I think that one is functionally the finale for the game - so, enjoy all the sets!
You can skip some sets toward the end, and you can definitely skip the ones that cost $ to open - the set you are looking for is the New Years Eve or New York set -
Ok, been playing my way through the game solo guitar and I’m hating it right now. The songs, though good on a list of music to LISTEN to, are fucking TERRIBLE to play GH to. I’ve gone through the first I think 25 songs or so and not a single one was fun to play on hard but I’m afraid to move to expert because I want to unlock all the songs and I don’t want to get hung up at the 80% point.
I have no clue how they picked these songs for a game with the Guitar Hero moniker but they should have renamed it Rock Hero or something so suckers like me wouldn’t buy it for the guitar aspect. God these songs are no fun at all so far. There are hardly any solos in this first 25% of the game. No Sleep Till Brooklyn? WTF? As an encore even? Korn? God, these songs are SO boring to play. I will probably move the drums in a bit but I really wanted a good GH experience.
Don’t be fooled by the song list. If you want a game for fun guitar playing look elsewhere (so far). This has taught me that just because a song is good to listen to doesn’t make it a good song to play on a video game.
Also, why they chose this wierd mandatory setlist thing is beyond me. They put the most random songs together in a pack and then I have to play 2 songs I don’t want to play just to get to the one I like.
Who thought Hotel California would be so wrong for a video game?
I just watched the chart for “Hotel California” on Youtube. There’s something wrong with it. The charters didn’t get the rhythm of the song correct in spots, and charted triplets as eighth notes or something in a couple of spots. I’m not sure exactly what’s wrong, but the visual’s just don’t quite match up with what the song is doing in places.
[RB hijack]Yeah, I wish the people in charge of the Rock Band Live tour knew that.
I was sort of confused when I heard that Panic at the Disco was on a tour called Rock Band Live, because the inference about the name of the tour was that they were making Rock Band songs from Panic, but Panic’s latest album wouldn’t translate well into Rock Band songs, mostly because of non-drum/guitar instrumentation.
But indeed, there are two Panic songs for Rock Band from Pretty. Odd. and they aren’t very fun to play on Rock Band. I really like the songs, but on Nine in the Afternoon, you don’t get a feel that you’re playing the song because of all the instrumentation, and the ending is about a half minute long where no one does anything. (Sort of like in RB1, Won’t Get Fooled Again has about a minute or more long keyboard solo, which is at least useful for getting up and getting a drink :))
But yeah, I don’t understand what people were thinking putting rap songs into GHWT or RB (RB has “Whatcha Want?” from the Beasties, amongst others). How does the “singing” go in songs with rapping in GHWT? In RB, you aren’t even scored off as long as you sing something when there’s rapping, i.e. you don’t have to sing on key. Is it the same way with GHWT?
That seems to be a problem with the Guitar Hero series ever since Harmonix jumped ship to the Rock Band franchise. The notes just don’t match the song. It’s as if the Guitar Hero series assigns them at random.
Ok, I’ve played more and the songs are getting better. I got a great surprise just a bit ago when a video game, for the first time I can remember, showed some serious class when:
You play the set when the Jimmy Hendrix songs show up. When you get to Wind Crys Mary your character (Axel Steele in my case) actually, visually, concedes the stage to Jimmy and leaves the so JH can play his songs without your cartoon character playing along. He doesn’t just disappear. The character actually has some animations as he gives up the stage. It was somewhat touching actually the way your character leaves the stage for JH to show his stuff. Best way to handle a dead guitar god IMHO. Lots of class.
Oh I also thought it was nice when :
Travis Barker comes to play the drums. HE’s actually a very good drummer, in spite of the band he is known for
Very disappointed so far. That said, I didn’t get the drum/mic pack, so maybe those are better. The song list is huge but sucky.