Rock Band 2 or Guitar hero 5? - Blu-ray Forum

JENKS · 09-02-2009, 03:45 AM

My girlfriends bday is coming up and I would like to buy whichever is best. I am going tomorrow to pick up my 65" V10 panny at bb after work and would like to pick one of these games up while I am there. She enjoyed playing at a party last weekend and they had both. I couldn't tell a diff as I didn't play much. Which one is better and why?

School · 09-02-2009, 04:00 AM

if i were to choose hands down its rb2 because of their DLC which never gets old... On the other hand GH5 is pretty good compared to the last few GH's. If you had to get one get rock band the charts are a bit more fun...

xReiIGNx · 09-02-2009, 04:03 AM

rb2...because I am awesome

koreyman · 09-02-2009, 04:06 AM

Beatles Rock Band

DeadDog · 09-02-2009, 04:12 AM

Rock Band 2, no contest.

Another_Dude · 09-02-2009, 04:17 AM

RB2

Both are games where you hit things at certain times because something comes down the screen. Let's take a look at the differences.

- DLC: The Rockband franchise has songs coming out every week and has had for a couple of years. Every week may not be a winner but there's enough to buy and enough coming out to make your credit card hurt. With GH there's a new disc (GH:A, GH:M, GH:WT, GH:SH, GH:5, BH, GH:.5VH) coming out every 3-4 months.

- Exportability: All but three songs from RB1 can be loaded into RB2 for a whopping $5. The news today was that the setlist from Lego Rockband will be the same way. Rockband: The Beatles will be different and the songs won't export/transfer because that's the way it has to be. Sorry.

- Price: I think Best Buy has the guitar/mic/drums/game pack of RB2 for $99 right now which is a steal. If you can't find it, Wal Mart has the same price. If I was playing ANY music game I'd want the RB2 drums and RB2 Strat, so $99 for the kit is theft.

- Graphics: Not a lot of difference, but I can see where the kick drum is supposed to be played on RB2 (yellow) better than GH5 (white, like the bars to seperate measures).

king_patrick_7 · 09-02-2009, 04:30 AM

I agree with RB2... unless you're beatles fans, then maybe that game.

Rock Band 2 like the others said, has new music tracks coming out every week, and all the songs from rock band 1 can be imported.

and according to the guy above me, all the lego Rock band songs will be importable, which is really sweet news to me... you can probably rent the game and load up those 40-50 songs too.

The best thing to do I suppose is look at which songs each game has to offer... and go with whatever game has the songs you like best because in the end the gameplay is fairly equal. more or less.

I simply prefer rock band because I like the songs better (especially some of the DLC) and once you import Rock Band 1 (very easy to do) you'll have over 100 songs to choose from

Icemage · 09-02-2009, 04:33 AM

If she sings, Rock Band 2 without a doubt. I now have both games.

I just got done playing GH5 for about five hours (and I normally play RB2 quite often). It's "better" than previous Guitar Hero games on vocals, but still doesn't hold a candle to the flexibility of Rock Band 2.

And yes, the disparity in song catalogues is huge.

JENKS · 09-02-2009, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Another_Dude

RB2

Both are games where you hit things at certain times because something comes down the screen. Let's take a look at the differences.

- DLC: The Rockband franchise has songs coming out every week and has had for a couple of years. Every week may not be a winner but there's enough to buy and enough coming out to make your credit card hurt. With GH there's a new disc (GH:A, GH:M, GH:WT, GH:SH, GH:5, BH, GH:.5VH) coming out every 3-4 months.

- Exportability: All but three songs from RB1 can be loaded into RB2 for a whopping $5. The news today was that the setlist from Lego Rockband will be the same way. Rockband: The Beatles will be different and the songs won't export/transfer because that's the way it has to be. Sorry.

- Price: I think Best Buy has the guitar/mic/drums/game pack of RB2 for $99 right now which is a steal. If you can't find it, Wal Mart has the same price. If I was playing ANY music game I'd want the RB2 drums and RB2 Strat, so $99 for the kit is theft.

- Graphics: Not a lot of difference, but I can see where the kick drum is supposed to be played on RB2 (yellow) better than GH5 (white, like the bars to seperate measures).

Great find on the rb2 bundle sale! I appreciate everyone's opinion and help! I will grab this tomorrow. Should I get a mike stand and drum seat as well? Anything else I should get?

Another_Dude · 09-02-2009, 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by JENKS

Great find on the rb2 bundle sale! I appreciate everyone's opinion and help! I will grab this tomorrow. Should I get a mike stand and drum seat as well? Anything else I should get?

