Drums Hero

I'm a drummer of over 20 years and the fact that I have to go through 'fun' mode to unlock any kind of decent difficulty is just annoying to start with. But the real deal-breaker is the delay between swinging your arm to hit the snare and the game registering that you've hit the snare. It's so large that it just puts you off straight away. Even though I'm playing it perfectly in time the game thinks I'm too late and it breaks my combo. Then when it wants you to play a roll or a fill the whole thing just sounds like a muddied mess that's completely out of time with the song. I've read they've reduced the delay with v1.1, I hate to think what it was like before but this is still not playable. Such a shame, i was really looking forward to a good drumming game in vr so I can keep myself limber. Maybe in 6 months I'll try again...

At first I really liked Drums Hero, then I had to be off-line and found I couldn't use it. All games that are on-line only need to have a huge warning label so that I can avoid them.

Just bought this game out of pure impulse as i'm a drummer myself and absolutely love playing things like Rock Band etc etc.. PROS: - Very fun. - Visually not too disturbing and off putting when trying to concentrate on the specific hits you need to make. - Looks failry good graphically in the levels. - Very smooth and has a vey good possibilty of longevity value to it. CONS: - Drum hits you make do not sync with the audio at all, it's actually delayed by 1/8th of a bar on one of the first songs..this makes it entirely difficult to play the game wihtout fault. - Navigation around the game is awkward, left trigger is pause (in game) which is easy to tap by accident when playing..right trigger is accept. The game just needs to use the typical point and click, like most VR games. - Results screen resolution is terrible...the scoreboard is higher res than the background scoreboard image. - You only have two songs on the game to start and can only start on easy and unlock the next dif...

Very, very fun game well worth it. If you ever thought your self a drummer you should try this game. If you are like me and played the drums in school but were never very good at reading music try this game. Honestly though the songs are nothing I would normally listen to but are not bad and fun to play. Game give a good job making you feel like a natural. Highly recommend.

Loving this game! Its forgiving when you miss or hit something else, you can hear the mistake yet it blends in track that sometimes, that wrong hit makes it sound interesting. There are couple tracks I could play non-stop but many are not of my favorite. I like Manhat10 - Dream the most so far and wish that the developers would add a youtube or another choice of playing any songs we type in search field. So far its very limited in tracks and the game lacks training tracks, like youre being thrown into chaos straight from the start even if the songs start on easy and you need to work yourself to normal and hard via higher scoring. Kinda disappointing, as youre just throwing your arms everywhere. But I know this isnt a teaching drums game, its an arcade just like guitar hero and you miss the pedals. I thought triggers would do the trick, or that it unlocks in tougher difficulty, nope, sadly its not there. Still, the game is fun and actually, going to play few more songs before sleep. Its...

As others have said, hitting the drum doesn't appear to line up with the music at all. I can do pretty well playing the game by just aligning with the notes, but when I get a streak of perfects it is as if I'm playing the music to a _different_ song. Alternatively, if I play to the beat of the music I miss almost all of the notes. I think I could find this game fun if it felt like the notes matched up, even closely. Perhaps adding a delay setting that allowed me to move the bar forward/backwards would help as I would then be able to set it up so it _felt_ synced to me. Note: I play with bluetooth headphones. Normally I experience zero delay with games, but perhaps its related. Note 2: When I hit the drum, I can see my stick going through the drum and then a moment _later_ the sound comes through my headphones, so I don't think its just a problem with the notes lining up.

What a great game. Wanna see it in action? I did a live stream, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUNXSqQaf8

Awesome! Had to take my shirt off. Feeling is incredible. I wish there were more songs. Great nevertheless.

[h1]TLDR[/h1] Can't recommend at current state due to intolerable gameplay issue. [h1]Pros[/h1] [list] [*] visuals [*] controller/drums response[/list] [h1]Cons[/h1] [list] [*] small song selection (~15 or so?) [*] as song progresses, the visual track and score-keeping logic get progressively out of sync with the audio track [h1]Issue Details - Visual Track Lag[/h1] [list] [*] this forces me to hit the drums AFTER I hear them being played in the audio track [*] I have to purposely hit everything late if I want to score well [*] it starts feeling too disorienting as it nears half a beat off(~1 min in?), and quickly feels completely unplayable after that [*] controller/drum responsiveness and audio remain fine, but feels/sounds really horrible being played late[/list] [/list] [h1]Recommendation[/h1] I cannot recommend at current state. However, it looks like many have been lucky and not had issues like this, so maybe you'll be lucky too? Definitely hoping there will ...

*Edit after Patch 1.1* Since this update, I have changed my recommendation for this game from a "No" to a "Yes". There have been significant graphical and GUI changes and a variety of needed options have been promised to come soon. But the MOST IMPORTANT part of this update is the improvement to the drum response time. There was originally a substantial delay between hitting the drums and the sound being played which made it very difficult to play on the beat. There is still a bit of a delay but it hasVERY MUCH IMPROVED making the game much more enjoyable to play. Most of the songs I have played since this update have been synced well - showing "Perfect" when the drums are played accurately to the audio cues in the song but one song (can't remember the name, sorry) was very out. To get "Perfect" hits I needed to hit the drums about 1/4 second after the beat. There seems to be a problem with the leaderboards. For most of the songs the leaderboards were empty, showing my position a...