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Title: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: wwwes on July 31, 2009, 01:36:05 PM
First, I'm REALLY sorry for a THIRD thread about Rock Band.

But come on, this is ridiculously cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKRyKVDvO6U
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: nec13 on July 31, 2009, 01:45:15 PM
Awesome video.

It's amazing how much video game technology has advanced over the span of 20 years.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: wwwes on August 15, 2009, 11:36:53 PM
Set list revealed. Alarmingly low on Revolver, but the inclusion of Hey Bulldog and Good Morning Good Morning helps.

Set list revealed. Alarmingly low on Revolver, but the inclusion of Hey Bulldog and Good Morning Good Morning helps.

Singles
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Feel Fine
Day Tripper
Paperback Writer
Revolution
Don't Let Me Down

Please Please Me (1963)
I Saw Her Standing There
Boys
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Twist and Shout

With the Beatles (1963)
I Wanna Be Your Man

A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A Hard Day's Night
Can't Buy Me Love

Beatles For Sale (1964)
Eight Days a Week

Help! (1965)
Ticket To Ride

Rubber Soul (1965)
Drive My Car
I'm Looking Through You
If I Needed Someone

Revolver (1966)

Taxman
Yellow Submarine
And Your Bird Can Sing

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
With a Little Help From My Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
Good Morning Good Morning

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

I Am The Walrus
Hello Goodbye

The Beatles (White Album) (1968)
Dear Prudence
Back In the U.S.S.R.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Birthday
Helter Skelter

Yellow Submarine (1969)
Hey Bulldog

Abbey Road (1969)
Come Together
Something
Octopus's Garden
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun

Let It Be (1970)
Dig a Pony
I Me Mine
I Got a Feeling
Get Back

Love (2006)

Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows

Supposedly, the last song on the list will be The End, but that hasn't been confirmed. The entire Abbey Road medley will be playable as one really long track, though.

Supposedly, the last song on the list will be The End, but that hasn't been confirmed. The entire Abbey Road medley will be playable as one really long track, though.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: nec13 on August 15, 2009, 11:40:17 PM
I'm disappointed by the exclusion of their most underrated song, Old Brown Shoe.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: wwwes on August 15, 2009, 11:48:01 PM
They are providing downloadable content. I'd love it if they offered the ability to get the entire Past Masters 2 album, but they'll probably release it in little bits and pieces. I'm sure Old Brown Shoe is coming.

The most interesting part of the downloadable songs is that they've said they're going to do Sgt. Pepper. I'm curious to know how they would possibly interpret She's Leaving Home to be played with a plastic guitar. Not curious enough to buy it, of course.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Matt on August 16, 2009, 12:12:49 AM
No sitar songs? Weak.

"It's All Too Much" would've been a great choice.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Gilly on August 16, 2009, 01:14:14 AM
This is easily going to be my favorite game in a long long time, if not ever.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Gregory on August 16, 2009, 01:17:34 AM
Guitar Hero / Rock Band
is fun for one night with your friends
then it sucks

but playing "I'm looking through you" sounds awesome.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: erika on August 16, 2009, 03:12:31 AM
Guitar Hero / Rock Band
is fun for one night with your friends
then it sucks

but playing "I'm looking through you" sounds awesome.

BS. I've been playing Rock Band for over a year now and I love it! You must not be very good at it ;)
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Chris L on August 16, 2009, 08:59:55 AM
When is the Hoagiefest edition coming out?
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: masterofsparks on August 16, 2009, 09:38:55 AM
I'm boycotting this game if they snub You Know My Name, Look Up the Number.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: erika on August 16, 2009, 10:39:56 AM
I won't snub, but I may scoff for a moment.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Gilly on August 16, 2009, 02:00:01 PM
I've heard that every album will sooner or later be available as downloadable content with Abbey Road being available on day one. I don't know how that's going to work for a couple songs, but I hope that's true.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: orangewhip on August 16, 2009, 09:56:50 PM
The cinematic trailer for this game.  One of the best trailers I've ever seen for any media whatsoever.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSLLxRmR3nY[/youtube]
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: wwwes on August 17, 2009, 03:00:26 PM
It happened again. Third trailer is even better than anything else we've seen. Helter Skelter looks like it will be all kinds of awesome, and the While My Guitar Gently Weeps video is a dark mirror of Here Comes The Sun, which is a really inspired choice.

