Baron von Loathsome
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Wow, the only body types are "Feminine" and "Masculine." No height or weight changes.
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Rock Band 4 announced for PS4 and Xbox One
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Wow, the only body types are "Feminine" and "Masculine." No height or weight changes.
Shadow2222
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My (dumb) idea for a RB4 OT would be:
Rock Band 4 |OT| Elvis and U2 and Van Halen! Oh my!
Rock Band 4 |OT| Elvis and U2 and Van Halen! Oh my!
Baron von Loathsome
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Standalone instruments come out next year.
Early 2016 is what they've said. Not at launch.
Cheat Code
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2015 and guitar straps still don't exist.
Their second I think. I know many people who consider U2's first album their best, so that was a pretty good pick.
Gunstarheroes
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Yeah, that is dishartening. Hell, those static menu backgrounds hurt too. I understand the smarts of putting the budget into the soundtrack, but it feels like a digital download title : (
waitwhat42
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Lol yeah that stuff kills me. And there was that thing with the microphone in RB3 where it would twitch back and forth on the mic stand.
Kinda lame that height and body type can't be customized, maybe they'll patch in more options?
Ugh. What? I guess this is really barebones.
I'm gonna be really disappointed if they don't patch this to at least match RB3 options (in every mode).
Creating custom bands with varying looks was one of the things I really enjoyed.
Cheat Code
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No practice mode confirmed in chat.
Not sure if known.
Not sure if known.
Rodeo Clown
All aboard! The Love train!
Hawk269
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First single was Out of Control which was on a 3 song disc then the Album came out and I will follow was the lead single even though Out of Control was also on the album.
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Baron von Loathsome
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We've known that for months.
Drummers are going to have some fun with Metropolis now!
Well, that plus seemingly barebones character creator, plus no online.
Kind of a random question but I figure someone here might know. Can you customize your band members looks individually or does it just go by whoever signs into Xbox Live and their avatar? Kind of hoping for the former so you can get a whole band looking however you want it to.
And then one person on this page says there are lots of character customization options and another person says it's barebones. So who knows how it'll go anyway. lol
And then one person on this page says there are lots of character customization options and another person says it's barebones. So who knows how it'll go anyway. lol
Baron von Loathsome
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You can change your character, but I haven't seen an option to assign bandmates yet. It might be there, but I haven't seen it.
There might be a lot of clothing options, but the body options are barebones.
lame, they better get more in there at some point as while I can understand it not being a focus for a platform launch, it better be a focus at some point as how your band looks is pretty damn important.
ill still be getting this day 1 though as the main thing I want is the updated vocals and harmonies.
lack of body options is always sad.... I just want something along the lines of the saint's row character editor
The reviewer with a copy says the store isn't up yet, so unfortunately, no luck getting any information off of that just yet.
Baron von Loathsome
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Leaderboards definitely aren't up going by the stream.
Shift Breaker
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No practice mode should be an issue, but given that RB3 booted me back to the XMB nearly every time that I tried to use it it doesn't feel like as much of a loss as it could be.
Crimsonclaw111
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No practice, come the hell on.
waitwhat42
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Seems that the day 1 release will be pretty barebones and them adding more features will be dependant on how successful the game is.
ALLseeingEYE
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Meh, it's slightly annoying, but I imagine that feature would cause more bugs than it's worth. Considering all the character customization with varied body and shoulder sizes, it probably would have just clipped through most costumes and looked bad.
Shadow2222
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I'm just crossing my fingers that it sells well enough to allow for it to truly be a "platform" that gets semi-frequent updates and DLC.
At the very worst, I now have a guaranteed way to play my Rock Band legacy DLC/exports for another console generation.
aGuyInaBearSuit
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Rock Band 4 |OT| We're never getting Muse, are we?
ALLseeingEYE
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I really don't like the idea of RB4 being a crowdfunding game. There is zero excuse for this game being full price and missing on many basic core features that every single other Rock Band game had.
hodayathink
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You mean besides the fact that it's the first game in the series without a major publisher behind it?
falconxcrunner09
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Don't remind me...
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oh god... way to remind me about Tool.
how the fuck do we not have any. come on harmonix! sell your souls! (again)
ALLseeingEYE
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And that music games aren't close to as popular as they once were.
I understand why people would be shocked to see missing features, but those sound like very good financial reasons for Harmonix to trim less used features that could cost excessive amounts of resources to implement and debug.
Having said that, it is kind of sad to see. Game sales seem directly linked to metacritic scores, and reviewers often mark down games for missing features. Cutting stuff that was previously in the game does not seem like a recipe to rejuvenate a dormant series and genre.
The fact that Guitar Hero 4 was the only game to feature Tool, that Tool put in a bunch of effort artistically to create a cool background, and that it was technically hampered by shoddy production values on Neversoft's end, is a huge bummer. Tool needs to be in Rock Band, I wish Harmonix would go out of their way to make that happen, even if it meant creating a custom backdrop.
The guy streaming right now just showed us sorting in quickplay, it's there.
Terrordactyl
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What's the status on the new cymbal kit?
Crimsonclaw111
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Is practice mode something that requires big $$$? I can see online play, but something like practice mode seems trivial to include.
ALLseeingEYE
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It could potentially be a huge engineering, testing, and debugging effort. Remember that every single song, including all the DLC would likely need to be tested, debugged, and supported. Harmonix is likely already swamped, just getting all the existing songs and backwards compatible DLC to function. Perhaps if we support the game, they will find a way to include it.
And if you remember, you could only play their songs on the stage they created, with, and I may be wrong, no band showing. It was essentially a visualizer.
If you think about it, they don't really licence their music for anything.
all the tools they built for Beatles' crazy backgrounds would be perfect for that shit too. argh!
to be fair, tool is on the level of deserving their own game or full album dlc imo
ALLseeingEYE
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Yup, Tool isn't really a bandwagon band, but I think Harmonix did something special with plastic Guitar games. They are a company that seems to have a huge amount of integrity and a ton of genuine musical and artistic knowledge. The game can straight up teach a person how to play drums, or how to sing, that's worth supporting in my book. I think if Tool knew more about it, they would hopefully be more interested in getting into Rock Band.
I'm totally cool with their songs being played on top of a cool Tool-like Visualizer too.
Damn rights they are. I wish they would go full out like that, even if it was just a DLC expansion.
waitwhat42
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That's how I'm looking at it too. I'm buying in for the ability to keep playing the tracks I already own, and for the possibility of them offering new music again. I hope the RB music platform works out for them.
Plus I desperately needed a replacement guitar and drums, and the used market for peripherals is still insane. I'm still using my RB2 strat and its really dinged up.
Terrordactyl
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I'm sure they know about it, they chose guitar hero, likely for the $, but they had to be played on a terrible tool inspired visualizer. Shit looked like amateur hour for 3D effects artists.
The Rock Band twitter has been saying not at launch, but shortly after.
waitwhat42
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Coming some time after launch.
Baron von Loathsome
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I'm be down for some Tool, especially Schism.