A Thread To Share Your Ideas For Extra Features In The Game!

[goodbyebluesky]

Well, basically, this is a thread for people to say, "Wouldn't It'd be cool if____was in the game?"

Go ahead.


My ideas were simple.

Basically, I want 2 career modes to show up.

1: "Rise Up"- The mode is very simplistic. Create your own band, choose the instrument, and start in your garage, and get all the way up to sold out football stadiums. Also, a very small free-roaming world to be included for promoting your band. Walk around, drop flyers in stores, make demo tapes, etc. As you rise up, you need to win battle of the bands, and get a certain number of tickets sold at a certain venue. So basically, a "rags to riches" theme.

2: "Follow the Legends"- A mode where, there is not much creativity, but you get to see through the eyes of an actual band that maybe MTV has signed a contract with. I'd like to see atleast 4 bands, and a story-line based on each ones experience. For example, you can follow Pink Floyd through the eyes of Roger Waters.

Free-Play modes I'd like to see

1: Actual songs from bands, not cheesy covers. Just to mess around with, practice with, see who can shred through an Expert song the best, etc. Basically, the "Quick Play" mode from Guitar Hero II.

2: Acoustic songs. Differential mode for the guitar player, and usually includes a 2 player mode, guitarist and drummer. It would be cool to be able to play a song two different ways, if an acoustic was recorded for it of course.

Online Play

1: Creating bands I heard was already a feature, but when you hit it up online, you are not always going to have you're buddies right next to you on drums, bass, guitar, etc. So, I was thinking, you can send a message to someones band via the game, and they audition. So a virtual garage/studio whatever, and you can sit and watch how good they are, and if you want them, you can assign them a spot in your band. If not, you turn them away, but they can always return. Also, I'd like to see a online battle of the bands. Like, a clan match in Gears Of War, but you battle them with music. You can create you're own, or maybe Harmonix will occasionally hold a huge tourney, with the winners getting something special.

Extra Stuff

1: Creation of flyers in "Rise Up" mode. A very cut down, much more user friendly version of Photoshop maybe built in, to create your own flyers to promote your band in the game.

2:Creation of logos for your band. How cool would that be, I mean, imagine someone creating the band "****", and then making an amazing logo to go with it. People could really kick in their artistic side there I presume.

Well, for now, thats about all I could think of.

POST AWAY!

[benjamin]

I want a game that works properly, with solid Guitar, Bass, Drum, and Mike peripherals. I want many songs, I want difficult songs.

That is all.

[Edgehopper]

There should be online competition and/or online tournaments. That's the biggest thing I'm missing from GH2 (assuming that we'll already have online cooperative mode in Rock Band)

[Brock_Landers]

I want a game that works properly, with solid Guitar, Bass, Drum, and Mike peripherals. I want many songs, I want difficult songs.

That is all.

Likewise. For the first game I just want it to do what it's supposed to well, and I want a bunch of good songs that--for my personal taste--aren't modern rubbish. Oh, and lots of nifty unlockables/buyables.

For the sequel I'd like a robust Create-A-Band Member feature so I can put a cheesy version of myself in the game.

[Podruvan]

Well one problem I have with Guitar Hero is how the notes always scroll at the same speed no matter what the tempo is. It doesn't give you a sense of how fast or slow a song is. And tempo changes are barely noticeable. It's not really a feature, but it would be awesome if when a song speeds up the notes start scrolling faster.

[Grafkid]

they need a lot i mean a ton of songs, and not just select a character, but create a character. also they should have a thing where you make a custom guitar.

[daneish7]

There should be online competition and/or online tournaments. That's the biggest thing I'm missing from GH2 (assuming that we'll already have online cooperative mode in Rock Band)

Hell's yeah. Ongoing Battle of the Bands tourneys. Bracket it off, two rival bands square off on the same song until one remains. Maybe award points to top finishers and have an overall competition ladder alongside the overall plain ol' noncompetitive play leaderboard.

You could have a league that designates a certain song each week or every few days, and in that time frame, you rock that song as hard as you can and submit a score at the end of a period, crowning a champion by overall score for x amount of songs at the end of it all.

[cyan1de]

Create a character would definitely be a cool feature to have. Really, though, I'll just be happy if the whole game plays well, the peripherals are solidly build and not outlandishly expensive, and there's a good selection of songs.

[c0nd0rd4myt]

now this is a complete Pie in the Sky scenario:

the ability to add your own songs: i know me and my friends feel like were the only Hammerfall fans in san diego county, and the ability to add songs and have it automatically (or even manually, id do the work) create the notes for the songs would rock hardcore. and from that, the ability to share songs through Live/Home.

Online Co-op: i want me on drums in SD, want my girl in Hawai on vocals, and two friends back in Chicago on Guitar and Bass, to be able to rock out on the same song through Live or Home.

Downloading a Song: when an album or just a single comes out, i want to be able to download that when it comes out as a playable tune.

I want the actual songs and not covers.

i understand that what i'm asking for would be hard to implement, and i'll be happy if they dont have it in, but like it was said "it would be really cool if"

[KingColon]

Create-a-Character and the ability to create a signature guitar/bass/drum skin

On top of that, I'd like to see a difference between the look and playing mechanics of the guitar and bass controllers, though I'd be satisfied with just having the bass stay in and not be replaced by rhythm guitar. Wasn't much of a fan of the inconsistencies in GHII, especially since Strutter was rhythm. Seriously, who wants to be Paul Stanley over Gene Simmons?

[Brock_Landers]

One thing that I'd like to see (ingame or buyable) is some of the songs modeled off select live performances where they've taken their track and extended it out with some killer improvisational jamming.

Probably not likely to happen, but hey

[n0r3mac]

i didnt read all the replies so i dont know if anyone said this but...

have a make you own song mode where you like pick a guitar sound(ie acoustic distorted grunge clean) and then make you own and allow you to listen to it later on

[shrimp-n-gritz]

I have thought since the first GH that there should be some sort of free play mode where you don't have any note patterns or anything. You could just experiment with the different note and chord combinations and essentially"jam." Maybe make up your own riffs or practice a particularly hard passage from a song. Have a control panel to adjust your instrument settings (distortion, tuning etc. for guitars) to make different sounds. To take it a step further, have the ability to start a recording session and be able to play your custom "song" and save it as a playable track.

I also agree that there should be a create-a-character feature with two options: 1)Use EyeToy to scan in your own face or 2) have something akin to the GameFace feature of Tiger Woods games. Of course the rest of your body and wardrobe would be completely customizable. I would like to be able to put my own face in there and then add in a fu-manchu or braided goatee because I can't (won't) grow one myself.

A side note: This may not belong in this thread, but did you notice Roland has signed on for the game? If they are involved in the design of the drum controller, then it is a very promising sign.

[vichnaiev]

You can't jam using 5 frets, a real guitar has 144 of them, not to mention different picking styles. The controller doesn't even have a fret for each note (there are 12 of them, obviously not counting the limitless possibilities of a fretless instrument). Can't be done.

[shrimp-n-gritz]

You can't jam using 5 frets, a real guitar has 144 of them, not to mention different picking styles. The controller doesn't even have a fret for each note (there are 12 of them, obviously not counting the limitless possibilities of a fretless instrument). Can't be done.

Of course there is no way to simulate every note and every chord on a real guitar. But if you can suspend your disbelief long enough to "play" Free Bird using five frets, then I don't see why you can't use five frets to play a fair number of notes/chords just for fun. I don't think anybody would expect to create any kind of full-scale songs, but it would be kinda fun just to try different button combinations and see what sounds they make and maybe just come up with some cool riffs. Of course it would be fairly limited, but that's not the point of Guitar Hero or Rock Band. It's not a real instrument. You don't really have to know anything about music to play it.

It could be done, but it wouldn't be just like playing a real guitar. But neither is actually playing the game, is it?

[vichnaiev]

I really can't see how jamming with five notes would be fun, but you obviously can, so I guess I'll just respect your opinion and leave it like that: It can be done, I was wrong. =)

[shrimp-n-gritz]

There'd be more than 5. 5 single button ones, plus all the 2 button-combinations, 3-button, 4-button, etc. Granted, it is no where near what you have on a real guitar, but it is enough to keep me, and maybe some other folks who aren't concerned with extreme realism, entertained for a little while. I can see how it would bore a person who plays guitar, but the magic of GH and Rock Band is that it makes people who don't play guitar feel like they are even though they know they're not. If you think about it too much it takes the fun out of it.

[Seattle_Sound]

There'd be more than 5. 5 single button ones, plus all the 2 button-combinations, 3-button, 4-button, etc. Granted, it is no where near what you have on a real guitar, but it is enough to keep me, and maybe some other folks who aren't concerned with extreme realism, entertained for a little while. I can see how it would bore a person who plays guitar, but the magic of GH and Rock Band is that it makes people who don't play guitar feel like they are even though they know they're not. If you think about it too much it takes the fun out of it.

I understand what you are saying but remember we arent really playing we are pressing a button that triggers the note to play. Now for my ideas.......

Definitley Create a Shredder, Slammer, or Singer, ooooh that sounds cool with alliteration, Harmonix can thank me later.

Definitley be able to pick a legendary rocker such as Hendrix, Slash, Lennon, Morello, Cobain, Frusciante, Page, Morrison, Staley, Vedder, Flea, etc.

Career mode should be deeper, free roam would be cool but by no means neccesary. In GH2 it felt like it wasnt really career besides the fact that you named your "band".

Real venues - Woodstock 69, Crocodile Cafe, St. Andrews, Pinkpop, the Starwood, etc.
And to go with the proposed "Acoustic Mode" maybe an MTV Unplugged venue???

