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[www.youtube.com] #rockband
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I guess she wrote out and memorized the notes? Or snagged some sheet music and memorized that. #rockband
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*edit* I just read that back and I think it comes off a little... rude. Presumptuous, certainly. I don't know you or how you are or what you do, so I shouldn't presume to give you advice. But I see this type of thing all the damn time and I think it just resonated. Like when children say they suck at something and convince themselves they can't do it instead of that they can. Parents and teachers oftentimes even parrot these things back at the child, ingraining it into them.
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That's an awesome idea, though :D #rockband
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All in all cool way to do things and good song. I wanted to see her do all of the solos as well... I guess I was asking too much. #rockband
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It's Guitar Hero that has a single face per gender you can modify with sliders... making each and every create-a-rocker look uncannily familiar
and since when does a clean interface equal a horrible one? #rockband
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"HOPOs are broken."
No, you just suck and need a hit window the size of a cow's anus in order to play a rhythm game. So you just might have no rhythm. They even widened the hit window for people like you! You know, people without rhythm.
"Every venue is the same."
Oh, you mean that every venue doesn't have some gimmicky "encore animation" crap? We'll mark that in the "pros" column.
"Everything makes your highway light up."
So you're focused entirely on what's happening on the screen instead of, again, keeping rhythm.
"If you get a streak, light. Solo, light."
Streak on Bass? Yeah, it's interface things so that people focusing on their other instruments can look out of the corner of their eye and know what their bandmates are doing. If it's a solo, the guitarist may need help, get ready to deploy star power. If it's a bassist in a streak, you know he's at 6x and can plan a score multiplayer accordingly.
"Not to mention the whole clapping BS on mic. You seriously think that real singers do that?"
Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies would grab a tambourine during instrumentals. So, yes.
"Also that makes it impossible to play an instrument and sing at the same time."
It takes two seconds to go from vocals to percussion. If you're not capable of doing that, how are you able to play any other instrument.
Percussion's not even a necessary thing to 100% a song on vocals. It's just something for the singer to do.
Beats the hell out of being a jack ass on GH's vocal tracks. I literally have to pull a Yoko on every single freestyle section in order for it to NOT dip below 100%. That's what's horseshit.
"Game sucks."
No, everything you've pointed out pretty much says that YOU suck. You can't keep rhythm, you are self-centered and don't keep an eye on your bandmates, you're easily distracted, and you have bad taste.
Enjoy your new Guitar Hero title every month. #rockband
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I can play over 10 instruments. So don't tell me about rhythm. I can keep tempo just fine without a metronome. I don't see how you made the correlation between the notes and rhythm. If the whole screen lights up then you cannot see what note you should be pressing. Make sense to you?
I am amazed how you managed to take all that I said and take them for facts. When I say:
"Every venue is the same."
I do not mean:
"Every venue is the same. - FACT"
You seem to be under the impression that everyone else is up on their high horse as you are. I may have said those things with confidence but I did not mean to say them as if you too cannot have an opinion. What bothers me the most about this... Hold on this deserves it's own paragraph.
You took the things that I said about Rock Band... and somehow took offense to it. You really seemed disturbed that I said those things. I am sorry if I hurt you somehow. I made some comments about a game and you seem to think I stated them about you. You react like I verbally assaulted you. Don't get all butt hurt just because I said some things about the only game you play. Pick up another genre or title. Really if it hurts that bad you should consider opening up and letting that fanboy out. Guitar Hero has flaws too. But I really don't mind GH flaws. RB bothers me. It isn't my type of game. If that hurts you then you need to take up another hobby. People will bash your game no matter what you play. So don't take it seriously and go outside or learn to play a real instrument instead of defending some game.
P.S. I will love my monthly GH games. They add new features and updates all the time. So while RB may have some 9 bajillion songs you still are playing the same rock band. I haven't seen an update in the game until Beatles. Also, while RB may release something like 98 tracks a week or something stupid I don't find 5 of them good enough to buy. So it should say Rock Band with over 12 million songs! (in fine print: 120 of them are actually good!)
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I figured I have to state when I am making on with you. That whole thing is an opinion. #rockband
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I'm on lunch, now, but when I get back to work, I'm going to rip your post apart.
10 instruments! Bwahahaha. That's rich. #rockband
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Is that adequate? #rockband
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Plus there's the whole issue of quantity over quality.
Just because you claim to play nearly a dozen instruments doesn't you play any of them well. Pad that r'esum'e, though! #rockband
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There are more than a few people that play through these songs and gold star them without issue (only practice!) reinforces that the problem is not with the game, it's with you. Mix in with GH's wide as hell hit window and your preference for that, and yeah, I pretty much have merit to what I say. #rockband
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I like the songs, feel, look, and design og GH more than RB. However you perceive that is fine. But seriously dude just take a breather and get on a real instrument. Realize that all of these games are in fact all inferior to their Konami counterparts. #rockband
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If you have a Mic on your PC I'd say try that rather than shell out on rockband. #rockband
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But this might give the music-games makers ideas now. #rockband
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I want to see her do this with a Jethro Tull song. ;) #rockband
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