Rock Band

[stray]

Wild Flower in particular.

Anyways, I think I'm gonna cut the sleeves off of my jean jacket now. Later 

[NiX]

You truly are a man that lives by no rules.

[stray]

It's become a bigger pain in the ass than I thought. As a vest, it needs to be smaller. Time to shrink it. 

[Lantien]

I know I'm more of a Rock Band apologist than a GH3 fan, so let's get this over with (disclosure: I own Rock Band and GH3.  This is why you buy both, folks).

GH3:  Free Flogging Molly songs, and some for-pay songs:

St. Patrick's Day in the states is all about dressing in green, getting drunk, and - Activision hopes - playing Guitar Hero III with your friends. To this end they've put together a special song pack in honor of the holiday, featuring three songs from the Celtic band Dropkick Murphys. Available sometime in mid March, the pack will consist of "Famous for Nothing," "(F)lannigan's Ball" and "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya.". The pack will be available via Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network for the low, low price of completely free! You'd be hard-pressed to find a better way to celebrate national drinking day, plus the Guitar Hero controller doubles as a bludgeon just in case any actual Irishmen show up and start causing a fuss. Also, don't forget today's not free Modern Metal Pack, featuring the Deftones' "Hole in the Earth," Avenged Sevenfold's "Almost Easy" and Thrice's "The Arsonist."

This's week Rock Band DLC:

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34465

Here are the songs for DLC this week (3/11)

All songs are $.99 (80 Microsoft Points).


"Shockwave" by Black Tide (Master)


"Crushcrushcrush" by Paramore (Master)


"Beethoven's C***" by Serj Tankian (Master)

 

The only positive spin is uh, if you like Serj (System of a Down frontman)... er.. Paramore has a female singer?  Black Tide sounds like a straight-ahead metal song, which hopefully will make the people who are dying for a much harder-edged music style happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei8hPkyJ0bU Wikipedia sez Paramore they're influenced by Sunny Day Real Estate.  I have a hard time believing this from hearing this song.  But hey, if you want some accessible poppy-sounding rock sung by a woman, there you go.

[Grand Design]

I am overwhelmed with apathy.

I'm starting to think Harmonix is having a laugh.

[OcellotJenkins]

I am overwhelmed with apathy.

I'm starting to think Harmonix is having a laugh.

They weren't just some random shitty songs they picked.

[WayAbvPar]

Fuck you, Harmonix. You have time to release songs from bands that probably weren't even together when the game launched, but no Nevermind or Who's Next? FUCK YOU. I am not spending another cent on DLC until those are released. I will be over in the corner tilting at windmills if you need me.

[Grand Design]

Yeah, if they announce a Modest Mouse pack before I gets me some Nevermind, I will probably go postal.


Or at least write a strongly worded letter to the editor.

[Margalis]

Someone pay me $100 and I'll walk over to Harmonix' office and punch them in the face for you.

[schild]

Hey guys, how are those full album downloads going in your broke-ass gam..ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I see the problem here.

[Margalis]

Full albums was probably dumb idea to begin with. Not every song on an album is going to be suitable for Rock Band. What about songs with limited vocals, very repetitive bass/drum parts, etc? Seems like a bad idea for them to have promised that in the first place.

[schild]

Rancid's "And Out Came the Wolves" or Less than Jakes "Losing Streak" are probably the best full albums that could be in rock band.

Too bad they'll never, ever, ever notice.

Dookie would be nice, but too much cursing.

[WayAbvPar]

Dookie would be nice, but too much cursing.

The video for Basket Case really made me want to learn to play the drums...that would be fun as hell to try.

[Morfiend]

What a FANTASTIC line up this week.   

Bold mine.

Next week for DLC we have the much awaited Earache Thrash Pack. All tracks are $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) or $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points) for the pack.

"Blinded By Fear" by At the Gates (master)

"Thrasher" by Evile (master)

"D.O.A." by The Haunted (master)

[Morfiend]

Ok, after listening to a sample. Its at least some thing different. Still very underwhelming. Couldnt they pick some good bands?

[voodoolily]

I want me some Heart in my Rock Band.

[Grand Design]

 Crazy On You had about a fifty to one playtime ratio compared to anything else on GH2 at my house.

Loves me some 

[Morfiend]

I am of the opinion that Harmonix has no idea who the majority of their user base is from the type of songs they have been releasing.

[Margalis]

How can you call something Earache without including Cathedral?

[WayAbvPar]

Great. More shitty bands I have never heard of, and still no sign of full albums.


Finally took the time to finish off the Easy tour on guitar and drums last night. Green Grass And High Tides was fucking bullshit. I am never playing that fucking song again. This is a game- it is supposed to be fun.

