I wonder if you'll coordinate strumming/fingering and hitting various colored pads with various colored rectangles coming down a highway towards you and you have to time your strums/hits with when they hit the line at the bottom of the screen to Green Day songs
I wonder if you'll coordinate strumming/fingering and hitting various colored pads with various colored rectangles coming down a highway towards you and you have to time your strums/hits with when they hit the line at the bottom of the screen to Green Day songs
And then you have to remark that the old rectangles were better and the new rectangles are a sell out
Just barely dark enough out but we just used the stage kit for the first time (minus the fogger) - so much fun. My 5 year old son loved it - hit the chorus of Creepy Doll and the strobe kicked in and even my wife started grinning and she was skeptical of my purchase. Very very fun toy for $20.
The expectations loaded on the game were ridiculous; the game did do okay but fell short of the ridiculous media proclamations that the game would revolutionize everything or whatever. But Harmonix/mtv games shelled out a ton of money on access to the beatles' catalog, chances are they did not make scrooge mcduck piles of money on it.
It was generally well-reviewed though, mostly because of the care and attention they gave to arguably the best rock band in history
Green Day has lots of fans, I'm sure, and they'll provide an equal amount of care, but they aren't one of those bands that seem timeless and universal to me
Yeah that trailer just made me a whole lot more interested in this game / pack.
As much as I dislike the latest album; I love some of the old stuff. Watching 'She' I really wanted to play it.
So just got to work out if this will be a day 1 or... further down the line purchase. Depends if there is any cool other stuff with it, I suppose. Take it there will be no GD-specific instruments.
No instruments huh? I wonder if this means RB3 won't add any new instrument functionality. Might as well get me some RB2 drums.
They're really pretty good. I like mine a lot. I also highly recommend the cymbal pack if you want to do something besides snare/bass/toms during drum fill segments, if you want something that feels slightly more realistic, or have kids over occasionally who will mess around in the freestyle mode. They took about a day for me to get used to and I wouldn't want to play without them now.
On the one hand, those kids love them some Green Day.
On the other, B:RB was a disappointment, Rock Band/Guitar Hero sales have declined in general especially in the wake of the Guitar Hero zerg rush, and it's priced at $60 even though it's pretty much a track pack with some minor enhancements.
So apparently HMX just gave away an Xbox album code for the Jimi Hendrix album. Only they didn't include all the digits... It's some kind of guessing game in a giveaway that is open for as long as The Whining Forum.
So apparently HMX just gave away an Xbox album code for the Jimi Hendrix album. Only they didn't include all the digits... It's some kind of guessing game in a giveaway that is open for as long as The Whining Forum.
So apparently HMX just gave away an Xbox album code for the Jimi Hendrix album. Only they didn't include all the digits... It's some kind of guessing game in a giveaway that is open for as long as The Whining Forum.
What the hell is in their brains?
How many digits are missing?
I don't recall if they said, but it was claimed that there was 1296 combinations. Somebody already figured it out about an hour ago.
I say they just start the Pepsi Promo again. But this time, only give a way one song code per day. At least we would theoretically get a tasty beverage out of the deal.
So apparently HMX just gave away an Xbox album code for the Jimi Hendrix album. Only they didn't include all the digits... It's some kind of guessing game in a giveaway that is open for as long as The Whining Forum.
What the hell is in their brains?
How many digits are missing?
I don't recall if they said, but it was claimed that there was 1296 combinations. Somebody already figured it out about an hour ago.
I say they just start the Pepsi Promo again. But this time, only give a way one song code per day. At least we would theoretically get a tasty beverage out of the deal.
They actually did the same thing for some BRB DLC some months back, only with one missing digit.
Apparently the Woodstock venue was not used because Harmonix does not like how daytime venues look in their engine, and this is why all of Rock Band's venues are at night or inside.
Apparently the Woodstock venue was not used because Harmonix does not like how daytime venues look in their engine, and this is why all of Rock Band's venues are at night or inside.
Was that the one with the mud throwing? That seems to be pretty iconic, in terms of Green Day history.
As popular as The Beatles were, though, they rose to popularity in an age before the kind of ubiquitous media penetration we have today. So for Green Day, the designers got access to absurd amounts of archival material. “We went to Warner Bros. Records for their archives and all the photos they had,” said Foster. “They pulled out full sets of contact sheets and slides; we found stuff that we thought was pretty cool, and rare. Got a Mild Blood rating in the ESRB based on one of them! There’s one staged like a crime scene, which apparently the band thinks is hilarious.”
