Guitar Hero World Tour

[Ookii]

So you're a medium player too then?

[schild]

Finally got GHWT because Phildo moved here. Gotta say, much like the others, the lower "tiers" have like no appeal to me and the expert ones are uneven (like the previous entries). Hendrix was too easy. I use the GH3 guitar over the GH4 guitar, that'll probably change once we break in the buttons on the new ones. The whole thing feels a little easier than the previous entries. Will talk more when I actually finish it though, which should be in a couple days.

[Ookii]

It really is easier than previous installments.  The only songs that should give you trouble are Satch Boogie, Hot for Teacher, and BYOB.  That said I'd take any GH song over any RB song any day, Sweet Home Alabama and Love Spreads alone are better than RB's entire playlist.  And that's not in my opinion, that's fact.

[Jeff Kelly]

The WT Guitar is up a notch from the GH3 Les Paul, although the slider pad is a real waste of space. It's alot easier to just play the slider parts as hammer ons.

I found the song list mainly boring with a few helpings of awesome in between. The interface is really really bad. You have to skip 6 or 7 intros just to get to the main screen and it's even worse after that.

What I really hate (and I mean frothing at the mouth hate) is that they use master recordings but totally fuck up the mix in order for the intrument you play to be more recognizable. They completely mixed the keyboard away in Pull me under and most Aerosmith parts sound totally different on the CDs (although it is the same master). That just sucks. Also when you do the vocal career they sometimes drop you into the middle of the song if it has a long intro.

Oh and european drums still have the same issues as the american ones. They are really well built but don't recognize some of the notes.

It's nice because I finally have the whole instrument set but other than that I am a bit underwhelmed.

[Xilren's Twin]

So you're a medium player too then?

Realizing this was snark, I'll answer anyway.  No, I'm mostly a Hard player but it depends on the song and instrument.  But even the expert players in my normal play group agree that it's not the music which is the problem, though they wished there were more new songs (for example, BYOB was somethign we already downloaded for RB2 so again, didnt feel new).  A crappy interface is a crappy interface even at Expert.

[Stephen Zepp]

It really is easier than previous installments.  The only songs that should give you trouble are Satch Boogie, Hot for Teacher, and BYOB.  That said I'd take any GH song over any RB song any day, Sweet Home Alabama and Love Spreads alone are better than RB's entire playlist.  And that's not in my opinion, that's fact.

Love Spreads has been on RB2 for several weeks (probably more than a month now)--yep, it's an awesome song--and I'll never open up GHWT to play it (and yep, I play it on expert).

[Ookii]

If any of you are having trouble with your GH:WT guitar not registering strums you can easily replace the component responsible.  I recently soldered on a new SPDT switch without having any soldering experience and the guitar is working perfectly.  Worth the hour or so it takes and the 3 bucks for the SPDT switch if any of you are having trouble.

[Morfiend]

I was given WT for Xmas, and I have to say I was very let down. The new guitar while feeling nice, I cant stand the strum bar, it feels all soft and has a lot of play in it. I much much prefer the GH3 one with the very precise and clicky strum bar. Maybe I got a defective strummer? Mine feels much more like the rock band strummer than the GH3 one. I was very excited to try the new guitar, and I am pretty disappointed.

Also, the game doesnt feel polished at all, and the note layouts just seem to not really make much sense. Half the time it feels like I could play the game on mute and it wouldnt matter, as the notes dont seem to fit with the music.

Now, I am far from a RB fanboy, I loved GH3, but WT just seems like a step backward in terms of the core gameplay.

[Samwise]

Necro!

Any word on whether the currently-available GH:WT instruments fix the problems that the initial release had?  I still want to get my hands on this game, but I'm not interested in paying $200 for plastic instruments and then having to repair them myself.

[nurtsi]

We just bought this things a week ago for the PS3 to use in a party we had during a weekend. Didn't notice anything being wrong with the instruments, but I've never played any game like this before so I don't really have a comparison.

Edit: Who the fuck thought it's a good idea to make people unlock some of the songs? We're having a party and hey, we can't play half the songs written on the box because we have to unlock them first. Stupid shit.

[Azazel]

Use the unlock code. It saves them to be unlocked too.

My green drum is fucked. I'm getting the USB dongle sent out. Hopefully that fixes it, else they'll be a-replacing them drums.

[Samwise]

My green drum is fucked. I'm getting the USB dongle sent out. Hopefully that fixes it, else they'll be a-replacing them drums.

When did you buy the drum kit?  I've been operating on the theory that they'd fix whatever the problem was after the holiday rush, after which point it'd be safe to buy them without having to worry about shipping them back umpteen times.

