This looks like the greatest party game ever. Not only that but the online play should help out when no one else is around. How exactly will the microphone singing work? Will you end up hearing your friends' terrible vocals while at the same time hearing Robert Plant's voice coming out of the speakers?
I'm really hoping no covers = we can get zeppelin/metallica!
I think I've got my band figured out. Since I've got two friends who can really sing well, but one also plays drums, and a third guy who's probably the best at guitar hero, leaving the pretty simple baseline for me...
But it's a fourth friend who has the 360, and sucks at guitar hero, can't sing, and has no rhythm.
I'm just kinda surprised that the Mic is obviously means that people have to actually sing. I imagine the drumming is going to be pretty close to actually drumming for the most part, and then the guitars are just going to be the fisherprice things again?
From what I've heard, Keyboardmania's the toughest to master of any music game ever. Probably because it has so many buttons. I'd like to think piano experience helps, though.
The april 1st date on the article makes me skeptical of this but at the same time, this looks serious hmm...
I'll wait till I see this posted on multiple gaming sites before beleiving it.
Er, when someone who works for the company confirms it, I'm pretty sure you can trust it's real.
Unless he's in on the joke
Buwhahahahahahaha....
You're right... it's all a joke and the real secret game we've been working on is Broom Balancer.
I'm looking forward to a lot of arguments when 4 people show up, but one guy demands on playing lead + singing, leaving the 4th guy with nothing to do.
Oh, I hope that's one of the parts of the drum kit. "I've got a fever, and the only cure... is more Rock Band!" Plus they've had one of the band's songs in GH...
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OH MY GOD!
YES!
It's like Guitar Freaks/Drummania only with awesomeness added!
Gonna practicie today with some Drummania 10th mix!
Time for some The Least 100 Seconds/Timepiece Phase II/Children's Sketchbook FTW!
So the Wii, the system that lends itself perfectly to this, is not getting it?
Not only are the controllers perfect, but it would be cheaper to make the special controllers, as they'd only have to be shells connected in some way to the Wiimote.
I don't see how drums will work on any system without actually giving the player an electric kit, but Wii could handle whatever solution they find as well as the other systems.
Seriously, I call shenanigans on no Wii version.
I'd love to try playing guitar and singing at the same time, but I have a feeling it will be really hard for me. I sometimes try to sing along with GH, but my brain just can't process the two things at once. But then again, I also remember the first time I tried Symphony of Destruction on expert (after only having played on medium); I thought I'd never be able to be that good. I suppose if I started singing + playing on easy it would only take time to get better.
I don't buy that you could play Guitar hero on Wii with the Wiimote. Drums? Maybe. I don't think it would be precise enough. The entire point of guitar hero is "Hey, I have a big goofy plastic guitar and I'm playing it." If they just sold the same accessories as the PS2/360/PS3 it would be fine.
So the Wii, the system that lends itself perfectly to this, is not getting it?
Not only are the controllers perfect, but it would be cheaper to make the special controllers, as they'd only have to be shells connected in some way to the Wiimote.
I don't see how drums will work on any system without actually giving the player an electric kit, but Wii could handle whatever solution they find as well as the other systems.
Seriously, I call shenanigans on no Wii version.
I fail to see how the Wii lends itself any better than any other console. You'd still need a special controller, and Nintendo's online strategy seems to fly in the face of this idea completely.
The "Why not on the Wii, it'd be perfect" comments highlight one of the things I was worried about from day one with the Wii. Because it is (in theory) built around every game having these unique controls the utilize the Wiimote in new and exciting ways, it makes it very difficult for the Wii to ever be a part of a big multi-platform title without one of two things happening.
Either the devs need to create a unique version for the Wii, as it is weaker in power and requires a unique control scheme, and hope the additional investment is worth it, or they change nothing on the Wii, and hope most Wii owners still want to pick up the game, despite it not being "built" for their system.
Wii-guitar-shell's only advantage would be that the tilt sensor ball of the original is replaced with the accelerometers in the wii remote. But I'm glad they're making a Wii version anyway.
Wii-guitar-shell's only advantage would be that the tilt sensor ball of the original is replaced with the accelerometers in the wii remote. But I'm glad they're making a Wii version anyway.
that's based on features of previous guitar hero games, there is other new stuff that they could do that would take advantage of the Wiimote.
Doesn't Activision/Neversoft own GH now? Could you legally use the GH controller in Rock Band?
