ROCK BAND

[Schimid]

Anyone else have this and three friends?

I do!

We started a band a few nights ago and have been clamoring to play it together ever since...does anyone else have the problem of having one really, really good player amongst a bunch of average ones?

I ask because I'm really good at guitar and I can sing most songs on Hard (if i know them)...but my friend can sing, drum AND play guitar, all on expert, and all much better than everyone else. He'll usually have to sing and drum at the same time if we can't do it. Our lineup is me on guitar, another friend on bass, and this marvelous man on drums/singing/drums and singing. The thing is, we have about eight people altogether in the band, just switching out and whatnot.

It's really easy, but we got over 1,000,000 points on In Bloom :D

My favorite song to sing is Maps :D

We're stuck right now on a few songs, namely Reptilia (can't match the vocals) and Dead On Arrival.

[DuFresne]

I actually didn't know the game gave the option to sing while playing another instrument. Or does it count as two seperate players?

[Schimid]

It's just two separate players; one of us holds up the mic to his mouth while he plays drums. I think the game comes with a mic stand, but the owner doesn't have it?

[Mintrude]

The DLC for this game is soooooooo awesome, I'm buying an Xbox 360 for it.

[darkvare]

im only getting guitar hero 3

[Cedar]

the drums are great

[HickMan]

What's the song lineup on this game?

[Dr. V]

I jumped on the durms at Best Buy today. I kicked the shit out of expert. Guess playing for 7 years helps, but ya know.

[Schimid]

The main setlist consists of the following 45 songs:[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Rock_Band#_note-rb-songlist)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Rock_Band#_note-final-soundtrack)

"Are You Gonna Be My Girl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Gonna_Be_My_Girl)" – Jet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_%28band%29)
"Ballroom Blitz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballroom_Blitz)" – Sweet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_%28band%29)
"Black Hole Sun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_Sun)" – Soundgarden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundgarden)
"Blitzkrieg Bop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg_Bop)" – Ramones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones)
"Celebrity Skin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Skin_%28song%29)" – Hole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_%28band%29)
"Cherub Rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherub_Rock)" – Smashing Pumpkins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smashing_Pumpkins)
"Creep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creep_%28Radiohead_song%29)" – Radiohead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead)
"Dani California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani_California)" – Red Hot Chili Peppers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers)
"Dead on Arrival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_on_Arrival_%28song%29)" – Fall Out Boy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Out_Boy)
"Detroit Rock City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Rock_City_%28song%29)" – Kiss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28band%29)
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28Don%27t_Fear%29_The_Reaper)" – Blue Öyster Cult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult)
"The Electric Version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Version_%28song%29)" – The New Pornographers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Pornographers)
"Enter Sandman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_Sandman)" – Metallica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica)
"Epic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_%28song%29)" – Faith No More (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_No_More)
"Flirtin' with Disaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirtin%27_with_Disaster_%28song%29)" – Molly Hatchet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Hatchet)
"Foreplay/Long Time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreplay/Long_Time)" – Boston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_%28band%29)
"Gimme Shelter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme_Shelter)" – The Rolling Stones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones)
"Go with the Flow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_with_the_Flow)" – Queens of the Stone Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_of_the_Stone_Age)
"Green Grass and High Tides (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Grass_and_High_Tides)" – The Outlaws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaws)
"The Hand That Feeds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hand_That_Feeds)" – Nine Inch Nails (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails)
"Here It Goes Again (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_It_Goes_Again)" – OK Go (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Go)
"Highway Star (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Star)" – Deep Purple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Purple)
"I Think I'm Paranoid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Think_I%27m_Paranoid)" – Garbage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_%28band%29)
"In Bloom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Bloom)" – Nirvana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_%28band%29)
"Learn to Fly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learn_to_Fly)" – Foo Fighters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters)
"Main Offender (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Offender_%28song%29)" – The Hives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hives)
"Maps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps_%28song%29)" – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeah_Yeah_Yeahs)
”Mississippi Queen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Queen)" – Mountain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_%28band%29)
"Next to You (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_to_You)" – The Police (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Police)
"Orange Crush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Crush_%28song%29)" – R.E.M. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.E.M._%28band%29)
"Paranoid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_%28song%29)" – Black Sabbath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath)
"Reptilia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilia_%28song%29)" – The Strokes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strokes)
"Run to the Hills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_to_the_Hills)" – Iron Maiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden)
"Sabotage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage_%28song%29)" – Beastie Boys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys)
"Say It Ain't So (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_It_Ain%27t_So)" – Weezer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer)
"Should I Stay or Should I Go (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Should_I_Stay_or_Should_I_Go)" – The Clash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash)
"Suffragette City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_City)" – David Bowie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie)
"Tom Sawyer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer_%28song%29)" – Rush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_%28band%29)
"Train Kept A-Rollin' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Kept_A-Rollin%27#Aerosmith_version)" – Aerosmith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosmith)
"Vasoline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasoline)" – Stone Temple Pilots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Temple_Pilots)
"Wanted Dead or Alive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_Dead_or_Alive_%28Bon_Jovi_song%29)" – Bon Jovi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Jovi)
"Wave of Mutilation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_of_Mutilation)" – Pixies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixies)
"Welcome Home (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Home_%28Coheed_and_Cambria_song%29)" – Coheed and Cambria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coheed_and_Cambria)
"When You Were Young (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Were_Young)" – The Killers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killers_%28band%29)
"Won't Get Fooled Again (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Won%27t_Get_Fooled_Again)" – The Who (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who)
[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_songs_in_Rock_Band&action=edit&section=2)] Bonus songs

