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BigBlackGamer
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Both games are awesome but ever since September RB2 is the only game I play constantly. oh and DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC. 
2008 wasn't necessarily a bad year for gaming, but imo it was very disappointing.
Smash Bros Brawl was somehow worse than Melee, even after a seven year wait
Speaking of Wii stuff, its 2008 game lineup was just a single notch above the PSP's lineup (which is a dead system)
Speaking of Nintendo stuff, literally nothing other than Layton interested me on the DS
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 should've been a patch
DICE somehow managed to screw up Battlefield: BC's multiplayer
Mercenaries 2 was a buggy, glitchy mess after a year long delay
NFS Undercover was a stab to the heart
Resistance 2's single player made me, a fan of RFOM's SP, lose interest in that franchise
LittleBigPlanet's online infrastructure, at least before I sold it, was a complete mess
Fable 2, while it wasn't disappointing, was boring for the first half of the game, pretty cool for the second half, and then it slaps you across the face.
Metal Gear Solid 4, while it was very enjoyable overall (and this is from an MGS virgin), the taste of Kojima's semen near the end wasn't very pleasant
Midnight Club: Los Angeles's cars have the handling of Hydro Thunder's boats. Not a fun game. Hopefully the 360 version from Gamefly makes me enjoy it more, but I doubt it
I'll probably get all the gargoyles and keys in Fable 2 and sell that, and maybe just bite the bullet and buy more new stuff. I have like $90 in Best Buy gift cards, too.
2008 still had some pretty bitchin' stuff like Braid, GeoWars 2, Motorstorm 2 (PS3's PGR4!), RB2 of course, and Burnout, but 2007 was miles better. Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, PGR4, Skate, Forza 2, Crackdown, Halo 3, Uncharted, Mario Galaxy, RB1, etc. 2009 looks a lot better though.
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Smash Bros Brawl was somehow worse than Melee, even after a seven year wait
Speaking of Wii stuff, its 2008 game lineup was just a single notch above the PSP's lineup (which is a dead system)
Speaking of Nintendo stuff, literally nothing other than Layton interested me on the DS
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 should've been a patch
DICE somehow managed to screw up Battlefield: BC's multiplayer
Mercenaries 2 was a buggy, glitchy mess after a year long delay
NFS Undercover was a stab to the heart
Resistance 2's single player made me, a fan of RFOM's SP, lose interest in that franchise
LittleBigPlanet's online infrastructure, at least before I sold it, was a complete mess
Fable 2, while it wasn't disappointing, was boring for the first half of the game, pretty cool for the second half, and then it slaps you across the face.
Metal Gear Solid 4, while it was very enjoyable overall (and this is from an MGS virgin), the taste of Kojima's semen near the end wasn't very pleasant
Midnight Club: Los Angeles's cars have the handling of Hydro Thunder's boats. Not a fun game. Hopefully the 360 version from Gamefly makes me enjoy it more, but I doubt it
I'll probably get all the gargoyles and keys in Fable 2 and sell that, and maybe just bite the bullet and buy more new stuff. I have like $90 in Best Buy gift cards, too.
2008 still had some pretty bitchin' stuff like Braid, GeoWars 2, Motorstorm 2 (PS3's PGR4!), RB2 of course, and Burnout, but 2007 was miles better. Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, PGR4, Skate, Forza 2, Crackdown, Halo 3, Uncharted, Mario Galaxy, RB1, etc. 2009 looks a lot better though.
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jamesinclair said:
Dave's reply is one of the big reasons why it's unlikely that we will ever see selectable charts. The 'outrage' would be huge especially in this thread alone.
On top of that, adding additional charts would require more work on top of the exist amount of work and will just prolong content.
It just won't happen, at least not with RB and GH.
I've spent $125 on Rock Band DLC last year. That number would be almost $150 if I didn't get any points cards on discount.Archie said:Fixed for me.
ATTEMPTING TO STAY ON TOPIC: I DL'ed the Roy Orbison pack and it is so fun on vocals. I have 261 downloaded songs now. I'm scared to calculate how much I have spent on DLC.
There's a fair amount of stuff I regret too. :/ Like I said before, I'm cutting back this year. (Until Ten and the Metallica 12-pack both come out, and I'm dropping $40 on those two things combined. lol)
edit: okay, I feel a lot better now.
