Rock Band: The Next Great Franchise - Page 51

Alot of people are whining about them already, but I'm actually pleased with them. Especially at $0.99 each. Not the best week, but really not that bad, IMO, for my tastes.

I know, but most of them were whining about not knowing what they were then they became a bunch of babies when it wasn't eaxtly what they wanted. I'm buying all 3 for xbox(big SOAD/serj fan).

Well, this kinda sucks. For a good month the Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Police songs were slated to be released this week and I was really looking forward to 2 out of those 3. Now instead we get 3 relative unknowns.

I find it funny that none of these 3 were on the list of what was found when the file was hacked. Makes me think that they deliberately came up with 3 more just to mess with the community for leaking their info.

I'll definitely be getting Serj's track. The drums and guitar are interesting, and his vocal style is unlike most other singers. Should be fun.


I need to check out the other tunes before I decide on them.

I like the Paramore one as I think I've heard that before and I will buy that. Hell, we need more female singer songs.
That Black Tide is really my type of music, although I doubt I'll buy that one. The Serj one, I'll definitely pass.

I'm just a little upset because over the past 6 weeks there have only been 2 DLC's that I cared to download. I'm starting to think that my tastes in music aren't being represented well on the request site. I rarely play the game anymore because I've gotten bored of not having anything new that I liked.
When I read there were 2 more that I really wanted coming out this week (Shooting Star and Simple Man) I got excited, but for some reason they cancelled those plans to release 3 that weren't even on their list.

SOAD...SOAD... pleaseeeeee

I'm surprised more people haven't heard of Paramore. I really like them. I really only know two of their songs, but I like them. I haven't heard any songs by Serj, and I honestly didn't know he split from SOAD, but I do like some SOAD songs, and I listened to the Beetoven track and it's pretty good.

It's cool that these songs are really new, and cheap. I don't see how you can pass em up at $0.99! Less than three bucks for all of them. Not bad

With all the drama surrounding the announcement of the DLC this week, it seems pretty clear to me that whatever original plans they had fell through and we got these songs that they've probably been saving as a backup plan for weeks like this. People keep saying they waited because these songs suck, or whatever, but I doubt that's the case. I'm guessing these weren't the original choices for this week.

Even though I'm pretty happy with these songs, I definitely was hoping in the back of my mind that the Skynard/Police/Bad Company pack was coming this week. That was my favorite pack from the March DLC list, which evidently was COMPLETELY wrong, lol.

yeah sort of disappointed in this weeks release but hey oh well.

I liked the Paramore song included in NHL 08 soundtrack misery business but this one seems a bit High School.

I like SOAD but this new serj song is just sort of ok.

The shockwave song seems kinda ho hum nothing to inspiring.

Still waiting on my simple man pack maybe next week.

it takes 3 monthes to create a song for rock band. Even if they approved teh songs you requested 6 weeks ago it's be another two monthes till it gets released. When the March DLC schedule came out HMX said straight up all of those dates and titles were subject to change. We got the NIN pack early all of a sudden we got a grateful dead pack last week. They haven't kept to that schedule why hold them to it?

This weeks DLC is a good release. Beethovens **** also has established that HMX doesn't have to worry about songs with swearing in the title or in the song. Plus these are only a dollar.

So at 200 tracks for the year, or about 4 tracks a week, that means it takes 1 year's worth of work per week of songs. Anything seem wrong with that to you? I'm thinking the 3 months thing is an early guess or they've got a ton of people working on a given track and they're talking about 3 months worth of man-hours (which still seems way off given their release schedule). Another possibility is that they're including licensing pains, which will obviously vary for every single song. These may have been really easy for them to license, given the relatively small stature of the three involved artists.

So I started playing this game this weekend. Ridiculously Fun!

Mostly guitar and a bit of drums. How are you "single" players playing this? I started a solo guitar tour and have been playing each song one time on medium and moving on. I was gonna try each song on medium then try hard. What is the accepted level for 5 starring songs - Hard or Expert?

Thanks in advance!

I just play through each tier of songs. When I get stuck, I will go back and try to improve my score on earlier songs. If I get really stuck I will play a different difficulty for awhile (i.e., if I'm stuck on Tier 8 on hard, I'll go play the first few tiers of expert).

You can 5 star a song on any difficulty. The scores needed are set in the game. Check out rockband.scorehero.com to get an idea of where the cut-offs are. You have to go through the rankings there. I can't find the detailed song stats section that Scorehero.com has for the GH games, but maybe I'm overlooking it and somebody else can point it out.

yeah, HMX said on average it takes 3 monthes from deciding on a song to sending it off to MS and Sony for approval. Obviously they do multiple songs at once but they have a lot of required lead time for these songs.

Do you mean at what level do people consider 5 stars legit? Everyone on here plays at different levels and I believe, respects any other level that other people play on. If you can only five star medium then it is what it is and just have fun doing it.

I was getting at where 5 star is "legit" - I was 4-5 starring medium on the first time - but how much harder is hard than medium? Is expert ridiculous/frustrating?

