noobs

[cuddie]

I'm perfectly fine with you playing on easy. There's nothing wrong with that. It's when you FAIL on easy that ticks me off. Why the hell are you online if you can't even complete a song on the easiest difficulty? Please, for all of us, do some practice offline, and take a look at the tutorials before you hop online. It's rather irritating.

On a side note, I haven't played with anybody on expert in these last two days. The Christmas Onslaught has been brought, and it is in full effect. If anybody wants to play with me on expert, GT="cuddie". Ups says my replacement drums should arrive some time today so when that time comes i'll start drumming.

[MrMan5217]

Cannot agree more! I am having a hard time keeping momentum going on any session. Either the participants can't play worth a damn...or the quit after one song or worse, during a song.

gamer = mrman5217
Will play expert guitar / bass and hard / expert drum.

[clownfish1485]

Why the hell are you online if you can't even complete a song on the easiest difficulty?

Lots of people just got the game and want to try out all the bells and whistles, even if they aren't very good yet.

In your signature it says your XBL zone is "recreation." Don't know how serious people take the zones but it would seem to me like people who just want to have fun and not worry about skill levels would pick that.

[cuddie]

Lots of people just got the game and want to try out all the bells and whistles, even if they aren't very good yet.

In your signature it says your XBL zone is "recreation." Don't know how serious people take the zones but it would seem to me like people who just want to have fun and not worry about skill levels would pick that.

Yes I want to just have fun. Which is why I don't care if you play on easy, as long as you can finish the damn song. Failing the song because somebody can't even play on easy is not my definition of "fun". May be for you, but not me.

As for me being worried about skill levels, refer to the original post:
"I'm perfectly fine with you playing on easy. There's nothing wrong with that."
As far as the game is concerned "easy" would be the lowest possible skill level.

[cjkuhlenbeck]

lol how does someone fail easy man thats nuts. I got like a 98% first time i ever used the guitar, and a 94% on drums. Havent tried the mic yet, but damn dont think its that rough

[Ventura]

Yes I want to just have fun. Which is why I don't care if you play on easy, as long as you can finish the damn song. Failing the song because somebody can't even play on easy is not my definition of "fun". May be for you, but not me.

It doesn't bother me, so long as they're trying their best. Takes a lot of courage to give it a go like that, when you don't know if you're gonna pass or not. I'd rather people take a chance rather than play it safe, more exciting that way.

Rather ironically, I set my XBL zone up as pro. Maybe we both set our zones wrong, eh?

[cuddie]

It doesn't bother me, so long as they're trying their best. Takes a lot of courage to give it a go like that, when you don't know if you're gonna pass or not. I'd rather people take a chance rather than play it safe, more exciting that way.

Rather ironically, I set my XBL zone up as pro. Maybe we both set our zones wrong, eh?
The thing is, you can't "play it safe" if you can't even finish easy. It doesn't go anywhere lower than that. It's not as bad when someone tries expert and fails out after a valiant effort...then we just go to "Change Difficulty" and he/she selects Hard. But what are we supposed to do here? Re-try the same song X amount of times until the guy gets it? I don't have all the time in the world to dedicate to gaming and the time i have i want to use it having fun.

If I have friends over it doesn't bother me as much because the majority of them don't even have a game console and just want to give it a try. But if you dropped $170 on the game, I think you'd want to get good enough to pass easy eventually. So why not come online after you've done that?

And I think our zones are fine. Who knows, maybe you're the uber-competitive type on halo? ;)

[Ventura]

The thing is, you can't "play it safe" if you can't even finish easy. It doesn't go anywhere lower than that. It's not as bad when someone tries expert and fails out after a valiant effort...then we just go to "Change Difficulty" and he/she selects Hard. But what are we supposed to do here? Re-try the same song X amount of times until the guy gets it? I don't have all the time in the world to dedicate to gaming and the time i have i want to use it having fun.

No argument there, I've just never had this happen to me with someone playing on easy. On a harder difficulty, for sure, but then that person's just gone the same difficulty again and has prevailed.

