Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: kraken613 on July 09, 2009, 07:44:32 PM
Title: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 09, 2009, 07:44:32 PM
I love Rock Band, I love The Beatles, this game = EPIC!
So who is with me in the total excitement for this game? It just looks so much fun even in videos. I will be picking this up on 9-9-09!
It just looks fun.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPkVNC-h_TE
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Morari on July 09, 2009, 08:19:19 PM
I'm not sure how I feel about a rhythm game that has nothing but absolutely great songs. Aren't titles in this genre supposed to be made up of about 90% crap songs?
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Mop it up on July 09, 2009, 09:26:35 PM
I'm surprised you even know who The Beatles are, Kraken613.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 09, 2009, 10:07:16 PM
What?!!?! The Beatles are my favorite band of ALL TIME!
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Mop it up on July 10, 2009, 12:07:00 AM
That's interesting considering how long before your time they were. I'd think most young'uns have never heard of them. If you don't own some of The Beatles albums on vinyl records then you're not a true fan.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 10, 2009, 12:29:10 AM
I my Dad has all of them on Vinyl. He grew up while they where together, he was littler but still. He does not let me touch them though! I have all but a few on CD so I can have them on my iPod.
If someone has never heard of The Beatles I will punch them in the face....
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Dirk Temporo on July 10, 2009, 12:40:57 AM
I'd think most young'uns have never heard of them.
You don't get out much, do you?
Anyway, I don't know why everybody is treating this as if it isn't exactly the same game as all the other Rock Bands/Guitar Heroes. Except for the fact that this one focuses on the single most overrated band of all time, there is no difference between playing regular old Rock Band 2 and this.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 10, 2009, 12:50:04 AM
I am not buying the pack, just the game. I love the Beatles!
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Mop it up on July 10, 2009, 12:50:31 AM
All you need to do is learn a few simple chords and start strumming randomly to the chord progressions (reading the chord charts is the easiest thing in the world too, not like reading real music which is like a foreign language). Sure it isn't an A1 version of the song, but it's functional if you remember the tune and can sing a bit. You can do this competently with a few months of practice (and then if you want to step it up, get some Metallica tab books).
Tab books of music you like are the best way to learn guitar, I swear.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Mop it up on July 10, 2009, 08:17:57 PM
I'd think most young'uns have never heard of them.
You don't get out much, do you?
Remember, Stupid Mod had never heard of Pearl Jam, either.
Yeah I don't follow the whole music scene so I don't know what the kids listen to these days. But since kids tend to treat anything that's more than a year old as utter garbage then I wouldn't have thought they'd be into something as old as The Beatles.
This is probably the first version of Guitar Hero/Rock Band which has some music in it I might actually like, much less have heard of.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 11, 2009, 12:04:25 AM
I just got done with playing 5 strait hours of Rock Band 2 with some of my friends... I want my Beatles music now... Well on to watch the E3 video again! lol
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on July 12, 2009, 06:19:43 PM
Wow, whole lot of music snobbery/bashing in this thread.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: NWR_Neal on July 13, 2009, 08:17:22 AM
I like a wide variety of music. I haven't really been upset by a rhythm game set list. I'm excited for this game.
Does that means i'm...dying?
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: EasyCure on July 13, 2009, 10:51:03 AM
Wow, whole lot of music snobbery/bashing in this thread.
I know, it's really hard to ignore too...
*fights the urge to yell at Mop_it_up*
Anyway, I'm not that excited about this game. I enjoy The Beatles music as much as the next guy (not counting Ned Flanders types..) but like Rize said, their songs aren't all that difficult. I'll probably pick the game up if i can ever finde it cheap/used, but i don't see myself playing it all that much. I don't have many friends who are into the Beatles and the real appeal of this game would be playing with a group, or at least one other player who you can harmonize with.
Oh and like Rize said, easiest way to learn to play guitar is get yourself a book of tabulature.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Morari on July 13, 2009, 08:20:56 PM
I don't have many friends who are into the Beatles [...]
You need a better class of friends.
A class that listens to mediocre popular music which was only ever influential because it emerged right at the birth of mass media, which all but completely murdered worthwhile media of any form?
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Mop it up on July 14, 2009, 12:38:38 AM
I don't have many friends who are into the Beatles [...]
You need a better class of friends.
A class that listens to mediocre popular music which was only ever influential because it emerged right at the birth of mass media, which all but completely murdered worthwhile media of any form?
No i need less of those, they already listen to Soulja Boy or whoever is "hot" right now ;)
I don't have many friends who are into the Beatles [...]
You need a better class of friends.
