Rumor: Guitar Hero 5 drum set to look an awful lot like Rock Band's

But the GH 5 drums have a new hat!

THIS IS REVOLUTIUONARY

IN YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN FACE HARMONIX

Let's hope they're nothing like the drums that came with GH:WT, orange cymbal broke, sensitivity issues on yellow and red, kick pedal not having enough grip on the floor and thus moving away all the time while playing, drum sticks snapped in half (I was not wailing like a moron, and the replacement sticks they sent were much heavier, so I guess they just used cheap ones for the first shipments), it was just a terrible experience all around.

Thank god the customer support at Activision is pretty damn decent, painless RMA's online for everything, didn't even need to send back anything or make a single phone call.

Am I missing something?

The article is comparing pictures of the drum set from "Guitar Hero World Tour" to that of "Guitar Hero 5". I don't see a picture of the Rock Band drums, either 1 or 2.

???

@ Derek


No, no. What Khevral is saying that Rock Band drums aren't shown at all.

I stopped playing Guitar Hero after GH 3 and even more after I saw the lame devs at Neversoft playing GH: World Tour at one of their gameplay reveals. There could not have been a more uncool moment in the history of music.

Whether it looks like RB's drums is irrelevant, as long as they work across both games.

Nah man it's all kinds different my song is ice ice baby its got a complete different beat

I guess the fact that the set looks similar to Guitar Hero World Tour's drum set is irrelevant, right Joystiq?

The bar at the bottom of the RB drums that the pedal is supposed to latch on to is really annoying. It just gets in the way. That is not where I want to put the pedal. GH was on the right track by letting you place the pedal where you want.

Hammer-on chords in RB were stupid, because it's not only annoyingly difficult due to the poor mechanics, but because it's a technique that is basically unused in real rock music. I was glad that they weren't in GH.

Individual star power in band mode was a stupid idea in RB. If a person sucked enough to fail out of a song, they probably sucked enough to not be able to gather their own star power and they would sail out of the song anyway. GH had a great idea making star power universal. Not only was it easier to save yourself if you're failing out since you can use the star power that other people have gathered, but a really talented player could keep using star power over and over during a very point-rich section to increase their score dramatically.

So who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?

i'll stick to my RB2 drums with 3 cymbals, thank you

Hey RB fanboys....how about waiting for the actual announcement to start ur bitching. This is just a blurry image that they haven't even confirmed yet so don't get ur little panties in a bundle.

My number one main concern is reinforcement of the pads, especially the red, which, as the snare, is often hit with more force than any other.

I'm on my FOURTH set of GHWT drums (thank goodness, they were kind enough to replace under warranty) for the simple fact that during normal expert-level play, the red pad looses all its rubber to the point of irreversible damage.

Fix this, and I will upgrade, for sure.

I say potato, you say patata

Remember people, we are still boycotting Craptivision.

I'm still waiting for Marching Band Hero. A tuba, a trumpet, a trombone, and a plastic cheerleader with motion control would make a great party set.

I'm not buying anymore music games until they put in the Dueling Banjos for a song.

Wait...they put in a bar to put the kick pedal on, move the controls to the front of the pads and all the sudden it "looks a lot like the Rock Band drums"? That makes no sense. 3 pads and 2 cymbals does not equal 4 pads. The two sets have some vague stylistic similarities (probably due to using parts from the same wholesale distributors), but that's nothing.

That being said, Rock Band is the better game from my experience. And whoever the tool is who said hammer-ons and pull-offs aren't used in real music needs to pick up a real guitar sometime. Playing a music sim doesn't make you a musician.

...the cymbals are round instead of a semi circular shape, rock band drums don't even have cymbals! htf is that like rock band, it just seems like they padded up the WT ones

It was actually impossible to play the drums on GHWT when you were also trying to talk to friends online because the plug was above the pads, meaning you constantly pulled the headset off with flailing arms.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT! LOUD NOICES!

- Brick Tamland

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I don't know if it's been mentioned here already (lazy), but on the Xplay preview, they played on the old drums and there was an old kit behind Brian Bright. They mention a new guitar, but nothing about drums (or a mic).

http://www.hulu.com/watch/89064/x-play-guitar-hero-5-preview