Topic: Rhythm/Music Genre Catch-All Thread (Read 3518 times)

Lobst · « **on:** September 20, 2009, 12:11:44 AM »

Having recently gained an assload of free time and the ability to play drums again, I've rediscovered my burning passion for hitting buttons/drumpads to colored patterns as they cruise by on screen. Does anyone here share this fascination? Though Activision is doing its best to pump up the rhythm/music bubble until it totally bursts, there's still plenty of amazing stuff going on on the EA/Harmonix side:

1) The Beatles: Rock Band just came out! It's proving to be a glamorous track-pack at a nice discount, with spectacular production values and nice visuals to boot. The game feels a bit easier than typical Rock Band, too, making it excellent if you want to get used to a new difficulty level.

2) Lego Rock Band is coming out this November! It's a collection of songs that lack the gritty, hard-edged profanity typically expected from an awesome rhythm game, all exportable to vanilla Rock Band/RB2. The list of confirmed songs (partway down this page) is actually fairly nice, even if some songs don't seem like they match up with the guitar/bass/drums format (The Final Countdown, for example).

3) The DLC train is still chugging along with maximum ferocity! Recent notable additions are Blind Melon's "No Rain", Jackson 5's "ABC", a Gorillaz 3-pack, every recognizable song from This Is Spinal Tap, and a totally amazing Weezer pack. The total amount of songs in the Rock Band library is expected to reach a freakin' thousand by the end of the year, and that is no number for any self-respecting real-world music-game fan to turn up one's nose at.

So, I reiterate: Anyone interested? What do you think? I want to hear about you.

Envy · « **Reply #1 on:** September 20, 2009, 12:16:19 AM »

I am rather looking torward DJ Hero. I liked beatmania and DJ Max.

yyler · « **Reply #2 on:** September 30, 2009, 08:02:41 PM »

I really love TBRB. I am pretty excited for when they release Abbey Road as DLC (the 20th, if you're wondering). I was never that great at guitar, but in RB2 I started playing expert bass, and from that aced most the songs in TBRB, and now I am doing them on expert guitar. It's hard, but fun.

I can't sing though. I wish I could sing. I can carry a tune, but can't always go high enough to match Paul or George.

Lobst · « **Reply #3 on:** June 11, 2010, 12:14:07 AM »

Rock Band 3!

New peripherals: 25-key keyboard (MIDI-compatible), guitars with every fret/string combo made into a button (or a straight-up guitar with controller bits thrown in), and a drumkit with four pads, three cymbals, and two pedals.

New features: Drop-in/drop out co-op everywhere in the game -- even during songs, without having to interrupt gameplay. Vocal harmonies, Beatles/Green Day-style. Enhanced graphics. Tour mode now plays like a game of Mario Party instead of a massive, sprawling campaign, now scalable to the amount of time your crew has for each session, filled with hundreds of mini-challenges. Every instrument has a "Pro" mode on all Rock Band 3 content, which requires special hardware and complicates gameplay enough to serve as a teaching tool for actual musical instruments. Vanilla Rock Band/2-style gameplay is still in, of course.

Songs: 83 songs on-disc. Compatible with all Rock Band 1 and 2 DLC, though keyboards, Pro mode, and harmonies will only be available on DLC released after Rock Band 3 comes out. Here's the on-disc tracks announced so far:

Quote

2000s
Combat Baby -- Metric
Dead End Friends -- Them Crooked Vultures
Get Free -- The Vines
Lasso -- Phoenix
Me Enamora -- Juanes
Oh My God -- Ida Maria
Portions of Foxes -- Rilo Kiley
The Hardest Button to Button -- The White Stripes

1990s
Been Caught Stealing -- Jane's Addiction
In the Meantime -- Spacehog
Plush -- Stone Temple Pilots
Walkin' on the Sun -- Smash Mouth

1980s
Crazy Train -- Ozzy Osbourne
Here I Go Again -- Whitesnake
I Love Rock and Roll -- Joan Jett
Just Like Heaven -- The Cure
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
The Power of Love -- Huey Lewis and the News
Sister Christian -- Night Ranger

1960s-1970s
Bohemian Rhapsody -- Queen
Break On Through -- The Doors
Crosstown Traffic -- Jimi Hendrix

Oh -- Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock was announced, too. It has a story mode inspired by Brutal Legend, a guitar with a detachable body, and a new Dragonforce song for you to play.

McDohl · « **Reply #4 on:** June 11, 2010, 05:07:48 AM »

The Power of Love?

Please tell me there's some Johnny B. Goode in there too, oh please.

I would totally reenact Back to the Future with this.

Rico · « **Reply #5 on:** June 11, 2010, 11:20:04 AM »

Man, that track list is pretty awful. Someone really needs to remind marketing departments that they can actually control what information goes out to advertise their products.

Lobst · « **Reply #6 on:** June 11, 2010, 12:45:13 PM »

Did some research on Youtube on a few of the songs I haven't heard/don't immediately recognize by name!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/voxgN3Dhjuo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/voxgN3Dhjuo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/oPzERmPlmw8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/oPzERmPlmw8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/39VXuviqD9w&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/39VXuviqD9w&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/afxQ5AuP9_c&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/afxQ5AuP9_c&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/tf6VxRENc1o&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/tf6VxRENc1o&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q5w0ierGzTM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Q5w0ierGzTM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0</a>

You know, I think I'm okay with this.

Bleck · « **Reply #7 on:** June 11, 2010, 04:57:48 PM »

The keyboard-controller excites me purely because of the possibility of Queen: Rock Band.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #8 on:** June 11, 2010, 05:32:23 PM »

Quote from: Lobst on June 11, 2010, 12:45:13 PM

Did some research on Youtube on a few of the songs I haven't heard/don't immediately recognize by name!