A class that listens to mediocre popular music which was only ever influential because it emerged right at the birth of mass media, which all but completely murdered worthwhile media of any form?
Y'know, the Beatles "pop" music doesn't extend very far into their career. Why don't you check out Revolver or the White Album some day, you may be surprised.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 15, 2009, 01:35:10 AM
Y'know, the Beatles "pop" music doesn't extend very far into their career. Why don't you check out Revolver or the White Album some day, you may be surprised.
You mean when they realized that people were becoming ever so slightly disinterested and that they could keep being massively popular if they became chameleons and adapted themselves to whatever music was popular in any given era? Being different than they were doesn't make them not popular. All they ever did was produce music for the masses, just like popular music today and every day since the advent of mass media.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: vudu on July 15, 2009, 05:28:26 PM
You mean when they realized that people were becoming ever so slightly disinterested and that they could keep being massively popular if they became chameleons and adapted themselves to whatever music was popular in any given era?
More like whatever music they created in any given era became popular. Just sayin'.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 16, 2009, 02:02:43 AM
I preordered the game today. Got this card for the "preorder club". Just some pictures and extra articles. I will get 3 extra songs for preordering also. You get that code when you pick the game up though.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 21, 2009, 11:12:34 AM
We got 15 new announced songs:
• Twist And Shout / Cavern Club • Do You Want To Know A Secret / Cavern Club • Can't Buy Me Love / Ed Sullivan Theater • I Wanna Be Your Man / Ed Sullivan Theater • Eight Days A Week / Shea Stadium • Paperback Writer / Budokan • And Your Bird Can Sing / Budokan • Yellow Submarine / Abbey Road Dreamscape • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* / Abbey Road Dreamscape • With a Little Help from My Friends* / Abbey Road Dreamscape • Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows / Abbey Road Dreamscape • Revolution / Abbey Road Dreamscape • Birthday / Abbey Road Dreamscape • Dig A Pony / Rooftop Concert • I've Got A Feeling / Rooftop Concert
Also a new trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-XNI-qCbnY
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Ian Sane on July 21, 2009, 07:14:26 PM
I'll definitely be picking this up, though just the game. My existing Guitar Hero gear will suffice. This is the ONLY band that in my mind deserves their own game. Aerosmith, Metallica, and Van Halen are all big acts but there are like a hundred other acts that are on par with them in popularity. So you can always say "well shouldn't so-and-so get their own game?" and we get, well, what we have, a flooded marketplace. But there is no one as big as The Beatles. If they were the only ones that had their own game if anyone said "what about so-and-so" you could say "they're not The Beatles" and that's the end of it.
I used to think the Beatles were overrated when I was in high school but that was before I actually, you know, listened to them. They have so much variety and evolved so much in such a short time. You listen to Please Please Me and Across the Universe and it's like "this is the same band?" And these songs are only about seven years apart. Most bands release about three albums that sound virtually identical in that time. There are bands that have been around and relevent for 30 years that have not covered that much breadth and these guys did it in less than 10.
One thing that is not often talked about but should be is that The Beatles were self-sufficient and changed popular music as a result. When I think of a pop act I think of some pretty slut who sings whatever half-assed bullshit her record company shoves in her face. That is the perfect example of a manufactured phony act. When The Beatles made it, it was not common for the artist to write their own material. You were a performer that sang songs written by professional songwriters. There were exceptions like Buddy Holly but that was the norm for mainstream acts. The Beatles changed that. Not only did they write their own material but that become the norm for rock n roll. Everyone does it now. It's expected. There is obviously tons of record company bullshit still but a signed artist doesn't go into the studio with a whole album's worth of original material and get told "'fraid not" and is forced to record 10 covers to go with the two of his own songs he was allocated. There is so much more creative control than what their was then and The Beatles are the reason for it.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Plugabugz on July 21, 2009, 07:50:07 PM
I am obligated to say: *continues waiting*
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: EasyCure on July 22, 2009, 01:25:56 PM
I used to think the Beatles were overrated when I was in high school but that was before I actually, you know, listened to them. They have so much variety and evolved so much in such a short time. You listen to Please Please Me and Across the Universe and it's like "this is the same band?" And these songs are only about seven years apart.
When I read this part, the only other band I can think of (that isn't the Cure ;)) is Bloc Party. I'm not saying they're as good as or anywhere near the same level as The Beatles, BUT.. I gotta give em credit, only 3 studio albums under their belt and they've grown quite a bit and i still listen to their first album and most recent and think "wow, i can't believe these are the same four guys.."
Have you checked them out Ian? Besides those videos i linked to you awhile back?
