"Angina's tough!!" Rock Band 2 Track And Spec Info (& Dreams) Thread

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Ridley327 said:
Is there an underlying reason for not wanting an "all or nothing" deal with the export option?

Lack of hard drive space?
Uncertainty in which tracks will be brought over?
Possible unfair pricing (can't imagine it being more than $10, but some people...)
Not wanting anything to do with Dead on Arrival ever again?
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The Rock Band disc has some of the worst songs ever put in a rhythm game. If there was no DLC for Rock Band I'd never play the thing. There's 10 songs or so it wouldn't make me angry to play.

The price puts me off too.
 
TheGreatDave said:
The Rock Band disc has some of the worst songs ever put in a rhythm game. If there was no DLC for Rock Band I'd never play the thing. There's 10 songs or so it wouldn't make me angry to play.

The price puts me off too.
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TheGreatDave said:
If you like playing Here It Goes Again, I Think I'm Paranoid and Blitzkrieg Bop, In Fucking Bloom, Creep, Electric Version and all that bullshit don't let me stop you.
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You're not, of course. Those songs are awesome and fun.

Electric Version is still one of the best drum songs in the game. <3 New Pornographers.
 
TheGreatDave said:
If you like playing Here It Goes Again, I Think I'm Paranoid and Blitzkrieg Bop, In Fucking Bloom, Creep, Electric Version and all that bullshit don't let me stop you.
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I like all of those songs except for Creep.
 
GoutPatrol said:
I like all of those songs except for Creep.
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I don't :/ Trust me, any song you like in Rock Band I probably hate. This is why I've bought 150ish songs on XBLM.

But lets not bring this here. I did all this 6 months ago. End of the day: let me choose which songs to copy Harmonix, kthx.

Johnkers said:
Are you saying you don't like Nirvana Dave? and here I thought that time out would have let you learn from your mistakes
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Their song on GH:OT is the worst on the disk. I'm sick to death of them. I know why Kurt shot himself, he had to hear fucking Breed too many times.
 
TheGreatDave said:
If you like playing Here It Goes Again, I Think I'm Paranoid and Blitzkrieg Bop, In Fucking Bloom, Creep, Electric Version and all that bullshit don't let me stop you.
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You think those songs are... BAD?

What the fuck do you listen to?
 
I guess it's just a matter of opinion on the song selection; frankly, a cursory glance at RB1's set list would normally set off a lot of alarms for my tastes, but I was shocked at how fun 99% of the songs were. The only one I genuinely do not like is Dead on Arrival simply due to how incredibly unfun it is on every instrument. Otherwise, having a stable group to play together with locally (my brothers) does wonders to even more the technically unremarkable songs.

I think context helps a lot with the opinions on what a rhythm game's music selection is; for the most part, Elite Beat Agents is filled with songs I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Yet the game managed to sell me on even Ashlee Simpson, if only because I had to cheer on a diligent white blood cell against an impending virus invasion. I had a similar experience with Guitar Hero: On Tour; Smashmouth is one of the lamest bands in history, but goddamn it if I don't want to replay All Star over and over again because it's a joy to play. It's all the same with Rock Band; I can easily put my musical biases aside (especially since I clash with my brothers in that regard) since the experience trumps all that bullshit.

Except when they want to play Inside the Fire again. Goddamn guys, at least pick the endearingly stupid Disturbed song (Indestructible) to play every time we're together. Singing about a Master Chief/Marcus Fenix/giant robot amalgamation>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>gratingly terrible riff on Run to the Hills.

P.S. The price really doesn't concern me; it will not be expensive enough for me to even think twice about it, plus I already have all the DLC released thus far for the game. I suppose it would be too much to ask for some of the songs to be replaced with masters, but I can live with it. It's pretty fucking phenomenal that they're making this feature available, which I can only meet with praise and more of my money.
 
Johnkers said:
I agree, fuck Creep. EVERYBODY ALWAYS WANTS TO SING CREEP.

It's boring, we've played it 6 times already, let'd do something fun!
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haha, when I have a Rock Band party I just assume I'm going to be playing All The Small Things, the All American Rejects songs, the band with Leto in it's songs, the Paramore song, and the Bon Jovi song all night unless I get to pick a song... in which case I will pick something completely outrageous and unprecidented like We Care a Lot.
 
