[Music Games], the bell tolls for thee

Mr. G

Rock Band 4 is the long-awaited next game in the Rock Band series, finally bringing them to current-gen systems on October 6th

Your old instruments will work, and you will get most of your DLC back in the same console family

Songlist wrote:

4 Non Blondes - What's Up?
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King
Benjamin Booker - Violent Shiver
The Black Keys - Fever
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
Disturbed - Prayer
Dream Theater - Metropolis - Part 1 'The Miracle And The Sleeper'
Duck & Cover - Knock 'Em Down
Eddie Japan - Albert
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
Fall Out Boy - Centuries
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
Foo Fighters - The Feast and the Famine
Halestorm - I Miss the Misery
Heart - Kick It Out
Heaven's Basement - I Am Electric
Jack White - Lazaretto
Judas Priest - Halls of Valhalla
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
Lightning Bolt - Dream Genie
Live - All Over You
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
The Outfield - Your Love
Ozzy Osbourne - Miracle Man
Paramore - Still Into You
Queens of the Stone Age - My God Is the Sun
Rick Derringer - Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
Rush - A Passage to Bangkok
Scandal - The Warrior
Scorpions - No One Like You (2011)
Slydigs - Light the Fuse
Soul Remnants - Dead Black (Heart of Ice)
Spin Doctors - Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
St. Vincent - Birth in Reverse
System of a Down - Spiders
Van Halen - Panama
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
White Denim - At Night in Dreams
The Who - The Seeker

Guitar Hero also returns this October, in a totally new form

Guitar Hero Live is an FMV game that is played with a brand-new style of controller, that is two rows of 3 buttons, as opposed to the standard one row of 5

Songlist wrote:

Alice in Chains - Stone
alt-J - Left Hand Free
Alter Bridge - Cry of Achilles
American Authors - Best Day of My Life
Angus & Julia Stone - A Heartbreak
Anthrax - Got the Time
Architects - Gravedigger
Asking Alexandria - The Final Episode
The Avett Brothers - Another is Waiting
Bank of Skulls - Asleep at the Wheel
Beartooth - I Have a Problem
Biffy Clyro - Sounds Like Balloons
The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling
Black Veil Brides - In the End
Blink-182 - The Rock Show
Blitz Kids - Sometimes
Bob Dylan - Thunder on the Mountain
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Bring Me the Horizon - Shadow Moses
Broken Bells - Leave It Alone
Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song
Bullet for My Valentine - Temper Temper
Calvin Harris - Feel So Close
Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats
Catfish and the Bottlemen - Kathleen
Charli XCX - Famous
Chevelle - The Clincher
Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
Cypress Hill ft. Tom Morello - Rose Up
A Day to Remember - Right Back at It Again
Deap Vally - Lies
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Disturbed - Down with the Sickness
Dream Theater - The Looking Glass
Dum Dum Girls - Rimbaud Eyes
Echosmith - Cool Kids
Ed Sheeran - Sing
Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)
Foster the People - Coming of Age
Gary Clark, Jr. - Don't Owe You a Thang
Green Day - American Idiot
Green Day - Nuclear Family
Halestorm - Love Bites (So Do I)
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
In Flames - Deliver Us
Jake Bugg - What Doesn't Kill You
James Bay - Hold Back the River
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Kasabian - Club Foot
The Killers - When You Were Young
Killswitch Engage - In Due Time
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
Kongos - Come with Me Now
Korn - Freak on a Leash
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
Marilyn Manson - Disposable Teens
Marmozets - Move Shake Hide
Mastodon - High Road
Megadeth - Hangar 18
MGMT - Time to Pretend
The Mowgli's - San Francisco
My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
Neon Trees - Everybody Talks
New Politics - Harlem
Of Mice & Men - Bones Exposed
OneRepublic - Counting Stars
Panic! at the Disco - Girls/Girls/Boys
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Paramore - Now
Passion Pit - Take a Walk
Pearl Jam - Mind Your Manners
Pierce the Veil ft. Kellin Quinn - King for a Day
The Pretty Reckless - Going to Hell
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine - Guerrilla Radio
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
Rise Against - Tragedy + Time
The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Royal Blood - Come On Over
Royal Blood - Little Monster
Rush - Limelight
Skrillex - Bangarang
Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals
Soundgarden - Been Away Too Long
The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness
System of a Down - Chop Suey!
Tenacious D - Tribute
Trivium - Strife
TV on the Radio - Lazerray
The Vines - Metal Zone
Vista Chino - Sweet Remain
The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure
Weezer - Buddy Holly
White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65
Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
Wolfmother - Sundial
You Me at Six - Lived a Lie
ZZ Top - I Gotsa Get Paid

Sentris is a music creation puzzle game currently available on Steam and coming soon to PS4

I still don't quite understand it, so let's let creator Samantha Kalman explain herself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6DCSr-Nm2Q


This is a picture of Parappa the Rapper.

