Being recently married and a person who is obsessed with music games, I made a conscious decision this year to only buy one of the two major music games (Guitar Hero 5 and Beatles: Rock Band) at full retail price. I even backed off on that when Best Buy announced their BOGO half off promotion last week. I decided to preorder Beatles: Rock Band since I love the Beatles and trust Harmonix over Neversoft, but now that reviews are coming out for GH5 I’m beginning to regret my choice.
All the reviews that are coming out for Guitar Hero 5 make me wish I had the game RIGHT NOW. It seems like the game is now much more user friendly, you can start playing songs from the main menu, drop in/drop out, change difficulty on the fly, and play with any combination of instruments that you want. Anyway, it sounds like a lot of innovation, and I’m a bit sad to be missing out on it. What’s really great is all the songs are unlocked out of the box: no codes or anything.
I guess I’ll have to wait another week for Beatles and hope it is just as good. What I prefer about Guitar Hero is the level of difficulty, which I doubt will be present in the Beatles, so I’ll just have to hope the song list and quality makes up for the difference. I guess this only a temporary lament, since I’ll probably pick up GH5 when there’s a price drop, but I’m big on instant gratification so I’ll have to learn to wait. BAH!
haha it’s funny since i’m the opposite as you – since I’m not really a Beatles fan I thought GH5 should be good enough for me so I picked that up instead. But who knows – if people are loving the Beatles game I may check it out eventually too.
What I’m surprised to hear though is that with you being such a huge music game fan, why are you forcing yourself to make such a choice? it’s especially not relevant this year since the track lists in both releases are completely different (isn’t that why we’re buying these games?). in any case, beatles rock band really is just around the corner so if you can hold out for a few more days until that, it may be enough.
i’ll put out some impressions on gh 5 next week and we can see how the two games stack up…
I’m making the choice because I’m trying to spend less money on games now that I’m married
But yes, that is material for another day…I’ll get GH5 eventually, I have $30 Amazon credit I need to use by December so just waiting for a price drop.