Guitar hero or rock band?

Neither!!!

Play real music!

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Rock Band! Yay!

Rock Band. Definitely.

I’m going with neither, if you’re over 10. Otherwise, for the same money for a gaming console and software you can buy a cheap instrument and start something great.

But, hell. I’d say Rock Band if you intend on playing with lots of people… I hear Guitar Hero isn’t really built for multiplayer action.

Rock Band.
Looking forward to the Beatles version coming out.

Beatles Rock Band! Yay!

I hate both of them. Even more, I hate the fact that people always, always assume that I should find it enjoyable.

“Hey, you play guitar! You’d like this!”
“No, I really wouldn’t.”
“Come on, try it. It’ll be fun.”
“I’ve tried it before. It was not fun.”
And then, of course, a tiny plastic “guitar” is thrust into my hands, and everyone is baffled when they see that my real-guitar skills do not translate to unconventional-video-game-controller skills. They would be even more baffled by the amount of non-enjoyment I was experiencing—that is, if they didn’t assume that I was just faking it because I didn’t want to admit that they were right about how much fun it would be.

@ aidje hahaha thats great!

Rock Band. Ignore these naysayers. I play both real guitar and Rock Band drums and vocals, and I’ve found hands down that playing Rock Band has caused my real life musical skills to increase. Well, singing IS singing, and Drums on Hard/Expert is pretty similar to drumming in real life. Some people just don’t have a musical inclination, so these games are really awesome in being able to let them feel what it’s like to “be” a musician. For real musicians coming to the game though, there will be a lot to be desired.

I find the drum tracks to be much better in RB than GH. Fleetwood Mac’s Go Your Own Way is proof of this – slamming awesome on RB, lame duck in GH.

Try out some rhythm/action games that don’t require outlandish, expensive clutter. Pick up an old copy of Parappa the Rapper, UmJammer Lammy, or Gitaroo Man for a fraction of the price!

The thing about Rock Band is that it is a great group activity and it’s on round two of full band development while GH is on round one. So Rock Band has already dealt with drum and vocal issues that might pop up, while GH is still kind of testing. I love that Rock Band 2 fixed the vocal issue I ran into where weirdly it just didn’t register me sometimes. So fixed!

@aidje: I’ve heard that if you play something in real life, your best Rock Band bet is to play ANYTHING ELSE.

Good point about the vocals. Since one of Harmonix games was the Karaoke Revolution series, they had a huge head start on the vocal quality, and essentially had the technology perfected before they even started on Guitar Hero. I was extremely disappointed with GHWT’s vocals, it was a shadow of Rock Band’s quality. Very sad.

The one thing RB doesn’t have that GHWT does, other than the pretty cool but critically undocumented music creator, is this neat feature – if you pause the game, when you unpause it GHWT gives you a countdown from 10 before the song continues, so that you can get your place and be ready. RB still doesn’t have this, but I’m sure it’ll come along in their next editions. It sure isn’t enough to make me want to buy GHWT.

@ dynamicduo I totally agree with you that Guitar Heros singing mechanism is a step down from Rock Bands. the only thing I do when my friends play those games is sing because I have always been decently talented at it and on Rock Band I can get above 90% on most songs on the expert setting. On guitar hero not so much… and they are the same damn songs on both games!