Video access was even better. “[Working with] a band that came up in the era of MTV is huge for us. Because MTV literally gave us — ‘Here’s 20 hours of footage we have of Green Day! Raw, unreviewed footage, like full concerts we haven’t rebroadcast in years! Whaddya think?’ And we just went and grabbed the best bits. We have some outtakes from when they were on 120 Minutes and they hadn’t slept in two days and just went off the rails at one point. We have their first interview in the Bookmobile (which makes a cameo in our first venue), where they were just incredibly young. There’s a song that they played in sound check for one of their concerts in ‘94 that hadn’t even been recorded yet. It’s a really rich collection of material.”
Apparently the Woodstock venue was not used because Harmonix does not like how daytime venues look in their engine, and this is why all of Rock Band's venues are at night or inside.
Was that the one with the mud throwing? That seems to be pretty iconic, in terms of Green Day history.
Yeah but if it looks like it's on a gigantic indoor set, people would have been pissed.
I'd rather HMX be honest about engine limitations than force through something they don't think will work well.
One of the nice tweaks is that when you bring in the DLC we actually add harmonies onto them, which is a nice way to embellish the Rock Band 2 songs that people have, and it’s something that’s unique to playing them inside of here. The “meta-game” — what we call all the progression mechanics — uses some of the same concepts from Beatles, but it’s been nicely refined. We really wanted to make it appropriate to Green Day, so it’s got three tours instead of the one narrative progression; it’s got collectibles, but they’re arranged in a different way; it has more opportunities to give you cool archival footage.
And one nerdy detail: The challenges in this, in addition to not just being repeats of chapters, we’ve also tuned the difficulty so that you have to average about four and a half stars or four stars a song in order to beat the challenges. One of the things with Beatles, people were like, “I want to get the last photo, but if I blow one song then I have to start over.” So we wanted to make it a little more of a realistic challenge.
Well, there you go. Confirmation that they can be added retroactively.
Also, not having to perfect everything in a set is a minor but positive detail.
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Oops, that's not right.
You do know it is essentially a track pack right
It all exports to RB1/2/3
Also Warner is only going to release this songs via disc.
It's not like you have to buy it
C'mon now, new and interesting argument is still new and interesting...
Oh.
Uh.... whoops.
Has B:RB really fared that poorly?
Green Day has lots of fans, I'm sure, and they'll provide an equal amount of care, but they aren't one of those bands that seem timeless and universal to me
New Trailer.
Shows gameplay from 21st Century Breakdown, Holiday, and She
Also gives first look at all 3 venues and of "young" Green Day.
That new trailer just had to play three awesome songs in a row and get me a little bit excited
As much as I dislike the latest album; I love some of the old stuff. Watching 'She' I really wanted to play it.
So just got to work out if this will be a day 1 or... further down the line purchase. Depends if there is any cool other stuff with it, I suppose. Take it there will be no GD-specific instruments.
This really is a track pack with a little extra work put into it.
US MSRP $59.99
Green Day: Rock Band standalone gamefor Wii system
US MSRP $49.99
Green Day: Rock Band Plus for Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 system (US/Canada only)
US MSRP $69.99
Includes special packaging, free export ($10 value) and six Green Day DLC tracks (overall $22 total value)
They're really pretty good. I like mine a lot. I also highly recommend the cymbal pack if you want to do something besides snare/bass/toms during drum fill segments, if you want something that feels slightly more realistic, or have kids over occasionally who will mess around in the freestyle mode. They took about a day for me to get used to and I wouldn't want to play without them now.
Also, I totally called GDRB being $60.
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Rumours of that price have been around for a month or so.
EDIT:
March 10/11, in fact.
On the one hand, those kids love them some Green Day.
On the other, B:RB was a disappointment, Rock Band/Guitar Hero sales have declined in general especially in the wake of the Guitar Hero zerg rush, and it's priced at $60 even though it's pretty much a track pack with some minor enhancements.
Okay, maybe I'm a little pessimistic.
It has always been my belief that it would be full priced.
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Well, anybody who thought otherwise was just deluding themselves.
What the hell is in their brains?
How many digits are missing?
I don't recall if they said, but it was claimed that there was 1296 combinations. Somebody already figured it out about an hour ago.
I say they just start the Pepsi Promo again. But this time, only give a way one song code per day. At least we would theoretically get a tasty beverage out of the deal.
They actually did the same thing for some BRB DLC some months back, only with one missing digit.
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Apparently the Woodstock venue was not used because Harmonix does not like how daytime venues look in their engine, and this is why all of Rock Band's venues are at night or inside.
Comes packaged with edible Woodstock grass.
Was that the one with the mud throwing? That seems to be pretty iconic, in terms of Green Day history.
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It's nice to know they included extra stuff.
Yeah but if it looks like it's on a gigantic indoor set, people would have been pissed.
I'd rather HMX be honest about engine limitations than force through something they don't think will work well.
Well, there you go. Confirmation that they can be added retroactively.
Also, not having to perfect everything in a set is a minor but positive detail.