Comments on: Rock Band 2 Review (PS3)

By: TokenFemaleGamer

TokenFemaleGamer — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:04:50 +0000

I finally figured out how to change the lyrics from scrolling to static display!

For anyone else confused about the whole menu thing, its not to be found on the main menu options. You have to be playing a song, then hit the start button to bring up the in-song menu and then look under those options. Very lame!

By: TokenFemaleGamer

TokenFemaleGamer — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:32:35 +0000

LOL! Completely unbiased…my ass!
Yes sadly Dr. Teeth doesn’t play with us very often. Maybe your Unbiased-ness could convince him to show up more often. =P

I seriously doubt I will venture into Guitar Hero land anytime soon. The music is just not appealing. There is even less to like then in Rockband. And really if the music isn’t a draw I dont see much point in playing the game at all.

By: Myrmidian

Myrmidian — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:23:20 +0000

Also, Dr. Teeth is definitely the coolest. Just my unbiased opinion.

By: Myrmidian

Myrmidian — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:21:08 +0000

Bah, you just Guitar Hero’ed with the wrong people. =)

Though obviously if you don’t prefer to play guitar over singing and drumming, it’s not going to be as enticing. They *are* releasing a Guitar Hero greatest hits or something similar, with drum and vocal tracks added. So you may get a chance to play some of those songs after all.

By: wolfie

wolfie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:43:46 +0000

lol, nice review, love the screenshots, go animal and janice :), one thing i would like, is for it to show the instrument difficulty on tour and for each song in a set as a summary before the set begins. As for the rock out comment, that was just too good not to mention.

By: diegochung

diegochung — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:03:28 +0000

Guitar Masturbation. That’s such an apt description for one of the biggest phallic symbols of our culture! Too funny!

By: TokenFemaleGamer

TokenFemaleGamer — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:03:45 +0000

I so like some heavy metal, like Metallica, Guns n’ Roses, and White Zombie. But they were never on repeat enough for me to learn the lyrics like some other bands. And while Guitar Hero did have other types of music most of the the songs were of the type where the entire song basically paused for a massive guitar solo. I like to call those sections guitar masturbation.

Playing just using the regular controller probably would have appealed more to me, but again, none of the music did.

So changing my lyrics options now! I have a feeling it will be much easier to read in regular English mode. =D

By: Myrmidian

Myrmidian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:14:14 +0000

Ooh, also, you can change the way the lyrics show up when singing. I think the choice is either scrolling or line? I can’t recall what the settings are named. One is the syllable style you mention, the other shows them more like paragraphs.

By: Myrmidian

Myrmidian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:09:14 +0000

Couple things:

1) Rock Band really really really needs to allow you to “mark” songs. And in several ways:
- I’d love to put notes on songs, such as “I like to play this one on Hard” or “This song just isn’t fun to play on Bass”.
- I want to be able to tag songs so that they do NOT show up in random playlists. Some songs are fun to sing, but then have no guitar or drum parts worth playing. If I’m playing guitar, I don’t want a song to show up in a mystery playlist that has a crappy guitar part.
- It’d be cool to set up my own categories for songs.

2) It’s too bad you didn’t give Guitar Hero a chance back in the day. You could play just using the regular controller (not the guitar-shaped controller), and then it’s just like your normal rhythm games. So you didn’t have to worry about the “guitar stigma”. Hehehe.

There were plenty of songs that you probably wouldn’t like, I’ll admit. Not sure which songs you’d have liked, but they weren’t all the metal-mania types (though I do know that you like Metallica). Stuff like Boston, Franz Ferdinand, Matthew Sweet, Incubus, Cream, The Donnas, Heart, Pearl Jam, Toadies and David Bowie. So many. =)