Guitar Hero director knocks Rock Band 2 cymbals

yeah, real instruments is fun, but this is a videogame we're talking about. And you cant really compare the videogame guitars with the real one because the real ones is 100 times harder

Yeah guys! Red Leader doesn't like the games so we should all stop having fun! When will we learn!?

Yeah, stupid party games for people with friends! I hate them!

... so lonely.

After all these years of playing music games...

Red Leader just pointed me to the light.

I'm an idiot for having fun. Well, back to work!

Precisely the kind of people I'm talking about. If I was hanging out with my friends and we wanted to play music, we'd use real instruments. Anything you can do in reality (sports and music basically) without any strings attached should be done IN REALITY.

People that spend hundreds of dollars on the same limiting crap that they can do for next to free baffle me.

We all have time to buy and learn and instrument and make that commitment. So he's right guys, don't get a game to have fun. Also, you don't need friends to play a guitar!

Real instruments cost more and actually require practice and tuning to sound good.

I see your point, but it is all fair for a group of friends to play a little bit of RB or GH but once you start playing them alone, you need to get out and get a life quick. Your dangerously close to the 'South Park' senario and taking it too seriously.

Do, pray tell, let me know where they're giving away these "next to free" real musical instruments. I've been in the market for an oboe, but I didn't want to pay more than $2.

@Red Leader

Why do you even care if other people buy rock band and guitar hero? It really sounds like you just want something to bitch about. Not everyone one has the time or is willing to dedicate their time to learning the guitar or the drums. What's so wrong with wanting to play a game simulating the real thing? Last I checked call of duty 4 does the same damn thing. Would you say that game needs to die too?

Your either trying to look cool by saying guitar hero and rock band needs to die, or your just an elitist prick who thinks everyone should "go out and play the real thing." Congrats man, you sound like a real douche bag.

red, you obviously don't drink.

While I agree with Red on some things, just let people have their fun.

I will buy GHWT and RB2 games only. No way in hell I'm buying any more "instruments". Guitar Hero and their stupid "drum kit" sucks. The drums and guitar get boring anyway, I like to sing and play guitar or drums, or just play the solo singing career.

To Activision credit you do have GH: On Tour. What other game to I get to yell Rock Out to activate star power?

Sex?

You can tell "Rock Out" to activate Overdrive (Star Power) in Rock Band if you'd like, it'll work just fine.

I heard the re-map of the kit works well. It obviously only works during fills and Big Rock Endings, when you're making your own noise, but still good.

But I'm also really hoping you can tune up the Rock Band kit to have 5 inputs with world tour, because I don't want another drum kit around.

Well, as it is now, the sound that comes out from the color of pad you hit is based on the song. So if it calls for a high-hat, and you hit the blue pad, it will be a high-hat sound. Only now you can actually hit an approximation of a raised cymbal to make it "feel" more realistic.

I believe I also read somewhere that even though they're duped, they can tell if you've hit a cymbal or not. So, in drum fills you'll get a different sound from the cymbals than the correlating drum pad. At least I thought I read that somewhere, I'm just too lazy to look it up right now.

As a general rule, if the same joke appears twice in the same news, it's common enough to be unfunny.

Stop it.

come again

Oh, like your brand loyalty with Nintendo?

What are you smoking? They invented Guitar Hero in the first place!

"come again"

Rock Band ripped off Guitar Freaks and Drum Mania, now have a lawsuit because of it.They're not new or original and Guitar Hero is not "copying them", they're both copying Konami's Arcades.

Also, HMX fanboys and RB = Good GH = Evil bias will always be there no matter how many Rock Band's hypocrisies I have to point out.

Keep going with the hypocrisies please, I want to test your hypothesis.

Harmonix added a lot to Guitar Hero and Rock Band that wasn't in Guitar Freaks. Star Power/Overdrive, for starters.

Go ahead and play Guitar Freaks or Rock Revolution and tell me how much of the greatness of GH/RB comes from Konami.

Who cares.

Most fools will buy both anyways....

Including myself.

"Keep going with the hypocrisies please, I want to test your hypothesis."

Shit, I'm only gonna list a few right off my mind.Bear in mind I'm really tired so there's probably many openings and counter-arguments that could be used to this.It's only for reference so please don't just steamroll me with your HMX love and when I wake up and see this tomorrow, I don't want to see so many replies that writing a comeback would take an eternity.

Guitar Hero rips off Rock Band: Covered already - Rock Band isn't a completely new idea either.And what about their rumored Music Creation project? Sound kinda similar to GHWT Create-a-song, isn't it?

Guitar Hero note charts are overcharted:
RB's Expert = GH's Hard. If anything, Rock Band's charts are oversimplified. Some players like to have a challenge and if anything, the charts should always be as hard as they can get.

Harmonix cares for their customers unlike Neversoft/Activision who don't give a shit: Oh, is that why they released Rock Band in EU at $375 for the full set and tried to blame the double price on 17.5% VATax? Or should I mention the faulty launch instruments?

Guitar Hero forces you to buy a new game and a new instrument each year while Rock Band is a one buy set that's fuelled by a supply of DLC:

DLC, Check. One-time-buy...wait a second, isn't Rock Band 2 coming out barely a year after the first one with new instruments that like...you know actually work? Now with better registering and non-snapping drum pedal it's a must-buy for all those Expert Drummers pissed-off because they're on their nth broken Drum Set.I'm pretty sure that GH which introduces simply introduces a new guitar model doesn't "force you to buy it" as much as RB which introduces it as New and Improved(ie: Fixed!).

SHUT THE HELL UP AND PRESS START ALREADY! I WANT TO PLAY!

I forgot that you knew me in person OMG. I guess that Xbox and PS1 that I have are case modded Nintendo systems.

ye i wanna know if this means we can use our own electric drums...

LOL, I see NF users have found their way to Joystiq. :awesome

well to that i say, its definitely not gonna proficiently teach you how to play the drums. However, it's a step up in realism to what the guitar peripherals offer. You can't deny that if you're able to play a song on hard using the drums, then you're likely going to be able to at least play a simple beat on an actual drumset. I don't care if you can get 100% on expert using the guitar, it undoubtedly isn't gonna translate to being able to play anything on a real guitar. Thats the difference.

Well, according to somebody who's a real Guitar Player, playing TTFAF on Expert is apparently a good warm up.