Queen Guitarist hints at Queen Rock Band coming soon

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Now that Beatles Rock Band is out and has proved such a successful concept, we're sure to see many other band-specific versions of the popular game. Like Queen, for example, may be next, if a recent BBC interview with guitarist Brian May has anything to say about it. While praising the new Muse album (which you need to go buy right now because it's stellar), the topic of Queen's appearance in Lego Rock Band came up, and that led to talk of other Queen-centric games.

May mentioned discussion going on behind the scenes in regards to a Queen Rock Band game, and he was quoted as saying: "Yes we're into it, I think it may happen." Who could blame him for being into it -- I am really into the idea of rocking out some Queen Rock Band style myself.

What do you think of the idea of a slew of Rock Band titles focusing on specific bands. Cool? Or milking the franchise?

Destructoid (http://www.destructoid.com/queen-guitarist-hints-at-queen-rock-band-coming-soon-151854.phtml)

[tridentgum0]

I love Queen with all of my heart and more, but please no.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

If queen got anything, I think it should just be a Track Pack really. Like a whole disc track pack. 20 songs.

[Jixzer]

If queen got anything, I think it should just be a Track Pack really. Like a whole disc track pack. 20 songs.

This, however I would understand a Queen-centric game using the TB:RB vocals engine. Queen does have some killer harmonies.

[kiggidykev]

That would really be a breakthrough

[DookieMan]

Really now, please no. I wish bands would realize they aren't as good as the Beatles.

[topperharley]

I love Queen with all of my heart and more, but please no.

While I don't love Queen as much as you do, I do like them a lot. But I really don't want to see HMX start down the bandalone games path. TB:RB should be the exception. Band specific track packs, like the AC/DC track pack, that are fully exportable, would be a different story, and I would fully support that.

[BevoTheWarrior]

I really like Queen but I'm not into this idea at all. I'm so sick of the band-specific games. That's part of why I jumped ship from the GH franchise. If RB starts this as well, it'll be tragic. Unless, of course, the game is exportable. If it goes that route, I can deal with it.

[ThunderCurls]

http://kotaku.com/5342081/harmonix-workin-on-rock-band-3

This article also mentions another 'major artist' game coming.

[Wolfbeckett]

If anything they do with major artists is exportable then great but I will continue to not financially support any games that come out using the Rock Band name that aren't exportable. In fact, if it starts to look like Harmonix is going to make a regular thing out of it, I may become disenfranchised with the whole thing and just stop purchasing Rock Band stuff entirely. This is one of the primary reasons I buy HMX products instead of GH stuff.

[HeyRiles]

http://kotaku.com/5342081/harmonix-workin-on-rock-band-3

This article also mentions another 'major artist' game coming.

Green Day, Pearl Jam track packs

[bermuddy]

less RB: Queen
more RB3

[ThunderCurls]

Green Day, Pearl Jam track packs

Neither of which are getting their own game.

[FloodOne]

While I don't love Queen as much as you do, I do like them a lot. But I really don't want to see HMX start down the bandalone games path. TB:RB should be the exception. Band specific track packs, like the AC/DC track pack, that are fully exportable, would be a different story, and I would fully support that.

Even the Beatles shouldn't have their own game.

I don't buy band specific games, and this trend will kill the music genre.

[Jglaubman]

Neither of which are getting their own game.

"Getting their own game" is a pretty unclear description. ACDC track pack is, IMO, ACDC getting their own game.

[Cpt. Overkill]

Even the Beatles shouldn't have their own game.

Don't hate. Appreciate.

[Sarge51]

Please, don't let those TB: RB sales get to your heads. If you're doing a bandalone game, at least make it a band that's highly respectable and that we don't have in RB already.

[Wolfbeckett]

Guys how likely is this really though? We are already getting a Queen 10 pack and 2 songs in Lego RB, among which are most of their biggest hits. Either the Queen game would contain duplicate songs (which would be super lame) or it would not have any of these big hits (which would drive sales down significantly).

