Picked up Guitar Hero Live at the weekend as it was half price.  (Having got rid of all my Rockband stuff a while back...)  

I like the new button set up, as it makes it feel like something at least vaguely new - I can imagine it being infuriating to anyone who's hard wired the old set-up into their subconscious mind you.  It also gives me the same horrific cramp in my hand that playing an actual guitar used to induce.

As for the guitar...  I don't remember the old Guitar Hero controllers being quite so hilariously tiny, but perhaps that's just nostalgia.  It's annoyingly noisy and clicky, but that's not really anything new.  Having a button for Hero mode is welcome if barely used.  Meanwhile the bluetooth dongle seems a bit underpowered as we were losing connection if I stood at the far end of the lounge.

The game itself is...  I haven't decided, but it's been fun so far.  it's two games really isn't it?  The live section is great at its best, and stupid at its worst.  It seems initially immersive, but is hampered partly by playing with lots of different bands - making you some weird festival session man; but mainly by the completely artificial behaviour of the crowd.  (A sign can change from "You rock" to "you suck" in a single camera pan.)  At its best though it's great - standing back to back with my daughter as I noodled on the guitar, she sang, and the crowd went nuts was great fun.  (I don't understand why singing isn't allowed during the main "Live" campaign though...)

I was slightly wary of GHTV at first, but again, I'm finding I quite like it.  Most of the songs on Guitar Hero aren't massively to my taste, but the constantly changing roster mitigates against that to some degree, and I like not knowing what's going to be thrown at me next.  (I've already accumulated a fair number of play tokens should I want a specific track, but haven't felt particularly inclined to cash them in yet.)

So, yeah, maybe not a classic, and I think I might have been slightly let down had I paid full price, but it is at least, a new(ish) experience, and proving pretty entertaining so far.

I wish the gh controller had a headphone jack like the PS4 controller.

I know the pad has to function like a controller but TBH i'd rather the share button was a solo style toggler or something too, I've already had it fuck up about 5 songs.

Kind of, it changes the note track into a couple of different phases that are meant to be played on the higher or lower part of the neck depending on colour, and then you are tasked with either going crazy, strumming to a loosely represented and changing rhythm, doing hammer ons, big sustain sections, or staying within a winding path. 

I know why they've done it, it's because very few musicians play solos note for note every time they perform a song - it defeats the purpose of the solo as a component of a song - but it errs towards More Notes = More Impressive and More Expressive, so it can feel really counter to certain styles of song and guitar playing styles. 

In a ludicrous OTT rock song it works really though, because those songs generally tend to be of the More=Better style of thinking. You can turn it off, I just wish you could do it when selecting a song to streamline your setlists, because I like it on some songs but hate it on others.

My main issue having not played a Rock Band game since Beatles is that I've actually played guitar since then and fucking hell it really doesn't help.

For anyone interested just bought Guitar Hero Live for Xbox One for £39.99 with the guitar

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/guitar-hero-live-ps4-xo-ps3-x360-41-99-delivered-game-possibly-39-99-2374096

That's a bloody good deal

Or game ordered way too many, which is aways an option.

Still, I'll wait until it's half as much again.

Aye, Rocksmith is properly great. It's top 5 of all time for me probably, as it actually teaches you a skill.

My last plastic guitar game was Guitar Hero 2 on the PS2. I gave it up because it was taking time away from my real guitar and because ladies don't dig Fisher-Price guitars.

Mrs Daddy loved guitar hero. In fact it's the only game we've ever played together. She got obsessed with Message in a Bottle to the point where she was dreaming about it. She's also better than me at Rocksmith.

My fingertips are raw, gonna have the weekend off.

I have ordered RB4 (geetar and game) which is a mere 55pounds for me from Amazon UK, shipping adds a bit more.

Skerret wrote:

I have ordered RB4 (geetar and game) which is a mere 55pounds for me from Amazon UK, shipping adds a bit more.

How are you getting it for 55?

@Panty Do easily get enough tokens to play other songs on GH TV or whatever it's called?

Playing the single player mode now. It's actually quite good the faux band members are nowhere as near as obnoxious as I thought they would be and it works. 

The bass guitarist is well Fit and she fancies me, she sees into my soul. But so does the drummer. 

Plus there's a girl in the front of the crowd at Strictland Lark, Jephson Hangout with a fantastic pair of tattybojangles.

I'd quite like the option to play whatever I want, and the TV mode. Sometimes on RB I'd think hard about what to play, so the option of it throwing stuff at me sounds good. I'm not sure I'm down for paying to play a particular song though.

Whats the vocal stuff like? This I found was always fucking awful compared to RB.

RB with adapter appears to be £40 on Amazon now. Which my drums will work with, and the GH Metallica guitar, but annoyingly, none of the other bazillion wired guitars I have.