Drums and GHWT

TinCool

I decided to give GHWT a go and picked up the guitar and game for PS3 (HMV through in a free bass guitar as they had one left as well). I haven't had so much fun playing a game for quite some time. I am now thinking of may be picking up a 2nd hand drum kit from ebay or the likes. However, they are a bit pricey so am wondering is it worth it ? Are they as much crack as the guitars are ?

Cheers,
TC

ShawnRaven

Well put it this way, Cully actually bought a proper electronic drumkit to hook up to Rock Band.

... we haven't seen or heard much from him since.

ongarite

Red Octane/Activision are releasing a standalone drum pack at the end of this month AFAIK.

TinCool

So does anyone want to share their drumming experiences ?

cedomination

I wouldn't recommend buying one on ebay,you'll have nothing if it breaks.
Wait for the standalone drums or buy a rock band drumkit.

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Well put it this way, Cully actually bought a proper electronic drumkit to hook up to Rock Band.

... we haven't seen or heard much from him since.

He's been in China since January,but I played on his drums and they are AWESOME.

ShawnRaven

cedomination wrote: »

He's been in China since January,but I played on his drums and they are AWESOME.

Conspicious by his absence, as the board has been almost dead since he took off!

I played with him while he was fine tuning his kit, he was utter rubbish but he kept blaming it on his kit for some reason

TinCool

cedomination wrote: »

I wouldn't recommend buying one on ebay,you'll have nothing if it breaks.
Wait for the standalone drums or buy a rock band drumkit.

Is the rockband drum kit compatible with GHWT ? Also, are the GHWT guitars compatible with Rock Band. I have GHWT on the PS3 and would consider getting Rock Band 1 (I don't see that RB2 has been released here yet for PS3) and giving that a bash.

Cheers,
TC

Stuxnet

i'm selling mine if interested

http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=94452

feylya

I bought the GHWT pack with all the instruments on Sunday. One of the buttons on the guitar is interrmitent and one of the cymbal leads is completely dead. Back it goes.

ongarite

TinCool wrote: »

Is the rockband drum kit compatible with GHWT ? Also, are the GHWT guitars compatible with Rock Band. I have GHWT on the PS3 and would consider getting Rock Band 1 (I don't see that RB2 has been released here yet for PS3) and giving that a bash.

Cheers,
TC

GH:WT guitar is compatible with RB1. I recently bought RB1 and WT guitar works perfectly with it.
AFAIK RB drums work with WT, put due to 4 pads of RB drums compared to 5 in WT, the songs are a bit gimped.

TinCool

ongarite wrote: »

GH:WT guitar is compatible with RB1. I recently bought RB1 and WT guitar works perfectly with it.
AFAIK RB drums work with WT, put due to 4 pads of RB drums compared to 5 in WT, the songs are a bit gimped.

Thanks for the info. How does RB1 compare to GHWT ? I'm thinking of picking it up over the weekend.

James Forde

any one know how much the standalone drumkit is going to be?

hacktavist

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Well put it this way, Cully actually bought a proper electronic drumkit to hook up to Rock Band.

... we haven't seen or heard much from him since.

How does this work can you hook up any set of electric drums?

ongarite

TinCool wrote: »

Thanks for the info. How does RB1 compare to GHWT ? I'm thinking of picking it up over the weekend.

Good question. IMO RB1 as a band game with a 4 players is a super game but as a single player game, its a severly flawed game.
99% of my time is spent playing RB1 in solo mode and its very very basic. Once you play through the solo tour, the game is basically over.
Nobody plays RB1 online so its impossible to setup a band as it seems to be have been abandoned by US players and RB franchise is DOA in Europe.

Saying that, the actual gameplay is very good with good charting, solo sections and freestyle section at end of some songs and well done crowd effects.

RB2 seemed to have fixed most of the solo playing flaws with integrated solo/band modes and better sorting of songs, genres and song queue like WT.

D4RK ONION

I wouldn't say the game is over once you've completed the 3 solo tours (drums/guitar/vox). You've got about 400 songs to choose from on the Marketplace. If you haven't downloaded the Boston track pack, you haven't lived...

ongarite

D4RK ONION wrote: »

I wouldn't say the game is over once you've completed the 3 solo tours (drums/guitar/vox). You've got about 400 songs to choose from on the Marketplace. If you haven't downloaded the Boston track pack, you haven't lived...

Thats not exactly what was asked. As a solo guitar only game, RB1 is pretty limited.
You breeze through the Solo Tour songs and thats it. There is no bass Solo Tour mode and you can't play in Band World Tour unless you have all the instruments locally with 2+ players or you can actually find someone that still plays RB1 online.
Its even worse if your not the band leader and you can't play online unless the band leader is present in Band World Tour.

Cully

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Well put it this way, Cully actually bought a proper electronic drumkit to hook up to Rock Band.

... we haven't seen or heard much from him since.

