October 15th 2009 11:13 am PT

They are no worse than Bungie.

Taylor Swift is in it?

Inb4 Kayne jokes

@Mossiprose
You do know in July there was Rock Band:Unplugged, and last month Beatles:Rock Band and NEXT month Lego Rock Band? How is that normal compare to Activision’s schedule?

@Azwethinkweiz12
Rock Band: Unplugged was for portables, not consoles so scratch that.
Beatles: Rock Band is intended to stand in it’s own right as a Beatles only game that happens to use the Rock Band engine, and it actually does a decent job.
Lego Rock Band, hell they’ve gotta squeek one thing out that “core” Rock Band, at this makes it a little more kiddie friendly.
Rock Band 2 is still the mainstay game and still going strong with a COMPLETE (barring 2 tracks from RB1) setlist.

Now Guitar Hero, as well as DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero you’re also forgetting Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero: Van Halen … which I don’t class in the same category as TB:RB because they run on the “a few key tracks and a ton of ‘inspired by’ cr@p” in order to shunt out another generic GH clone under a sneaky name. On top of that most of the tracks aren’t transferable so it’s disc swap hell and no chance of building that dream setlist.

Just to make things clear, I love both Guitar Hero and Rock Band so don’t go around accusing me of being a fanboy. Yes Band Hero is not transferable to GH5 or future GH or even BH games(for now). But Lego Rock Band is $10(800MSP) to export AND you need a manuel code like in GHWT and SH. Last time I check RB1 is $5(400MSP) and had more songs. So as I see it RB is as guilty of “milking” games out. It’s simple if you’re not interested in the game then DON’T buy it.

GH releases both games and DLC.
RB releases both games and DLC.

I get the games I want, and I past the games I don’t. I buy them when they’re less then $20. I think we should stop these “ROCK BANDZ FTW” and “STOP MAILKING” BS some people are doing.

What is this?

In less than one year, Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero Metallica, Guitar Hero Van Halen, Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, DJ Hero. Ok, you’ve got the point.

@VermilionFR: I have most of the games for both franchises (and actually own, but have never played Rock Revolution…$4.99, why not?), and while you have a point, you forgot Guitar Hero Smash Hits, and the fact that the GH franchise hasn’t released near as much DLC (since it hardly transfers from one iteration to the next). Rock Band, on the other hand, has “milked” just as much, though it is much more user friendly as all track packs (Vol 2, Country, Metal, Classic Rock) can be imported (free with code), Lego Rock Band (fee and code), and 5-10 songs on DLC EVERY week. DJ Hero is a completely different game, with 102 songs, so I don’t see that one as milking, and both Band Hero and Lego Rock Band are designed to be more “family” games rather than “hardcore” rhythm games (look at the setlists, and new “no fail” rule sets for both).

…knew I forgot one…AC/DC track pack for Rock Band. Point is, Rock Band is banking on you having either RB1 or RB2 and spending in little chunks (DLC and track packs), GH offers new songs in the form of a whole new game, and is hoping people will pay for “band-specific” games (Metallica, Van Halen) and 1000 GS on every version. My family plays them for fun, so the more variety the better…and of course getting Van Halen FREE was always nice!

whats wrong with activision!???!!! band hero includes all the pop songs??? WTH who is gonna buy this??? with rockband 2 and world tour u wanna get always better and better and harder songs, but i bet the hardest song here is what? village people – ymca???? come on activision, this is why all the guitar heros are always compare to one rockband… rockband 2 to rule them all. i wonder how many guitar heros game can buy one person. this is just a lame way to lose 50$

@Makavelo
Good example of a blind fanboy.

@Hoffer, You just don’t get it do you dude?

The difference between GH and RB right now is the cost to get songs that I want to play.

I’ve looked at the GH5 setlist, there are maybe 11 songs that I want to play. Of those, I already own 3 of them through DLC in RB. So let’s compare costs… to get all of these songs added to my RB setlist, it would be 8 songs x 2 dollars each = 16 dollars. To get the same 8 songs in Guitar Hero? Spend $60. Yes, it comes with other songs. I don’t care about those other songs. I’m picky, I’m choosy, I only care about a few songs of the setlist. Which means it makes more sense for me to go with the RB DLC model than the GH ‘buy a disc with other stuff too’ model.

It can be hit or miss (GH: Metallica RAWKED) but for the most part it just doesn’t make sense for me to pay a bunch of extra money for a bunch of extra songs that I don’t want when I can instead pick and choose and pay a lot less.

@Azwethinkweiz12
Stupid ignorant

@Mr Barrel Roll
Someone that actually get it, that’s what I’m talking about, only 6-10 songs are worth on every guitar hero game and some are already on Rock Band DLC, so why paid extra for songs that you don’t like at all and the only time you play them is when your are forced to do so on “Career Mode” when you can just pick what ever song you want as individual items via dlc.

*sigh*

@Makavelo
Last time I check GH has it’s own DLC store. So you’re being ignorant about RB being the holy grail of music gaming and you never play GH5 since it has career mode without playing all the require songs and being able to play all songs without locking them in quick play unlike RB2 where you HAVE to play all songs in order to unlock em and save them since the cheat code disables it.

The poor cow they milking gonna shrivel up or they using the same cow microsoft uses cos theirs hasn’t shriveled up yet either. No quality to the game at all just something they can put out to steal your money, same crap different title. I liked the guitar hero games but as of guitar hero world tour the game is just getting old, and the sh#t DLC they keep releasing doesn’t make it any better they just out to nickel and dime people to death quality left the game a few titles ago. Next we will see a guitar hero for every day of the week ” coming out next guitar hero friday” we didn’t get all of your money yet with guitar hero saturday,sunday,monday,tuesday, wensday or thursday so you must buy guitar friday so we can completely steal all of your money. Game companies need to put quality back into the games and quit charging highend prices for low end games.

Yeah, FU Activision. What makes you think you can put out a product for consumers to decide if they want to purchase or not? Freakin Dumb@ss Activision thinks this is a free market to put out anything they produce. FU Activison, you’ve caused me many sleepless nights thinking about those guitar hero’s sitting on store shelves(How can I just walk by them without buying them? Ahhhhhh). Who do you guys (Activision) think you are telling me I can buy this product if I want to? You sons a B!tches

Honestly, when I saw and heard of this game – it was for the Nintendo DS, I really thought it was a cheap joke, but not that is coming to a console, I must check it out. Rock Band was hot, Rock Band 2 is even hotter. Guitar Hero cool, but too much ‘same rock’, but the feel of each song is awesome. LIPS, not as cool as it was claimed to be, but still entertaining. GHWT – playing along locally seems best in my book, playing online, your friends need to know what they are doing to set it up and get playing. I have them all (except Van Halen, GH5, etc), I do not see what all this fuss is about. Some songs are ‘different’ in each version. RB2′s and GHWT’s Ramblin Man each have a certain ‘twang’ in the voice that makes me personally like both. Now, ahem, where’s QUEEN? Freddie Mercury lives on.

I heard if you are sucked in enough to buy all the games plus all the downloadable content you unlock a cow costume for your avatar with the Activision logo on it. Cool.

@threeleggedcow
We’ve had three Halo games, one spin off and an expansion in the past 8 or so years. How is that “milking”? Compare it to the amount of Guitar Hero games we’ve had in the past two years alone.

The main reason why this suck with monthly new Guitar Hero game, is because it kills online gaming for music games.

This means its hard to fill a band online in any game now, because players is splitted between too many music games.