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Polite Society
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
It's strange that this is less offensive than the cobain reproduction.

Is it because he's in lego form? Cuter is easier to deal with? I guess also because it's not trying to be realistic, it doesn't fall into that uncanny valley.

Or is it because cobain was a suicide, and mercury was aids? They are both tragedy, but i would imagine from two difference perspectives, cobain no longer wanted to live, and i would assume that mercury would have been struggling to continue to live, and therefor living on in this way is honouring, rather than disgracing?

Is it because cobain was anti-corporate, and being used by a corporatate company and being used as a tool to sell their product?

Or is it just because people like to be upset with Activision? I do admit that the circumstances surrounding the license to use cobain's likeness was suspicious, though i suspect it's more courtney love signing a form and then denying it, or forgetting that she did.

Also, admittedly, i suspect that harmonix would, by their reputation, treat mercury with more respect than neversoft did with cobain, but that's just me.

Could be a combination of all of the above?

What does everyone else think? #legorockband
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waffles1993
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
So does anyone care to explain to me how the drummer activated his Overdrive? #legorockband
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Karlott
10/20/09

@waffles1993: Probably the same way it's done in Beatles. They did away with fills and added a lone cymbal hit. Which I hate, but whatevs. #legorockband
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Chesu
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
I can honestly say I never expected to see a Lego Freddie Mercury. #legorockband
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Estaj
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
Why do people support this genre? #legorockband
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(Human) Gyaruson
10/20/09

@Estaj:
For the same reasons that people support team sports, and fast-food restaurants. Cineplexes, pool halls, arcades and night clubs also apply. They do so, BECAUSE THEY LIKE IT! Just because you don't find enjoyment in the genre doesn't mean no one else can. God, peoples egotism never ceases to amaze me. Do you yell at the other customers when you go to buy something at a store because they aren't buying it to? Do you petition establishments that you don't frequent? If you don't like something, shut the fuck up and move along so that the people who do don't have to waste their time reading your nonsense.

@Slanzinger:
So you had respect for the game before the inclusion of Lego-fied caricatures of one of the best bands of all time? I'm sorry but I find your credibility to be quite worthless. #legorockband
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Slanzinger
10/20/09

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dot dot dot.
Lego.

Well, there goes my respect for this game. #legorockband
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ComplicitOwl
10/20/09

@Slanzinger: When HASN'T LEGO Rock Band been LEGO?

And you're just now whining. #legorockband
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Slanzinger
10/20/09

@ComplicitOwl: Well, I hadn't realised that the article last week about a Queen game was referring to a Lego game - the prospect of a Queen-based Rock Band game was what I meant by "this game".
Also didn't realise from my readthrough that this wasn't purely a Queen game made of Lego, but Queen added into a Lego game. (I thought that Lego Rock Band had been already released for some reason). Which I don't have so much beef with. But it's still not ideal. #legorockband
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Kurtt
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
I just keep seeing a Lego version of Burt Reynolds #legorockband
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Pyrefly
10/20/09

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I can't belive that Activ have whored out GH and have now created a sub game series within GH that they appear to be whoring out aswell, it's rediculous. #legorockband
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KaemonKei
10/20/09

@Pyrefly: Huh? Activision has nothing to do with Rock Band. #legorockband
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Pyrefly
10/20/09

@KaemonKei: SHUP both of you! my lack of attention has betrayed me! #legorockband
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Benguin
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
I need this game so badly.

Now if only you could get Lego Freddie Mercury and Lego David Bowie to play together on Under Pressure. #legorockband
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James Henderson
10/20/09

@Benguin: I never thought about that. That'd be so damn awesome. #legorockband
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Benguin
10/20/09

@James Henderson: Failing that, I wonder if you can at least use them for the Queen DLC pack. Which I just remembered came out today...

*runs to Xbox* #legorockband
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Karlott
10/20/09

@Benguin: You know, I hope they thought of that, because now it seems so obvious that it has to be there, but it might not be. #legorockband
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hot_heart
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
I don't remember Freddie Mercury having such a receding hairline... #legorockband
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dibbitydan
10/20/09

@hot_heart: but what do you remember about LEGO Freddie Mercury? I thought so! #legorockband
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hot_heart
10/20/09

@dibbitydan: Haha. You got me there... #legorockband
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Skunky
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
Lego seriously needs to release actual minifigs of all the artists, I've never seen a receding hairline piece before. #legorockband
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Fo0dNippl3
10/20/09

@Skunky: Yes! I've been wondering if they would even just release a generic Lego Rock Band band set. I'd buy one. #legorockband
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jcb231
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
That is a rocking LEGO mustache.