Mostly because I went to China for 1 month and for some stupid reason, every single ISP in China blocks boards.ie (I'm not exaggerating)

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Conspicious by his absence, as the board has been almost dead since he took off!

I played with him while he was fine tuning his kit, he was utter rubbish but he kept blaming it on his kit for some reason

Haha... I just got it working about an hour before that and the thing was giving echo notes, triggering nearby pads, and the bass wasn't secured... Now, My only excuse is that I suck :P

TinCool wrote: »

Thanks for the info. How does RB1 compare to GHWT ? I'm thinking of picking it up over the weekend.

RB2 is so much better than RB1... I would rate GH:WT a little better than RB1, but then if I had the choice, I would still buy RB1 because of the way the career thing works and more and better songs available online. GH:WT gets boring easily...

hacktavist wrote: »

How does this work can you hook up any set of electric drums?

Yes, but you need something extra.... There's an extra adapter you need depending on if you have the PS3 version or the Xbox360 version. The one I have was bought off some guy on ebay who pre-soldered it all together. If you know electronics or know someone who does, then they can do it cheaply for you.

ShawnRaven

Fnar Fnar! Welcome back man, it's been too long!

D4RK ONION

ongarite wrote: »

Thats not exactly what was asked. As a solo guitar only game, RB1 is pretty limited.
You breeze through the Solo Tour songs and thats it.

Guitar Hero 1 through 3 was the same, and that (mainly 2) kept me playing for well over a year. RB2 is certainly an improvement in most reagards, but RB1 followed basically the same structure as Guitar Hero (the good ones (the ones madeby harmonix)) and that kept us happy for so long!

Off Topic (again, sorry!), am I correct in assuming most of you know each other in real life... Well, in person, might be a better term :P

cedomination

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Guitar Hero 1 through 3 was the same, and that (mainly 2) kept me playing for well over a year. RB2 is certainly an improvement in most reagards, but RB1 followed basically the same structure as Guitar Hero (the good ones (the ones madeby harmonix)) and that kept us happy for so long!

Off Topic (again, sorry!), am I correct in assuming most of you know each other in real life... Well, in person, might be a better term :P

I know Cully and I have met ShawnRaven once but mostly we just play online.

D4RK ONION

Kool and the gang...

As a reply to you in DDR thread, I get a bit sick of people verbally raping the RB stock Kit. The drums work absolutely fine for me.

That said, my pedal did break at the hinge, but I taped it down with masking tape about 3 months ago, it's still going... I actually prefer the loose-ness that it's created :P

cedomination

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Kool and the gang...

As a reply to you in DDR thread, I get a bit sick of people verbally raping the RB stock Kit. The drums work absolutely fine for me.

This is because you were one of the lucky people (like 1 in 1,000) that got a good one.
The highest score from visions on drums is by a teenager with a completely unmodded rb1 kit :eek:

D4RK ONION

cedomination wrote: »

This is because you were one of the lucky people (like 1 in 1,000) that got a good one.
The highest score from visions on drums is by a teenager with a completely unmodded rb1 kit :eek:

Madness I'm sure!

ShawnRaven

cedomination wrote: »

I have met ShawnRaven once.

Hah, i've never seen someone look so nervous and petrified as I did that day.
Although i'm sure the shaved head and piercings probably didn't help.

D4RK ONION

No, that would certainly not help, though I'm sure you're lovely. So this forum is a farely tight knit community then? I would have this discussion else where, but there's precious few threads... What are the mods like? Strict?

ShawnRaven

D4RK ONION wrote: »

No, that would certainly not help, though I'm sure you're lovely. So this forum is a farely tight knit community then? I would have this discussion else where, but there's precious few threads... What are the mods like? Strict?

I was one of the ones who lobbied for the forums creation last year, by copying Zapp Brannigan's sig (he put the initial request in). It took a few months for it to surface but it got there, and to be fair to the mods, they don't have to do a lot as this particular forum moderates itself. People exchange tags and play online, help newbies and even not so new folk, discuss the differences between games.

The community, tight enough but fairly laid back at the same time. We don't get a lot of trouble, which is always good. So welcome aboard and enjoy the ride.

D4RK ONION

Cool, thanks for the official welcome, as it were...

Cully

I haven't seen any mods whinging in here.. and they probably had reason to if they did :P

Anyway... it's mostly relaxed here.. which is good.

As for meeting... We could organise a bit of a rock band 2 meetup some weekend if you were prepared to travel to dublin. I have 2 spare rooms which can be used as bedrooms, and I have enough crap to keep us going. (incl a roland drumset for rock band)

I could even show you some of the other awesome rhythm games.... Pop'n'Music and IIDX... both of which I have arcade controllers for.

D4RK ONION

That sounds very cool... I work most weekends, but during the summer perhaps? That's miles away though! Also, that Roland Kit sounds sexy :eek:

Cully

D4RK ONION wrote: »

That sounds very cool... I work most weekends, but during the summer perhaps? That's miles away though! Also, that Roland Kit sounds sexy :eek:

Summer yes.... Let me know as much in advance as you can and I'll try get a few of the lads here for a rock band meetup... Maybe if we get enough decent players we can pwn the crap out of endless setlist 2 We sure have enough talent between all of us.

