***Offficial Rock Band 2 Thread****

[tdawg]

So, when are these supposed to be ready to download? Anybody get their key yet, or an email from Harmonix?

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: Krazy4Real
It looks like the list of 20 free dlc is out.

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riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Not even worth the hard drive space.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

welll really what were you expecting. I've always liked alot of Harmonix's indie band bonus track choices. Only band I've heard from that list is underoath, and Authority Zero. Authority Zero is a pretty good Phoenix local punk band.

 

[jdport]

I don't know what anybody expected... the bonus track list is always unknown bands.... usually though they are all harmonix house bands or bands related to harmonix. I'm a bit disappointed that there is no honest bob, but Bang Camaro was on the regular set list... Also i'm shocked that there wasn't a freezepop song in there. I'm not all that disappointed, i'm not a big freezepop fan... but they have had something in every harmonix release to date so I was sure there would be one in there. I was kind of hoping to get another tune by Tribe as well.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

somehow need to motivate my roommate into picking this up...

 

[oznerol]

Man, I can't find the RB2 drums in stock anywhere. I ordered them from DD as they were only $68, but it's backordered and who knows when they'll ship. And the GHWT drums aren't going to be packaged separately for a while I'm reading.

Need new drums before my party in a few weeks. Anyone know of an online retailer that has them? I avoid B&M stores like the plague.

 

[VashHT]

I'm pretty happy about the bonus tracks. Only reason is because they have X Japan and Between the Buried and Me on there, I can't wait to play both of those. To a lesser extent it's also cool that underoath is on there, I'd pay for those 3 songs if they weren't free. Would prefer like Kurenai from X Japan instead of this but I never expected anything to ever make it on there from them so its pretty sweet.

 

[JE78]

Originally posted by: ducci
Man, I can't find the RB2 drums in stock anywhere. I ordered them from DD as they were only $68, but it's backordered and who knows when they'll ship. And the GHWT drums aren't going to be packaged separately for a while I'm reading.

Need new drums before my party in a few weeks. Anyone know of an online retailer that has them? I avoid B&M stores like the plague.

Try Craigs List, I saw a few listings for RB2 drums for the 360 after it came out last month.

 

[RedRooster]

Originally posted by: Krazy4Real

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: Plumcuda1
No comments after is came out yesterday for the PS3?

I cant find a decent setting for the lag.....If the guitar is good ... the drums are bad ...drums good, guitar bad....

Other than that it seems pretty good.

Anyone know how to import tracks from RB1? I have the patch ... but see no option anywhere to import.

The option to import RB 1 songs is found on the RB 1 disc.

I'm confused as to why if the timing is good on guitar, how it would be bad for drums? All the lag compensates for it video and audio delay, so once it's set properly it'll stay the same regardless of instrument used. If it's delaying on drums or guitar then that points to one the inputs lagging, which the game can't compensate for. Sounds like one of your instruments isn't working 100%.

I have wireless guitars and wired drums. The wireless guitars naturally have a little lag that the wired drums do not have. It's not much, but it's noticeable.

The drums are even worse for lag. I got all excited when I found out you could do freestyle drumming and drum to your own music off the blade, until I realized there's enough lag to make my drumming sound pretty bad. It's still a very cool feature, but the lag is definately there, unfixable by calibration.

 

[RandomFool]

I was hoping I'd reconize at least a few of the 20 free DLC track artists. The only one I've heard of Underoath, who I know I don't like much. Ah well I'll download them at least and delete anything I don't like.

 

[Daverino]

Personally, I'm happy I only recognize a few of the tracks. For me, the whole RB/GH series has opened up a lot of music that I didn't listen to before. For example, I'd never heard of the New Pornographers before RB and I thought Electric Version was a kinda catchy song. Then I saw them opening for Radiohead and I was really impressed. Now I own a bunch of their stuff. I recognize a bunch of these band names from college radio play lists. So there are probably some good tracks in there and RB is giving a wide exposure to bands that normally wouldn't get their tracks into the game's main listing and wouldn't be picked up as paid-for DLC.

I'm happy with the list. Maybe I'll get a new favorite band out of it.

