I'm pretty excited. 8 player deathmatch and co-op over XBLA will be awesome. I spent many hours playing with friends over LAN back in the day.Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
I'm pretty excited. 8 player deathmatch and co-op over XBLA will be awesome. I spent many hours playing with friends over LAN back in the day.
Giving up in 2020. Who cares.
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) ***½
Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima) *½
The Marksman (Robert Lorenz) **
Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino) *½
Night Hunter (David Raymond) *
New Fable 2 pics. The artstyle is so good, I love it. It's only a month away! :P
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Just started Beyond Good and Evil tonight (I ordered a copy some months ago and it finally arrived). A little over an hour in. Already, I'm in love.
One of the best games ever made.
I finally got around to listening to the last episode of GFW Radio, aka "The Brodeo," and it was quite sad. I am really, really going to miss Jeff Green's insight. As a person who is more interested in reading and learning about games and the game industry than actually playing games, I valued Mr. Green's intelligence, sense of humor, and opinion greatly. When I was the books sales manager at Tower Records, reading his monthly Greenspeak column was highlight of stocking the magazine racks. Loosing Green's unique voice is a huge blow for games journalism; in my opinion it is like loosing Ebert as a critic, or Stephen King as a writer. Green had become an industry staple, and he set the standard, and now we will no longer get to read or hear his input given so freely.
Fleetwood Mac > Daniel Lanois
Some would call Daniel Lanois the same, only replacing mom with dad, and rock with easy listening.
Nah. He's way too sonically interesting and has been involved in far too many groundbreaking rock productions.
You know, I do like other musicians. You could pick on Brian Eno, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and others as well. I like lots of music!
:lol:
I'm prepared for the Fleetwood Mac mom-squad backlash, bring it on! I am very secure in my disdain for this band.
Never been a big fan of Fleetwood Mac, tho I absolutely ADORE Lindsey Buckingham's solo projects.
Anywho, back to Rock Band 2.
So far, there are only 2 tracks I don't like.
While I like the song, Watcha' Want, by the Beastie Boys, it is incredibly boring to play. It is probably fun to sing/rap, but they could have picked a better B-Boys song, something off of Pauls' Boutique would have been awesome.
And while I hate-with-all-body the Fleetwood Mac song, it is, at least, kind of fun to play, and offers a pretty good challenge on the guitar.
The game is just amazing - there are so many little touches that make it exponentially better than RB1. While the core game is the same, these little things really elevate the experience to near perfection.
So far I like playing everything else I've come across.
Oh yeah, and I got to unlock Lush's Deluxe last night. Awesome. They really need a shoegazer pack, that would be cool. I would love to see more underground late-80s, early-90s alt-rock in the game. A whole 120 Minutes album would be awesome. Or a post-punk album, with some Gang of Four, early New Order or Joy Division, some Minute Men....man, there are so many bands and songs I would love to see in this game.
I would do a lot to get the first Stone Roses album...of course I can already play most of it on the real bass...
I love seeing the Duran Duran stuff in the game, and it's cool to hear those younger players talk about how amazing the bass lines are in these songs. It's incredible to think that, at one time, Duran Duran was totally commercial top 40; the amount of talent in that band is just incredible. Now we have stuff like Brittney Spears on the radio. Ugh.
Bodhisattva!
My roommate just left to pick up his preorder of Star Wars Unleashed...can't wait to see it in action!
You drop "sonically interesting" down on the table a lot, as though that were a solid defense of your opinion. And it is, no doubt. Q: Why do you like certain music? A: Because it sounds interesting.
However, when you pull that out in this context, what you're doing is you're imposing a weight of objectivity against the band you are opposing. Ie, you're saying that Fleetwood Mac is NOT sonically interesting. Here you're distancing yourself from your opinion by addressing Lanois in the positive as a tactical offensive against Mac.
Addressing the criticism itself, I don't know how someone, particularly someone like you with an ear for musical production, can dis on the Mac. Especially Rumours. That shit's genius, man.