Mic stands and thrones can be found cheap at amazon and musiciansfriend.com. If you are going to play drums at the "Hard" level or better then you should look at picking up a real set of drumsticks for $10 or less and the "Rock Pedal" (google it). Another option would be the Ion Rocker drumset down the road.

Go to rockband.com for more info. It is a very active community and any question you might ask already has a thread so the search is valuable.

JENKS · 09-02-2009, 05:09 AM

Will do. Thanks Dude!

GLaDOS · 09-02-2009, 11:06 AM

Rock Band 2, because not only the notes are pretty accurate, the online play is fare more superior, and so are the character customizations and the non-linear Tour mode. Plus, you can export about 55 out of 58 RB1 songs to RB2.

jono_0101 · 09-02-2009, 02:15 PM

def RB2, something else i didnt see mentioned from skimming the above posts, you can buy RB2, then rent the first RB game disc, and import all but i think 3 of the songs from the first disc for like $5 from the PSN store

if you are looking for an enjoyable experience more importantly than challenging, then RB2 is definitely it, not that RB2 isnt challenging on many of its songs, because it is, its just that playing GH games is always frustrating to me, because i know a lot of the songs they feature, and know kind of how the notes SHOULD go, but the way the songs are charted is not accurate to the way the song actually goes, so if you find a song you like and are really stoked to play, then the notes dont sync up like they should, it can make that song a LOT less fun to play and kind of damage your experience

ViralIncubator · 09-02-2009, 02:43 PM

Rock Band 2, hands down.

cathexist · 09-02-2009, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by ViralIncubator

Rock Band 2, hands down.

Ditto

mikejet · 09-02-2009, 03:22 PM

A deck of cards, alcohol, and a long night of strip poker?

Mr. J · 09-02-2009, 03:24 PM

Rock Band 2

Doughoef · 09-02-2009, 03:30 PM

RB2.

I won't touch another GH game.

JENKS · 09-02-2009, 04:43 PM

Well I guess it's pretty much unanimous, huh fellas? lol. Thanks for all the feedback guys.

NyeX · 09-02-2009, 05:06 PM

My wife and I love playing Rock Band 2 together.

09-02-2009, 03:45 AM	#1
JENKS Power Member Member since:Jun 2008 Location:NorCal PSN:Jenkskillnya Blu-ray collection:407 Trading Score:1	Rock Band 2 or Guitar hero 5? My girlfriends bday is coming up and I would like to buy whichever is best. I am going tomorrow to pick up my 65" V10 panny at bb after work and would like to pick one of these games up while I am there. She enjoyed playing at a party last weekend and they had both. I couldn't tell a diff as I didn't play much. Which one is better and why?

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09-02-2009, 04:00 AM	#2
School Power Member Member since:Dec 2007 Home Theater Gallery:11 Blu-ray collection:299 Trading Score:7	if i were to choose hands down its rb2 because of their DLC which never gets old... On the other hand GH5 is pretty good compared to the last few GH's. If you had to get one get rock band the charts are a bit more fun...

09-02-2009, 04:03 AM	#3
xReiIGNx Active Member Member since:Aug 2009	rb2...because I am awesome

09-02-2009, 04:06 AM	#4
koreyman Active Member Member since:Aug 2007 4K collection:12 Blu-ray collection:717 Blu-ray reviews:1	Beatles Rock Band

09-02-2009, 04:12 AM	#5
DeadDog Power Member Top contributor Member since:Jul 2008 Home Theater Gallery:12 Blu-ray collection:355 Digital collection:96 iTunes collection:125 Trading Score:360	Rock Band 2, no contest.

09-02-2009, 04:17 AM	#6
Another_Dude Blu-ray Guru Member since:Dec 2008 Blu-ray collection:191 Blu-ray reviews:8	RB2 Both are games where you hit things at certain times because something comes down the screen. Let's take a look at the differences. - DLC: The Rockband franchise has songs coming out every week and has had for a couple of years. Every week may not be a winner but there's enough to buy and enough coming out to make your credit card hurt. With GH there's a new disc (GH:A, GH:M, GH:WT, GH:SH, GH:5, BH, GH:.5VH) coming out every 3-4 months. - Exportability: All but three songs from RB1 can be loaded into RB2 for a whopping $5. The news today was that the setlist from Lego Rockband will be the same way. Rockband: The Beatles will be different and the songs won't export/transfer because that's the way it has to be. Sorry. - Price: I think Best Buy has the guitar/mic/drums/game pack of RB2 for $99 right now which is a steal. If you can't find it, Wal Mart has the same price. If I was playing ANY music game I'd want the RB2 drums and RB2 Strat, so $99 for the kit is theft. - Graphics: Not a lot of difference, but I can see where the kick drum is supposed to be played on RB2 (yellow) better than GH5 (white, like the bars to seperate measures).