Rock Band 1 - $130 (Gift card)
DLC - $391
360 - $350
HDD - $150
2 years of Xbox Live to play RB online - $90 ($50 first year, $40 second year due to a sale).
HDTV - $700
Rock Band 2 instruments - $17 (TRU sale and reselling FTW)
I've spent over $1800 on my plastic toy instrument game. I'm gonna go kill myself rofl.
DLC - $391
360 - $350
HDD - $150
2 years of Xbox Live to play RB online - $90 ($50 first year, $40 second year due to a sale).
HDTV - $700
Rock Band 2 instruments - $17 (TRU sale and reselling FTW)
I've spent over $1800 on my plastic toy instrument game. I'm gonna go kill myself rofl.
I'll join inArchie said:
Rock Band 1 Gifted
Rock Band 2 $60
Rock Band 2 Guitar $50
DLC $128
HDD $130
Rock Band 2 PREMIUM THEME $2.40 :barf
So $372.something out-of-pocket. Not too bad I guess. It's provided more entertainment and enjoyment than every other game ever.
It shows how good a deal the disc-based games are, value-wise.
The way I see it, if Rock Band had never came out I would not have picked up trying to learn the real guitar and I would still be an emotionally stunted Nintendo manchild posting gifs and flaunting in the NPD thread.
Harmonix is truly the greatest company ever created.
Harmonix is truly the greatest company ever created.
ratcliffja
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Archie said:
On a related note, if I had not decided to pick up real guitar in response to Guitar Hero, I wouldn't have spent hundreds of dollars on guitars and an amp.
Well I thought that broken drum pedal were for hardcore player but I suppose I stomp too hard on it. This is a RB2 PS3 pedal, the metal and the plastice has cracked at the base still not broken in half but I suppse it will happen soon, I'm out of the 60 days warranty so can anyone say what my option are at this moment.
I don't think I should buy a new RB2 pedal (will try to repair this one but don'T know how) If it fails I consider buying a 3rd party pedal, anyone with suggestion. As I said I'm not hardcore (Play on hard or expert but anything over 3 * on expert ist still not in my reach)
I love the game and intend to take drum lessons but not before summer so Nothing super expensive, is there anything medium priced that should last more than the plasticky RB2 pedal (the metal plating does not seem really helpful)
grap3fruitman
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Forbes has an interesting (not really) article that takes a bullshit shot at Rockband. I'm not sure if this has been discussed yet but I didn't see anything so... http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0202/052_3.html
wat
wat
TheGreatDave
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There's some truth in their statement. Last time I checked Harmonix weren't making plastic instrument until Red Octane decided to make their westernized version of Guitar Freaks.
Christoff Yurievich
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that guy from Activision wrote that, didn't he? the one with the interview where GH was the first to the band game.grap3fruitman said:
pizzapizza64
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Quick question:
Do the licensed drum silencers work well with the Rock Band 2 drums, or are they only for the Rock Band 1 drums?
Do the licensed drum silencers work well with the Rock Band 2 drums, or are they only for the Rock Band 1 drums?
pizzapizza64
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M3wThr33 said:
Although I agree with you, my wife really doesn't like the sound it makes when people hit the edge of the drums, which the RB2 drums still allow for.
So it's a deal breaker if the silencers don't play nicely with RB2.
TheGreatDave
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Varna said:
Harmonix deserve credit for the gameplay, obviously, but at the end of the day the reason Guitar Hero is popular is because of the controller and the songs Red Octane apparently were instrumental in licensing.
And given that it's well known Activision were working on a Drum Hero game before Guitar Hero 3 came out, to say they've just sat back and waiting for Harmonix to give them the genius idea of adding another one of Konami's gameplay ideas to their games is a bit silly. I'm all for giving Harmonix credit for creating games I love but there's a reason I've played Guitar Hero 100x more than I played Frequency, and that reason isn't purely down to them.
OK, I'm not going to pretends I really know much about what they were working one. I just find it really hard to to believe GHWT was purely coincidental. If they had been in fact working on Drum Hero all that time, why weren't they able to see the problem in their current star power activation method? It just looks like they took RBs ideas and tried to 1-up them (and failed like in the previous stated example).
