanlike conduct. If you’re going to mimic it, do it right. Don’t ruin the game because Kyle Schmyle can full combo Jordan.
I have yet to play WT and honestly i don’t have high hopes. If the most interesting part to me is the creation mode it’s a bad sign to start with.
Rock Band is a great game and a lot of fun. But part of me wishes they had just kept going with the GH’s. Ah well, it’s the guitarist in me i suppose.

By: MutterFudder

MutterFudder — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:35:19 +0000

You have a bright future commenting here, me thinks lol lol lol

By: Not pat connors

Not pat connors — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:23:10 +0000

Well put LOL LOL LOL
GH fans are fags LOL LOL LOL
Just kidding LOL LOL LOL