I read a post earlier about not having cover songs and it was from a guy who knew alot about the technical side of things and he said that you cant do the real thing with anything pre-like 1990. I cant remember why but it had to do with the format or something of the way music is recorded. So that rules out classic rock but it would be nice to see the real thing on everything we can.

All the online stuff people talked about. Obviously gameplay and running smooth comes before this stuff but I would love to see it in the game.

[vichnaiev]

Acoustic versions would be nice !! Good point. But not those songs that they simply change the eletric guitar for an acoustic one and play the exact same thing. Songs like Layla would be great, the ac version plays very diferently, Alanis also knows how to convert songs to ac very well (ok, not in the scope of Rock'n'roll', but still does a great job).

[RobbieMiller89]

Thinking Back to when Tony Hawks Underground came out. I loved that game because you got to make your own character (So I would definitely like to see create a character) but then it also had the feature of stores. Money wasnt integrated in until later games (tony hawks american wasteland) but when it was it made the gameplay much more interesting. I think there should be a VS type mode where your character goes head to head with a computer on any setting you choose, the harder the setting the harder the computer and the more money you recieve from beating him. The computer is also some legendary rock band member depending on whether or not your character plays Drums, Bass, Guitar, or Vocals. I guess you could have like 3 or 4 different people for each setting... or maybe just one or two. But as you beat them you get a certain amount of money and you can use that in a shop ingame and buy Guitars, Drum Sets, Basses, or Mics that show up on your character ingame. Different Mics, Guitars, Drum Sets, and Basses would allow you to customize your character to your liking. You could also integrate in some kind of Clothing system to buy Shirts, Pants, Shoes, and what not for your character. It will just be one of those things that makes people prouder to play online with their fully Decked out character with the most expensive guitar, and the hottest clothes ingame.

I Guess I'm just trying to say I want there to be some kind of shopping system in, because games with an offline feature feel more rewarding if you actually get points to unlock ingame rewards to upgrade how your character looks.

Also you can't just have one AWESOME guitar, otherwise everyone would save up and buy the most expensive guitar, so you have to have variety that way everyone isnt just a look alike. Same goes for Basses, Drums, and Mics.

[VocalKnight]

Posted this in another topic:

What I would love to see is an online rating system, where players can rate the people they just performed with. So if someone's an exceptionally good singer or drummer, for instance, their rating will show it and they'll be more in demand. Then the crappy players won't get as much play and the good ones will be rewarded for good effort.

[Fred1000000]

Are you kidding me? That would SUCK! Poor players couldn't get better online expierience, therefore become more worthy adversaries that way!

[Brock_Landers]

to be fair, I think there will need to be some kinda equal match up system in place.. imagine it like a real life band.. a bunch of crappy or average members will all work together well.. but if you've got a bunch of guys killing it every way possible and then some guy joins and starts missing every single note... that isn't going to be a very happy band :)

[charlieboy123]

Most ideas have already been touched on and i dont know whats been talked about, but i really hope that it is full of custimization (unlike guitar hero), online play (duhh), and and actual story type mode where it is more in depth not just play song after song. i want to see a fun career mode where you have to go on tour in a big smelly bus and stuff.

[cooldude93]

I agree with the create a character it. would also be cool if bands(like acdc or led zeppelin) could lend there likeness so we cold play as them in quick play

[sa_nick]

Ad a "0 fret" to the guitar game play (on expoert only?)

This would increas the difficulty without having to add another fret button, thus making it still compatible with the older (current) guitars.

I'm no technical expert but when u strum with no frets down it recognises it as that and makes the sound like u screwed up.... soooo would it be possible?

[charlieboy123]

hell yeah thats a really good idea. they should obviously add that to the game. i didnt even think of that

[shrimp-n-gritz]

I was thinking that in some mode (say Quick Play) instead of showing your character playing the song, show video clips or even whole music videos of the actual artist playing the song (for the licensed tracks). Not that it matters to me when I am playing it because I am concentrating on the notes, but it would be nice for the people watching.

[miketoast]

Posted this in another topic:

What I would love to see is an online rating system, where players can rate the people they just performed with. So if someone's an exceptionally good singer or drummer, for instance, their rating will show it and they'll be more in demand. Then the crappy players won't get as much play and the good ones will be rewarded for good effort.

Agreed, there has to be some kind of rating system so you know what kind of player(s) you're about to jam with. Nothing would be crappier than someone getting into a game with people way better or way worse than they are. The experience would be totally ruined.

I don't know about players rating each other though, any bad blood could ruin someones ranking. It should be based all on scores on that particular instrument. You could be a 5 star guitarist and bassist but only a 4 star drummer and 3 star singer. Then people would know when you "join" their band that you're only a so-so singer. Then gamers can try to max out all 4 instruments and get in the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" or something...

[shrimp-n-gritz]

Posted this in another topic:

What I would love to see is an online rating system, where players can rate the people they just performed with. So if someone's an exceptionally good singer or drummer, for instance, their rating will show it and they'll be more in demand. Then the crappy players won't get as much play and the good ones will be rewarded for good effort.

Personally I think this is a bad idea. Look at youtube. Some very good GH players post videos on there and A-holes come out of the woodwork to complain about how lame and easy it is to play the song. On the internet, anonymity leads to false bravado. I don't want to be a Rock Band Online pariah because some snotty-nosed fan-boys rated me low out of spite.

I think it is a good idea to have comparable players matched together to play, but rating by other players is not the way to go. Performance statistics would be much better indicators of a player's capability, and easy to keep track of.

[miketoast]

Personally I think this is a bad idea. Look at youtube. Some very good GH players post videos on there and A-holes come out of the woodwork to complain about how lame and easy it is to play the song. On the internet, anonymity leads to false bravado. I don't want to be a Rock Band Online pariah because some snotty-nosed fan-boys rated me low out of spite.

I think it is a good idea to have comparable players matched together to play, but rating by other players is not the way to go. Performance statistics would be much better indicators of a player's capability, and easy to keep track of.

You rock dude, I just posted the same thing right above you!!

[Brock_Landers]

I was thinking that in some mode (say Quick Play) instead of showing your character playing the song, show video clips or even whole music videos of the actual artist playing the song (for the licensed tracks). Not that it matters to me when I am playing it because I am concentrating on the notes, but it would be nice for the people watching.

You get that in Singstar and I think it looks pretty tacky, so I can't say I'm for this idea.
Others may disagree with my opinion though, I'm just sayin.

[miketoast]

You get that in Singstar and I think it looks pretty tacky, so I can't say I'm for this idea.
Others may disagree with my opinion though, I'm just sayin.

Nah, I agree with you. I think it would be better with your band up there rocking thru the song...

[sa_nick]

I was thinking it'd be cool to have a function so you can see your high scores (inc % and note streak) without having to a song all the way through.

[Ardius]

I posted a seperate thread about it anyway, but I think backing vocals would add an extra edge to the difficulty for guitar, bass and drums. It would also be loads of fun!

[methinkso]

For any 'Quick Play' modes you might include in the game, there DESPERATELY needs to be a decent way to view the high score table for songs. That issue made that mode in GHI + GHII not really worth the time.

And on that same note, if you could save note streaks and notes hit percentages with the high scores, that'd be sweet :-)

[sushi111]

Heres exactly what I want with the game.

Carrer:

- Dont make it especially cheesy or story driven, just make the presebtation solid. No need for GHish Newspaper covers or over the top menus.

- Please make the gameplay solid and accessable. Dont make ridiculous pedals and effects for the guitar or weird nobs and such for the drums

- An individual carrer for Guitar, Drums, Vocals, and Bass. Lets say there is a total of 50 songs in the game, the 30 best songs for each catagorey are chosen and put in correct order of difficulty.

- Make the songs likable, and fun. No Cherry Pie or bands nobody has heard of. Thats are what bonus songs are for.

-Four difficulty levels is perfect. Just make sure Expert is challenging enough and easy is very easy.

- Create a player would be cool, but not 100% needed

- Please dont make unlocking things super easy like in Guitar Hero


Online/ Mutiplayer:


- Make sure everybody's display board is easy to see

- Face off mode: Each person plays the same instrument and competes.

- Co-op Online and Offline

- Online/System Link Battle of the Bands

- Leaderboards for each instrument and difficulty.

- DLC: Please, please do this right. Release DLC frequently and at a reasonable price. Im sure there are thousands of bands that would gladly give out their songs for free to get their name out there. Make it like a iTunes music store where we can download one song at a time.

- A kind of MMOish online "rocker" would be awesome

[Ardius]

- Make the songs likable, and fun. No Cherry Pie or bands nobody has heard of. Thats are what bonus songs are for.


Plenty of people have heard of cherry pie and warrant. In fact, every GH so far has had mostly stuff that a lot of people will recognise or know. I dont see why they shouldnt put in songs you dont know, thats what makes the songs even more fun, can you honestly say that you will find songs that you already know off by heart as fun?
OK, yes it depends on the quality of the "unkown" song, but if you compared it to a song of equal quality, you would surely find the song you dont know more challenging and interesting? Forcing you to play them on the setlist helps with difficulty.....otherwise you would just blaze through most of them because you already know the song.

Just because you havent heard of Cherry Pie before, doesnt mean everyone hasnt. And, anyway, I think that one was put in for the older generations.....as they are more likely to recognise it.....thats something else you have to keep in mind, different generations will want different music.

[phishie]

OKAY!
I'm not that great of a musician, I've been playing bass for a few months now.
What I'd like to see peripheral-wise is maybe a fully plastic downsized controller with cheap plastic strings. As for tuning, just a basic little knob for each string, not a fully tuneable knob, but one that clicks into certain positions to put the tuning into drop d, or drop c, etc. A pickup to detect the strings being played, with the same technology as a digital guitar/bass tuner, which is quite cheap mind you, to detect what note is being played, and can produce the sound onto the game.

