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Note: A number of ‘Rock Band’ themed threads located throughout the forum have been merged by the mods over the last few months to bring them all together. Due to the amount of them its not been possible to compile a detailed note of which posts originally belonged to which thread.
If anyone has played the videogames “Guitar Hero” or “Rock Band” (or any of their many spin-offs), this is coming out shortly, and looks promising if you’re a fan of the genre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B….._Rock_Band
Anyone else here interested in the game?
3.17am
31 March 2008
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Definitely. I'd love to get a copy, though 090909 is going to be an expensive time with the remasters and everything (and I'm moving house in October, hopefully, which will make it an expensive time). I'd like the Rickenbacker controller too, though I gather some of the older Guitar Hero/Rock Band controllers will be compatible (there's a chart here: http://gaygamer.net/images/brbcompat.jpg)
My brother-in-law has one of the Guitar Hero games – good fun and everything, but nothing will come close to playing along with Paperback Writer or Get Back (or any of the others!).
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10.19am
I was super excited when I heard abt it. I plan on fully investing into it.
7.34pm
21 August 2009
Offline I'm hoping to get it for my birthday next month. It looks terrific- I can't wait. They include so many great songs, including a few personal favourites, so I can't wait to sing along with my boys.
Tongue, lose thy light. Moon, take thy flight… see ya, George!
2.51pm
This will likely be a Day 1 purchase for me. My wife and I are big fans of these games, and we both enjoy the Beatles amongst lots of other stuff. A little disappointing that there are only 45ish songs but that seems to be about the norm for the band-specific games in the genre.
For me anyway, remastered discs I can get anytime, and since I already have the music but not a Beatles game the choice is easy. All of the current Rock Band and Guitar Hero controllers will work in the game as well on both 360 and PS3. (there used to be compat problems, but they're all over that now for newer games – not sure about Wii, though). If you have an XBox 360, even the wireless microphones from Lips will work.
5.37am
31 March 2008
Offline I heard there are plans to offer Abbey Road (and maybe Pepper too) as a download – an addition to the core 45 songs. It would be great if they enabled the entire catalogue to play along with, but I guess not enough people would want to pay for it. It'd take a lot of effort too.
I've pretty much bankrupted myself by buying the two remasters boxes, so Rock Band will have to wait until Christmas. I've already started dropping hints to my wife though!
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12.23am
It was released here today (we're a day or half day ahead based on where others live). Apparently it's been selling out left and right. I had to ring three stores just now to find one that has stock left (1 left, and my wife is in the same shopping centre – update – just got the phone call and she has it!) Wow, almost like twitter but even more pointless. 😉
So anyway, assuming it sells quite well, there will be a lot of downloadable content for it. These games typically have about 80-ish licenced songs on them, but a few of these single-band ones have only 40ish.
The games are the razors. The downloadable content (DLC) are the blades. – If the game sells well, and so do the downloadable extras, they'll milk us for all they can get from us, so I think the entire catalogue, or bloody close to it is very feasable. I also think that (if licencing issues work out) we could see some decent chunks of the solo work down the line as well. Band On The Run (song only) is the only song I'm aware of in any of these games at this stage. (Guitar Hero World Tour).
Now I need to go and find my other microphone…
6.44am
31 March 2008
Offline As far as downloading content goes, they'll release a couple of albums worth, but I don't think they'll get anywhere near the full catalogue. I'd imagine it's costly to produce the computerised versions, and they wouldn't bother with the likes of Chains , Misery or Little Child – there's not much call for them.
I can't see solo games for each of The Beatles, but they could do a Beatles: the Solo Years edition and group the best songs all together in one bundle. That would be good. Anyone care to venture a tracklisting?
John: Cold Turkey , Stand By Me , Gimme Some Truth , It's So Hard, Oh My Love
Paul: Band On The Run , Jet , Let Me Roll It , Maybe I'm Amazed, Live And Let Die
George: My Sweet Lord , Wah-Wah , What Is Life
Ringo: I'm The Greatest (love that song)
Apart from John's, I don't have masses of the solo albums. I have the Wingspan best-of, Band On The Run and Ram , All Things Must Pass , and earlier today I was listening to Ringo's best-of on Spotify.
