Meh.
Honestly I'm tired of them trying to make it realistic. If I wanted to play some realistic music, I would just pick up my guitar.
I loved the fact that on the original GH and GH2 it was simple and you could easily differentiate between it being a game and it trying to be a music medium.
I hate the Rock Band and World Tour controllers because they're a bit too realistic. I don't want my strum bar to be silent so it seems like "You'll hear more music, and less controller." I don't want a touch-pad fret section to recreate real guitar sliding. I stick to my Xplorer controller because in my mind it's the quintessential GH/RB controller.
To be honest, I wasn't sold at all on the concept of Rock Band until a few months of being exposed to it. And there's still plenty I don't like about it, but overall it gets an A- in my grade book. I do like the way Harmonix is taking RB2 though, in that they're not releasing Rock Band 3 and will just keep updating the downloads (with the exception of Beatles). They're not over-marketing it and I really respect that. They're keeping the essence of the game what it has been since it was released.
Anyways,
/rant