I'd also like to be able to write songs with band members from all over the world, and even host a game lobby where other players can watch my band play a concert.

There should be a seperate server for users with Guitar Hero controllers. I heard there will be record companies looking to sign artists on this, it might be a rumor, but nobody wants to go to a concert to see someone play on a one string, five fret guitar.

As for the people who disagree with this, remember:
This is ROCK BAND, people come together to make music and have fun, NOT GUITAR HERO, which is designed for people with no talent who just want to play a game. Talentless musicians STICK WITH GH3, LEAVE MUSICIANS WITH THEIR OWN GAME!

Finally: About the cost, for the game and peripheral, around $200 something isn't that bad. The game is made for musicians, I paid $350 for my bass guitar. I'm sure other musicians have payed more for an instrument. It would be well worth it. I mean, the people out there who pay $1000+ for a Gibson or Fender (great brands), would find this a good deal. To me, it's priceless, just the whole concept of getting a RELIABLE band together is great.

[Brock_Landers]

Make the songs likable, and fun. No Cherry Pie or bands nobody has heard of. Thats are what bonus songs are for.

I'm only 27 but I recognise Cherry Pie and many of the "older" songs a lot easier than I do songs from Chemical Romance and the like (had to get my younger sister's input on some actually), even if I wasn't hearing them when they first came out. It's all a matter of opinion as to what's known, and I think GH and RB cover a fairly wide age demograph.

As for a more realistic controller.. I wouldn't be adverse to giving it a go, but phishie, you're seriously in the wrong place if you think Rock Band isn't being made for people who just want to play a game (your words, it's a "GAME"). They're not making a music sim.

[sa_nick]

There should be a seperate server for users with Guitar Hero controllers. I heard there will be record companies looking to sign artists on this, it might be a rumor, but nobody wants to go to a concert to see someone play on a one string, five fret guitar.

As for the people who disagree with this, remember:
This is ROCK BAND, people come together to make music and have fun, NOT GUITAR HERO, which is designed for people with no talent who just want to play a game. Talentless musicians STICK WITH GH3, LEAVE MUSICIANS WITH THEIR OWN GAME!

Man, seriously are you here just to stir things up or are you really that stupid. Rock Band is a freakin' game!! No record label will be signing people to anything with this (unless theres some really good singers, but still doubtful)

And this game IS designed for ppl with no (actual) music talent and just wanna play a game. There are some musicians out there that play it for fun, sure, but they don't play it to further their musical skills or career.

I dunno where you've been hearing all this crazy stuff about this being a game for serious musicians because it ain't true.

[sa_nick]

Okay, i just remembered why I actually came to this thread b4 i saw Phishie's post....

I was just thinking it would be cool if in the free play mode you were able to choose like 5, 10, or even 15 songs to play continuously without returning to the score screens etc. This would be especially awesome if in the future they release a catalogue of songs for a few bands. You could play a whole live set uninterrupted. And the next gen consoles could handle the loading easy.... right?

[sushi111]

Man, seriously are you here just to stir things up or are you really that stupid. Rock Band is a freakin' game!! No record label will be signing people to anything with this (unless theres some really good singers, but still doubtful)

And this game IS designed for ppl with no (actual) music talent and just wanna play a game. There are some musicians out there that play it for fun, sure, but they don't play it to further their musical skills or career.

I dunno where you've been hearing all this crazy stuff about this being a game for serious musicians because it ain't true.

Yeah phishie, seriiously man, this thing is a game, if you are a real musician go pick up a guitar, bass, mic, and drums, and start your own band. This is a game.


That being said, making a "setlist" and being able to play a whole 5-10 song show with your buds would be awesome.

[Brock_Landers]

Assuming similar mechanics are in work for RB, would anyone prefer it if you could see exactly how many points off you were from getting a 4 or 5 star review?

I'd also like it if you could go through your setlist and bring up details of your best score on a track.. because while I've got five stars on all of hard right now, I can't actually remember which ones I was only a couple notes off from 100% and which still need a heap of practice.

[sa_nick]

Assuming similar mechanics are in work for RB, would anyone prefer it if you could see exactly how many points off you were from getting a 4 or 5 star review?

I'd also like it if you could go through your setlist and bring up details of your best score on a track.. because while I've got five stars on all of hard right now, I can't actually remember which ones I was only a couple notes off from 100% and which still need a heap of practice.

If you haven't joined www.scorehero.com I'd reccommend you do. They've got an awesome database system set up to keep all your records stored and compare them to other users. You'll probably have to go through the whole game again though. But chances are you will get better scores now anyway... plus it's fun. Win Win *thumbs up*

[Brock_Landers]

Oh thanks, could be worth a shot.

On another subject, if you 100% a song, I think you should get a little cash bonus on top.. and if they're not in the 360 version already (I couldn't see them), extra achievements for 100 percent'ing a whole difficulty level.

[sa_nick]

Oh thanks, could be worth a shot.

On another subject, if you 100% a song, I think you should get a little cash bonus on top.. and if they're not in the 360 version already (I couldn't see them), extra achievements for 100 percent'ing a whole difficulty level.

That'd be cool. In GH when you 100% a song in career mode your 5 star thing turns gold... that's not much of a prize though, lol.

[rosie_187]

Assuming that you can create custom setlists, and play through them in one fell swoop, how about having the option to insert instrumental soloes between the songs. They could either be from a choice of generic solo spots eg

* Thrash Metal Lead Solo 1
* Classic Rock Bass Solo 4
* Hair Metal Drum Solo 2

or artist specific solo spots eg

* Kiss Drum Solo
* AC/DC Guitar Solo

They could (just like in real life):
a) give other band members some respite after a particularly harsh passage of play;
b) keep a potentially disgruntled band member happy, by giving them a solo spot after a song that may be less challenging/interesting for their instrument; and
c) be awesome.

[shrimp-n-gritz]

You rock dude, I just posted the same thing right above you!!

Sorry about that. I didn't notice until I got my post up. Just consider it a long-winded way of saying, "I agree with miketoast."

[benjamin]

Okay, i just remembered why I actually came to this thread b4 i saw Phishie's post....

I was just thinking it would be cool if in the free play mode you were able to choose like 5, 10, or even 15 songs to play continuously without returning to the score screens etc. This would be especially awesome if in the future they release a catalogue of songs for a few bands. You could play a whole live set uninterrupted. And the next gen consoles could handle the loading easy.... right?

This was such a demanded feature that it was hacked into the game by the Scorehero people. So basically I am saying it is a good idea. Especially for online play where it would get ridiculous to spend 10 minutes to get a group together just to have yourself ejected at the end of a song.

[Brock_Landers]

Firstly, I'd like to see a feature that tallys an online band's collective career score (I'm thinking that aside from the first opening weeks of play, this would be the best way to match up evenly with other bands)

I'm sure the online battle of the bands tournament idea has already been said, but I'd also like to see smaller tournaments which could perhaps be "instanced" like in MMOs and with a feature in place like the one listed up top, all bands of a similar ranking could participate instead of getting creamed by the guys killing it on expert level.

Or you could just make a smaller tournament-style feature a regular online option, and skip all the hassel :P

But in regards to the BIG tournaments (and we gotta have some right... right? :P) whichever band wins those has gotta get some spotlight fame from it.. be it their name and pic somehow integrated to the lobby system or something. Just winning it and getting a virtual trophy isn't enough for a rockstar! :P

[SoraRikuVGM]

All I want is Wi-Fi and Rock Band to be on the Wii and I'll be a happy camper.

[Sachrosis]

I know I'm not the only one saying this, but I want a 'Create a Rocker' function.

Being able to design your own guitar skin would be cool too.

Co-op career.

Since this game is going to give you the option to sing, it would be neat if the game was able to adjust for gender, if the singer of a particular song is typically a girl, and a guy is singing, they might not be able to sing as high.

Online co-op would be neat too, if it could work without lagging; my friends have become spread out, the skilled ones at least.

[sa_nick]

Online co-op would be neat too, if it could work without lagging; my friends have become spread out, the skilled ones at least.

They have figured out a way to get around lag, which is a plus considering it would never work otherwise.

[SoraRikuVGM]

Create a Rocker was somewhat confirmed. Read this.


KEY FEATURES:
• Rock out your way! Players can beat on drums, sing the vocals, groove along as the bassist and shred riffs as guitarists - either in single player career mode leading a band, in multiplayer as part of the band, or against each other - in person or online!
• Unrivaled song library! Major record labels and leading music publishers have signed on to provide unrivaled access to master recordings and legendary rock artists - from punk, metal and alternative to classic and southern rock.
• Fully customizable! Form your own band, create and customize your own rocker, and then travel on a fast rise to fame around the world in a quest for rock 'n' roll glory!
• Play together in your living room or across the world! Rock Band offers deep online functionality, allowing players to rock together whether they're in Rhode Island or Reykjavik.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/gallery/rock-band-screens-267939.php

[Shattered]

Remix Song

We've already seen how amp and freq could remix songs, why couldnt something similiar be added to RB?


Write a Song

Similiar to remixing, writing your own song could work kinda the same. You would start with a blank template and set the songs tempo as well as how many sections the song could have. You should also be able to choose between a couple of different sound groups (like punk1, punk2, rock1, accoustic4, im sure u get it). When you start to write your song, you select the sound you would like to start with and begin writing in each section.

