Topic: Rock Band (Read 88578 times)

Ozymandias · « **Reply #150 on:** 29 Dec 2008, 22:24 »

This Week's DLC:

Deep Purple - Space Truckin'
James Gang - Funk #49
Jethro Tull - Hymn 43
Snow Patrol - Take Back the City

Basically, a small, random assortment of classic singles. And Snow Patrol.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #151 on:** 29 Dec 2008, 23:23 »

I am on fucking fire with the drums. There is hardly any songs I can't beat anymore, and I'm 5*ing sightreads all over the goddamn place. I got battery to 80% on my 2nd try, Panic Attack I got to 85% on my first try, I haven't tried Painkiller seriously yet.

Trynant · « **Reply #152 on:** 30 Dec 2008, 23:21 »

Quote from: 20 jazz funk greats on 30 Nov 2008, 20:26

Quote from: Trynant on 17 Nov 2008, 17:48
Just want to bump this to mention that Mission of Burma is in the DLC for tomorrow.

whut.

whut du yu mean whut?

Trollstormur · « **Reply #153 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 18:23 »

Man I feel bad for anyone who bought and downloaded Eminence Front by The Who. It was recorded after Kieth Moon died and they replaced him with the most boring drummer ever.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #154 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 20:11 »

OHHHH SHIIIIIIT

This weeks DLC:

Roy Orbison Pack 01

Claudette
In Dreams
Mean Woman Blues
Oh, Pretty Woman
Ooby Dooby
You Got It

bluesheep · « **Reply #155 on:** 06 Jan 2009, 23:40 »

guuuys
gUUUUUuuuuys!
LOOK WHAT I DID I'M SO FREAKIN CREATIVE!

http://www.rockband.com/wallpaper/2969481/1
I made a Hanners for drums, Admir for the other gutar, and I have Fay doing Vocals
once Rockband.com lets me take pics of the entire band, you will be seeing them, haha

Trollstormur · « **Reply #156 on:** 07 Jan 2009, 14:01 »

Trying to 5* Behind Blue Eyes is really fucking hard, you have to cram in 600-some odd notes into 1 minute 15 seconds at the very end

Trollstormur · « **Reply #157 on:** 07 Jan 2009, 16:33 »

i just beat visions guitar on expert /flex

Ozymandias · « **Reply #158 on:** 07 Jan 2009, 19:01 »

Oh man, Behind Blue Eyes on drums is hilarious. I remember the first time we played it, the drummer was groaning so much about how he wasn't playing. Then the drum part started up and as the rest of the band desperately kept star power going to not fail, I was laughing hysterically.

Cicero · « **Reply #159 on:** 07 Jan 2009, 19:08 »

What ever happened to people picking up real instruments?

TMac91 · « **Reply #160 on:** 07 Jan 2009, 19:40 »

Rock Band's more fun.

I still haven't gotten RB2 yet, would I be able to use my older stuff from Rock Band 1?

Trynant · « **Reply #161 on:** 07 Jan 2009, 20:16 »

Quote from: TMac91 on 07 Jan 2009, 19:40

Rock Band's more fun.

I still haven't gotten RB2 yet, would I be able to use my older stuff from Rock Band 1?

Yup. With the exception of Run to the Hills, Enter the Sandman and Ballroom Blitz I believe every song from Rock Band 1 can be imported for RB2 as well as all the DLC being compatible with either game. And all the instruments are cross-compatible.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #162 on:** 07 Jan 2009, 20:36 »

Quote from: Cicero on 07 Jan 2009, 19:08

What ever happened to people picking up real instruments?

I have a guitar and my fake band's drummer picked up real drums last year.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #163 on:** 08 Jan 2009, 01:26 »

Quote from: Cicero on 07 Jan 2009, 19:08

What ever happened to people picking up real instruments?

I guess for the price of Rock Band (with all the attachments) you get could a beginner guitar set.

But that only caters for one person, and you actually have to be patient enough to genuinely play.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #164 on:** 08 Jan 2009, 21:37 »

I've been wondering this, has anyone here ordered a figure of their favorite character?

Ozymandias · « **Reply #165 on:** 08 Jan 2009, 21:41 »

Lord, I hope not.

