Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
are they not making a regular plastic guitar to go with 3 like they did with 2?
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Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
navanman said:
any particular one that stands out from the rest as far as quality is concerned?
edit: oh wow I guess their site is down
DangerousDave
Member
Wait... you can play keyboard tracks with a guitar?
RelentlessRolento
Member
Rewrite said:
damn! didn't realize this ^_^ will make this last minute crunch of trying to get a jet easier
More people know who Bloc Party are than New Found Whoever. At least, in the UK and Australia. Can't speak for the US but they've had songs featured in various US TV shows, movies and games (This Modern Love in HIMYM, Positive Tension in Forza 2) and I couldn't name a single song by those guys you mentioned.Aspiring said:
DangerousDave
Member
Rewrite said:
Too late, i already embarrassed myself singing Imagine, to get the all songs objective.
But I'll check it, it may be fun. All Instruments Mode also allow you to use a guitar for the battery?
toythatkills
Member
Sorry for this inevitably asked already question, but poor search, long thread, etc!
If I want to play keyboard, would I be better off getting the Rock Band keyboard, or are midi keyboards cheap/good enough to be a better investment?
(with the midi brain thing when that comes, obvs.)
Any keyboard recommendations appreciated, if you knows your stuffs.
If I want to play keyboard, would I be better off getting the Rock Band keyboard, or are midi keyboards cheap/good enough to be a better investment?
(with the midi brain thing when that comes, obvs.)
Any keyboard recommendations appreciated, if you knows your stuffs.
SolidusDave
Member
Ok so I played the PSN demo and have a few questions/impressions:
- most importantly, why are there only 4 players for 4 instruments + 1-3 singers?!
Same thing with the ingame band, I only see 4 band members and some invisible person is finishing the track playing the keys, wth?
- I really like the new sorting options and other tweaks like the constant player "login" (with options to change the settings, to drop out etc.), no loading times etc.
- it's also nice that you can finally change the difficulty during a song, but why does it display no score? I guess it should not count for leaderboards, but it just feels strange playing w/o that feedback. Can't it just start from 0 once you change the difficulty (or better just add on top of the previous score)
- I was not really impressed by the gig presentation itself. At least in demo I can't really see a progression from RB2 (actually it felt less flashy/fun) or at least better graphics.
- I usually choose Normal for any instrument when I play with friends. I started this genre with RB2 and slowly starting to train hard mode when I play alone or in easy songs. They already started this with the RB Lego tracks, but why do they feel the need to add the orange button on the guitar to the normal difficulty.
I would say switching from 4 to 5 buttons is the hardest part of the guitar. I liked the differences between difficulty levels much more in RB2. QED: I just finished one of the songs, which I played only once before on normal, on extreme in the demo because it's basically just faster.
Maybe this change encourages more people to start playing on hard as they are already use to the 5 buttons, but many of my more casual friends can now only play easy mode which is too boring even for them.
- can you save&edit the custom setlists?
oh and I followed this thread a bit and wanted to make sure I got it right:
- you can play the keyboard part (of songs that support it) with any guitar, right? What about the pro keyboard part. Can you play it with the, normal guitar, the pro guitar or only the keyboard?
- can you use the keyboard for the guitar&bass parts in all songs? Can you use it also for the pro guitar/bass parts of the supported songs?
- do you need all 3 cymbals for the drums pro mode?
- Can you use the real guitar only for the pro mode and not for the normal guitar/bass parts?
- do you need 2-3 microphones for the harmony singing?
- most importantly, why are there only 4 players for 4 instruments + 1-3 singers?!
Same thing with the ingame band, I only see 4 band members and some invisible person is finishing the track playing the keys, wth?
- I really like the new sorting options and other tweaks like the constant player "login" (with options to change the settings, to drop out etc.), no loading times etc.
- it's also nice that you can finally change the difficulty during a song, but why does it display no score? I guess it should not count for leaderboards, but it just feels strange playing w/o that feedback. Can't it just start from 0 once you change the difficulty (or better just add on top of the previous score)
- I was not really impressed by the gig presentation itself. At least in demo I can't really see a progression from RB2 (actually it felt less flashy/fun) or at least better graphics.
- I usually choose Normal for any instrument when I play with friends. I started this genre with RB2 and slowly starting to train hard mode when I play alone or in easy songs. They already started this with the RB Lego tracks, but why do they feel the need to add the orange button on the guitar to the normal difficulty.
I would say switching from 4 to 5 buttons is the hardest part of the guitar. I liked the differences between difficulty levels much more in RB2. QED: I just finished one of the songs, which I played only once before on normal, on extreme in the demo because it's basically just faster.
Maybe this change encourages more people to start playing on hard as they are already use to the 5 buttons, but many of my more casual friends can now only play easy mode which is too boring even for them.
- can you save&edit the custom setlists?
oh and I followed this thread a bit and wanted to make sure I got it right:
- you can play the keyboard part (of songs that support it) with any guitar, right? What about the pro keyboard part. Can you play it with the, normal guitar, the pro guitar or only the keyboard?
- can you use the keyboard for the guitar&bass parts in all songs? Can you use it also for the pro guitar/bass parts of the supported songs?
- do you need all 3 cymbals for the drums pro mode?
- Can you use the real guitar only for the pro mode and not for the normal guitar/bass parts?
- do you need 2-3 microphones for the harmony singing?
megashock5
Member
Now that we FINALLY got 'In a Big Country', I want 'Fields of Fire' DLC. Come on, Harmonix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0GAhe_9Was&feature=fvw (audio only)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0GAhe_9Was&feature=fvw (audio only)
Ark Malmeida
Neo Member
mrklaw said:
My son started taking electric guitar lessons at 10 and he's managed just fine with it. Probably good to get the ol' fingers broken in and used to real strings at a young age.
