oh wow. one of mine totally died over the weekend. replacements are running 200-300 through amazon third party sellers. sadness. the once or twice a year I have people over and want to play, I really want to play.
Additionally, after 5 years of availability the 20 Free DLC offer from Rock Band 2 has expired, and the redemption page is no longer live. As with other previously purchased / downloaded content, if you already have these tracks then nothing changes for you.
Oh, I'm not saying *I* hated it (well, I didn't much care for three of them...). It was just bitched about by all the 'real fans' because it wasn't 20 free songs of recognisable hits that they were sure to love. Hell, it had what became one of my all-time favourite RB songs (Sons and Daughters by The 88) and a few others that were pretty fun to play and/or listen to.
Didn't change the fact that some folks thought they were owed so-called better selections. Harmonix' inability to provide a wider selection of songs after they bought themselves is a different issue, however.
1) The Rock Band 'fans' on the forums would bitch about everything every week, remember? Good/horrible times.
2)It makes sense they'd let the Free 20 lapse as they probably were getting very diminishing returns on it, since new copies of RB2 aren't showing up much any more on purchases while everyone who has any copy of any Rock Band game can keep buying the paid DLC.
3) Hell yeah to Sons and Daughters! And Like A Fool; I'm Gone, I'm Going; Ashes to Fire; If I Ain't Got You... five songs I really enjoy out of there, plus at least five more that I like to play every once in a while.
Apparently Harmonix has "grand plans" for Rock Band on the next gen consoles but started their PAX thingy flat out stating they wouldn't be announcing Rock Band 4?
Apparently Harmonix has "grand plans" for Rock Band on the next gen consoles but started their PAX thingy flat out stating they wouldn't be announcing Rock Band 4?
Apparently Harmonix has "grand plans" for Rock Band on the next gen consoles but started their PAX thingy flat out stating they wouldn't be announcing Rock Band 4?
idgi
Backwards compatability announced.
Just for Rock Band games.
That'd be fine by me. But...there is E3 in two months. And PAX Prime in August. Plenty of time ahead for a big announcement...
I'm not expecting anything for another year or two at least, though.
Apparently Harmonix has "grand plans" for Rock Band on the next gen consoles but started their PAX thingy flat out stating they wouldn't be announcing Rock Band 4?
idgi
they said, in as many words, that "we want to bring back Rock Band on next-gen platforms" was literally the extent of the development on that front thus far
I want to thank you folks for bringing this thread back recently. See, I wanted to do some virtual instrument drum recordings for a project I'm working on. I didn't want to program them and I didn't want to use my keyboard MIDI controller because it doesn't feel right. So, I was either going to buy or make my own MIDI pad. Then this thread got bumped and my brain thought "self, surely someone has written some software that will allow you to use your Rock Band drum kit to trigger the MIDI inputs in Reaper". And yes, it was true. The drums are recorded and I had a blast. My four year old also played around with them and she loved it as well.
Which, to bring this post to the recent topic. I would love to be able to play the game in some fashion on the new console. I think it could be a really fun family game for us to play, especially since she's taken such an interest in it. Heck, I may fire the whole thing back up on the PS3. So much DLC to redownload though since we had to replace the original PS3.
I still, and shall forever, miss drunken Rock Band nights.
The way they talked about Rock Band at the Giant Bomb panel this weekend, I'd like to see a new Rock Band that somehow doesn't lose tons of money on putting plastic guitars out on store shelves. I'm trying to figure out how it'd work though, because for a new Rock Band to be viable you'd have to ship all new plastic instruments for the new consoles, right? And need to sell it at places like Best Buy and Walmart. I thought maybe a crowdfunding thing might work, where you basically pay upfront saying "I want this game and the plastic instruments that come with it and am paying you now" so they know exactly how many to make.
Such an approach would pretty much guarantee that the number of units shipped is too small to have any pull with publishers and other music licenseholders.
Possibly the way I see it is for the game to just be a game+guitar bundle, with a code inside that lets you go to website and get the drums sent to you.
Wii and PS3 instruments can work on the PS4 and the Wii U. The Xbox One is the odd one out with no compatible radio communication between generations.
If MS had made bluetooth a communication option on the One, we could have seen an easily made universal controller across all consoles. They can still do it, but once again, MS is the odd one out with their controller licensing weirdness. Sony and Nintendo are pretty much "whatever", MS is so damn picky they wouldn't even let the buttons on the Squier directly control your 360, and forced you to use the midi pro adapter's buttons.
Either way, if they could make all the instruments console universal this time, I think that'd go a long way towards improving things.
I was going to suggest getting a Rock Pedal but apparently they aren't making them any more... look into if there's anyone else selling drum pedals similar to that though because for under $100 it's a real damn drum pedal wired to work with your RB drum kit. I mean, shit, the all-metal drum pedal that came with my ION kit broke, but the Rock Pedal won't.
I still dream of the day where I become a home owner, and then purchase a nice electronic drum kit, and then hook up the Rock Band MIDI brain to it.
My guitars may eventually die out on me, but I shall drum forevermore.
My Beatles drum kit is holding up like a boss. The guitars don't overdrive anymore but other than that all my stuff is pretty solid. I feel super lucky (though I did go through 3 RB1 drumkits).