TheGreatDave
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Why weren't Harmonix able to see the problem with their slow-ass scrolling speed in Career mode in RB1 if Rock Band had been in development for awhile? Shit happens. The drumming having issues isn't really an argument for the concept not existing until after RB's announcement.
WT is obviously a reaction to RB, but I don't think that's necessarily any worse than RB1 basically being Red Octane's guitar design + a bunch of Konami's ideas rolled in to one. Harmonix really have got away with taking a lot of other people's ideas without any backlash. Personally, I don't give a shit, but I'm not going to condemn another company for adding features another game has to remain competitive.
WT is obviously a reaction to RB, but I don't think that's necessarily any worse than RB1 basically being Red Octane's guitar design + a bunch of Konami's ideas rolled in to one. Harmonix really have got away with taking a lot of other people's ideas without any backlash. Personally, I don't give a shit, but I'm not going to condemn another company for adding features another game has to remain competitive.
Actually, I've talked to QA at Neversoft. They did JACK SHIT with Drum Hero. It was all a bit rushed, however cymbals were the most important focus of the drum set. They wanted those from the start.
I just wish the GH drums kept the pedal in place. I had to buy the carpet gripper for office chairs to help keep it from moving. Works, though.
I just wish the GH drums kept the pedal in place. I had to buy the carpet gripper for office chairs to help keep it from moving. Works, though.
TheGreatDave
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M3wThr33 said:
All I remember is a GameInformer where they said they had a studio working on Drum Hero and it ended up being eaten up by World Tour. I can believe there wasn't much of a game there, but I still think it shows an intent to do drum gameplay before Rock Band. RB probably just stopped Activision from being able to do the Singing Hero and Drum Hero games you can bet they probably would have rather done
This weekend was awesome! First of all: Lenny Kravitz is more fun than I thought. My guitar-skills are also picking up, I'm starting to actually finish 3rd tier songs on hard without getting in the red zone. I noticed I used the plastic upright its left and right of the fretbuttons as a guidance to where I should land my fingers after moving them, but now I can almost always do it on pure instinct.
If someone only told me hard was so much fun, I would've started this back in the Guitar Hero 1-days!
If someone only told me hard was so much fun, I would've started this back in the Guitar Hero 1-days!
BigBlackGamer
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who's down for some GAF games on saturday. I'll probably stream it on JTV.
thats becuze HMX rulez and neversoft drulez.
TheGreatDave said:
thats becuze HMX rulez and neversoft drulez.
BigBlackGamer
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if your there pedro I will do vocals.
happy b-day mang
BigBlackGamer said:
All good and I would say more or less necessary improvements (though I think sorting works fine now). Allow me to add some more:
- Allow vocals as a combo with every instrument.
- Implement background vocals/multiple singers. Again, as an option, but if we had backing vocals added in as optional (i.e. won't fuck up your score if you skip them sort of like the cymbal sections) it could be a lot of fun and add to the band feel.
- Better setlists in BWT that aren't just a load of random and create your own.
DuckRacer said:
The official explanation I read was that Metallica's contract requires that they get a percentage of the sales. The export was going to be a flat license fee. That's why it didn't move over.
BigBlackGamer
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Better set lists in BWT is a good one. The next RB should dynamically know what DLC you have and arrange set list's accordingly.
If person X has these songs then this setlist is playable. If not they can play the on disc set lists or do mystery set lists.
If person X has these songs then this setlist is playable. If not they can play the on disc set lists or do mystery set lists.
Christoff Yurievich
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that's pretty cool.McBradders said:
BigBlackGamer
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bune duggy said:
change your avatar back to the one you had. this one sucks.
DuckRacer said:
You also ignored Mirror's Edge which was a great idea that had a lot of us really hyped about it for a long time (hell, I read a scant preview in the free sub I had to Computer Gaming World over a year or so ago and got excited), but came out and failed to deliver.
Dead Space, from the demo I've played was good, but it somehow seems to have not made a huge splash.
Valkyria Chronicles is great, but it's going to be yet another game like Psychonauts or Beyond Good and Evil that doesn't sell like it ought to and remains a critically acclaimed cult classic.
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