Reply With QuoteI hate Aerosmith. I didn't like GH3 at all as Neversoft has no idea what the fuck they're doing. I will be completely ignoring Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
Yes, day 1
Probably, used or after a price drop
No, I dislike Neversoft/GH3 or Aerosmith
No, I dislike Neversoft/GH3 and Aerosmith
I don't care/don't play Guitar Hero games
I know that my opinion of Guitar Hero 3 has gone from middling to pretty strongly negative in the last 5 months, and it seems like most of the other players here share that opinion. From their squandered DLC potential to the incredibly shoddy presentation (compared to Rock Band, anyway) to their player-hostile design decisions, I think that Neversoft has alienated a lot of their fan base. Plus, I loathe Aerosmith, so I'm really hoping that I don't cave and pick this up.
How about you guys?
I hate Aerosmith. I didn't like GH3 at all as Neversoft has no idea what the fuck they're doing. I will be completely ignoring Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
Even if I was a massive, massive, massive Aerosmith fan, I still think it would get pretty boring just playing one band's songs.
I believe they've already mentioned that there will be other bands/songs to play than just Aerosmith, but I'm still not going to get this. I purchased both GH3 and Rockband and it's no-contest with me. Rockband all the way.Originally Posted by Hudson
And I hate Aerosmith.
I really, really hate Aerosmith.
-Mink-
Last edited by Mink Staccato; 03-28-2008 at 02:36 PM.
To be fair, the game is half and half. The article in this month's GI says you'll play two songs in each tier as the opener band, featuring various acts and the GH characters, and then two as Aerosmith.
To be unfair, Aerosmith sucks, GHIII sucks, and any combination thereof is bound to suck. I think their only hope of getting big sales (on par with a regular installment of the franchise, that is) is to bundle it with a new guitar. Of course they'll probably want to deliberately make it incompatible with Rock Band, which will negate a lot of those sales too.
My understanding was that these non-Aerosmith songs were to be "inspired" by and otherwise thematically similar to Aerosmith's work. That's from a long ago interview, have they relaxed that too?The article in this month's GI says you'll play two songs in each tier as the opener band, featuring various acts and the GH characters, and then two as Aerosmith.
50% Aerosmith is still a shitload of Aerosmith, though. Led Zeppelin is the only band I can think of with a library deep enough to possibly handle the burden of having >20 songs in a single GH game.
That's a lot of the same old song and dance.
From Wiki:
The game is reported to have "about 60 percent Aerosmith and 40 percent artists that either inspired Aerosmith, played with Aerosmith, or are liked by Aerosmith."
Thumbs way, way down. It's a terrible concept that really misunderstands the appeal of Guitar Hero games(wide variety means that everyone at the party likes at least one song) with terrible strategic execution(Aerosmith? Not Metallica, not Zeppelin, Aerosmith) and likely terrible tactical execution(unless they steal Harmonix people).
Agreed on the off-target concept and lack of faith in Neversoft, but I fail to see how basing the game around the top-selling American rock band of all time is a bad idea. I'm not really interested in playing that much Aerosmith, but somebody out there must be unless these albums are buying themselves.
Supposedly these are the first three tiers of songs in the game. Not too bad a mix of old and new era Aerosmith. I'm interested to see what the White Stripes song will be.
Setlist
Tier 1 - Venue: Nipmuc Regional High School
"All The Young Dudes" - Mott The Hopple
"The Dream Police" - Cheap Trick
"Make It" - Aerosmith
"Uncle Salty" - Aerosmith
Encore: "Draw the Line" - Aerosmith
Tier 2 - Venue: Max's Kansas City
"I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Joan Jett
"All Day and All of the Night" - The Kinks
"Movin' Out" - Aerosmith
"No Surprize" - Aerosmith
Encore: "Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith
Tier 3 - Venue: The Orpheum Theatre
"Complete Control" - The Clash
"Personality Crisis" - New York Dolls
"Livin' on the Edge" - Aerosmith
"Ragdoll" - Aerosmith
Encore: "Love in an Elevator"
Wait, I have to buy fucking GH3: Fucking Aerosmith Edition to get a Kinks song? Dammit.
I'm so ticked they have a White Stripes song. If this was Guitar Hero: White Stripes I'd pre-order.
I don't hate Aerosmith and I wouldn't mind seeing some more of their songs in Rock Band, but I don't like them nearly enough to buy a game that is predominantly their stuff. But mostly, I just don't care about Guitar Hero anymore. When I want to play guitar I have 60-some songs in Rock Band and counting plus all the previous GH games. That's more than enough to sate my GH cravings.
Rock Band is so much better it's barely even worth comparing them. The only thing GH does better now is hardware, so if they come out with an Aerosmith guitar controller that is better than all previous guitars, I might buy that.
