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I, Butthole posted:Has anyone else not been able to get the NIN achievement? Tried it on guitar and bass (expert) but haven't gotten a 200 note streak, despite not breaking on guitar until the drum breakdown before the end, and 100% on bass. Drums only. It's not mentioned in the text of the achievement, but all the achievements are just goals tied to achievements, and that goal falls under drum goals.
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ALFbrot posted:I would be more inclined to believe the lead designer of Rock Band 2 than you, Utnayan, but maybe that's just me! Looks like he's purposely ignoring him. quote:What's the chances of being able to walk into the store later today and picking up a keyboard bundle for 360? I didn't preorder since I was originally not going to pick it up on release day. Depends on the store? GIve a couple stores a call a head of time. quote:Has anyone else not been able to get the NIN achievement? Tried it on guitar and bass (expert) but haven't gotten a 200 note streak, despite not breaking on guitar until the drum breakdown before the end, and 100% on bass. It's drum only (difficulty isn't set) quote:am going to run out at lunch and get the game. Question: Is the Pro Guitar out yet? Most retailers listed it as releasing in mid-to-late November for 360. I really want the game for Pro Guitar, as I want that insanely difficult learning curve I experience from GH2 when I played for the first time and went FOUR BUTTONS gently caress THIS poo poo. Mustang is out, still no solid word on the Squier
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:10 |
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TUS posted:Mustang is out, still no solid word on the Squier
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Wow. Just got back from EBgames Canada, and what a botched Canadian release. When I was told yesterday they wouldn't have the Mustang for me, I went around to all of the small gaming stores left around here (3 diff close cities), and each said EB pretty much had them blocked out of bundles until late November. So if I wanted it on launch, EB it was to be. Well just got back, no bundles for any system until next Tuesday. Dont know if this holds true for Gamestop.ca orders as well? I was able to get a standalone keyboard and game for the same price though. Now, the next problem - no preorder DLC. At least not til they get the shipment of cards (yes, still printed DLC cards up here  ) They are hoping to have em tomorrow - and the guy will read the code to me over the phone. Haha, I'm going to make him sing it in tune with Bohemian Rhapsody which I plan on mastering on pro keys all of today (Righttt  )
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Myrddin Emrys posted:Awesome, what stores are most likely to actually have them in-stock? I would guess not Gamestop (they ran out of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions for god's sake), so... Best Buy? I was on a tear with those quotes so I guess to clarify, online stores say they're on sale, but from the previous thread, that seems to be a bit iffy. I haven't read specifically that people have been able to buy it in a store itself, so ymmv. So... technically it's out, but you probably won't be able to get it anywhere (but, call some stores... I'm just a dude).
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DubBlowsHeaven posted:Well just got back, no bundles for any system until next Tuesday. Dont know if this holds true for Gamestop.ca orders as well? I was able to get a standalone keyboard and game for the same price though. My order for the keyboard bundle has had a status of "Verifying" for a couple of days now, I think. No indication that it's going to ship today. Which EB did you go to? If they've got the kb/game separately on the shelves in stores I might wander over to one and cancel my gamestop.ca order.
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:17 |
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So for anyone waiting for their Doors DLC or RB2 export to download, here's a cool vid for another Harmonix game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxmziu_kA7E
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:18 |
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I just got back from Gamestop in Waterloo, Ontario and they only had the game, no keyboard or keyboard bundle so I left empty handed. Everywhere else I checked had nothing but the game. Sucks rear end. I really want to play the keys. This happens EVERY time with rock band hardware in Canada and it's loving annoying.
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I'm having trouble understanding the instrument combo limitations outlined in the OP.quote:Without all instruments mode you can only have 2 players be guitar/bass/keys. A 4 player band is required to have a singer and a drummer. Also you don't get a straight-up option to play keys with a guitar? If me and another guy are playing two player and a song has great guitar and keys and lovely bass we can't make a guitar-keys duet? What is the "goal" you have to achieve to make it an option? And no don't say buy a keyboard, I have my own midi keyboard and I'm not going to spend an extra ~$80 just to play on a keyboard before the MIDI adapter comes out.
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:22 |
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 MIDI PRO-adapter compatibility MadCatz put up manuals on their website for all the new Rock Band hardware, including one for the MIDI PRO-adapter. The manual includes a MIDI mapping table as well as a short list of drums and keyboards that work with the adapter. They specifically tested these drums for the adapter: Roland HD-1, Yamaha DTXplorer, Yamaha DD65, and the Alesis DM5. Really excited that I get to use my DTXplorer in RB3!!