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14294513/the-beatles/videos/beatlesrock_trl_trailer3_81409.html

Gilly, I don't think EVERY track is promised to be available, but I know that their contract is open-ended, so I imagine it could be. I know that the Apple Corps shareholders have said they really like the fact that the game offers a really deep connection with each song (as opposed to, say, an iPod shuffle), so it's definitely possible they'll just let them keep offering as many as they want.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: DoodleJump! on August 17, 2009, 03:05:26 PM
I saw the video of Sgt. Pepper for the first time on VH1 this morning...was confused and remained so until I got home and read this thread.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: pete on August 17, 2009, 04:43:56 PM
I really love how well put together this is, which is unsurprising for Harmonix. I just really wish it was integrated with normal Rock Band, I don't want to have to swap out when we feel like playing some Beatles.  Not a dealbreaker (", ladies!"), though.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: MC Shakespeare on August 17, 2009, 07:10:09 PM
Paul McCartney had footage of the game backing him when I saw him in concert. It was fantastic.

Set list revealed. Alarmingly low on Revolver, but the inclusion of Hey Bulldog and Good Morning Good Morning helps.

Set list revealed. Alarmingly low on Revolver, but the inclusion of Hey Bulldog and Good Morning Good Morning helps.

Singles
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Feel Fine
Day Tripper
Paperback Writer
Revolution
Don't Let Me Down

Please Please Me (1963)
I Saw Her Standing There
Boys
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Twist and Shout

With the Beatles (1963)
I Wanna Be Your Man

A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A Hard Day's Night
Can't Buy Me Love

Beatles For Sale (1964)
Eight Days a Week

Help! (1965)
Ticket To Ride

Rubber Soul (1965)
Drive My Car
I'm Looking Through You
If I Needed Someone

Revolver (1966)

Taxman
Yellow Submarine
And Your Bird Can Sing

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
With a Little Help From My Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
Good Morning Good Morning

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

I Am The Walrus
Hello Goodbye

The Beatles (White Album) (1968)
Dear Prudence
Back In the U.S.S.R.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Birthday
Helter Skelter

Yellow Submarine (1969)
Hey Bulldog

Abbey Road (1969)
Come Together
Something
Octopus's Garden
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun

Let It Be (1970)
Dig a Pony
I Me Mine
I Got a Feeling
Get Back

Love (2006)

Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows

Supposedly, the last song on the list will be The End, but that hasn't been confirmed. The entire Abbey Road medley will be playable as one really long track, though.

Supposedly, the last song on the list will be The End, but that hasn't been confirmed. The entire Abbey Road medley will be playable as one really long track, though.

I can't believe they don't have "She Said She Said"... that would of been amazing on drums. Also, what about "Rain"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdrGS__yg6Q
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Trembling Eagle on August 17, 2009, 07:56:03 PM
why can't they make this so it hooks up to a real keyboard or guitar?
be an awesome teaching tool
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: wwwes on August 17, 2009, 09:03:53 PM
Well, for drummers or singers it can definitely serve as a teaching tool. I mean, I'm not even sure there's ANYTHING that can serve as good of a harmony teaching tool as the harmony trainer that uses a synthesizer to demonstrate the selected harmony part. And while you won't learn how to use a full kit, you learn enough drum patterns and rhythms to get the fundamentals down.

I think they're getting people to make video guitar lessons for their website, and I'm sure they have people regularly thinking of a way to make the guitar more realistic. They'll probably get a real guitar to plug in and play the notes before they could improve the plastic one. Even then, though, it'd be sort of limiting. It can measure pitch, but it can't measure where your fingers are.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Gilly on August 24, 2009, 02:52:05 PM
Is it wrong that I sold a couple Beatles records to be able to come up with the cash to buy this game?
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on August 24, 2009, 03:20:43 PM
Is it wrong that I sold a couple Beatles records to be able to come up with the cash to buy this game?

depends.  please disclose which albums and i'll set up a help! panel to determine the definition of "wrong".
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Gilly on August 24, 2009, 11:30:05 PM
Is it wrong that I sold a couple Beatles records to be able to come up with the cash to buy this game?

depends.  please disclose which albums and i'll set up a help! panel to determine the definition of "wrong".

