Rock Band/Guitar Hero - Discuss DLC, forming bands, and which is better.

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Err, why are there invisible instruments in half that video? Completely ignoring the fact that there are 3 Kurt Cobains on stage towards the end...
 
The song list for the Beatles Rock Band

Soundtrack

The game includes 45 songs (including "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "With a Little Help From My Friends" as separate songs that join into each other) from twelve of The Beatles albums recorded during their 1962–1969 tenure with EMI Records.[14][56] With the exception of Magical Mystery Tour, track information is based on the United Kingdom-released versions of the albums. Six non-album singles and the mashup track "Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows" from the 2006 remix album Love have also been included.[57] Selections of the soundtrack are under license from Sony/ATV Music Publishing Company.[48] Though Michael Jackson, who owned 50% of the publishing rights to The Beatles songs through Sony/ATV, died in June 2009, any potential estate sale of those rights will not affect the songs or the release of The Beatles: Rock Band, according to Harmonix.[58]

The songs are as follows:[28][48][57][59][60]
Song title ↓ Original album ↓ Year ↓ Associated venue ↓
"A Hard Day's Night" A Hard Day's Night 07 1964 Ed Sullivan Theater
"And Your Bird Can Sing" Revolver 19 1966 Budokan
"Back in the U.S.S.R." Beatles (The White Album) The Beatles (The White Album) 27 1968 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Birthday" Beatles (The White Album) The Beatles (The White Album) 30 1968 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Boys" Please Please Me 02 1963 Cavern Club
"Can't Buy Me Love" A Hard Day's Night 08 1964 Ed Sullivan Theater
"Come Together" Abbey Road 34 1969 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Day Tripper" ... Single 12 1965 Budokan
"Dear Prudence" Beatles (The White Album) The Beatles (The White Album) 28 1968 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Dig a Pony" Let It Be 40 1970 Rooftop Concert
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" Please Please Me 03 1963 Cavern Club
"Don't Let Me Down" ... Single 33 1969 Rooftop Concert
"Drive My Car" Rubber Soul 13 1965 Budokan
"Eight Days a Week" Beatles for Sale 10 1964 Shea Stadium
"Get Back" Let It Be 43 1970 Rooftop Concert
"Getting Better" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 22 1967 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Good Morning Good Morning" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 23 1967 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Hello Goodbye" Magical Mystery Tour 25 1967 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Helter Skelter" Beatles (The White Album) The Beatles (The White Album) 31 1968 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Here Comes the Sun" Abbey Road 38 1969 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Hey Bulldog" Yellow Submarine 32 1969 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"I Am the Walrus" Magical Mystery Tour 24 1967 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"I Feel Fine" ... Single 09 1964 Shea Stadium
"I Me Mine" Let It Be 41 1970 Rooftop Concert
"I Saw Her Standing There" Please Please Me 01 1963 Cavern Club
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" ... Single 06 1963 Ed Sullivan Theater
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Abbey Road 37 1969 Rooftop Concert
"I Wanna Be Your Man" With The Beatles 05 1963 Ed Sullivan Theater
"If I Needed Someone" Rubber Soul 15 1965 Shea Stadium
"I'm Looking Through You" Rubber Soul 14 1965 Shea Stadium
"I've Got a Feeling" Let It Be 42 1970 Rooftop Concert
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 21 1967 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Octopus's Garden" Abbey Road 36 1969 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Paperback Writer" ... Single 16 1966 Budokan
"Revolution" ... Single 26 1968 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" /
"With a Little Help from My Friends"a Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 20 1967 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Something" Abbey Road 35 1969 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Taxman" Revolver 17 1966 Budokan
"Ticket to Ride" Help! 11 1965 Shea Stadium
"Twist and Shout" Please Please Me 04 1963 Cavern Club
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Beatles (The White Album) The Beatles (The White Album) 29 1968 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows"b Love 44 2006 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
"Yellow Submarine" Revolver 18 1966 Abbey Road Studios / Dreamscape
aSongs are only playable back-to-back as a single track.[61]
bA mashup of the two songs, originally from the Love album.
Downloadable content

