Rhythm Games

[VertigoAffliction]

I'm curious to know if anyone here is into rhythm games (or was at some point) like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and so on.

I enjoyed these games, if mainly because the majority of the music is the kind of music I enjoy listening to, even though I was not really a well-skilled player like some of the elites (i.e. GuitarHeroPhenom, ukogmonkey, gamerboy, among others whose fingers are ridiculously dialed to the plastic guitar frets).

I mean, I could hold my own and pass the majority of songs on any given iteration of GH or RB on the hardest difficulty, and could Gold Star a good portion of songs when I sang Vocals in Rock Band (Guitar Hero Vocals is harder by comparison for the most part). I was decent with drums even, though having a second bass pedal for Expert + in Guitar Hero was quite perplexing because a lot of songs that had the supported difficulty also had long strings of quick double bass notes coming at you (and don't even get me started on blast beats like in Bloodlines on Warriors of Rock, and then the drum solo for Beast and the Harlot on Smash Hits-oof).

I really enjoyed these games nonetheless, and kinda miss playing online with my friends, but with RB4 and GH:Live on the PS4/Xbox ONE exclusively, I've basically fallen off the grid there.

I've played both RB4 and GH:Live; I like that one can get all the songs and DLC from previous RB games in RB4, but I don't see why one should have to buy the DLC again if they've bought it previously.

As far as GH:Live goes, getting used to the 3x2 fret button layout is definitely a challenge, but doable. I couldn't play a lot of the GH:TV songs, but the GH:Live portion of the game wasn't too hard for me. As far as using a First Person View and video backgrounds of a live on stage band and crowd that changes dynamically based on overall performance, it is a novel idea.

If I were to get a PS4, I'd likely grab both RB4 and GH:Live. But I'd have to get the peripherals needed, not just the games. I have many other expenses to deal with first, but that's beyond the scope of this topic.

So, what are your thoughts?

 

[TheMutantSpaceDancer]

I'm quite a fan of rhythm games! While I've never really been interested in Guitar Hero, I do really enjoy other ones like Samba de Amigo, Gitarooman, and the Rhyhm Heaven games.

 

[JtheDuelist]

I loved the GH series (Especially GH2 and GH Aerosmith). Too bad it and Rock Band got discontinued with no hope of another entry appearing... I did see a weird GH knock-off/parody at a store once and its selling point was that the controller was also an actual functioning guitar when you weren't using it for a controller...

After getting near-perfect run of it once, never again am I doing GH2's 10-minute long "Free Bird" on Expert in the near foreseeable future! (PS, my PS2 still works after owning it since launch)

 

[bgillisp]

I so stink at rhythm games. A friend of mine owned Guitar Hero (the original), and we were so bad we used to just crank it up to expert and see how long we could survive. I think I got 4%

Though I have played Project Diva F2, first day at it I managed to beat one song on Normal then Expert just because I kept stubbornly playing it. Took 5 hours. I still haven't beaten it on Extreme, though I've gotten 78% once (80% is required to beat a song in that game, though you can complete it with a lower % than that).

 

[KayZaman]

I borrowed my junior’s NDS and I played this game.

Spoiler

 

[TheMutantSpaceDancer]

rhythm heaven is a quality game

 

[Frogboy]

I played Guitar Hero a few times at my brother's. Didn't spend enough time with it to get good. I never really wanted to invest the time or money into anything like that, though. If I was going to make that sort of investment into a rhythm game, be it pretending to play an instrument or dance or whatever, I feel it would be more beneficial to spend that time and money to learn how to actually play a guitar or dance or whatever. No offense to anyone who enjoys rhythm games. That's just my personal perspective.

 

[lokirafael]

I'm not a great fan of Guitar Hero, but I do love Taiko no Tatsujin and Project Diva. Also the hybrid games like Idolmaster (I have the PSP version) are fun. I want one day be able to play MaiMai in one of those Arcade machines.

Osu is kinda fun too, but the hardest is the dance mini game in Yakuza 0, that was a pain.

 

[TheoAllen]

While we're at it. If anyone knows any mobile rhythm game where you can insert your own song and edit the beatmap, let me know. It would be nice for killing time. Because rhythm games are best to be played in mobile rather than in PC (at least for me). So far, I only found android app that let you play a song but the beatmap is generated, which sometimes does not makes sense. And please, not OSU lol.

 

[VertigoAffliction]

I loved the GH series (Especially GH2 and GH Aerosmith). Too bad it and Rock Band got discontinued with no hope of another entry appearing... I did see a weird GH knock-off/parody at a store once and its selling point was that the controller was also an actual functioning guitar when you weren't using it for a controller...

After getting near-perfect run of it once, never again am I doing GH2's 10-minute long "Free Bird" on Expert in the near foreseeable future! (PS, my PS2 still works after owning it since launch)

Free Bird was crazy, but in retrospect, playing it on Smash Hits is way harder. Of course, the difference between the two is that post Aerosmith, there are no covers (GH2 Free Bird was a cover), so the song is completely different (and the whole song is ten and a half minutes), but singing vocals on Free Bird was too easy; you sing for three minutes and then that's it. I got the FC on the first try.

Oh yeah, speaking of Smash Hits, playing drums was perplexing with nine of the forty-eight songs having that extra difficulty, most of which are at the end of the career path...
It took me twelve tries to finish Raining Blood on Expert +...
To put it in perspective...