09-02-2009, 04:30 AM	#7
king_patrick_7 Special Member Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Toronto, Ontario Home Theater Gallery:14 Blu-ray collection:29 Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:12	I agree with RB2... unless you're beatles fans, then maybe that game. Rock Band 2 like the others said, has new music tracks coming out every week, and all the songs from rock band 1 can be imported. and according to the guy above me, all the lego Rock band songs will be importable, which is really sweet news to me... you can probably rent the game and load up those 40-50 songs too. The best thing to do I suppose is look at which songs each game has to offer... and go with whatever game has the songs you like best because in the end the gameplay is fairly equal. more or less. I simply prefer rock band because I like the songs better (especially some of the DLC) and once you import Rock Band 1 (very easy to do) you'll have over 100 songs to choose from

09-02-2009, 04:33 AM	#8
Icemage Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Jul 2007	If she sings, Rock Band 2 without a doubt. I now have both games. I just got done playing GH5 for about five hours (and I normally play RB2 quite often). It's "better" than previous Guitar Hero games on vocals, but still doesn't hold a candle to the flexibility of Rock Band 2. And yes, the disparity in song catalogues is huge.

09-02-2009, 05:09 AM	#11
JENKS Power Member Member since:Jun 2008 Location:NorCal PSN:Jenkskillnya Blu-ray collection:407 Trading Score:1	Will do. Thanks Dude!

09-02-2009, 11:06 AM	#12
GLaDOS Blu-ray Count Top contributor Member since:May 2009 Location:Fujiwara Tofu Shop 4K collection:10 Blu-ray collection:114 Blu-ray reviews: 5	Rock Band 2, because not only the notes are pretty accurate, the online play is fare more superior, and so are the character customizations and the non-linear Tour mode. Plus, you can export about 55 out of 58 RB1 songs to RB2.

09-02-2009, 02:15 PM	#13
jono_0101 Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Aug 2008 Location:St. Louis Blu-ray collection:164 Trading Score:7	def RB2, something else i didnt see mentioned from skimming the above posts, you can buy RB2, then rent the first RB game disc, and import all but i think 3 of the songs from the first disc for like $5 from the PSN store if you are looking for an enjoyable experience more importantly than challenging, then RB2 is definitely it, not that RB2 isnt challenging on many of its songs, because it is, its just that playing GH games is always frustrating to me, because i know a lot of the songs they feature, and know kind of how the notes SHOULD go, but the way the songs are charted is not accurate to the way the song actually goes, so if you find a song you like and are really stoked to play, then the notes dont sync up like they should, it can make that song a LOT less fun to play and kind of damage your experience

09-02-2009, 02:43 PM	#14
ViralIncubator Member Top contributor Member since:Jul 2009 Location:Indiana Home Theater Gallery:5 4K collection:4 Blu-ray collection:270 DVD collection:332	Rock Band 2, hands down.

09-02-2009, 03:22 PM	#16
mikejet Banned Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Los Angeles, CA Blu-ray reviews:5 Trading Score:29	A deck of cards, alcohol, and a long night of strip poker?

09-02-2009, 03:24 PM	#17
Mr. J Gaming Moderator Top contributor Member since:Jul 2008 Location:Arkham Asylum Home Theater Gallery:6 4K collection:393 Blu-ray collection:768 DVD collection:7 iTunes collection:628 Blu-ray reviews: 4 Trading Score:181	Rock Band 2

09-02-2009, 03:30 PM	#18
Doughoef Expert Member Member since:Mar 2008 Location:Icelandia 4K collection:37 Blu-ray collection:269 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:9	RB2. I won't touch another GH game.

09-02-2009, 04:43 PM	#19
JENKS Power Member Member since:Jun 2008 Location:NorCal PSN:Jenkskillnya Blu-ray collection:407 Trading Score:1	Well I guess it's pretty much unanimous, huh fellas? lol. Thanks for all the feedback guys.

09-02-2009, 05:06 PM	#20
NyeX Active Member Member since:Jan 2009 Location:Texas 4K collection:- Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:- MA collection:- Digital collection:- iTunes collection:- Prime collection:- Trading Score:6	My wife and I love playing Rock Band 2 together.

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