A shame actual plastic versions of these figures weren't a pre-order bonus for the game. #legorockband
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Kyattsuai
10/20/09

@jcb231: It's a shame they don't exist in the first place; I'd definitely buy them, just so they could ride my Lego Batmobile. #legorockband
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(Starman) Starman
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
No. 1 & 3: Now THAT'S a LEGO hairdo… !_! #legorockband
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JTF
10/20/09

@(Starman) AnalysisDialysis: John Deacon FTW #legorockband
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Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
I want to see an all LEGO recreation of Queens's "Bicycle Race" Video. #legorockband
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Shadowguitar
10/20/09

@Taggart6 con estrella: Lol, that'd cause the game to get at least a T rating. #legorockband
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Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...
10/20/09

@Shadowguitar: But it would also get 5 awesome stars. :) #legorockband
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Shadowguitar
10/20/09

@Taggart6 once shot a man just to watch him die.: True, and it would get more awesome songs since they wouldn't have to worry about the kids as much. This is actually the best idea I've heard all day. #legorockband
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Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...
10/20/09

@Shadowguitar: I have my moments. #legorockband
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Dread1021
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
I have nothing against using dead musicians. It's more using dead musicians that wouldn't have wanted to be used that bothers me. #legorockband
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John_Norad
10/20/09

@Dread1021: Yeah, but how can you tell ? #legorockband
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Benguin
10/20/09

@John_Norad: For the most part you probably can't, but Kurt Cobain? C'mon now. #legorockband
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SacGamer
10/20/09

In reply to And Then There Was LEGO Queen
Disgracing Freddie Mercury with a LEGO model: Fine. It's Harmonix.

Disgracing Kurt Kobain: ACTIVISION! RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE

Double standards much? I'll never understand people on the Internet.
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deanbmmv
10/20/09

@SacGamer:
1. It's Lego so not an exact likeness or photo-realistic.
2. Lego Mercury is only singing his own songs. #legorockband
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phrequency
10/20/09

@SacGamer: wasn't the rage over kurt being that you could use him for any song and for any instrument?

i dunno if its the same for lego rock band celebs though.

personally, i don't care, but i get kicks having kurt as a female vocalist in some of gh5's songs or as a drummer in every other song. #legorockband
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KaneRobot
10/20/09

@SacGamer: Posts like yours are why I asked right away how they'd be used in the game. The actual artistic depiction of the characters is pretty irrelevant.

If Cobain (or Cash, for that matter) were only doing the songs they are linked to, this wouldn't be much of an issue. Way to fill the expected kneejerk-reaction quota, though. #legorockband
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BStu
10/20/09

@SacGamer: C'mon. Get over yourself. No one complained about the Hendrix model in GH:WT. Heck, even Johnny Cash didn't raise much ire in the same game as Cobain. Cobain was a unique case for several reasons. Its not a double standard to recognize that some issues are complex and can't be boiled down to a "this good, that bad" formula that seems to be all you care to perceive. You're eagerness to play "gotcha" is really just exposing your unwillingness to see things on more than the most base level. #legorockband
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spiderweb1986
10/20/09

@BStu: You couldn't use Hendrix on any song - just his own. #legorockband
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Benguin
10/20/09

@SacGamer: Cobain was different because he was a champion of anti-consumerism. A big reason of why he killed himself was that his image was being turned into a selling point. It disgusted him. Putting him into GH5 went against everything he would have believed in. It's like if Paul McCartney died and they used his likeness in a beef commercial.

Freddie Mercury was never one to shy away from the spotlight and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have any qualms about being paid for his likeness. #legorockband
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Karlott
10/20/09

@spiderweb1986: Yeah, he was only playable on Hendrix packs, and to boot you couldn't use other vocalists or guitarists on his tracks, just him, It's why there was no ire raised over him in GHWT. #legorockband
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