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Poor Sony just can't catch a break.

Not sure. Although, with that many master tracks and 20 free ones to come this fall, I don't mind too much. They can always release some more Harmonix DLC packs later. I hope they do, actually.

Whoops. Fixed.

The game doesn't really support an "open/close" hi-hat mechanic, but I believe you can place the cymbals anywhere you want. The hi-hat mechanic would be a great thing in the future, but even as a drummer, it's not a feature that I desperately need. And it would be one more thing for non-drummers to have to struggle with learning. I'd still love it if they brought that mechanic into Rock Band 3, though.

The entire track list is announced! 83 tracks on disk, 20 to be released for free at launch, and all RB1 songs will be transfered over. Complete Song List: 1. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock 2. AFI - Girl's Gone Grey 3. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know 4. Alice in Chains - Man in the Box 5. Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man 6. Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy 7. Bad Company - Shooting Star 8. Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want 9. Beck - E-Pro 10. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl 11. Billy Idol - White Wedding Pt. I 12. Blondie - One Way or Another 13. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue 14. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer 15. Cheap Trick - Hello There 16. Devo - Uncontrollable Urge 17. Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain 18. Disturbed - Down with the Sickness 19. Dream Theater - Panic Attack 20. Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf 21. Elvis Costello - Pump It Up 22. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way 23. Foo Fighters - Everlong 24. Guns N' Roses - Shackler's Revenge 25. Interpol - PDA 26. Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song 27. Jethro Tull - Aqualung 28. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle 29. Joan Jett - Bad Reputation 30. Journey - Anyway You Want It 31. Judas Priest - Painkiller 32. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son 33. L7 - Pretend We're Dead 34. Lacuna Coil - Our Truth 35. Linkin Park - One Step Closer 36. Lit - My Own Worst Enemy 37. Lush - De-Luxe 38. Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen 39. Megadeth - Peace Sells 40. Metallica - Battery 41. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Where'd You Go 42. Modest Mouse - Float On 43. Motorhead - Ace of Spades 44. Nirvana - Drain You 45. Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky 46. Panic at the Disco - Nine in the Afternoon 47. Paramore - That's What You Get 48. Pearl Jam - Alive 49. Presidents of the USA - Lump 50. Rage Against the Machine - Testify 51. Ratt - Round & Round 52. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away 53. Rise Against - Give it All 54. Rush - The Trees 55. Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 56. Smashing Pumpkins - Today 57. Social Distortion - I Was Wrong 58. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot 59. Soundgarden - Spoonman 60. Squeeze - Cool for Cats 61. Steely Dan - Bodhitsattya 62. Steve Miller Band - Rock'n Me 63. Survivor - Eye of the Tiger 64. System of a Down - Chop Suey 65. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer 66. Tenacious D - Master Exploder 67. Testament - Souls of Black 68. The Donnas - New Kid in School 69. The Go-Go's - We Got the Beat 70. The Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway 71. The Guess Who - American Woman 72. The Muffs - Kids in America 73. The Offspring - Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Separated) 74. The Replacements - Alex Chilton 75. The Who - Pinball Wizard Bonus Tracks 76. Abnormality - Visions 77. Anarchy Club - Get Clean 78. Bang Camaro - Night Lies 79. Breaking Wheel - Shoulder to the Plow 80. The Libyans - Neighborhood 81. The Main Drag - A Jagged Gorgeous Winter 82. Speck - Conventional Lover 83. The Sterns - Supreme Girl 84. That Handsome Devil - Rob the Prez-O-Dent *20 free tracks yet to be named.*

I can help out too. I've even had a few acting classes, but I don't expect they'll make a huge difference.

They charged outside of the states? That is kind of lame.

I've had my set since launch with no breakage or sensitivity problems. Now I'll grant that the Rock Band instruments have been unreliable at best, but the new instruments look like they're built to fix those old issues. Better strum bar on the guitar with less clicky frets. Metal reinforced kick pedal, plus pressure-sensitive, quieter, rubbery drum pads and optional cymbal add-ons for drums (not to mention a high quality alternative). I'd fault Harmonix and EA more for the faulty controllers if they hadn't been such good sports with their RMA deal. Free of charge replacements with no questions asked? I wouldn't have expected that sort of offer from EA.

Wait, what?

I'm skeptical about the create-a-song thing too, but I'll hold judgement until it comes out. I know Harmonix wants to do the same thing, but they've said they want to wait until they can do it right. Honestly, if Activision would just allow cross-compatibility with Rock Band's instruments, I'd buy it without hesitation.

Trailer is up. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36037.html

So wonderful.

That set list is 17/17 correct so far, so I'm guessing it might be the real thing. Seems like a pretty strong collection of songs to me. Lots of variety and almost twice as much as the first game. Besides, there's over 100 DLC tracks available right from the release date and plenty more to come. It'll be hard to not find music you like. And I'm buying that expensive ion drum kit. My wallet will writhe in pain, but I'm not passing that up. I need new practice drums anyway.

