{"id":2297,"date":"2008-02-07T21:20:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T02:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2012-04-27T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T13:52:01","slug":"satisfaction-guarantees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Satisfaction guarantees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of sad that despite how much I enjoy Guitar Hero 3, I&#8217;ve almost completely neglected it ever since Rock Band came into my home. I feel bad for this, but aside from maybe like &#8220;F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.&#8221; and &#8220;Knights of Cydonia&#8221;, the song list is at least 27 times better in Rock Band. It may have something to do with the infinitely superior DLC support; I suppose you just can&#8217;t compete with new material every week. I&#8217;m <em>still<\/em> waiting on a Def Leppard pack though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.torrentialequilibrium.net\/images\/rbdrums.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>As much weight as the track list may carry, the other big difference is the drum kit. I mainly play alone (or online, which isn&#8217;t much different), so the multiplayer aspect isn&#8217;t a huge draw, but those drums are like a little bit of Heaven. They&#8217;re extremely hard to learn, but I&#8217;ve got it down to the point where I can at least manage to scrape through most songs on hard, so I&#8217;m doing okay as far as game progress goes. But just playing for fun, the normal difficulty is more than enough. It provides a challenge, but doens&#8217;t have quite enough tricks to really throw you off. Learning to play the drum kit has given me a much bigger satisfaction payoff than playing the plastic guitar ever did. It feels absolutely amazing just to pound away to the beat, and accomplishing hard sections without missing a note is total bliss. I could recommend Rock Band based on the drum section alone.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention that drumming is the greatest way to relieve tension ever? No? Well it is. Seriously, I can boot up the game and be all stressed or whatever other negative emotions might plague the human soul, and by the time I&#8217;m two songs in I feel like I&#8217;m on top of the world. It&#8217;s like a magic cure for the blues.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I would love to continue jabbering on about drums and Rock Band, or Hell, actually playing the game, I have homework to do. Yeah. Homework. From work. Trying to get ahead is a pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of sad that despite how much I enjoy Guitar Hero 3, I&#8217;ve almost completely neglected it ever since Rock Band came into my home. I feel bad for this, but aside from maybe like &#8220;F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.&#8221; and &#8220;Knights of Cydonia&#8221;, the song list is at least 27 times better in Rock Band. It may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Satisfaction guarantees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plastic-guitars","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}