I already have those achievements, but it would be nice to be a part of someone elses achievement getting. (also I have the bladder of steel award.... ouch)

D4RK ONION

Is that one of the secret ones? What is it? I'm sure I could get the endless setlist on my own, but there's plenty of multiplayer ones I need, like the 90 second overdrive award...

Cully

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Is that one of the secret ones? What is it? I'm sure I could get the endless setlist on my own, but there's plenty of multiplayer ones I need, like the 90 second overdrive award...

Yes it's secret.

It's the one where you have to pass every song on Endless Setlist 2 with NO PAUSING OR FAILING.. even once!

90 sec overdrive would be crap easy if you came here... along with the others.

D4RK ONION

Obviously, but here, at home, I enlist my younger siblings to play along. They love it. My 8 year old sister does a wonderful "run to the hills" on vocals. It's heart warming!

ShawnRaven

Definitely be interested in a meetup, although i tore a muscle below my shoulder last week and i'm still waiting for it to heal and can't play either GH or RB as i suck at it sitting down, hence why i haven't been playing it much in the last few days.

One controller and a bottle of Jack Daniels and away we go!

D4RK ONION

Don't partake in alcoholic beverages myself :P

Cully

Meh.. alcohol or no alcohol it doesn't bother me. I don't drink a whole lot anyway.

Important for me is the meet up.

ShawnRaven

Cully wrote: »

Meh.. alcohol or no alcohol it doesn't bother me. I don't drink a whole lot anyway.

Important for me is the meet up.

The Alcohol is not that important for me as such, but it does help me around people i haven't met before. I also actually play better with it for some reason. And a bottle of JD lasts an entire night which is even better.

Cully

Zubrowka > JD

ShawnRaven

Cully wrote: »

Zubrowka > JD

We'll see on the night there, pal!

Cully

ShawnRaven wrote: »

We'll see on the night there, pal!

The power of Bisongrass compells you!

ShawnRaven

Cully wrote: »

The power of Bisongrass compells you!

... and as a result i won't make it home until the search parties find me!

D4RK ONION

Well as long as the alcohol doesn't make ye drunk drunk, I wouldn't mind...

ShawnRaven

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Well as long as the alcohol doesn't make ye drunk drunk, I wouldn't mind...

I can honestly say in my 18 years of drinking, i've never passed out due to alcohol!

D4RK ONION

That either means you've been drinking since shortly after you were born, or you're a tad bit older than me!

ShawnRaven

D4RK ONION wrote: »

That either means you've been drinking since shortly after you were born, or you're a tad bit older than me!

I'd put the mortgage, wife, kids, dog all on the latter!

Cully

D4RK ONION... I wouldn't assume that everyone is your age.

I am a lot older than you.

There are older people who play games...

D4RK ONION

REALLY? Wow, I didn't know that[/Sarcasm]

I don't assume much, it was more of a joke than a "lulz, old people playing games" comment. Didn't mean to offend of anything.

Cully

D4RK ONION wrote: »

I don't assume much, it was more of a joke than a "lulz, old people playing games" comment. Didn't mean to offend of anything.

If you think 30 is old, then you're in for a bit of a surprise in a few years... You don't just wake up and feel old... You just kind of notice that instead of being the youngest around, you're not anymore.

I still feel 15

ShawnRaven

Cully wrote: »

If you think 30 is old, then you're in for a bit of a surprise in a few years... You don't just wake up and feel old... You just kind of notice that instead of being the youngest around, you're not anymore.

I still feel 15

Poor Cully got knocked off his perch at the end of last year when he found out i was older than him by a few months! I don't think the poor guy has ever fully recovered since.

Cully has it on the money, I'm also still very much a retro gamer too. I still have my Amstrad games emulated on a modded xbox 1. The lasting appeal on them is much longer than a lot of stuff that's come out over the last ten years although they look as crude as hell. GH/RB series are the only modern games i really play on a regular basis as they're the only ones that come crying "play me!", thats probably just me "getting old" though

D4RK ONION

Well I intend to play games til my heart gives out on me. I've been playing the SNES since I was three, and chances are, I'll still have it when I'm ninety three!

TinCool

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Poor Cully got knocked off his perch at the end of last year when he found out i was older than him by a few months! I don't think the poor guy has ever fully recovered since.

I've been playing games since the days of the VIC20, I just turned 32 a couple of days ago but I still love playing games. I quite like the RB and GH stuff as it's great crack and can get to play with my mrs from time to time. I definitely have a soft spot for the retro stuff but I too like to play the latest stuff to come out on PC/PS3. Looking forward to Street Fighter IV, probably more so to see how it pairs up to my memories of playing SFII in the arcades back in the early 90's.

TC