I must admit, I'd rather someone get to learn the ropes, at least a little bit, before venturing online. But being the sort of fella who feels almost guilty when playing on medium while everyone else in the band is hard/expert, I really do admire the courage it must take to get right into online band play while still very new to the game.


And I think our zones are fine. Who knows, maybe you're the uber-competitive type on halo? ;)

It'd help if I actually owned Halo ;) Don't know why I went pro actually, since the furthest I got while I had a gold account for the first month was a round or two of UNO, and since then, I've stuck with my silver account. Something about paying for features I've gotten used to having for free for so many years of being a pc gamer, just rubbed me the wrong way.

As you can probably tell then, I don't actually play my 360 much anymore these days.

[cjkuhlenbeck]

I hate the "Pay to use the internet you already pay for" crap too. But thats for the xbox forums, god i hate microsoft.

[Frederf]

Remeber, they paid $170 for their right to destroy your online experience.

[Flyerfye]

Then I suppose I can't blame them. They did pay for the system, game, AND online play. But failing a song on easy... that's kind of weak. I'd never played a Guitar Hero in my life before Rock Band and started on Medium. But everyone's gotta start somewhere. Sure it's annoying, but I'm sure it'll improve in time. Might be the time to bring some friends over or find a few good people and stick with them.

[cuddie]

I must admit, I'd rather someone get to learn the ropes, at least a little bit, before venturing online.
Yeah when I got the game (11/23) I spent the first week or so practicing and doing the solo tours so I wouldn't suck lol.


It'd help if I actually owned Halo ;) Don't know why I went pro actually, since the furthest I got while I had a gold account for the first month was a round or two of UNO, and since then, I've stuck with my silver account. Something about paying for features I've gotten used to having for free for so many years of being a pc gamer, just rubbed me the wrong way.

As you can probably tell then, I don't actually play my 360 much anymore these days.
I am definitely not a big fan of Microsoft charging for Live. If they do HAVE to charge, why not do it by hours used instead of days passed. What if i go on vacation? That month of xbl i paid for is wasted?

But that is another topic for another place, lol. I actually wasn't using my xbox that often either, had already sold most of my games at that point and was contemplating selling the whole box....and then I bought Rock Band. Oh how times have changed.

[jordan15b]

i gladly pay for live becuase first its like 3 bucks a month if you pay for a whole year you get updates and the service is great.

No offense but i rarely play MY PS3 online becuase it really isnt that great I mainly have a ps3 for a blue ray player oh and ratchet and clank yey i love that game

[72tomahawk72]

My 6 year old daughter can play the drums on easy with out failing. She's on the 4th venue now on the solo tour and hasn't failed a song yet. She came really close 2 times though.:D
She's even venturing into the Medium world now.

I didn't think it was possible to fail on easy. Maybe that person was 4 or 5 years old.:eek:

[Wanny1]

I'm perfectly fine with you playing on easy. There's nothing wrong with that. It's when you FAIL on easy that ticks me off. Why the hell are you online if you can't even complete a song on the easiest difficulty? Please, for all of us, do some practice offline, and take a look at the tutorials before you hop online. It's rather irritating.

On a side note, I haven't played with anybody on expert in these last two days. The Christmas Onslaught has been brought, and it is in full effect. If anybody wants to play with me on expert, GT="cuddie". Ups says my replacement drums should arrive some time today so when that time comes i'll start drumming.

Wow you read on my mind :P I posted a similar thread yesterday. I haven't played with anyone on expert after Christmas. Yesterday in 1 hour, some noobs left in the middle of a song 4 times!! So yesterday I got mad and unplugged all this Rock Band crap and go play some Orange Box.

As OP say, we don't care that you play on easy or medium.. but PLEASE, be sure you won't fail extremely. If you fail, noobs, it's ok, I will go on the beginning songs and play them. My only goal online is to play with people. When people leave in a middle of a song I'm really getting mad.

[Smoky_McAshtray]

I actually stopped using my main character online because I got tired of giving all these noobs who quit out the Riding on Coattails achievement. Now I'll use a generic character at first, and if it seems like a good group after a few songs I'll go and pick my main character so they all get the achievement. I don't care what difficulty people play on as long as they're not douchebags and quit out or hold the mic button down while they're singing.