 

[tdawg]

Originally posted by: Daverino
Personally, I'm happy I only recognize a few of the tracks. For me, the whole RB/GH series has opened up a lot of music that I didn't listen to before. For example, I'd never heard of the New Pornographers before RB and I thought Electric Version was a kinda catchy song. Then I saw them opening for Radiohead and I was really impressed. Now I own a bunch of their stuff. I recognize a bunch of these band names from college radio play lists. So there are probably some good tracks in there and RB is giving a wide exposure to bands that normally wouldn't get their tracks into the game's main listing and wouldn't be picked up as paid-for DLC.

I'm happy with the list. Maybe I'll get a new favorite band out of it.

Ditto :thumbsup:

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: Daverino
Personally, I'm happy I only recognize a few of the tracks. For me, the whole RB/GH series has opened up a lot of music that I didn't listen to before. For example, I'd never heard of the New Pornographers before RB and I thought Electric Version was a kinda catchy song. Then I saw them opening for Radiohead and I was really impressed. Now I own a bunch of their stuff. I recognize a bunch of these band names from college radio play lists. So there are probably some good tracks in there and RB is giving a wide exposure to bands that normally wouldn't get their tracks into the game's main listing and wouldn't be picked up as paid-for DLC.

I'm happy with the list. Maybe I'll get a new favorite band out of it.

I am of the opposite mindset.

I'm not looking to diversify my music collection by playing Rock Band - I'm looking to rock out to classic songs. The fact that it's also a huge party game adds to that, because no one ever says, "Let's play this song I never heard before because it might be great!" They say, "White Wedding!? Holy crap, I know that song, let's do that!"

Plus, there's way too many insanely awesome classic songs that aren't in Rock Band - so adding new, independent songs just to build up the playlist - regardless of how good they are - is kind of disappointing.

I'm not complaining, though.

Something worthy of complaining about is the fact that they recently released a Nirvana track pack that was essentially Nevermind minus the three biggest songs from the album. That was a pretty lame move, I think.

 

[JE78]

Its free so its hard to complain but I'm with Ducci, Rock Band and Guitar Hero are party games so people want to play songs that they know.

 

[tdawg]

So, lately my friend and I have had RB2 lock up after lengthy sessions and force a power cycle of the 360. It also appears that one of the crashes has corrupted my friend's rock band profile, erasing his bands and any characters created under his gamertag, which really sucks.

Has anybody else experienced RB2 doing this to them? It's not frequent, but it sure is annoying that it happens at all.

Thanks in advance

 

[abaez]

Hasn't happened to me.

Some cool DLC this week.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: tdawg
So, lately my friend and I have had RB2 lock up after lengthy sessions and force a power cycle of the 360. It also appears that one of the crashes has corrupted my friend's rock band profile, erasing his bands and any characters created under his gamertag, which really sucks.

Has anybody else experienced RB2 doing this to them? It's not frequent, but it sure is annoying that it happens at all.

Thanks in advance

Nope, your console/drive/PSU might be on the way out. Keep an eye on it. Any other games acting up?

 

[MikeyLSU]

got a question about trophies.

Got one for gold starring a song yet my trophy is a silver.

Anyone know the difference from bronze, silver, and gold? It doesnt' tell you how to get the next level.

 

[bolomite]

Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
got a question about trophies.

Got one for gold starring a song yet my trophy is a silver.

Anyone know the difference from bronze, silver, and gold? It doesnt' tell you how to get the next level.

The color of the trophy reflects the relative difficulty of the accomplishment, i.e.

Bronze - basic/easy
Silver - moderate
Gold - hard
Platinum - very difficult/time-consuming

So gold-starring a song is considered worthy of a silver trophy. BTW I'm referring to the PS3 version.



I have a question for the PS3 people: I play guitar exclusively when I go online, can I use the regular USB mic for voice chat with other online players? And is the mic 'on' all the time, or do I have to press a button on a controller to transmit my voice? I would probably only chat during song selection and not during a song.

 

[tdawg]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: tdawg
So, lately my friend and I have had RB2 lock up after lengthy sessions and force a power cycle of the 360. It also appears that one of the crashes has corrupted my friend's rock band profile, erasing his bands and any characters created under his gamertag, which really sucks.

Has anybody else experienced RB2 doing this to them? It's not frequent, but it sure is annoying that it happens at all.