Additional songs will be available for the game as downloadable content. This includes full albums; the remaining songs from Abbey Road will be released for the game shortly after launch to eventually be followed by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Rubber Soul.[13][62] The song "All You Need Is Love" will also be among the first batch of downloadable content, proceeds from which will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.[48] The song will initially be available as a timed exclusive for Xbox 360 on the same day the game is released.[19] It will later become available for the PlayStation 3 and Wii.[63] While there is potential for the entire catalogue of the band to be made available, such a situation would be "stretching it a bit", according to Harmonix' John Drake, and that future content will likely be initially focused on "rounding out" the catalogue.[32]

The respective downloadable content for The Beatles: Rock Band and other currently available Rock Band titles (including Rock Band, Rock Band 2, and Rock Band Unplugged) will not be cross-compatible.[64] Furthermore, the songs contained on The Beatles disc are not exportable to other games in the Rock Band series.[65][66] Harmonix's Chris Foster cited the game's new vocal harmony feature as well as the unique song-specific dreamscape animations as reasons for the lack of exportability to other Rock Band games.[29] John Drake of Harmonix stated that the developer had a responsibility to treat The Beatles' songs as "an iconic catalog", and keep its music separated from other songs.[64] Both on-disc songs and downloadable songs that were originally recorded when The Beatles stopped touring will include dreamscape sequences.[36]'

In an early interview, Dhani Harrison suggested that it could be possible to deliver music from The Beatles members' respective solo projects as downloadable content (using George Harrison's The Concert for Bangladesh, John Lennon's Imagine, and "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney and Wings as examples).[67] However, when asked if any of the solo projects would make an appearance as downloadable content, Foster replied that, while there have "been no announcements about that", the solo acts are "definitely not the focus of the game".[29] Drake further identified that collaborative songs with other individuals associated with The Beatles, such as Ono-Lennon, Billy Preston, or Eric Clapton, will not be made available as additional content, though does not rule out the possibility of such songs appearing in other Rock Band titles.[32]

Songs will be priced comparable to other Rock Band downloadable content: All individual songs are priced at $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points/200 Wii Points) and are available for download through the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and the Wii Shop Channel unless otherwise noted. The first album to be released as downloadable content, Abbey Road, is priced at $16.98 (1360 MSP) as a whole.[62]
Song title ↓ Pack ↓ Year ↓ Associated venue ↓ Release date ↓
"All You Need Is Love" ... Single 1967-07-07 1967 TBA 2009-09-09 Sept. 9, 2009a
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" Abbey Road 01 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"Oh! Darling" Abbey Road 02 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"Because" Abbey Road 03 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"You Never Give Me Your Money"b Abbey Road 04 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"Sun King"b Abbey Road 05 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"Mean Mr. Mustard"b Abbey Road 06 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"Polythene Pam"b Abbey Road 07 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"b Abbey Road 08 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"Golden Slumbers"b Abbey Road 09 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"Carry That Weight"b Abbey Road 10 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"Her Majesty" Abbey Road 11 Abbey Road 1969-09-26 1969 TBA 2009-10-20 Oct. 20, 2009
"Fixing a Hole" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 01 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967-06-01 1967 TBA 2009-11-00 November 2009
"She's Leaving Home" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 02 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967-06-01 1967 TBA 2009-11-00 November 2009
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 03 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967-06-01 1967 TBA 2009-11-00 November 2009
"Within You Without You" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 04 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967-06-01 1967 TBA 2009-11-00 November 2009
"When I'm Sixty-Four" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 05 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967-06-01 1967 TBA 2009-11-00 November 2009
"Lovely Rita" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 06 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967-06-01 1967 TBA 2009-11-00 November 2009
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 07 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967-06-01 1967 TBA 2009-11-00 November 2009
"A Day in the Life" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 08 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967-06-01 1967 TBA 2009-11-00 November 2009
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" Rubber Soul 01 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"You Won't See Me" Rubber Soul 02 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"Nowhere Man" Rubber Soul 03 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"Think for Yourself" Rubber Soul 04 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"The Word" Rubber Soul 05 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"Michelle" Rubber Soul 06 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"What Goes On" Rubber Soul 07 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"Girl" Rubber Soul 08 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"In My Life" Rubber Soul 09 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"Wait" Rubber Soul 10 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
"Run for Your Life" Rubber Soul 11 Rubber Soul 1965-12-03 1965 TBA 2009-12-00 December 2009
aTrack will be available as a time-limited exclusive on the Xbox 360
bMarked tracks also have the option to play as a single continuous track (the Abbey Road medley), which is given when making the full Abbey Road album purchase.[62]
 
I finally beat dyers eve and War Ensemble on expert in Guitar Hero Metallica. It was a crowning moment and i nearly lost on Dyres Eve thanks to sweaty hands.