[ThunderCurls]

Please, don't let those TB: RB sales get to your heads. If you're doing a bandalone game, at least make it a band that's highly respectable and that we don't have in RB already.

Queen are not highly respectable?

[Julio_Strikes_Back]

Please, don't let those TB: RB sales get to your heads. If you're doing a bandalone game, at least make it a band that's highly respectable and that we don't have in RB already.

Queen is one of the most highly respected bands ever, boy.

[Sarge51]

Yeah, but we have 10+ songs in the RB platform already. :p

[gosox333]

I really don't agree with this, but at this point I don't even care enough to complain about it. I'll just patiently wait for RB3 and ignore (mostly) anything that comes out between now and then.

[DookieMan]

Well, I don't want HMX to start milking the franchise, and I don't want band specific games to take time and attention away from the main series. Having Rock Band and TBRB as separate entities is great, and it should be kept that way.

[ThunderCurls]

Well, I don't want HMX to start milking the franchise,

Start? It's already begun my friend.

[J3st3r 360]

Please Lord, really don't start nagging about a Queen:Rock Band game, that would really be milking it and making Rock Band look a little something like this other franchise that... Ha! Let me just let it be right there.

Honestly, if there's going to be anything Queen related for Rock Band, let it be an entire Queen month of DLC. Queen and Rock Band know how bad we want it on Rock Band, plain and simple. Both know that if they were to release Queen songs, all of us would buy them.

Honestly, just make an entire month of Queen DLC, because we all want it. And for those people who don't want it, I'm ashamed!

[Wolfbeckett]

Start? It's already begun my friend.

True to some extent, but in HMX's defense, their milking (so far) has been less egregious. They are releasing a ton of games, yes, but they are doing so for different platforms at least. Beatles and Lego are for the main consoles, Unplugged for PSP, the iPhone game that they are releasing (released? I don't have an iPhone). They are not yet to the point of milking it the way Activision is. And I don't want them to get there, so no more non-exportable single band games please!

[J3st3r 360]

The whole "milking thing" really isn't an ordeal. I mean, say for instance they made Rock Band: Unplugged for everything starting from the PSP all the way to the 360. Then I'd have to agree with it, but what all do we have at the moment.

Rock Band 1- Three main consoles, PS2
Rock Band 2- (Same)
The Beatles: Rock Band- (I only know of the 360, I'm drawing a blank, apologies. But again, so what if it's for all consoles?)
Rock Band: Unplugged- PSP

The expansion packs don't really count as games, do they? Just like Guitar Hero: World Tour is considered both, a game and an expansion pack because look at where it stood before Guitar Hero 5.

[afterstasis]

i could see myself buying a rock band: queen. it'd be a total no-brainer if it's exportable.

[J3st3r 360]

There is that debate between us Rock Band peeps on whether or not we consider the expansion packs games of themselves or not. With me, it's consider a simple expansion pack/DLC altercation. I'm not going to buy the game to simply play it, I want to buy it to add the songs on to Rock Band, and then chase after the chubby achievements before I resell the dang game for the idiot who wants to buy it "for game play."

Simple DLC market for an extended amount of time will do. I mean, it's the exact same thing and it gives you an option of what songs you want. Why is that so hard to understand?

[ThunderCurls]

The expansion packs don't really count as games, do they?

I would argue that only AC/DC would count because you cannot get the songs any other way than to buy it. The other track packs include songs that have already or soon to be released.

[Sarge51]

If it's like AC/DC and exportable, then I wouldn't care.

[J3st3r 360]

I don't really know. I mean, maybe if they did a AC/DClike thing for Queen, there wouldn't really be any harm. But look at it though. Queen is SO much bigger then AC/DC and everyone has like a million Queen songs they like.

I do think Queen is in the talk of giving us Rock Banders some stuff to be honest. They're giving us Under Pressure by them and Bowie, so... :rolleyes:

[General Lein979]

I wonder what hmx will actually do band game wise. Queen, U2, and Pink Floyd all want 1/ would consider 1.