Revolver and Sgt. Peppers, both US Stereo? I still have the mono Ebbetts versions on CD which is all I really listen to anyway, the one time where I prefer CD to vinyl. I figured it was worth it to get this.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on August 25, 2009, 11:53:40 AM
Is it wrong that I sold a couple Beatles records to be able to come up with the cash to buy this game?

depends.  please disclose which albums and i'll set up a help! panel to determine the definition of "wrong".

Revolver and Sgt. Peppers, both US Stereo? I still have the mono Ebbetts versions on CD which is all I really listen to anyway, the one time where I prefer CD to vinyl. I figured it was worth it to get this.

i would say sgt. pepper, yes; revolver, a toss up.  you win this time, Gilly.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: yesno on August 25, 2009, 12:10:12 PM
I prefer the mono version of Rock Band.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Gilly on September 01, 2009, 02:27:35 PM
According to Wikipedia, the remaining tracks from Abbey Road will be available in October, Sgt. Peppers in November and Rubber Soul in December. So, it looks like everything will be made available over time.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Christina on September 01, 2009, 04:28:12 PM
I prefer the mono version of Rock Band.

I have an acetate disc of Rock Band.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: kevin_ on September 01, 2009, 06:39:16 PM
I prefer the mono version of Rock Band.

is that where you're just really fatigued for an entire month so you play rock band all day?
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on September 02, 2009, 10:14:48 AM
i saw the commercial for beatles rock band this morning, where everyone is walking across abbey road and it makes me feel so good seeing the beatles all in one place and everyone is smiling and laughing that i want to go out and buy a gaming console strictly so i can also owns this game.  
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: buffcoat on September 02, 2009, 10:52:22 AM
I prefer the H1N1 version of Rock Band.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: daveB from Oakland on September 02, 2009, 05:03:31 PM
I prefer the H1N1 version of Rock Band.

Yeah, but the only song you can play on that one is "Piggies".
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: fonpr on September 02, 2009, 05:21:56 PM
I prefer the H1N1 version of Rock Band.

Yeah, but the only song you can play on that one is "Piggies".

I am the Walrus.


























Coo Coo A Choo
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: nec13 on September 02, 2009, 06:26:55 PM
Ahem, Fredericks. It's googoogajoob, not coo coo ca choo.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: fonpr on September 02, 2009, 09:07:31 PM
Ahem, Fredericks. It's googoogajoob, not coo coo ca choo.

Eat a walrus Mr. Technical.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: nec13 on September 02, 2009, 10:12:08 PM
Ahem, Fredericks. It's googoogajoob, not coo coo ca choo.

Eat a walrus Mr. Technical.

I'm hurt.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: panasonicyouth on September 02, 2009, 11:29:53 PM
So I played the demo version of this yesterday at GameStop and it was...kind of incredible? The graphics are nuts, the gameplay is really smooth for Harmonix, and the window of accuracy for hitting notes is a bit larger. (It's my only complaint about Rock Band. Guitar Hero has much better peripherals.)
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: chris v on September 03, 2009, 09:28:23 AM
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JlvZZTQOI[/youtube]

The CGI John Lennon at the end of this is creepy, but my excitement to play this game remains strong.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Chris L on September 03, 2009, 09:53:41 AM
The CGI John Lennon at the end of this is creepy

They should've had him walk around with a CGI sanitary napkin on his head.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on September 03, 2009, 10:32:26 AM
(It's my only complaint about Rock Band. Guitar Hero has much better peripherals.)

this is why i will play guitar hero with friends and usually play anything BUT the guitar in rock band.  so frustrating.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on September 03, 2009, 11:41:11 AM
No sitar songs? Weak.

