Rock Band. More Awesome.

[Conorn]

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rock band is gonna SUCK SO BAD. what a knock off of Guitar Hero, honestly, and you cant even play with just yourself, need a whole band, which is ridiculous.

[Tokzic]

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rock band is gonna SUCK SO BAD. what a knock off of Guitar Hero, honestly, and you cant even play with just yourself, need a whole band, which is ridiculous.

yeah a knockoff of guitar hero made by the same team that did the first two guitar heroes but with ridiculous updates to gameplay that make gh3 look more like a songpack than a new game

right

[dAnceguy117]

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rock band is gonna SUCK SO BAD.

it's out already

what a knock off of Guitar Hero, honestly

yeah and it's not even made by the same developer as the first two Guitar Hero games oh wait yes it is

and you cant even play with just yourself, need a whole band, which is ridiculous.

try getting your facts straight before you bash a game you haven't played; there are extensive one-player modes and options

edit: ninja'd my throat is bleeding oh gohgwwgfjgwfjffgf

[dore]

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I can't wait 'til I get to play the full version.

[Tails99]

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Please kick my ass

Gladly.

Anyways....

****ing s***, it's almost Black Friday. No hope getting it past the new year for 360(Meh, don't have a 360). Also, I heard there was a Freezepop song on it too. What one is it?

I'm giddy right now. Personally, I thought it would be less than the hype entailed it to be, but I get the impression it is really good, no?

[dAnceguy117]

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****ing s***, it's almost Black Friday. No hope getting it past the new year for 360(Meh, don't have a 360). Also, I heard there was a Freezepop song on it too. What one is it?

I'm giddy right now. Personally, I thought it would be less than the hype entailed it to be, but I get the impression it is really good, no?

Ooh, that sucks. The Best Buy by me wasn't selling well, for some reason. The other stores had all sold out immediately, but when we checked Best Buy today, a full 16 hours after they started selling it, they still had plenty of copies. I think they might have said they had tons more in storage. Weird.

The Freezepop song is Brainpower. I don't know how you unlock the bonus tracks, though. It might be the same shop system, but it might not be.

It's really good. It could be less than what it is in quality and still be great to play just because of the fact that you're playing with four people (hilarious scenarios ensue, and that's just day 1), but yeah, it's really good. Personally, I find all of the instruments to have their setbacks, but they hardly detract from the experience. Can't wait to play more.

[Afrobean]

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Yeah, so I got a 360. Partly due to cheaper, partly due to having more better games, partly due to coming with Marvel Ultimate Alliance (which I had meant to buy a long time ago for PS2 but simply didn't), but mostly due to realizing that absolutely no one will be playing the PS3 online.

My first stop was Best Buy, which had apparently sold out quite some time before. It was like 6 PM and they open at 10 AM. So I went across the street to Target, and wouldn't ya know, they only had one left for 360 and like ten for PS3. So I got it there.

And yeah, agree with all the glowing praise in the thread so far. Honestly, though, I like the song list here better than GH3, so I'll probably be choosing this over GH3 most of the time now, even for single player. Oh and that reminds me: turns out my older sister was already planning on coming over anyway, and so I ended up jamming out with my family, and no need of trying to persuade my friends who hate music games to get into it.

And as for wifi, I hear my dad is gonna get a ethernet splitter thing, so the network that is running into my room through the attic will just end up getting split.

ps one thing: drums have weird kick patterns sometimes. Like, not even what it should be at all. Really annoying, especially when it's telling me to kick on every 1st beat of every other measure, and yet naturally, I feel as though I should be kicking on every beat. In short, I'd do ****ty on drums due to wanting to kick more or if I increase difficulty, I'd get ****ed up by more difficult patterns and rhythms. Then again, similar thing with me and guitar: hard has the right intricacy of patterns, but 5th fret has a tendency to **** me up a lot.

pps is it just me or is there more than a few songs that are in GH3 and RockBand?

EDIT: oh hey how long do you think it'll be before I can use these USB controllers on my computer

[MixMasterLar]

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I would really be a happy camper if you would write a full review for me after you've had some time with it. tell me if if it gets boring later or not

[Afrobean]

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I would really be a happy camper if you would write a full review for me after you've had some time with it. tell me if if it gets boring later or not

Full review:

Guitar Hero + Drum Mania + Karaoke Revolution

The difficulty level on the guitar is apparently nowhere near as hard as Guitar Hero III, so if you're looking for hard ****, this is not for you (unless the hard **** you're looking for is simulated drumming). However, if you want tons of fun and a great songlist, as well as a 3 totally different ways of playing, then this is quite possibly the best game ever.

Honestly, if they were to make a sequel, all they could possibly do with it is add keyboard and like tweak a few minor things. It's just amazing.

Then again, I haven't touched single player or online yet, so I can't really comment well on those. Oh and word is that they'll be releasing WHOLE ALBUMS as downloadable content. You might not be impressed by this, but I am freaking psyched. Even Nevermind alone would make me cream my jeans 15 times over.

Really, if there was just one thing to change about this game, I would just change the placement of the drum pads. Crashes are always up, not down. Your right side bottom should be a floor tom or something. Snare shouldn't be up top with the toms (and it should be parallel to the floor). It also would have been nice to see a dedicated hat pad up above the snare to the left. I also wouldn't mind seeing a dedicated ride. Yes, this would make for an additional "button" or two to worry about, and yeah it SHOULD probably get a foot pedal for the hat which would increase difficulty even further, but damnit, it just doesn't really feel like drumming with 4 in line pads like that. But the thing about this all is: people who don't know anything about drums won't even notice and will acclimatize to it readily. And really, I was never that into drum sets (I wanted one, but never actually got one, and only got a chance to fool around on the school one occasionally), so within a few days of playing this, I'm sure I could get used to the straight-up alignment.

And you know, after typing this up, I thought to check out what DrumMania looks like:

Almost exactly what I was describing. Maybe they'll do something like that for a sequel.

ps I was disappointed by lack of a satchel or something to hold the drum sticks, so I attached an old sock 8) Also: I'm gonna pull out some of my old drum sticks because these ones are a pile of **** and I feel like they're gonna break-- also freaking splintery or something and that sucks. But yeah I think I still have a kick ass set of black sticks with my snare from junior high.

[jecht3009046]

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The guitar for RockBand felt king of crappy. The buttons seemed to stick when I pressed them. The drums were REALLY easy on hard and expert. 94% on Expert on my 3rd song (playing on the drums). I forget which song it was. The drums are really fun, none the less. Haven't tried vocals yet. I feel like a bit more work could have been put into the whole game and hardware, but its fun and definitely worth the money.

[B0NK]

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i hatehatehatehate the strumbar for the guitar

drums are 1000% yes

[Afrobean]

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i hatehatehatehate the strumbar for the guitar

drums are 1000% yes

I read somewhere that some of them had more crappily attached strum bars. Mine is just fine and honestly, I don't even notice a difference between the strum bar on this guitar and the strum bar on my two other guitar peripherals for my two other systems holy **** i waste a lot of money on this **** huh

[ddr_f4n]

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As soon as my 360 is fixed, I'm not going to bother buying the guitars. I just need the drums, mic and game (I already have 2 guitars from GH2 and GH3).

[Go_Oilers_Go]

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All of those games are overrated. Stick to FFR. ^_^

[Tokzic]

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All of those games are overrated. Stick to FFR. ^_^

massive irony