Let's Talk about Rock Band (all versions)

[phoenix1967]

Dang! More about the downloadables...

http://news.teamxbox.com/...oadable-Content-Revealed/

[den68]

wow! some great songs on that list.

one question...

why 3's and 7's? that song is on GH3 and it's a stupid fuckin' song.

[den68]

I was at Best Buy today and they had the Rock Band demo set up. I was holding the Strat and my daughter the sticks... we were ready to rock!

sadly the demo then proceeded to freeze on the load screen.... damn.

so we played GH3 co-op. Talk Dirty To me.

the Fender Stratocaster is pretty darn wicked though. shame I didn't actually get to play it.

[den68]

So has anyone picked this up? It came out yesterday right?

[phoenix1967]

I'm waiting until after the holidays to see if I get any gift cards before I buy anything new.

[phoenix1967]

More DLC for Rock Band coming out.

http://news.teamxbox.com/...28/New-Rock-Band-Content/


Surprised this thread was pushed out to page 3.

Does anyone have the game yet?

[den68]

I'm getting closer.

[Shimra]

Finally got to play it yesterday. It was fun. Really really fun, moreso than Guitar Hero. My buddy was on drums while I was on guitar, and I must say that the game is tough. I can easily beat Guitar Hero 2 on expert, but some of the songs on hard mode in Rock Band were killing me. The hammer ons and pull offs are exactly the same as GH2, but the space to hit the notes is much smaller making GH3 look like the easiest thing in the world. Other than that, the guitar itself is fairly cool, the bottom *chords* seem kinda pointless though and strumming doesn't make that clack noise so it takes a while to get used to.

Great game. I won't be paying $180 for it but it's a sweet game that I would love to have.

[den68]

that's funny, everything I've heard and read is that the guitar part is a lot easier than the Guitar Hero series.

[Shimra]

Haha, the lack of a clacking noise really threw me for a loop. So when there was a long series of power chords instead of listening to the clacks for rhythm I often found myself strumming twice thinking I only strummed once. And maybe it's just the note layout but the hit area seemed a lot smaller.

[den68]

ahh, the clacking always bugs me. I turn up the volume to drown it out so that's a difference I wouldn't notice. the Guitar feels a lot different, that will take some getting used to.

[Sauza12]

I've been too poor lately to pick this and a 360 up, but one of my friends got it.  He's been playing the drums and I've been on guitar.

One thing that kind of bothers me about this as opposed to Guitar Hero is that it is really hard to see which notes are hammer on's and pull off's when compared to Guitar Hero.  The solo's it doesn't really matter, but on the verses and what not it can kind of screw you over.

Also on expert, the microphone is WAAAAAAY to picky.  Apparently my voice registers to low on Wanted Dead or Alive even though it sounds fine.

[den68]

Me, phoenix and a few other friends played for about 6 hours last night. damn this game is fun. the vocals were a bit rough on the ears but we had a blast.

[phoenix1967]

^It's a very good game.

They do need to randomize songs better, though. We got stuck playing "Say it Ain't So" and "Blitzkrieg Bop" WAAAAAAAAYYYY too much. New songs on the World Tour were few and far between until we stumbled on "Detroit Rock City", "Tom Sawyer", and "Run for the Hills" at the end of the night on that one set.

[den68]

yeah but we kicked ass on Weezer.