Rock Band: Official Thread
03-09-09 | 10:34 AM
#851
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Re: Rock Band: Official Thread
Another idea I had would be to have a "well-rounded" battle where people submit three scores for solo guitar, drums, and vocals for the same song. (Or include bass, but I thought that might give too much of an advantage to the guitar-oriented players.) This wouldn't be a band battle, but rather a solo player tackling the song with different instruments. So, for example, a total score could be comprised of expert guitar, medium vocals, and easy drums.
03-09-09 | 11:01 AM
#852
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That's not a bad idea. I don't want it to seem like I was complaining that I didn't win either. I just realized that I had decent scores and was surprised at the discrepancy. I went to scorehero and found out that if you'd played both those songs on bass your max score would have been ~280k with a 100% FC and perfect SP utilization. I only did one on bass (I thought we still had to use two different instruments) and scored decently but had a total score less than half the winner which is crazy. I guess having an expert vocalist in your band is the way to get the 1 million achievement.
On a somewhat related note, how does RB calculate gold star (or any star) value? I missed one note and had pretty good SP usage on You Oughta Know and didn't gold star it. In fact, very few people on scorehero have gold starred it. You could very easily FC it and not gold star it which just seems crazy to me.
On a somewhat related note, how does RB calculate gold star (or any star) value? I missed one note and had pretty good SP usage on You Oughta Know and didn't gold star it. In fact, very few people on scorehero have gold starred it. You could very easily FC it and not gold star it which just seems crazy to me.
03-09-09 | 11:07 AM
#853
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Re: Rock Band: Official Thread
DVDTalk Challenge #3
US Geography 101
Five songs in the Rock Band libary mention US State names in the title.
DevilDriver - Clouds Over California
Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Description: Play any three of these songs on any instrument (or combination of instruments) and any difficulty. Combined score wins it!
How Long: 1 Week. Challenge ends 12AM EST on Monday, 3/16/09.
*Remember - last day to submit scores for Challenge #2. Only 3 submissions so far this week.
US Geography 101
Five songs in the Rock Band libary mention US State names in the title.
DevilDriver - Clouds Over California
Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Description: Play any three of these songs on any instrument (or combination of instruments) and any difficulty. Combined score wins it!
How Long: 1 Week. Challenge ends 12AM EST on Monday, 3/16/09.
*Remember - last day to submit scores for Challenge #2. Only 3 submissions so far this week.
03-09-09 | 11:10 AM
#855
Thread Starter
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Rock Band: Official Thread
How do you not have everything unlocked by now? I thought you were a pretty proficient plastic guitar player, and had this since release?
03-09-09 | 11:15 AM
#856
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03-09-09 | 11:27 AM
#857
DVD Talk Special Edition
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I just re-unlocked everything this past week, after replacing my PS3 a couple months ago. took about 8 hours total spread over 3 nights. used the Marathon challenges...
03-09-09 | 12:15 PM
#858
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Rock Band: Official Thread
) so that slows my progress. I had to unlock both Lump and You Oughta Know for last weeks challenge 
03-09-09 | 12:19 PM
#859
DVD Talk Legend
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Interesting. The top score on bass is 140k so if you miss one note a gold star is impossible (because the bass multiplier goes up to 6x and you'd lose at least 5k points I think). I guess that makes gold starring things on bass much harder than on guitar.
03-09-09 | 12:21 PM
#860
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Challenges seem to be the fastest way to unlock songs. I'm currently going through *ALL* of the challenges solo. I've done several of the infinite ones (80+ song sets). The great thing about those is you can save in the middle of them and come back and finish them off another day.
03-09-09 | 05:13 PM
#861
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I submitted my scores for this challenge. Although, I don't think Drums are going to stand much of a chance against Guitar, I bet the scores for both Alabama Getaway and Clouds Over California would be much higher on Guitar. No biggie, I'm having fun with these challenges, it at least gives me a bit more of a reason to try for a higher score. I also enjoy reading the stats at the end of each challenge.
03-09-09 | 06:32 PM
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Yeah I like these side challenges a lot. It makes me want to try harder on the guitar and drums! It also makes me revisit songs I've probably played only once in the course of the games regular modes.
Being a vocal player, I only get the DLC for songs that I'm familiar with. I'm hoping once I get better at drums/guitar I'll start getting a lot more DLC.
Being a vocal player, I only get the DLC for songs that I'm familiar with. I'm hoping once I get better at drums/guitar I'll start getting a lot more DLC.
03-09-09 | 07:46 PM
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What a frustrating day on XBL. Everyone I hooked up with picked 'impossible' songs like Dream Theater, Metallica, Megadave, etc... and played on expert, only to fail and drop out on me mid-song. I didn't get to play one song in it's entirety in 45 minutes. Very frustrating.