I finally "stood up" last night (I had been sitting down on the couch) and started "rokkin"! and had way more fun. It was a blast just on medium....

I guess I was just curious where everyone "settles in" at?

Medium to Hard is a tougher transition than Hard to Expert I think. Hard introduces the last fret and makes you shift positions of your hand. Some people have a tough time with that. Like anything practice and you will get it.

I play on Hard most of the time on guitar and Hard on drums. I came from playing GH so the guitar part was easy for me in RB. I started on medium drums and play most hard now. It was tough but I got it. I can play expert drums on the lower tier songs.

Go into practice and play some songs on hard. It's nice cause you can slow it down and you don't have to worry about failing out of the song. Just keep rocking and you'll get it.

Funny...I can't play the guitar unless I'm standing up . I also came from GH..but only beat the game on easy and was starting to work on medium before I lost interest due to other games. I got rock band over a couple of weeks ago and just this weekend beat the game on medium drums (although, the last tier I was only getting 4 and 3 stars . I usually play the guitar on medium, and every now and again will play on hard...that other button does take some getting used to.

All in all, this game is a blast...especially if you can hook up with a couple of buddies online (wish they had between set chat though).

I'm working my way through Med. i think im going to have a lot of trouble with hard on the drums and guitar.


I really wish they had this too. then you could talk about which song you would like to play next.

Pursuit, have you hit "green grass" by the outlaws yet? Matzira blew right past it (that boy has skill) but it took me 10 + tries to get past it . In the end, I think it worked out well because it prepared me for the rest of the sets...but from my perspective, that song is hands down the hardest!!!

Yeah the transition from medium to hard guitar was insanely hard for me. It took me forever to get the "slide" down where you move your hand around. I swore I would never get it. Now I can 5 star most songs on expert and can pass every song first try except the last tier - and I have still yet to EVER beat green grass or flirtin with disaster on expert. Although I'm very very close on flirtin and pretty close on green grass too.

It definitely becomes easier with practice The hardest part left for me is nailing all of the super fast hammerons and pulloffs. I can't seem to get them down for any more than a 5 note streak of them. I just strum alot and try to nail half or so of them just to get by

Pj,
That's good to hear that someone else has made the transition and it can be done. I do fairly good on medium guitar, although I do have some problems with the "double" buttons coming down if they are not right next to each other. I was playing with bmlocal the other night and he was playing the guitar on expert. First note he had to hit was three buttons at the same time ...I nearly passed out at the mear sight of that. I suppose your right..with practice, anything can be done.

Yeah you can definitely get it with practice. Honestly, when you play enough you realize that all of the songs are the same chords repeated over and over. Once you get used to how to play the chord, then learn how to transition from chord 1 to chord 2, and 3 to 4, and 4 to 1, etc, etc, etc, it all becomes much easier. There are a limited number of chords and chord transitions, so eventually you just "memorize" how to do them. More like muscle memory than actual memory, but you know what I mean.

For anyone having a very hard time going from medium to hard, the best advice I got that made all the difference in the world for me was to let your hand "rest" with index finger on RED instead of on green. Then, when you need green, slide up, hit it, then slide back down to red. Basically, make your natural position be index finger on red. This worked great because it is easier to move around your index finger than your pinky. It took a little getting used to, because without the orange notes, I would always have my finger on green and got very used to that. Now I actually suck in that position (if I go back to medium, or have long strings in that range on hard/expert) and rock in the lower position.

Good Advice PJ.

The hardest part from Medium drums to Hard was learning the off beat and double kick pedals. I went into practice and would slow songs down so I could hear and see how those beats played. Then I realized that a lot of the songs use the same type of beats. After that I picked up hard drums pretty quick. Still have problems with some of the tougher songs that through some different looks in there but I'll get them one day.

Double kick I picked up on (well, at least in the first couple of songs...as Iron Maiden would say, "I'm sure I have another thing coming" as I progress), but the off beat just kills me (quickly go to my "Steve Martin not being able to tap out a rhythm in the jerk" mode).

Thanks for the advice guys.

There are two kinds of double kicks. The open and the closed. The opens are 100Xs easier for me than the closed (where there's a note on the second kick beat instead of the first).

I'm laughing out loud at that Steve Martin comment.

Hi guys - Rock Band noob here. Uh, what does it mean when someone says, they "beat" the game. (for instance, "I beat the game on Medium.")

Does the game actually end? Does a screen pop up saying, YOU WIN! Help me out here, I'm not following. THanks in advance!

Yeah. In the solo tours, once you complete all the songs, your game character goes through an ending victory animation and they roll the eternal credits.

Kekborg and Pursuit...

I didn't know if you knew when you check the leaderboards you can also check very easily all your friends and where they are ranked.

The drums just hit the bass pedal to sort and you you find your friends on there in one list with ranks, not sure how to do the guitar but probably one of the colored buttons will sort to a friends list.

Kekborg last night your meter was charged all the time you have to use that by lifting the guitar end up in the air. Yours was full and you were killing me just looking at it...."Use it , come on lift it, @#$% What is he doing"

You get a lot more points for the band. When its half full you can do it.