Guitar Hero Live

[spacejamz]

Just picked it up and started playing it last night....Didn't do any research or anything before buying it since I liked playing all of the previous versions...

Definitely not a fan of the new controller which now has two rows of 3 buttons instead of one row of 5 buttons...there are only 3 'lanes' on the guitar 'highway', solid notes are played on the bottom row and outlined notes are played on the top row. There are 'bar chords' where you press the top/bottom rows together as well as other chords where you press buttons on the same row together...

You never see your character as now you are viewing the crowd and your band mates as you play...no really opinion on this as I pretty much just focus on the notes anyway...

I was pretty surprised that it synced perfectly out of the box (my PS4 is connected via HDMI to a Denon receiver which is connected to a 70" Vizio 4k set (using the HDMI 2.0 port on the set - I think one of other ports has a better Game mode with reduced lag but haven't messed with that).

Played about 10 songs on it and wasn't impressed with it. To get that blah taste out, I fired up Metallica Guitar Hero on the PS3 and played a few songs and all was right in the world again.

I should have tried out the game in the store or read some reviews before buying this.

Wonder if I should try Rockband 4 now...

 

[Fallen Kell]

Personally I am pretty much done with these games. I spent a lot of time on the Guitar Hero/Rockband games in the past. They were a real innovation 10 years ago, but it simply became more of the same very quickly.

Rocksmith at least has you playing a real guitar/bass, so you are getting a lot more out of it. I havn't touched Guitar Hero/Rockband since these came out (grant it, I had played some guitar back in high school/college).

 

[nakedfrog]

Wonder if I should try Rockband 4 now...

Depends on what you're hoping to get out of it.

 

[Oyeve]

Rocksmith. Real guitars.

 

[Aikouka]

I tried it in Best Buy, and I didn't think it was bad. The notes aren't just outlined, but they also "face" the direction of which row of buttons you should be using. They're shaped like guitar picks and if the narrow end is facing downward, you use the bottom row, and vice-versa for facing upward. I think the whole real band thing is kind of different, and it's nice to see that they're willing to try something different on what arguably became a stale genre.

 

[Lil Frier]

I'm done with these games. Building a library to play of decent songs on Rock Band is too expensive. I'm not dropping $200+ of RB4's "Band in a Box," then having to drop another $50-100 to get a decent lineup of tracks. I just don't care for the mainstream stuff anymore, what these games include is a bunch of music I simply don't know and don't care to know. It used to be that I liked some of the older stuff in the games, enough to get me going. Then I'd find fun songs to play and be set. Now, there's nothing to draw my interest because it's behind that $2/song DLC gate.

On top of that, the friends I'd play this with have mostly moved too far to play with them anymore. RB2, I was in a college dorm and played with friends. We aren't geographically close now, so it'd be dropping $200+ to barely ever play it.

 

[Oyeve]

I'm done with these games. Building a library to play of decent songs on Rock Band is too expensive. I'm not dropping $200+ of RB4's "Band in a Box," then having to drop another $50-100 to get a decent lineup of tracks. I just don't care for the mainstream stuff anymore, what these games include is a bunch of music I simply don't know and don't care to know. It used to be that I liked some of the older stuff in the games, enough to get me going. Then I'd find fun songs to play and be set. Now, there's nothing to draw my interest because it's behind that $2/song DLC gate.

On top of that, the friends I'd play this with have mostly moved too far to play with them anymore. RB2, I was in a college dorm and played with friends. We aren't geographically close now, so it'd be dropping $200+ to barely ever play it.

I didn't even think about that. I bought songs and exported from RB1 RB2 and RB3. I would say may 80 total. I can't see how they could allow all that to be imported into RB4. Plus, I stopped playing these years ago. As a hobby guitarist I stopped as it was interfering with real playing. Got into Rocksmith tho.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

there's bandfuse also

 

[gorcorps]

I'm done with these games. Building a library to play of decent songs on Rock Band is too expensive. I'm not dropping $200+ of RB4's "Band in a Box," then having to drop another $50-100 to get a decent lineup of tracks. I just don't care for the mainstream stuff anymore, what these games include is a bunch of music I simply don't know and don't care to know. It used to be that I liked some of the older stuff in the games, enough to get me going. Then I'd find fun songs to play and be set. Now, there's nothing to draw my interest because it's behind that $2/song DLC gate.

On top of that, the friends I'd play this with have mostly moved too far to play with them anymore. RB2, I was in a college dorm and played with friends. We aren't geographically close now, so it'd be dropping $200+ to barely ever play it.

That 2nd paragraph is a big one for me. The most fun was playing locally, and now that I'm grown up and don't hang out with bunches of people who would play it's not worth it to me. That goes for gaming in general anymore it seems, but this game especially needed people to play with to make it fun.

 

[Subyman]

Had fun in college playing these with friends. I never liked playing it alone. Seemed like a group game to me. No way I'll be playing the new ones.

 

[Lil Frier]

I actually didn't mind playing GH alone. It was much more challenging (especially on guitar) than Rock Band, so there was that level of interest for me. Rock Band was more of a local co-op game for me because of how unbelievably easy it was.

Still, $100 or so for a game filled with a bunch of crap music I don't want to hear anyway isn't worth it anymore. Fallout's coming, this can wait until it hits $50 on clearance or something.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Yea, once rocksmith came out...Guitar Hero seems meh. I do think Rockband might still be fun since you can do an entire band and drums etc.

 

[Lil Frier]

The problem with Rocksmith, from my perspective, is two-fold:

1. Getting a guitar's not cheap (well, it is for a turd one).
2. I don't think that the games have ever included a single song I care to play.

 

[ImpulsE69]

The problem with Rocksmith, from my perspective, is two-fold:

1. Getting a guitar's not cheap (well, it is for a turd one).
2. I don't think that the games have ever included a single song I care to play.

CDLC is where it's at.

 

[Lil Frier]

CDLC is where it's at.

Is that a band?

 

[Aikouka]

Is that a band?

It stands for Custom DLC. Just imagine the difference between Skyrim on a console and a PC. On a console, you're pretty much stuck with what you have, but on a PC, you can use mods. This is kind of the same deal. You can hack in fan-created tracks into Rocksmith and play them.

 

[Lil Frier]

Ahh, never knew that. Didn't the original model PS2 allow something similar in the first Guitar Hero?