GH3 was my first, and I thought it was really damn good. Really nice charts, smooth difficulty curve (for someone who started on easy then worked up to expert), good presentation and features.
World Tour was really really terrible, though. That was the game that made me realize how quickly and dramatically Activision could destroy a series after losing all the original developers (because for some reason I gave them the benefit of the doubt at first... prob cuz I still loved them from the THPS days).
And yeah, maybe it's just because I am not used to RB's rectangle notes and the non-clicking guitar, but RB seems like it has way harder timing. GH3 was famous for having suuuuuuper long hammer on timing, but I guess its strumming timing was more tight or something. I dunno, but I'm way better at GH than RB.
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