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Hmmm...should I get Rock Band? or GHWT?

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Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Ackmed


Originally posted by: JoPh
rock band becuase u can get all the rb1 tracks for $5 then your music collection is huge.
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How do you do that?
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I missed that. Yeah, how do you get all the RB1 tracks for $5?

I ended up ordering a used copy of RB1 off of Amazon for $16 and change. Might as well start cheap.

Thanks for the advice everyone.
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If you have RB2, and a RB1 disc, you can rip the RB1 songs off the disc onto your HDD for $5 and play them within RB2.
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Like he said...


Rock Band 1 will get a title update to let you export the songs. Then you pay a little cash (less than $5) for a license to transfer the songs. Bada bing. Bada boom. You can now play most of the on-disc RB1 songs through RB2 after they are transferred to your hard drive.


There is no real reason to buy rb1 over rb2. get rb2 rent rb1 or borrow it. import songs. boom.
 
I like Rock Band because you can also sing and play bass (which is good for me cuz I suck at drums and guitar).
 
Originally posted by: Ackmed
Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
The Rock Band platform is far superior to the Guitar Hero platform in every way, shape and form.
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Except RB2 makes you play the same song a bazillion times. I hate that. I like both, but to say one is better in every way is ignorant.
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How so? Just play the challenges and you can unlock every song without repeating a single one. If you play through the world tour, yeah, you're going to need to repeat because you're building up fans to progress. But that's part of the fun of that mode.
 
Originally posted by: JoPh
There is no real reason to buy rb1 over rb2. get rb2 rent rb1 or borrow it. import songs. boom.
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You mean purchase it legally rather than abuse the feature meant for RB1 owners 😛.
 
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: JoPh
There is no real reason to buy rb1 over rb2. get rb2 rent rb1 or borrow it. import songs. boom.
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You mean purchase it legally rather than abuse the feature meant for RB1 owners 😛.
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Hmm, interesting thought. If you buy Rock Band 1 and transfer all of the songs to your console for $5 is it legal or illegal to keep the songs on your console if you sell the copy of RB1?
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: JoPh
There is no real reason to buy rb1 over rb2. get rb2 rent rb1 or borrow it. import songs. boom.
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You mean purchase it legally rather than abuse the feature meant for RB1 owners 😛.
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Hmm, interesting thought. If you buy Rock Band 1 and transfer all of the songs to your console for $5 is it legal or illegal to keep the songs on your console if you sell the copy of RB1?
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It is a violation of the licensing agreement if you sell your Rock Band 1 disc and keep the songs on your hard drive.
 
Originally posted by: Daverino
Originally posted by: Ackmed
Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
The Rock Band platform is far superior to the Guitar Hero platform in every way, shape and form.
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Except RB2 makes you play the same song a bazillion times. I hate that. I like both, but to say one is better in every way is ignorant.
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How so? Just play the challenges and you can unlock every song without repeating a single one. If you play through the world tour, yeah, you're going to need to repeat because you're building up fans to progress. But that's part of the fun of that mode.
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In the tour, you can progress nearly entirely through it without doing much else but the make a setlists. Only you have to be pretty good to begin with to get enough stars in them, and might have to hire a regional promoter every now and then to open up an otherwise closed make a setlist.

But thats what I basically did in a second play through, probably about 95% make a setlist, and it was a lot of fun.

So yeah, RB2 is still better in every way. 😛
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: Daverino
Originally posted by: Ackmed
Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
The Rock Band platform is far superior to the Guitar Hero platform in every way, shape and form.
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Except RB2 makes you play the same song a bazillion times. I hate that. I like both, but to say one is better in every way is ignorant.
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How so? Just play the challenges and you can unlock every song without repeating a single one. If you play through the world tour, yeah, you're going to need to repeat because you're building up fans to progress. But that's part of the fun of that mode.
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In the tour, you can progress nearly entirely through it without doing much else but the make a setlists. Only you have to be pretty good to begin with to get enough stars in them, and might have to hire a regional promoter every now and then to open up an otherwise closed make a setlist.

But thats what I basically did in a second play through, probably about 95% make a setlist, and it was a lot of fun.

So yeah, RB2 is still better in every way. 😛
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yea RB2 is the better choice. Also Rock Band does a much better job of making the notes you play actually match up with what you hear. Unlike most of the GH songs I have played where when u set it to a higher difficulty they just add in half notes and sometimes notes that are not even there in the song to make it harder. I personally like the feedback of hearing the correct note or chord when I strum than just frantically strumming like a madman.
 
Originally posted by: Glitchny
yea RB2 is the better choice. Also Rock Band does a much better job of making the notes you play actually match up with what you hear. Unlike most of the GH songs I have played where when u set it to a higher difficulty they just add in half notes and sometimes notes that are not even there in the song to make it harder. I personally like the feedback of hearing the correct note or chord when I strum than just frantically strumming like a madman.
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Heh. That reminds me of DDR. I do better with the songs where the steps match up to the beat as opposed to the songs where the steps are just all over the place.
 