Most bands release about three albums that sound virtually identical in that time. There are bands that have been around and relevent for 30 years that have not covered that much breadth and these guys did it in less than 10.
First band i thought of was AC/DC :P Still love 'em, though not as much as another similar band; The Ramones
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 22, 2009, 01:29:35 PM
The key is that they changed so much but where still the same amazing band. Still put out the hits in different styles. Bands sometimes change but aren't any good once they do.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: EasyCure on July 23, 2009, 10:55:43 AM
The key is that they changed so much but where still the same amazing band. Still put out the hits in different styles. Bands sometimes change but aren't any good once they do.
So true.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: vudu on July 23, 2009, 02:15:24 PM
This is the ONLY band that in my mind deserves their own game. Aerosmith, Metallica, and Van Halen are all big acts but there are like a hundred other acts that are on par with them in popularity.
And Activision will continue to pump out Guitar Hero games until all one hundred acts have their own game. Is that really so hard to believe?
For what it's worth, I think a Rage Against The Machine Guitar Hero would be freaking sweet.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: EasyCure on July 23, 2009, 04:16:08 PM
I dunno about that, bud i'd def. buy The Cure Rock Band day one ;)
I'm sure by thend a keyboard controller will be standard in band games, so it'd fill out alot of the Cure's sound nicely :)
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Ian Sane on July 23, 2009, 04:45:04 PM
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And Activision will continue to pump out Guitar Hero games until all one hundred acts have their own game. Is that really so hard to believe?
I just hope the series stays profitable long enough to allow enough time for my band to get signed, release some albums, build a big fanbase and then get our own game. So let's say... ten years? Apparently Aerosmith has made more money from Guitar Hero than album sales and they've been releasing albums for over 30 years! Cha-ching! ;)
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I dunno about that, bud i'd def. buy The Cure Rock Band day one
Ditto. There are a couple of bands that would interest my purchase. Unfortunately for Activision that bands they have picked so far are all acts that, while I overall enjoy them and own at least one album of each one, they all:
A. Have not made music I have considently liked thoughout their whole career. Each band has some point where I ceased to like any material by them from that point on. That whole "band changes sound and now they suck" scenario we were talking about. Aerosmith is performing in Vancouver soon and if this was before 1996 or so I would check them out. But because they have a good ten years of more modern hits that I cannot stand I don't want to see them in case they focus too much on the newer weaker material.
B. Are severely overplayed on my local radio stations. One thing that keeps The Cure's biggest hits fresh to me no matter how many times I hear them is I only really hear them when I choose to listen to them. A Cure song on the radio for me is like a rare treat. Van Halen on the radio is a "let's see what else is on" as I've heard Jump, Panama and Running With the Devil so many times the songs do nothing for me at all anymore (but something more obscure like Atomic Punk will).
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: vudu on July 23, 2009, 05:10:21 PM
Apparently Aerosmith has made more money from Guitar Hero than album sales and they've been releasing albums for over 30 years! Cha-ching! ;)
You've got your facts slightly wrong. Aerosmith made more money from Guitar Hero: Areosmith than from their last album. A little more believable now, right?
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Ian Sane on July 23, 2009, 06:59:13 PM
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You've got your facts slightly wrong. Aerosmith made more money from Guitar Hero: Areosmith than from their last album. A little more believable now, right?
Ah, I see. Well that's probably not much of an accomplishment then. But it's actually more encouraging as the fear of record companies screwing you on royalties is something I've always feared and this sounded like a perfect example of that. Like even big bands like Aerosmith get jerked around so much that a side-project like a videogame would make them more money.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: EasyCure on July 24, 2009, 10:39:59 AM
You've got your facts slightly wrong. Aerosmith made more money from Guitar Hero: Areosmith than from their last album. A little more believable now, right?
Ah, I see. Well that's probably not much of an accomplishment then. But it's actually more encouraging as the fear of record companies screwing you on royalties is something I've always feared and this sounded like a perfect example of that. Like even big bands like Aerosmith get jerked around so much that a side-project like a videogame would make them more money.
It's scary when you use the word "side-project" when in relation to bands and video games.. Artists that I like always seem to have some sort of spin-off band these days, but imagine if they started making video games, not neccessarily in the rockband/guitar hero format, just to get their music out there... weird.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Dirk Temporo on July 27, 2009, 01:09:20 PM
but imagine if they started making video games, not neccessarily in the rockband/guitar hero format, just to get their music out there... weird.
Sounds like someone finally realized why Mushroom Men was amazing.
