Comments on: How to Become a Rock God http://doombot.com/2007/11/21/how-to-become-a-rock-god/ by Jane Austen Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:26:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: doombot » How to Become a Rock God, part 2 http://doombot.com/2007/11/21/how-to-become-a-rock-god/comment-page-1/#comment-41192 doombot » How to Become a Rock God, part 2 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:31:47 +0000 http://doombot.com/2007/11/21/how-to-become-a-rock-god/#comment-41192 <p>[...] our previous episode, we learned that I acquired Rock Band on its release date, and that Dan loves it but has a couple [...]</p> [...] our previous episode, we learned that I acquired Rock Band on its release date, and that Dan loves it but has a couple [...]

]]> By: Dan http://doombot.com/2007/11/21/how-to-become-a-rock-god/comment-page-1/#comment-40917 Dan Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:28:20 +0000 http://doombot.com/2007/11/21/how-to-become-a-rock-god/#comment-40917 <p>Jess and I played a bit last night, and I got to try the online multiplayer with a couple friends as well. I think the funniest thing for me was noticing that the first venue you play at in world tour mode (The Charles Pub) had an address on Beacon St. and Somerville, like a half mile from out house. Surreal. I'm not exactly sure which place that's supposed to be (Google Maps suggests it's the bar across from Star Market, whose name I can't remember), but I'm pretty sure the second venue (The Establishment) is supposed to be The Middle East.</p> <p>So far, I'm totally enamored with the game. Whaling away to Gimme Shelter on the drums may be the highlight of my month (I may have to be a little less enthusiastic in the future, as our downstairs neighbor asked us to keep it down).</p> <p>Only downsides so far: one of the headset adapters that they gave me is apparently fried; the second one worked fine, but the first one just ended up with a ton of static. And I'm bummed about a few of their software design choices: for example, you have to create a separate rocker for each instrument; I created a drummer, and I couldn't use him as a guitarist later, even though both were associated with my Xbox Live profile. And the lack of Band World Tour mode for online play makes me a sad panda, but I'm still holding out hope that it'll get there eventually. Oh, and if you want to play with multiple people in the same place <em>and</em> people online, you need an Xbox Live Gold account for everybody, which we found out last night (unless there's some sort of option we missed). Thanks Microsoft, for nickel-and-diming us to death. Again.</p> Jess and I played a bit last night, and I got to try the online multiplayer with a couple friends as well. I think the funniest thing for me was noticing that the first venue you play at in world tour mode (The Charles Pub) had an address on Beacon St. and Somerville, like a half mile from out house. Surreal. I’m not exactly sure which place that’s supposed to be (Google Maps suggests it’s the bar across from Star Market, whose name I can’t remember), but I’m pretty sure the second venue (The Establishment) is supposed to be The Middle East.

So far, I’m totally enamored with the game. Whaling away to Gimme Shelter on the drums may be the highlight of my month (I may have to be a little less enthusiastic in the future, as our downstairs neighbor asked us to keep it down).

Only downsides so far: one of the headset adapters that they gave me is apparently fried; the second one worked fine, but the first one just ended up with a ton of static. And I’m bummed about a few of their software design choices: for example, you have to create a separate rocker for each instrument; I created a drummer, and I couldn’t use him as a guitarist later, even though both were associated with my Xbox Live profile. And the lack of Band World Tour mode for online play makes me a sad panda, but I’m still holding out hope that it’ll get there eventually. Oh, and if you want to play with multiple people in the same place and people online, you need an Xbox Live Gold account for everybody, which we found out last night (unless there’s some sort of option we missed). Thanks Microsoft, for nickel-and-diming us to death. Again.

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