Rock Band 2
Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Sep 14, 2008
Harmonix, MTV Games, and EA return with the sequel to Rock Band. Rock Band 2 ships with 84 on-disc songs, 20 free downloadable songs, compatibility with all DLC, and the ability to import most songs from the first Rock Band.
Country in Rock Band - Yay or Nay?
CMT let spill that RB will soon have some Country added to the setlist, I'm curious what the GB community thinks about this.
Personally I'm all for it. I'm not going to buy it as I'm not a country fan, but more diversity in DLC is a very good thing imo. There has been quite a negative (erm, "mixed" I mean) response on the official RB forum and at gamespot/gamefaq, but that isn't really something that is unique to this announcement.
So what say you? Is this a sign of the apocolypse? I think we're still aways from something like "Country Hero" or "Fiddle Band", but who knows, if this really takes off we could see a lot more from this genre in the future.
I think it's a good thing, but they'll either have to be very carefull about what songs they pick, or not have drum parts in some songs, because some country songs don't have drums.
On a personal level, I'm not a huge fan of country music, but some of the banjo solo's in them are insane and will be hella fun to play - so it gets a big thumbs up from me.
"If done right, yay. If not, nay. I want Johnny Cash in my Rock Band, not Tim McGraw."I would like Conway Twitty.
Considering it's optional, I have no problem with it. If I had to endure some of today's really bad country music to play through the actual game, I wouldn't be so happy, but I could always just mute the TV, which I've done for some songs in the past.
"Considering it's optional, I have no problem with it. If I had to endure some of today's really bad country music to play through the actual game, I wouldn't be so happy, but I could always just mute the TV, which I've done for some songs in the past."I totally did that on Raining Blood in GH3.
I bet we won't see a "real" country song in RB or GH on disk anytime soon, but I'd be willing to bet we're going to get more and more southern rock that is borderline country.
Haha, dude! Raining Blood? I think that was one of GH3's best songs. The guitar work in the game is something else, man, I love it. I'm not a huge metal fan, but I love the power of that song. It's pretty intense. I was referring to songs like Beast and the Harlot in GH2, and We Got The Beat by the Go-Gos in GH80s. Oh well.
1. It's not confirmed, as HMX came out and said there is no confirmation.
I think we just need every Johnny Cash song ever. Folsom Blues, especially. That shoulda been on the disc!
"TheGreatGuero said:I don't blame you. That song is such a mess. Mess? Sorry, I meant 'grim to the bone'."Considering it's optional, I have no problem with it. If I had to endure some of today's really bad country music to play through the actual game, I wouldn't be so happy, but I could always just mute the TV, which I've done for some songs in the past."I totally did that on Raining Blood in GH3."
Not a fan of country at all, but like others have said, if it's optional I don't see a problem. Some of the southern rock songs are very fun to play (I love both the Allman Brothers' songs from GH II and RB II), and stuff like Freebird and Green Grass are pretty fun to play.
As long as they keep the more boring stuff to DLC, I'll be fine. ;D
the only band that's country-rock like that i would like is America. Other than that, I hate country. sry.
Depends what you mean by Country since it's a broad genre. You can call Elvis, Cash, Creedance Clearwater Revival, and hell, even Skynyrd country rock.
"Depends what you mean by Country since it's a broad genre. You can call Elvis, Cash, Creedance Clearwater Revival, and hell, even Skynyrd country rock."It's funny, I don't consider any of those bands/singers as country. When I think country, I think that of that damn guitar twang and sad songs about how your dog/cat/wife/etc has left you and/or died. I'm sure I'm just uninformed with the genre, but I'll be damned if I'm not telling the truth.
Anything that gets more CCR and Skynyrd into the game is fine with me though.
I am not much of a fan of country, but I think some should be in it to an extent. They should not place a Taylor Swift song in the game, just to gain a larger audience(Please do not do this Harmonix). That would lower your fans' expectation of you. I think they should just try to put country songs from up to the 70s or 80s and stop there.
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