Gamer Grunt: Guitar Hero v Rock Band

The lovable series of musical games for your local system and despised by everyone that doesn't understand the whole concept of the game and then calls you a **** regardless of your back being turned or in your face, so either way, it's their loss...

Back story in case no one knows... Guitar Hero was first coming up with a couple of "good" releases of the game and it was actually fun with such memorable songs, even though I did at one point despise the game and call people ****s... oops... then the two companies split and went into two different directions leading to the Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero clash, which are owned by two different companies.

Before people throw shoes aimed at my crotch about making it sound like a monopoly of the series is a better idea than competition, hold your shoes until I've finished.

Noticed I did highlight "good" for a reason and it is a simple reason... because they were really good before the entire song collection felt more retarded than not knowing how to tie shoelaces whilst attending a business meeting in hyper expensive suits. About 80% of the songs, I really enjoyed more than anything but now, they are so focused on making people download songs... it seems like too much of a money grabbing exercise and to royally piss off people, but that's only part of the problem.

Biggest problem I've had with this game is due to the two games, completely same concept, near identical company unless you really are trying to analyse the age of the cheese on the table and then working out that one is a day older than the other... but those darn instruments don't work when playing the other game...

This never happen in concerts by a really crappy brand of connector leads being rejected by the high quality amp even though they are made in the same country... China if anyone is guessing... and one plainly says that it's too cheap and then chucks a dummy into your face and then the concert just goes downhill from there.

This is just another stupid EA and Activision fight for money... Making everyone just a sitting duck in their war for money... EA being the worst for making other countries than US, forking out triple the price for the gear, incompatible gear with the old and other titles but theirs, things actually breaking worse than stuff made in China... (I actually know the irony in that statement), making PAL regions suffer for their amusement and a whole bunch of other stuff. Now... Activision's turn...

Umm... Crappy song lists... Umm... trying to mimic EA's extortionist prices...umm... making the two original makers of the series suck? Wait... that's EA's fault... umm... okay... I'm actually stumped on that one...

But both ways looking, making ordinary people pay hefty prices for songs is just the tip of a slightly existing problem... since I actually own the Wii version and then caught in a stupid money grabbing exercise finding out both games hating each other... last thing I wanted to find out from both games is the stupid fact that there are a horrid selection of songs which either, I really hate, never heard of or completely farfetched that only a drunkard playing darts could conceive by turning the whole music selection phase a total farce. Further more... I'm not buying the stupid song packs as over 80% of the songs are just pure crap!

Back in the era of total fun-ness, so many of the songs were actually good and at a time when I thought it was crap... it was actually hella good... make it great... now... just total crap in the idea of money grab.

On a small side question... how many people actually bother singing in the game? When a group does come around, one just goes psycho and screw everyone else up, has anyone else come across that?

As a side trivia, there's already another guitar game in existence, way before the release of Guitar Hero. Happy hunting on that side note :P




The ones acting like a hard nut are the first ones to be thumped, the smart ones just get others thumped