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:23 |
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Orange Harrison posted:Also you don't get a straight-up option to play keys with a guitar? If me and another guy are playing two player and a song has great guitar and keys and lovely bass we can't make a guitar-keys duet? What is the "goal" you have to achieve to make it an option? Either turn on all instruments mode or beat all of the songs in the RB3 setlist on medium guitar or higher I think?
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So all-instruments is a toggle? Ok, I thought it was just automatically enabled when it detected four instruments, so I read it as "you need to have a four instrument band to use keys on a guitar". Thanks.
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:27 |
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Where does one enter the best buy code for the exclusive guitar?
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:33 |
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What's the marketplace links for the Doors pack? I'm having trouble finding it.
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oops I don't work for harmonix but thanks for the nice PM, I will have good luck with my continued development!Utnayan posted:Might want to speak to someone higher up the food chain then, because as of right now I am working on a span of 3 projects (Same project but 3 platforms) where we have licensed across the brand, and are not being charged more for licenses to use in interactive content over what was already previously licensed for our past IP's. Regardless of how the licensed content is used. edit: hopefully I didn't violate any of your NDAs sorry! Kaboobi fucked around with this message at Oct 26, 2010 around 15:37 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:Where does one enter the best buy code for the exclusive guitar? You can just do it on the main menu. The blue and orange frets don't have any input on there. MacBook Air Gamer fucked around with this message at Oct 26, 2010 around 17:41 |
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Orange Harrison posted:So all-instruments is a toggle? Ok, I thought it was just automatically enabled when it detected four instruments, so I read it as "you need to have a four instrument band to use keys on a guitar". Thanks. You can turn on all instruments mode and only play with 2 or 3 people. It just gives you the option to use guitar/bass AND keyboard with harmonized vocals at the same time, where you don't have that option with regular mode.
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This is my first Rock Band release with a 9-5 job. I'm getting antsy. What good is all this disposable income if I don't have time to play??
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gypsyshred posted:What's the marketplace links for the Doors pack? I'm having trouble finding it. It's my understanding that it is only available in the RB3 music store right now.
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gypsyshred posted:What's the marketplace links for the Doors pack? I'm having trouble finding it. If you mean through the marketplace website, I think the tracks are exclusive to the RB3 store to entice people to actually buy the game, but if you guessed ID codes enough you could in theory find the pack on the marketplace website. People have done that before to find a bunch of unreleased experimental RBN songs that you can buy.
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The Year 20XX posted:It's my understanding that it is only available in the RB3 music store right now. It's ONLY available in the RB3. At least until the exclusive part is up in a week or so.
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John Romero posted:I can't wait to see the sales numbers and to see that stupid rear end in a top hat who said RB3 wouldn't break 50k react to them. Laugh all you will, but mark my words: the lack of a PS3 keyboard bundle has doomed music games as we know them to a level of obscurity from which it may never recover. (Installing this; it's nice that my day is already over at 10:30AM)
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So what is the recommended drum set to buy? I have been using a rock band 1 kit since, well, forever really. The pedal finally broke about a week ago, so I figured I would just get a new set when I got RB3. I tried a rock band 2 kit, but I hate the pedal. It feels like it's pushing up against my foot too much, especially in comparison to the rock band 1 pedal, and it causes me to miss my bass hits. Is this how all of the new kits are? Should I just bite the bullet and get used to it?
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Dr Zaius posted:I just got back from Gamestop in Waterloo, Ontario and they only had the game, no keyboard or keyboard bundle so I left empty handed. Everywhere else I checked had nothing but the game. Sucks rear end. I really want to play the keys. This happens EVERY time with rock band hardware in Canada and it's loving annoying. Thus why I ordered from Gamestop USA. I received the keyboard last week and the game today. Shipping is faster than if I ordered from Gamestop Canada or Amazon.ca Plus I got the code for the free DLC while they are still being printed for Canada.
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Kaboobi posted:oops I don't work for harmonix but thanks for the nice PM, I will have good luck with my continued development! You better watch your back. Seven45Studio's lawyers are going to be after you now that you've leaked proprietary information about Power Gig.
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Corpus Smegma posted:So what is the recommended drum set to buy? I have been using a rock band 1 kit since, well, forever really. The pedal finally broke about a week ago, so I figured I would just get a new set when I got RB3.