[Sauced]

Finally took the time to finish off the Easy tour on guitar and drums last night. Green Grass And High Tides was fucking bullshit. I am never playing that fucking song again. This is a game- it is supposed to be fun.

At first I thought the Outlaws were a shitty new southern rock band trying to fill the shoes Greg Allman will leave when he finally dies.  Then I found out that they were a shitty old southern rock band and the people responsible for that fucking song are already dead.

That said, I five starred it on Hard the first time I tried it - am not looking forward to the Expert version when I get there shortly.

[WayAbvPar]

I saw a video on YouTube of a band playing it together on expert. My head nearly exploded.

[Grand Design]

You have to be very careful when scanners are playing Rock Band.

[MrHat]

How is it they don't have a Dire Straits pack yet?

Romeo and Juliet
Sultans of Swing

and motherfucking I want my MTV.

How?

[Grand Design]

It can't be said enough.  Dire Straits.  Now.

I'd take those, but I'd really like to have Love Over Gold, When It Comes to You, Down to the Waterline ...

[murdoc]

Am I the only one that wants 'Use your Illusions I & II' songs to come out for Rock Band? I think 'You Could be Mine' would be AWESOME fun to play.

[WayAbvPar]

I would rather see more from Appetite first, but those would also be welcome.

[Special J]

Software update announced:

    * (New!) Music Store: Rock Band now has a new feature that lets you preview and purchase songs from within the game! Accessible from the main menu, the Music Store lets you view, purchase and sort all available music based on various categories, view album art, listen to song previews, and check out extended information about the song like difficulty for each instrument.

    * Revised Fan Caps: To allow Easy, Medium, and Hard players to progress further in the Band World Tour, we’ve increased the number of fans that you can earn before hitting the cap. Easy players can now travel across the Atlantic, Medium players have a wider range of venues they can play at, and Hard players on the Xbox 360 are now able to unlock the “One Million Fans” achievement.

    * More diverse songs in Band World Tour: If you’ve ever cursed about having to play “Say it Ain’t So” or a Metallica track multiple times in the same hour, then you’ll be glad to know that we’ve tracked down and fixed the issues that triggered these very repetitive moments in Band World Tour.

    * Improved phoneme recognition: We’ve improved the detection and scoring for phoneme recognition. If you had trouble on songs like “Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld” or “Blitzkrieg Bop”, you should have an easier time beating these songs now.

    * Microphone Latency on PlayStation 3 improved: Our awesome team of audio programmers has found some optimizations that reduce microphone latency on the PlayStation 3 in certain situations.

    * Xbox 360 Band Logos are now visible through Xbox LIVE: An issue with parental controls stopped band logos from being visible over Xbox LIVE. With this update, you can now view all of the awesome band logos that people around the world have created!

    * Faster loading of downloadable content: Not only is the loading speed faster, but this information is now cached so that this loading time is a “once only” wait rather than something that happens every time you turn on the game.

Could the Music Store mean the albums are around the corner?

Edit - Here's a look at the music store:

http://kotaku.com/369841/rock-band-gets-in+game-music-store

[Phildo]

No.

[WayAbvPar]

(New!) Music Store: Rock Band now has a new feature that lets you preview and purchase songs from within the game! Accessible from the main menu, the Music Store lets you view, purchase and sort all available music based on various categories, view album art, listen to song previews, and check out extended information about the song like difficulty for each instrument.

Hopefully this will help avoid downloading the same song more than once via music pack/individual download. I don't think I have duped yet, but there is no way to tell from the XBL Marketplace, and that is fucking annoying.

More diverse songs in Band World Tour: If you’ve ever cursed about having to play “Say it Ain’t So” or a Metallica track multiple times in the same hour, then you’ll be glad to know that we’ve tracked down and fixed the issues that triggered these very repetitive moments in Band World Tour.

This is huge. I can't tell you how many goddamned times I have played Creep in BWT. Love the song, but even Radiohead would balk at playing it 4 times in an hour.

[voodoolily]

The microphone thing will help. I get like 80% on Sabotage every time, and there isn't even any singing.

[Prospero]

Apparently they've sold 6 million songs for Rock Band. I'd love to we some charts of sales per track.odt of the. The DLC doesn't seem that exciting, but I'm not exactly on top of the music scene.

[Murgos]

I'd love to we some charts of sales per track.odt of the.

Have I just not had enough coffee?

[Morfiend]

I'd love to we some charts of sales per track.odt of the.

Have I just not had enough coffee?

Your going to need a shitload of coffee for that to make any sense.

[JWIV]

I'd love to we some charts of sales per track.odt of the.

Have I just not had enough coffee?

Your going to need a shitload of coffee for that to make any sense.

I'd estimate about this much