Guitar Hero Drums < Rock Band Drums

So I got GH: Metallica and played it for a bit and liked it. All kinds of cool Metallica songs to rock out too. Couldn't help feel 'robbed' of a better experience using RB drums since it uses 1 less button for drums than GH. So I decided to pick up some official GH drums. Oh neat! They kind of look like real drums..if it was a small kit. Little cymbals on the top with adjustable heights, awesome! Yay extra button maybe get some more replay value since I never used them before. Get to learn how to better use them and stuff.

Yes, all this would be great if the GOD DAMN DRUMS PICKED UP ON EVERY HIT! Holy shit! I could beat the fucking shit out of a drum and it STILL wouldn't pick up on every hit. Support site says if hitting hard, hit softer, if hitting soft hit harder. Tried both, both equally useless. Could be hitting one drum once every 3 seconds and it would still randomly just not pick up on it, this goes for all the drums. It's especially with the 'oh so awesome' cymbals. I think Yahtzee put it best when he described them as 'dopey inbred twins who's names you need to shout three times before they even realize your talking to them' he is not exaggerating. I could swing the stick so hard that it makes an audible 'swoosh' sound and it would refuse to count it as a hit. Also like to add the foot pedal for guitar hero feels like shit compared to the rock band one. When I tap my foot to a beat in a waiting room my foot makes a bigger arc than this thing allows.

But Dionysus187 you idiot, they know its a problem and provide a cord to tune to the drums to be more sensitive! Why don't you know what the fuck your talking about before you shit on something?!

NO! WRONG! WRONG! ALREADY TRIED THAT! WRONG! SHUDDUP!

First I try and get this cord only to find I need 3 forms of ID and a urine sample before they send it to me for free so I said 'fuck it' and paid $10 for one on amazon. So get this cord (btw the person who sold it to me also sent me a free LED light keychain which I have gotten more amusement out of than these fucking GH drums.) and go into the process of 'tuning' the drums. Apparently the drums default level is 10 and can go to 20. So I crank stuff up to 20. This leads to drums I am NOT hitting randomly going off. So I have to individually tweak every drum 1 level at a time, one drum at a time. So this takes about 20-30 minutes of me beating the shit out of every drum one by one making sure hitting it doesn't cause others to go off. The levels I settled on ranged wildly from 20 to 12. Notice how none of them worked properly at the default 10 for me, adding to the list of dumb shit Neversoft did with these drums.

Finally! The drums work properly. NOPE! Even the drum I had at 20 would randomly NOT pick up on hits. Fucking wonderful. So I decided to finally do a little control test. I play 'Nothing else matters' on Expert which is one of the easier songs on the game. First with GH drums and got 92%, then with RB drums and got 99%. I got 92% with the GH drums because it randomly fucked up and screwed up the multiplier several times. I got 99% with RB drums because I honestly just fucked up and missed 3 notes. I am going to pack these drums up and try to sell them if I can and decide if I should get the new RB2 drums that have expansion slots for additional drums.

In conclusion this whole thing just solidifies the fact for me that the people who worked on Rock Band 1 and 2 are musicians in actual bands (some songs of which are in the rock band games) and the people who worked on guiter hero world tour and onward are the same guys who made 9 renditions of 'tony hawk pro skater'