Guitar Hero vs Rock Band

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Ok guys, I just tried searching this up & the closest I found was Rock Band vs Band Hero.

Heres my question. Which game series is better on the Wii? Reason I ask is because my friend just got a modified Wii and she got a Rock Band 2 drum set & guitar for Rock Band Beatles (shes a big hippie), but she was never educated properly that there a technology difference between Guitar Hero & Rock Band stuff. I was doing some research into both games & their accessories.

I know that the games are about equal on both PS3 & X360, but I know they dont compare to the Wii, due to the graphics being way better on the Playstation & Xbox. For those of you (what few of you there are) that play either game on your Wii, please tell me of your experience with the game.
 
There really is no difference between the two games. The two big differences that I know of would be:

Which songs do you like better?
This to me would be HUGE. This is what would make it or brake it for you. Lets say one had awesome graphics but new age pop music as the sound track to play with. Lets say the other had so so graphics but a more rock/grunge sound track. Lets say you HATE new age pop but love rock/grunge music...The obvious choice would be the later.

The other big difference would be the drums.
Rockband is set up in a four drum half circle. All at the same level with a base pedal.
Guitar Hero is set up as three drum in a half circle at the same level. But also another two cymbals in a more realistic basic drum set up. Also has a base pedal.

So for my self, what it really came down to was which songs do you like better as a whole? Since both have variety of songs to try and please all.

I my self went with the Rockband Beatles(only Rockband/Guitar Hero I own) Just because it was the only game where I was guarantee to like almost all the songs on the play list :P
 
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Rock Band is better, IMO. Truth be told they are fairly similar, but Rock Band has the better music and a larger, much better downloadable library. Guitar Hero 4/5 are kinda blatant rip offs of Rock Band, even if Rock Band was an expansion on the Guitar Hero concept, and honestly while they do share some songs, the majority of the songs on recent Guitar Hero titles are barftastic preppy emo alternative bubblegum pop crap. Guitar Hero 3 has the similar issue, but its slightly better if not just because it has Muse and Heart in it. Otherwise I enjoy Rock band a lot more, it has MUCH better songs, and if you buy a copy of Rock band 2 you can get an expanded library of songs by renting a copy of Rock Band 1 and using their nifty transfer feature. You get more bang for your buck and the music is better and more varied, so there's more songs you can get into and of course more choice when you have friends over who have slightly different tastes than you. Beatles Rock Band is good if you are a massive Beatles fan, otherwise its kind of a money grabber.
 
This is probably the 30th rendition of this subject on these forums. I stand by my previous post...the rock band instruments are superior in design making the game overall feel better. GH is also more competitive while RB is more party focused. As a drummer for the past 2-3 years, and playing the drums on both games, the RB drums are more accurately depicted. The GH:WT drums are awkward to play on.

Also, most people disagree with me, but the RB guitar is easier to use. Especially if you have small hands, i.e. my nephew can play the RB guitar, but his hands simply cannot reach the buttons on the GH guitar.

Further, my biggest complaint in both games is that players play notes that aren't in the song. So I'll play 9 notes in a measure that, in the actual song only contains 8. This is simply to make the song more difficult, however GH seems to do this more often. Also, GH will often pick a song to make incredibly difficult so that the replay value will be high for competitive players.
 
Carmine said:
Yes because you have to be a hippie to like the Beatles...
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Played it and beat it the day after my neighbor bought it. lmao. All 4 of us play real instruments as well, so it was fun in the aspect of doing all of the Beatles songs (a band that we all love) without having to actually learn the songs lol.
 
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