Okay, my roommate just got Rock Band so I have some questions/comments.You can use the guitar hero guitar with Rock Band but not vice versa, afaik. The vocals and stuff are a whole lot of fun, and I really recommend you try them.
Our guitar didn't seem to work, wouldn't connect at all. So I had to order a new one. Still shy of the microphone, so all we are left with is Drum Band at the moment.
What is the Rock Band/Guitar Hero guitar compatibility situation for the Xbox 360? Does the Rock Band guitar work with guitar hero? Or only vice versa?
I'm embarassed to say that the drums were a lot harder than I anticipated. Maybe I just suck. But the hard parts is when you have to hit the drums in a long rhythm sequence very quickly. Now I can get the rhythm right but I'll be drumming at just slightly off of where the beats are supposed to hit (hard to explain). So I'll miss like a hundred in a row at these parts even though it feels like I'm doing it right. Does this get easier with practice?
How exactly are new songs unlocked?
I played it with a friend the other day. It was pretty great. The only problem is the singing....you've really got to feel comfortable with your singing voice to do the singing, even at a party. That's the same problem with karaoke, I guess, so obviously it's not going to affect everyone.
With singing, certain combinations of difficulty level and song can actually produce strange results in this game. There are songs where the vocalist scoops a lot and if you don't scoop in exactly the same way, you can fail the song if you aren't playing on Easy or Medium. Other times, the game wants you to hold a steady tone when the recording has the singer scooping. It doesn't seem very consistent and it sometimes it seems like the more comfortable you are with your singing voice, the worse you'll actually do. A few of my friends and I, who are all musicians and can definitely sing in tune, were pretty frustrated by a few of the songs. The game has a very strange and sometimes finicky way of determining whether you are singing the right notes. Conversely, on Easy or Medium, you can just scoop random sounds up and down without any regards to the actual part and you'll do very well as long as your pitch matches the music for at least a split second. WEIRD.I meant more in terms of "to sing in front of other people." I was able to do that part, but activating
I played it with a couple of my friends and I wasn't really impressed with the song choices... I know that this is ROCK band, but I just wish there was more variety in genres.. perhaps in a future installment.. Anyway, I'm not a huge fan of playing guitar since I just can't get used to holding the guitar and being able to hit the four buttons without looking. I just can't differentiate which finger is on what button and therefore I suck at it.I feel the same way about the song choices - there just wasn't enough. Compared to Singstar series (which has hundreds of songs), Rock Band seems a bit light. But then, I figure that it takes far more work to make a song for Rock Band than Singstar. This is why DLC is so important for this game. I didn't know half the songs, and I don't like that particular Pixies song - it should have been Where is my mind? or Monkey gone to heaven.
Anyway, drums and vocals are great for me. I'm used to playing DDR both with my feet and fingers on Stepmania, so hitting drums is so much easier since I can see what I'm hitting at all times. I'm comfortable with vocals since I do own all four PS2 Singstar games and we all get together and sing like there's no tomorrow. But yeah, since all the songs in Rockband are rock (which isn't a genre I enjoy listening to) unfortunately I don't know close to even 6 songs in this game, which makes singing them more difficult.
And the next Rock Band (or perhaps Pop Band?) needs dance mats option - for Dancers. Damn, that's be awesome.Introducing Posse Band! Including 6 dance mats, five guitars, a bongo player, a drum set, two microphones (one for melody, the other for harmony), a trumpet, a trombone, a tenor sax, a digareedo, and a thumb piano. Play with all 20 of your friends in this latest installment!
I feel the same way about the song choices - there just wasn't enough. Compared to Singstar series (which has hundreds of songs), Rock Band seems a bit light. But then, I figure that it takes far more work to make a song for Rock Band than Singstar. This is why DLC is so important for this game. I didn't know half the songs, and I don't like that particular Pixies song - it should have been Where is my mind? or Monkey gone to heaven.The Singstar series has about 30 or 40 songs in each game, and Rock Band has 58. That's at least one and a half times the song list of any single Singstar game, and all of the choices within a single SingStar game are about as limited (if not MORE) as Rock Band's. Basically your argument about Singstar's selection is invalid.
And the next Rock Band (or perhaps Pop Band?) needs dance mats option - for Dancers. Damn, that's be awesome.
do they have any weird al then, yet?I wish.
Also, what's a prog rock? Is that some sort of muppet?
Progressive rock ("prog") is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s principally in England, reaching the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, but continuing as a musical form to this day. Progressive rock was largely a European movement, and drew most of its influences from classical music and jazz fusion, in contrast to American rock, which was influenced by rhythm & blues and country, although there are notable exceptions in the New World such as Kansas and Rush — considered by many to be the finest examples of the form. Over the years various sub-genres of progressive rock have emerged, such as symphonic rock, art rock and progressive metal.
