| Mail |
You might also like: WoW Insider, Massively, and more
PS3
XBOX
Wii
3DS
PSP
PC
Mobile
Move
Kinect

Reader Comments (87)

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:34PM (Unverified) said

  • 2.5 hearts
  • Report
Go back to gaurding your lawn from little kids.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:01PM (Unverified) said

  • 1 heart
  • Report
Thanks for the comic, I've been reading it for like an hour now. Pretty good stuff.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:09PM (Unverified) said

  • 3 hearts
  • Report
See that's the great thing, you can do both! Both are fun! Playing rock band inspired me to take up drumming and singing, and I don't think I would have otherwise.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:30PM (Unverified) said

  • 2.5 hearts
  • Report
5.....
5 Dolla'......
5 Dolla' Rock Band

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:52PM OMGOMG said

  • 2.5 hearts
  • Report
You hilarious, evil bastard.


Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:30PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Holy crap he posted the comic right b4 my description.

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:32PM darkinchworm said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
The loss of the covers isn't that big of a deal, I think, but Enter Sandman? Damn. Quite the blow there. Between this, GH: Metallica, and Death Magnetic on GH3/World Tour, would it be safe to assume that the previously-mentioned single exclusivity is completely out the window?

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:34PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
"but we can probably take a guess as to why Harmonix couldn't re-license some of those tracks."

But...Rock Band 2 has a Metallica song, so if they could license Battery surely they could license Enter Sandman again. Plus, Aerosmith is a go, and they already did Guitar Hero Aerosmith, so I'm saying that GH being the reason isn't so.

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:36PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Oh, and Run to the Hills, not a total loss. That song kills me on Drums. Overall, sweet deal!
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:41PM darkinchworm said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Good point. There's also the possibility, though, that Activision has "Enter Sandman" exclusivity for a future release but did not form an exclusive license (or any license) for "Battery."
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:43PM Seroth said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Pretty disappointing that I'll have to pop in the Rock Band 1 disc to play Enter Sandman or Run to the Hills...I really liked singing Run to the Hills. =[

But still, I'll spend these 5 bucks for convenience of the other songs.

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:45PM Vcize said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Losing Enter Sandman hurts, but this is still pretty sweet. Some people have mentioned that we can do it already. What's the process for that?

I'd like to go ahead and do it so I can sell off RB1 while it still has a tiny bit of resale value, since I won't be needing it anymore.

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:58PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Sorry dude. Its a password system, you have to wait till RB2 comes out.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/21/a-tiny-bit-more-info-about-tranferring-rock-band-songs-to-the-se/
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:50PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
No you don't. People on the RB forums are doing the export right now.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:47PM 343 Guilty Fart said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
1.52 Gigs, are you kidding me? I'm down to the last 4 gigs and as it is don't have enough space left for being able to rip the game straight to the hard drive when that becomes available!

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:02PM Dracula Jones said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
It's not like you're just ripping some mp3's. In addition to the individual audio tracks for each instrument on the songs, you have the input data, and (possibly the biggest chunk of data?) the character animations synchronized for each instrument on each song.

I feel ya, though. I am running out of space on my 20. Guess I'll do a sweep and delete all the Harmonix band songs to start.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:13PM AwesomeTown said

  • 2.5 hearts
  • Report
I know, the one system that has ridiculously expensive proprietary hard drives, I could fill up pretty soon. The other system, which uses any generic laptop drive, I don't see myself filling up at all. (Well maybe with game installs...)
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:28PM Shagittarius said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
I would bet the animations are procedurally generated (at least each song doesnt have its own animations), and therefore take up little space.

I would imagine each track even being an MP3 would account for most of that space.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:36PM 343 Guilty Fart said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Don't get me wrong, I realize that they aren't just straight mp3's. It's just the HDD requirements are a bit too much. Like Awesome Town said, I too have a pretty full Xbox drive, but my PS3 with 80 gigs is just dying to be filled. I'm severely tempted to buy a 60gb 360 drive, though it'll make me feel like a chump.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 4:40PM Kyattsuai said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
At least the rumors last month of having to rip the disc image in its entirety were false. A gig and a half isn't too much; it should give me the motivation to finally delete that godawful Facebreaker demo.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:51PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Am I the only one sad that "Monsoon" by Tokio Hotel won't be on RB2. Not a difficult song to play, but I like the song. That European DLC pack was one of the best IMO. Introduced me to a lot of new music/artists.

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 4:57PM mietha said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
According to the press release in the Rock Band forums, that only applies to the European release of RB2 (where it is on the disc, not DLC). It SHOULD work fine in the US. I too will be very upset if it does not.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 5:06PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
If you bought it as DLC, you'll still be able to play it in RB2. This only applies to the European disc, and even they can buy it as DLC if they want.
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 2:56PM Kyattsuai said

  • 2.5 hearts
  • Report
Woo! They kept Maps!

*ducks*

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:30PM Shagittarius said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
You cannot hide!

* Drops a duce on Kyattsuai *
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:05PM Pikachief said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
we play Enter the sandman paranoid and run to the hills quite often :( i dont think i'll be paying the $5 :/

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:31PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Wow, I shouldn't have clicked that link to the comics. I've been blowing off class for 2 hours just to read all of them. I especially like the ongoing saga of that dude with the hat.

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 3:38PM therpham said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Good - now I won't have to worry about Run To The Hills coming up on random.

I passed it once on expert drum career and will never touch it again.

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 4:07PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
That's actually _good_ news to me. Now I never have to hear or play Run to the Hills ever again!

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 4:15PM ThatFuzzyBastard said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
No Run to the Hills *and* no Paranoid? Oh that's so sad! Well, guess I will have to keep the RB disc around, then.

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 5:37PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
$5.71 in Canada still, even though our dollar is higher ...

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 6:48PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
No it's not...
Reply

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 4:27PM Keithustus said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
We don't have to play the bonus songs in ranked multiplayer anymore?! Awesome!

Posted: Sep 4th 2008 5:06PM ScottG13 said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
This is a pretty awesome feature. I've pumped tons of cash into Rock Band this year, but I've never had so much fun playing a video game with friends. Its been well worth it.

Posted: Sep 5th 2008 5:59AM Vonskies said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
do you guys know how much memory it's going to take since it's going to the hard drive?

Posted: Sep 7th 2008 10:50AM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
will this work on the wii?

Posted: Sep 16th 2008 9:03PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Does anyone know if you have to unlock songs to transfer them over? Or do all the songs (except the metallica, Black Sabbath, etc,)from the origainal automatically transfer to RB2

Featured Stories

Image

Silver Lining: I Am Alive's unfeeling world

Posted on May 25th 2012 7:30PM

Image

Game Of Thrones and the paradoxes of adaptation

Posted on May 25th 2012 5:00PM

Engadget

Engadget

TUAW

TUAW

Massively

Massively

WoW

WoW