mxmarks
11-27-2007, 04:43 AM
Although right now may not be the best time to post this, because most threads about suggestions to HMX are over-run with the same old gripes, I know the guys tend to read the board and I hope they dont just gloss over this topic thinking it will be more "I want BWT online."
I know they pride themselves in listening to fan feedback, so I thought I'd make some suggestions I have here, and hope anyone else who has some good, small ideas, could add as well.
I love the game, and minus the hardware issues that EVERYONE is having, I see almost no flaws. But here's some minor things my friends and I have said that may or may not make sense to you guys. Thanks for listening:
1 - Once we're big rock stars, I'd love to make a setlist as long as I want it to be. I never even thought you'd cap the number of songs we could play in a row, but its looking to me like 5 is the max (I havent beaten the game yet, just asked around, so I could be wrong). It makes sense when we're starting out that clubs only want to book you for a 2 song set, but at some point I'd love to be a big enough rock star that I can call up Empire Square and tell them that I'm doing a 12 song epic set. EDIT: I mean a 'massive' set. I do not think it would be wise as a band to do a set of the song EPIC 12 times in a row. It seems like if you can do a marathon set of 12 songs, you should be able (technically) to make your own 12 song set.
2 - I think it would be cool if once you get a load screen, it stays the same. For example, when I started up my band I had my black t-shirt and my shaggy haircut, and we got the load screen of all of us looking at the screen. Now that we're big, I've got some sweet threads and an awesome cowboy hat (for GG&HT, of course). But when we get that load screen again, it's updated. While that's cool, it would be kind of awesome sometimes to get a screen of what we USED to look like. That way, we feel more like we've progressed, and moved up in the world.
3 - I HATED the fact I could "battle" people in GH3, and that then I could PLAY as Slash and Tom Morello. I want to be myself, and thankfully Rock Band allows me to do that. But when I was playing the Bowie pack this morining, I was thinking - wouldn't it be awesome if Bowie was singing? You've created animations and background visuals under the notes that somehow I'm able to watch WHILE I play. They're unique and really suck you into your gig. Because of how awesome they are (my drummer still announces to us everytime the singer stage dives) - it would be kind of cool to play WITH some big rock stars. Since we usually just play guitar/drums or guitar/bass, I wouldn't mind an "ALL BOWIE" setlist with Bowie singing! I realize that at launch you couldn't do this, because you only had 1 song per artist. But it would be great to see some sets patched in the game all from one artist with that artist "guesting" when you don't have a real live person doing thier part.
and finally
4 - I want pictures of my rocker. But from what I hear thats going to be in the new community site, so rock on.
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Again - can't stress enough how happy I am with the game. This is not a list of "I WANT THIS AND YOU SHOULD DO IT", it's a list of things that would make an already surreal experience even better, for me personally. If even one HMX employee takes these into consideration in the next phase of RB, I'd be beyond excited. Thanks again for a great game, and good luck with the launch hardware bugs. With something this amazing, there was no way it was going to launch PERFECTLY ;)
I know they pride themselves in listening to fan feedback, so I thought I'd make some suggestions I have here, and hope anyone else who has some good, small ideas, could add as well.
I love the game, and minus the hardware issues that EVERYONE is having, I see almost no flaws. But here's some minor things my friends and I have said that may or may not make sense to you guys. Thanks for listening:
1 - Once we're big rock stars, I'd love to make a setlist as long as I want it to be. I never even thought you'd cap the number of songs we could play in a row, but its looking to me like 5 is the max (I havent beaten the game yet, just asked around, so I could be wrong). It makes sense when we're starting out that clubs only want to book you for a 2 song set, but at some point I'd love to be a big enough rock star that I can call up Empire Square and tell them that I'm doing a 12 song epic set. EDIT: I mean a 'massive' set. I do not think it would be wise as a band to do a set of the song EPIC 12 times in a row. It seems like if you can do a marathon set of 12 songs, you should be able (technically) to make your own 12 song set.
2 - I think it would be cool if once you get a load screen, it stays the same. For example, when I started up my band I had my black t-shirt and my shaggy haircut, and we got the load screen of all of us looking at the screen. Now that we're big, I've got some sweet threads and an awesome cowboy hat (for GG&HT, of course). But when we get that load screen again, it's updated. While that's cool, it would be kind of awesome sometimes to get a screen of what we USED to look like. That way, we feel more like we've progressed, and moved up in the world.
3 - I HATED the fact I could "battle" people in GH3, and that then I could PLAY as Slash and Tom Morello. I want to be myself, and thankfully Rock Band allows me to do that. But when I was playing the Bowie pack this morining, I was thinking - wouldn't it be awesome if Bowie was singing? You've created animations and background visuals under the notes that somehow I'm able to watch WHILE I play. They're unique and really suck you into your gig. Because of how awesome they are (my drummer still announces to us everytime the singer stage dives) - it would be kind of cool to play WITH some big rock stars. Since we usually just play guitar/drums or guitar/bass, I wouldn't mind an "ALL BOWIE" setlist with Bowie singing! I realize that at launch you couldn't do this, because you only had 1 song per artist. But it would be great to see some sets patched in the game all from one artist with that artist "guesting" when you don't have a real live person doing thier part.
and finally
4 - I want pictures of my rocker. But from what I hear thats going to be in the new community site, so rock on.
--
Again - can't stress enough how happy I am with the game. This is not a list of "I WANT THIS AND YOU SHOULD DO IT", it's a list of things that would make an already surreal experience even better, for me personally. If even one HMX employee takes these into consideration in the next phase of RB, I'd be beyond excited. Thanks again for a great game, and good luck with the launch hardware bugs. With something this amazing, there was no way it was going to launch PERFECTLY ;)