This is the current makeup of my band, The Boston Molasses Tragedy.

From left to right: Elysia on bass(my roommate's), Madeline on vocals(my gf's), Doc on guitar(mine), and Hephaestus on drums(my other roommate's).

...yeah, this game is a little pathetic isn't it?

SirJuggles · « **Reply #166 on:** 08 Jan 2009, 23:42 »

Actually, that Doc character might just be one of the most rockin things I have ever seen.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #167 on:** 09 Jan 2009, 20:33 »

i can 96% 5* Won't Get Fooled Again, I just 5*'d DOA after not playing it for months...

hell, I can even beat Battery Drums Expert, but i cannot for the life of me get past the first part of Foreplay/Longtime...

it is my bane and shame.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #168 on:** 11 Jan 2009, 22:32 »

Quote from: Trynant on 30 Dec 2008, 23:21

whut du yu mean whut?

I was not expecting Mission of (fucking) Burma to show up in Rock Band. I was under the impression they were not well known among people who weren't utter geeks who had read Our Band Could Be Your Life fifteen times.

P.S; COME ON

COME ON

COME ON

LET'S GO SPACE TRUCKIN

dennis · « **Reply #169 on:** 12 Jan 2009, 01:58 »

Quote from: Trollstormur on 09 Jan 2009, 20:33

i can 96% 5* Won't Get Fooled Again, I just 5*'d DOA after not playing it for months...

hell, I can even beat Battery Drums Expert, but i cannot for the life of me get past the first part of Foreplay/Longtime...

it is my bane and shame.

I had the same problem with the last third of "(Don't Fear) the Reaper", though I finally beat it. I got all the single-player achievements for RB1 now. Yay!

dennis · « **Reply #170 on:** 12 Jan 2009, 02:00 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 11 Jan 2009, 22:32

Quote from: Trynant on 30 Dec 2008, 23:21
whut du yu mean whut?

I was not expecting Mission of (fucking) Burma to show up in Rock Band. I was under the impression they were not well known among people who weren't utter geeks who had read Our Band Could Be Your Life fifteen times.

P.S; COME ON

COME ON

COME ON

LET'S GO SPACE TRUCKIN

Harmonix is pretty much entirely staffed by music geeks, so I'm not at all surprised.

Caspian · « **Reply #171 on:** 12 Jan 2009, 03:42 »

Loving the hell out of rock band; playing drums is freakin' awesome. Who thinks that we'll see a lot of people taking up drumming as a result of this game? Looking forward to Rock Band 2, if it ever comes out over here (unlikely).

A shame the songs available aren't that good, though. Also: when the hell are dragonforce going to release a song for this game.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #172 on:** 12 Jan 2009, 17:54 »

Quote from: dennis on 12 Jan 2009, 01:58

I had the same problem with the last third of "(Don't Fear) the Reaper", though I finally beat it. I got all the single-player achievements for RB1 now. Yay!

Not to one-up you, but you just reminded me I've never actually beaten that song. Loaded it up and 96.5% on my first try

The main reason I'd never beaten it is because it's just so many goddamn notes and it's soooo boring. I didn't feel like playing through the first 3/4ths just to (possibly) fail when the snare rolls started.

but playing a The Who a billion times've taught me all i need to know about 8th notes on the snare while performing quarter notes on a bass drum.

Caspian · « **Reply #173 on:** 12 Jan 2009, 20:51 »

Quote from: Trollstormur on 12 Jan 2009, 17:54

Quote from: dennis on 12 Jan 2009, 01:58
I had the same problem with the last third of "(Don't Fear) the Reaper", though I finally beat it. I got all the single-player achievements for RB1 now. Yay!

Not to one-up you, but you just reminded me I've never actually beaten that song. Loaded it up and 96.5% on my first try

The main reason I'd never beaten it is because it's just so many goddamn notes and it's soooo boring. I didn't feel like playing through the first 3/4ths just to (possibly) fail when the snare rolls started.

what? BoC are a sweet band

AngelofShadows · « **Reply #174 on:** 12 Jan 2009, 21:04 »

Playing RB made me realize two things.