Johnkers said:
I agree, fuck Creep. EVERYBODY ALWAYS WANTS TO SING CREEP.

It's boring, we've played it 6 times already, let'd do something fun!
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Yeah, those guys are assholes for wanting to play songs they like.
 
Justin said:
Yeah, those guys are assholes for wanting to play songs they like.
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:lol It's not that, I used to love Creep, but seriously. When there's dozens and dozens of other songs it would be nice to not play the same song over and over and over and over
 
onemic said:
Don't count on it. Almost 100% likely no compatibility will be coming to the PS3 regarding GHWT stuff.
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I thought I read that GHWT was purposefully being made to use RockBand equipment?
 
Onix said:
I thought I read that GHWT was purposefully being made to use RockBand equipment?
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The code is there to convert GH:WT drum charts to 4 notes for RB drum kits. But they still haven't said a PS3 RB kit will work with PS3 GHWT.
 
Johnkers said:
:lol It's not that, I used to love Creep, but seriously. When there's dozens and dozens of other songs it would be nice to not play the same song over and over and over and over
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Chop Suey will be the next Creep.


WHY'D YOU LEAVE THE KEYS ON THE TABLE
 
TheGreatDave said:
The code is there to convert GH:WT drum charts to 4 notes for RB drum kits. But they still haven't said a PS3 RB kit will work with PS3 GHWT.
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Ah ... understood.



I'm guessing it probably will get opened (patch was already made, Activision was just cockblocking it).

While they were more than happy to force people to buy a new guitar for GH3 ... it seems they've changed their tune now ... and know there are a decent amount of people that simply will not buy another set of instruments for a full game.
 
Onix said:
Ah ... understood.



I'm guessing it probably will get opened (patch was already made, Activision was just cockblocking it).

While they were more than happy to force people to buy a new guitar for GH3 ... it seems they've changed their tune now ... and know there are a decent amount of people that simply will not buy another set of instruments for a full game.
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I think it was probably that last year they didn't forsee gaining any sales from being nice guys, where as now they may lose some if they keep being the assholes. They probably did a lot of maths somewhere :lol
 
Duck said:
Chop Suey will be the next Creep.


WHY'D YOU LEAVE THE KEYS ON THE TABLE
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Chop Suey is way too hard a song to become the next Creep. I fully expect that honor going to either Eye of the Tiger or Any Way You Want it.
 
Johnkers said:
I'm calling Everlong being the next song for my group. I just looked at the list of RB2 songs again though and holy shit awesome.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about Everlong. Seeing as GH:WT and RB have both been using that track every single chance they get it runs a good chance of being ran in to the ground completely, until the opening chords sound like razors on glass.
 
TheGreatDave said:
I think it was probably that last year they didn't forsee gaining any sales from being nice guys, where as now they may lose some if they keep being the assholes. They probably did a lot of maths somewhere :lol
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Yeah, that's my guess as well.

Its one thing to get people to buy your game that's bundles with a guitar. Convincing people that have RB to purchase another game with full set of instruments however ... that's something entirely different.
 
Sp3eD said:
One Step Closer will be the most played song on internet RB2. I don't see how people can think otherwise.
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Someone must find a way to remove it from the disc using magic or other trickery. I will not play that shit. Ever.
 
McBradders said:
NO U!

(what's the DLC this week? Is it shit? I can't find the other thread D: )
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Kinda shit. Did you wake up today thinking "I want 3 more Nine Inch Nails songs to be added to Rock Band's music store, because 4 of their songs isn't enough shite"?

It's probably better this way. You can't beat The Who, so why try?
 
TheGreatDave said:
Kinda shit. Did you wake up today thinking "I want 3 more Nine Inch Nails songs to be added to Rock Band's music store, because 4 of their songs isn't enough shite"?

It's probably better this way. You can't beat The Who, so why try?
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You can't beat the Who. Especially with this weeks offerings.

This dripfeed of NIN should've been saved for a megapack so I can just ignore it all in one go.

"Best of" or GTFO.

*waits for Offspring pack*
 
I'm just happy all the Nine Inch Nails fans get to play some songs they love.