At least for the guitar right now, it would seem that you only have 5 frets to work with, but you could easily change the tone up or down to make each of the frets sound different. So if there was a part in the songs section that you wanted to be higher or lower, you can start that section over again with a different tone and play-in the parts that you missed.


Live Show

This would kinda be similiar to how PGR3 worked with their Gotham Channel. When a group is confident with the songs they practiced, wouldnt it be nice to play in front of a live crowd? If you wanted to hear some bands new songs they wrote or remixed, or if you just wanted to listen to some music, it would be a nice feature.

When playing online, the party leader should be able to choose between 2 modes, Practice and Live Show. Practice is just that, a band forms up and practices songs together. If the party lead chose Live Show, that game would be considered open and viewable. The viewers would see the bands custom chara's and hear the band. So if you f*** up, people will hear it (similiar to what happens when up play a wrong note in GH).

[vichnaiev]

They have figured out a way to get around lag, which is a plus considering it would never work otherwise.

Where did u get that ? I'm interested in learning how they did it ....

[Brock_Landers]

well it's just speculation so far.. otherwise it would turn out a rather redundant exercise in online play I imagine...

speaking of that, I wouldn't mind seeing a Spectator mode.. hearing people cover tracks could be entertaining

[Rainer7]

Frequency was one of the flagship titles sporting the PS2 Network Adapter, and there was no lag. That was like 5 years ago.

[Blue88]

It would be cool if the drums had a little screen on them to show the chart for just the drums. Considering that you'd have 4 things on screen at once and taht the drummer would probably be sitting down behind the rest of the band, that would probably make it easier for him/her. Plus, then it would be easy to put all the other stuff on the screen, really just guitar hero on co-op with the lyrics to a song scrolling across the top or bottom.

[sa_nick]

Where did u get that ? I'm interested in learning how they did it ....

POSSIBLY by using.....


A method for providing real-time musical interaction among a plurality of players connected via a network includes the steps of analyzing local player's musical performance to extract emulation data that represents the musical performance; transmitting emulation data to remote players over a network; receiving emulation data from remote players over the network; and using the emulation data to emulate the remote player's musical performance by locally generating approximations of the performances.

If that's what they're doing then I think it'll work pretty well. I think what it says is that it collates your average gameplay and makes assumptions of where you'd probably screw up? So it might be possible to get 100% on a song, yet your friend could hear u screw up a few times because you usually do?

So basically, you wont be playing with your friends, but rather a statistical probability of how your friends might play. IF this is what they're using.

I dunno, NONE of this is confirmed, its just a patent that Harmoix registered ages ago... on my 15th Birthday in fact (I'm now 21) and keep in mind they also registered this...


A method for allowing a player of a video game to control a threedimensional game character in a three-dimensional game world includes the steps of acquiring video image data of a player of a game, analyzing the acquired video image data to identify the location or movement of a portion of the player's body; and using the identified location of the portion of the player's body to control behavior of a game character.

Just because a company patents something DOES NOT mean that it's ever going to make it to market.

[XoRRoX]

1. I hope, thay you can use Xbox Live Vision (or PS3 camera) to record yourself playing. That would be fun to watch!

2. When you create your own rocker, then i hope, that you also can chose your own "special moves" - just like in GH, where Clive Winston makes Chuck-Berry style. There should be various moves avaliable for every instrument.

3. Make the bass-controller different than the guitar-controller. That would make every bandmember unique, instead of just a "second grade guiarist".

[sa_nick]

3. Make the bass-controller different than the guitar-controller. That would make every bandmember unique, instead of just a "second grade guiarist".

Yeah bass has been shun. I understand it's an important part of music, but in a game featuring guitar play, including a lot of bass stuff is a bad idea, it like guitar but a bit more boring, lol. Also people don't want to have to pay another X amount of dollars to get a 4th peripheral.

[hmxsean]

POSSIBLY



Just because a company patents something DOES NOT mean that it's ever going to make it to market.


Actually we did use that last one. That was the basis of Eyetoy:Antigrav.

[sa_nick]

Eyetoy Antigrav? Never heard of it. I'm not an eye toy fan but my brother and sister love them, maybe it wasn't released in Australia.

EDIT: I also didn't know Harmonix had worked of anything besides Amplitude, Karaoke Rev, Frequency and GH. Oh and RockBand/Rock Band/Rockband. Speaking of which does the game have an official title yet? Not that it matters a whole lot.

[kaiserkreb]

Here's my idea for a needed feature:

Footpedals for activating star power (tilt is distracting at best, fumbling for the select button is often worse, maybe a different button placement for activation, on the pickguard below the strum paddle perhaps) and for "switching" between effects. Example, guitar hero 2, heart shaped box, playing through the verse then having to hit the switch to turn on distortion for the chorus. That would be sweet, it could even be superficial like the whammy bar, but add a bit of functionality score wise or star power wise, as also the whammy bar does. Look at me though, assuming they're even using "star power" in this game... maybe I should cross post this on the GH3 forums.

[Archangel_of_Light]

You guys (and gals) were talking about online tourneys, and possible prizes. Well why don't they do like one big tourney every month, and the prize be a downloadable song, or maybe even extra in-game unlockables. I mean, its just an idea, but that would be pretty cool.

[synystergates]

I know this won't happen for the original game,
but maybe for the sequel have a keyboard. that'd be awesome. then have **** like Magic Carpet Ride- Steppenwolfe on there.

[sa_nick]

I thought of this last night... What if there's unlockable content in the game that can only be obtained by purchasing new songs via the online store? In the game informer magazine they say "there are around 40 performance spaces planned right now". That's a lot of venues (assuming a performance space is a venue)

In a way this would mean that only the more addicted of us will be able to unlock aditional content, of course, we would have to pay for it. I don't mean that you have to pay for the actual thing, but it comes free after x amount of downloaded songs or something.

I'm not sure how well it'd go down. Personally I wouldn't be a supporter of it as I have no credit card or any way of buying any downloadable content until some kind of recharge card or whatever comes out.

[TheTogfather]

Okay, i just remembered why I actually came to this thread b4 i saw Phishie's post....

I was just thinking it would be cool if in the free play mode you were able to choose like 5, 10, or even 15 songs to play continuously without returning to the score screens etc. This would be especially awesome if in the future they release a catalogue of songs for a few bands. You could play a whole live set uninterrupted. And the next gen consoles could handle the loading easy.... right?

Awww, man. I just read through this whole post thinking I had an original idea until I came across this. Oh well, good thoughts sa_nick!

[sa_nick]

BUMP!!!

I thought I'd get this thread back to the first page in hopes of people using it a bit more rather than posting the same thread over and over, hopefully it works.

Need to have a Sticky thread like this one... Or use this one...

[hmxsean]

Good idea.

[xHeadbang_X_Herniax]

As in my other thread..

I thought it would be fun that, since there are 4 ''themed'' clothing shops, there should be a big variety of clothing and looks..
Like there would be a shop with
''classic rock clothing'', Bandana's, Jackets, 70's clothing.
''emo/screamo rock clothing'', Striped stuff, make up, converse-like shoes, piercings, ''emo'' hairstyles, wristbands

''country rock clothing'', cowboy vests, cowboy hats, boots, hillbilly-ish stuff
''industrial/metal/death metal clothing'', large boots, spiked wristbands, leather jackets, biker stuff.
Then there should be a wardrobe, so you can mix and match everything you've bought at the store(with GAME money, please NO MSP!)

Also, other than clothing to decide what height, weight, and face ''style'' your character has.
For guitars is kinda the same as clothing, classic rock guitars,emo/screamo style guitars(broken heart stickers on it),country rock guitar(banjo, horse head guitar),metal guitars(skullheads, flames etc.) and also with finsishes for each guitar!

Idea by sa_nick - Placing stickers (anywhere) on your guitar(s), creating custom paint jobs/finishes for them.
Idea by wachman - lefty option( so guitarist/bassist plays with left instead o right)


Also for online play, battle of the bands, PLUS there could be spectators to vote for their fav. band which then wins $$ to buy clothing etc. with again..ofcourse the losing band will get a lil profit too, but not as much..

Tell me what you think sean :x

[xHeadbang_X_Herniax]

You guys (and gals) were talking about online tourneys, and possible prizes. Well why don't they do like one big tourney every month, and the prize be a downloadable song, or maybe even extra in-game unlockables. I mean, its just an idea, but that would be pretty cool.


hmm...could be used with battle of the bands-songmaking thingy...
so the guys pick the best song, and reward it with cool prizes:D

[kaiserkreb]

I had a small idea for a training mode option, you should be able to pick, specific to the instrument obviously, things like a straight technique practice session. Example: for guitars, you could have a whole series of different scales or a series of random arpeggios, speed adjustable would be a bonus, for people that want to practice timing or things like that.
For drums you could have rolls and different generic beats to practice thumping away on, for people like me that have the coordination of a dizzy monkey in trying to get their feet to do different things than their hands, etc. This way you wouldn't have to pick a song and keep replaying a segment, you could simply pick a mode and play it until you get sick of it. Maybe it could be a ton of different segments recorded and then randomly pieced together as it streams to throw different stuff at you for challenge sake. Anyhoo, that's my idear. Sorry for the wall of text. :D

[sa_nick]

I had a small idea for a training mode option, you should be able to pick, specific to the instrument obviously, things like a straight technique practice session.

For drums you could have rolls and different generic beats to practice thumping away on, for people like me that have the coordination of a dizzy monkey in trying to get their feet to do different things than their hands, etc.

I really like that idea. GH comes with the little tut video things so something like that would be cool, but expanded on obviously. Even just little thing like what height they recommend the drum pads be at relative to the height you sit at. And like you said, a way to practise rolls, it'd be good if they gave examples of the best way to do it as I have only ever sat behind a drum kit once, and i didn't even have any sticks, had to use toilet paper rolls.

