Dave47
3941
Does anyone else think it’s strange that “Rock Band as platform” is being promoted at the same time that two non-platform Rockband games are being released?
“Rock Band is the road to the future! Unless you buy either of our new games. Then it’s more of a cul de sac.”
I think that’s fine. I’ve been saying in various threads that this is what they should be doing. There’s the main Rock Band platform, and there’s going to be a Beatles platform, which will be it’s own thing, and there will be Lego RB, which is going to be it’s own little game, which will probably have no DLC, it’s just a stand alone game.
Meanwhile, “the platform” chugs along while the rest is still going on. Every single week since Rock Band came out in 2007, there’s been DLC released for the game. And that continues to be the case.
Is it confirmed that Lego Rock Band content won’t be available for the main Rock Band platform? I was under that impression that it would at least come out as DLC or something eventually, so the main Rock Band line still gets pretty much everything, even if the Lego game is a dead end.
It’d be neat if Lego Rock band could use RB DLC, even if it defaulted to only include “family friendly” songs or something (ie. no Rape, Murder, no explaining what Beethoven’s C*** stands for).
salwon
3944
None of the six I was talking about are KISS songs.
Anyone know about these Damone fellows?
wumpus
3945
I wish like hell the whole first Weezer (blue) album would be available as DLC. That’d be awesome.
Shadarr
3946
Could be an issue with the masters, them being all old and stuff.
I can’t stand Weezer, but they’re a popular band, so I’ll acknowledge that this is a good week of DLC, even though I won’t buy any of it (hate Blink 182 too, and while I like SOME KISS, none of those songs are in the mix).
As for RB3, they could do it as a game only, with no new instruments, and it would be fine. I realize they probably want to do the new instrument thing, but they’ve already made us buy two sets. It would be refreshing to just be able to buy 80 songs and a better UI (I still think RB1 is a better game in most ways) without having to buy any more silly plastic instruments that will make me throw the old ones away.
WarrenM
3948
Could be an issue with the masters, them being all old and stuff.
You think so? I would imagine anything CD quality should be fine for playing in Rock Band…
The “masters” in question here are the individual instrument tracks, some of which could be lost, degraded, or no longer useful. The CDs can be burned off of the first or second or third whatever mastering of the record, but Rock Band needs the instruments to be separated. I know they’ve commented on this being an issue with some particularly old stuff - I’m pretty sure the reason why Guitar Hero Aerosmith re-recorded all the stuff from their first album was because they couldn’t find a working set of masters, but that’s just speculation on my part.
I do hope they allow you to import your Lego Rock Band songs into the main game, though. I can understand there being restrictions on The Beatles stuff because Apple Music is nothing if not a bunch of uptight jerks who don’t like anybody so much as thinking about their music without express written permission, but Lego Rock Band just has a bunch of random songs that happen to be family safe (and one of which happens to be the best Jackson 5 song ever). I mean, I would want to play with it for a little while just for the tiny deformed lego people, but what barrier would keep them from doing the export on this one?
Is Lego Rock Band being done by Harmonix people, or the Lego series people? Or is it some kind of collaboration? I have to admit, I haven’t been following any of that coverage, so I have no idea.
Traveler’s Tales is involved in what seems to be a partnership. God only knows who’s doing what. All the images I’ve seen make it look like they took a bunch of charted DLC from Harmonix and created a large number of new models and stage behaviors with their Lego stuff and smooshed them together.
WarrenM
3952
Brian
Oh OK, I misunderstood then.
Hylo
3953
I must admit, I’m confused by Lego Rock Band. I thought they were gearing it to a much younger crowd (I was looking forward to getting my eight year old interested, since the Rock Band 1/2 songs don’t seem to be be doing the trick). But the tracks they have announced don’t really seem to be focused particularly young as compared to songs already available in the core game or as DLC. What am I missing?
sluggo
3954
Most of the Lego Rock Band tracks they’ve announced so far are really mass appeal-type stuff – Song 2, Bon Jovi, that Counting Crows song from the Shrek soundtrack, etc. I suspect that track list is going to get more kid-friendly as it’s revealed – I wouldn’t be surprised to see some Jonas Brothers or Hannah Montana stuff before they’re done.
Dave47
3955
Yeah, since the early track announcements are only really going to be on the radar screen of hardcore Rock Band fans, it makes sense that Harmonix is going to please the hardcore fans now and mention the Nickelodeon songs later.
That said, I didn’t realize that downloading the songs to Rock Band was still a possibility; for some reason I thought Harmonix had ruled that out. It would be a wonderful feature. I can’t imagine myself buying Lego RB without it, but the announced songs are great group songs, and I would probably pay $30-$40 for the game if I could export it to RB 2.
Cyrano
3956
When I took my middle-school aged younger brother and his girlfriend to see All-American Rejects, Damone was the opening act. All-American Rejects were pretty painful to sit through, but Damone was surprisingly OK. They sound like 80’s power pop metal. The music isn’t great, but the singer is a tiny, innocent-looking chick who proceeds to scream, jump around and spit water on the audience. They’re a little like Kiss: fairly crummy music, entertaining stage show.
I wish there was a way of comparing my song collection with others. Would love to see what I’m missing, be suggested songs, and what I might like in a way that doesn’t involve trawling through a ton of songs to download (fun though that is)
I’ll probably pick up “Deuce” this week, and “My Name Is Jonas” is worth the cost of admission for the guitar’s opening HO/POs alone. (Assuming it’s anything like the GH3 track, which I thought was one of the better-charted songs in that game.)
Probably won’t get anything else, though. Weezer songs in general put me to sleep on guitar. I like to sing “Buddy Holly” like, “Chord, chord, chord, chordchordchordchordchordchord chord, chord.”