A total of 13 bonus songs are available for unlocking in the game.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Rock_Band#_note-final-soundtrack)[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Rock_Band#_note-bonus)

"29 Fingers" – The Konks
"Blood Doll" – Anarchy Club (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_Club)
"Brainpower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainpower_%28song%29)" – Freezepop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezepop_%28band%29)
"Can't Let Go" – Death of the Cool
"Day Late, Dollar Short" – The Acro-Brats
"I Get By" – Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Bob_and_the_Factory-to-Dealer_Incentives)
"I'm So Sick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_So_Sick)" – Flyleaf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyleaf)
"Nightmare" – Crooked X
"Outside" – Tribe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_%28band%29)
"Pleasure (Pleasure)" – Bang Camaro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Camaro)
"Seven" – Vagiant
"Time We Had" – The Mother Hips (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Hips)
"Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld" – Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_2000)

[Dr. V]

"Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld" – Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_2000)

....

[HickMan]

This is not satisfactory because half of those songs are one Guitar hero 3 >:

[Chojin]

Also, Brainpower by Freezepop sucks :<

[Guitar Woman]

"Dead on Arrival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_on_Arrival_%28song%29)" – Fall Out Boy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Out_Boy)
"The Hand That Feeds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hand_That_Feeds)" – Nine Inch Nails (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails)


:x

[Dr. V]

Why couldn't guitar hero come with drums? This game kinda sucks but I want to play the drums dammit.

[eggyolk]

i must say that's quite a slammin' set list

[Chojin]

guitar hero can fucking lick me

[Dr. V]

don't be jealous of my drumming.

[darkvare]

they need to make drum hero and sell it on its own

[Chojin]

why

[Dr. V]

So I could kick its ass.

[Mockery]

I played Rock Band last night for the first time, and while it's way better than Guitar Hero (a game I can't get into) since you actually get to do Karaoke with it I still wish there was an alternate version of the games for real musicians. Yes, I realize I probably sound like the old dad in that SP episode or something when he tries showing the kids how he can play a real guitar... but damnit, if they made a version of this game with a REAL guitar instead of the stupid 5-button shit, I'd be all over that.

I was in a Japanese arcade a few weeks back and they had a game like this with a full piano keyboard that you had to play and I thought it was great because it's actually teaching people to learn an instrument while they play. So I see no reason why somebody couldn't do a game like this for real guitarists. It'd be such a great way to get people to learn to play real instruments.

I guess it's a lot like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing... learning typing isn't a fun thing, but the Mavis Beacon program made it fun and as a result I eventually became speedy as hell. I can only imagine what a game that makes learning to play a real guitar fun like that would do for a person's skills.

(btw, if such a game does already exist, I'm unaware of it, so please lemme know)

[Dr. V]

I totally agree. There's this arcade game out there that has an eletric drum kit and it just plays mp3's and you play along. It's really fun but it's not really a game, more just a jukebox with drums attached. If they added some kind of target beat keeping or something then I'd be all over it.
For that matter, why the hell hasn't there been an arcade version of GH? Mario kart arcade worked out ok.

[HickMan]

Mavis Beacon's a dirty slut of a keyboard instructor. But I'll be damned if I don't love her for it

[darkvare]

why
for the money also can you get rock band with drums only

[Dr. Boogie]

For that matter, why the hell hasn't there been an arcade version of GH?

