TO-DO LIST: ROCK BAND EDITION
Hey, it’s that guy who looks like Dwight Schrute, only with rimless glasses! And he’s got the to-do list column up at the Sporting News, which mentions among all the football-related content the fact that we’ll be playing shit-tons of the game Rock Band this weekend. If the downloads are available, we’ll celebrate this day of thanks with a rousing family rendition of “Blackened” by Metallica.
If you think this is gay, fine. We’re hot-pant wearing knobhounds for Rock Band, if that’s the case. Thank god for the downloadable Bowie, um…package.
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Ricky says:
I just recently got into the Guitar Hero craze and I must say that that looks to be oodles of fun.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
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oc phil says:
is it the 1982 Ashes to Ashes video Bowie or the 1985 Labrynth Bowie?
November 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
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DC Trojan says:
You know how you don’t look as fat if you stand next to Charlie Weis? I’d look like less of a dork if I hung out with those “musicians.”
November 20th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
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Mätt says:
Color the world blackened! BLACKENED!
Grandma loves the double bass.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
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GatorAM says:
OH MY GOD. I am obsessed with Guitar Hero, however, I always felt a pang for something more since I’ve always considered myself to be a frustrated drummer, not guitarist. This game could severely diminish the constructive use of my free time for the next, oh, eternity. Just in time for football season to end! I must have it… it will be mine.
Orson, on GH, do you play medium, hard or expert level? Inquiring minds want to know…
November 20th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
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dogtown gator says:
Rock Band is no Call of Duty 4. So say these guys:
http://www.worldleaderreviews.com
November 20th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
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Brian says:
Seriously, this game looks as hard as actually playing guitar. Next we’re gonna hear about some kid, (in the ‘I played DDR and lost 200lbs’ genre) who taught himself guitar based on GH and now is fronting some platinum selling band. That’s Generation Z for ya.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
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Bench Casey says:
got Rock Band last night
say goodbye to my job
November 20th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
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NDTom says:
As someone who plays guitar passably, I can’t play guitar hero at all. It’s just too different from actually playing guitar and when I know how to actually play the songs my brain locks up on GH.
The drumming looks pretty spot on and vocals is about just pitch and not diction so those seem pretty interesting to me.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
Working on “hard” level right now on GH3, and it’s eating me for lunch.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
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Signal to Noise says:
#9 and I are in the same boat here. I’ve had to re-train my brain to play Guitar Hero competently.
Now, Rock Band and the whole drumming bit — that I can probably get with a little easier, which is why I’ll never buy it. I spend way too much time indoors as is.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
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One And Done says:
@4
Smoldering decay!
Take your breath away!
Millions of our Years!
in minutes disappear!
@9
Same thing here. I had to unlearn, pardon the phrase, fingering techniques that you use on guitar & re-learn them for Guitar Hero.
On many songs, Guitar Hero is harder than playing the actual songs rhythmically. Unsung by Helmet on Guitar Hero I is a perfect example. Leads… I dunno, I was enver able to play leads worth a damn.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
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One And Done says:
Same here #9 & #12
Ahhhhh the opening riff of Blackened… what memories.
…And Justice For All popped my metal cherry & I’ve been a metla whore ever since… \m/
November 20th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
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One And Done says:
Ummm, #9 & #11 I meant. Danny, I’m a veg.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
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Raleigh Urbain says:
That is the first time Ian McEwan and College Football have ever been referenced in the same paragraph.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
Rock Band….and drums…..does it have a
Danny Carey from TOOL level? 46 and 2, Rosetta Stoned, and Lateralus would be too frickin hard to keep up with, I can see why he tore his bicep….
November 20th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
Now this will be the next “karaoke” craze…my shins will be hurting from playing the drums double bass, at least thats the only instrument I can play drunk…..
