Guitar Hero Iron Maiden!!!!!

I just bought Excite Bike and Super Mario World for my Wii.  No boobs, but good fun.  ...I don't think I have a game with boobs in it :(

Now, I haven't played Guitar Hero or Rock Band, but my understanding is that Rock Band is 'better' since you can use more instruments.  Altho, my information comes from my 15 year old, so who knows?
 
True when you compare against older version of Guitar Hero, which were guitar only. Bass parts were added with GH II and multiple guitar parts with GH III. Then Rock Band came out with drums, and newer versions GH now have drums.
 
So, the two games, in their current incarnation, are pretty equal.  Mostly different music?  Do they play pretty similar?  What I'm wondering if it is easy or difficult to go from one to the other.  More out of curiositythan anything else.
 
depends on the Guitar Hero. in 3 you are able to play a VS. mode with two guitars and I believe if you team up you can do bass and guitar, I don't remember. In 5 (just released) both players can play guitar or bass on the same track... but it is still limited to the guitar. In rock band you have guitar, bass, mic and drums (the funnest imo). If you have a mic stand you can play any other instrument and sing of course. Works best if you can play the guitar without looking or easier if you already know the lyrics...
 
Gotcha, thanks!  My son was telling me that the drum set with Rock Band can be hooked up to a computer and used as 'electric drums'-- crazy.
 
Guitar Hero (and clones) might be fun, but it's like Facebook...more people use it with negative consequences. For example; it's very convenient to arrange a meeting via a social network site, but "having" meetings over social network site slowly turns you into a sociopath. To draw an analogy, kid that wants to learn guitar and fails over the first obstacle could find his savior in GH, because of his imagination.

Every kid that plays GH or Rock Band or whatever could be playing a real instrument. If you want to argue that GH could just be the right thing to produce a certain curiosity for the real instrument, and could motivate kids to go for real guitar, it' just like Facebook...most of 'em won't. Why? Why they don't ask girls out on the real date via Facebook? Because it's helluva easier to lead some sort of imaginary thing going on. Try it in real life. People are afraid of failures, and most kids today don't have strength to carry on after breaking a leg.

Rant mode off.

Actually, i've played some game called Raving Rabbits (or something like that) on friend's Nintendo Wii. You can dance and do all sorts of stuff with two Wii controllers, and you can also play some songs. I took the drums, and since i'm a musician (and we do have a sense of rhythm...don't we?) and i also know basics of real drumming, i kicked ass on my first play. My friend, who's not a musician, played keyboards (you're moving controllers like timing of notes, not simulating real notes) and he was also very good. Now, keyboards were on tougher level than drums, since they feature more variety in patterns. So on next level we switched. We were terrible, and that's when i realized how multiplayer in the game can be tricky. He missed drum timings badly, and i couldn't concentrate on rhythm in my head, was mislead by his drums and sucked big time :D

P.S. it would be fun to try the dance mode in the game, but two guys home alone dancing with Nitendo Wii to "Ladies Night"... :D
 
Zare said:
Actually, i've played some game called Raving Rabbits (or something like that) on friend's Nintendo Wii.
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I have the first edition of this on my Wii.  The best part is shooting rabbits with toilet plungers.  :)
 
Zare:

First, what's this crap about "having meetings on social networks turns you into a sociopath"?????

You may not like such networks - generally speaking, I don't either - but back that up with evidence or admit you're full of shit. Just because you don't like Facebook doesn't mean Facebook users are sociopaths.

Second, there's nothing wrong with Guitar Hero games. Just because it's not real instruments doesn't somehow make them bad. This idea of "it could be time spent playing real guitars" is horseshit. Not everyone wants to play a real guitar. It's a game, and some people just like playing games. Being a real musician doesn't make you any better than a gamer.

Should people who play FPSs go out killing with real guns? Should people who play GTA go beat up real hookers? Should people who play Civ try to become real dictators? THEY'RE GAMES. Untwist your panties and don't worry if other people are enjoying themselves.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Should people who play Civ try to become real dictators?
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Damn, I knew I wasted my time.


However, I really don't see Zare's problem with social networks. I use one extensively to keep contact to my old friends abroad and to arrange meetings with my friends here- i.e. real life meetings. Look at it this way: It's the money saved for an SMS or a phone call saying "come to this place tonight?". I have met a lot of good friends via this network, but not because I "chat them up" there, but because it is a good tool to gather together people with similar interests, as in my particular case, Berlin metalheads. There's a group there about that, I joined, saw what was going on, went to a few parties advertised there and bang- met dozens of people who are friends now. I really can't see anything wrong with this.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Zare:

First, what's this crap about "having meetings on social networks turns you into a sociopath"?????

You may not like such networks - generally speaking, I don't either - but back that up with evidence or admit you're full of shit. Just because you don't like Facebook doesn't mean Facebook users are sociopaths.

Second, there's nothing wrong with Guitar Hero games. Just because it's not real instruments doesn't somehow make them bad. This idea of "it could be time spent playing real guitars" is horseshit. Not everyone wants to play a real guitar. It's a game, and some people just like playing games. Being a real musician doesn't make you any better than a gamer.

Should people who play FPSs go out killing with real guns? Should people who play GTA go beat up real hookers? Should people who play Civ try to become real dictators? THEY'RE GAMES. Untwist your panties and don't worry if other people are enjoying themselves.
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I suck at the GH franchise games and the latest Civ.  Maybe that means I can be a rock star dictator in the real world.  :D
 
Derek Smalls said:
I always liked to build my city up in that game. Then  let it go to shit. Hey that is kinda like real life.
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I usually start to play "strategic bombing" when I can't expand the city anymore. As in, I do earthquakes so that there are fires everywhere and then blow up all the buildings. It's fun.
 
Derek Smalls said:
I always liked to build my city up in that game. Then  let it go to shit. Hey that is kinda like real life.
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lol, I really like the Caesar games over the Sim games. Specially Caesar III.
 
I only played Caesar II and I absolutely loved it, even though I was never very good at it. I really feel like installing it on my old Windows '98 PC I have standing around here for the old games Vista won't handle, especially since I got the Romulus album by Ex Deo (and saw them live) and re-read Plutarch's biography of Julius Caesar the other day.
 
huh, that reminds me when I was listening to Symphony X's Paradise Lost while reading Milton's Paradise Lost and when I got home i popped in some Paradise Lost (the band)...
 
This belongs in this thread with banned users and discussion about rules:
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