I'll be picking up GH5 sunday :)...
 
Well, I was iffy on The Beatles: Rock Band and contemplated it as a rental before any kind of purchase, but all the advertising this week (Best Buy had four pages devoted to The Beatles in their weekly ad) has suckered my wife in and she said that she wants it and will buy it with her free money.

Quick note: My wife is buying a video game.

So, it looks like after her next paycheck I will have The Beatles Rock Band.


And now, for your entertainment, I give you the trailer for Guitar Hero: The Beatles. It is a blatant fanboy parody, but enjoy it for what it is.
 
Picked the game up today and played for 4 hours straight with a friend, then came back later to show it off to my dad and ended up playing another 2.

Most fun I've had with a video game in a long, long time.

From,
Chris.
 
WallRunner
Picked the game up today and played for 4 hours straight with a friend, then came back later to show it off to my dad and ended up playing another 2.

Most fun I've had with a video game in a long, long time.

From,
Chris.
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I saw you playing it last night and felt jealous. I should have my copy next week when my wife buys it.

So, is it worth all the positive reviews?



Also, in case I am not the only Jonathan Coulton fan here, Jonathan Coulton not only has three songs in Rock Band as of today (Still Alive, Skullcrusher Mountain, and now Re: Your Brains), but he is the first musician to have Rock Band Network songs. He showed it off at PAX by putting his song Future Soon (A personal favorite) into Rock Band 2 on an Xbox 360 and playing it. And he says on his blog page that he plans on putting out a lot more.

I am still trying to find out of the PAX Pack this year is for charity like it was last year.

Also, if you support Jonathan Coulton for no other reason, do it because he gives a lot of his music away for free and the stuff he sells is done so with a Creative Commons license, meaning you can give a copy to a friend as long as you don't change it or sell it.
 
I like Coulton's work and how he handles it, but his music is far too acoustic for my DLC tastes. Anyone who doesn't play guitar is left out in the cold buying his songs.
 
Giancarlo
I like Coulton's work and how he handles it, but his music is far too acoustic for my DLC tastes. Anyone who doesn't play guitar is left out in the cold buying his songs.
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And singing. Don't forget the singing. I haven't since my left arm has been temporarily out of commission.

Honestly though, if he is putting his own stuff in through Rock Band Network he might level it out a bit.

My only issue with him being used to show off how RBN will work is that perhaps having a self proclaimed Code Monkey isn't the best example to show average musicians that they can do it too.
 
Freezepop is the only thing I didn't buy last night.

DLC Update

Guitar Hero
  • EU GHWT Disc Import Pack (£2.99/€3.99)
  • EU GHWT DLC Update (free)
  • EU Prodigal Son (Live) by The Rolling Stones (£1.59/€1.99)
  • EU You Gotta Move (Live) by The Rolling Stones (£1.59/€1.99)
  • “100 Little Curses” by Street Sweeper Social Club ($1.99) £1.59/€1.99)
  • “Fight! Smash! Win!” by Street Sweeper Social Club ($1.99) £1.59/€1.99)
  • “Somewhere In The World It’s Midnight” by Street Sweeper Social Club ($1.99) £1.59/€1.99)
  • Street Sweeper Social Club Track Pack ($5.49) (£4.39/€5.49)


Rock Band
  • “Science Genius Girl”— Freezepop ($0.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • “Less Talk More Rokk”— Freezepop ($0.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • “Get Ready 2 Rokk”— Freezepop ($0.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • Freezepop Pack 01 ($2.99) (£1.69/€2.29)
  • “Re: Your Brains”— Jonathan Coulton ($0.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • “Origin of Species”— MC Frontalot ($0.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • “Opening Band”— Paul and Storm ($0.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • The PAX 2009 Collection ($2.99) (£1.69/€2.29)
  • “Miss Murder”— AFI ($1.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • “Gasoline”— Audioslave ($1.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • “Kryptonite”— 3 Doors Down ($1.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • “ABC”— The Jackson 5 ($1.99) (£0.59/€0.99)


Rock Band Unplugged (also available from PS3 storefront)
  • “Love Spreads”— The Stone Roses ($1.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
  • “I Stand Alone”— Godsmack ($1.99) (£0.59/€0.99)
 
UnoMOTO
In case you needed another reason to pick up the game.

