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shantyman said:
I, personally, have found the Nyko Frontman to be complete shit. It eats batteries like I can't believe, it frequently loses signal, the buttons are small and unpleasant, it feels cheap... etc. etc. I strongly dislike it. This is all on PS3.
Personally I'm waiting for the RB2 drums. If it was an issue I would wait for the RB2 guitar. Mic is the same.
M3wThr33 said:
That is pretty seriously douchey. I still love The Fucking Champs. Apparently "The Champs" turned out to have been taken so they made it better... unlike the asshats locally named "Pillows" whom almost always end up getting referred to as "The Pillows" which means they get confused with "the pillows" who only played near here once recently and I almost missed because of the constant errors. One is from Japan and is an awesome J-Rock band. One is from Oakland and is a mellow female duo that sucks donkey smeg. The newer, shittier band needs to change or clubs need to get smarter either labeling appropriately ("Not the ones from Japan!" "The one that sucks") or just being wise enough not to book them at all.
I'm also upset that some asshat took my band name already. How in the fuck am I no longer allowed to be "The Axis of Awesome"?!? This is not right! At least "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" still knows how to rock the house and seriously confuse you on the date of their gigs six days out of the week.
One day I will definitely form a real band with one of these two names.
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SMEG!
Duck said:
Well, you can play bass. As a student of the instrument I very much respect it and there are some brutal songs out there, but there is also a lot of stuff that you can teach just about anyone in about 15 minutes. If you can play "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" in RB you can play it on bass. It's practically identical. even down to most of the finger positioning (the majority of it is indeed F# on the second fret of the E string). "Where Is My Mind?" is also pretty damned simple.
I'm sure there are equivalents on the guitar, but it's decidedly harder to learn to form chords (I know I could almost never manage to get it down without muting half the strings... while sitting on the couch carefully trying to get just that chord down) let alone switching chords.
The reason you play bass, however, is not because it's easier (to start at least... think of it as a GH1 learning curve, rather than GH2), but because bass is awesome.
McBradders said:
While real, I would be lying if I said Red Dwarf doesn't strongly influence my tendency to use it far more frequently than I would otherwise. Coming soon: "gorram fracking shazbot!".
Keyser Soze said:
I've never heard it before, but after listening to only half of it I think I hate it more than just about other song I've ever heard. It's just about everything I could possibly hate about a song distilled down into a single piece of aural horror. I even have deep, seething rage over their awful name, video, and how they look.
They might be my most hated thing ever. Even Hitler even had that great mustache and some swanky boots.
Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Still haven't won a free song 
TheGreatDave
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Rock Band makes me want to learn bass. How much harder can it be?
TheGreatDave said:
I'd wanted to learn for years and years, but it wasn't until a year or two ago that I finally got my shit in gear and started. The difference is that you really have to want it. Otherwise it's pretty easy to get discouraged as with any instrument, but also by the massive waves of inferiority that bassists often get to deal with.
Rock Band does make it easier. Much easier in many cases. "Here Comes Your Man", for example, isn't astoundingly difficult, but the main riff is played across all four strings and when you play an open string you then have to mute it (by lightly tapping it in a number of different ways) or it will continue to ring out. This plus just getting it down is a good deal trickier than it would seem in the game. Not to mention all the many, many other reasons why the skill sets don't really translate as much. It is, thanks to less usage of chords, still closer than guitar.
Motion Picture Soundtrack said:Still haven't won a free song
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Is it ceasing to register? Causing double-huts?Joates said:
I don't know about ceasing to register, but double-hits and cross-talk can be easily fixed by popping off the drum head and tightening the piezo a quarter turn or so. I'm thinking if it just stopped registering, then it must be a wire issue in there. I agree that you shouldn't have to do anything, and the hardware should just work, but it's probably a simple fix.
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Belgand said:
It just feels and sounds like a bigger club? I play with headphones a lot too.
As far as progression, I temper that manually by finishing as much of a venue as I can before I progress. After all, what kind of band only plays two songs and then leaves the stage?
;D
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birdman said:
Assuming the game remains easy to rent. I don't know what it's like in the US, but I don't imagine Rock Band 1 being all that easy to obtain in the UK in year or so.
TheGreatDave
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birdman said:
Return game for a full refund?! Man, you guys have the best and worst of times over there. Your economy may be going to shit, but at least you can exploit the little man!
They should just make the songs available for RB2 owners when RB3 comes out. Then loop it round like that. But obviously as a result we should stop calling it a platform, and this thread should have the word removed, aw!
AMUSIX said:
As long as it's better than my shitty metal pedal, which is astondigly worse than the stock RB1 pedal, I'll be happy. Can I at least be able to do really tight double hits and constant pedal use?(Like the one found in the last verse of Ride the Lightning and the constant bass hits used in all the Megadeth songs?)