[strail]

I apologize if any of this has already been said.

Some kind of online ranking system is needed for sure. I agree that player based is a bad idea for obvious reasons. It could either be based on your performance in off-line mode, or they can create ranked and unranked games where your performance in the band during ranked online matches determines your rocker score. I think another option is allowing whoever creates the game to require that the player has passed the song w/ a certain number of stars in single player in order to join.

Also expanding the store would be more fun. Allowing you to buy clothes for your character, accessories, hats, glasses whatever. Pretty much like create a wrestler. Also you should be able to buy finishes and buy decorations and special effects for your set.

[strail]

Also there should be exclusive unlockables for winning online competitions and completing challenges. There should also be an online trading system of unlockables and created characters.

[honorious]

now i'll bet somebody's already come up with this idea, and i'll bet another somebody's already shot it down for it's pure infeasibility, but i don't care, i just signed up a couple of hours ago, and the idea is this, since Harmonix is incorporating drums and vocals into the GH/Rock Band experiance, why not take it a step further and throw a key board in too, now i know the logistics of five instraments but only four controller possibilities would be kinda wierd, but get this, since not all great ballads utilize the piano for those songs you just play bass, the songs that do throw keyboard craziness in with the rest of the awesome pandemonium could be handled one of two, or possibly both of these ways, 1. incorporate vocals with keyboard for songs with so that the singer sits at the keys playing and singing, or more broadly, let the other band members try to sing and play their instrament at the same time, or 2. just choose on songs that have piano parts wether you want to or not, if you do, bass gets booted and piano fills its place, on instramental, (no vocals) keysboard would automatically be in the picture, now like bass, piano would have no campaign attached to it but you could still play the songs that have it in quick play, and it would have online functionality if you persay, (gasp) breaking the mold here guys, wanted to have a five man band via of our friends the internet and Harmonix, now i know this idea is kinda radical, but i know the guys at Harmonix really want to incorporate all types of music into their game so that the player can experiance it (music) fully while still hanging in the living room, i now the idea couldn't possibly go into the game coming out this christmas season due to the fact that it's not at all fleshed out, but maybe the guys at Harmonix will put it in the next version of Rock Band when that rolls around, well read and review, and by the way, my user name is my gamertag, anybody who's got a 360, feel free to message me with derogatory comments, game invites, and friend requests if you want to

[Frostbitten_Norseman]

Please use fullstops I'am out of breath!

[Brock_Landers]

I had a small idea for a training mode option, you should be able to pick, specific to the instrument obviously, things like a straight technique practice session. Example: for guitars, you could have a whole series of different scales or a series of random arpeggios, speed adjustable would be a bonus, for people that want to practice timing or things like that.

For drums you could have rolls and different generic beats to practice thumping away on, for people like me that have the coordination of a dizzy monkey in trying to get their feet to do different things than their hands, etc. This way you wouldn't have to pick a song and keep replaying a segment

Quote FTW.

[JuLzTM]

you should be able to use xbox live vision to see your buddys jam out. and thats pretty much it i think alot of people would enjoy seeing their friends jammin out together and you should be able to record a video of a song. just an idea.

[bounchfx]

I had a small idea for a training mode option, you should be able to pick, specific to the instrument obviously, things like a straight technique practice session. Example: for guitars, you could have a whole series of different scales or a series of random arpeggios, speed adjustable would be a bonus, for people that want to practice timing or things like that.

For drums you could have rolls and different generic beats to practice thumping away on, for people like me that have the coordination of a dizzy monkey in trying to get their feet to do different things than their hands, etc. This way you wouldn't have to pick a song and keep replaying a segment, you could simply pick a mode and play it until you get sick of it. Maybe it could be a ton of different segments recorded and then randomly pieced together as it streams to throw different stuff at you for challenge sake. Anyhoo, that's my idear. Sorry for the wall of text. :D

awesome ideas.

[Brock_Landers]

not sure if this is really an idea for the game as such.. but what would be cool is if every now and then (and i cant actually remember if there's an online vs mode in this) you could have a play against the harmonix team for bragging rights. How great would that be too hold over their heads for life?

[sa_nick]

not sure if this is really an idea for the game as such.. but what would be cool is if every now and then (and i cant actually remember if there's an online vs mode in this) you could have a play against the harmonix team for bragging rights. How great would that be too hold over their heads for life?

But then they wont be able to work on the next game! Noooooo!

[xHeadbang_X_Herniax]

^ XDD ''noooooo!'' XD
Lol, I kinda like the vision camera idea though for online play..

[benjamin]

not sure if this is really an idea for the game as such.. but what would be cool is if every now and then (and i cant actually remember if there's an online vs mode in this) you could have a play against the harmonix team for bragging rights. How great would that be too hold over their heads for life?

Make it an achievement and it would be even better.

[newwaytodie]

So I think in the spirit of being a real band..

Logo/band name creation definately.

On a different topic, just to make the game better, keep on the ball with downloadables, make sure "Rock Band" actually has f--king rock bands... Seriously guys, If A Flock Of Seagulls is on this game too... Expect me outside the office with a flail and possibly shurikens.

[Guitarzan]

If these following things were part of the game I'd buy it in a heartbeat without even thinking

1) I Know that this following Idea was considered for guitar hero 3 at one time where there is a freeplay mode on the game that automatically creates notes and lets you play any song that you have stored on your video game harddrive

2) Also I think it would be pretty sweet if some of the characters in the game were actually real characters like a guitarist could be slash, drummer neil peart, bassist steve harris (Iron Maiden), and Singer who the hell knows who, but that would be pretty sweet

3) An automatically assumed online co-op play where you can play with buddies even if they arent at you're house

4)I also want tons more downloadables, thats why i got gh2 for xbox 360 was for the downloadables, but so far all thats been put on there are 3 stupid ass song packs that are all songs from the first guitar hero installment. So let me re-phrase that. I want tons more downloadables that are updated all the time so that i can recieve the most enjoyment out of this game

5)Along with my last suggestion i also think it would be sweet if the Rock Band makers set up something in the downloadable content kind of like itunes where you could buy new songs for the game at a reasonable price

6)I also agree with everyone else too that a make your own custom band would be a great thing to have on there, and for whoever it was that asked i heard that you will be able to make your own band logo or emblem for online play use. Also along with that you should be able to make your own character, and also be able to pick from multiple guitars to use, multiple drums to use, multiple basses to use, etc.

7) And one last thing that would make me buy this game in a heartbeat is to focus on all genres of rock music, so that everybody gets a taste of what they like

Thats All,
Keep on Rockin'

[superpunkgohan]

Okay, to sum up what I've read from other members that I like:

-Multiple songs in a row without stopping (as an option)
-Online rankings individual to each instrument
-Practice mode where you play generic scales/drum beats/etc.
-Famous musicans likenesses (Angus Young?) as unlockables
-Online "Battle of the Bands" tournaments
-A pedal for the guitar/drums/whatever to activiate Star Power, instead of tilting.

I don't really like the idea of controlling your dude through city streets and making flyers and whatnot...I think it would distract from the music gameplay too much. But definite logo and character creation would be awesome.

Now a few ideas I've come up with:
-A mic stand. I'm sure you could just go out and buy your own, but if somehow a cheap one was included then it would be cool. I'd really like to try to play guitar and do the vocals simultaneously. Multiplayer with myself! I have a feeling once this game comes out some of you guys are gonna be posting some awesome stuff on YouTube showing simultaneous guitar/singing.
-I know the design of the guitar is already complete, but I'd love a little slider between the sets of fret buttons to do a pick slide. You'd be able to insert it wherever you want, like the whammy bar, or maybe there'd be a specific "note" for it leading up to a riff or whatever.
-Finally, I want fans to climb onto the stage if you're doing particularly well. Maybe see a few pairs of underwear fly onto the stage too :)

[borgasm]

I'm curious to know if there's any information on the guitars' tilt sensors? I'm wondering if that can't be used for note variation if they were to incorporate some form of "freestyling".

More specifically, perhaps if it's similar to the sensor in the wii controller that reports its' angle at any given time (i'm not talking about the accelerometers that detect directional motion and speed, just a one directional tilt sensor) the notes could get higher as the guitar is tilted more vertically. It probably would take some getting used to, but imagine playing normally and then tilting the guitar up to bust out a few high notes (which seems to happen *somewhat* naturally as you move your hand closer to the pickup anyways).

Then again, the current tilt sensor could just be an on off switch with no middle ground. I bet if that's the case it wouldn't cost much more per guitar to put a better tilt sensor in, and who wants to play on old **** anyway? :)

-Borgasm

[bpaty22]

You should be able(while selecting song in "Quick Play" mode)to choose to search by catagory (ie:Artist, Genre, Song...etc) obviously it would be alphabetical for the first click and the opposite on the second......WOOT GO ROCK BAND

[bpaty22]

not sure if this is really an idea for the game as such.. but what would be cool is if every now and then (and i cant actually remember if there's an online vs mode in this) you could have a play against the harmonix team for bragging rights. How great would that be too hold over their heads for life?


Make it an achievement and it would be even better.

Make it like the Tea Bag achievment on ShadowRun...The people in volved in rock band will obviously play the game and the achievment is already programmed into there 360and if you face them in a head to head batttle and you win you get the achievement now if someone beats you they get the achievement...and so on(obviously make it a secret achievement)...WOOT GO ROCK BAND:)

[superpunkgohan]

I forgot to mention in my eariier post, but I also agree with the idea of having some sort of indicator (maybe a bar that fills up/drops down) letting you know how close you are to 4 and 5-star achievements, assuming they're in the game. I don't know how many times I've been playing a song trying to 5-star it and thinking at the end that I'm pretty close, only to not make it. I know the score minimums are posted on Scorehero, but it'd be nice if there was a real-time indicator in the game.

