Playing Full Albums

[TheCulprit]

So, I was just wondering today, what the experience of playing full albums will be like in TB:RB...

One of my favorite features in RB2 is the really user-friendly orgianizing tool with your song list (decade, artist, song, difficulty, etc.) which always makes it easy to find an entire album if you have one and play it.

Now we know TB:RB supports full album downloads, but will we be able to play them straight through like we can in RB2? The problem I see arising is the fact that each song is tied to a specific venue.

When you play a whole album in RB2 its all a seamless performance in a single venue, but picture playing the whole Revolver album... Kick off in the Budokan playing Taxman, but then before you know it you've magically poofed into Abbey Road Studio 2 to play Yellow Submarine (not to mention your clothes and hairstyles have all changed) and then poof your back at the Budokan with And Your Bird Can Sing...

Some albums may work fine. Like Abbey Road, I could see working as the whole album in Studio 2 with the various dreamscapes materializing and dematerializing with song beginnings and endings. But it seems like a few albums would be forced to cross the venue barrier mid album.

This makes me wonder if we'll be able to play albums straight through seamlessly without having to go back to the song list to pick our next song.

I wonder if we'll be able to create custom Setlists like in RB2 as well? It could be fun to research and play the exact setlist of a legendary concert (Shea, Candlestick Park, Rooftop), or to just be able to play I Saw Her Standing There, Taxman, I Am the Walrus, and Get Back seamlessly without having to go back to another loading screen. But will we have this option, and if so, what does that mean for song/venue pairings? Perhaps that will be the only time when that rule is flexible (My mind goes to playing a setlist in RB2 that starts with a male singer and then later you have the same male singer singing a female lead)...

I don't know. I'm just brainstorming. Any thoughts?

[mva5580]

Awesome questions and things that I'm now absolutely wondering about too lol. It would be nice to get some information on this stuff. Well done.

[leob5622]

If there is a Quickplay, then you might be able to play Get Back at the Ed Sullivan Theatre with Yellow Submarine outfits.

Idk. I know in Story, they follow the progression thing but, mix/match might be fun.

[colahead420]

Hahah yea I don't know what to tell you there. I'm just taking a wild guess but I think the venues would just change. Playing the album as a whole is probably more important than being realistic, going from a concert to the studio.

[chrth_rb]

I imagine every song is going to be programmed visually, even the venue ones to ensure consistency with singers; I suspect there will be no swapping of outfits (except Bukodan?), venues, anything.

[Moony_Lupin]

The quickplay versus venues and avatars is something I'm curious about too. I can certainly see them having a brief loading screen and jumping from venue to venue/year to year... I doubt they have two animation sequences for each song for a quickplay option. If they did, it would be neat if the older Beatles played all of the songs in Abbey Road studios. Since they're older, they could arguably play any of their back catalog as well as their Let it Be stuff. Won't happen, but a neat thought in my head.

[zepplinmike]

The OP has introduced another reason why locking songs to specific venues is a bad idea.

My previous feelings against this were because I was hoping that you could play some of the Beatles' earlier tunes in later venues (like "Twist and Shout" at Ed Sullivan, which btw was a real life performance anyway).

[liaminh]

But you can't save your set list, so what does it matter anyway?