Originally posted by: Glitchny

yea RB2 is the better choice. Also Rock Band does a much better job of making the notes you play actually match up with what you hear. Unlike most of the GH songs I have played where when u set it to a higher difficulty they just add in half notes and sometimes notes that are not even there in the song to make it harder. I personally like the feedback of hearing the correct note or chord when I strum than just frantically strumming like a madman.
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Yeah, I noticed the same. The one thing I really like about the RB guitar is the way the strum bar is shaped, you can actually use a pick (or your fingertips) and properly double strum it, the GH one is this odd triangle shape that the pick just slides right off it, not to mention it makes an annoying click every time you hit it. The buttons being flush is also much better.
 
Well, we finally joined the plastic guitar brigade last night. You would have thought it was Christmas with the way not just my son but my three-year old daughter reacted when they saw the guitars.

My son surprisingly caught on pretty quick once I told him just to think of his index finger as the green fret, his middle as the red fret, ring finger as the yellow fret and son on. We're going out of town this weekend and he asked if we could bring the 360 and the guitars with us....that would be a big negatory.

I spent a little time with Rock Band after the kids went to bed and got all the way through the San Francisco set of songs on Easy. Of course, my daughter got out of bed and came downstairs to join me because she had had a nap and couldn't go to sleep. I finally stopped when I realized the fingers on my left hand had gotten stiff and sore from playing.

I was surprised to see that the latest Rock Band DLC was available for Rock Band 1 on top of Rock Band 2. Target really needs to have another sale on their MS point cards so I can get the Stevie Ray Vaughn and POTUS tracks. I had 110 MS points just sitting around doing nothing so I bought one of the SpongeBob DLC songs for my kids. My daughter went and got one of her toy microphones to sing along....this is going to be trouble.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Well, we finally joined the plastic guitar brigade last night. You would have thought it was Christmas with the way not just my son but my three-year old daughter reacted when they saw the guitars.

My son surprisingly caught on pretty quick once I told him just to think of his index finger as the green fret, his middle as the red fret, ring finger as the yellow fret and son on. We're going out of town this weekend and he asked if we could bring the 360 and the guitars with us....that would be a big negatory.

I spent a little time with Rock Band after the kids went to bed and got all the way through the San Francisco set of songs on Easy. Of course, my daughter got out of bed and came downstairs to join me because she had had a nap and couldn't go to sleep. I finally stopped when I realized the fingers on my left hand had gotten stiff and sore from playing.

I was surprised to see that the latest Rock Band DLC was available for Rock Band 1 on top of Rock Band 2. Target really needs to have another sale on their MS point cards so I can get the Stevie Ray Vaughn and POTUS tracks. I had 110 MS points just sitting around doing nothing so I bought one of the SpongeBob DLC songs for my kids. My daughter went and got one of her toy microphones to sing along....this is going to be trouble.
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You made the right choice. Congrats on joining the family. 🙂 Oh, better your daughter singing than you 😉
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Well, we finally joined the plastic guitar brigade last night. You would have thought it was Christmas with the way not just my son but my three-year old daughter reacted when they saw the guitars.

My son surprisingly caught on pretty quick once I told him just to think of his index finger as the green fret, his middle as the red fret, ring finger as the yellow fret and son on. We're going out of town this weekend and he asked if we could bring the 360 and the guitars with us....that would be a big negatory.

I spent a little time with Rock Band after the kids went to bed and got all the way through the San Francisco set of songs on Easy. Of course, my daughter got out of bed and came downstairs to join me because she had had a nap and couldn't go to sleep. I finally stopped when I realized the fingers on my left hand had gotten stiff and sore from playing.

I was surprised to see that the latest Rock Band DLC was available for Rock Band 1 on top of Rock Band 2. Target really needs to have another sale on their MS point cards so I can get the Stevie Ray Vaughn and POTUS tracks. I had 110 MS points just sitting around doing nothing so I bought one of the SpongeBob DLC songs for my kids. My daughter went and got one of her toy microphones to sing along....this is going to be trouble.
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That is one of the main reason why Rock Band is better than Guitar Hero.

When you buy Rock Band, you buy into the "Rock Band Platform", meaning that you know your DLC and stuff will be forward and backward compatible.

When you buy a GH game, that's all you get...that one game. Any DLC and such is isolated to that one game (with a few rare exceptions such as Death Magnetic.)

Congratulations! Enjoy! 😉
 
Yeah, your hand will start cramping when you've played too much. Use it as a gague to know when to take a break 😛

Congrats, hope you and the family enjoy it! I might have to pick up a cheap copy of Rock Band myself sometime.
 
Originally posted by: kabob983
Yeah, your hand will start cramping when you've played too much. Use it as a gague to know when to take a break 😛

Congrats, hope you and the family enjoy it! I might have to pick up a cheap copy of Rock Band myself sometime.
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Your fret hand gets stronger with more practice. My fret hand only starts to hurt if I play too many songs on Expert with crazy solos (Green Grass and High Tides, I am looking at you!)
 
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