The only reason I'm not playing right now is because I have to eat at some point.

I've only played with the drums so far and wow, I haven't had this much fun sucking at a rhythm since the day the first Guitar Hero came out. I've got to get a group of people together so we can rock the hug out!

COMPLAINT #1: The drum pads are freaking loud when you whack 'em. I'll have to crank the volume to drown them out and the neighbors won't be happy.

I played the game a little at a demo they had set up in WalMart, and the drums are a lot of fun, but I agree, the noise it makes when you hit it is quite unsatisfying. Maybe wrapping some cloth or masking tape around the end of the sticks would help?

I got it (the last one too) but, I it's technically a gift for the brother so it won't be opened until Thursday. On that day I'll force everyone in my family to play it.

Luckily, not having to worry about it being in stock or not helps tide me over.

One complaint I've got so far.

Guitar Hero III Hard : Guitar Hero II Expert :: Rock Band Expert : Guitar Hero II Hard

I'm really looking forward to playing this--singing, learning the drums, rocking out on the guitar with friends... this is gonna kick ass.

The guitar this game comes with is the best ever.
The end.

Well, the drum kit, from what I've seen resembles a drum practice pad and they do have a signifigant "thwack" when hit. You can try padding the sticks, or go to a music store and buy tympani mallets. They're wrapped in a padding to absorb most of the harshness of impact yet still have a good firmness to them (i.e. they're not squishy which might affect each beat registering).

Damn, I love when the audience sings along. During Sabotage it gave me a little chill because of the AWESOME.

I wish I had the money for this...

I'm getting the feeling that Cheets is enjoying his new game.

And if he's rocking out while dressed like Waluigi, that's even more awesome.

i wish i had a PS3 for this. Hopefully after the holiday rush i'll pick one up...... and rock band as well.

Hey, does anybody still have that Cheets Mask template?

If I'm gonna get a bunch of people to rock out, we're gonna be an all-cheets band.

Umm isnt it a XBox 360 exclusive?

Not in the slightest.

no

Unless those boxes of the PS3 Version of Rock Band I saw at Wal-Mart lied to me, it's not a 360 exclusive.

What songs are on this?

I wish this was out for the Wii. This type of game is part of what the Wii was made for. Grrr....

if it can come out for the PS2, then i don't see why it can't be ported to the Wii.

The makers said it was a possibility, but never said anything official. It should've been ready at the same time as the other versions. Right now GIII for Wii is outselling the PS3 version.

And yet its the one that's sold the least and the 360 is outselling them all.

You hate the Wii. WE GET IT.

On topic: I'll be picking this up next year after I pick up a 360.

Wait, so it's outselling the PS3 version, but is also selling the least amount of copies?

Rock Band is on PS3 and 360 only.

Yet another reason to get a 360.

A PS2 version is reported to be released later but right now it's those two systems.

Unless something's changed since April, I think a Wii version has been confirmed, just no release date set.



So until then, Guitar Hero III will just have to tide me over.

Hmm then those idiots at Best Buy were lying to me. All I saw was the X Box version and when I asked they said it was only for the Xbox.

There's also a bunch of DLC out today. But there's so much, I think it'll run over $20 to grab it all. I think in total, it's 2280 points.

I grabbed the Metallica pack and "Fortunate Son"

Drumming is so much fun. I've barely touched the guitar.

Heh... rocked out on vocals at my friend's place last night. I just wish they would have picked better songs... the few I did know I, was great at. Weezer, Guns N Roses, The Ramones, etc. Wave of Mutilation was frickin' torture though...

We had me on vocals, my friend on lead guitar, his older son on secondary guitar, and his younger son on drums. We had a flippin' blast.

I've gotta convince them to download some Metallica next time... heh.

Gah! Stop making this game sound so awesome, I don't have time to pick up someting else!

My arms are sore. I was drumming for pretty much 9 solid hours last night; finally my friend and I called it quits at about 8 AM.

All I can say is the drum parts get pretty brutal as you venture into expert. I'll need to go over there more often and practice.

Well, I guess I have a reason NOT to get this... Apparently it's delayed here in Canadia. There's an issue with the fact that by law, the box needs to be English and French.

Most sites I've been on say it'll be available here Dec. 17.

::resists the urge to glance at ebay...::

Stupid Quebec and it's stupid laws.
Canadia is indeed a silly place.

Not just QC but ALL of Canada.

Heh... yet another reason America is superior... we don't HAVE a national language. ^_-

... especially down in Florida. Que?

So yeah...bought this game at launch nite...brought it to my friend's apartment...played all the intruments and everything works...bring it home and the guitar doesn't even turn on anymore.

