Author Topic: Things That Made You Poop A Little. (Read 133775 times)

The Chef · « **Reply #360 on:** May 25, 2010, 10:19:45 AM »

Hey, even I avoided everything showing the game off save for the first few levels. There's nothing better than witnessing the last level in a Mario game after having tried so hard to make it there.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #361 on:** May 25, 2010, 10:47:55 AM »

I agree. I don't know why you'd want to spoil discovering it yourself.

Weegee · « **Reply #362 on:** May 25, 2010, 07:17:25 PM »

TK feels me.

Besides, seeing the final level quelled my expectations. Believe it or not, I was kind of hoping for another challenge-free finale in paradise.

Glorb · « **Reply #363 on:** May 26, 2010, 02:37:37 PM »

I am fully against spoiling games for yourself. Sure, you can do it, but it strips the game of its value. I know, firsthand, the lameness of a spoiled game surprise. You know that bear chase in Condemned 2? Well so did I. And then I played it.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #364 on:** May 27, 2010, 03:35:51 PM »

So I had been away from the 'net for a few days when I get home and boot up the old 360. I see that the Green Day: Rock Band demo had come out so I d/l it and play the two songs. When I quit the demo, it had the usual couple screens explaining the features of the full game. Then, the next screen showed this and I [dukar] my everlovin' PANTS:

Weegee · « **Reply #365 on:** May 27, 2010, 03:44:10 PM »

Piano? Nifty.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #366 on:** May 27, 2010, 05:08:43 PM »

It will have 5 keys.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #367 on:** May 27, 2010, 05:14:04 PM »

And just when my interest was piqued.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #368 on:** May 27, 2010, 05:47:55 PM »

Hopefully Harmonix will handle keyboard better than Konami did.

I haven't looked at anything else about this to know about it, so I hope Chupperson's signature applies here.

Also, harmonies being in the main game (a feature that was announced some time ago) should be nice, though I most likely won't play the game any time soon.

Glorb · « **Reply #369 on:** May 27, 2010, 06:04:34 PM »

Uhhhh guys? How is piano worth adding? Pretty much every rock band has two guitars, drums and a vocalist; pianos/keyboards/etc. are kind of a fifth wheel. But whatever, maybe they'll be optional. Personally I'd like RB3 to have a sort of interchangeable 5th instrument slot that could be filled with piano, turntables, whatever. God, turntables would own so hard.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #370 on:** May 27, 2010, 06:06:26 PM »

There is literally nothing announced besides that picture; CW is being facetious. It will still be fairly simple, of course, but there's no way they'd release a three-white-key, two-black-key peripheral and suffer endless jokes for the rest of gaming history. If I had to bet money, I'd put it on a one-octave keytar.

Warp, what's your beef with Keyboardmania? It's coo in my book.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #371 on:** May 27, 2010, 07:18:52 PM »

I have no problem with Keyboardmania itself; I love many of the songs that came out of the series, and I actually bought a MIDI-to-USB cable a while back for the sole purpose of being able to play a Keyboardmania simulator with a proper controller (though due to my keyboard crapping out on me, I haven't gotten to do so). I was referring to the fact that Konami abandoned it after a pathetic number of versions, while Guitar Freaks and DrumMania are still around.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #372 on:** May 28, 2010, 12:15:29 AM »

What is Glorb talking about? Tons of bands have super useful keyboards.

Glorb · « **Reply #373 on:** May 28, 2010, 04:25:38 PM »

That leaves some songs without any keyboard component at all, is my point. It's not as ubiquitous as the other instruments. But I suppose my main beef is,

How the hell is Harmonix going to fit another instrument on screen without rendering all of them super-tiny?

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #374 on:** May 28, 2010, 05:01:59 PM »

I would suggest chopping off the right third of the vocals bar and putting keyboard in the top right corner there.

I strongly suspect that with the potential for seven unique players at once, Harmonix will feel a lot more comfortable using songs missing one of the instruments. It's already becoming increasingly common in DLC. RB3 will probably have more on-disc songs to compensate, as well. (More than RB2's 84 songs. Man, I remember when 20 songs seemed like a massive rhythm game.)