Even if you can, I kinda hope you don't. I loved GH, but I desperately want something more fleshed out, I suppose. Like, one problem I always had was being able to play certain songs in real life (Crossroads and Cowboys From Hell come to mind, parts of the latter at least) and not being able to play them in GH. I dunno, cater to the musicians I guess. And I don't know what you keyboard guys are complaining about, the best GH players I've ever known have been piano performance majors, never any guitarists.
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Doesn't Activision/Neversoft own GH now? Could you legally use the GH controller in Rock Band?
Even if you can, I kinda hope you don't. I loved GH, but I desperately want something more fleshed out, I suppose. Like, one problem I always had was being able to play certain songs in real life (Crossroads and Cowboys From Hell come to mind, parts of the latter at least) and not being able to play them in GH. I dunno, cater to the musicians I guess. And I don't know what you keyboard guys are complaining about, the best GH players I've ever known have been piano performance majors, never any guitarists.
Yeah. That's my beef with GH. It's nothing like playing a guitar.
Doesn't Activision/Neversoft own GH now? Could you legally use the GH controller in Rock Band?
Even if you can, I kinda hope you don't. I loved GH, but I desperately want something more fleshed out, I suppose. Like, one problem I always had was being able to play certain songs in real life (Crossroads and Cowboys From Hell come to mind, parts of the latter at least) and not being able to play them in GH. I dunno, cater to the musicians I guess. And I don't know what you keyboard guys are complaining about, the best GH players I've ever known have been piano performance majors, never any guitarists.
Yeah. That's my beef with GH. It's nothing like playing a guitar.
Personal solution for me would be to throw in multiple strum bars for multiple strings. That would make playing rhythm in the multiplayer so much more fun too.
Doesn't Activision/Neversoft own GH now? Could you legally use the GH controller in Rock Band?
Even if you can, I kinda hope you don't. I loved GH, but I desperately want something more fleshed out, I suppose. Like, one problem I always had was being able to play certain songs in real life (Crossroads and Cowboys From Hell come to mind, parts of the latter at least) and not being able to play them in GH. I dunno, cater to the musicians I guess. And I don't know what you keyboard guys are complaining about, the best GH players I've ever known have been piano performance majors, never any guitarists.
Yeah. That's my beef with GH. It's nothing like playing a guitar.
Isn't the appeal of Guitar Hero to make you feel like you CAN be a rock god without actually being one?
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Doesn't Activision/Neversoft own GH now? Could you legally use the GH controller in Rock Band?
Even if you can, I kinda hope you don't. I loved GH, but I desperately want something more fleshed out, I suppose. Like, one problem I always had was being able to play certain songs in real life (Crossroads and Cowboys From Hell come to mind, parts of the latter at least) and not being able to play them in GH. I dunno, cater to the musicians I guess. And I don't know what you keyboard guys are complaining about, the best GH players I've ever known have been piano performance majors, never any guitarists.
Yeah. That's my beef with GH. It's nothing like playing a guitar.
Isn't the appeal of Guitar Hero to make you feel like you CAN be a rock god without actually being one?
I suppose that works for people with no clue how a guitar functions.
Multiple strum bars to mimic multiple strings? Might as well pick up a real guitar and play alongside your mp3s.
I do, but I'd much rather have a "band." Besides, there's always the difficulty levels and such that can take it from arcade level to simulation level. A fucking band sim, that just makes me excited.
To be fair, video games in general let you do things that feel and behave nothing like they would in real life. For instance, if I were to say, pull out a paint brush and draw a line on you, it wouldn't cut you, but you would probably be kinda pissed.
I mean, if people want to really play guitar, they could probably almost buy one with the amount of money that GH+a guitar controller costs.
To be fair, video games in general let you do things that feel and behave nothing like they would in real life. For instance, if I were to say, pull out a paint brush and draw a line on you, it wouldn't cut you, but you would probably be kinda pissed.
I mean, if people want to really play guitar, they could probably almost buy one with the amount of money that GH+a guitar controller costs.
Again, that's what difficulty levels are for. There's no knob on my V that makes me sound like I'm playing Hendrix by only hitting 1/4th of the notes.
Doesn't Activision/Neversoft own GH now? Could you legally use the GH controller in Rock Band?
Even if you can, I kinda hope you don't. I loved GH, but I desperately want something more fleshed out, I suppose. Like, one problem I always had was being able to play certain songs in real life (Crossroads and Cowboys From Hell come to mind, parts of the latter at least) and not being able to play them in GH. I dunno, cater to the musicians I guess. And I don't know what you keyboard guys are complaining about, the best GH players I've ever known have been piano performance majors, never any guitarists.
Yeah. That's my beef with GH. It's nothing like playing a guitar.
