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Rock Band 3 |OT|
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The Friendly Monster
Member
No, totally depends what music you are playing.mrklaw said:
It would be nice if it told you what key you are in at any point, I think it would make the notes you are playing make a lot more sense for everyone.
deathsight580 said:
Got buried in the thread but last night I got the Guitar Hero 5 bundle at Target on clearance for $22.50. They had both PS3 and X360 versions.
I had never used a GH guitar before, oh man. It's so much better than either of my two Strats (both RB1, one wireless.) It's fucking awesome. I actually felt like I might be able to play hard after just playing with it for an hour, I was getting 95% on Boston songs that were almost an instant fail on my old guitar.
Of course the bundle comes with a game too, but just getting that guitar for RB3 was worth way more than $22.
My only question is the fret board on the GH5 guitar, can that double as 'solo buttons' in RB? I've never used the solo buttons and I'm having a hard time discerning 'solo sections' in RB3 with the blue highway, so I just wanted to be sure before I failed out trying it. Reading the GH manual it seems that it's used for a different function in GH, but having never played that game I wasn't sure what it was talking about.
Also liked the fact that GH5 is a true band game, I wasn't sure about that. Being a singer though as well as mediocre guitar player that made the game more exciting for me personally.
butter_stick
Banned
GH5 guitar can't duplicate solo buttons at all.
very annoying how it resets the filters *every* time you choose a song.
Make a custom setlist and want to use only keyboard songs? Check the 'keyboard' filter. Finish that set, start the next one, its bloody forgotten it again :/
I read that you can play Bass with the keyboard, if you are using the keyboard and playing a song with no keys. How does that work - is it like tapping out one great long solo? if you have to hit the coloured keys in time with the strum I imagine that just feels odd - normally you are on the colour keys in advance of the strum.
Make a custom setlist and want to use only keyboard songs? Check the 'keyboard' filter. Finish that set, start the next one, its bloody forgotten it again :/
I read that you can play Bass with the keyboard, if you are using the keyboard and playing a song with no keys. How does that work - is it like tapping out one great long solo? if you have to hit the coloured keys in time with the strum I imagine that just feels odd - normally you are on the colour keys in advance of the strum.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
What's so bad about the GH:WoR guitar? I find it difficult to believe a GH guitar would be shitty, from a playing perspective.
Rewrite said:
So many great touches (beyond the clicky strummer which I suspected I would love, having gotten one of the dead strats the first time around in RB) you can tell the guitar was crafted for the player. The back button is the 'pick ups' so to speak, always ready to smack with your heel while strumming, no more flailing around for the back button.
No more flailing around for the back button and hitting start! You'll be hard pressed to push start accidentally on this controller.
And finally, and most surprising to me, the much thicker neck helps keep my fingers in better position. No more almost instant hand cramps. In one night it made me think about trying to find a real guitar with a thicker neck, as I've always owned a fender strat (not that I'm a serious player by any stretch.)
To get that plus a game for $22, it makes me want to get another one on Mon and flip the game :lol
It's too freakin' small, the whammy bar is pretty much useless, the start and select buttons are too hard and uncomfortable.NameGenerated said:
The guitar itself is also ugly and uncomfortable, and you get a small USB key that looks like a small Bluetooth adapter instead of the World Tour-style USB hub (which means two less USB ports to connect the rest of your instruments).
sublime085
Member
That's weird, I don't have that problem. Whenever I'm playing keys by myself, I check off sort by difficulty, pro keys support only, and it stays that way until I change it again.mrklaw said:
They put strums in there where it makes sense. Then you have stuff like the outro for Antibodies to remind you that you are only human.mrklaw said:
Terrordactyl
Member
sneaky77 said:
So you realize this hinders your ability to play and you've never tried to correct it?
It kinda sucks when alt strumming too, it's really easy to lose your grip on it because it comes to a razor fine fucking point, the only reason I haven't ebay'd it for 12 dollars is because it's tiny, tiny enough for my children and wife.
Looks similar to the GH World Tour one... that had a strum bar break on me a month after warranty :/fernoca said:Another vote for the GH5 guitar.
Is nearly year old, has been in the closet in a corner, even fell a few times and it still looks and plays perfectly; and no problems with the sensor neither.