WeedLordVegeta

So this is the lovelive thread?

Mr. G

Now for the news that got me to make this thread

Rock Band has finally landed Van Halen

The RB4 disk will include "Panama," and many more Van Halen songs will be coming as DLC

One Thousand Cables

I'm glad that they got The One Van Halen Song I Care About

Lindsay Lohan

I'll probably pick up Guitar Hero Wii U given that I don't have a console that runs RB4. The track list is actually pretty interesting but I will definitely miss the full band setup.

Sterica

Ee bee ay...
Ee bee ay...

Mr. G

That Giant Bomb Quick Look is the first time where I have actually understood how Sentris works

Yo Sentris is rad as hell

YaYa

...

I like the Guitar Hero song list better than the Rock Band one

what have I become

Kaplar

Necrodancer. Gotta move those feet to that funky beat.

Garlic Bread

I like the guitar hero list better than the RB4 list, but then I remembered I have most of the songs I like as RB dlc, or they'll inevitably release them as DLC

Mr. G

Alright I bought Sentris and now my brain hurts

My music brain

Whippy

I just backed chime, that's pretty cool right

Mr. G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1t6HVHK4A
New Rock Band 4 songs!

.38 Special – “Caught Up In You”
Arctic Monkeys – “Arabella”
The Both – “Milwaukee”
Cake – “Short Skirt/Long Jacket”
Little Big Town – “Little White Church”
Lucius – “Turn It Around”
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “The Impression That I Get”
The Protomen – “Light Up The Night”
Soundgarden – “Superunknown”
Tijuana Sweetheart – “Pistol Whipped”

HOLY SHIT THE BOTH!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqSYzOXkthg

I never expected to ever, ever see a Ted Leo song in a Rock Band game

Awesome

also i hear you people like The Protomen

YaYa

CAKE IS IN ROCK BAND I'M BACK IN

also holy shit, that's huge for the Protomen

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

i am currently playing IA V/T COLORFUL

although it is much easier than project diva it is just as charming and i am enjoying it quite a bit

edit: also i played some ddr yesterday and that's still fun

Ilpala

So my brother found our old copy of Amplitude and brought it over. Having been an absolute beast at the game back in the day I popped it in and put it on Insane.

That game's a lot more bullshit than I remember. At least that's my story.

Peas

Osu! is free to play

https://osu.ppy.sh/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jePWN4jqs5o

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

via play-asia

Sega will be releasing an all new anime-girl rhythm game for the PlayStation Vita due out this December 17th in Japan. The title's rhythm gameplay will utilize the same engine that has been used in the Project Diva series of games.

Miracle Girls Festival will include both songs and characters from a number of popular series like YuriYuri, Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova, KINMOZA!, and a number of others (10+ series total!).

Thus far Sega has detailed the game's 'Tour Mode', where players become the concert director and develop different concerts across six locations. Tour organization takes place in days, and when you've completed all the days for a tour a new tour with higher difficulty settings will be made available.

Players will be able to choose and perform set lists, where the primary objective is to reach a certain quota of audience members. By performing songs players will be rewarded with 'Miracle Coins,' based on how well the performance was. These coins can be used to unlock even more songs! The further you progress in the game the more songs you'll unlock and be able to freely edit into your set lists.

neat

Mr. G

Here's a song I am stunned they haven't got in Rock Band yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfcvxO_YfYw
It would be so, so fun

I don't think there's ANY They Might Be Giants!

Brainleech

I am really disappointed rock band and guitar hero are coming back as it's not as fun as playing Jessie's girl for real
Or waking your friend up on their birthday with the Dethday song

I know bands want people to get interested in them but still this is a poor way to handle it compared to the sweet tunes you get on rocksmith you probably never heard of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9U5IL6fRXI

The Betgirl

I am so ready to play rock band 4 you guys

there's a playlist on spotify where harmonix puts all the songs in the game so you can listen to em

PREPARE YOURSELVES

BlankZoe

I already have the game pre-ordered

But Light Up The Night being in it would have guaranteed a pre-order if I hadn't already

ASimPerson

I played Rock Band 4 twice at PAX despite that I, you know, pre-ordered the game the minute pre-orders were announced.

I'm ready for this. Though the freestyle solos are going to take some getting used to.

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

this may or may not be a thing anyone here gives a shit about but i'll toss the info up anyway

konami just ran a handful-of-hours-long alpha test for a pc IIDX release called infinitas

some hoop jumping was required to make it run outside of japan, but they didn't appear to be actively trying to prevent it

currently the only ways to play iidx legitimately-ish in the US are importing old ps2 releases or being close to one of a very small number of arcades

they've been rather frigid toward western markets for the last few years so i wouldn't necessarily expect anything useful to come of this

(i can hope though)

it looks solid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAX1QT5jbUg

SageinaRage

I'm sad that the keyboard was apparently a fluke only for rock band 3. And also that I want to keep using my xbox 360 instruments and tracks but I don't want an xbox one.

Whippy wrote: »

I just backed chime, that's pretty cool right

If it's anything like the first one, it's fun as hell.

Anyway I really love music games, I kickstarted the amplitude remake, I'm really looking forward to that. Sentris looks interesting, I haven't heard of that before.

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

i am finding out about all kinds of things lately

djmax portable is The Best handheld music franchise, and this is the next iteration! i am excited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBc-6-EgK00

if you like your music games to have some personality, this probably won't...prior djmax games are even more sterile than iidx in presentation, and as they originated on pc they're super abstract. nothing about playing them is anything like any kind of instrument at all

but if you just like smashing buttons really fast YOU ARE IN FOR A TREAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctx0pLuA22M

edit: release date is 10/20. i just preordered!

One Thousand Cables

The last batch of RB4 songs were announced!

https://twitter.com/RockBand/status/643424406002249728

YaYa

I know like two of those songs

One Thousand Cables

YaYa wrote: »

I know like two of those songs

Yeah in general the track list for Rock Band 4 has been more, uh...obscure than previous games. I'm still pretty down with it, though.

Mr. G

Harmonix wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_FN4ygjTo
Brad Paisley ft. Keith Urban - Start a Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQyc89jQXqY
Brandi Carlile - Mainstream Kid

Dark Wheels - V-Bomb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyBem5-Bfpg
Gary Clark Jr. - Ain't Messing 'Round

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LuH0ywYVQc
Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x1wjGKHjBI
Grouplove - Tongue Tied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ht80uzIhNs
Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life

Jeff Allen - Recession

Johnny Blazes and the Pretty Boys - Cold Clear Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02WR0OZ0MA
Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsP-MjIueL4
Mumford & Sons - The Wolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7oQEPfe-O8
R.E.M. - The One I Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlipfTBaLII
The Warning - Free Falling

The final setlist for Rock Band 4 is

.38 Special - Caught Up In You
4 Non Blondes - What's Up?
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Arctic Monkeys - Arabella
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King
Benjamin Booker - Violent Shiver
The Black Keys - Fever
The Both - Milwaukee
Brad Paisley ft. Keith Urban - Start a Band
Brandi Carlile - Mainstream Kid
Cake - Short Skirt/Long Jacket
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
Dark Wheels - V-Bomb
Disturbed - Prayer
Dream Theater - Metropolis - Part 1 'The Miracle And The Sleeper'
Duck & Cover - Knock 'Em Down
Eddie Japan - Albert
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
Fall Out Boy - Centuries
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
Foo Fighters - The Feast and the Famine
Gary Clark Jr. - Ain't Messing 'Round
Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down
Grouplove - Tongue Tied
Halestorm - I Miss the Misery
Heart - Kick It Out
Heaven's Basement - I Am Electric
Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life
Jack White - Lazaretto
Jeff Allen - Recession
Johnny Blazes and the Pretty Boys - Cold Clear Light
Judas Priest - Halls of Valhalla
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
Lightning Bolt - Dream Genie
Little Big Town - Little White Church
Live - All Over You
Lucius - Turn It Around
Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
Mumford & Sons - The Wolf
The Outfield - Your Love
Ozzy Osbourne - Miracle Man
Paramore - Still Into You
The Protomen - Light Up The Night
Queens of the Stone Age - My God Is the Sun
R.E.M. - The One I Love
Rick Derringer - Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
Rush - A Passage to Bangkok
Scandal - The Warrior
Scorpions - No One Like You (2011)
Slydigs - Light the Fuse
Soul Remnants - Dead Black (Heart of Ice)
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Spin Doctors - Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
St. Vincent - Birth in Reverse
System of a Down - Spiders
Tijuana Sweetheart - Pistol Whipped
Van Halen - Panama
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
The Warning - Free Falling
White Denim - At Night in Dreams
The Who - The Seeker

Ilpala

Checks out. Wait, is that the Free Falling I'm thinking of?