I was going to suggest getting a Rock Pedal but apparently they aren't making them any more... look into if there's anyone else selling drum pedals similar to that though because for under $100 it's a real damn drum pedal wired to work with your RB drum kit. I mean, shit, the all-metal drum pedal that came with my ION kit broke, but the Rock Pedal won't.
I still dream of the day where I become a home owner, and then purchase a nice electronic drum kit, and then hook up the Rock Band MIDI brain to it.
My guitars may eventually die out on me, but I shall drum forevermore.
My Rock Pedal did break.
Or more specifically it didn't so much break as after probably a couple thousand hours of use the magnet started to go out which resulted in having to make adjustments far too often which resulted in a stripped screwhole
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Might be cheaper to find a way to rethread the hole.
My RB2 pedal was still working when I saw it last, but all of my drum pads cracked... twice. Once with the stock pads and once again after I replaced them with those mesh replacements whose name I cannot remember.
Now I've got an Ion kit+KP65. It was originally wired up with a homemade kick trigger box, but now uses a KickWire. They're kind of expensive for a wire but totally worth every cent. If you've already got a working bass pedal, you could probably get the KP65/KickWire for under $100.
That said, all my stuff is just sitting off to the side of the room, not getting any use. I've mostly moved on to Rocksmith, RB drums are fun as hell but not worth the neighbor aggro.
Yeah neighbors is why I have not set my drums up in the apartment and hardly ever play RB in general any more. One of the motivating factors to find a new place.
I'm right now looking at moving from my townhouse (neighbors to the left/right, decent sound isolation so that the only real unit-to-unit annoyance is the thud of a bass pedal) to an apartment, so it's not looking like I'll be in a RB drum friendly location any time soon. I guess I should probably figure out how to best store the kit so that it stays decently preserved.
I keep forgetting to post this. But, since the Rock Band forums no longer contain the information (for whatever fucking stupid reason), here are all the RB3 in-game goals in case you may have been wondering if buying that certain song might lead to more fans or something.
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Just in case any of you are going to PAX East and need... a few guitars.
I'm kind of pissed off at the idea that one day, my 360 will be fine but I can't play Rock Band because the instruments are either dead or 600$
There are some real stinkers too, of course.
Gamertag: PrimusD | Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Didn't change the fact that some folks thought they were owed so-called better selections. Harmonix' inability to provide a wider selection of songs after they bought themselves is a different issue, however.
2)It makes sense they'd let the Free 20 lapse as they probably were getting very diminishing returns on it, since new copies of RB2 aren't showing up much any more on purchases while everyone who has any copy of any Rock Band game can keep buying the paid DLC.
3) Hell yeah to Sons and Daughters! And Like A Fool; I'm Gone, I'm Going; Ashes to Fire; If I Ain't Got You... five songs I really enjoy out of there, plus at least five more that I like to play every once in a while.
Gamertag: PrimusD | Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
I can't remember the name offhand but the 20 Free has a song in it that's hell on bass. Stairs and snakes and shit. Could never pass it in RB2.
Young grew on me, Ashes to Fire I like a lot too.
One of my all-time favourites.
idgi
Backwards compatability announced.
Just for Rock Band games.
Gamertag: PrimusD | Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
That'd be fine by me. But...there is E3 in two months. And PAX Prime in August. Plenty of time ahead for a big announcement...
I'm not expecting anything for another year or two at least, though.
they said, in as many words, that "we want to bring back Rock Band on next-gen platforms" was literally the extent of the development on that front thus far
Which, to bring this post to the recent topic. I would love to be able to play the game in some fashion on the new console. I think it could be a really fun family game for us to play, especially since she's taken such an interest in it. Heck, I may fire the whole thing back up on the PS3. So much DLC to redownload though since we had to replace the original PS3.
I still, and shall forever, miss drunken Rock Band nights.
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Gamertag: PrimusD | Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
If MS had made bluetooth a communication option on the One, we could have seen an easily made universal controller across all consoles. They can still do it, but once again, MS is the odd one out with their controller licensing weirdness. Sony and Nintendo are pretty much "whatever", MS is so damn picky they wouldn't even let the buttons on the Squier directly control your 360, and forced you to use the midi pro adapter's buttons.
Either way, if they could make all the instruments console universal this time, I think that'd go a long way towards improving things.
My Rock Pedal died
I was going to suggest getting a Rock Pedal but apparently they aren't making them any more... look into if there's anyone else selling drum pedals similar to that though because for under $100 it's a real damn drum pedal wired to work with your RB drum kit. I mean, shit, the all-metal drum pedal that came with my ION kit broke, but the Rock Pedal won't.
I still dream of the day where I become a home owner, and then purchase a nice electronic drum kit, and then hook up the Rock Band MIDI brain to it.
My guitars may eventually die out on me, but I shall drum forevermore.
Gamertag: PrimusD | Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
My Rock Pedal did break.
Or more specifically it didn't so much break as after probably a couple thousand hours of use the magnet started to go out which resulted in having to make adjustments far too often which resulted in a stripped screwhole
Now I've got an Ion kit+KP65. It was originally wired up with a homemade kick trigger box, but now uses a KickWire. They're kind of expensive for a wire but totally worth every cent. If you've already got a working bass pedal, you could probably get the KP65/KickWire for under $100.
That said, all my stuff is just sitting off to the side of the room, not getting any use. I've mostly moved on to Rocksmith, RB drums are fun as hell but not worth the neighbor aggro.
Gamertag: PrimusD | Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar