Big Papa Husker
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I think I'm going to get it so I don't have to dig around for the disc when I want to play.
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Rock Band DLC Announcements
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I think I'm going to get it so I don't have to dig around for the disc when I want to play.
Joe Molotov
Member
This Christmas, Harmonix gave you their My Chemical Romance DLC, but the very next day, you gave it away.
re: GonD prefabs. I finally got a cap card, so I decided to get actual good screencaps of them.
http://imgur.com/a/tet9z#0
sup john lennon
edit: lol
http://imgur.com/a/tet9z#0
sup john lennon
edit: lol
-bakalhau-
Member
So all pre-RB3 songs are discounted forever? I remember paying 160 for each over the years... Now that I got RB3 on the Xbox Live sale, so many songs are only 80 points... It's such a huge difference. So much better to build a huge library...
They won't say forever, but they won't say when it'll end. So, probably forever.
It's for "forever" but they aren't going to say forever because Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo could change the prices back at their discretion at any time
Mostly Microsoft
edit: Charron'd
distantmantra
Member
PARTY PARTY PARTY EVERYBODY PARTY
Lone_Prodigy
Member
New Year-style songs and only the 360 will get them before New Year's.
Monkeylord
Member
Party Hard!!!
Our NYE Rock Band Extravaganza is is gonna rock so much!
Our NYE Rock Band Extravaganza is is gonna rock so much!
SiegfriedFM
Member
I finally got to play around with a real keyboard using Rock Band as a guide. Many songs sound great even on Hard and on Expert they're obviously quite accurate. It's just hard to find the correct instrument on this keyboard, and sometimes the game cheats with key placements in dynamic songs.
Does anyone know if Piano Man is missing half the song? It doesn't sound right when I play it, even on what little of Expert I can do.
Edit: And ugh, the keyboard controller feels horrible after using a real one... gotta get myself a real keyboard and the adapter soon.
Does anyone know if Piano Man is missing half the song? It doesn't sound right when I play it, even on what little of Expert I can do.
Edit: And ugh, the keyboard controller feels horrible after using a real one... gotta get myself a real keyboard and the adapter soon.
What I do know is that left-hand playing isn't authored (due to the two-octave range). I don't have that song so I can't check what exactly they might've done, but Joel is a really good pianist so he probably does more with his left hand than just root chord rhythms. That would be missing in the chart and that would make it sound pretty lacking.
Yeah the Billy Joel tracks are some of the ones impacted the most by the right hand only authoring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rb2A1MnN4
Most notably, Angry Young Man - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTlY9TLzTi8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rb2A1MnN4
Most notably, Angry Young Man - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTlY9TLzTi8
EYEL1NER
Member
Party Hard came out? Man, I've gotta get that. I started listening to Andrew WK pretty late in the game (like last summer? lol), but his songs are certainly energetic.
Welp, it's a new year and hopefully there's some new Iron Maiden to come in it.
I'm listening to the Seventh Son album right now and I need more songs from in it this game. Preferably the rest of the album, but mainly 'The Prophecy,' 'Moonchild,' and 'The Evil that Men Do.'
Also some more songs off of Brave New World would be nice, now that we have 'The Wicker Man' from RB: Blitz.
Welp, it's a new year and hopefully there's some new Iron Maiden to come in it.
I'm listening to the Seventh Son album right now and I need more songs from in it this game. Preferably the rest of the album, but mainly 'The Prophecy,' 'Moonchild,' and 'The Evil that Men Do.'
Also some more songs off of Brave New World would be nice, now that we have 'The Wicker Man' from RB: Blitz.
FlashFlooder
Member
Those are all RB Blitz tracks, aren't they?
'Fraid so.
toythatkills
Member
Is this it, then? Have they finally run out of DLC?
toymachine
Member
RIP Rock Band DLC Streak 2007-2013
AndyMoogle
Member
It's a shame if it ends now, but it still lasted longer than I thought it would.