1, I'm a decent singer, and probably one of a few who will willingly sing online (also, I was in the top 100 for vocals in NIB)

2. I've been a drummer since I was in 6th grade, which was over a decade ago. I suck at sight reading, and had gotten so used to just making shit up in place of the actual parts that getting around it is rather hard. I keep putting in Bass notes where there are none, and I don't hit notes cause they don't feel right.

Also, I love singing Panic Attack, but can't find anyone to play it with me. No one wants to risk the drum parts on expert.

Stephen Colbert has his own track in the game. It's short easy, but fun.

I want more metal. Metal without screaming.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #175 on:** 12 Jan 2009, 21:32 »

no, it's that playing that BOC song is pretty boring, it's 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 bass/hi-hat - bass/hi-hat - snare/hi-hat - bass/hi-hat for the entirety of the first part of that song.

I can beat panic attack just fine if I haven't been playing too long. It's hard to do with sore thigh/calf.

Caspian · « **Reply #176 on:** 13 Jan 2009, 02:39 »

Quote from: AngelofShadows on 12 Jan 2009, 21:04

2. I've been a drummer since I was in 6th grade, which was over a decade ago. I suck at sight reading, and had gotten so used to just making shit up in place of the actual parts that getting around it is rather hard.

Yeah, playing in easy/medium is hard for this reason. I keep on wanting to hit the kick and the crash at the same time. very frustrating.

AngelofShadows · « **Reply #177 on:** 13 Jan 2009, 11:29 »

playing easy/medium is boring. It also throws me off cause I feel the need to hit notes that I hear. Mainly the high hat and snare.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #178 on:** 13 Jan 2009, 22:57 »

my first video!

http://www.dailymotion.com/trollstormur/video/13477389

it'll be up soon, check back if it isn't.

dennis · « **Reply #179 on:** 13 Jan 2009, 23:11 »

Quote from: Caspian on 12 Jan 2009, 20:51

Quote from: Trollstormur on 12 Jan 2009, 17:54
Quote from: dennis on 12 Jan 2009, 01:58
I had the same problem with the last third of "(Don't Fear) the Reaper", though I finally beat it. I got all the single-player achievements for RB1 now. Yay!

Not to one-up you, but you just reminded me I've never actually beaten that song. Loaded it up and 96.5% on my first try

The main reason I'd never beaten it is because it's just so many goddamn notes and it's soooo boring. I didn't feel like playing through the first 3/4ths just to (possibly) fail when the snare rolls started.

what? BoC are a sweet band

We're talking about the note chart for drums, not the quality of the band or the song.

There's only so much OOO-OOO-OOO-OOO you can take before you have to go all RO-R-RO-R-RO-R-RO-R... and then do that tiresome beat after the guitar solo for 2 minutes.

I have the same issue when getting through those sonic youth songs. 3 minutes of foreplay before you get to the hard part.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #180 on:** 13 Jan 2009, 23:23 »

I dunno, i 86%'d that one on the sightread and never looked back....

edit: I fucking hate those sections that are red-red-red-red-red-red-red-red-red-red-red-red-red-red-yellow-red-red- with bass notes thrown in randomly.

I'll get them some day, but now i'm fucking terrible at them.

also: kool thing is a pretty fun song, I only managed to get it 92% on sightread. reminds me of keith moon, only a little bit too orderly. the fills are similar, though.

dennis · « **Reply #181 on:** 16 Jan 2009, 10:37 »

There's just something about 3 quarter (8th, 16th) notes in a row that my leg just refuses to perform well. It's odd because I can do triplets all day.

AngelofShadows · « **Reply #182 on:** 17 Jan 2009, 16:09 »

know what cheat/feature they should just put in. A free style drum mode. During the game. just a fill section for an entire song.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #183 on:** 17 Jan 2009, 18:01 »

i have this article about rock band 2 in an old issue of egm that claims it was a feature that was going to be introduced. i was sad when i found out, no it isn't in the game.

AngelofShadows · « **Reply #184 on:** 18 Jan 2009, 18:22 »

I don't think it would take much work to make a patch to fix that. Hell, I'd pay for it.

Not much, but I'd still do it.

Also, I'll be playing around 10:pm EST if anyone wants to join. GT is Ang3l0fshad0ws

Surgoshan · « **Reply #185 on:** 19 Jan 2009, 07:35 »

I know this is actually about Guitar Hero, but I think it applies.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #186 on:** 19 Jan 2009, 08:05 »

Kotick, of Activision makes the cover of Forbes.