Hot chicks in pajamas...

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The instant a developer/publisher uses sex to sell their game, it tells me how much real effort was put into it. I know this is a mild case, but even so, thats low.
 
So just for clarification. I have Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero Greatest Hits, when I get GH5, I can import songs from those games, so I don't have to keep swapping disks, but for a price, and only some of them at this stage?
 
Casio
So just for clarification. I have Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero Greatest Hits, when I get GH5, I can import songs from those games, so I don't have to keep swapping disks, but for a price, and only some of them at this stage?
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35 songs from World Tour are all that have been confirmed.
 
Is there anyone else who is getting GH5 as their first Guitar Hero game? I'm a little worried because i want to buy GH:WT DLC to play in 5, and yet i'm not sure how i could import the DLC if i don't have a save file for WT...

Any ideas? Am i speaking gibberish?
 
Vasco
I think they're still working on licensing for the other ones so they should come later (so I hear).
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I wonder how that will work...will they require us to re-enter the manual code once those new songs are licensed, or will they download automatically, what?
 
I got The Beatles Rock Band last night. I stayed up playing till 2:30 last night, made it to Abbey Road. I can't wait for the DLC to come.
 
LaBounti
So you burned throught the game in one sitting? hope you got your monies worth.
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No, I haven't finished yet, I just stayed up that late last night because it was soo fun. Just having the songs so clear on the game makes it worth it anyways.
 
Guitar Hero 5 is pretty fun, although i have no feeling of being in a band doing the career mode. Just playing songs. The character costume options for a human character are lacking, but i basically expected that. I've managed to make a decent looking character but it creepily looks a lot like Pako. Which is especially funny because i prefer to play bass. :lol:

The characters still don't look "right" playing the songs though..they look more robotic than musical. I also don't feel the groove so to speak when i'm playing, especially on drums. Not like i do in Rock Band 2. Having more than 1 type of instrument in a band sounds good on paper, but seeing only the 4 characters on screen playing guitar/bass just looks dumb. They really couldn't always keep at least a singer and drummer on stage?

Besides that, there are a few touches i do like. The fact that if someone quits during a song you don't fail the song (at least when a third or higher person quits) is nice. And the motions the singer does, like putting his mic back into the stand during breaks in the vocals, are pretty cool too. Reviving failed bandmates is also fairly easy...you just have to play well and they'll be brought back an infinite number of times.

I'm having a lot of trouble finding people online though. Guess they're all in elementary school when i'm playing. :lol:
 
I got The Beatles: Rock Band Tuesday night and finished the Story mode last night (netting the trophy for completing Story Mode within 24 hours of starting it), and now have to go through the challenges to finish unlocking everything.

It should be noted for fans of the music games that The Beatles is obviously intended as an easy entry for new players to the genre who are only in it for The Beatles. Easy difficulty also creates No Fail Mode, and a full difficulty rating is equal to maybe a 3 or four star difficulty rating in Rock Band 2. Nothing in The Beatles approaches the similar difficulty of 5 stars or five pentagrams. However, it does have the modifier to speed it up, so you can make it more difficult for yourself.

So, while veterans can adjust the game to their skill level, in the end this game is not primarily targeted for them. It is targeted to The Beatles fans. The visuals are stunning and unlocking informational tid bits with photos and videos (like the Ed Sullivan Show rehearsal or them preparing for Shea stadium) along with the studio chatter between songs is amazing. The production value is off the charts and I now understand why this had to be standalone without compatibility with the rest of the series. This could not be done with the current setup of any of the other games in the genre.

So far I have only played guitar and bass and I imagine drums may be a bit more challenging. In some cases, a lot more. I look forward to doing the vocal career too.

But I hope that soon the DLC will start flowing because my wife seems to think that the lack of Hey Jude is a disaster. She still enjoys it more than regular Rock Band/Guitar Hero because she knows more of these songs (I can't help it that she's never heard of Boston or Rush and her The Who knowledge doesn't go beyond CSI's theme song).
 
Giancarlo
I'm having a lot of trouble finding people online though. Guess they're all in elementary school when i'm playing. :lol:
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I'll probably get GH5 tonight, we'll have to all organise a jam session. I have always actually had trouble playing online in GH:WT, I think it's my time zone, never seem to be able to find a game.
 

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