*looks up*

One song.

YaYa

hey, you know what, I barely knew most of the songs in the original Guitar Hero and it really broadened my musical tastes

fuck it, bring on the obscurity

Mr. G

At least 5 of the songs in this game cannot even be found on YouTube or Spotify

Guessing there's a decent amount of Harmonix/local Boston flavor in here

Garlic Bread

I cancelled my pre-order because I'm not gonna afford an Xbone before it comes out, and it would be more expensive to get the game and all my songs on PS4

Mr. G

I'm gonna go ahead and thank Imagine Dragons for now being the de facto "worst song in the game" because holy hell is that song some trash

It's basically everything I hate in modern music and production in one tight package?

It doesn't even look fun to play, either

The drums are just confusing because they don't feel like they sync up with what you're hearing

OmnipotentBagel

Mr. G wrote: »

Harmonix wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_FN4ygjTo
Brad Paisley ft. Keith Urban - Start a Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQyc89jQXqY
Brandi Carlile - Mainstream Kid

Dark Wheels - V-Bomb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyBem5-Bfpg
Gary Clark Jr. - Ain't Messing 'Round

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LuH0ywYVQc
Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x1wjGKHjBI
Grouplove - Tongue Tied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ht80uzIhNs
Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life

Jeff Allen - Recession

Johnny Blazes and the Pretty Boys - Cold Clear Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02WR0OZ0MA
Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsP-MjIueL4
Mumford & Sons - The Wolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7oQEPfe-O8
R.E.M. - The One I Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlipfTBaLII
The Warning - Free Falling

The final setlist for Rock Band 4 is

.38 Special - Caught Up In You
4 Non Blondes - What's Up?
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Arctic Monkeys - Arabella
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King
Benjamin Booker - Violent Shiver
The Black Keys - Fever
The Both - Milwaukee
Brad Paisley ft. Keith Urban - Start a Band
Brandi Carlile - Mainstream Kid
Cake - Short Skirt/Long Jacket
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
Dark Wheels - V-Bomb
Disturbed - Prayer
Dream Theater - Metropolis - Part 1 'The Miracle And The Sleeper'
Duck & Cover - Knock 'Em Down
Eddie Japan - Albert
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
Fall Out Boy - Centuries
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
Foo Fighters - The Feast and the Famine
Gary Clark Jr. - Ain't Messing 'Round
Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down
Grouplove - Tongue Tied
Halestorm - I Miss the Misery
Heart - Kick It Out
Heaven's Basement - I Am Electric
Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life
Jack White - Lazaretto
Jeff Allen - Recession
Johnny Blazes and the Pretty Boys - Cold Clear Light
Judas Priest - Halls of Valhalla
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
Lightning Bolt - Dream Genie
Little Big Town - Little White Church
Live - All Over You
Lucius - Turn It Around
Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
Mumford & Sons - The Wolf
The Outfield - Your Love
Ozzy Osbourne - Miracle Man
Paramore - Still Into You
The Protomen - Light Up The Night
Queens of the Stone Age - My God Is the Sun
R.E.M. - The One I Love
Rick Derringer - Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
Rush - A Passage to Bangkok
Scandal - The Warrior
Scorpions - No One Like You (2011)
Slydigs - Light the Fuse
Soul Remnants - Dead Black (Heart of Ice)
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Spin Doctors - Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
St. Vincent - Birth in Reverse
System of a Down - Spiders
Tijuana Sweetheart - Pistol Whipped
Van Halen - Panama
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
The Warning - Free Falling
White Denim - At Night in Dreams
The Who - The Seeker

Looks like a decent blend of high-profile well-known music and more obscure stuff. Also how the hell has 4 Non-Blondes not been in that game yet?

Garlic Bread

Cello

Well, I guess RB4 is gonna be what sells me on a new gen system. Black Keys and Protomen and Gin Blossom and Queens of the Stone Age? Yes.

I can't wait to ruin Lazaretto for everyone.

rhylith

Frustrated that you need an adapter for the 360 wireless instruments to work in RB4 on xbone and that the old wired instruments won't work. Basically all of my old instruments are worthless.

The Betgirl

oooooooo I'm getting real excited, this is getting real close to release!

Calica

I got all excited about Sentris, and then I watched the trailer and it just sounds like random annoying beeps playing over an unrelated background beat... not like "music" at all, more like a noisemaker toy. Am I missing something?

I mean, if I were designing a music puzzle, I'd try to make it so that playing correctly actually sounds good.