The Official Rockband Thread

[Agent Minivann]

My brother-in-law came for a visit this week. He played his first Heroscape, and he brought his 360 and Rockband. I've never played Guitar Hero, but I had a lot of fun with Rockband. I tried the guitar and had a real hard time at first. Real guitar playing doesn't help out that much. I kept trying to do vibrato with the left hand instead of with the whammy bar. My bro was really good with the guitar, so that worked out. My son picked up the drums pretty quick and my daughter liked bass. I did pretty good on the singing. I could pass on easy with the songs I didn't know, but hit 90 or greater on expert with the ones I knew. We had a lot of fun starting a band and playing. I got a good kick out of making the characters. We won't be buying it anytime soon, but I wouldn't mind having it. I'm betting the song list would get old after a while.

[Wind Lane]

What? No link?

[K/H_Addict]

Song list? Get old? Not with new songs on a weekly basis, no!

[Agent Minivann]

Originally Posted by K/H_Addict

Song list? Get old? Not with new songs on a weekly basis, no!

If you don't get the new stuff, yes. It's fun, but I'm not sure it is fun enough that I'd be paying for more songs.

[K/H_Addict]

Bah, with the diversity of the song list and the DLC, there's bound to be new songs you actually like, and they're only a few dollars a piece. I don't have my own copy yet, but if I did, there'd be 6 new songs I'd download tomorrow, and they're all Boston, because I effin' LOVE Boston. When I do get my own copy, I'm only going to download the songs I know I'll like; a friend of mine has it has gets every song as it comes out, so I have no need to ()

[CupidsArt]

Originally Posted by K/H_Addict

Song list? Get old? Not with new songs on a weekly basis, no!

yes but the game does get old when you're expected to be one part of the "band" every time you play. I'm sick of singing but we're trying to finish every gig on expert right now so I'm stuck.

The game as a whole though really only hits the fun factor when you do have a group playing it. Trying to finish the solo stuff for me has become a drag for me.

[bad_calvin]

Originally Posted by CupidsArt

yes but the game does get old when you're expected to be one part of the "band" every time you play. I'm sick of singing but we're trying to finish every gig on expert right now so I'm stuck.

The game as a whole though really only hits the fun factor when you do have a group playing it. Trying to finish the solo stuff for me has become a drag for me.

I don't like getting stuck singing either. I wanted the game for the drums more then anything. Just because I can play all three doesn't mean I like to.

[CupidsArt]

Originally Posted by bad_calvin

I don't like getting stuck singing either. I wanted the game for the drums more then anything. Just because I can play all three doesn't mean I like to.

The worst/best thing is that we just got a new member. He's wicked awesome on the drums (Tom Sawyer on expert awesome), but that pushed Mags onto the Guitar and left Pokey on Bass. It's great because we're finally getting gold stars, the problem is. Nobody ever wants to switch off.

The only time I get to do anything else is when someone is missing and even then it's only Bass,

It's still a great game though,

[Zorgophlats]

What's with the gold stars?

A friend mentioned that he got gold stars on one song. He didn't know what it meant and didn't know what he did differently.

[K/H_Addict]

Originally Posted by Zorgophlats

What's with the gold stars?

A friend mentioned that he got gold stars on one song. He didn't know what it meant and didn't know what he did differently.

I'm not sure how it works in Rockband, but in the Guitar Hero franchise, 5 gold stars signifies that you've successfully hit 100% of the notes in the song.

[jcb231]

Gold Stars on Rock Band are only available on Expert level, if I recall.

There really does need to be a patch that fixes the issue where band members can't switch roles. That was just poor design on Harmonix's part.

[Supergeek]

Originally Posted by jcb231

Gold Stars on Rock Band are only available on Expert level, if I recall.

I believe you have to get 100,000 pionts above what it takes to get five stars for the gold stars and they are only on expert.