And yeah I saw your layout, and It'll be really helpful once I get the set. Looks like I'm gonna have to wait until Tuesday to get my set due to fedex only changing the status of my order today(On friday it randomly went on a truck to Whitby, when I live in Toronto, and even though I contacted them directly, they only changed the delivery exception status today, so no the expected delivery date is on the 30th instead of the 29th)
AlphaTwo00
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EA Hardware support:
I broke the Guitar Strum Bar late July, and I was very lax with bugging them. Initially they replied, and I assumed that it was handled. But it was three weeks, and I got nothing back. Then I checked my e-mail and noticed that they haven't done anything, and asked for a new RMA request. Since then, the pedal has also broken.
I've done one last week again, and I've gotten the auto-reply. Should I be concerned? Or should I just do a phone followup right away?
I broke the Guitar Strum Bar late July, and I was very lax with bugging them. Initially they replied, and I assumed that it was handled. But it was three weeks, and I got nothing back. Then I checked my e-mail and noticed that they haven't done anything, and asked for a new RMA request. Since then, the pedal has also broken.
I've done one last week again, and I've gotten the auto-reply. Should I be concerned? Or should I just do a phone followup right away?
TheGreatDave
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onemic said:
In the game. In real life it has a certain funky charm!
Archie said:
Why you holdin' them down?
JonathanEx
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I rather like the song. Nice and catchy, get some amusement out of the "dave vitty" version on Radio 1, however with the "name, video, and how they look" thing: true story, in English today I saw the band name on the cover of a GQ a friend had from a few months back (she's writing about music magazines, you see) and picked it up, found the page with them, had a quick glance, saw the picture and closed the mag putting it down.Belgand said:
Further confirmation that the Wii version of RB2 won't be gimped as much as RB1 was: http://kotaku.com/5056299/wii-dlc-confirmed-for-rock-band-2
Competition is a good thing.
Competition is a good thing.
TheGreatDave
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But Harmonix said it was impossible!
JonathanEx
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Impossible if you're lazy fucks farming out to a port developer who didn't have the resources to rebuild anything but the basic engine in time for launch.
BenjaminBirdie
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Ooh! I won a free song! How does it work? You just get 160 points?
BenjaminBirdie
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Costanza said:
So...TWO free songs if I wanted.
TheGreatDave
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JonathanEx said:
I guess this means the Wii version has graphics this time.
AlphaTwo00
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Not true. They could be following GH:WT's route, which was in the New Nintendo Power:Duck said:
Basically, GH:WT asks that you have 200 blocks free, and all DLC is stored on SD card and streamed to system on demand.
FWIW, Best Buy's pre-order t-shirts also advertise the Wii's internet functionality, but with two key differences.
1. The Wii version isn't likely to get the 20 additional songs, as it isn't listed as a feature as it is on the 360 and PS3 pre-orders.
2. It also doesn't advertise as having 500 songs by the end of the year. Whether or not this merely has to do with the RB1 disc not being compatible with RB2 or something else, it isn't clear.
Other than that, the same features as the others are listed.
1. The Wii version isn't likely to get the 20 additional songs, as it isn't listed as a feature as it is on the 360 and PS3 pre-orders.
2. It also doesn't advertise as having 500 songs by the end of the year. Whether or not this merely has to do with the RB1 disc not being compatible with RB2 or something else, it isn't clear.
Other than that, the same features as the others are listed.
GotchaForce
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Probably been asked before but has anyone picked up the precision bass? I'm thinking of getting it.
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:lol I just played with works stock drums.
For everyone still playing on stock drums;
Stop.
Get a pedal replacement or plate.
Get some fucking silencers. Those stock drums are ass
For everyone still playing on stock drums;
Stop.
Get a pedal replacement or plate.
Get some fucking silencers. Those stock drums are ass
McBradders said::lol I just played with works stock drums.
For everyone still playing on stock drums;
Stop.
Get a pedal replacement or plate.
Get some fucking silencers. Those stock drums are ass
I just slapped a slab of metal on my pedal and duck taped it together. It's a beast! :lol
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birdman said:
robut said:
I posted my impressions of it earlier in this thread, and I'm happy to report that I've had no change in them since. It really is that awesome. And as a further addendum after playing a bit on the GHWT guitar, it really is the best guitar controller of all now. Buy the P-Bass; buy it now.
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"She's a Handsome Woman" is a much better song than 'Nine in the Afternoon". That should have been on the disc instead of DLC.
I mean it's not a great song or anything, but the vocal melody in the chorus is damn catchy.
I mean it's not a great song or anything, but the vocal melody in the chorus is damn catchy.
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