[HAMMER FRENZY]

The more I play RB2 the more I dislike GHWT. The game just feels clunky and loose. The guitar stuff is just way too loose and the drumming just feels tacked on. I really like the open note stuff with the bass, and I hope that is something that Harmonix incorporates into RB3.  The sliding pad on the guitar is not cool either, it just feels wacky and adds very little for me. To be honest, aside for the separate inputs for drums, I am not too down with anything on the GHWT stuff. I hope that after playing it more I will warm up to it, but as it stands I would rather play RB2 any day of the week.

[Samwise]

I plan on buying both, but playing both with the GH:WT instruments.  Assuming they're actually going to work.   

[Oz]

my plan is to buy teh RB2 kit (drums, bass, mic, game)  and the GHWT guitar kit (guitar, game).

main reasons include:

1)the GHWT drum lay out looks...weird to me.  specifically the 3 instead of 4 layout.
2)i HATE RB1 guitar.  i assume the RB2 is similar so i'll make it my bass and use the GHWT one as the guitar. (plus people can choose pref)
3)both have ~same mic.

[Samwise]

The drums are the main reason I want the GH:WT hardware.  When I tried them out I thought they really blew the RB drums out of the water, and even RB diehards generally seem to grudgingly concede that they're superior.  But that's assuming they actually work in the first place.  Fuck having to solder and/or return shit, I want my overpriced toys to work right out of the box.

[Oz]

When I tried them out I thought they really blew the RB drums out of the water, and even RB diehards generally seem to grudgingly concede that they're superior. 

please elaborate. 

[Azazel]

My green drum is fucked. I'm getting the USB dongle sent out. Hopefully that fixes it, else they'll be a-replacing them drums.

When did you buy the drum kit?  I've been operating on the theory that they'd fix whatever the problem was after the holiday rush, after which point it'd be safe to buy them without having to worry about shipping them back umpteen times.

Bought it on release. Which was shortly afer the US release. Hey, they finally despatched the US dongle today. Hurrah.

[Samwise]

When I tried them out I thought they really blew the RB drums out of the water, and even RB diehards generally seem to grudgingly concede that they're superior. 

please elaborate. 

The drum pads are solid, nicely padded (i.e. they're quiet and they give a nice amount of bounce), and ergonomically spaced.  Having the two "cymbal" pads at a different height might look weird, but it actually feels a lot better to have the pads arranged in two dimensions and evenly spaced from you than it does to have them all in a row.  The foot pedal on its own does a better job of not sliding around the floor, even not not being attached to the main stand, than the entire RB drum kit does.  The foot pedal also has a lot more "spring" to it, so you can comfortably rest your foot on it without having it fully depress, and the range of motion when using it is much more comfortable (i.e. your foot doesn't have to go through as great of an angle).

As always, your mileage may vary, so I recommend trying it out at a store or a friend's house before committing.  I got about ten minutes in on it at PAX and that was enough to convince me.  Most of the people there were RB diehards, and although they had mixed things to say about the guitar and interface, they were pretty unanimous on (sometimes grudgingly) embracing the GH drums.

[HAMMER FRENZY]

out of the box I would say that yes, the GHWT set is better. It has the cymbals and a better pedal and it is a bit sturdier but not by much. Fact is though, most of us will buy a little something more, and in the case of the drums, having more equals more fun. A GHWT set is maxed out from the gt go. You may be able to toss some extra silencers on it but that is about it. There is not way to improve the set without actually modding the set entirely. On the other hand the RB2 set is less impressive out of the box but if you choose to mess with it a little you get my set...



My set complete obviously costs more but it is a full set. It has 3 cymbals as opposed to 2 which all register their own sounds. I have 3 toms(the to middle toms become tom 1 and 2 while the green drum becomes the floor tom) The cymbal set up is like a real set, so yellow becomes the high hat and blue and green are interchangeable, so you can have them set up with the ride inside our outside. You can also set the cymbals where you feel comfortable with them as opposed to the rather limited mobility of the GHWT set. In addition to that, there is a optional second jack which is for future expansion, but you can buy a separate kick pedal (which I did) and have double bass, (which I do) so now you have a full set with double bass. toss in the kick drum cover and some pad silencers, grab yourself a drum throne and use the handy (albeit limited) drum free play mode and you can teach yourself to play real drums. Not RB drums, or fake drums. the set is a full electric set. I have been playing drums since RB2 came out and because of my set a majority of what I play in RB is transferable to real drums. Which I can also play now, BECAUSE of RB2. So no, the GHWT set is not better than the RB2 set. There is potential in the RB2 set. The GHWT set is pretty decent, and like i mentioned before better out of the box, but RB2 allows for much more.