03-09-09 | 09:01 PM
#864
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Big day for the Wii playaz again.
http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126636
http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126636
Originally Posted by hmxsean
We have this week's Wii DLC list ready to go. The following tracks will be made available tomorrow on the Wii. It is a cool mix of back catalog tracks as well as some newer DLC releases. Moving forward some weeks will have parity on DLC with other systems new releases and some weeks will be more like this one being a combination of some older unreleased tracks and newer unreleased DLC. We're stoked to continue filling in the gap and get these songs out to our awesome Wii fans. Also, for the foreseeable future we will continue making our Wii DLC announcements on Mondays.
Tracks:
Radiohead- “My Iron Lung”
Wolfmother- “Joker & the Thief”
KISS- “Calling Dr. Love”
David Bowie- “Moonage Daydream”
Metallica- “Blackened”
Metallica- “Ride the Lightning”
The Clash- “Train in Vain”
Sonic Youth- “Kool Thing”
Garbage- “Why Do You Love Me”
Drive By Truckers- “3 Dimes Down”
Lucinda Williams- “Can’t Let Go”
Neko Case- “People Got a Lotta Nerve”
Old 97s- “Time Bomb”
Steve Earle- “Satellite Radio”
(All tracks are original master recordings)
Price: $2.00 (200 Wii Points) per track
Tracks:
Radiohead- “My Iron Lung”
Wolfmother- “Joker & the Thief”
KISS- “Calling Dr. Love”
David Bowie- “Moonage Daydream”
Metallica- “Blackened”
Metallica- “Ride the Lightning”
The Clash- “Train in Vain”
Sonic Youth- “Kool Thing”
Garbage- “Why Do You Love Me”
Drive By Truckers- “3 Dimes Down”
Lucinda Williams- “Can’t Let Go”
Neko Case- “People Got a Lotta Nerve”
Old 97s- “Time Bomb”
Steve Earle- “Satellite Radio”
(All tracks are original master recordings)
Price: $2.00 (200 Wii Points) per track
03-10-09 | 07:39 AM
#866
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Queue up this weeks releases:
the Offspring: All I Want & The Kids Aren't Alright
R.E.M. - Losing my Religion
Richard Thompson - The Way That it Shows
the Offspring: All I Want & The Kids Aren't Alright
R.E.M. - Losing my Religion
Richard Thompson - The Way That it Shows
03-10-09 | 07:50 AM
#867
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03-10-09 | 08:44 AM
#869
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It is cool, but it can also be a curse. After queuing up The Kids Aren't Alright (which I want to go home and play right now!) and Losing My Religion, I also went back a few weeks and queued up Sweetness. I hadn't intended on that, but I couldn't help myself.
03-10-09 | 08:51 AM
#870
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I love the queue. Like pinata said though, I'm more likely to buy stuff this way than browsing the marketplace. In fact, since the site launched I haven't bought a single item the old fashioned way(marketplace or RB store).
03-10-09 | 09:05 AM
#871
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I see you also have to be careful to not repurchase something you've already gotten in a pack.
I'm surprised by the popularity rankings. I wonder how accurate that is. It looks like the 250 premium Rock Band 2 theme outsold pretty much every Pixies song and a few Who tracks.
I'm surprised by the popularity rankings. I wonder how accurate that is. It looks like the 250 premium Rock Band 2 theme outsold pretty much every Pixies song and a few Who tracks.
03-10-09 | 09:11 AM
#872
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Yeah, you need to be aware of how songs are packaged, but that's a limitation of the marketplace. Harmonix tries to alleviate that through their custom Music Store in the game itself.
I think the popularity rankings have a lot to do with recent weeks, rather than overall sales.
I think the popularity rankings have a lot to do with recent weeks, rather than overall sales.
03-10-09 | 10:08 AM
#873
Re: Rock Band: Official Thread
Here's a stupid question that I can't answer myself:
I'm about to combine all my stupid playlists on my ipod (RB1 Main, RB1 Bonus, RB2, DLC) into one general Rock Band one and wonder how I should order the songs. Currently the DLC one is just by release date, but the others are in difficulty (band, I think, not guitar).
Date seems the easiest as new files will go to the bottom by default, I just don't know if that makes the most sense for this type of playlist. I don't want to do it by artist or title or anything as that's boring.
I told you it was stupid.
I'm about to combine all my stupid playlists on my ipod (RB1 Main, RB1 Bonus, RB2, DLC) into one general Rock Band one and wonder how I should order the songs. Currently the DLC one is just by release date, but the others are in difficulty (band, I think, not guitar).
Date seems the easiest as new files will go to the bottom by default, I just don't know if that makes the most sense for this type of playlist. I don't want to do it by artist or title or anything as that's boring.
I told you it was stupid.
03-10-09 | 10:14 AM
#874
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Rock Band: Official Thread
Order the songs by decade/release date of the actual song and then put it on shuffle
03-10-09 | 10:16 AM
#875
DVD Talk Godfather
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Make the first 10-25 your favorites and after that just random and/or use shuffle.