Matt

I am so in for that Talking Heads pack. I've been listening to them all summer.

dvdsteve2000

I sit back in amazement at some of the stuff that people go crazy about. I've seen people say this is the best DLC ever and such, which blows my mind. I'm not bashing anyone, it's just weird seeing so much diversity in people's taste in music. Things that I think are "Eh" people go crazy about (U2/Rush/etc...) and some of the favorites for me seem to slip by un-noticed. Maybe I'm just old. I have, however, been turned on to some music that I would've never listened to because of the excitement that was generated here.

Matt

Yep, people have different tastes in music. It's truly fascinating.

Spiderbite

I completely agree. The Talking Heads and The Jam...shrug. I'll pass.

Hardly no one here even mentioned the KISS pack that came out a few weeks ago. Even if you don't like KISS, it was still some of the most fun to play DLC they have had in the last few months. But to each his own.

Go to the Live marketplace and scroll thru the RB DLC in the order of "popularity." I assume it is probably pretty accurate according to DLC sales and some of the stuff even in the Top 100 will surprise you. But more surprising is the stuff in the bottom 200.

dvdsteve2000

It is fascinating, just like your reply. Thank you for your confirmation & approval of my post.

Shagrath

Fucking awesome!

pinata242

Unplayed Especially with the recent ***** promotion!


mod note: You know better than to post that word in this thread.

flashburn

The other Rock Band thread is way cooler than this one. You might as well just lock this thread.

pinata242

Shag, has there been any word on retro-actively applying stars or is it going to be a fresh start?

Shagrath

I haven't heard either way. I'm going to assume it's a fresh start, other than perhaps GS scores. I don't think they internally keep track of what difficulty you played on. GS, however, are only attainable on Expert, so they could do that.

Drexl

Are they going to give us the ability to hide songs too?

Spiderbite

Could we maybe consider a suspension for pinata? This isn't his first offense.

flashburn

Rhythm Authors posted a RBN preview of 3 of the songs they are working on:
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Hokeyboy

Can I have a meatball sub?

MJG87

Ahhh but WHEN

Shagrath

It's kind of nebulous still. I've heard mid-September from one HMX employee, but then other articles state that the store is opening in November. So somewhere in that time frame.

Michael Corvin

Sort by unplayed? er, wait. I finally posted a score for every song I have just this morning.

pinata242

I think "Unplayed" is a category under the "Sort by Star Rating" option. If it doesn't give you stars from before the patch, I'm thinking everything will be "Unplayed" at the beginning.

Michael Corvin

Oh damn. I hadn't thought of that. So I have to play Visions again? Fuck that.

Also, I want the HMX20 to show up on the Marketplace at some point so I can buy the one song I like and delete the other 19.

pinata242

I wish there was a way to play a random unplayed track, or a set of tracks. I think that if I start with 400+ songs classified as unplayed, I'm going to be overwhelmed

Michael Corvin

I still have PLENTY of gigs lef in World Tour and haven't touched the Challenges in 6 months. I figure I'll just start there. I still need the 'play a song in every venue' achievement, so that is something to help me push through for that one.

porieux

Talking Heads! Probably the best thing we've gotten since the Iron Maiden pack!

Decker

Can I express a very old and probably a very unpopular opinion here? I absolutely HATE the career mode in this game. Having to play four and five song mystery sets to unlock new content just stinks. It would be one thing if it were just songs from the base game, but it digs through the DLC and finds whatever it is looking for, no matter how long or hard it is. It's frustrating as hell to spend 15-20 minutes playing mystery songs and then get screwed by the final song and have to start all over. For such a great game with such a huge mostly awesome library, it's disappointing that the main part of the game is such a drag. I know most just play Quick-play and I do as well. It's not at all realistic that a band would take the stage not knowing what they were about to play, so why do it in the game, let alone make it the main mode of gameplay? With such a huge library of songs, wouldn't it make more sense to let the artists pick and choose their setlists more often? It's something I hope they address by RB3.

pinata242

I agree with all of that, but it's the nature of the game. If you could pick and choose Charlene for every setlist just to make it shorter, then you're removing the challenge from the game.

It's the same logic they've given for not disabling songs from that mode.

Luckily that mode is completely optional. The Challenges unlock all the on-disc songs in a much more efficient manner and you can see exactly what you're going to do, plus it's dynamic based on your content. If you want to make your own setlist, that's in Quickplay (up to 100 songs!).

That said, it's obvious they've learned that people want all the on-disc songs unlocked from the beginning like The Beatles game does. It stands to reason Lego RB will as well because it's aimed younger.

So, my advice, skip World Tour mode.

Drexl

Yeah, I'm hoping in the next game we can manage the songs better, choosing to hide or expose them for mystery setlists. I understand they might not want us to avoid the core game tracks, but it would be nice to at least have control over the imported/DLC stuff. Or, perhaps you would have to leave a certain number of songs of a given difficulty, so you'd still have to play some hard tracks. If you hide too many, you'd get a message saying something like "This challenge requires 5 or more Impossible songs exposed."