[Brock_Landers]

I'd like it if you could create a band and set permanent members for it.. not only would it make things a bit more special than the group-of-misfits quickplay and be good for if there was features like tournaments or audience viewing.. you could also have features making it easy to bring the whole band together for play if they're all online with one click of a button and such.

I'll be interested to see what they do go for in the end anyway.. because you'd assume that you'd want to let players register band names so people don't go bogarting them.. but then you probably don't want a new band name for each session popping up if you can reg them.. hmm

[superpunkgohan]

I'd like it if you could create a band and set permanent members for it.. not only would it make things a bit more special than the group-of-misfits quickplay and be good for if there was features like tournaments or audience viewing.. you could also have features making it easy to bring the whole band together for play if they're all online with one click of a button and such.

I'll be interested to see what they do go for in the end anyway.. because you'd assume that you'd want to let players register band names so people don't go bogarting them.. but then you probably don't want a new band name for each session popping up if you can reg them.. hmm

That would be cool, but at the same time it would suck if you tried to play and most everyone online was already part of a band...there wouldn't be as many available people to jam with. It would especially suck if you were either really good at the game and only had people that sucked at it to play with, or vice versa. I think there's got to be some way to know that the people you're playing with are around the same skill level as you--otherwise, there's gonna be some angry people out there when they find out their drummer sucks and makes the song sound like crap. I'm a very strong advocate for the idea of diplaying players' average ratings on different instruments so you can math yourself with equally-skilled players.

[diesel]

after you finish a song, offline on online, you can replay the video of the song you and your bandmates just played.:D

[hellninja]

ok ok i got one. how about using the 360's camera so you could see everyone playing in a little box somewhere on your screen when playing online, and having that an option so your not forced to watch a flabby guy play drums. ok if that sounds dumb then how about using the camera for face mapping so you are really the musician on stage, not just a crappy character creation of yourself.

[dark_maiden]

they need a lot i mean a ton of songs, and not just select a character, but create a character. also they should have a thing where you make a custom guitar.

hell yeah! It would be amazing if you could be could create a kick ass version of a strat or a les paul or SG! Also I think that other guys idea about auditioning the band members online would be cool.

[dark_maiden]

-A mic stand. I'm sure you could just go out and buy your own, but if somehow a cheap one was included then it would be cool. I'd really like to try to play guitar and do the vocals simultaneously. Multiplayer with myself! I have a feeling once this game comes out some of you guys are gonna be posting some awesome stuff on YouTube showing simultaneous guitar/singing.


I Agree. With songs like Say It Ain't So thats already on the game, singing while rocking on another peripheral would be immense!

[Shattered]

One feature that I would really like to see is guitar pedals for the GH guitars and the RB guitar. Its nice and all that the strats are going to have a 5 way switch for effects, but it would make much more sense to take advantage of the effects port that the x-plorer controller has and give us some stomp boxes.

Each pedal can be assigned just like it would be for the 5 way switch (at least from what I read you could assign stuff to the switch). Plus, instead of having to buy the pedals in-game, the pedals that you purchase could come w/ codes to automatically unlock them (since you are spending your cash on there product).

This way, people will have the option of keeping their GH guitars and not get left out of using effects like the strat does. With pedals, it would also give us a more authentic feel when playing the guitar. The pedals could be sold in singles, packs of 5, or maybe in the shape of a multi-effect board.

[kotran]

I haven't seen this feature mentioned anywhere yet in this thread or forum and if it has, and I'm blind, I apologize.

- Random song pick for free play and co-op.

This exists in other rhythm/music games like DDR and Karaoke Revolution where the game randomly selects a song for you to play. I was hoping this would have shown up in GHII, but alas it did not, therefore the reason I want to plug the feature here.

I find this feature especially important for co-op play when you and your friends don't care what you play, you just want to play and no one will make a decision. Right now we just close our eyes and scroll up and down, but that's not a great way to do it.

I also realize that co-op career mode will take care of the choice for a while, but when that is done, randomly choosing songs will be great.

[masterx1918]

that's what that little port on the bottom of the 360 guitar is for, effects pedals. i'm guessing the RB guitars will have them also so the users can choose to use pedals or the switch.

[hardyfoster]

i would like for it to be an OPTION if a song is failed :

1. Have it like it is now - where only the instrument that failed is out until someone does star power to bring them back.

2. if one fails the whole band fails.

this two options would be great to have.

[superpunkgohan]

I haven't seen this feature mentioned anywhere yet in this thread or forum and if it has, and I'm blind, I apologize.

- Random song pick for free play and co-op.

This exists in other rhythm/music games like DDR and Karaoke Revolution where the game randomly selects a song for you to play. I was hoping this would have shown up in GHII, but alas it did not, therefore the reason I want to plug the feature here.

I find this feature especially important for co-op play when you and your friends don't care what you play, you just want to play and no one will make a decision. Right now we just close our eyes and scroll up and down, but that's not a great way to do it.

I also realize that co-op career mode will take care of the choice for a while, but when that is done, randomly choosing songs will be great.

I agree with this completely. I hate it when I want to play a song or two right quick before dinner or something and I have to scroll through and pick a song. It'd be so easy to implement a random song option. It's little things like this that are overlooked that can add a lot to a game.

[Shattered]

that's what that little port on the bottom of the 360 guitar is for, effects pedals. i'm guessing the RB guitars will have them also so the users can choose to use pedals or the switch.


Yeah, if you look at that small manual that came with the x-plorer, it said its to be used for effects that will be sold at a later date. A lot of people thought (and possibly still think) that we may get pedals for GH to use for star power, instead of hitting select or tilting.

[FunkaTrunk]

I posted a seperate thread about it anyway, but I think backing vocals would add an extra edge to the difficulty for guitar, bass and drums. It would also be loads of fun!

Dude, that would be so much fun, not to mention potentially funny. What if your backup singers are better sounding then your main singer, and half way through career mode, the band finally clicks in?

But for my idea, I was thinking that in career mode, once your band has done a few gigs, and gotten pretty well known, the offers start coming in. In Guitar Hero II, you would get sponsored after each list of songs, but no real sense of accomplishment. Maybe different companies come at you with different proposals? Depending on how good your band is, bigger better people come looking for you?

I have other ideas, but this is already to long.

See you guys in the spotlight!

[Paradiddlar]

I havent read all comments on this forum so I maybe take up other guys idea, but...
A cool thing would be creating a band online with people you dont now or friends. You just go in on a thing that it stands like "search guitarist for my band" and then he joins up and then it just goes on with a basist and singer. When you got a band you ask local pub or something and then you get IRL time to be online and then play like 5 songs on the pub and get your rep up. This with the IRL time thing makes the game just more alive and you can talk with the concert like owner about the time when you play the gigg. So this make it more flexible so you can play the concert middle of the day or late at the night, and then maybe other players can go on your concert and listen.

After a while you get so famous that you get offer to play on festival and stuff that other IRL online players also is offered to and on that festival you get a price or something maybe money for making the crowed going most wild.

This is my crazy ideas for RB ;) I personaly thinks this idea is awsome hope you think the same :D

[copasetic]

The one feature that, IMO, MUST be in this game:

Content expansions. Whether they be downloadable or extra discs that you buy, you can only play the same songs so many times before they start becoming boring and repetetive. Plus there could be lots of money to be made here...

[Brock_Landers]

What I'd really like to see, and think would add tonnes to online.. (and i'm totally hypothesizing on the breadth of online options) is that any band at the top of the leaderboards or which wins a tournament (please please have a way to do these) then gets their name integrated into everyone's game when they log into live next (or a monthly update or something).

Like i'm not talking some complicated over the top stuff or anything (just text basically).. but just imagine if you're playing through career mode and throughout the story--which supposedly there's more focus on--the top band to surpass in the game is SaNick's group "The Daisys", or on the sixth setlist you're opening up for FunkaTrunk's famous band "Jerry and the Pogo Sticks"
It could even be integrated into menus (say if there's newspaper clippings) or cut scenes (billboard/poster in the background).

Probably a lot of effort.. but man, it'd really give you a goal online.. and a sense of accomplishment. Your Rock Band literally will be known all over the world.

Even if it's only for a month, until Brock Lander's "Dirk Digglathon" goes quadruple platinum.

[sa_nick]

The Daisys ROCK!!!!

lol

[benjamin]

Your group is called the Daisies?

[sa_nick]

Your group is called the Daisies?

lol, according to Brock_Landers it is. But not really, no. For the past 8 months or whatever I've been playing as 'The Banana Republic"

[benjamin]

I see. I am not actually sure what my band name is. I input some letters that formed what seemed to be a word and started playing.

I just wanted to play.

[Alyssa_Fairchild]

This was probably already said, but what about a way to incorporate keyboards into the game? Maybe on songs that are lacking on bass or drums at one point or another, the keyboard notes would be mapped to their controller.

[benjamin]

Keyboard just would not work on any of the current controllers. It is just to limited. Even Frankenstein did not work perfectly.

[FunkaTrunk]

Even if it's only for a month, until Brock Lander's "Dirk Digglathon" goes quadruple platinum.


Hhaha, good luck keeping fans away from "Jerry berry mc fairy" ( I'm afraid we had to get rid of the pogo sticks, they just...they just weren't working out)

See you in the spotlight!

[AlmightyDan]

I really liked the idea of seeing others jam out via the camera!

