Zero Punctuation: Beatles Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Yahtzee brings up an excellent point. When the fuck are they going to license "Stairway to Heaven"?
Great review though.
Great review though.
hilarious as usual with one mistake, twas a picture of a bass not a guitar...all you got to do is count the strings...then again how would anyone who plays guitar hero or rock band even know what strings are 
cant wait to see whats for next week
never liked the plastic band franchise in the first place and never saw what was fun about them, so it was nice to see you present it for what it is a creativity sucking money cow
cant wait to see whats for next weeknever liked the plastic band franchise in the first place and never saw what was fun about them, so it was nice to see you present it for what it is a creativity sucking money cow
Omg, have I concentrated so much on the PC that I dind't notice the Guitar Hero sequals spawning one after another? The last thing I heard about it was the release of Guitar Hero 2, and never heard of Guitar Hero again untill now. Can't believe they are already at 5 :S
Guitar Hero. While I was wasting 8 hours of my life waiting for a Wii on launch night, I finally got a chance to play Guitar Hero (a game I thought I wouldn't like because I can play real guitar (and drums) very well). It turns out I liked it enough to go out and buy the first two games a week later. I picked up Guitar Hero 3 as well and enjoyed it a good bit, although a bit less I think. This all built up to trying out Rock Band. I bought it, set it up and quickly began to loathe it. The new guitar felt broken, and Rock Band drums were seemingly situated in the very bottom of the uncanny valley. A few days later, I pulled it apart, took it back to Best Buy and told them it was broken (which, in a way, it was). Regrettably they had no units left to replace it so they had to give me all my money back. Suckers.
Since then the only temptation I've succumbed to is Guitar Hero: Metallica. I thought it would be interesting and it was a little. In particular playing Cliff Burton's bass parts was instructional since their mixed so quietly on the albums you usually can't hear them. That's the last Guitar Hero I buy however.
Since then the only temptation I've succumbed to is Guitar Hero: Metallica. I thought it would be interesting and it was a little. In particular playing Cliff Burton's bass parts was instructional since their mixed so quietly on the albums you usually can't hear them. That's the last Guitar Hero I buy however.
Have you considered Keyboardmania? Sure, it'll cost an arm and a leg because it's old and an import, but if you're looking for a keyboard game, that's about all you've got.pearcinator said:
I'm a little sore that Guitar Rising hasn't made any noise yet.... They won a developers award back in late '07, and their website says it's due out in 2009, but there's no other information there. I was really looking forward to that one.Dexter111 said:
I'd like to see one of these band games do what Daigasso Band Brothers DX does: For a given song, you have a list of instruments playing in the song, and you pick which instrument out of the 2-8 parts you want to play. Of course, this'll never happen, just because of the proliferation of controllers you'd need, but a guy can dream.
Good point regarding the choice of songs in both games. Whilst there's plenty in GH5 that I'd be willing to pay the retail price to play, (King Crimson, Iggy, Johnny Cash and Iron Maiden being the main ones,) it's let down by the fact that the DLC currently looks rather barren and "importing" from World Tour and Greatest Hits feels like a bit of a cop out. Beatles Rock Band is arguably the worst offender though, what with you being gouged for the remainder of the band's back catalogue. And why the holy fuck isn't Strawberry Fields Forever part of it, either on the disc or in DLC?! Sort it out, Harmonix/Apple!!
Did he just have a go at GH5 for releasing game after game and should have done DLC instead
and then had a go at The Beatles for putting their content as DLC .....
Poor show Yahtzee.
It was either standalone Beatles or zero Beatles.
and then had a go at The Beatles for putting their content as DLC .....
Poor show Yahtzee.
It was either standalone Beatles or zero Beatles.
It is true though; at this stage I would have hoped GH or RB would have moved entirely to a sold through DLC format.
Then again, why should I be surprised. Its not like FIFA would just offer this years updated players and clubs data as DLC when they could charge for the prestige of a plastic box that can gather dust.
Then again, why should I be surprised. Its not like FIFA would just offer this years updated players and clubs data as DLC when they could charge for the prestige of a plastic box that can gather dust.
There's something about a games series that releases 9 games in one year that I just can't take seriously.
I loved the turn of phrase, "garish conveyor belts". and yes, I couldn't help but think that with all this great art on the screen, all I was looking at was the fucking note highway. but I still liked the game.
Haha good review. I was never a fan of Guitar hero. Whenever I wanted to play air-guitar, I'd just stand in front of the mirror.
Yahtzee's just bitching to hear himself ***** with this review. How can he criticize the game for having you play a guitar part that sounds "suspiciously like a cello," then question why they didn't include "Elenor Rigby." Everyone knows that "Elenor Rigby" has no rock instruments at all, right? No guitar. No bass. No drums. Just two string quartets. Yahtzee is not the Beatles fan he claims to be.
