RedOctane unveils Guitar Hero 5 drums

Lame attempt to be "FIRST!" without actually saying the forbidden word, or anything of value.
Downvoting you anyway.

I wish I was as awesome as you.

No, seriously. i do.

To be honest, neither does the RB kit, or any kit that has a flat array of snare/toms.

If anything the snare pad should be parallel to the ground, and closer to the center.

The only true way to get a good "real" kit would be to buy the Ions, or buy any e-drum kit and run it through the MIDI port on the GHWT kit (if you have the GHWT kit, then this is a better option, that way you get 5 lanes in Guitar Hero, and 4 lanes in Rock Band.)

They still haven't figured where to place the hi-hat.

The Rockband kit is better because its more versatile. The poorly placed cymbals really just get in the way of the proper flow of playing a real kit. Then again to the 12 year olds I'm sure it "looks" more like a real kit.

Well, frankly, if you put a hi-hat on the left of the snare, someone who has never play drums before will sit down and hit it with their left hand because they don't know better. They will complain that the game is hard to play, and then they will not buy the game again, because they aren't left handed and didn't play it right at all.

And given that 1/50 people who will ever touch these will have touched a real drum set before, it might be better to put it to the right.

Your right it would be way to hard to demonstrate with a simple picture in the tutorial or at the beginning of play the first time how to use the set.

I know that was sarcasm, but really, some people just don't get it.

The game tells you how to activate star power, but yet rarely do I see a vocalist or drummer activate. The only reason people get it in Rock Band is because the game tells you that you can activate in drum fills or shouting in an orange section.

People will be playing a simple YYY(RY)YYY(RY) pattern at a decent tempo in WT/M/SH, and still not activate when everyone else is talking at them. I understand intense songs like Dyers Eve and Raining Blood are hard to activate in, but simple songs like Today and Stellar?

And vocals? All you have to do is hit the microphone, or press a button on the controller. Hell, if you want to have fun, you can scream something into the microphone (This is actually a problem in some songs. Every time I "metal scream" the word fuck in Laid to Rest, it activates (due to the censor gap).)

Problems or not, I like the ability to activate whenever in the GH games. Many times, our band has failed the song because the vocalist, who had overdrive, was doing a 3 minute cowbell-fest during the long complex guitar solo and couldn't activate.

But of course, in the WT era games, it is pooled, so it doesn't really matter. Pooled SP is bad, though. Glad they are cutting it.

the reason they dont do that is because they need to make the kit symmetrical for the lefties out there (like me). if they put the hi-hat to the left of the red pad(the "snare" for all the righties) it would be nice for all you righties out there but for the lefty population it would be almost impossible to play. they wouldn't make a special lefty kit too because there aren't enough lefties in the general population to justify this economicly, but if they make the kit just for righties the lefty pop. is just big enough that they would lose a lot of money. so they have to make the kit just right so nobody complains.

in my opinion i think the wt kit is very good and this is a great improvement. i like how they put the controls for the kit in front of the pads because it always bothered me that i couldnt hook my mic up to the 360 version without it falling out because the wire is too far away. i think that the ions are still the best kit to have but im not willing to spend 250 bucks for a video game peripheral.

and finally, i loved my wt drum kit. the rebound for them was incredible. the first thing wrong with them was the kick pedal, but with extra one i had from pre-ordering metallica it was all alright (btw it looks like they did some major improvements to that in the new kit). after a little less than a year of me beating on those pads, they finally broke on me about a week ago, (which, when you play consistently is a very good lifespan for both rb and gh drums imo) so the next drums im getting are going to be the gh5 set and im very excited for them, they look like a good cross between the gh4 set and the ions

I've just had this crazy idea. Maybe the colours are to represent the buttons onscreen? Surely Not!?!?

Is it that obvious I only have the one guitar?? What does the pedal do? It should be for a bass drum but I see no colors

The pedal is for the bass drum.

does the bass have it's own "circle" or does it act like the wammy bar on the guitar?

Bass drum is a horizontal line across the highway.

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/956/956318/guitar-hero-metallica-20090223014657981_640w.jpg

See that purple line?

The bass is a line that comes down. Unless you're playing Rock Revolution, then it's a triangle. But no one plays Rock Revolution.

I see what you did Akuma.

USB groupies?!!

*waves crossed fingers up and down excitedly*

Well, if the Rock Band 1 set was perfect, we would never need another drum controller. But that terrible thing was FAR FROM perfect, and the RB2 drums are much better.

This was a much more radical design change compared to Rock Band 1 to Rock Band 2, with almost everything except the layout itself changing. Looks more like an e drum kit.

GH sets use larger piezo sensors than RB drums, and if you get a good kit, they ARE better. However, RO needs to up the consistency this time around. RB2 kits are really consistent with their sensors. (Most drops are of result of the pads bubbling.) GH:5 kits need to be consistently good, to get any reputation at all.

@Hafkie

The red pad on my RB2 kit bubbled and it still hits at 100%

Whoops, I mistyped. I meant worse rebound after bubbling, not dropped notes.

Then you're not doing it right. I ONLY play my drums and my stick holders are still in tact.

You need to practice more and not wale on them like a 5 year old.

Thanks for the "tip" but I don't need to be told how to play drums.
Thanks.

You're Welcome!

Though I think they need to have the cord from the kickpedal coil like the rockband drumset so it's not in the damn way all the time. I have mine wrapped around that middle bar so it's not getting tangled around my pedal.

symbols? i see no symbols on that kit, you mean cymbals?

Really Spike? Come on, you knew what I meant, I knew what I meant. You don't have to point out slight grammatical errors like that.

AGREED!!! These look alot better as long as they are made more consistent this time than last I'm ALL IN...I like the GH drums 100X more than RB's. Plus I get 5 notes!

Actually, you can. The Ions (or any e-drum kit, for that matter.)

But yes, for the price point, the RB2 is the best kit you can buy right now.

i meant with toy drums, you aren't getting much better

I saw those Ion drums set up at a Best Buy for the first time the other week. After actually seeing them on display, I want them for sure.

Yes. When they made GH3, Nintendo's controller standard meant that you HAD to use Wii Remotes for peripherals. Be it classic controllers, zappers, you name it. They changed it by the time Rock Band came out, and they got around it.

They should have switched over to non-wiimote controllers in GH:WT, and keep the code for Les Pauls as well.