ROCK BAND

[bigtimecow]

i made a post somewhere before about the drums being more responsive, but that was apparently fueled by my wii boner for this game, because the drums are actually worse. it's much harder to register a hit, especially in song's like rush, where there are very fast 16th note hi-hats. you have to hit each one really hard and it gets extremely tiring/impossible.

you know what does look nice though? rock band 2's cymbal attachments. but you know what doesn't? rock band 2's guitar, because it's still going to be the lame ass shit they have now.

i had the sampler pack on reserve and it came in but i didn't have the money so i didn't buy it

[MarioRPG]

Originally Posted by bigtimecow

you know what does look nice though? rock band 2's cymbal attachments.

They do look nice, but I have a hard enough time on drums as is.

[Nick]

Rockband was still better than Guitar Hero 3. Looked better as well.

[LordSappington]

I liked the songs on gh better in general, but I liked the customized characters. Except the guys look dumb, so I invariably make female characters, much to everyone's amusement. The guitar always has trouble deploying starpower when I tilt it, though. My x-plorer gh3 controller activates instantly, but a lot of times I have to shake the guitar a lot, or it'll decide to random;y deploy when the guitar is barely tilted up. It ruins streaks easily.

[bigtimecow]

the wii and ps2 version has pre-rendered video playing in the bank, so you don't customize characters. but at the same time, who gives a shit? you should be watching the notes anyway

[executioneer]

you say that now but you haven't seen my lead singer M. C. Donalds

[Nick]

Originally Posted by LordSappington

I liked the songs on gh better in general, but I liked the customized characters. Except the guys look dumb, so I invariably make female characters, much to everyone's amusement. The guitar always has trouble deploying starpower when I tilt it, though. My x-plorer gh3 controller activates instantly, but a lot of times I have to shake the guitar a lot, or it'll decide to random;y deploy when the guitar is barely tilted up. It ruins streaks easily.

Rockband has half or GH3's list of songs so that did really factor in with me. As for the guitar, I just always used my GH2 one.




PS: Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop > Dead Kennedys knock offs.

[LordSappington]

They were missing the songs I liked best. My Curse, Stricken, Welcome to the Jungle, I Am Murloc, We Three Kings, I could keep going.
Also, can anyone else here play guitar and sing at once?

[Nick]

You mean play while humming, right.

[LordSappington]

Hell to the no. If you don't know the words to Still Alive then you haven't been paying much attention on the internet.

[Fathom Zero]

Everything about Portal irritates me now. I used to like Still Alive and all the other sorts of things about Portal, but now I'm bitter.

[LordSappington]

Admittedly, 4chan and all them did kill a lot of the fun of Portal. But I think since I played it before the hype got around so much, it's still really great to me.
Plus Still Alive is the catchiest and funniest video game song ever.

[bigtimecow]

so we got the sampler pack, and some of the songs aren't that great (I'M LOOKING AT YOUR GRATEFUL DEAD ) but they are generally much higher in difficulty than most on rock band

nothing will beat tom sawyer though

[LordSappington]

Agreed. It's fun to see mic players online leave the room when you put that on, too.

[bigtimecow]

sorry, i play the wii

no online ;(

[LordSappington]

I thought the wii had online capabilities??

[Guitar Woman]

yeah, but not for Rock Band.

Most Wii online games have horrendously bare-bones setups, and I really wish developers would make a game with decent online support. Conduit looks like it might fit the bill, but I also am predicting it'll be a giant turd.

[LordSappington]

Man, that sucks. Glad I have a 360.

[Kitsa]

We got 2 and I plays the drums. The pedal hurts my foot.