Rock Band Weekly: Queen

@Tradio Since no one is buying rock band 3 harmonic are only shooting themselves in the foot.

Thanks for your call!

@Tradio Meanwhile those of us who waited to purchase said packs are really losing nothing. Harmonix said they would LIKE to release the back tracks with no fee for upgrades, but that is not likely to happen. For once my laziness is working in my favor!

@Tradio I can understand how it was likely the only choice.

The problem is, adding keys is not just adding a part like it is with Pro Guitar and Pro Bass. Many of the older keyboard/piano heavy songs had those parts mapped in with the guitar part, sometimes mixing between the two in one part.

They need to remove the keys parts from the guitar/bass charts, which fundamentally changes most of the parts of the song, plus they need to go back to the masters and separate the keyboard parts for the audio mixing.

For harmonies, they need to separate parts out of the solo vocal track as solo vocalists sing parts they wouldn't sing when playing harmonies with other players.

At that point, aside from the drums, you've basically got an entirely new song, hence why it's being sold as such.

That said, as someone with hundreds of Rock Band songs in their catalog, I'm not particularly thrilled about it. I bought the updated Bon Jovi songs because they're some of my favourite songs in Rock Band and I bought the full pack but I doubt I'll bother with updating these songs, especially the two that were in Lego Rock Band because they are incredibly boring to play (not necessarily saying anything negative about the songs themselves, just that they're not particularly exciting to play in Rock Band).

@Tradio

I understand more work has gone into these, but there is no way I will pay the full price again for half of the instruments.

@Tradio I should be able to take my car in, pay the difference in the parts on the new model vs. last years since they only changed a few minor things. Same for my TV, it's barely a year old. The new model only has a couple of new features, nothing major though..

you're an idiot.

@oolz Because a car and DLC songs are the exact same things, of course.

@sprodigy Stomp stomp clap on keys

That's my guess

But harmonies makes more sense

@Denbowski I've been holding back on purchasing any Queen tracks because I've been hoping for such game. Maybe now I'll cave in and accept that it will never be.

When you see an announcement of Queen: Rock Band, do know that I bought these packs roughly three minutes before.