Ballroom Blitz: 80's vs Rock Band

**tornintwo** · Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 1524 Location: Vancouver, B.C.

Ok so I recently played Ballroom Blitz on Rock Band and found it sooooo much different than the 80's version. Yes I know it was 2 different bands (Krokus cover on 80's, original cover on RB). My question, is which did you find harder. Obviously the solo on 80's is INSANE but the rest of the song is ridiculously easy. Whereas on RB the verses and chorus have a little bit of a weird rhythm for the guitar but an average solo.

EDIT: I'm not talking about which one is easier to FC or pass. If an average player played both notecharts and passed both, which one would he say is harder.
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**Yen24** · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 543 Location: Winnipeg, MB

Rocks the 80's was harder IMO. I passed both on sightread but I watched friends of mine who still struggle with expert fail the 80's BB as soon as the solo hit, but are able to pass the RB version.

Neither are fun though.
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**batsmak** · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 853 Location: Fredericksburg, VA

Fast Trills FTW! The 80s Version is Better IMO.

I still can't get myself to finish BB on RB a 2nd time... Unless I'm singing, then it is fun, and not frustrating, due to stupid errors that shouldn't happen.
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**Extramann** · Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 162

On the topic, how about Synchronocity II? I think the RB version is harder there - that intro is pretty hard without a few runs.

**Strykerx** · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3110 Location: Pants

This is really off of the 80's stuff, but how do the GH2 and RB War Pigs charts compare?
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**Adohu** · Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 1239

Harder to pass/FC: BB Gh80s
Harder to 5*: BB RB

I think both Synchronicity II and War Pigs are much more difficult in RB.
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**Barfo** · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 2596

BB: I think 80s is significantly harder. There are definitely some challenging repeated sections and combo breakers in rock band, but even aside from the solo the 80s version had some tough parts like all those trills peppered through it, and the overall song 'feels' liek it goes on for longer especially the part at the end (post solo) where it goes 'its.. its.. its.. a ballroom blitz!' in the krokus version. Im not sure it its actually longer but i know in the 80s version i foudn that section doabe but somewhat tricky and it went on so long i would tend to make combo drops later on as i got tired.

Synch II: Definitely RB is harder, thoguh through big stretches of the song the notecharts felt really similar (i found on sightread in RB i recognized whole sections of the notechart). The intro is really tough and it hink it recurrs at least once iirc. i feel like i can do it but the fingering is odd to say the least and tires me out a ton. The verses part actualyl might be easier in RB (not as many B and O notes in that little fast bit?) but that section is trivially simple in either, so its not really a factor. Also the crazy HOPO chains all over the fretboard in the choruses i think maybe are charted pretty close ot the same in both but they seem a lot harder in rock band, i guess maybe because of the lack of hyperspeed amkign it tougher to maintain the proper HOPO timing.
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**PleadtheFifth** · Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 403

I think the 80's one is the hardest. That solo, oh man.

But if it were which one you like to play the most, I'd have to go with Sweet's version on rock band

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**directshot999** · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 3838 Location: Birmingham, AL

80s version is much harder, and the solo/song is actually fun to play =P.
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**Twang** · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:40 am Post subject:

For listening, I prefer the GH80s version. Original Sweet version>GH Krokus version>Krokus version>RB Sweet version. The last two are interchangeable, though.

As for playing: I can't 5-star the RB chart, yet I had no problem 5-starring it on GH80s. What Adohu said.

On War Pigs: I don't like the RB version, cover isn't as good as the GH2 version, and the chart isn't as fun. I don't know why they didn't just do a direct port of the GH2 version.

**JWideman** · Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 394

Until RB, I thought the original was the worst version ever. I loathe the RB version.

**duck** · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject:

80s version was better.
i was dissapointed in rockband when i played it and there was no solo.

**cdylan13** · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 5828 Location: Richmond, VA

80s BB was much harder. I think both versions suck though.

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Synchronicity II- I dont have any DLC but from the looks of it it looks (and obviously sounds because of master) much better than the GHII-80s version.

War Pigs- Awful cover in RB. GHII version was fun and a better cover, RB version looks lame in comparsion.