Thankfully, I've got this:
Built like a brick shithouse (heavy!) and the world's best strum bar (mmmaybe second best next to the 360 Xplorer). But because it's for GH it doesn't have the solo fret buttons
Oh well, at least I scored it for $70AU delivered a while back
Looks pretty, what's the name/model?Shaneus said:Looks similar to the GH World Tour one... that had a strum bar break on me a month after warranty :/
Thankfully, I've got this:
Built like a brick shithouse (heavy!) and the world's best strum bar (mmmaybe second best next to the 360 Xplorer). But because it's for GH it doesn't have the solo fret buttons
Oh well, at least I scored it for $70AU delivered a while back
butter_stick
Banned
Solo buttons are so stupid. Such an odd thing for Harmonix to do.
Shaneus said:Built like a brick shithouse (heavy!) and the world's best strum bar (mmmaybe second best next to the 360 Xplorer). But because it's for GH it doesn't have the solo fret buttons
Not selling me. I hate the Xplorer, including it's crummy strum bar.
GH2 guitar, or GHWT/GH5 guitar, IMO.
Xplorer and GH3 guitar are the worst guitars Red Octane made.
BigBlackGamer
Member
wtf? the gh3 les paul guitar is fucking amazing.
butter_stick
Banned
The slider bar doesn't give you a ridiculous advantage for no reason.KaYotiX said:
Tranced Shadow
Member
BigBlackGamer said:
I find it's pretty good until it breaks (which seems to inevitably happen with the LP)...
butter_stick
Banned
Definitive guitar rankings
GH5 > GHWT > GH3 > GHWoR > GH2 > RB guitars past RB1 > shit > RB1 guitar
GH5 > GHWT > GH3 > GHWoR > GH2 > RB guitars past RB1 > shit > RB1 guitar
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
The PS2 SGs were so flimsy.
Also PS2 SGs didn't have a lefty-friendly strap clip, which is automatically shit tier.
Also PS2 SGs didn't have a lefty-friendly strap clip, which is automatically shit tier.
That's the Logitech one... apologies for not mentioning it! The PS3 one is all black but TBH, I kinda like the orange/white of the 360 one. Pretty sure they've used proper materials, too.. the neck is definitely wooden and the body feels very solid (hard resin? wood as well?). The strum bar is definitely the best I've felt (tried the Xplorer before... strum bar way too flappy) but it's a heavy fucker, for sure.fernoca said:
If you can find one cheap and can deal without the solo frets and effects, I highly recommend it!
Fuck fuckity fuck The PS3 just shut it self down, for no apparent reason, when my game was saving. Whiping out my save as a result. Bah, I had only just unlocked the bus, but still very irritating. Should I worry about my PS3? Except very loud fan noise, been for ages, I have not had any problems with it prior to this incident.
The PS3 just shut it self down, for no apparent reason, when my game was saving. Whiping out my save as a result. Bah, I had only just unlocked the bus, but still very irritating. Should I worry about my PS3? Except very loud fan noise, been for ages, I have not had any problems with it prior to this incident.butter_stick
Banned
Real gamers: use Guitar Hero controllers
Kinect players: use Rock Band controllers
Kinect players: use Rock Band controllers
butter_stick
Banned
The Beatles guitars have an audible noise when you strum, but it's still too mushy and imprecise unless you're a Harmonix fanboy or really care about your guitars looking like scaled down replicas.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Same here. No need for many of the others to be complete dicks about it.KaYotiX said:i prefer the Gretch Beatles guitar over all
I used to swear by the GH controllers. The RB1 strat looked nice, but the strum bar was mushy and required a little too much force to get to work. I did like the flat layout of the buttons though.
I used the GH III controller until last year. The only issue with the GH III controller was the connections between the neck and the body would sometimes cause dropped notes.
I got a RB3 strat, and while it is nice, the buttons are just slightly sticky once in a while. Or at least you have to press down directly on the red or yellow ones to make it hit and not catch on the lip. The strum bar doesnt click (thank god, the clicking was so annoying on the GH stuff), but you can feel it actually "press" as you strum. It feels a lot better than the first strats.
The Beatles controllers though are the best for me. The strum bars are nice and quiet, with just the slightest noise when strumming. You can feel it click when you strum so there is no questioning if you hit it or not. The buttons are the best though. The lay flat like the Strat, but have a shorter travel distance it seems. They are the quietest buttons on any guitar controller, and make it easy to glide over the buttons during big HOPO sections.
I do appreciate that the GH controllers now put the back button where the heel of your palm would be though.
And to those complaining that the solo buttons give people too big of an advantage: quit whining. You dont like them, fine. Just dont complain because someone else knows how to use them to beat a precious high score.
And quit being so immature about the controllers and how others play the game. It is getting tiring. I thought we got tired of this kind of stuff with the bloodbath of the last RB thread.