I had the same idea a few weeks ago while playing GH2 with 2 guitars (small bands).
We had two criterias to find out which one is the best band:

1. Just count the points as usual.

and

2. We kind of evaluated the performance of the dudes playing. Best performance and outfit wins.

The multiplication of those two criterias was the final result. Its jus an idea
but maybe this will work for some kind of online mode. Where you can have spectators that can watch the band perform an then give them grades from 0 to 10.
I could image some crazy band battles going on. Like the ones we had with GH2 ;-)

But this should just be ONE online mode in a whole bunch of you should be able to choose from.
Cause some players like to freak out while playing and dont care about points and others are fantastic players but boring to watch.

[Hastyl3]

the game should have when your band gets good enoguh you could play at woodstock or lollapalooza. and maybe open up for other bands to get you started.

[sa_nick]

Oh! When you go to free play mode make the deafult difficulty set to Hard instead of Medium like with GH.... it's the little things that count.

[Keebler]

I've got a great idea. It's a rather simple, yet engaging mode: Gig Mode.

Basically, you've got your band set up with all your members. Now it's time to go on tour and play your shows. What Gig Mode would do is let you create a 6-8 song setlist for one continuous show that your band would play. You would get to select the songs and what order they go in. Certain songs should garner more excitement for being in certain spots in your setlist (i.e. some songs are better suited as openers/closers). You would also choose when (if at all) you leave and return for your encore. Based on your song choice, song ordering, and how well your band plays each song, your show gets a review/score and money rewards that let you buy more extravagant things to your shows: video screens/monitors, lights, smoke and pyrotechnics, different stage layouts, props, background dancers, etc.

Something like this would really give your band a feeling that you are playing shows and not just single performances of individual songs. Not only that, but you need a lot of teamwork as a band to get high scores on your gigs to unlock the goodies, making it feel like you guys are playing together (whereas sometimes GH2's co-op made it feel like you and your friend were just playing at the same time and not together towards the same end-goal).

What do you guys think?

[AlmightyDan]

I think this has been mentioned before.
But still a setlist would be a very cool feature to have!

[travmeatwad]

I've got a great idea. It's a rather simple, yet engaging mode: Gig Mode.

Basically, you've got your band set up with all your members. Now it's time to go on tour and play your shows. What Gig Mode would do is let you create a 6-8 song setlist for one continuous show that your band would play. You would get to select the songs and what order they go in. Certain songs should garner more excitement for being in certain spots in your setlist (i.e. some songs are better suited as openers/closers). You would also choose when (if at all) you leave and return for your encore. Based on your song choice, song ordering, and how well your band plays each song, your show gets a review/score and money rewards that let you buy more extravagant things to your shows: video screens/monitors, lights, smoke and pyrotechnics, different stage layouts, props, background dancers, etc.

Something like this would really give your band a feeling that you are playing shows and not just single performances of individual songs. Not only that, but you need a lot of teamwork as a band to get high scores on your gigs to unlock the goodies, making it feel like you guys are playing together (whereas sometimes GH2's co-op made it feel like you and your friend were just playing at the same time and not together towards the same end-goal).

What do you guys think?

That would be very awesome.

[FunkaTrunk]

I've got a great idea. It's a rather simple, yet engaging mode: Gig Mode.

Basically, you've got your band set up with all your members. Now it's time to go on tour and play your shows. What Gig Mode would do is let you create a 6-8 song setlist for one continuous show that your band would play. You would get to select the songs and what order they go in. Certain songs should garner more excitement for being in certain spots in your setlist (i.e. some songs are better suited as openers/closers). You would also choose when (if at all) you leave and return for your encore. Based on your song choice, song ordering, and how well your band plays each song, your show gets a review/score and money rewards that let you buy more extravagant things to your shows: video screens/monitors, lights, smoke and pyrotechnics, different stage layouts, props, background dancers, etc.

Something like this would really give your band a feeling that you are playing shows and not just single performances of individual songs. Not only that, but you need a lot of teamwork as a band to get high scores on your gigs to unlock the goodies, making it feel like you guys are playing together (whereas sometimes GH2's co-op made it feel like you and your friend were just playing at the same time and not together towards the same end-goal).

What do you guys think?

Most def. That would rule big time, good thinking.

See you in the spotlight!

[sa_nick]

What do you guys think?

Absolutely yes. A few of us, including my self, having mentioned this previously and it's getting a lot of support. I think I'll be a little disappointed if it doesn't make it into the game.

[BlackHole]

One thing........................Bonus Songs!

[newwaytodie]

Incorporate Solos into this proposed Gig Mode. You know, half way through the set the guitarist just does his own thing, then the bassist, then the drummer, and transition into a song. This can give the singer a chance to rest his pipes (or slam a beer or four).

[sa_nick]

Just another small idea....

Include song stats, so as well as being able to view previous high scores (with % and note streaks) also show info like number of times you've played the song, number of times you failed, number of time you got 5 stars.... that kinda stuff.

[superpunkgohan]

I've mentioned this a couple times but no one has really backed me up on it, but I think it would be really cool just to have stage divers and stuff while you're playing. Like when you activate your star power, people get on stage and everything to show you how pumped they are. This isn't really anything that would "benefit" the player, but it's something that would make me feel more like a rock star.

[sa_nick]

I've mentioned this a couple times but no one has really backed me up on it, but I think it would be really cool just to have stage divers and stuff while you're playing. Like when you activate your star power, people get on stage and everything to show you how pumped they are. This isn't really anything that would "benefit" the player, but it's something that would make me feel more like a rock star.

I believe that is already in the game. The lead singers star power does something to that effect.

[superpunkgohan]

I believe that is already in the game. The lead singers star power does something to that effect.

Man, I hope you're right. That would so so cool, in my opinion.

[jsorge]

Two things that haven't been mentioned yet:

1. Talkbox incorporation through the mic (this would require having the song Do you feel like we do? - Peter Frampton). It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it would take the gameplay in a different direction.

2. This takes the liscenced characters a step further: During the individual career modes, instead of having a new song as an encore once you complete the songs in the set you should have to out duel a legend to advance to the next level (kind of like in the movie crossroads).

I also like the randon and custom setlist endurance mode features.

[masterx1918]

2. This takes the liscenced characters a step further: During the individual career modes, instead of having a new song as an encore once you complete the songs in the set you should have to out duel a legend to advance to the next level (kind of like in the movie crossroads).

if you want that then go play Guitar Hero 3 (i'm not trying to be mean just informing you that GHIII is using this idea)

[DShizzle1029]

Here are just some of my ideas for extra features/content

*There should be a starpower-like feature where you get bonus points for jumping into the crowd if your a guitarist.

*Create-a-stage w/ pyrotechnics

*Of course we have create-a-rocker, but just some unlockable clothing

*Maybe some real-life musician characters

*Customizable instruments with a Forza Motorsport type graphics shop

*Online shop for custom instruments (This would take some major work because of the crap content in the Forza Motorsport auction house)

*Unlockable Real life instrument models used by our favorite bands

Just some of my ideas...

[Brock_Landers]

I'd like to see the onscreen band/concert interaction dialed up to 11. While I got more than I actually expected with GH2 with the lights in tune to the music, lighters in the crowd, encore set pieces, and various guitarist animations.. I think there's still a lot more that could be added to really crank it up.

* crowd surfing, like the guy above said, during segments when you've got nothing to do or are killing it just so awesomely

* for songs where each instrument comes in seperately, it'd be sweet if that was reflected on-screen with each member making a big entrance and the crowd squealing

* Interaction with crowd (throwing water bottles/clothing into it.. getting underpants thrown at you Tom Jones style :D)

* Interaction between band members (guitarist and bassist facing off against each other)

The on-screen stuff will probably get noticed a lot more than before considering there'll be more players sitting sections out during solos now. So give em some eyecandy :)

Can anyone else add some ideas of rocking out?

[Silentghost245]

I didn't want to look through all 14 pages so I don't know if this has been brought up. How about a concert mode? Ex play a song then have a short pause and another song comes on. No need to have to go into the menu and select another song. It would be cool if the score from the previous song carried into the next and get one big combined score at the end to compare to other bands over live.

[Eman311]

weekly "battle of the bands" tournaments where anyone and 3 friends can meet up play a few predetrmined and the band with the most points is declared the winner. Or maybe have several levels of tournaments.....the winner of battle of the band then moves on to the "best of the country" tourney. i guess sorta like having a rank:D

[FunkaTrunk]

Can anyone else add some ideas of rocking out?

-Your band could do music videos. Then after you've made one, you can save it and watch your band play. Or do some wacky music video, like Twisted sister's "Were not gonna take it!", were your band members interact with each other.

-Your band could have the option to "sell out". Brock_Landers eats twixy sticks,MMMM!!

-Recive the ammount of money you make for each gig. From $12,456 to $600 because my band can't help starting fires or stealing paintings?

-Have more things to buy with your money. A $500 pair of socks, $100,000 pet eliphant, who knows, go crazy, your rich!

See you in the spotlight!

[Holy_Diver360]

something i really want is a replay mode so you can see your preformance after your done, i never can pay attention to the performance because i need to focuse on the noted and my hands, and maybe save and share your best performance.

[TheRocker]

-Your band could do music videos. Then after you've made one, you can save it and watch your band play. Or do some wacky music video, like Twisted sister's "Were not gonna take it!", were your band members interact with each other.

-Your band could have the option to "sell out". Brock_Landers eats twixy sticks,MMMM!!

-Recive the ammount of money you make for each gig. From $12,456 to $600 because my band can't help starting fires or stealing paintings?