Isn't the appeal of Guitar Hero to make you feel like you CAN be a rock god without actually being one?
I suppose that works for people with no clue how a guitar functions.
Or for people who are looking for, I dunno, a game to play. The core concept is correct: Fret and Strum. It's simplified to a level that people who pick up the controller for the first time can play Smoke on the Water failing only a couple times in the process.
This is what games are. Concepts simplified to be accessible to everyone, not just those with special training. I mean, if you can play War Pigs on the real guitar, why not just get out the real guitar and play it? If you take away the simplicity of the controller, you isolate the largest part of your audience, the life-time air guitar players who wish they had the time, skill and talent to learn to really play the guitar. I'd even go as far to say that if they had gone the "multi-string fret button route" someone suggested, we would not have gotten a guitar hero 2.
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I'm really hoping no covers = we can get zeppelin/metallica!
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But it's a fourth friend who has the 360, and sucks at guitar hero, can't sing, and has no rhythm.
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The ability to play two parts at once is awesome.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Oh man. Awesomesauce!
Buwhahahahahahaha....
You're right... it's all a joke and the real secret game we've been working on is Broom Balancer.
No, seriously... Rock Band is real.
And anything by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Heh heh... Now that is one song I _can_ play. (Well, most of it...) Love ragtime...
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Oh, I hope that's one of the parts of the drum kit. "I've got a fever, and the only cure... is more Rock Band!" Plus they've had one of the band's songs in GH...
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YES!
It's like Guitar Freaks/Drummania only with awesomeness added!
Gonna practicie today with some Drummania 10th mix!
Time for some The Least 100 Seconds/Timepiece Phase II/Children's Sketchbook FTW!
Er... actually I guess those are too hard.
Not only are the controllers perfect, but it would be cheaper to make the special controllers, as they'd only have to be shells connected in some way to the Wiimote.
I don't see how drums will work on any system without actually giving the player an electric kit, but Wii could handle whatever solution they find as well as the other systems.
Seriously, I call shenanigans on no Wii version.
I fail to see how the Wii lends itself any better than any other console. You'd still need a special controller, and Nintendo's online strategy seems to fly in the face of this idea completely.
Either the devs need to create a unique version for the Wii, as it is weaker in power and requires a unique control scheme, and hope the additional investment is worth it, or they change nothing on the Wii, and hope most Wii owners still want to pick up the game, despite it not being "built" for their system.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/777/777553p1.html
"Rock Band on Wii?
Harmonix CEO says "Absolutely."'
Hooray
This was what was going to make me buy a 360
Well actually I'll still get a 360 eventually but at least Rock Band is coming out on something I already have
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Doesn't Activision/Neversoft own GH now? Could you legally use the GH controller in Rock Band?
Even if you can, I kinda hope you don't. I loved GH, but I desperately want something more fleshed out, I suppose. Like, one problem I always had was being able to play certain songs in real life (Crossroads and Cowboys From Hell come to mind, parts of the latter at least) and not being able to play them in GH. I dunno, cater to the musicians I guess. And I don't know what you keyboard guys are complaining about, the best GH players I've ever known have been piano performance majors, never any guitarists.
Yeah. That's my beef with GH. It's nothing like playing a guitar.
Personal solution for me would be to throw in multiple strum bars for multiple strings. That would make playing rhythm in the multiplayer so much more fun too.
Edit: Dude... power chords. FT fucking W.
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Isn't the appeal of Guitar Hero to make you feel like you CAN be a rock god without actually being one?
I suppose that works for people with no clue how a guitar functions.
I do, but I'd much rather have a "band." Besides, there's always the difficulty levels and such that can take it from arcade level to simulation level. A fucking band sim, that just makes me excited.
I mean, if people want to really play guitar, they could probably almost buy one with the amount of money that GH+a guitar controller costs.
Again, that's what difficulty levels are for. There's no knob on my V that makes me sound like I'm playing Hendrix by only hitting 1/4th of the notes.
Or for people who are looking for, I dunno, a game to play. The core concept is correct: Fret and Strum. It's simplified to a level that people who pick up the controller for the first time can play Smoke on the Water failing only a couple times in the process.
This is what games are. Concepts simplified to be accessible to everyone, not just those with special training. I mean, if you can play War Pigs on the real guitar, why not just get out the real guitar and play it? If you take away the simplicity of the controller, you isolate the largest part of your audience, the life-time air guitar players who wish they had the time, skill and talent to learn to really play the guitar. I'd even go as far to say that if they had gone the "multi-string fret button route" someone suggested, we would not have gotten a guitar hero 2.