One thing that comes to mind is that much of the solo stuff wasn't guitar-based – or, at least, the best-known songs weren't. Am I right in thinking keyboard-based songs typically don't get included in these games?
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4.10am
I disagree. With a bit of reflection, I can't see them bringing out the least-known bits of the catalogue, but I think we'll see all the major albums. They already have the digital character models, costumes, sets, backgrounds etc. The main thing they'll have to create are the track notes and match the singer's mouths to the songs.
Just for comparison, these are the songs brought out for Rock Band/2 in the last 3 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2…..and_series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2…..and_series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2…..and_series
There's a LOT of money in DLC – Microsoft/Sony takes their cut, Harmonix will take theirs, Apple Corps get their licence fees for doing nothing but allowing it to happen. Albums go for a comparable price to real albums, and there's no retail chain to deal with. They dpn't have any worries about shelf space etc – the stuff just sits on a virtual shelf in perpetuity – check out the games catalogue on Steam or all the downloadable junk on XBL/PSN.
The Rock Band guys do DLC much better than the Guitar Hero guys – but they still came up with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…..le_content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L….. (GH5 has only been out for a week)
1.00pm
31 March 2008
Offline I know you didn't mean solo games for each Beatle – I was just getting a bit carried away, a flight of fancy 
I've got a Wii and an old PS2, though I haven't got Rock Band yet – money's a bit tight at the moment because I'm in the process of moving house. But hopefully I'll get it soon. In honesty I don't play console games too much these days – I have periods of obsession with Zelda, GTA etc, then forget about it for months at a time. When I get Rock Band I'm sure I'll be hooked once again!
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8.47am
Got the game last weekend and have been playing pretty none stop since then.
Very good and very addictive am useing a friends rock band controller at the moment but its just not the same so will have to get a beatles replica one asap.
Not got the addional song download yet (more expense) but its a good idea and looking forward to more coming out.
Hows every1 else getting on with it???????????
2.53am
I think it's crazy fun. I got so excited today because I finally got a memory unit that will hold the downloads of the two new albums (Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper ) and I can't wait to get them. I heard they're going to release an album a month, not sure how far they'll get though.
The replica instruments make it so much fun too. I have the replica Hofner, and I'm freaking spoiled on that thing. 🙂
11.27pm
15 February 2010
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This idea struck me earlier while I was playing Beatles rockband…
I’ve got a Nintendo Wii – I’d like to friend some other Wii’s so that we can all play rockband together, start a story together and so on. We can all arrange a time that we can log on and play. Good idea or no?
I can do everything but guitar – I’m no good at rockband guitar! 
Who’s in?
1.30am
4 April 2010
Offline If you had a PS3 I would join.
"The best band? The Beatles. The most overrated band? The Beatles."
2.42am
21 August 2009
Offline Or an xbox360!
Leave it to all of us to have different systems…
Tongue, lose thy light. Moon, take thy flight… see ya, George!
8.40am
6 April 2010
Offline I’ve got an xbox 360 too. I live in Colorado so there may be some scheduling issues with anyone who wants to play, but otherwise I’m game.
I now declare this bridge open!
8.49am
13 November 2009
Offline I have the game but no console. The problems with impulse buying…
9.35am
31 March 2008
Offline Hmm. It’s a good idea. I’ve got a Wii, and it’d be great to all log in as one. A sort of ‘Our World‘ for the 21st century. However, time differences might make it tricky – I’m in the UK, and most people here are, I suspect, from North America.
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3.10pm
15 February 2010
Offline Joe said:
Hmm. It’s a good idea. I’ve got a Wii, and it’d be great to all log in as one. A sort of ‘Our World‘ for the 21st century. However, time differences might make it tricky – I’m in the UK, and most people here are, I suspect, from North America.
I’m in Michigan – USA, I’m sure we could figure something out. Wanna swap console numbers? Side note – I’m currently unemployed, so I’m available anytime to play it! 
8.35pm
6 April 2010
Offline So, would anyone be up for a little Beatles Rock Band? I know there was a topic about this a while back, but it seemed to die out pretty quickly.
I have an Xbox 360, and I have a fairly flexible schedule. If anyone’s interested, let me know and we’ll jam.
I now declare this bridge open!