They're apparently bouncing weeks between Blitz repeats and new tracks. So, 1/8 is all Blitz, 1/15 is all new, 1/22 all Blitz, etc. until they're all out.
GotchaForce
Member
Nowhere does it flat-out say they're running out of dlc entirely. Surely this isn't the first time they've released dlc for the entire week that was based off of something else like disc track packs (Country, ACDC)? I'd be really fucking bummed if it were true they're not doing dlc anymore, but since they said they're working on new IPs that gives me hope. That library is too ginormous not to do stuff with.
All out of Blitz, I mean.
FlashFlooder
Member
I don't think this means they're out of DLC. At least, I hope not.
I was so excited about the potential of RBN, but it seems like the worthwhile releases are few and far between (for my taste, at least). I think the only tracks I've even bothered with were Band of Horses, and they're not even that fun to play. Such a bold and interesting endeavor on HMX' part, too bad it never really took off.
I was so excited about the potential of RBN, but it seems like the worthwhile releases are few and far between (for my taste, at least). I think the only tracks I've even bothered with were Band of Horses, and they're not even that fun to play. Such a bold and interesting endeavor on HMX' part, too bad it never really took off.
I've been so down on these recent DLC releases. Way too many Blitz songs.
A magical world of work where I wanted to make sure I wasn't dropping too much time into forum crawling. That, and I couldn't keep up with the other place.
A magical world of work where I wanted to make sure I wasn't dropping too much time into forum crawling. That, and I couldn't keep up with the other place.
distantmantra
Member
Sub Pop made a good effort with their RBN offerings (Sunny Day Real Estate in RB makes my day), but most everything else released doesn't interest me at all.
There was already a week where it was just the songs from the OXM disc (Harmonix Pack 01). Another week that was just Country Track Pack 2. They also said upfront that Blitz's songs would be normal DLC.
They're not running out of DLC. Let's be honest, if they were about to run out of DLC they'd give everyone a heads up that RB's DLC support was ending. They're not going to really win here it seems, it's either get yelled at for supporting the Wii with the tracks or get yelled at for leaving the Wii behind on the tracks..
They're not running out of DLC. Let's be honest, if they were about to run out of DLC they'd give everyone a heads up that RB's DLC support was ending. They're not going to really win here it seems, it's either get yelled at for supporting the Wii with the tracks or get yelled at for leaving the Wii behind on the tracks..
Rewrite
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Good to hear you're fine. Drop by to say hi sometime.
I'm not so sure about that anymore...
They're definitely letting the community know that they should batten down the hatches just in case.
I interpreted it as their usual statement of having a 3 month buffer of content.
But.. even if it really slows down or comes to and end though, the game still works and it was a hell of a run for DLC support on a console game. I don't think people really expected RB1 DLC to last more than a couple months out from it's release, let alone 3 years for RB1-compatible and 5 years for the whole franchise.
But.. even if it really slows down or comes to and end though, the game still works and it was a hell of a run for DLC support on a console game. I don't think people really expected RB1 DLC to last more than a couple months out from it's release, let alone 3 years for RB1-compatible and 5 years for the whole franchise.
Oh, don't get me wrong, it's been an incredible run; I don't think any other game has had such a massive amount of content like this available for it. I'm just not going to pretend that we aren't seeing the end of the road. 2012 was clearly stretching it out as it was, especially when they started making Green Day available.
GotchaForce
Member
Stab in the dark:
worst case - Rock Band dlc ends, no more Rock Band games
life goes on case - dlc stays at this clip, Harmonix makes some Rock Band thing for next-gen Kinect
best case - Rock Band 4 for next gen, dlc gets renewed to it's glory days
They've said they're working on new IPs. My gut says no way they ignore that stupid large dlc library they have and will utilize it going forward.
worst case - Rock Band dlc ends, no more Rock Band games
life goes on case - dlc stays at this clip, Harmonix makes some Rock Band thing for next-gen Kinect
best case - Rock Band 4 for next gen, dlc gets renewed to it's glory days
They've said they're working on new IPs. My gut says no way they ignore that stupid large dlc library they have and will utilize it going forward.
