12th
ROCK BAND (my cross to bear)
Incase I am wrong and someone noticed, I have been checked out of the ‘blogosphere’ (yech) for wuite some time. A big contribution to that is Rock Band for my PS3. I feel I am an informed enough person to give you a piece by piece examination of how Rock Band is holding up now that it has been out for roughly 6 months. Before I get into current issues with the game, let me give you a brief overview from a rhythm game playing nobody such as myself.
Basic Gameplay: 
GUITAR/BASS
I stole this picture from ign to show you how the gameplay works. The guitar and bass are a lot like guitar hero. You hit the buttons and strum to play the song and get points accordingly. You hit silver colored notes in succession to get energy for in which to double the amount of points you and your fellow band members are bringing in until the energy dies out.
DRUMS
Drumming is a similar task with the exception of two things, there is an orange bar that stretches across the whole note-chart for the drum column which signifies bass drum, it isn’t terribly a new concept but it is new… Secondly, when the drummers get the said energy as described above, they can only activate it at the end of a drum fill which comes in at selected points of each song when a player has enough energy to go into “overdrive” )the double your points thing. I have a beef with that issue because I have been at the ass end of losing a song because i failed a ridiculous solo and my drummer had the energy to spend, but the song didn’t have a drum fill section for some time. I suppose it is a challenge of the game that I lost, but fuck it anyways!
VOCALS
Singing is alright. The microphone picks up your pitch and does a pretty good job of recognizing octaves and all that sort of business. When singing, a circle starts to go around like a clock and gives you a rating per phrase based on how long you were able to stay on pitch and with the different rhythms and syllables and whatnot. In my corrupt opinion, Hard is the best difficulty out of the other three. Easy could be achieved even if you were wearing a big rubber halloween mask. Medium is alright but it fills up the dial awfully fast. Expert is something I have not been able to achieve. The dial goes soooo slow. This is where everyone can bash me for not being able to sing, but fuck you fuckers. Another thing that I enjoy is to play guitar and sing at the same time, it is quite fucking hard, but a good time when you get the hang of it.
BAND PLAY
Rock Band got one thing spot on and it is the attraction of playing with the fullest band you can get. The more players you have, the easier it is to get a ridiculous score. If a band plays really well and they coordinate when they go into their overdrives, on a song like Mississippi Queen you could be getting 8x the points (on top of the 4x multiplier you have been rocking yourself). Times all that by 4 (for the other players efforts), and that 25 points PER note is now the beefiest thing since beef. All of these scores are put on the leaderboards (the best aspect of the game).
CURRENT ISSUES
Now that I have given you a terrible overview of what the game is like to play, I will tell you what time has told about this epic game.
-Guitar’s are terrible. I have bought a new one myself and the gentleman at the store said he has bought 5 or 6 already for him. Although he is probably just making it seem more acceptable to put up with this shitty controller quality. The strummer is the basic piece of shit factor with this piece of shit. Look it up online. The other thing that sucks is the spring for the whammy bar, it is the thinnest thing I have seen in my life. It breaks easily if some new douchebag is going crazy on the whammy bar.
-The music store has been rocking it lately. They have been releasing albums, namely, Doolittle by the pixies. In a couple of days they are releasing a lot of Who songs. Sure you have to pay for them but at least they will transfer to Rock Band 2 when it comes out.
-ROCK BAND 2 COMES OUT FOR 360 FIRST, PS3 AT A LATER DATE FUCK THAT SHIT BITCHES. Fuck the 360 honestly. I have one in my house so all of you mother fuckers just shut up if you were going to ‘step up 2 the maxx’ with me. Just release them at the same time, I know you have a deal but you are pissing us all off over here in PS3 land. The S in PS stands for superior.
So buy it, I guess. Friend me. Thx.
