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Rock Band Wish List
By Jacob Cohen | July 9, 2008
I’ve been playing a decent amount of Rock Band recently. I’ve been staying away from the vocals, but I can get through almost all of the songs it comes with on “hard” on bass, guitar, and drums. This game is a great way to build or maintain hand-eye coordination.
But it has left me wanting more. This game is in dire need of more songs available for download. The total catalog is only a few hundred songs. I’m sure it’s a pretty decent chunk of work to get a song, secure all the appropriate distribution rights, cut it up into its various parts, create the track information for each instrument on all of the different difficulty levels, etc, but it would definitely keep the game fun for a much longer time if the catalog of songs was larger.
In addition to more songs, I hope they are working on expanded instrument capabilities, particularly around the drum set, which comes with 4 drum pads and a kick drum pedal. I would love to see an expansion drum set that attaches a hi-hat pedal, a hi-hat drum pad, and drum pads for one or two cymbals. This would allow the four main drum pads to be used for snare, toms, and percussion without their assignments changing in the middle of a song like they do now. It would also allow for a more complete drumming experience, using both feet and a greater variety of drums.
For the guitar and bass instruments, it would be pretty fun to have the ability to use the microphone and add a backing-vocals track. Many of the songs that come with Rock Band have multi-part vocal tracks, but only the lead vocals are available to perform.
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August 19th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Hey, just read this blog, I know it’s a bit late, but, had a couple suggestions for ya…
1) If you’re confined to a console, just get the guitar hero games to supplement your need for rhythm needs. Sure, no drums, but, the song selection in those games is a bit larger.
2) If you’re on the computer anyway… try frets on fire and guitar zero.
http://www.guitarzero2.proboards78.com/index.cgi?board=competition
Both of these games either have, or will soon support, drums as well as guitar hero/rb guitars.
What’s more, is you can get pretty much unlimited songs to play, and if you have a Wii wireless guitar, play with it via USB without too much hassle.
Anyway, good luck, and if you need any help with it, add me on AIM: JK Azrael …