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CaptainCamerica
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I loved playing Master Exploder! I actually had a lot of trouble with Chop Suey after about 4 tries I finally got the whole alternating quickly between the single notes and chords.DMart said:
Justin said:
Yeah, I've been playing World Tour exclusively. I'd do the challenges except:DarkJC said:
there's that, and I've already unlocked most of the songs in the game I'd be retreading tired roads for a while.Costanza said:
Though I'm curious: in challenges, do you have to actually beat said challenges in order to unlock the songs, or can you just unlock access to Dream Theater and call it a day. In World Tour I believe you have to actually beat the songs (else I'd have Peace Sells), and if it's the former I'm dropping WT like a wet sock.
I would think we'd hear about the 20 songs sometime within the next few days, whether it's the track list or date of the songs or even just new info on the special 20 song website. Said website says "check back in a few days", and it'd be a bit of a dick thing for Harmonix to mean "check back every few days for the next month!"M3wThr33 said:
Playing Rock Band 2 really makes me want Bon Jovi and Pearl Jam DLC, though. And Guns N Roses. Especially Guns N Roses. They tease Sweet Child 'O Mine for god's sake!
MikeE21286
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Struct09 said:
Yep. I haven't tried the BOTB today, but last night I couldn't connect to the Rock Central server. Hope that's fixed up.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
ROFLCOPTER.
Sleepwalker came up in a Mystery Set List in one of the starter cities. Yeah... that's a great match for Bad Reputation.
I did way better than normal, though. Failed at 67%.
Sleepwalker came up in a Mystery Set List in one of the starter cities. Yeah... that's a great match for Bad Reputation.
I did way better than normal, though. Failed at 67%.
cr_blah_blah
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Jukebox mode got the cut from final version:
NOTE: Jukebox Mode is a feature that was experimented with for Rock Band 2. Ultimately Harmonix and MTV Games believe it will ultimately enhance the Rock Band experience for players but we won't be rolling it out until we have it perfected.
That's from Jeff over at Giantbomb.com. I'm not sure how you perfect it either but who knows. The workaround of not playing an instrument with no-fail works for now, I suppose.
NOTE: Jukebox Mode is a feature that was experimented with for Rock Band 2. Ultimately Harmonix and MTV Games believe it will ultimately enhance the Rock Band experience for players but we won't be rolling it out until we have it perfected.
That's from Jeff over at Giantbomb.com. I'm not sure how you perfect it either but who knows. The workaround of not playing an instrument with no-fail works for now, I suppose.
cr_blah_blah
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bounchfx said:
Yeah, I believe so. I haven't popped it in yet but that's what others have mentioned earlier in the thread.
One of the new thrift items. One of the shorts? Here I'll take a pic.DGRP said:
The thing is, a lot of these things are just plain random. I got Peace Sells in a mystery playlist after Who Are You, and...EazyB said:
I got Green Grass and High motherfucking Tides after Bad Reputation and Next to You, when I was attempting to get my "sound guy" (so I can apparently access new locations). I'll try what you're suggesting for songs that are known ahead of time, but sometimes you just get screwed on Expert doing a set that was supposed to be moderately doable.TAJ said:
Wasn't Harmonix supposed to implement a blacklist in RB2 so you can choose ridiculous songs like GGaHT to not appear in random setlists? Whatever happened to that?
OK, thanks.bounchfx said:
The Take Out Bandit
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Additionally Rock Band needs some fuckin' Dream Evil DLC!
IGNORE SHITTY ANIMU AND LISTEN TO LET'S MAKE ROCK!
Perfect.
Make it fucking happen Harmonix!
IGNORE SHITTY ANIMU AND LISTEN TO LET'S MAKE ROCK!
Perfect.
Make it fucking happen Harmonix!
Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Can you use vibrato on expert vocals now, or does the arrow still jump around when you try?
cr_blah_blah
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Quickplay shows the score for whichever instrument you're playing. If you play a song on guitar there's a score for that and if you go in with vocals there's a seperate score for that. I believe there was a question about that earlier. I think it counts towards your career score too. If nothing else quickplay counts to your career score for local players. No checkmarks or any indication what difficulty the song was played at, like others said D:
Everyone keeps calling this a viable workaround...but why would you want to listen to the tracks with the crowd constantly booing?cr_blah_blah said:
For those of you who can't understand why you'd want a jukebox mode, it's the same reason you'd want to have your MP3s playing during a party. Or, you own a store and you have Rock Band running and you don't want to keep hearing the same three small sections of songs over and over and over again.
