Check your chronology, though. Please Please Me (teh awezomez) through Beatles for Sale is a pretty compressed block of time when you compare it to the other stuff. They’re kind of short, granted, but maybe not as bad as you’re thinking if the game’s arc is over the band’s lifespan (chronology) and not the specific music.
So? Doesn’t change my point.
I’m just not sure how excited I am about a game that is all Beatles. I really would like the music, but switching discs everytime I want to play some Beatles seems like kinda a pain. What’s cool about RB is that through DLC you can tailor your music collection.
What would totally save this for me is if Beatles can access the RB store at large. If I can get all my DLC in there I’m sold.
I’m in the same boat. Initially interested, less so now. Worried about being gouged and shortchanged (what hits will be reserved for DLC?).
walTer
3585
Yeah but it’s not like you play the song once and never again…
Man, I really have a lot of interest in the Beatles pack, but not being able to play the songs from my RB2 disc…that could really be a dealbreaker. It’s such a step backwards into the Guitar Hero II/III days. I buy the disc, let me play the songs on my terms.
I worry about this too. As much as I like listening to Maiden, I don’t like failing out and I also don’t especially like cheesing my way through solos that I have no hope in hell of playing. Even before the export to RB 2, I didn’t play the Maiden songs I did have hardly at all.
Yeah, if it were DLC I’d get some Beattles tracks, but I don’t like them enough to buy a whole game. Even if it were like the AC/DC pack, I don’t like them enough. I’ll be interested to see how this does in the market, because the lack of interoperability is a huge negative to me, and I wonder how much cross-over there is between Beattles fans and videogame players. I’d imagine GH:Metallica did better than this will because Metallica’s fanbase hits squarely on the demographic that grew up playing NES and Playstation games.
Adree
3588
Picked up the Coheed tracks and Shooter Jennings:
“A Favor House Atlantic” seems to have been mixed with the treble up too much but is still great fun to play.
“Running Free” is pure awesome and makes me want full album DLC so badly.
“Steady at the Wheel” is pretty easy for a 3 star song but has a fun hopo main riff.
Speaking of Irons, when we gonna see In a gadda da vida?
sluggo
3590
I got to play “Hallowed Be Thy Name” at a HMX E3 thing this week. The live version seems decent – I was on Expert vocals, which feel close to the original, but the guy playing guitar was awful, so there was basically no guitar track for 3/4 of the song, and I couldn’t tell how it compared to the original.
Another group also played “Wasted Years,” which is a master track. Man, I can’t wait to play this Tuesday.
The vocals were what I was concerned about. As long as Bruce kept it close I’m pleased.
WHEN THE PRIEST COMES TO READ ME THE LAST RITES
I keep WANTING to like Coheed. I just can’t seem to force myself, the vocals seem to be a real barrier. But damn it, I feel like there’s got to be a song I’ll like that’ll let me get over it. Can anyone suggest something?
Also, whoever decided to label Don’t Stop Believin’ as a 3 star difficulty? Needs to fuck himself with a poker iron. I’m sure it’s supposed to be an overall measure of difficulty, but the best player I know in person struggles to get past that god damn intro guitar fill. That fill is five demons by itself. The rest of the song might be fairly easy, but holy shit, getting past 30 seconds is so hard.
I find anything by Coheed that isn’t off the first record utterly unlistenable, but the first one is pretty okay. Everything Evil and Time Consumer are good tunes.
At least, um, I think they are. I haven’t listened to that band in a while.
It’s not DLC but the vocals for “Welcome Home” are great. You just need to warm up to the song. Once I did I started to have a blast. How can you not have a blast singing the word ‘premise’ twice?
Now that I think about it this may be from RB1. Regardless, it’s a great song to sing.
-amanpour
“You seem to take premise to all of these songs.”
Your name implies that you are, in fact, an entire Indie band, and likely an expert on such things. I might take your word for it.
The ridiculously high pitch, generally, would be my issue. This seems to be a thing with “rock” vocals lately, guys singing soprano.
Granted it’s not new in prog styles, Rush certainly did it, but it doesn’t seem as forced in that case. Not as “emo-cry” even if that’s not C&C’s genre at all.
I feel like there’s a way to get beyond that, but I haven’t found it.
I still haven’t managed to get to the song part of that song on guitar. I always forget about the intro, and just think “huh, it’s only three stars and I don’t have a score on it; must not’ve played it yet.” And then I fail out again and remember.
Is it a social faux pas to sing songs down an octave?
Yeah, it’s great on drums, and vocals, but on guitar…so hard to get past the intro.
To clarify, it’s not singing the song that’s my issue, it’s listening to it at all. I just can’t seem to get beyond the actual singer but feel like I’m missing something. Although being bass-baritone, I’d sound pretty off even on key properly due to the contrast. Some notes on that go up so high I’d have to go down an octave to hit them (at least at this point, I don’t have a tremendous vocal range, but it is getting better now that I’m singing again). It’d be inverted bizzaro singing!
That’s really odd. I can understand not liking them at all, or having a favorite album, but to go from “good” to “unlistenable” in band that is built around incremental refinements and alterations to a fairly distinctive formula…well, that’s odd. III was my introduction to them, and it remains my preferred album because I never really lost the feeling of shock that initial contrast between the way the vocalist sings and the tone of the music and content of the lyrics created. They know how to set a mood in a concept album and still have individually palatable songs.
Which is why Welcome Home from IV is great as well: as a fan of III, it builds on that same epic mood the third was so successful in creating (somewhere between Conan the Barbarian and Army of Darkness).
All that said, I still only inflict them on a vocalist when my wife absolutely, positively demands one of their songs (lead guitar). And it is universally a traumatic experience.
There should only be one Geddy Lee voice.