SuperPac
Member
So I tried one of the Harmonix pre-made keyboard battles and ranked #136 overall...and I was playing on medium and didn't do all that well. So I guess not many people are playing those, huh? (They're kind of hidden and dependent on you opening the Setlist menu.)
Also created a battle, added a description and got an error that the description "wasn't classy" and I needed to change it - like it had some curseword in it. Turns out the word "title" wasn't allowed in the description...I guess 'cuz it has "tit" in it? That seems like an odd word for the smut filter to flag.
Also created a battle, added a description and got an error that the description "wasn't classy" and I needed to change it - like it had some curseword in it. Turns out the word "title" wasn't allowed in the description...I guess 'cuz it has "tit" in it? That seems like an odd word for the smut filter to flag.
Maastricht
Member
One small comment - I've been reading some complaints about the failstate of this game. However, Rockband 3 is definitely almost impossible to fail compared to Guitar Hero on Extreme. Basically as long as you manage to regularly hit a few correct notes, you'll be in the red all the time, but generally make it through the song regardless (even finishing at something like 60%). I think this is more than fine actually and anyone complaining about this should practice the section that stumps them 
.
.SuperPac said:
that's like Sat@#day from PSO on dreamcast.
Yeah, definitely not a lot of pro key players out there, I broke into the top 20 for Everybody Wants to Rule to World and no one had gotten 100% yet on expert, it's a pretty easy song (considering I can actually finish it in expert).
SolidusDave said:
I'm guessing engine limitations. Too many people runs the risk of slowdown. Why they didn't take the singing guitarist lessons they learned from Green Day and have a five-piece be drums/keys/bass/guitar+vox, I don't know.
SolidusDave said:
It certainly looks different this time around, little less cartoony.
SolidusDave said:
Easy uses blue and orange too. The point is to make you man up and move your hand.
SolidusDave said:
Yes for regular, no for pro. Pro requires the new hardware for any given instrument (well, technically not for drums, there's old cymbals, but whatever).
SolidusDave said:
Nope, only need one from what I've heard. Chart adapts to that.
butter_stick
Banned
Probably Light My Fire.
butter_stick
Banned
Drakken said:
Almost certainly not.
DodgerSan said:
Yep. The problem is the song difficulty was too much of a jump to also introduce shifting. They shouldn't have added more notes/chords, speed, and shifting all at once. Had they started you on it from easy, it wouldn't be so bad.
Good job changing this HMX!
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
Drakken said:
This would be great. I've got a Korg Nano Key that would be perfect for this game. I'm guessing it doesn't work though.
DJ_Tet said:
I'm confused with what you're asking? The only things that would require MIDI are a real keyboard, real e-drums, and the Fender pro guitar.
None of the MadCatz stuff requires it. I'm not sure what you're getting at with the one instrument per box thing.
FlashFlooder
Member
Raistlin said:
He was hoping you could use one box and run multiple instruments through it at a time. Obviously, that's not possible. I personally have 2 on order, and wish they would get here sooner than 11/28 so I can use my brand new Yamaha DTXplorer
Big Chungus
Member
Not sure which system to get it for...360 or PS3.
What does everyone think?
What does everyone think?
DangerousDave
Member
fna84 said:
You don't have any previous RB?
Big Chungus
Member
Nope, this is going to be my first music genre type game.DangerousDave said:
drmcclin said:He was hoping you could use one box and run multiple instruments through it at a time. Obviously, that's not possible. I personally have 2 on order, and wish they would get here sooner than 11/28 so I can use my brand new Yamaha DTXplorer
Yeah, I figured for $40 or so it would be an all-encompassing midi adapter.
GF is planning on getting a midi keyboard and I'm getting the Squier. Price just went up, not going to impede plans but it does kinda suck.
I guess when I think about it the conversion is likely fairly heavy and I didn't think about the outputs still needing to be 'separate RB controllers.'
Raistlin said:
Obviously was not talking about plastic instruments. Not even sure how you could make that assumption.
SouthernDragon
Member
fna84 said:
360.
Full access to RBN titles makes it a no brainer for me, and I'm a PS3 owner with 346 songs and counting.
fna84 said:
It doesn't really matter. Whatever one you prefer. Although I should say, having a pretty unlimited amount of HD space makes the ps3 win in my eyes. Some people will say "bu bu but the RBN cataloge is smaller on the ps3!" Tip: RBN is mostly shit. Sadly on the ps3 you can't preview the RBN songs, but they are usually of a lower quality of song than what you expect. Like some have said already "mostly myspace bands" and it isn't far from the truth. There are some well known bands that show up on there, but they also come to the PS3. 360 has more available RBN songs (not the same as regular DLC) and the PS3 has a bigger HD upgrade option. Not a fanboy comment :free online on PS3 although there aren't competitive modes on RB3 anymore (versus modes).
DangerousDave
Member
fna84 said:
Then, there are not too much differences between versions.
Shaneus said:
I dont want to get into a pissing contest on which ban is more popular, but NFG are a very popular band. So i will just say we shoul have them both! Unfortunatly to me, it seems as though bands like this will only be coming through the RBN, as while they may be popular there not really considered massive. Though you never know.
DangerousDave
Member
Another advantadge of PS3 version is that, if you have friends interested in RB , you can use the account sharing to make a special account only for songs.
distantmantra
Member
What's up with Bloc Party, anyway? They were rumored to have Helicopters in Guitar Hero World Tour, but then it vanished from the song list. Are they against music games?