well its been an exciting three years for rythem games. before 2007 we had games like DDR, beat mania, and other stuff that im sure didnt suck. but i remember playing the best in the new (and what used to be called innovative) guitar hero series. the first guitar hero one was massivly overlooked. what do i mean? can anyone, without the help of the internet, remember 7 songs from it?.............. no? didnt think so.
then guitar hero 2 came and blew everyone....... 's freakin socks off.
it was more thrashy, more hardcore, and more humouris ("trogdor", "thunderhorse", "elephant bones") and felt like an actual guitar game with music for almost anyone.
then 2007 reared its oversold head and dear sweet harmonix left its forbidden lover, red octane, to go off a write L. ron hubberd fan fiction.
not really, they went to make rock band.
so the first music game we saw that fatefull year was red octanes (and its new boy toy neversoft) guitar hero 3, a game that apperently ran full fledged out the door and was all the way in san antonio before it relised it foregot to put on pants.
metaphores rule.
what do i mean?
even though it had by far the best soundtrack of the series, it had lost its thrashyness and traded in the series staple of classic rock for a more new age audiance.
it was more about hitting the right notes than seeing how fast you could brake your controller. and i felt kinda disapointed.
it did have some great bands,
slipknot
RATM
deftones
dead kennedys
level 70 elite tauren chieften
foo fighters
and queens of the stone age
as well as some real crap,
priesstess
tenacious d
heart
but the problem i have is with the good bands they have, guitar hero (as well as mtv) has a way of commiting musical suicide that not even beethoven could of belived.
what do i mean again?
guitar hero takes an unpopular band, over plays one of its songs and suddenly you have little kids saying they've listened to "before i forget" before it was popular and cant name another slipknot song to save there worthless lives.
and that pisses me off.
so any way rock band kicked guitar heros ass like crack kicked dj a.m's ass. (wow that is way to soon)
rock band was inovative and fun with tons of dlc in the first few weeks of release.
but guitar hero would rise again in 2008. guitar hero picked up (totaly f**king ripped of) on the whole band idea with lousy drums, an upgraded guitar and a universal mic. wow.
but that aside it had an awsome tracklist that spanned a wide array of music fans.
it even had something for the 4% of us in the country that still like TOOL. and something for the rest who hate it.it was still a joy to play even with faulty equipment. and even with the help of ROCK JAM(tm) instruments kept catching on fire or something stupid.
rock band 2 did not fair well that year. the instrument trouble was finaly fixed and the game looked alot better, the only problem was he tracklist. it kinda sucked.
so 2008 goes to guitar hero
(wait, guitar hero had that insufferable song by paramore)....
ITS A TIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now 2009 has come and for some reason the human race is still going strong.
and thus again we have an on going war between the thrashers and people with friends.
guitar hero again started of the year with guitar hero mettalica, in which i have a two word review,
metallica, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay (sarcasm)
and a few months later we get sma(sh-its) ha ha. but seriuosly who cares.
and now we got Hugh Heffner advertising guitar hero 5 (showing that now guitar hero is officialy for dumb blonds and old guys)
what do i have to say about gh5.
it is =>garbage.
yes the juke box mode is nice and the track list does have some good titles ("smells like teen spirit", about f**king time) but if you will look closer you will see black magic at work.
first of all, Curt Cobain makes a cameo. wierd, I could of sworn he was dead.
BLACK MAGIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!&&&%%%%%%%%%%$$$$$$$$$$$$
also in songs like du hast, judeth and blue orchid, what the hell instrument are you playing?
in du hast its mostly key board and how can you include blue orchid in the bass chareer when the white stripes dont even have a bassist.
this is not a guitar game, its an animal farm key board simulater that makes different instruent noises, minus the cow and the pig.
im afraid the year belongs to rock band yet again for giving us a half-way decent portable game and a game for all the well deserving beatles fans (im not one but my roomates are)
and even if your not a beatles fan, the songs are fun to play, even more fun to sing and have a trippy backround eouforea. its fun. okay. its bright and wavey and its a lot cheaper than a pound of weed (yet almost as damaging to your brain).
so looks like rock band narrowly makes it just by having a guitar game featuring real guitars.
so the score is 1.5 to 1.5 and i cant wait to see next years................
what..................
i just found this odd game that comes free with guitar hero 5. holy crap in a peta! the songs.. are....
GOOD!
what witch craft is this.. gasp its.......
cools.
though it may be a giveaway gift, in many ways its better than the game its trying to promote.
why? well its f**king free! also it has a lot of great songs and just like the beatles rock band, you dont have to like van halen for the songs to be fun.
well ttff for now my wayward kittens (metalacolypse rules, whens that going to be a guitar hero game?)
This entire post is outrageous! What manner of satanism has spawned a heathen such as you? In the older Guitar Heroes, you sometimes played rhythm instead of bass, but did you complain? Nope. It hardly matters what instrument you're playing so long as you're playing. And what did you think they would do, not upgrade their gameplay to match the competition? And, of course, you completely excluded the neck slider bar and the more convenient methods of activiating star power because if you admitted thatm you'd be wrong, now wouldn't you?
ReplyDeleteP.S. CrushCrushCrush was DLC for Rock Band, whereas Guitar Hero only had Misery Business,so Guitar Hero did win that round.