Can't speak for the others, but The Cure, Metric and Stone Temple Pilots definitely deserve at least a full album listening.

Lobst · « **Reply #9 on:** June 29, 2010, 01:09:48 AM »

I was playing Rock Band 2 tonight, and I realized all of a sudden that you could probably make a whole new game out of amazing DLC, if you so desire. So, on the off-chance any of you are in the market for some online-only songs off the main marketplace (or Rock Band Network), I took a couple of hours in my crazy furry RP-time to create a completely excessive and unnecessary list of guilty-pleasures and general cheesy-and/or-kickass pop/rock that's already available on the marketplace, nearly all of which I've personally played and find totally energetic and spellbinding. The list is here, if you think you can stomach it:

+~ROCK BAND 2.5: LOBST ROCKER EDITION~+

This ain't just a Rock Band thread, though -- despite what the thread's title initially implied! Giant Bomb covered the crap out of Dance Central during E3; please, enjoy this developer interview/gameplay demo and Just Dance 2 crowd comparison (worth it for some particularly inept moments, particularly in the DC booth). Coverage for Ubi's mystery Michael Jackson game will arrive once any details/videos come out about it, also, so this thread won't be just an underhanded Harmonix fanwank~

Bleck: They released a Queen pack of 10 songs last year, including Another One Bites The Dust, Under Pressure, and Fat Bottomed Girls (among others). Lego Rock Band has We Are The Champions and even a version of We Will Rock You that has stomping/clapping sounds mapped to every instrument but vocals. If/when they announce plans to update DLC, Queen is gonna be so covered.

Lobst · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2010, 05:18:31 AM »

Rock Band 3: The DS demo of Rock Band 3 (it plays like rock band unplugged) at Harmonix's E3 booth contained this song, which will also be on-disc:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/byeSPOIffVE" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/byeSPOIffVE</a>

Also, from the Gamestop product listing page, we discover three new songs as Day One(-ish?) DLC:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/_5VRhmgUNtM" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/_5VRhmgUNtM</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/u8XVlAIm6O0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/u8XVlAIm6O0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/L1IsJEOVfnw" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/L1IsJEOVfnw</a>

Blue Monday makes me think the addition of keyboards is going to bring the eighties into this game in a new and wonderful way. Crossing my fingers for everyone on Wave 103 to make an appearance, one way or another~

Rock Band 2 news: The Xbox Marketplace is having a massive Rock Band sale from July 6 - 12! Every song on this list is $1 for singles and three-packs; everything in a larger pack is less than $1 a song. Here are the ones I recommend:

Boston Pack 1 $5.50
Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape Album $10
Oasis "Wonderwall" Single $1
Pearl Jam's Ten Album $10
Weezer's "Buddy Holly" Single $1
The Best of The Who Rock Band Edition $10

So, yeah! $37.50 for like a billion brilliant songs! Get $50 in points and have enough left over for Snoopy Flying Ace and as much associated clothing for your avatar as its little body can wear at once.

They also just stealth-announced a ~~Clearance~~ Creedence Clearwater Revival pack for $20! Finally, I can drum the actual theme to Live Free or Die Hard and be rewarded for it!

FINALLY, I've been updating the previous post's playlist with plenty more songs! (I forgot Eve 6's Inside Out was on here, which goes well with Don't Stop and All-Star in my fictional Songs-You'd-Hear-At-Pizzeria-Uno battle). CURRENT COUNT: 86 SONGS

Royal☭ · « **Reply #11 on:** July 02, 2010, 05:21:10 AM »

Still unimpressed with RB3's track-listing, but then I remember it has all my songs from the previous 2 games (hopefully) so it's pretty cool. Need a new drumset on account of mine broke.

teg · « **Reply #12 on:** July 10, 2010, 08:57:49 PM »

oh right

I picked up DJ Hero for twenty bucks through shenanigans last week! It's pretty rad, although I wouldn't pay full price for it due to all the little flaws. The crossfader and rewind are really annoyingly hard to work.
I love that the effects dial serves no real purpose.

As soon as I unlock Daft Punk, I'm never switching back. If I get the second one I'll be able to say the same about deadmau5.

Ziiro · « **Reply #13 on:** July 18, 2010, 12:35:42 PM »

My friend brought over his copy of DJ hero. I tried it a bit, and I was completely sold. I checked Amazon, and someone was selling a used - liked new version of the Renegade edition for 360 and the only problem was that the carrying case had a broken latch.

It was $30.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #14 on:** July 18, 2010, 03:05:02 PM »

Aww, I was eyeing that one!

Ziiro · « **Reply #15 on:** July 19, 2010, 05:26:05 PM »

They canceled my order because the disk is blemished, apparently.

JDigital · « **Reply #16 on:** July 19, 2010, 05:32:40 PM »

There is a new Taiko no Tatsujin game out.

Lobst · « **Reply #17 on:** July 19, 2010, 05:37:21 PM »

Quote from: Ziiro on July 19, 2010, 05:26:05 PM

They canceled my order because the disk is blemished, apparently.

They still have the gently-used regular edition on sale on Amazon for $40! That's what I went with, at least; it should be here by Wednesday.

Ziiro · « **Reply #18 on:** July 19, 2010, 05:55:09 PM »

I've got a thing for wanting the Renegade edition. It's just too stylish to pass up.

Kayma · « **Reply #19 on:** July 20, 2010, 04:43:07 AM »

Quote from: JDigital on July 19, 2010, 05:32:40 PM

There is a new Taiko no Tatsujin game out.

That, I'm told, has the Totoro AND Ponyo themes in it!

News:

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