Comments on: 10 Things Guitar Hero World Tour Gets Right

By: kastermester

kastermester — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:59:24 +0000

In regards to the purple lines – besides visual effects they actually does more than that:

1. It means you can use the slider to hit the notes, when there’s no purple lines the slider actually works like a whammy (wah wah effect) / strum-bar combo

2. All the notes connected on purple notes are hammer-ons / pull-offs – with one twist. If you fail a note midway through, there’s no need to sturm to catch back up – simply “hammer on” the next colour to start playing again (be it on the slider or the regular colour buttons). This makes practicing tapping sooo much easier.

I gotta say though, you hit all these points right, but I, as well as you it seems, prefer RB2 much much more as well, although I feel that RB2 lacks a proper hyperspeed (read: several levels of their breakneck speed).

By: Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:23:08 +0000

One more thing I forgot to include:

** streak count and detailed post-song statistics

I’m ambivalent about streak count, since it’s just more visual clutter on the screen and most players don’t care. But the “hot start” and “200 combo” alerts are sort of fun, if relatively pointless.

The GH2 style detailed post-song statistics, though, are a no brainer.. It’s convenient to see which sections of the song you struggled with so you can practice them later! And it’s eminently skippable for everyone else, so it doesn’t add any clutter to the UI.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:30:14 +0000

Good points – even if most of them are totally peripheral to the experience. You could have included certain awesome tracks like Beat It and Hotel California – although this is subjective due to music tastes. Not to mention that it’s not impossible that we might see these songs in Rock Band as DLC.