So far there are already 14 comments castigating the author for the following mistakes:

1) Calling Rock Band a rip-off of Guitar Hero.
2) Not realizing that Kotick and Activision are just sequel junkies who couldn't innovate their way out of a sack.
3) Not realizing that Kotic/Activision/Neversoft didn't actually make Guitar Hero, but instead bought it off of Harmonix.

There will probably be more.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #187 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 22:56 »

i just beat the fuck outta Visions expert drums on my first (serious) try. 3 stars

Trollstormur · « **Reply #188 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 22:12 »

oh yea

also: now I know why they don't have any led zeppelin tracks in RB. I just got finished failing out 89% of the way through Dazed and Confused, a 25:25 minute song that includes a 5 minute violin bow and slapping guitar solo. I was up to 1.4 million points just before I failed out.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #189 on:** 01 Feb 2009, 12:11 »

(Also, just because Jimmy Page is an asshole)

Next Week's DLC!

Thin Lizzy Pack 01:

The Boys Are Back in Town (Live)
Cowboy Song (Live)
Jailbreak (Live)

The Pretenders - Precious
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Nikko - Break My Heart
Nikko - Don't Tell Me

More weird-ass Nickelodeon music BUT Thin Lizzy, so it's okay.

AngelofShadows · « **Reply #190 on:** 02 Feb 2009, 08:50 »

I hundred percented Everlong on expert vocals the other night.

Gold starred Panic Attack too.

I'm rather pumped by that.

maxusy3k · « **Reply #191 on:** 19 Feb 2009, 13:48 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 08 Jan 2009, 21:37

I've been wondering this, has anyone here ordered a figure of their favorite character?

HMX store only ships to the US, which prevented me from ordering one a couple days ago. Disaster.

I started playing drums recently, started out on Medium, now trying expert... with little success, even some of the first tier songs kick my ass, but I'm not doing too bad. Hopefully I'm not too far from being able to play Expert pretty competently with a little practice. I just reached a point (somewhere around playing through Green Grass & High Tides) where everything else just wasn't fast enough any more. Expert seems to be addressing that just fine!

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #192 on:** 19 Feb 2009, 19:30 »

My kick pedal finally broke, and it wasn't even me that broke it. sigh.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #193 on:** 19 Feb 2009, 21:27 »

I actually got a RB2 kit for x-mas, and I have to say, it is very fancy. The red and green drums develop a bubble on them though that I don't care for. it doesn't change how the kit works though.

I've 5*'d every Who song there is, and I've 5*'d ever Rush song except for YYZ and La Villa Strangiato (a custom song made by some guy) because LVS is designed for an electronic kit rather than a RB kit so the yellow notes are used for the very fast hi-hat hits. (it's seriously like red yellow yellow yellow blue yellow red yellow yellow yellow blue yellow red yellow yellow yellow and it is so hard.

I've been considering getting another pedal so I can play Through The Fire and The Flames.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #194 on:** 21 Feb 2009, 00:05 »

I need to stop playing this game. (But I can't)

Trollstormur · « **Reply #195 on:** 22 Feb 2009, 22:37 »

GG harmonix... GG.

(cleek for beeg)

Ozymandias · « **Reply #196 on:** 22 Feb 2009, 22:39 »

Ah. I've been wondering how mine was going to eventually break.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #197 on:** 23 Feb 2009, 11:08 »

Seriously. I wonder how it would be possible to reinforce that area without damaging it structurally.

you'd probably have to replace the entire foot pad.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #198 on:** 23 Feb 2009, 20:34 »

GAH! I finally snagged Rock Band 1 (no instruments) from CC during a last day liquidation and got it home only to find out that my GH3 guitar is currently loaned out and that the Headset blows ass for vocals. Should be getting the RB2 set as soon as the IRS stops dicking around with my return.

AngelofShadows · « **Reply #199 on:** 24 Feb 2009, 13:51 »

Quote from: Trollstormur on 22 Feb 2009, 22:37

GG harmonix... GG.

(cleek for beeg)

o_0....how?

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bluesheep

Cicero

TMac91

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