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A Look At Rock Band 2's Drum Trainer, Battle of the Bands
The folks at Kotaku sat down with a copy of Rock Band 2 and took a look at some of the game's special features. The Drum Trainer will let you practice your beats, fills, and freestyle playing, while Battle of the Bands will let you compete against others using a new set list every week. Perhaps most interesting is the ability for Rock Band 2 owners, for a small fee ("less than $5"), to import songs from a Rock Band 1 disc.
"There appears, as of now, no DRM tracking on anything to indicate you rightfully own the disc you want to export. So if you missed out on the Rock Band party last year and want to play the old songs, too, all you have to do is rent a copy or borrow someone else's. It doesn't seem Harmonix [is] too concerned, however, as they're happy you already paid the licensing fee and bought Rock Band 2!"
IS AWESOME
I thought they'd make you re-buy them as DLC or something. It's a great move, I think.
Now, if I could pay just $5 dollars and get MP3s to play on my ipod...
Steven from bluesnews been to a demo, this is his recap: http://bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=90547
Why in hell would I pay a company $5 more dollars for the same songs?
Now, if I could pay just $5 dollars and get MP3s to play on my ipod...
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MP3s play on ipods for free.
1. Disallow import of old songs into the new game. Block ears while gamers whine.
2. Write software which transfers old songs to new game. Donate this programmer time to The Kids or whatever.
3. Write software which transfers old songs to new game. Hit the user for the price of a Big Mac, and watch a huge portion of your users kick in for it.
Which of these is the best plan for Harmonix's continued existence?
Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
Pay $5 to have the joke fly over your head. Wooosh!
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You'd be amazed how many people don't realize that iPods are not a bastion of exclusivity that people think they are. That both iTunes and iPod can speak MP3 if you just ask them to is something routinely missed by Apple haters.
I think you parsed the sentence differently than intended.
Your way:
Now, if I could pay just $5 dollars and ((get MP3s to play) on my ipod)...
Mex's way:
Now, if I could (pay just $5 dollars and get MP3s) to play on my ipod...
warning: This post is likely to contain gobs of dripping sarcasm. Consume at your own risk.
How about a $10 option where I could transfer all tracks but "Train Kept a rollin" and "Timmy" ?
The biggest complaint I have with Rock Band 1 is the crappy guitar they included. I know the new one will be wireless, but will the buttons and strum bar be playable?
Considering that Aerosmith has that exclusivity contact with Activision now, I think Train Kept a Rollin' is highly likely to not be allowed to transfer. Harmonix had to renegotiate the rights, so I figure Aerosmith had to say no.
I'm not feeling too bad about missing that one, though it was fun on vocals.
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Beware! I haven't clicked that URL but nothing comes up on the googles and whois shows it was set up five days ago. He didn't mention the program's name and he posted anonymously. Not a good sign.
I'm not a Troll, it's reverse psychology.
Virus checkers called it clean, nothing was triggered with my spyware checks either.
It's a crappy application, reads .mus files and plays them back. Not worth the time.
you guys are already previewing rock band 2, when they still haven't released rock band here in Australia! *grumble grumble stoopid tards*
... wait, what?
I think you're being overzealous in your defence of Apple as well, because I'm pretty sure the guy was talking about paying $5 to be able to play all the rock band music on his iPod. He should have said "the MP3s".
Note that I like Apple, I just don't see how iPods or iTunes (of which I use neither, I use Songbird and VLC on my MBP) playing MP3s has anything to do with this, it's getting totally offtopic :p
which is totally what she said
Or "I don't have to pay $5 do get something I already own to play on my iPod, why do I have to pay $5 to get something I already own to play in Rock Band 2."
I don't know what system you're playing on, by for my PS3, the Rock Band 1 guitar is a wireless guitar. And I don't think it's crappy at all.
The only complaint I've heard from any of my friends about the guitar is the one person who preferred the "click" action that Guitar Hero guitars have when you moved the strum-bar. (and that's just because she's a Guitar Hero addict and refuses any substitute.)
And how are your buttons not playable? I think you might have gotten some other non-standard guitar dude.
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No getting off topic would be doing something like saying ipods suck because they don't play .ogg and .flac!
Cause damnit I'm not paying for music until they give it to me almost free in a open and lossless format that my audio player can play without eating up battery life like whoa and makes my penis larger!
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Wouldn't rockbox be able to do all these things? ;)
which is totally what she said
Did I miss something here?
Since when can you import Rock Band songs into Guitar Hero? Or vice vera?
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Freestyle Mode - Just as it sounds. You're presented with a blank, scrolling note canvas that allows you to just drum away forever. No challenges here. But like with the other modes, you can select different drum samples. So if you dig 80's electronic drum sounds - and wanted to try and re-create your own cover of a certain Rick Astley song - no one will stop you. Interestingly enough, you can also play music from your hard drive to drum along with. The only bummer is there is no way to record what you've done in-game to send to friends. So expect a lot of Youtube videos this fall.
Somebody should tell Steve Wiebe.
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