Alright, by now i'm sure that any of you that have any interest own either Guitar Hero III, Rock Band, or both (you lucky, lucky asshead). If you own it on the 360, i hope you're enjoying the plethora of peripherals you have to choose from. PS3 owners, however, are most certainly getting the shaft. It was bad enough i had to keep my PS2 around just so i could play GH 1 and 2, but now not only can i NOT use that controller for Rock Band, apparently i can't use the PS3 dedicated Guitar Hero III controller either!? seriously!!?
Personally, i'm not a fan of the fact that i can't have a guitaris AND a bassist at the same time while playing Rock Band. Now apparently, Harmonix was all set to release a patch allowing the previously named lucky assheads to use their GHIII controllers with Rock Band, the only way to have lead and bass as there are no standalone Rock Band guitars yet. So...we waited and then...BAM! A big "not so fast" from Activision and, assumedly Red Octane. Ok, Red, we get it, Harmonix left you and you're sour for it. Yeah, Harmonix took pretty much all the credit for the actual Guitar Hero game (uuhhh, aren't they developers and you're the publisher?). But pretty much every gaming source that i read referred to Guitar Hero as a Red Octane game, so i think you enjoyed enough of the credit, no?
And as if stopping that patch wasn't bad enough, you now expect us all to believe that it was actually Harmonix that stopped GHIII/RB peripheral interplay? Really? The studio that had a patch finished and all ready to be sent out (read: downloaded) was that one that said "You know, we don't want other controllers to work in our game." Right, and i've got an 8 foot tall leprechaun hiding under my bed. Just because you've decided to act like an angry 12-year-old doesn't mean the rest of us have been reduced to the intelligence of one. (Honestly, i wouldn't be surprised to find an email that went from one studio to the other that read: I know you are but what am I?) I had been considering buying Guitar Hero III (i already own Rock Band, hooray Christmas!) so that i could get not only another game that i enjoyed during my brief playtime with it, but a controller that would put a stop to the "but i can't/don't wanna sing" argument that breaks out with my current 3 player Rock Band setup. But if you can't act like mature adults, much less a multi-million selling game studio, then I, for one, will certainly not be purchasing Guitar Hero III at any time, and possibly GHIV, V, etc.
Lastly, Harmonix/MTV Games, i'm keeping my eye on you too. It does, after all, take 2 to argue like spoiled children...
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