*twitch*

In other news, E3 is over. What is this thread's purpose? Are we allowed now to talk about Rock Band 2 in the Rock Band thread? Do we migrate? Does the RB1 thread live only for DLC discussion, with this for Rock Band 2 news? Cos that's not really how threads work in general. MGS4 didn't have a "news thread" for 3 years.
 
TheGreatDave said:
I'm just happy all the Nine Inch Nails fans get to play some songs they love.

*twitch*

In other news, E3 is over. What is this thread's purpose? Are we allowed now to talk about Rock Band 2 in the Rock Band thread? Do we migrate? Does the RB1 thread live only for DLC discussion, with this for Rock Band 2 news? Cos that's not really how threads work in general. MGS4 didn't have a "news thread" for 3 years.
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Yea we should close this down so the next piece of news spawns 20+ threads cause this one was closed.

And this thread is 2 weeks old.. where do you get 3 years from.
 
ThatHurt said:
Yea we should close this down so the next piece of news spawns 20+ threads cause this one was closed.

And this thread is 2 weeks old.. where do you get 3 years from.
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My point is that usually "news" from a game isn't contained within one thread from it's announcement till it's release. Stuff of note gets a new thread made. The MGS example was an exaggeration.

I don't really care what people do, it's just that that official threads are usually made a week before release, and general "news" threads aren't usually the way things are done. I just wanna know the etiquette, mannnn.
 
DAVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE!


Sorry, I missed the return, I've been in a field for the last few days... Latitude Festival. Awesome. Especially Ross Noble getting 3000 people to conga to the veggie van. Seeing Blondie play One Way Or Another got me hyped for it in Rock Band 2

in 8 months time because I'm in Europe

despite the fact we all know the UK is really the best for music.


Anyhoo, that out of the way, I should comment on something. I'll go for drums. I'm glad there's no bonus points for symbols, but I think it'd be nice if there was a slight, just a small, visual thing to show hihat/symbol notes so that people like me, who'd love to hit them but don't really know which ones too well, if the cymbols were detected.

And a small fee for song transfer: understand it, but it sucks a bit.
 
I turned off avatars to make the Rock Band threads more readable but it doesn't work. Why doesn't it work? :(

I think the thing I most want in Rock Band is to be able to just ignore some songs entirely. I gather they're doing this in BWT but they should do it throughout. In solo career you should only have to pass 4/5 each tier. Being forced to play shitty songs is my number one hate in rhythm action games. Things like I Think I'm Paranoid, Here it Goes Again, and Dead on Arrival are abominations that I wish I could scratch out of my disk. And my mates moan about having to play them, understandably. It's stupid that I would have rather had the US edition and missed free songs just so I could avoid being asked to sing dirges from Muse and Oasis.
 
MalevolentPanda said:
I turned off avatars to make the Rock Band threads more readable but it doesn't work. Why doesn't it work? :(

I think the thing I most want in Rock Band is to be able to just ignore some songs entirely. I gather they're doing this in BWT but they should do it throughout. In solo career you should only have to pass 4/5 each tier. Being forced to play shitty songs is my number one hate in rhythm action games. Things like I Think I'm Paranoid, Here it Goes Again, and Dead on Arrival are abominations that I wish I could scratch out of my disk. And my mates moan about having to play them, understandably. It's stupid that I would have rather had the US edition and missed free songs just so I could avoid being asked to sing dirges from Muse and Oasis.
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The new solo career is pretty much solo BWT. They aren't doing the old style tier to tier gameplay anymore. I imagine you'll be able to ignore DLC songs in solo gameplay in RB2.
 
JonathanEx said:
DAVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE!


Sorry, I missed the return, I've been in a field for the last few days... Latitude Festival. Awesome. Especially Ross Noble getting 3000 people to conga to the veggie van. Seeing Blondie play One Way Or Another got me hyped for it in Rock Band 2

in 8 months time because I'm in Europe

despite the fact we all know the UK is really the best for music.
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Don't jink us. Maybe we'll only have to wait 5 months!

:(

Fun fact: Late to the Party are still late to their own fucking party. We should probably get on that some time.
 
I like the irony. But I can't playu tonight, I'm on last warning with some coursework.


...it's my fault, I did just fuck off to a Festival. Which was AWESOME.
 
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