Ahh Welcome to the Jungle…perfect song, even had a lil cowbell in there….and screeching vocals, blaring guitar, steady bassline….its Rock and Roll bitches…that whole CD kicks ass, hope you can download “Night Train”…..ready to crash and burn, I’ll never learn…..Is it too late to get a Pre-Nub clause for not working so my “Rock Band” can practice and get a following on YouTube? Does carpal tunnel syndrome from playing video guitar qualify for workmens comp?
November 21st, 2007 at 12:07 am
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JoeE says:
Alas, Welcome to the Jungle is not in Rock Band, it’s only in Guitar Hero III. But Rock Band makes up for it by actually being fun to play.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:33 am
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Year2-Dave says:
From what a friend who has played the Rock Band demo at Best Buy a lot told me, Rock Band’s guitar on expert is equivalent to Guitar Hero on hard. The point is playing together, not insanely difficult guitar parts.
As for me, I’m not getting Rock Band as there is no Wii version. Which is fine, really, since I’m still working my way through Super Mario Galaxy, the best release of the year.
November 21st, 2007 at 7:25 am
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Rival says:
Why don’t you just learn to play real guitar? You know, the “real thing” to which you’re trying to simulate on the game. I’ll loan you a guitar. It has real strings! Makes noise! Without electricity!
I like video games, but the guitar/rock games I don’t understand. I can’t go out and throw passes to speedy WRs and hand off to RBs with 300-lbs linemen blocking for me. So I pick up the controller and play NCAA 08 now and then (also to send Temple to the BCS – Go Owls!).
But I have to side with the South Park guys on the Guitar Hero stuff.
Guitar Queer-o, indeed.
November 21st, 2007 at 8:00 am
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justanotherbuckeye says:
#2
“Booowie’s in Spaaa-ah-aaace”
November 21st, 2007 at 8:44 am
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GatorAM says:
#18 – Remain calm it’s only a game. Plus, in watching that South Park episode I got the vibe that Trey and Matt either play Guitar Hero or have played before… the sound effects were totally accurate and even the songs the characters were playing were from the game. I thought it was hysterical.
November 21st, 2007 at 9:26 am
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Scalz1 says:
If you play this over COD4, the terrorists win.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:13 am
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
#20
The best part was the cheap special effects for Labyrinth Bowie, him floating and bumping into stuff..
“I was wearing makeup, I had lightening bolts on my wanger.”
“I meant on your face, Bret, on your face.”
“Get an eyepatch Bret, ….do something outrageous….when the time is right….”
LOL so Bret exposes himself at the meeting…
Despite the disastrous meeting, the greeting card company decides to produce the card anyway, but because the chosen design is “Happy 80th Birthday, Son” very few cards are made and the band ends up earning only 50¢…..priceless..Tenacious Dundee…
November 21st, 2007 at 11:13 am
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zlionsfan says:
#21: some were from the game, some were by the same artist but not in the game (example: I Remember You was in the episode, 18 And Life is the song in Rocks the ’80s). But I think that’s on purpose and agree with you: they either play it or learned enough about it to skewer it properly, like the episode on WoW. (Free Fresca? Where is this place?)
#16: Ask Joel Zumaya, although I suppose that was different. In MLB, you get paid the same on the DL and on the active roster. Also, only one shin will hurt, because there’s only one pedal. (Scaled down. Gamers can’t handle all those options.)
Rock Band is sweet. Also, scaled-down drumming is hard. The solo buttons are interesting, but I can’t yet get down there and back easily.
November 21st, 2007 at 4:32 pm
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Magic Hobo says:
#19
Some people aren’t interested in learning actual guitar technique and music theory, but they’d love to play along to their favorite songs and enjoy the challenge. Just like I assume you weren’t interested in joining your high school team, running two-a-days, spending every moment your free time practicing or lifting weight and praying that a college deigned to give you an athletic scholarship, but you still like to play NCAA Football.
Hell, in an interview in GameInformer, Slash talked about how Activision sent him a copy of Guitar Hero, and he got addicted to it. So even actual guitar legends (who have their own guitars with real strings that make noise) enjoy it.
November 21st, 2007 at 8:12 pm