Progressive rock artists sought to move away from the limitations of radio formatted rock and pop, and "progress" rock to the point that it could achieve the sophistication of jazz or classical music. It is admired by its fans for its complexity, requiring a high level of musical virtuosity to perform. Critics have often derided the genre as pompous and self-indulgent. This is because, unlike such stylistically consistent genres as country or hip hop, progressive rock is difficult to define in a single conclusive way. Outspoken King Crimson leader Robert Fripp has voiced his disdain for the term. The major acts that defined the genre in the 1970s (Yes, Genesis, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Rush and King Crimson) do not sound alike. There is also debate on whether bands such as The Beatles, Phish, and Radiohead belong to the genre.
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This game assumes you have friends.....its discouraging.In terms of Band World Tour, it IS discouraging. I have friends to play the game, but they're just not on my level, and so it pretty much limits progress. I mean...I don't know. I can't blame the game really, because it's more fun in a room than over the internet. But stilll, I don't know.
I wish.Coheed and Cambria's a decently new band that has some really awesome melodies in their music. They keep getting better and better each album, which are all concept albums. They're a lot of fun and they've got a lot of influence from various other bands (Iron Maiden, Queen, and Led Zeppelin, to name a few) and it REALLY shows.
@Iaman: I guess I just recognized wayyyy more songs on Singstar than on Rock band. Like what is a Coheed and Cambria?*
Also, what's a prog rock? Is that some sort of muppet?
*admits he hasn't listened to music since 1996.
That definition of prog rock is extremely editorialized and generally ridiculous.
What do you expect from a prog rock website, huh?
The high singing part in Creep just killed me though.
Coheed and Cambria's a decently new band that has some really awesome melodies in their music. They keep getting better and better each album, which are all concept albums. They're a lot of fun and they've got a lot of influence from various other bands (Iron Maiden, Queen, and Led Zeppelin, to name a few) and it REALLY shows.
They're definitely worth checking out.
Falsetto!There are some people (like me) who cannot hit their falsetto. When I try to go for a note there, my voice cracks, and then silence, but I also have a larger vocal range then most guys. (Bass to Mid/High-Tenor maybe)
I played yesturday for about 4 hours in a row and it is awesome.What, you mean when you sung it, or the part itself in the song did? Because that's the real song...
The expert guitar was really easy for me most of the time and I was getting at least 95%-100% each song, but I like that. It actually feels like I'm playing the song rather than inpersonating a someone playing the song.
The high singing part in Creep just killed me though.
What, you mean when you sung it, or the part itself in the song did? Because that's the real song...I know it is the real song. I'm just saying that when the guy goes into falsetto mode, I found it really difficult. I did better yesterday (94% on medium... which is decent), but my falsetto voice isn't that great. I have the range of a medium tenor (into some of the low tenor also) to a high tenor (otherwise my voice gets a little edgy).
wooYeah I want to go and rape the Beastie Boys after having to do that song on Expert.
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also the talky parts are a bitch. I am sure i will never be able to do sabotage on anything above medium.
Rush is one of m favourite bands. Has anyone downloaded and tried the Limelight track yet?I like it, simply because I love the song.
protip: if you attempt to drum run to the hills on anything above medium, you might want to consider castration instead
Fuckin'... fuck all you guys. I preordered this in like friggin' January for a March release, now they've delayed it until September over here! Fucking ridiculous.
Weird that this thread is back.I love how the thread got revived by a forum spam bot.
Also isn't it $300?
Anyway, what's everybody's opinion on Still Alive? I like it and all, but it's in such an awkward key for taking it down to the male vocal range that it sounds REALLY WEIRD to me. I guess I'm just picky or something.
Weird that this thread is back.
Also isn't it $300?
wow talk about fucking someone in the ass.
I love how the thread got revived by a forum spam bot.I like it, and so does my wife. She has no idea what Portal is, but she did see a YouTube video of the end credit as it made its way through Facebook. She loves the lyrics and enjoys singing them. I was quite surprised that something like this got released!
Anyway, what's everybody's opinion on Still Alive? I like it and all, but it's in such an awkward key for taking it down to the male vocal range that it sounds REALLY WEIRD to me. I guess I'm just picky or something.
Dude do I really need to post the same image again?
Anyway yeah it's pretty wild that the Wii version is such a truly inferior video game but apparently costs about the same? It should at *least* be $10 cheaper because the benchmark for Wii games is $50 compared to $60 for the other two consoles. The peripherals are probably just about as expensive to manufacture as they always have been, though, so it's not that unreasonable that the package is roughly the same price even though the game disc has a lot less content.
Rock Band Track Pack Vol. 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Rock_Band#Track_Pack_Vol._1) will be released for the Wii and Playstation 2 on July 15, 2008. This disc will contain 20 songs previously released as downloadable content for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, and will have a suggested price of $29.99.
hey I'm going to be an assDon't ask me.
what's up with people getting obscenely good at these games. they are clearly no longer having fun in any way. I mean I can understand THE MOUNTAIN IS THERE I MUST CLIMB IT but when the mountain is something anyone can achieve with maybe a week's worth of solid practice (no one wants to put in that time) and it's not actually a mountain at all but something very few people will be impressed by, I really don't get it.
it's not even speedrunning where you can always get slightly better because you can get a perfect in the game and eventually enough people will so it's not a grand feat.
I bet this question is a little too complex and about HUMAN NATURE but still.