malictus wrote:lgolem wrote:I played a demo of this at Best Buy, the drum part is VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY Abysmal.
Really? The word I've heard so far (see
http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34391 for example), is that the drums are pretty good. But very hard. Did you just mean 'hard' when you said 'Abysmal'? Anyway, I'm definitely going to Best Buy this morning and trying it for myself.
Very hard? Nothing about that demo led me to believe that it'd be incredibly difficult, at least the drumming with the sticks. The bass pedal may add the missing difficulty as it does seem to get some liberal usage on Expert, but I was able to 98% a number of songs on Expert having never played the game or song before. And it's not like I'm a good drummer or anything, as the developers would like you to believe (seriously, they mentioned in an interview that if you could beat the songs even on HARD you could pretty much play real drums). That kick pedal better add an entire new dimension, nay, FIFTEEN entire new dimensions of difficulty or else I will be sorely disappointed by it. =(
Another thing worth noting is that most of the charts seem kind of dull and repetitive. I realize that a lot of rock drumming isn't crazy and varied, but it can sure as hell be a lot more interesting than what they present in this game, especially on Expert of all things. My biggest gripe personally is the "freestyle-do-whatever-you-want-here" sections that they put in whenever there'd be a drum break or something. It's fun and all, but on Expert, I'd rather have some kind of difficult chart there to play instead of 4 measures of free la-la time. On Expert, I expect the same kind of insanity to be found on the guitar's expert mode, not a yawnfest.
Also, it's probably just be the fact that it's a demo unit, but the pads on the drum controller aren't terribly responsive. And I'm pretty sure it's not just wear-and-tear since I played this thing the first day they set it up. I'm sure that'll be tweaked for the final release though.
So yeah, my initial impression? Not impressed.