| mrstickball said: Rock Band 2. As much as the song set in GH:WT is nice, I at least have the comfort of knowing every dime I spend on new songs works in RB2. Also, I don't get it - why are the drums better in GH:WT again? I am just going to upgrade my RB1 drum set with the cymbals and save $$$....GH:WT is making you (yet again) put more money down for new stuff while Rock Band is ensuring 100% of your stuff stays backwards and forward compatible. The only thing GH:WT has over RB2 is Metallica's Death Magnetic album launching. |
I think its more than just a little disingenuous to say that (the bolded part) given the robust editor, given GHTunes, given GHMix, and a bevy of other customization features that simply won't be in RB2. Are you honestly trying to discount all of those features as irellevant? What am I missing here?
FYI - They've confirmed GH3 DLC will be made compatible with WT and going forward new DLC will be compatible as well. I think its a bit understandable considering the addition of new instruments. And on the subject of new instruments the GH:WT instruments will work with RB for 360 owners at the very least. They haven't confirmed or ruled out the Wii/PS2/PS3 isntruments as well to my knowledge. Personally, I really hope both companies get fully on board the compatability train and cooperate with each other.
As for the drums the RB1 drums are not velocity sensitive and will need an upgrade to stay 100% compatible. You yourself in the this post said you're going to upgrade your drums. But then how can you complain about GH making people put more money down to stay fully compatible if RB is requiring the same thing? How exactly is the RB stuff staying 100% bw/fw compatible if you need to upgrade the drums? Not to mention the problems many folks have had with the RB Guitar and having to replace it already.
In any case you would fall into the later category of folks I talked about (non-Wii RB1 owner) and so it makes good sense for you to get RB2 and not clutter your living room with another set of instruments. But I really don't know how you can honestly say someone who doesn't have RB1 should pick up RB2 over WT though, they will be paying for all the instruments regardless of which they buy, they have no DLC to consider, no RB1 songs to import, and when it boils right down to it WT will always have far more music for them to play (and they won't have to spend cash to get new songs unless they want to).
I'm looking at this from a point for point perspective and I don't really see how RB2 is a better choice for anyone but (non-Wii) RB1 owners.
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