Rock Band - DLC Done Right

Midnight_Son · 2009-02-01T02:53:26.000Z

shadarr:

It’s Midnight Son. Meaningless dramatic gestures are his second favourite thing.

It ain’t meaningless to my wallet, bwah.

WhollySchmidt · 2009-02-01T06:28:48.000Z

Oh wait, are you the one who has been buying all the DLC every week? I can’t keep track of who’s who.

JPR · 2009-02-01T06:57:30.000Z

No, that’s wumpus.

WhollySchmidt · 2009-02-01T10:02:53.000Z

Then nevermind. Midnight Son, that’s stupid.

salwon · 2009-02-02T07:12:52.000Z

Ugh, why Thin Lizzy? And why LIVE Thin Lizzy?

delirium · 2009-02-02T07:59:45.000Z

I really don’t understand all this Thin Lizzy hating.

Midnight_Son · 2009-02-02T08:16:00.000Z

Wholly Schmidt:

Then nevermind. Midnight Son, that’s stupid.

What? I ain’t allowed to pick and choose? Let’s see, recently I got Kravitz, Orbison and Steve Miller. I have enough Dead, and I’ll look at videos of this weeks offering. I’ve had my hopes up for Texas Flood since they announced it, what - six months ago? Tired of waiting for it. RB and I desperately need some electric blues and we need it now!

WhollySchmidt · 2009-02-02T15:25:54.000Z

Sure you’re allowed to pick and choose. But why would you boycott it if something you wanted came out next week just because it wasn’t Texas Flood?

Shadarr · 2009-02-02T15:32:45.000Z

It’s Midnight Son. Meaningless dramatic oh fuck it.

Midnight_Son · 2009-02-02T17:09:54.000Z

It’s me, bitches!

I’ll probably get Thin Lizzy so bite me!

JustinFletcher · 2009-02-02T17:39:45.000Z

Justin Fletcher:

And how about “Pretenders” as album DLC?

The_B:

The Pretenders - Precious

Wow! Ask and ye will receive, huh? OK…can we have master tracks of the rest of the album? And why not throw in Green Day’s “American Idiot” album while you’re at it?

Omniscia:

Benatar’s welcome, but I’d have preferred “Shadows of the Night,” or even “Love is a Battlefield.”

“Love is a Battlefield” is a classic, but “Promises in the Dark” and “All Fired Up” would absolutely kill.

Cyrano · 2009-02-02T20:17:10.000Z

salwon:

Ugh, why Thin Lizzy?

Because they’re awesome!

Shadarr · 2009-02-02T20:20:05.000Z

Midnight Son:

I’ll probably get Thin Lizzy so bite me!

So your boycott didn’t even last till the next release. Awesome.

Adree · 2009-02-02T21:14:18.000Z

Justin Fletcher:

And why not throw in Green Day’s “American Idiot” album while you’re at it?

If they did a Green Day album it had better be Dookie.

wumpus · 2009-02-02T22:21:50.000Z

are you the one who has been buying all the DLC every week?

That is me, but I will not buy Nickolodeon tweeny songs. So I own everything except Naked Brothers and this week’s two nick tracks

Equis · 2009-02-02T22:29:09.000Z

Adree:

If they did a Green Day album it had better be Dookie.

It’ll probably by Nimrod.

Equis · 2009-02-02T22:30:03.000Z

Adree:

If they did a Green Day album it had better be Dookie.

It’ll probably be Nimrod.

Midnight_Son · 2009-02-03T01:58:41.000Z

shadarr:

So your boycott didn’t even last till the next release. Awesome.

Drugs are bad, uh huh.

salwon · 2009-02-03T07:35:10.000Z

Adree:

If they did a Green Day album it had better be Dookie.

Dookie’s good on a song for song basis, but American Idiot is a much better Album™. Everything in between can burn to the ground, as far as I care.

Is there any official word on Green Day? There absence is conspicuous in a game that contains both blink-182 and The Offspring…

And can we all agree to shut up about Texas Flood? Every week the comments on the releases are filled with “OMGZ THIS ISN’T TEXAS FLOOD! FAIL!!!” We get it, you want it in the game. We can all safely assume that if a release isn’t Texas Flood, you’re upset about it. Does it need to be said every week? It’s not like Harmonix is going to stumble on one of these threads and go, “Jeepers, they’re right, we should’ve released Texas Flood instead! Why didn’t we think of that sooner?”

Brian_Seiler · 2009-02-03T07:49:07.000Z

You know, the whole Texas Flood thing is kind of why I hate hearing about stuff in games before it actually shows up. We had this problem a lot back when I was playing Guild Wars, too, when the developers would announce some nebulous improvement that they’d like to do, the public would assume it was imminent, and then they’d get pissed off when it didn’t show up in the next month or, you know, ever. If Harmonix had never told us they were going to try and do Texas Flood, nobody would be complaining about it and all the people who ARE complaining would be pleasantly surprised when it came out and vigorously praise the same company they’re angry with right now. I think I must be the three headed freak in the room on this one, though, because all the internet ever does is complain about wanting to know more about stuff.

As far as Green Day goes, I am a little surprised to see them appear in no games at all so far, and I’m guessing that it’s probably the band’s choice, since there’s more than a few individual songs that would have fit great in a music game. For what it’s worth, though, I’d rather have Dookie than American Idiot as well, largely because the Doolittle experiment taught me that good albums do not necessarily make good downloads for Rock Band. It’s awesome when I play it straight through, but if Hey or Silver show up at random even one more time I may have to delete the whole buggardly package. I’m more familiar with Dookie than American Idiot (I was a teenager when Dookie came out, and mostly ignoring music around the time American Idiot happened, so it’s been catch-up), but I seem to recall a ten minute something or other on the latter that would be about as much fun as a brick to the face if it showed up in a random setlist. Dookie, while it certainly isn’t as good as a whole, consists mostly of reasonable-length, easily digestible single pieces that I suspect would mesh better with the Rock Band game structure.