"It's All Too Much" would've been a great choice.

A plastic sitar would have ruled.

Also a plastic harpsichord and the inclusion of 'Piggies', or a plastic Tuba and the inclusion of 'Martha My Dear'

And when RockStar Beachboys comes out, there better be a plastic theremin.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: nec13 on September 03, 2009, 12:41:56 PM
The CGI John Lennon at the end of this is creepy

They should've had him walk around with a CGI sanitary napkin on his head.

That's the funniest thing I've read all day.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: steve davidson on September 03, 2009, 01:26:36 PM
whats the second funniest
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: DanFromBrooklyn on September 03, 2009, 01:34:48 PM
No sitar songs? Weak.


Actually, "Within You Without You" is included, so there is some sitar...
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: wwwes on September 09, 2009, 06:15:59 PM
Picking it up tonight, cannot wait to play this.

On a side note, it was said somewhere that apparently Sun King /Mean Mr. Mustard are bound as one playable track, as are Polythene Pam / She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. Ignoring the weirdness of always playing Mean Mr. Mustard immediately after Sun King... Is it just me, or did Polythene Pam / She Came In Through The Bathroom Window just preemptively become the most fun song to play in the entire game?
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Me! on September 09, 2009, 06:38:14 PM
So far I've had more fun watching the game rather than playing it, just because the visuals are so great.

I'm not dogging on the gameplay though, because it's well done too.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Gilly on September 09, 2009, 11:16:13 PM
It's a great game, I just wish there would have been DLC on day 1 other than All You Need Is Love. I was really looking forward to playing a whole album. The story mode is kind of weak but it's still a lot of fun playing all of the songs. The real fun is going to come when those downloadable songs start rolling out... I don't understand why they need to wait a month to release them.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: wwwes on September 10, 2009, 12:40:15 AM
If I had to guess as to why DLC is delayed and sporadit, I'd say it is probably because unlike the normal stuff, they actually have to render new animations for each song. The delay part of that is lame, but it will hopefully be great once it comes out.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Gilly on September 10, 2009, 03:36:19 AM
It definitely will be. Can't wait to play Rubber Soul and Help! in full. I'm assuming they keep the Abbey Road side 2 in tact without splitting it up. I know the greed will be tempting, but they can't break it up, can they?
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: wwwes on September 10, 2009, 06:00:11 AM
Well, they are in a sense. I know that Sun King and Mean Mr. Mustard are one track and Polythene Pam/Bathroom Window are one track. Not sure about Golden Slumbers and Carry That Weight, but it might make sense.

However, if you buy Abbey Road as an album and not just individual tracks, you get to play the medley complete which I'm guessing will be its own track. If you have a Wii, it remains to be seen how this will work, since Wii users currently can only buy individual tracks in the Rock Band music store.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: snogrog on September 13, 2009, 04:22:44 PM
I got this the other day. Played through all of story with a full band from 11 PM to about 3 AM. I gotta say, going from that to Rock Band 2, I just enjoy The Beatles Rock Band more since it is so much more than just rock band with the dreamscapes and not being a random avatar. I know that kind of doesn't sound like it should make a difference but watching The band go from Abbey Road Studios to a dreamscape as Sgt. Pepper's singing and then the words to the harmonies forming in clouds...it's just a sight to behold.

And I truly cannot wait for more DLC and full album playthroughs. What a solid, solid game.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: Matt C on September 16, 2009, 05:11:44 AM
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k_RvidNBqs[/youtube]

I'm thinking of buying it after seeing this, the little extension at the end (which isn't on the album) is really, really cool.
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: wwwes on October 14, 2009, 09:47:30 PM
Abbey Road coming on Tuesday!!

Here's an unfinished cut of Oh Darling from a couple months ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLxl0bk-ARs
Title: Re: The Beatles: Rock Band looks amazing
Post by: snogrog on October 15, 2009, 10:29:41 AM
UGH. My 360 just RROD'd. Thankfully under warranty. Just hoping it's a speedy recovery. I gots to play me some Abbey Road! And L4D! And...oh a bunch of games.