"No, I dislike Neversoft/GH3 or Aerosmith" couldn't be broken into two poll options?
I liked GH3. It's the most popular of the four GH games at my house so I don't really get the hate. And I like pre-Crazy Aerosmith, just probably not enough to buy a GH game full of their songs.
I'd like to play a lot of those songs, including a few of the Aerosmith ones. I'd buy it if it were Rock Band related (and the price were right,) but guitar-only is for peasants.
Guitar Hero is dead to me.
What difficulty do you play on? A lot of my hate comes from the fact that they made it physically impossible for me to finish the game on Hard. Well, that and the idiotic boss battles. And the character design. And... actually, if you care there's a much more entertaining version of my gripes here.
I'm not a fan of Aerosmith. I won't be buying it.
I'm imagining a scenario where I draw a Venn diagram... People who play Guitar Hero. People who buy/enjoy Aerosmith albums. My diagram has little overlap.
It's the only one of these games that I haven't beaten on expert, but it's not the difficulty that bothers me.
Like yourself, my main two complaints are the boss battles and the art. The boss battle concept is stupid and orthogonal to everything that makes these games fun, and the art is almost universally atrocious. I never played as Judy Nails in the other games, but at this point I think it's unnecessary to explain what's wrong with her character model. The drummer looks like a mechanical monkey, and the singer looks like a cheap hand-puppet based on something out of The Dark Crystal. Also, I almost never complain about in-game advertising, but shit like the Pontiac level is so ham-handed and awful that it just kind of makes me sad.
For the most part, I enjoy the gameplay -- the loose timings make it a different and fun experience to nail the crazy, over-the-top charts -- but everything else about the game is a huge turnoff.
even though I can get the game for cheap, I won't bother due to the fact that DJ Max portable is better than any other music games out.
So true. I never thought the art style and animations really mattered when I played earlier GH games. In fact, I often used to think "Geez, why did they spend so much time and effort in making the background behind the note charts look good? Don't they know that the note charts are all that matters?"
And GH3 proved me wrong. I had no idea it mattered so much. That drummer playing like a mechanical monkey bothers me so much! I had no idea stuff like that would actually bother me in a game like this. And by itself its not so bad. If the only thing about GH3 that bothered me was the animation of the drummer, I wouldn't really care all that much. But it all adds up. It just doesn't feel like a pleasant experience overall.
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I count that as a negative. I get no joy out of randomly button-mashing my way through a section that I have no hope of legitimately playing. I'd categorize it about the same as using an invincibility cheat to get through a really tough level in a platformer--I'm glad that I get to see the rest of the game but I don't enjoy the actual act of standing there shooting enemies who can't hurt me. In GH3 I'm glad that I didn't fail out but I don't feel any of the elation I get in other games when I truly manage to play a really tough section; I'm just glad it's over.
I'm not talking about button mashing, I'm talking about almost being able to do it in GH2 or Rock Band, and just barely being able to do it in GH3. Like, if Green Grass and High Tides were a GH3 game, I would be able to legitimately play most of it instead of being forced to basically button mash to get through it.
I don't think anybody finds button mashing to be very fun.
Not really interested. I like Aerosmith, but I hated Neversoft's note charts in GHIII so much that I returned the game. There were a bunch of songs in that game that I liked, too, but they just weren't much fun to play.
Rock Band 4 lyfe.
Trying to get through Hard. Although my sister and I did have a miserable time trying to get through One in Co-op mode so maybe we are getting to the sucky part. She's the GH connoisseur, though. I just play what she wants to play and most of the time that's GH3. Although we both agree that the 80s version sucks.
Where's the "Gamefly FTW!" option?
I don't really understand the point of playing a game like this once, but I would say that's option 2.
Wait, what? White Stripes? Well, I guess I'm buying it.
I had a bad feeling about the Guitar Hero series when it was bought out by Activision, but the whole thing is going to shit much faster than I expected it would. Between GH3 being an outright silly game, Accordian Hero for the DS, those commercials with Slash coming out of the kid's body and looking ridiculous playing a toy guitar, and fucking Aerosmith Guitar Hero of all things. I can't wait to see what's coming next. Can they outdo themselves?
No fair! I both dislike Aerosmith *and* will buy this Day 1.
I love the core Guitar Hero gameplay that much, even if GH3 is the worst of the three GH games so far.
When I think of Aerosmith, I think of Tyler. It's a vocals-oriented act. I do not associate the band with really fun to play guitar tracks. "Dream On" is the only song of theirs that is fun to play, even their RB song kinda sucks.I fail to see how basing the game around the top-selling American rock band of all time is a bad idea.
And to reinforce the Venn diagram, they may be the best selling band, but I think they sell to a different demographic than GH.
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