Yesssss score one for me.

Other than that...awesome game, but I REALLY want to be using that guitar now. (I have 2 GH2 controllers to tide me over however but it's not the same)

Yep, my guitar crapped out too. but with the "double-strum" problem that's been reported.

Luckily I can use the GHIII one.

list of songs in rock band

Here's a brief breakdown on my thoughts for each instrument.

Vocals - I suck. I'm also a distraction to all of my bandmates because I sing in a goofy falsetto the whole time. If I don't I can't match the pitch at all.

Guitar/Bass - I need to get used to the timing of the rectangles over circles and where hammer ons are. The guitar feels good but I can't keep a combo going for long.

Drums - Again, very fun despite my lacking skill.

The game is tremendous. It's easily the most fun I've ever had playing a video game when I was playing with three friends yesterday. I'm sure I'll be putting a lot of time into this to try and get good at medium on drums and singing. I also need to get better at jumping between the low frets and the solo frets.

Well... I caved.

Got one off Ebay, currently awaiting for the package to reach Canadia...

Knowing my luck it'll get here *after* Canadian release.

Got a chance to play it thanks to my brother. I love the new guitar and the selection of songs. I suck at drumming and even more so at singing. Also, it seems that I have progressed to that skill range in-between Medium and Hard. Medium is too easy and Hard is too hard. -_-;

we got together and played it yesterday, much fun was had!

i can rock the guitars ( on medium ^^: ) i suck at the drums and didnt go anywhere near the mic.

we played for like, 6 hours, felt like 6 minutes.

Holy god! It was six hours! Time hugging flew while we were playing that!

too true,

im sure even more fun will be had later today :}

* nudge wink *

Ooh, thank you! Very nice set of songs. When playing Tom Sawyer, whoever is playing bass should be required to also sing and play one other instrument.

Bought it and played it all weekend long.

I'm on the mic because none of my friends wanted to sing. I actually don't do too bad either. I'm surprised.

Bought all the DLC.

No problems yet with any of the instruments.

I have two bands:

Lechuga de Guerra

and

1 Night Taco Stand

I actually managed to make a decent looking vagina with the logo editor for my second band.

Played this at a friend's place Saturday night.

Wow. This game was awesome.

I am no good on drums (though I figure if I actually played them more and practiced a bit, I would get the hang of it).

I am *really* no good at mic, which is really a shame because some of the songs I was rocking at really good and got the words down and was doing awesome, but apparently the mic is busy looking for "tones" or "octaves" or other musical bulljive and not "rockingness." So what could have been one of the more fun bits of the game...um...wasn't as fun as it should've been.

Guitar is predictably awesome. Bass is a bit boring, but guitar is still fun. So while Guitar Hero will indeed feel a little like Rock Band Practice, it's not so bad because the guitar is easily the most fun part of Rock Band, and the part I wanted to keep playing more of.

Heh... the guitar on Rock Band was infinitely more fun looking than GH's. Watching my friend's kid, you could tell he was having a lot more fun on it. Perhaps it's just the fact that you're all competing, but in different ways... unlike GH, which is pretty much pitting your skill against the guy next to you on the exact same instrument.

My one gripe is that the bastards put the pop-up xbox live announcements right over the lyrics portion of the game. Sure it's not too bad with the songs you know, but singing something you've heard on the radio but never paid attention to (Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter for example... where I only knew the chorus) was insanely difficult with the notices popping up. (My friend's 360 is full to the rim with his friends list... he gets constant crap popping up)

Next time I'm making him disable it... heh.

Ironicly, I had no problems with vocals... but then again it helps to start off on the rather forgiving Easy setting until you get it down. Cool that they incorporated the tambourine into it... where you have to tap your mic in certain portions. My friends were freaked when I did every long note on Weezer's "Say it Aint So"... heh. That takes a lot of lungpower. "Creep" was fun too.

Ok, what? Part of the reason this game is so fun is that no one is competing. In fact you have to work together to make sure you all get through the song.

So... anyone else suffering from *everything breaking*?

I went down to Seattle (From Van, BC) with my buddy to pick up 2 copies. One for him, one for my friend. They're roomates. Thankfully I went along. We've had one guitar break, one drum pedal go, so it's a good thing we have a spare. Don't know how much longer things'll last

Anyways, the game is rediculously fun. We're gonna stamp out a sheet metal plate to go over our working drum pedal. Should hold things together. Apparently, they won't ship replacement *anything* to Canada, cause it's not exactly out here yet. Ah well.

I just hope those song packs become available up here!