I'm still kind of surprised they dumped the rest of it all at once. I thought they were going to roll the albums out one at a time.
Do you think they'll try to stretch it out even further with another disc-based release?
They already shot down RB1/RB2 tracks being sold on stream. And they've already went through the last track pack that had songs not on the store, which was CTP2.
In theory I guess they could release those Schick Razor Pro Guitar songs.
I was thinking more on Lego Rock Band honestly. It's the only other spinoff game I can think of that they could possibly mine for DLC.
We've had You Give Love a Bad Name, We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions released from LRB, so it's not without precedent. I'd have to think that Song 2, Ghostbusters, Life is a Highway, and The Final Countdown would be solid sellers for them.
I want Final Countdown with keys before RB goes away.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Harmonix Livestream up. I guess they're going to be answering questions about DLC in a while
http://www.twitch.tv/harmonixmusic
http://www.twitch.tv/harmonixmusic
So summary off memory
- Blitz song weeks were to get singles for cherry pickers and songs to Wii
- At least one more artist has a pack with their Blitz song
- Upcoming new-content weeks will have multiple pro guitar upgrades. They're aware that they've been having weeks with no pro, but due to company bandwidth and the small Pro community, they have to be be sure a Pro chart will return a profit
- No plans for RB3 songs playable in Blitz
- People were asking stupid questions so I just threw out one about Heir Kommt Alex, response to that was "international licensing issue, don't get your hopes up"
- Overall just setting expectations to not expect the 7-songs weeks of yore, especially with them making new games (none of which are related to Rock Band), they have less people working on Rock Band now and it's been 2 years since the game came out. I think it's essentially expect 3-song singles weeks a lot from here on out. I think they did mention there will be an artist release this year with 7 or so tracks in a pack. I might be misremembering that though.
- Didn't know the answer to if there's more Green Day Pro upgrades incoming or not.
Someone asked if a Valentines Day pack was coming out, Drake said "we're working on it", then Aaron changed it to "we have songs coming out the week of Valentine's Day"
- RBN will run as long as Microsoft allows the XNA pipeline to exist. If PS3 RBN support ends, it will definitely be before the 360 support ends since Harmonix has to manually submit those.
- Blitz song weeks were to get singles for cherry pickers and songs to Wii
- At least one more artist has a pack with their Blitz song
- Upcoming new-content weeks will have multiple pro guitar upgrades. They're aware that they've been having weeks with no pro, but due to company bandwidth and the small Pro community, they have to be be sure a Pro chart will return a profit
- No plans for RB3 songs playable in Blitz
- People were asking stupid questions so I just threw out one about Heir Kommt Alex, response to that was "international licensing issue, don't get your hopes up"
- Overall just setting expectations to not expect the 7-songs weeks of yore, especially with them making new games (none of which are related to Rock Band), they have less people working on Rock Band now and it's been 2 years since the game came out. I think it's essentially expect 3-song singles weeks a lot from here on out. I think they did mention there will be an artist release this year with 7 or so tracks in a pack. I might be misremembering that though.
- Didn't know the answer to if there's more Green Day Pro upgrades incoming or not.
Someone asked if a Valentines Day pack was coming out, Drake said "we're working on it", then Aaron changed it to "we have songs coming out the week of Valentine's Day"
- RBN will run as long as Microsoft allows the XNA pipeline to exist. If PS3 RBN support ends, it will definitely be before the 360 support ends since Harmonix has to manually submit those.
ratcliffja
Member
Finally a Blitz song with pro guitar support. There's still hope for Cult of Personality!
Not to toot my own horn too much, but if you're okay with doing a little bit of leg work, I've got a non-modded Xbox-friendly homebrew solution to the harmonies thing (though not keys, yet). Videos of the work to date are on YouTube under Rock Band: Harmonies Project, which also has links to other resources. It requires that you have the original DLC files and such and doesn't tamper with them, and requires that you are versed a bit in Xbox file mgmt software.