I actually asked for Rock Band for Christmas, but it turns out that the Wii version lacks the things that I was particularly looking forward to. Meanwhile, apparently Guitar Hero: World Tour rocks.
My prejudice is that Harmonix actually understand music, so that although I enjoyed GHIII, it no longer felt like making music (you didn't have to play precisely any more), and I believe that Rock Band still does. I don't know about GHWT.
So I'm conflicted and have, temporarily, taken it off my wish list while I think about it.
When we cleared up for Christmas, I discovered that the living room contained four plastic guitars, along with five dance mats, a set of bongos and a set of maracas. There were also nine actual real melodeons, a banjo, three harmonicas and several recorders. And no violin (a different story). Other controllers: Wii Fit, a snowboard controller, four wiimotes, two nunchucks, four wheels, three gamecube controllers, two Playstation controllers and two PS microphones. Two dancemats and the snowboard controller have gone to the tip (e-waste, though in fact they all work to some degree), and we are only keeping essential melodeons downstairs.
Each one has slightly lessened the requirement to hit the notes at the right time to register them; by GHIII this had reached the point where even I could tell that I was fumbling through
Gotcha - there's been a few times where I had to hit a whole series of nasty notes, made a frantic stab at hitting something like what I thought was coming, and did altogether better than I thought I should have done.
Shame GH1 and 2 aren't available on the Wii - I'd have liked to see how I did on them.
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andrewducker) wrote2008-12-16 08:32 am
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My prejudice is that Harmonix actually understand music, so that although I enjoyed GHIII, it no longer felt like making music (you didn't have to play precisely any more), and I believe that Rock Band still does. I don't know about GHWT.
So I'm conflicted and have, temporarily, taken it off my wish list while I think about it.
When we cleared up for Christmas, I discovered that the living room contained four plastic guitars, along with five dance mats, a set of bongos and a set of maracas. There were also nine actual real melodeons, a banjo, three harmonicas and several recorders. And no violin (a different story). Other controllers: Wii Fit, a snowboard controller, four wiimotes, two nunchucks, four wheels, three gamecube controllers, two Playstation controllers and two PS microphones. Two dancemats and the snowboard controller have gone to the tip (e-waste, though in fact they all work to some degree), and we are only keeping essential melodeons downstairs.
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The hammer-ons and pull offs worked slightly differently too.
However, I think my preference towards GH2 is mostly down to it being the first one I played.
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BWAH HAH HAH.
Ask those who crashed 'pon the rocky shores of Wolfmother on Hard and Expert how they feel about that.
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Shame GH1 and 2 aren't available on the Wii - I'd have liked to see how I did on them.