BigBlackGamer said:
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.
Well, would it be so hard to add a "hometown" tag to the DLC so I can have more dynamic content? How about instead of just making the genre setlists the on-disc stuff making them a random selection of four or five songs from that genre? Even in the challenges it's just one for on-disc and an "infinite" one of everything else that you own. Maybe try to make it work well in a manner somewhat like a human would do: five metal songs, one with a 1-3 difficulty, three with a 2-4 difficulty, and one with a 4-5 difficulty. Picking that out should be trivial. Give it a wider range if you're finding it causes problems or it won't work for on-disc songs only. Or establish maximums and minimums. If you only have two songs it won't be enough to trigger the four song minimum, but if you have twenty it'll max out at six. Grade the difficulty along with this like a Family Combo at a Chinese place ("for three or more add Kung Pao Chicken, for four or more add extra 3-4 star song).
Or combine some of these to not only do something cool, but make it feel more real and interesting. Sort of like how there was a grunge setlist in Seattle or an Austin indie rock setlist. Give me a West Coast Punk setlist that is smart enough to add in a Dead Kennedys song when I buy the DLC. Give me something more specific and maybe a classic 80s thrash setlist (we've got "Battery" and "Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?" already. If it had "Raining Blood" and "Madhouse" we'd have all the big four). Something that shows you put some thought into it. The current listing just feels half-assed and rushed. Playing the bigger arenas is almost always a chore with nothing really new or interesting going on in the vast majority of them. Just a bigger random setlist and a bigger create a setlist.
How about one-offs? Maybe make RAWK-AID a real thing. A cool little intro or such, a lengthy setlist, a custom venue, something interesting and unexpected that happens in the middle of the set. Make it into a set-piece rather than just yet another create a setlist with a different name that means nothing.
Maybe make encores more interesting. Rather than the pick it in advance concept (likely due to how the engine works... they probably can't add a song to a setlist once it's in progress) go back to the old style. I play through a list, I'm tired and worn out, but dammit the crowd wants more. If I don't play the encore I lost fans, but if I pull it off it'll give me even more. I also really miss those cool encore animations. Why did those go away?
Oh and a final nitpicky thing. I hate how the loading screens so often are just tips rather than the fun trivia ones. Give me the option to turn off the tip mode. I don't need to keep being told I can turn on "No Fail mode". I knew I could do that before I even bought the game. I'd rather learn interesting trivia and get the fun jokes that were in the first few games.
M3wThr33 said:
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.
The cymbals, in all fairness (though a good idea) were part of the one-upmanship. They wanted to be able to say that
our drums have
six inputs compared to their five plus look we have cymbals!
I still hold out hope that they decide to include optional indicated cymbals for RB3. If they announced that I'd probably buy the cymbals. Until then... ehh, I can't see why I would.