BigBlackGamer said:
I was never the one who was violently opposed to ["I Kissed A Girl"]. I can't recall exactly who that was. I merely dislike it.
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While the rest of you lot were up all night trying to get your sweaty mitts and flippers on RB2 I was up all night playing a board game. Hah! Suck it electronic entertainment I have found your weakness and you will fall to my chits and dice!
The best part, of course, was Sunday afternoon when my landlord decided to just wander through my apartment (with his entire damn family) without asking me while I was asleep. I mean, apparently he rang the doorbell, but when I didn't answer he just let himself in and then proceeded to leave all the doors open. He does with at least once a month because he can't seem to understand that when he rents out his house he kinda stops getting to use the backyard. Especially when it means that he has to walk through my apartment to get there. And he never, ever walks through the apartment upstairs either, always mine. This shit has been going on probably once a month since we moved in here almost two years ago. At least once he did this while we weren't even home. I'm pretty certain this is very illegal, but until I nicely confronted him about this being a huge invasion of my privacy I could never seem to get him to understand that this is really unwelcome. I mean, fuck, even if I'm home I don't want strangers wandering back and forth through my house! And showing up to do so without calling.
Eggo said:
No. You and a few other people just keep assuming that it would be available at launch. I've said this before, but Harmonix has never, ever fucking said that. Stop assuming people! The only time frame they've ever given is "before the end of the year".
This is as bad as the people assuming that it was just something they could buy in the store too.
So let me summarize:
-20 tracks
-Only for people who bought Rock Band 2 (code on back of manual; it's like downloadable on-disc content)
-Coming out "before the end of the year" and not a moment sooner
Costanza said:
I doubt we'll get a patch. Wasn't this the exact same problem we had with RB1? Where they promised stuff like online BWT and then never delivered it or patched it in? They just released a full-price new game with the fixes made and a whole new set of things they promised, but never managed to get in.
change your locks. You are in the right to do so. You don't even have to inform him. When he does try to come in and can't, he'll ask you about it. You just say 'yeah, I kept noticing signs of people coming into the place without my knowledge, so I changed the locks'.Belgand said:
Passive-aggressive, yes, but effective.
Read your post right above yours...the so-called promises aren't. They never promised BWT, they never promised Jukebox mode, they never promised Nevermind.Belgand said:
At most, they mentioned these, or showed these in a build of the game with a major warning of THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, FEATURES MAY NOT BE REFLECTED IN THE FINAL PRODUCT.
vatstep said:
Go to Harmonix's offices. Stand outside and hold aloft a boom box with a mix tape of the RB2 setlist. This will please me greatly. A trench coat would also be an ideal accessory.
Would have been even better if someone did this on Friday or so before the release.
PIMPBYBLUD
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Eye of the Tiger...How I love thee!!! Also I was thinking of picking up the new drums? What is everyone's impressions of them over the RB1 drums? How is the battery life?
AMUSIX said:
Yeah, but I'm far more passive than aggressive. He has, in general, been very nice and it really just seems like he doesn't understand how intrusive he's being. I spoke to him nicely, but firmly about it and I think he got the message and said it won't happen again.
Having spoken up for myself finally if it ever happens again I will simply have to tell him that this isn't at all acceptable and I'll be taking it up with the tenant's board.
Another reason is because of how hard it was to find the shitty place we're living now. We desperately want to move for many reasons, but we can't really afford to right now. As such since our landlord seems to like us and has never even tried to raise our rent by the legally allowable amount we try to stay on his good side.
Frankly, before it was just really annoying, now it's gone a bit too far.
AMUSIX said:
Very true. My point is mainly that it has happened before and I'm pretty damn certain that we won't get a patch for it. It was also a bit along the lines that this year's model is, in many ways, a number of the things we were told and expected we'd be getting last year. I predict that next year will probably be much the same. If Harmonix have a failing it's how this seems to keep happening, if they have a failing.
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