Nick Mason: We'd consider Pink Floyd Rock Band or Guitar Hero

I feel like I should sanitize my home with bleach now, what you just said is 10 shades of ridiculous.

Right and wrong.

Guitar Hero: Metallica is a much better single player experience than The Beatles: Rock Band.

The Beatles: Rock Band is a much better band experience, though.

It's not because GH:M was bad for band songs, it was just that the shared pool of star power is not fun. As a drummer, many times I have gone to activate star power, only to find out that the guitarist took it before I could activate. PLINK. Just missed. Also, if the vocalist uses a microphone that is very sensitive, they will activate star power all the time. Thankfully, they killed both of these problems in GH5. (indiv. star power and "clap" activation)

GH:Metallica can't be that much better if you're finding more entertainment in trolling...

Yeah, I discovered that after my post. My bad. I was confusing the number of weeks on the top 100 with sales figures. And Bat Out of Hell? Seriously? It's not only depressing that it's above Dark Side, it's depressing that it's there at all. And, as has been pointed out several times already, nothing by the Beatles is there. WTF?

I know, I'll never understand the draw of Meatloaf. Especially how I believe the third part of his rock opera tanked really badly. I can understand the soundtracks, as they had huge mainstream appeal. But it is interesting that the beatles didn't crack it. The only thing I can really guess is that during the start of their career, going out and buying the album wasn't as popular at that point. As it does seem that almost all of the top selling albums are albums were post Beatles. I'm assuming the decline of radio play and increase in home record sales as well as record players might show some collaboration along that line.

Completely ancedotal evidence, but anywhere I got shopping for vinyls I can always find at least two copies of Thriller in very good condition, but it's very rare I come across a Beatles album not to mention in good condition. In fact the cheapest Beatles album I ever bought was "Hey Jude" which isn't even a "true" Beatles album, and that was 12 bucks in ok condition. But I own several copies of Thriller that are even unopened, that I got for around 2-3 dollars. (Granted this was before MJ's death and the arbitray increase in price of anything MJ related)

I think GH:5 had a really fantastic interface, with wonderful animations. The whole game is very polished and fine. The only problem that anyone really has with it is the songs, it seems.

Guitar Hero: Metallica was a metalhead's dream come true. Not only were there great songs for casual players (Enter Sandman, the Unforgiven, King Nothing, Where ever I may Roam, Fuel, The Boys Are Back in Town, Toxicity), but they put in alot of AWESOME songs for the hardcore players (Fight Fire With Fire, Dyers Eve, War Ensemble, The Shortest Straw, Disposable Heroes, and Whiplash)

GH5, however, has good casual songs, and good hardcore songs.... but there is a big "middle ground" area in the game which is just filled with indie rock. I guess if you are into it, it's fantastic, but if not, you'll find yourself skipping a portion of the setlist.

Agreed with the long songs.

Do You Feel Like We Do is an amazing song, and Peter Frampton is amazing. But at 13 minutes long on GH5, it just wears you out.

Now you're just being lazy. You can scroll down the entire setlist in 3 seconds if you hold down the yellow button and strum down. Besides, why not make a playlist? Pick all the songs you wanna play, and shuffle them. If you change your mind, you can just skip the song.

Out of all the things to bitch about, you are bitching about one of the things they did right.

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