** Now with trailer! ** http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36037.html COMING IN SEPTEMBER FOR XBOX 360 (and PS3 sometime later) GAME INFORMER ARTICLE SCANS (read here for all juicy details): http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11340 The entire track list is announced! 83 tracks on disk, 20 to be released for free at launch, and all RB1 songs will be transfered over. Complete Song List: 1. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock 2. AFI - Girl's Gone Grey 3. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know 4. Alice in Chains - Man in the Box 5. Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man 6. Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy 7. Bad Company - Shooting Star 8. Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want 9. Beck - E-Pro 10. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl 11. Billy Idol - White Wedding Pt. I 12. Blondie - One Way or Another 13. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue 14. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer 15. Cheap Trick - Hello There 16. Devo - Uncontrollable Urge 17. Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain 18. Disturbed - Down with the Sickness 19. Dream Theater - Panic Attack 20. Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf 21. Elvis Costello - Pump It Up 22. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way 23. Foo Fighters - Everlong 24. Guns N' Roses - Shackler's Revenge 25. Interpol - PDA 26. Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song 27. Jethro Tull - Aqualung 28. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle 29. Joan Jett - Bad Reputation 30. Journey - Anyway You Want It 31. Judas Priest - Painkiller 32. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son 33. L7 - Pretend We're Dead 34. Lacuna Coil - Our Truth 35. Linkin Park - One Step Closer 36. Lit - My Own Worst Enemy 37. Lush - De-Luxe 38. Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen 39. Megadeth - Peace Sells 40. Metallica - Battery 41. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Where'd You Go 42. Modest Mouse - Float On 43. Motorhead - Ace of Spades 44. Nirvana - Drain You 45. Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky 46. Panic at the Disco - Nine in the Afternoon 47. Paramore - That's What You Get 48. Pearl - Jam Alive 49. Presidents of the USA - Lump 50. Rage Against the Machine - Testify 51. Ratt - Round & Round 52. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away 53. Rise Against - Give it All 54. Rush - The Trees 55. Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye 56. Smashing Pumpkins - Today 57. Social Distortion - I Was Wrong 58. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot 59. Soundgarden - Spoonman 60. Squeeze - Cool for Cats 61. Steely Dan - Bodhitsattya 62. Steve Miller Band - Rock'n Me 63. Survivor - Eye of the Tiger 64. System of a Down - Chop Suey 65. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer 66. Tenacious D - Master Exploder 67. Testament - Souls of Black 68. The Donnas - New Kid in School 69. The Go-Go's - We Got the Beat 70. The Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway 71. The Guess Who - American Woman 72. The Muffs - Kids in America 73. The Offspring - Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Separated) 74. The Replacements - Alex Chilton 75. The Who - Pinball Wizard Bonus Tracks 76. Abnormality - Visions 77. Anarchy Club - Get Clean 78. Bang Camaro - Night Lies 79. Breaking Wheel - Shoulder to the Plow 80. The Libyans - Neighborhood 81. The Main Drag - A Jagged Gorgeous Winter 82. Speck - Conventional Lover 83. The Sterns - Supreme Girl 84. That Handsome Devil - Rob the Prez-O-Dent *20 free tracks yet to be named.* New Features: - 80+ song list -- ALL OF THEM MASTER TRACKS (no covers). - FULL BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY for DLC. Your ENTIRE DLC collection will work in RB2, and new DLC will continue to support RB1 as well! - Band World Tour returns, now with ONLINE. - "Battle Of The Bands" Mode - "No Fail Mode" for stress-free rock. - Now you can create Quickplay Setlists, so you can choose what you want and play straight through without a break. - Auto set list generation: All songs by an artist, all songs of a certain difficulty level, all songs in a genre, etc. - Band Challenge mode will replace standard tiered Solo modes. It will includes a BASS TOUR option and even integrating your DLC. - No more band leaders. No more confusion. - ANY character can play ANY instrument. - CPU controlled band members can be chosen from your created characters - The World Tour mode includes every one of the old cities and venues from the first game, but now expands to include dozens more. - New character customization options, including facial piercings and bandannas and such. - When you look at each track on the song list, you can see album details, the album artwork, as well as a complete rundown of how difficult each instrument will be on that song." MENTIONED BY SEVERAL NEWS SOURCES, BUT NOT CONFIRMED: -Owners of Rock Band will be able to download the original tracks as DLC. New Instrument Peripherals! And for those who STILL have money left: Expensive ALTERNATE INSTRUMENTS! Guitar = REAL FENDER STRATOCASTER refitted with guitar controller components! Drums = limited edition ION ELECTRONIC DRUM KIT with four pads, three cymbals and a pedal! I am excited beyond words.

bLiNd is one of the most talented artists this community has seen. Not only that, he's really helpful. I know he's given Tweek and I pointers in the past, and he wrote up a huge essay for the Mastering/Production thread I started way back when. You're one of the coolest guys here, bLiNd. Hang in there.

The more popular you become, the bigger a target you are for legal threats. I'll miss the theme-relevant intro/outro clips too, but I can see why he wouldn't want to push his luck. Hopefully, he'll find better intro music eventually. At least his reviews are still top notch.

I don't think I got them either. I made my own though, so it's cool. I didn't know we gave some to Uematsu, though. That's awesome.

Wow, that is a crazy fun movie.

I so wish Valve and Macs would settle their differences. I want to set you guys on fire and hit you with shovels.

This is like a professional musician saying he does your job for fun and for free, just like you should if you had any kind of integrity. ... sellout.

Just plug it in to a controller port whenever it starts running low. The cable should have come in the box.

I'm not good at these. Anyone want to take a stab at this guy? I was thinking if it didn't look good in 32x32 that maybe just the head would work. Not sure what background color would be best, but transparent could work if the image has to be cropped down to the head. Thanks! LT: If you could put that image over a background color you liked, it would be easier to then take that and shrink it.

Wow, this thread got stupid in a hurry.

Look in the options. I believe you can flip the camera controls however you like.

Wait, this thing is for ANIMAL CROSSING? If I'd known that I would've volunteered on day one! Are volunteers still being taken?