They are in fact the stock, hard plastic ones. They just have 3 cymbals.

That’s just not true. I play real drums, and the RB 2-3 Pro drums are leagues better than the GHWT drums. The hit surface is better, the layout is more natural, and the kick pedal is incomparably better.

Then go play Rocksmith. Fuck. I don’t know why everyone who plays an actual instrument thinks that all the people playing rhythm games just wish they were playing real instruments. They’re completely different things. 99% of people playing don’t want to play a real instrument, they want to play a simplified plastic…

I fundamentally do not understand people who think that Rocksmith has anything to do with Rock Band. That’s like saying “So, now that gun ranges exist, do we really need FPS’s any more?” Rocksmith is a learning tool, Rock Band is an arcade party game. Apples and fucking bricks, man.

Since they’re still owned by MTV, those additions fuel their interests, not Harmonix. Harmonix is still ranked as the 3rd best company to work for in the Boston metro area.

That’s just blatantly false. The GH guitars were better than the first generation Rock Band guitars, but other than that RB instruments were better in every conceivable way.

Oh I agree, the history of GH and RB is a bit convoluted. However IMO Guitar Hero became the imitator when Harmonix left, particularly since they lagged behind on innovation with the whole band thing, and then didn’t really do much outside of that. This is the first time that Guitar Hero feels like it’s being abjectly…

That was a poor decision since it was so markedly better than the Guitar Hero series.

Once GH moved on from Harmonix, it lost its soul as it was not worked on by a studio composed 3/4 of people who identify themselves as musicians. The note contact patches on GHIII were so sloppy, you didn’t get the feeling you were actually playing the music. Rock Band 4 will most likely be a far better title because…

To be fair, Harmonix was sticking it to Activision and Red Octane. Since Activision bought the rights to GH from Red Octane when it was acquired by the larger company. Harmoinix at the time was a smaller company based out of Boston and wasn’t a mid-sized company until 2008, when it was acquired by MTV and made Rock…

Both can still be used. I actually used the Rock Band 3 keyboard as a Keytar at a gig once (since I didn’t want to buy an actual Keytar). Sounds coming from my regular keyboard, Rock Band keyboard connected to it via MIDI.

Harmonix reponds by posting up this article. Classy as ever (no sarcasm)

“Instead of five colourful fret buttons, there are six, and they’re arranged differently across three frets.”

Konami has done a lot of failing over the years.

Releasing optional instruments is not the same as pumping out yearly releases

You didn’t actually read what I wrote.

This seems like a much better evolution of GH than the previous iterations. The problem for them however is competing with Rock Band. RB is supposedly bringing back their entire library and you can possibly replay all your songs that you’ve purchased over the years from the previous games. Why would anyone invest in…

As much as I like what Rockband are doing (releasing the 1 game and support with DLC)

Still think Konami MASSIVELY failed by missing the rhythm game market outside Asia.