Last (and only) time i played my copy of Mushroom Men, I fought off giant rats in some sort of mineshaft. It looked like it might be fun but i got sidetracked catching up on other games i had at the time, and now i'm sidetracked playing some newer games (Rune Factory Frontie FTW!) but.. i didn't notice anything special about the music. I take it there's some info i'm missing here?
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Dirk Temporo on July 28, 2009, 03:50:02 PM
but.. i didn't notice anything special about the music. I take it there's some info i'm missing here?
You're missing Les motherf***ing Claypool, apparently. He made an album out of all the work he did on the Mushroom Men soundtrack called Of Fungi or Foe. Also, aside from Les Claypool, the way the music in Mushroom Men is presented is absolutely amazing. Ambient noises and sound effects blend perfectly in time with the music, making the songs which were created for the environment to also be a PART of the environment.
The music and by proxy the atmosphere were the only real reasons to play that game. I can't believe you didn't notice it. o_0
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: EasyCure on July 29, 2009, 09:27:26 AM
but.. i didn't notice anything special about the music. I take it there's some info i'm missing here?
You're missing Les motherf***ing Claypool, apparently. He made an album out of all the work he did on the Mushroom Men soundtrack called Of Fungi or Foe. Also, aside from Les Claypool, the way the music in Mushroom Men is presented is absolutely amazing. Ambient noises and sound effects blend perfectly in time with the music, making the songs which were created for the environment to also be a PART of the environment.
The music and by proxy the atmosphere were the only real reasons to play that game. I can't believe you didn't notice it. o_0
I'll have to check out the album and play Mushroom Men again. I bought it back when Circuit City was liquidating everything but I only played it for about an hour or so and haven't touched it since. That was this past winter i believe. Obviously of all things to remember from such a short time with the game, the music wasn't one of them.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Dirk Temporo on July 29, 2009, 05:36:49 PM
I think I'm coming at it from a different angle because while I was interested in the concept of playing a living mushroom, my real motivation for playing the game was Les Claypool doing the music. I love Les Claypool.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on July 29, 2009, 05:48:29 PM
Re-rail to The Beatles: Rock Band.....
If you preordered there is a new update in the Preorder Club.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on August 13, 2009, 09:31:06 PM
The full song list - one song that they are waiting till 9/9/09 until its announced.
Singles I Want To Hold Your Hand I Feel Fine Day Tripper Paperback Writer Revolution Don't Let Me Down
Please Please Me (1963) I Saw Her Standing There Boys Do You Want To Know A Secret Twist and Shout
With the Beatles (1963) I Wanna Be Your Man
A Hard Day's Night (1964) A Hard Day's Night Can't Buy Me Love
Beatles For Sale (1964) Eight Days a Week
Help! (1965) Ticket To Ride
Rubber Soul (1965) Drive My Car I'm Looking Through You If I Needed Someone
Revolver (1966) Taxman Yellow Submarine And Your Bird Can Sing
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Getting Better Good Morning Good Morning
Magical Mystery Tour (1967) I Am The Walrus Hello Goodbye
The Beatles (White Album) (1968) Dear Prudence Back In the U.S.S.R. While My Guitar Gently Weeps Birthday Helter Skelter
Yellow Submarine (1969) Hey Bulldog
Abbey Road (1969) Come Together Something Octopus's Garden I Want You (She's So Heavy) Here Comes the Sun
Let It Be (1970) Dig a Pony I Me Mine I Got a Feeling Get Back
Love (2006) Within You Without You/ Tomorrow Never Knows
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on August 17, 2009, 08:37:18 PM
Your not going to this thing cheap cause it has The Beatles name on it.
This and Lego are at totally different audiences.
I know :( It makes me sad in my pants.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on September 12, 2009, 02:17:51 PM
I LOVE THIS GAME!
I have been on a Beatles high since 9-9-09 with this game and the Remasters! The remeasters are amazing! They have such a "warm" sound. As close to vinyl as your going to get on a CD.
The Beatles= Best band ever!
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: Mop it up on September 12, 2009, 02:21:50 PM
They should have made a special edition of the game which comes on vinyl.
Oh wait, then you couldn't play it. Oh well, it'd be cool nonetheless.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on September 14, 2009, 01:37:49 PM
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: kraken613 on September 20, 2009, 05:10:02 PM
You are wrong, you yourself are the one who said don't complain about what type of music people like.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 20, 2009, 05:41:51 PM
You can't be mad at Lindy for trolling the forums, that's like being mad a a dolphin for swimming. It's what he was put on this Earth to do, it's all he knows.
Title: Re: The "I can't wait for The Beatles: Rock Band" Thread
Post by: EasyCure on September 23, 2009, 08:47:39 AM