[Apples]

Now that Beatles Rock Band is out and has proved such a successful concept, we're sure to see many other band-specific versions of the popular game.

Premise flawed from the beginning.

No matter what personal favorites people cling to, there just aren't that many bands with the universal appeal and gravitas to demand their own game.

Niche band favorites aren't going to be commercially popular enough to sell an entire disc around.

[trench762]

I'm all for it, as long as they take the time to perfect it and it gets the full treatment. Exporting is a big feature they need to consider though. Another big to me is I don't believe anyone in the band should be excluded, queen is a band that replaced a member. I don't want them to go the GH:VH route or GH:M route and put the current line-up, but I don't think they should exclude it. Multiple singers are different phases of the bands career and should both be included imo, even if only one setlist without freddie.

[n4sc4r]

I'd like this about twice as much as TB:RB, in terms of fun charts, so I'm all for it.

But if they have Queen + Paul Rodgers and make the game like TB:RB with a chronological story mode, I'll be ticked... I don't want to end the game with C-Lebrity, sorry.

[MrFruitLord]

Hopefully he's just mistaken.

[hawkofva]

There's a big difference between "possible" and "coming".

[FloodOne]

Premise flawed from the beginning.

No matter what personal favorites people cling to, there just aren't that many bands with the universal appeal and gravitas to demand their own game.

Niche band favorites aren't going to be commercially popular enough to sell an entire disc around.

This. The Beatles and Metallica are pretty much the only bands that can successfully pull this off. I expect the Van Halen game to flop.

[ThunderCurls]

TI expect the Van Halen game to flop.

Well they already gave away a large portion of stock for free...

[topperharley]

The Beatles and Metallica are pretty much the only bands that can successfully pull this off.

Beatles, yes. Metallica, no.

[instantdeath999]

I guess I'm the only one who thinks that, if done right, band games can be so more effective than DLC.

Of course, the fact that you can get a much bigger portion of the bands discography, but I also think that if the setting and character models are done right, it can serve as a great tribute to the band. Gameplay specific features, like vocal harmonies, are completely welcome too.

I would prefer a Queen game over a Queen 12 pack, to be honest. Besides, usually I play music games to complement what I listen to (a general routine of mine is to listen to a song or album, play them on whatever rhythm game they're available, and then attempt to learn them on real instruments), so having it all in one place is not a big deal to me.

I guess I'm trying to say I'm okay with either format, but to people saying it's "killing the business"... I think it may just be the opposite. Although I'm no analyst.

[instantdeath999]

Beatles, yes. Metallica, no.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Metallica are the highest selling metal band of all time (although I guess that largely depends on your definition of metal), and I definitely think there should be at least one band game based after a metal band (RB: Death? :)) Plus, it did make a pretty good game.

[Billy-93]

No please no no no. Beatles are the only ones who truly deserve a game of there own. Plus they have no story like the beatles like when they play on rooftops n stuff.

[LORDJUJU]

I quess we will rock you will be a very hard song play ha ha. I dont queen has enough chalenging songs to play.

You obviously don't listen to Queen do you?

[instantdeath999]

I quess we will rock you will be a very hard song play ha ha. I dont queen has enough chalenging songs to play.

They used that same argument for The Beatles, and it turned out to be possibly the most well made music game ever.

[CyanFunk]

No please no no no. Beatles are the only ones who truly deserve a game of there own. Plus they have no story like the beatles like when they play on rooftops n stuff.
Live AID. The tribute concert. Every time Queen played at Wembley has a story, really


I quess we will rock you will be a very hard song play ha ha. I dont queen has enough chalenging songs to play.
Please look up the GH Metallica chart for 'Stone Cold Crazy'. Not challenging my ass

[ffwarrior47]

RB: Queen?

Bad idea would be bad.

TachyRAWR (6:57:56 PM): Only Bands that deserve(d) a music game:
TachyRAWR (6:58:21 PM): The Beatles, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush. imo.