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 Lovin they keyboard. Expert isn't too hard. Pro on the other hand (pun)
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Kaboobi posted:oops I don't work for harmonix but thanks for the nice PM, I will have good luck with my continued development! You didn't actually. Licensed content across brands is just that. But now I will leave it at the fact that everyone is paying $10.00 a shot to export music as a revenue stream for MTV games and it has nothing to do with licensing issues. With that said, it also has nothing to do with Harmonix and I like their games. Everyone can basically blame Viacom for this wallet shot. In the end what we need are more privately held companies making video games. But this industry is moving more and more towards unfriendly consumer nickle and diming, and I guess it's either put up with it and keeping forking it over for less and less, or just stop playing them.
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Idea: The MIDI adapter has an instrument select (D-K-G) on it. Do you think that if I plug it in and set it to G I can go through the Pro Guitar lessons even without one plugged in?
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Waffle Zone posted:You better watch your back. Seven45Studio's lawyers are going to be after you now that you've leaked proprietary information about Power Gig. You are still on my radar for kicking my rear end in Splinter Cell over a 3 year span.
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Anyone complaining about export stuff needs to remember that RB2 was still made before any exporting had actually happened. Pretty sure they didn't even have RB1 figured out until after RB2 was done and waiting to ship. It's very easy to Monday morning quarterback it and say how they should have licensed things, but it's also very stupid. Nothing of this type had ever been attempted at the time they licensed the RB2 material, and the fact we're able to play as much as we can in a new game is pretty remarkable.
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:54 |
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snackmar posted:My order for the keyboard bundle has had a status of "Verifying" for a couple of days now, I think. No indication that it's going to ship today. Which EB did you go to? If they've got the kb/game separately on the shelves in stores I might wander over to one and cancel my gamestop.ca order. I preordered the ps3 bundle on gamestop.ca a few months ago and mine still says "Verifying" too and has ever since I placed the order. I called them last week and they said it looks fine on their end and didn't know why the web site claimed verifying. I also preordered the mustang guitar in person at an EB in Burnaby and got my call last night that they have been delayed due to some issue. Possibly up to 2 weeks or something and they'll call back when they know more.
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:57 |
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Has anyone run into calibration issues on the 360? I just get one ping and then it just sits there.
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 15:58 |
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Shredder posted:Has anyone run into calibration issues on the 360? I just get one ping and then it just sits there. Does the option for "overscan" have any negative effects? Seems pointless to not have the entire screen filled up, but I'm wondering if there's some practical reason why they always have the option available. I never realized dolby digital created vocal lag until recently, so I'm wondering if there's anything more to the overscan options that I'm not understanding. Minidust fucked around with this message at Oct 26, 2010 around 16:06 |
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Is anybody else on the 360 having problems accessing the Music Store? I couldn't get in last night but I just figured it was because the game was new and so many people were on there, but even this morning I can't seem to connect. You don't need an XBox Live Gold account, do you? I didn't have one for RB2 and it still worked. I want to get on there and get my free Doors and RB2 Harmonix Bands downloads before it's too late. 
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It's good for a week. I expect the store to be down all day.
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 16:06 |
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timpanihilistic posted:Is anybody else on the 360 having problems accessing the Music Store? I couldn't get in last night but I just figured it was because the game was new and so many people were on there, but even this morning I can't seem to connect. You don't need an XBox Live Gold account, do you? I didn't have one for RB2 and it still worked. I thought the article regarding the harmonix bands DLC didn't say a specific date to when they'll be available.
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| # ? Oct 26, 2010 16:07 |
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Good lord, the chord training sessions hurt like hell, especially on those 7th chords or whatever you call them (when you stretch your thumb and pinky as far as possible). It's great to learn an instrument again! 
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The game crashes more than FO:NV for me. That's a bad thing. Pro Keys is pretty hard but fun. I'm not really gelling with the tablature, which makes me wish they did somekind of "here's all the notes in the song, memorize them and then play it out" instead of relying on sight reading, and you can't (or atleast I haven't been able to figure it out), stop a song on a certain section to examine notes. Just small gripes though. Also Utnayan works for like 2K or something, so he's pretty knowledgeable in liscencing rights also. Obviously not as much as CptUnderpants, but to call him a "idiot" is pretty dumb.
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Methodis posted:The game crashes more than FO:NV for me. That's a bad thing. Where does it crash. Perhaps you should read the threads!
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