What’s in a Name? That Which We Call a Game by Any Other Name Would Play as Sweet?
Yup. We’re doing this…
OK, here’s the deal. The game is called “Rock Band.” It also has rock music in it. However, just like your radio, your iPod, and your local concert hall, more than just rock music is played. When I hear people complaining about DLC every week, this is the probably the “argument” that I hate the most. And it comes up a LOT. I don’t mind if you don’t like the music each week… really. I dislike Miley as much as you do, if not more. But I’ll let you in on a little secret… I don’t like the same bands as you. People freaked out about Iron Maiden DLC awhile back… Me: “Meh.” Megadeth DLC! Me: “Yawn.” Sorry, there’s just some bands I don’t get excited for. Doesn’t mean I’m going to claim the franchise is dead and squat on the corpse (I guess I can’t, since I’m a little more vested in it than the average person). But let’s take a quick stroll through Twitter to see what people are saying. The names have been hidden to protect the “innocent…”
I think Matt here should get together with Steve from the top and figure out if they want to use quotes or capitalize the word rock in Rock Band. At least shoot for consistency… might help your cause a little.
Uh oh… nobody tell him that Guitar Hero got Miley Cyrus before Rock Band did. Should have had this tag, too: #Nerdrage
Suicide is not the answer, sir. But if you do, make sure to write “Bretton was here” on the ceiling above you so Red can see it and pause for a poignant moment.
You have too many A’s in fail. It’s actually spelled with six A’s, not seven. And he is NOT going to like the DLC coming for Guitar Hero, then.
Pssht… yeah. Good luck with that whole “realistic” instruments thing in Rock Band 3! No one plays a real instrument anymore!
Two separate statements that are both true. I mean, 2012 isn’t far off. Not sure if he’s inferring there’s a connection, though.
CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK IS HERE TO SAVE US FROM TERRIBLE DLC!
Bad Rock Band! If this get’s any worse, we may have to hire the “Rock Band Whisperer.”
Did I miss the meeting where Marissa was appointed as the head of the “million of advid” players and “music heads” group? I must have been sick that day.
C’mon… you knew it was coming.
Feel free to add your contributions in the comments… or to tell me to f**k off… I’ll take either.
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I’m just glad I dont have to buy it.. but clearly SOMEONE is buying it if they keep adding it -_-
What a bunch of whingey fuckers. Have they forgotten that they don’t need to freakin’ buy it if they don’t want to?! Oh, BTW, I bought the Miley Cyrus pack, cause my sister wanted it. She’s not usually intrested in most of the songs released, but she did really like this DLC. That’s part of the quality of the DLC, it’s variety. But I guess we could just release metal songs every single week instead, that would be fun……
It never ceases to amaze me how people can panic over something totally NOT imposed on them. I can’t stand Cyrus, but I saw she was on rock band yesterday, skipped over and went to the Ozzy right below it. I’m not expecting HMX to release songs I love every week, and I wish no one else would either.
The worst is the people who say “They should make a Pop Band” or “why don’t they make a Country Band” not realizing that they would still have to license and chart all the songs we have now, if not MORE (we’ve got about 30 or so country songs, 45 songs is considered bare minimum for these games) as well as take up more resources to add new graphics &c., on top of oversaturating the market with pointless spinoffs and needlessly segregating DLC. My favourite is the uninformed, ostensibly empty threats to switch to Guitar Hero. I read someone wanting to switch to Guitar Hero because of crap DLC and because they wrote off the entire Rock Band Network as obscure indie content. In other words, switching to a Guitar Hero indie rock pack, a few RBN songs that are also Guitar Hero DLC, and unknown Activision bands.
I wonder if Rock Band fans complain about chicken sandwiches at BURGER King.