It's my phrase for the year. And I don't find anything interesting about Fleetwood Mac. I've heard Rumors, Tusk, and the Greatest Hits, and they all bored me to tears. I find their music to be the definition of dullsville. It's like the generic music you hear on those Time Life "Best of the '70s" commercials.
:shrug:
I'll live. Plenty of other awesome music out there to love.
I haven't unlocked this one yet, I'm sure it's pretty hard though.
I love you anyway. Always will. To get even, I'll just reiterate my boredom with Brian Wilson.Do you like The Cars?
And yeah, I haven't played the game yet, but my bro says that Bodhisattva is very tough, and this is a kid that gets gold stars on Flirtin' with Disaster on expert.
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I love you anyway. Always will. To get even, I'll just reiterate my boredom with Brian Wilson.
And yeah, I haven't played the game yet, but my bro says that Bodhisattva is very tough, and this is a kid that gets gold stars on Flirtin' with Disaster on expert.
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I love The Cars - their first two albums, along with Duran Duran's first two albums, are among my favorites of the new wave. Amazing stuff - deceptively simple, and endlessly catchy: two ingredients for an amazing pop tune.
I've seen some of the note-charts from the Steely Dan song - it looks damn hard!
I haven't seen that thread yet...gimme a minute...
Funny that you speak of Duran Duran, because I've been on a mad DD kick over the last few days, completely unrelated to Rock Band. Have you heard their last album, Red Carpet Massacre? It's quite awesome. My favorite albums of theirs are The Wedding Album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, and Notorious.
As for The Cars: have you heard Shake It Up? Shockingly good. Comparable to Candy-O, in my opinion. But then, I love Panorama as well. I might be a fanboy, I'm not sure. At any rate, did you download their album to play in Rock Band? That, along with the first Boston album, are pretty much all I need in that game.
I have not heard the newest DD album. I've pretty much loved them since forever. Seven and the Ragged Tiger was the very first tape I ever purchased - I was in 3rd grade. I bought it and Weird Al in 3-D on the same day and never looked back. They are an absolutely amazing band, and one that does not get the serious and critical praise they so rightly deserve. John Taylor is the best rock bassist I've ever heard - period. That dude is skillful and plays with an uncanny taste for melody. Their first three albums are pure pop genius.
Hold Back the Rain is a favorite song of mine.
I don't think I've ever heard Shake it Up. I only have the first 2 albums. I'll check it out. I did by the album on Rock Band, and, unfortunately, it's not as fun to play as I thought it would be. Don't get me wrong, I love the music to listen to, but it's just not very much fun to play with in Rock Band - they desperately need a key board, or at least they should have charted the kb parts to a guitar.
Great song. My favorite is Is There Something I Should Know. One time, on a Saturday, I took my bicycle and rode it through the halls of my last college at full speed with that song on repeat. Such an incredible memory.
I'll get in on the RB2 talk since its been my obsession since picking it up on Sunday.
Loving the majority of the songs and the new changes. Its so much easier to follow the charts now, not that I noticed it being difficult before, but after playing 2 for a couple days, I don't think I could go back.
The song list, as I said is great, but a little more strum happy than the first one on guitar which I don't particularly like, not finding nearly as many songs that are just plain "fun" as in the first one.
But, my expertise is vocals, and here I'm having a great time. The list as a whole is much, much better for vocalists in my opinion. The only gripe I have is that they seemed to have fixed the "talking parts" a little too well. I really didn't have a hard time with them like many in the first game, and now they are just ridiculously easy. Doing "Give It Away" last I had a minor coughing fit at one point, and it still registered me as doing the song fine, I gold starred it and got 100% on Expert when there were two lines I didn't even sing since I was choking.
Favorite songs so far (I haven't unlocked nearly everything): Pump It Up - I've been wanting Elvis Costello in Rock Band since it came out, Spirit in the Sky, Aqualung, My Own Worst Enemy, and the one that surprised me... Nine in the Afternoon.
"Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb."
Shawn Elliot is also leaving 1UP for 2K Boston. That's it for 1UP.
Ohhhhh, I got Lost Odyessy for 360 yesterday.
...can't...put...down....need. ......fooooood...
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