Guitar Hero or Rock Band?

I prefer Rock Band due to chart accuracy and song Variety. Guitar Hero has been lacking lately with that.

 

Well, the dual guitar argument has been addressed, so I'll go with the quality/quantity argument. The first thing to note is that Neversoft's first rhythm game was Guitar Hero III. Harmonix Music Systems not only did Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II, but they did six rhythm games before the original Guitar Hero. Harmonix specializes in rhythm games and they have only released one game that wasn't a rhythm game. Harmonix as a side effect of their specialization of rhythm games is made almost entirely up of musicians and those that aren't are most likely massive music geeks anyway.

As a side effect of the majority of Harmonix employees being musicians, many of them have bands outside of work that fans refer to as "Harmonix bands." These include Freezepop (featured in both Guitar Hero and Rock Band), Abnormality (featured in Rock Band 2), Bang Camaro (featured in both Guitar Hero and Rock Band), Anarchy Club (featured in both Guitar Hero and Rock Band) and Megasus (featured in Guitar Hero). By no coincidence, Neversoft chose to forgo all of the Harmonix bands when they took over Guitar Hero despite bands like Anarchy Club, Freezepop and Bang Camaro being fan favorites.

I think it would be safe to say that Harmonix has a FAR greater grasp and appreciation of music than Neversoft ever will.

Yes, there is a lot of songs available for Rock Band, but its not like they rushed them out the door. They release a few songs every week, but who knows how long they work on each pack considering that they announce upcoming songs, track packs and albums weeks and even months in advance. They have been releasing songs weekly for almost two years now. Of course they would build up such a large quantity by this point.

As for quality, of the 250 or so songs I have, I have yet to find one that was poorly charted.

And for difficulty, try Megadeth, Metallica, Yngwie Malmsteen, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Between The Buried and Me, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Mastodon and Judas Priest.

And finally, for bass, this may be my bias as a bassist talking, but believe it or not, but bass can be fun. Bands like Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Rush, KISS, Dream Theater and Motorhead give challenging and, more importantly, fun basslines. Some bands, like Motorhead, Rush and Kansas actually have harder bass parts than guitar parts.

 

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Didn't realize that Megasus was in Rock Band. Of course, that's only a few Harmonix bands.

 

There are a few poorly charted songs out there, but very very few,
1. Blackened - Metallica. Solo A is blatantly wrong.
2. I Aint Superstitious - Chorus 2 - badly overcharted
3. Constant Motion - Dream Theater - Solo D overcharted, they charted 32nd notes instead of 16th note triplet

 

Well, Cloud3514, I've finally met someone other than myself who enjoys the bass parts.

Kitty, I know you've already purchased the game, but you made a great choice! I presonally like Rock Band better than Guitar Hero when it comes to playing it with my friends, because they were the first to have instruments besides Guitar. It seemed like Guitar Hero was trying to copy Rock Band just to make money, and that ticked me off.

 

While I'm not trying to excuse any problems (though I have to disagree for Constant Motion since Dream Theater does in fact play excessively complex music), this actually are only sections of songs, which is far better than entire songs being overcharted in Guitar Hero. I mean, you're going to get the occasional bad chart, after all, **** happens and not even the greatest chart designers are perfect, but a few bad charts out of almost a 1000 songs? Yeah.

 

It's true though.
They didn't put in the triplet feel and now it's somewhat faster.

 

Its a bit on subjective side, but that isn't the point, the point is that a few problem charts when there are over 800 songs should be expected.

 

I wasnt bashing the game.
It IS overcharted, look it up. It's been proven.

 

Yes I completly agree.
Rock band's charts are really good compared to Guitar Hero's.
I'd play any Rock Band over any guitar hero anyday.