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ooo thats rough.

well, they had to leave room for sequels, right?

/sarcasm

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Didn't David say that he thought that they dumbed down GH3?

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I dont really care for the rectangle shaped notes in Rockband. Other than that yeah it look to be a bit easier.
But is that better or worse than overly difficult songs that you'll never beat even if you practice 10 hours a day thats up to you all.

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GHIII is easier then GHII and RB looks much much easier then GHIII. I guess we'll find out next week for sure.

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@3

Exactly. I can barely keep up with the "hard" setting on GH II and III let alone expert... so the fact that rock band is a little easier is actually a selling point for me.

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I also agree GHIII is easier. I keep reading this all over the place and it's confusing.

Rock Band is clearly not as guitar focused and is so much more geared toward every one playing in sync that this isn't really surprising to me or disappointing.

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You guys are forgetting that while the notes are more simple, there is a smaller note hit window than guitar hero 3. Guitar hero 3 made the frame to hit the note longer or wider depending on how you look at it, then in guitar hero 2 and rock band uses a timing closer to guitar hero 2. I think guitar hero 3 is significantly easier than guitar hero 2 on hard and expert difficulties.

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The rectangle notes are definitely the next logical improvement. By having rectangular shaped notes instead of circle shaped notes, you can have a more difficult chart and squeeze in a really fast riff and have less confusion about note order. Sometimes on GHII/GHIII because the notes are rounded, on really tough sections its difficult to tell what order the notes are supposed to be played in because they're so close together. But rectangular notes should help to alleviate that problem.

I'm a little disappointed that the Rock Band guitar is so easy. I think they should make games, especially ones like GH/RB, with very very difficult settings to increase the longevity of the title. If it's too hard than play a different difficulty level. I'd rather piss and moan about how hard a game is than waste my money on game that's so easy it isn't that fun.

That said, I think what most people are looking forward to is the drum set since most of us have played the GH guitar a lot.

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@6 Tony

Please give me one song in GH2 that can even hold a candle in the presence of Through the Fire and Flames?
@8
I like the expert levels of GH but when they make them achievements like TTFAF, bend every note in number of the beast when the wammy takes a second to kick in, or how about beating the game on expert with a troller the game becomes more frustrating than it is fun.

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I really don't think one especially crazy song over rights the fact that as a whole I don't think GHIII is more difficult in general. To me that doesn't really disprove anything. Put that song in GHII and it would arguably have been harder, beyond which, Jordan is hard enough.

As mentioned by another commenter, the game is a lot more loose about note timing. It's particularly obvious on hammer-ons and pull-offs.

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overwrites, not over rights. I don't know why I wrote that lol.

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@ # 8

hyper mode clears up that "close together" problem on gh3

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@9:
You don't HAVE to beat it with a controller. If you've beaten it on hard or expert, all you have to do is start up the game with a regular controller plugged in and go into Career and then the mode you beat it in and you get the achievement, luls!

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Um... I see the small differences, but let's take a step back for a sec: how is this NOT patent infringement?

Rock Band rips-off 99% of the game interface. Was there some licensing agreement between the two developers I'm not aware of?

For what it's worth, the RB variation is easier to 'read', IMO.

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Harmonix originally designed and created Guitar Hero so they can make Rock Band look and play exactly like it and still not vreak any type of patent because they created the formula. Such is why GH3 looks different than the other two because Harmonix would not give the technology to Neversoft.

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yea...play frets of fire with the xplorer and play anything by dragonforce or dream theater then you can see what is actually hard, but btw ghiii us harder than ghii beat both on expert and you can change the timing the time gap doesnt matter

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Given the fact that I haven't the time nor inclination to practice sections of songs for hours on end just to get past them, I'm quite pleased. I feel like GH3 just gets way too hard way too fast in the last few tiers of songs, and it's more frustrating than challenging. I get that there are difficulty levels, but the problem is that if I want to play with all five buttons (which I want to do), I'm stuck playing on hard, which just gets ridiculous for my own personal skill level.

Basically what it boils down to is I think Neversoft did a pretty lousy job of balancing the difficulties in a realistic way across the various levels: The difference between Medium and Hard is way more drastic than it is between Hard and Expert.

I trust Harmonix to handle this in typical stupendous fashion.

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This comparison is ridiculous and misleading. They're looking at the HARD (not expert) charts and then make claims about how difficult they expect Rock Band's expert note charts will be.

After they play Green Grass or Run to the Hills on expert, I'd really like for them to honestly try to say RB expert = GH2 hard.

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Tony. There are more than the dragon force track that make GH3 hard I'm sure you know that. But what makes gh3 harder for me over two has nothing to do with the hammer ons and pull offs. Thats the only thing I think Neversoft did right with the game. My problem is the rediculous use of 3 buttoned chords in almost every song on expert. Its way uncalled for in almost every instance its used and when its one after the other it gets a bit confusing Like "The Metal". I love the song and can 5 star it, just an example that comes to mind.

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@15 - thx

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