Rock Band - DLC Done Right

[Pumpkinhead]

I’m not crazy about those mechanics (I don’t really care about score, so the armored notes never bothered me), but I’m interested to hear what charting problems you’ve noticed. There is sort of an inherent problem with the concessions made to the kit design, but otherwise I thought it was fine.

I should also say that I don’t understand the way they decided to lay out the drum lanes. The cymbals should be at the far left and far right; as it is, it’s incredibly confusing, and I doubt I would ever play enough to get used to it.

I’m sure many of my issues come from using an ION kit. But tom rolls that go rrr bbb ggg b like in the Mastodon song in GH Metallica are nearly impossible to play. In RB they would go rrr yyy bbb g.

[sinfony]

I assume you’re talking about Blood and Thunder? I haven’t played it, but I know the song quite well, and looking at the video, it seems those rolls are accurately charted. Sounds to me like the drummer is playing: snare, tom 1, snare, tom 2, (notice the different pitch) so charting it R-B-R-G makes sense.

[Pumpkinhead]

I assume you’re talking about Blood and Thunder? I haven’t played it, but I know the song quite well, and looking at the video, it seems those rolls are accurately charted. Sounds to me like the drummer is playing: snare, tom 1, snare, tom 2, (notice the different pitch) so charting it R-B-R-G makes sense.

I’m not saying they are charted wrong. They just don’t work well the way I have my kit set up. GH never uses Y as a tom or G as cymbal, so rolls that go accross the toms to the crash go BBB GGG B instead of YYY BBB G. If that makes any sense.

[sinfony]

Ah, because you’re using an Ion kit. I see now. In that case, practice your paradiddles, and you’ll be good to go.

[JPR]

For the record, there is one more (I threw the live one in to emphasize they were good live in their own way and because of random dancing guy 1:14 through the video). But you’re half right.

Weird. That’s not the song I was expecting. This is the only non-“No Rain” song I’ve heard on the radio, and way better than that one you linked to.

[Midnight_Son]

What a week - Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Idol, Jet. We are not screwing around. We also have a ton of catch-up going on the Wii. And a couple new ones for Unplugged. How do we do it? We’ll never tell. I’m off to go play some “Runnin’ Down a Dream”.

Tracks available on Xbox 360 (Aug. 25) and PLAYSTATION 3 system (Aug. 27):

• Billy Idol – “Mony Mony”
• Billy Idol – “Rebel Yell”
• Fleetwood Mac – “Don’t Stop”
• Fleetwood Mac – “World Turning”
• Jet – “She’s a Genius”
• Tom Petty – “I Won’t Back Down”
• Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

More songs “everybody” knows! Sweet.

[WhollySchmidt]

The Tom Petty is also another reason to not buy GH5. I’ve been waiting for Petty for a long time.

It feels like it’s open season on GH5’s set list, and I like it.

[The_B]

Obviously no suprise that HMX are working on RB3 - they’re now officially working on it anyway - but more interesting in this news is the mention of another ‘major artist’ game.

I mean, after Beatles, where do you go? And do they mean on the scale of Beatles or more AC/DC track pack?

[Brian_Seiler]

The Petty songs seem…odd, if they’re aiming for what you’d hear on your average classic rock station, but I can dig the Fleetwood Mac stuff. I deeply suspect I’m going to be out a few hundred dollars if I ever let myself boot Rock Band 2 again. At this point I’m avoiding putting it in the drive because I know the storm that would descend upon my credit card if I were ever foolish enough to attempt it.

[ZekeDMS]

Every damn weak I tell myself I’m done buying songs for a week, I can’t afford new ones.

Then they throw four required songs at me. Shit. I can hold off on Fleetwood Mac, but Billy Idol (Rebel Yell was one of the songs GHWT was worth renting for) and Tom Petty…well, eight more bucks down.

[WhollySchmidt]

Obviously no suprise that HMX are working on RB3 - they’re now officially working on it anyway - but more interesting in this news is the mention of another ‘major artist’ game.

I mean, after Beatles, where do you go? And do they mean on the scale of Beatles or more AC/DC track pack?

The two best guesses I’ve got are Zeppelin or U2.

[MarchHare]

The two best guesses I’ve got are Zeppelin or U2.

My guess is The Rolling Stones.

[ZekeDMS]

Stones is plausible enough, U2 is possible. I can’t see Zep, honestly, just because of how reluctant they are to license anything, EVER, to anyone. School of Rock pulled off a coup by getting the Immigrant Song. And frankly, how many songs do people know beyond that and Stairway?

U2 has a large enough recognized catalog, but I’d say the Stones have an easy 40 to put into a game, much easier than the others.

[WhollySchmidt]

My guess is The Rolling Stones.

That could work too, but I just assumed it was someone else who wouldn’t be part of the games unless they got one themselves like The Beatles. Zeppelin would be obvious; I don’t think of U2 as being musically as awesome as Zeppelin, but that could be my own ignorance and either way, they’re sort of iconic just for being U2 in the same way I think of The Beatles as being bigger than their actual music. Seems like a good fit for the sort of game Harmonix would make.

[WhollySchmidt]

Stones is plausible enough, U2 is possible. I can’t see Zep, honestly, just because of how reluctant they are to license anything, EVER, to anyone. School of Rock pulled off a coup by getting the Immigrant Song. And frankly, how many songs do people know beyond that and Stairway?

U2 has a large enough recognized catalog, but I’d say the Stones have an easy 40 to put into a game, much easier than the others.

Wasn’t Immigrant Song in Shrek 3? If Zeppelin allowed it there, surely they’d at least consider a game, especially with Harmonix being able to show off their results with The Beatles now.

[Rock8man]

And frankly, how many songs do people know beyond that and Stairway?

You’d be surprised. Anyone who watched television in the 90s knows what I’m talking about. During that time you almost couldn’t watch television without running into commercials for a collection of Led Zeppelin songs being sold by Time Life or someone else, I can’t remember who anymore. But those commercials were on ALL the time when I was in college from 92 through 96. I didn’t actually start listening earnestly to Zeppelin until 2000, but I found out I was already familiar with a LOT of their songs because of the TV commercials in the early 90s.

[sluggo]

Wow, “Runnin’ Down a Dream” a week before GH5. Open season indeed.

[salwon]

School of Rock pulled off a coup by getting the Immigrant Song.

So did Chevy, apparently.

[ZekeDMS]

Wasn’t Immigrant Song in Shrek 3? If Zeppelin allowed it there, surely they’d at least consider a game, especially with Harmonix being able to show off their results with The Beatles now.

True, it was, but Zeppelin is still a very hesitant band to license most things, even if it seems the gates are open on that particular song. It’s not impossible, but I’d be pretty damn surprised.

[The_B]

True, it was, but Zeppelin is still a very hesitant band to license most things, even if it seems the gates are open on that particular song. It’s not impossible, but I’d be pretty damn surprised.

I’d have to say Beatles still don’t have any of their music on the major download services yet either, so I’d say pretty similar situations. Still, not sure if they really have the same breadth of material that The Beatles do. Heck, I’m not sure who else would have a full game of songs, unless they go the GH route and have ‘artists inspired by’ tracks.