Thanks in advance

Nope, your console/drive/PSU might be on the way out. Keep an eye on it. Any other games acting up?

So far this is the only one with this issue, though it's the one that is being played for lengthy sessions. I hope the 360 isn't dying; this is my second one that I've had to repair, only one of them was the free RROD repair. The second I actually had to pay for myself.

 

[tdawg]

Originally posted by: bolomite

Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
got a question about trophies.

Got one for gold starring a song yet my trophy is a silver.

Anyone know the difference from bronze, silver, and gold? It doesnt' tell you how to get the next level.

The color of the trophy reflects the relative difficulty of the accomplishment, i.e.

Bronze - basic/easy
Silver - moderate
Gold - hard
Platinum - very difficult/time-consuming

So gold-starring a song is considered worthy of a silver trophy. BTW I'm referring to the PS3 version.



I have a question for the PS3 people: I play guitar exclusively when I go online, can I use the regular USB mic for voice chat with other online players? And is the mic 'on' all the time, or do I have to press a button on a controller to transmit my voice? I would probably only chat during song selection and not during a song.

What's it take to gold-star a song? I've seen it referenced in the achievements on the 360, but neither myself nor my roommate has earned one (and he got through one song on expert guitar with 100% accuracy). I've made it through a couple of songs on medium drums without missing a note.

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: tdawg

Originally posted by: bolomite

Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
got a question about trophies.

Got one for gold starring a song yet my trophy is a silver.

Anyone know the difference from bronze, silver, and gold? It doesnt' tell you how to get the next level.

The color of the trophy reflects the relative difficulty of the accomplishment, i.e.

Bronze - basic/easy
Silver - moderate
Gold - hard
Platinum - very difficult/time-consuming

So gold-starring a song is considered worthy of a silver trophy. BTW I'm referring to the PS3 version.



I have a question for the PS3 people: I play guitar exclusively when I go online, can I use the regular USB mic for voice chat with other online players? And is the mic 'on' all the time, or do I have to press a button on a controller to transmit my voice? I would probably only chat during song selection and not during a song.

What's it take to gold-star a song? I've seen it referenced in the achievements on the 360, but neither myself nor my roommate has earned one (and he got through one song on expert guitar with 100% accuracy). I've made it through a couple of songs on medium drums without missing a note.

You (and everyone) have to be on expert and get a certain score. It used to be that the gold star limit was exactly 1.5x the five-star amount, but that made gold-starring a select few songs mathematically unattainable, so they changed the limit to 1.47x the five-star amount.

It's odd that your friend could 100% a song on expert and not gold-star, but perhaps he just made very poor use of energy. I've gold-starred some songs with as low as 94% but managed to keep the 8x multiplier throughout the parts with the most notes.

 

[abaez]

On kotaku:

Are The Beatles Coming to Rock Band 2 and Not Guitar Hero?

I just had an alert drop in my mailbox from MTV.

Apparently MTV Networks, owners of Harmonix, and Apple Corps Ltd, administrators of The Beatles releases of the 1960s, are holding a press conference tomorrow to make some announcement about an "exclusive agreement to develop a global music project."

The release lists a number of media contacts, including one of the main PR folks for Rock Band 2. This seems to back up what the Financial Times reported back in June. Though at the time it sounded like both Activision and Harmonix were wooing Apple Corps. Did Guitar Hero get the shaft or is another announcement, this one with Activision, hitting later this week? We'll update once we can needle out more official word.

Apple Corps Ltd. and MTV to Announce Exclusive Agreement to Develop Unprecedented Global Music Project

WHAT: Apple Corps Ltd. and MTV to announce an exclusive agreement to develop a global music project.

WHO: Jeff Jones, CEO of Apple Corps, Ltd.
Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks
Van Toffler, President of MTV Networks Music/Logo Group

WHEN: Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:00 pm UK Time, 10:00 am ET, 7:00 AM PT

 

[oznerol]

The Beatles were many things. Guitar Heroes, they were not. Good fit with Rock Band.

I know people are craving them, but I also can't think of a song that I would love to be in the game. A Hard Day's Night? Come Together? I Am the Walrus?

 

[abaez]

Confirmed: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122531701276881747.html

I just hope it's not a $35 ACDC type of deal, which would suck.