There's some kind of guitar arcade game out there. My brother used to play it all the time before GH came out.

[Zomboid]

Yeah there is. I can't remember the name but I've seen it too.

[MLE]

Guitar Freaks. It's in the same genre as KeyboardMania, which is the game rog was talking about.

Other games in the series:

DrumMania
BeatMania
BeatMania IIDX
Pop'n Music
Dance Dance Revolution

If anyone else remembers others, please add to the list.

[Dr. V]

Yeah but those songs suck.

[Darktrooper11]

I got Rock Band for Christmas and its quite fun if I say so myself. I've been playing it with my Mom and Stepdad. I finished the Guitar Solo Tour on medium. Alot of cool songs, but also alot of stinkers(Fall out boy the biggest stinker>:). I just bought the Black Sabbath Pack and the Metallica pack off of X-box live. Pretty good time.

[Chojin]

Is the Metallica pack the entire '...And Justice For All' album? I was hearing something about that and I used to rock out to that album back in the day :<

[Sacks]

They're going to sell a copy of the game with just the drums for like 80 bucks sometime soon. Keep your pants on.

[Darktrooper11]

Is the Metallica pack the entire '...And Justice For All' album? I was hearing something about that and I used to rock out to that album back in the day :<

Sadly no. Its just 3 songs (Justice, Blackened, Ride the lightning). But at least its a pack of good songs as opposed to stuff made after 1990...

[Dr. Boogie]

Conan O'Brien's take on Rock Band:

CONAN O'BRIEN (http://kotaku.com/340226/conan-griefs-rock-band-playing-staffers-does-wicked-edith-bunker)

[Mockery]

Conan is the only one who gets it. :(

[Guitar Woman]

Oh man, I forgot all about how I got a chance to play this.

I wanted to sing because I've got a good voice as far as normal guys go, but Teddy couldn't figure out how to set the mic up and I was resigned to playing drums.

He also hadn't unlocked any songs so we got to choose between Nirvana and a bunch of crap

I really wanted to play Joker and the Thief ;<

[MattJack]

I'm sorry but I fucking <3 Conan all over the place.

I think these games are dumb. I can't wait for them to come out with a Mechanic Hero or even a Heavy Machinery Operator, Hero.

[Schimid]

He also hadn't unlocked any songs so we got to choose between Nirvana and a bunch of crap

If you're ever over there again, Red Yellow Blue Red Red Blue Blue Red Yellow Blue on any controller at the start screen.

And how can't you set up the mic? You hook it into the USB port and presto!

[Guitar Woman]

He couldn't figure it out and I have no idea how to work an xbox so I didn't bother :<

[Guitar Woman]

mabye it wouldn't register or something, I don't know

but anyway after about 30 seconds of playing I got bored because I also had only one drumstick and quit

[Sacks]

Your friend isn't very good at video games.

[executioneer]

bump! i got this game! i'm all right at the vocals and i'm starting to get the hang of guitar!

i wish they had actually put a bass solo tour in this game! not having one is like a big "fuck you" to bass plays!

[bigtimecow]

you can do one by yourself if you want willie, just start a career with one guitar and for each song choose bass i think

[Fathom Zero]

I'm the only person in my street-krew that can imitate Mike Patton well enough to do Epic on whatever the hardest setting is. Granted, fuck-ups are frequent, but I'm still THA BEST.

I hate this game. I hate Guitar Hero. I hate music games.

[Guitar Woman]

Even Elite Beat Agents?

[Fathom Zero]

Any music game on a handheld deserves its own special cricle of Hell, where EBA, Guitar Hero: On Tour, and several others are smashed between the heads of fat people for eternity.

[executioneer]

you can do one by yourself if you want willie, just start a career with one guitar and for each song choose bass i think

NO YOU CAN'T ;_;

[LordSappington]

Also, Brainpower by Freezepop sucks :<

I lost a good 20% of my respect for you.
Also, Still Alive from Portal is downloadable for free on every console. Best song ever.
And me and my friend play it online at his house a lot; his PS3 name is old_mayo

[Tadao]

I hope Southpark does an episode about this, Guitar Hero one was one of their funniest, that and when Cartman starts a christian band.

[bigtimecow]

we bought rockband for the wii a couple weeks ago and have played it.... twice :{

[MarioRPG]

Apparently it sucks on Wii. Any explanation there?

[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 :x

[MarioRPG]

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 :rolleyes

[executioneer]

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

[Nick]

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.