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I can help out too. I've even had a few acting classes, but I don't expect they'll make a huge difference.
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They charged outside of the states? That is kind of lame.
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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.
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and especially on how the guitar hero drums are better 9 times outta 10
Wait, what?
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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.
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Trailer is up.
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So wonderful.
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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.
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** 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wow, that is a crazy fun movie.
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I so wish Valve and Macs would settle their differences. I want to set you guys on fire and hit you with shovels.
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Am I going to get signed by some major label? Probably not. Do I want to? No. I quite enjoy my job, and am fine devoting a decent chunk of my free-time to making music I love.
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.
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Just plug it in to a controller port whenever it starts running low. The cable should have come in the box.
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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.
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Wow, this thread got stupid in a hurry.
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Well, it's finally happened. I got my ps3 today with metal gear solid 4 for about $470. (40 gig) I played the first scene and it was so annoying. I'm so used to final fantasy XII and its camera movements. MGS4's camera movements are fliped from FFXII and I think it will take too long to get used to it. But anyway, it feels great to join the next gen. Can't wait till I get used to it.
Look in the options. I believe you can flip the camera controls however you like.
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Wait, this thing is for ANIMAL CROSSING? If I'd known that I would've volunteered on day one!
Are volunteers still being taken?
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Interactivity and art have gone hand in hand for a long time. Robert Rauschenberg was one of the best known artists in American history, and he experimented with all kinds of interactive art. Paintings that could produce sounds that the viewers controlled. Layered, painted discs that the viewer could rotate to change the composition. Here's an example:
Driven by the desire to create art that would be responsive to the people viewing it and in which no two people would have the same experience, Rauschenberg and a team of technicians from Bell Labs developed Soundings in 1968.Soundings was made up of a series of nine smoked plexi-glass panels. Viewed in silence, the piece appeared to be nothing more than a large, smoked mirror. As the audience moved around the room and made noise, however, various portions of the piece were illuminated, revealing a series of silk screened images or straight-backed chairs. This piece responded differently depending on the timbre and tone of the individual's voice. As a result, Rauschenberg explained, Everybody sees his own art by speaking to it.
He's not the only artist to explore this sort of thing, but he's one of the most famous. It always seems funny to me when people insist that art can't be interactive. I'm not sure where they draw this conclusion.
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Reading that Blizzard reply, I'm even more confident in their artistic direction for this game. I can't wait to get completely sucked in when it comes out in like five years or something.
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He's written about the gaming webcomics issue (particularly his issues with CAD) before. Quite an interesting read. He mentions his own terrible webcomic in a footnote at the bottom.
23/3/08: You Cad
Review this week was Turok, for anyone who didn't notice. Watch it and let's all get on with our lives.
As a recent interview with me over at Gamespot and several references in previous reviews and writings may have informed you, I have a long-standing hatred of the webcomic Ctrl-Alt-Del. I thought I'd take a moment to explain it a bit better.
You see, I have this theory that the internet is causing a general mediocritisation of human culture, because you can put pretty much any piece of work on the internet and no matter how hugely it sucks dolphin jizz you'll find some dick who's prepared to tell you it's brilliant. This is the principle on which Deviantart appears to be founded.
But the cruellest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't. It gives them no incentive to improve or try new things, which a creative person must always strive to do. And it tends to foster the kind of monstrous egos the webcomic sphere grows like mushrooms in the shit-spattered dark. Tim Buckley of Ctrl-Alt-Del is notorious for having a zero tolerance for any criticism, constructive or otherwise, often deleting it unregarded from his forums, or declaring them invalid for half-baked reasons. It seems blanket praise has already done its damage to this fevered ego.
I don't hate Buckley. I look at CAD and I see a lot of misdirected potential. I know, that sounds hilarious even to me. But if you look at Buckley's art blog, you'll find that he's actually a pretty decent artist when he wants to be. But the promise of easy praise and popularity keeps him mired in his copy-pasted shoulder-hunched droopy-eyed slack-jawed magnum opus.
Not that copy-pasted art need necessarily ruin a comic - Dinosaur Comics is one of my favourite regular reads. It's the fact that for having run a gag-a-day strip for however many years, Buckley still has no idea how to structure a joke. I've never known an artist so determined to never learn anything about their craft. His usual response to this sort of thing is that he just has his own style and that there's no such thing as a 'right' or 'wrong' opinion, but the fact is, while humour is a flexible harlot, it still has rules. Rules which can be broken in the right contexts; contexts which don't include anything Tim Buckley has written.
I'm going to post a link now to a Ctrl-Alt-Del comic from July 2007. Don't let the fact that it's old excuse the mistakes; this is still very typical of Buckley's current work.
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070718
Here's another comic, this one a Penny Arcade strip from early the same year. The subject matter and joke are the same (Puzzle Quest) but it's a fairly obvious joke to make and I can easily assume both writers came up with it independently.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/28
Both comics identify the humour in the situation - that the rules of a game world seem absurd when applied to the real world - but while Penny Arcade understands that the crux of a joke should be reserved for the final panel, Ctrl-Alt-Del is apparently so excited about the idea that it blurts it out right away, leaving three more panels to flounder in excessive dialogue and pointlessness.
A punchline should be equated to an actual punch in the face. That's why it's called a punch-line. You deliver it and run. You do not hang around explaining how you did the punch and that the recipient should probably be in a lot of pain now.
Identify the funny part of the idea and save it for last. Leave with the audience laughing. If you do nothing else, finish strong. That's a rule any humourist will agree with. But with the centrepoint of the gag already uselessly spent, Buckley's comic is forced to fall upon its old standby of violence as a sort of prosthetic punchline. Now, violence can certainly be funny, modern cinema was virtually built on the tradition of slapstick, but it doesn't work in static, non-animated media. There is humour to be found in shock value, but most people have been on the internet long enough to not be shocked by anything as mundane as a claymore through the sweetbreads.
But even if the joke were structured properly, there is still far too much dialogue. This is a problem common to a lot of webcomics, but since we're already in the CAD-bashing groove we'll stick with it. Shakespeare wrote that 'brevity is the soul of wit'. He did not then add 'unless you're writing a webcomic'. It applies to everything, and don't tell me you're arrogant enough to claim to know better than Shakespeare.
A gag strip has a very simple formula. Buildup. Buildup. Buildup. Punchline. Anything that does not in some way build towards the punchline can safely be removed. If any dialogue can conceivably be replaced with a gesture or facial expression (visit Perry Bible Fellowship for a crash course in this), do so; this is a comic, a predominantly visual medium, not a fucking essay. Additionally, any dialogue pertaining to either ninjas, pirates, monkeys or Jesus should be excised, sealed in resin and buried in an undersea volcano.
This is why Ctrl-Alt-Del is a blight, and the fact that it remains crushingly popular despite making mistakes that a child would be brutally caned for on their first day at comedy school is one of the main reasons I openly weep tears for the future of human culture.
I know that an opinion can't technically be wrong and that there could be people who still like CAD for the characters or the art, but if you genuinely think that it is well-written, then you are demonstrably wrong. That's all there is to it.
* (Yahtzee is well aware that his own previous webcomic efforts aren't necessarily any better but reminds you that they came out of a dark time in his life from which he has determinedly moved on without a backward glance.)
- Yahtzee
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I like the edits, but I still think Blizzard's painterly look is really cool. I don't see it as an issue worth complaining about. Or petitioning over.
Rock Band 2
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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.*