-Have more things to buy with your money. A $500 pair of socks, $100,000 pet eliphant, who knows, go crazy, your rich!

See you in the spotlight!

Hahahah , Funny

[Desensitized]

I didn't want to look through all 14 pages so I don't know if this has been brought up. How about a concert mode? Ex play a song then have a short pause and another song comes on. No need to have to go into the menu and select another song. It would be cool if the score from the previous song carried into the next and get one big combined score at the end to compare to other bands over live.
Yeah, like pick your own setlist.

I'm sure they'll put something like that in.

[TheRocker]

well after some songs are up for download , you could make the songs you downloaded into your own custom setlist for you to play

[Dodobird]

Yeah, it would be a blast to play several songs one after the other. I imagine that loading wouldn't be too much of an issue, you could just have the second song load while you're playing the first one, then roll into it after a slight pause after the end of the first. It would be even cooler if the songs would "warp" together, so that you could roll from the freak-out at the end of one song straight into the next one, with no pause in-between.

It would really help create the feeling that you're playing a real concert, instead of the disjointed feeling you get from getting back to the track list and sitting through a couple of loading screens.

Of course, if you do really well in your "concert", then the crowd would call you back for an encore, at which point you would decide on-the-fly which song to play as a grand finale.

You can't honestly tell me that this wouldn't be awesome.

[animeaddict42]

I browsed the first few pages but just gave up to say this srry if any of these ideas have been said.

1. To expand upon the concert idea if your a guitarist/drummer you could just jam inbetween songs while they are loading.
2. I highly doubt this will make the game but you choose your favorite songs perform your absolute best at them and then make an album that you design the cover for. It would be the perfect end-career thing to do.
3. I think this is in the game but a very indepth drum tutorial that teaches you every single basic drumming pattern.
4. Maybe you could have some control over your band's light show.

[sa_nick]

3. I think this is in the game but a very indepth drum tutorial that teaches you every single basic drumming pattern.

If they're not including drum solo's in the actual songs then all us non-drummers are going to need some kind of tutorial so we know what to do with our fills. I really do hope they put in some training for it.

[Devildrummer]

All i ask work better on the drums.

The set up i seen from video look like the drums are set backwards for the hithat and snare. I dont know who told them that the snare is on the far left and the hi hat is inbetween the toms and snare. that going to make it really hard to real life drummers. and what if the there is a left handed drummer? how the hell will they play or an opened hand drummer?

what would be a good idea is have it where you can set where drum you want where. as in you can set the snare where you want and hit hats and toms.. etc.. that why any drummer can play with ease.

2) also the support of other drum sets. from what i seend in video drums dont look movable. and to be able to use eletric drum set via usb would be a Big plus.

Come on drummers speak up!!

[Nocturnal]

All i ask work better on the drums.

The set up i seen from video look like the drums are set backwards for the hithat and snare. I dont know who told them that the snare is on the far left and the hi hat is inbetween the toms and snare. that going to make it really hard to real life drummers. and what if the there is a left handed drummer? how the hell will they play or an opened hand drummer?

what would be a good idea is have it where you can set where drum you want where. as in you can set the snare where you want and hit hats and toms.. etc.. that why any drummer can play with ease.

2) also the support of other drum sets. from what i seend in video drums dont look movable. and to be able to use eletric drum set via usb would be a Big plus.

Come on drummers speak up!!

Last time I checked: configuration for a drum set is up to the drummer playing it. Similar to the fact that you can play a guitar in a different tuning scale than normal.

[jsorge]

if you want that then go play Guitar Hero 3 (i'm not trying to be mean just informing you that GHIII is using this idea)

I wasn't aware of that. I would prefer to have it in Rock Band so I can fully support Harmonix and have one less reason to support Activision/Red Octane. Of course, if this feature isn't included I will still fully support Harmonix. They seem a lot more receptive to fans' suggentions/critiques than the others.

No, I'm not a Harmonix rep, I'm just frustrated with Activision for ruining one of my favourite franchises with their 360 patch/song download issues.

/rant

[spagetti]

Not sure if its been said but knowing there are four campaigns (drum/bass/guitar/vocal)
in career mode, will the song lineup be in different orders considering for example that
the final song in a guitar mode career may not be as difficult when playing (drum/bass/vocal). If you get my drift.
Also being as you can freeform play inbetween songs it should be easy to attempt a gig mode where you seemlessly play into another song.
As for online modes a real battle of the bands would be an excellent tourny where
x amount of bands sign up on a lobby and play off against each other creating
a true battle of bands experience.
Not sure if any or all these ideas have been said before so forgive me.

[jsorge]

Cross-platform online compatibility.

I will be buying Rock band for the 360 as close to the initial release day as possible, but many of my friends are going to wait for it to come out on the Wii (if it does at all). It would be nice to be able to meet together online regardless of the system we are playing the game on.

[sa_nick]

Cross-platform online compatibility.

I will be buying Rock band for the 360 as close to the initial release day as possible, but many of my friends are going to wait for it to come out on the Wii (if it does at all). It would be nice to be able to meet together online regardless of the system we are playing the game on.

People have mentioned cross platform for the PS3 and xbox, which I think can be achieved, but wont due to the companies hatred of each other.

But Xbox and Wii cross platforming together, is that even possible?

[TheRocker]

People have mentioned cross platform for the PS3 and xbox, which I think can be achieved, but wont due to the companies hatred of each other.

But Xbox and Wii cross platforming together, is that even possible?

Nintendo is doing a great job right now , but if they wanna succeed they need to make a better online service , i mean friend codes..cmon.. and no its not possible why cuz E=Mc(Squared)

[jsorge]

People have mentioned cross platform for the PS3 and xbox, which I think can be achieved, but wont due to the companies hatred of each other.

But Xbox and Wii cross platforming together, is that even possible?

I believe EA is part of the group involved with Rock Band is it not? I also believe that they at one time had their own gaming network for their games that was outside of xbox live. If this is true, then I'm thinking optimistically (sp?) that they would be able to develop their own network for players from different systems to connect to through the in-game menus.

Of course, I don't know either if this is possible or not but I would think that if it is possible, EA would be one of the first to pull it off since I believe they've dabbled with it in the past.

[onlyrob]

Dear Rock Band,

I bring you an urgent request from a grateful fan to your games. I have to tell you that I am physically unable to play Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero III, and it is quite possibly the most painful experience to see such an amazing game and not be able to play it. No, I am not broke.

I have epileptic seizures.

Guitar Hero 1 did not bother me at all, nor have 99% of the games on the market since the dawn of the Age of Atari. The flashing lights placed in the background causes people like myself to space out and have headaches, so much as to not be able to play a song on Easy. In Guitar Hero 1, I creamed Cowboys from Hell and Bark At The Moon on Very Hard. I unlocked everything and played through the game three times just to re-experience how flipping amazing it is. But the flashing lights in the latest games prevent me from even looking at them. I failed an easy song on Guitar Hero II solely because of those lights, and I am not alone with physical conditions such as these.

I'd like to see an option to turn off the flashing lights in the background. The colors are fine and so are the animations, but just get rid of the strobe light in options. Not only are the lights distracting to most people, but they cause huge fans like myself to refrain from buying the game at all. Let me tell you: I'm willing to fork over a good $500 for all the peripherals, game, and downloadable content on the way. But I can't do that with the most highly-anticipated game out there if the strobe lights can't be turned off.

If people agree with me, please say so. I want more than anything to play this game. I'm 25 with a desire to rock this game out hardcore, and I can't do it if it's anything like Guitar Hero II (and from what I hear, Guitar Hero III)

Thank you kindly!

[sa_nick]

Dear Rock Band,

I bring you an urgent request from a grateful fan to your games. I have to tell you that I am physically unable to play Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero III, and it is quite possibly the most painful experience to see such an amazing game and not be able to play it. No, I am not broke...

Man, that sucks... Ya got my support. I've had a few friends complain that the strobes are distracting but I love 'em :P

Does things like putting lights around the TV help at all? Like so your eyes are constantly used to the bright light thus making the strobe effect less intense... Might be a stupid question, I dunno.

[Eman311]

hey man thats a good idea and something i would imagine could be done with only a little bit of work

[Captastic]

1. As far as gameplay is concerned, it'd be cool if the game had a feature a step above free-styling/jamming: the ability to create songs of your own and save compositions of multiple tracks. An article I read said something to the effect of Rock Band being the creator of bands all over the world and I can think of no better way for that to happen than the aforementioned feature.

2. Since the game comes with a microphone, it's possible that a character/band name could be pronounced during creation and then be used by the game to signal show openings/individual solos.

3. The ability to buy individual pieces of equipment (especially for drum sets) or clothing and edit/customize their colors.

That's all for the list, unless the stuff I've seen about character creation is correct. I was under the impression that Rock Band would feature the ability to create characters. If that's not the case, how is character customization supposed to work?

[TheRocker]

1. As far as gameplay is concerned, it'd be cool if the game had a feature a step above free-styling/jamming: the ability to create songs of your own and save compositions of multiple tracks. An article I read said something to the effect of Rock Band being the creator of bands all over the world and I can think of no better way for that to happen than the aforementioned feature.

2. Since the game comes with a microphone, it's possible that a character/band name could be pronounced during creation and then be used by the game to signal show openings/individual solos.

3. The ability to buy individual pieces of equipment (especially for drum sets) or clothing and edit/customize their colors.

That's all for the list, unless the stuff I've seen about character creation is correct. I was under the impression that Rock Band would feature the ability to create characters. If that's not the case, how is character customization supposed to work?


1. Not possible , seriously if you want to make your own JAM/Song get a real instrument and start composing.
2.Could Be if you Record it from your Voice and save it so its played when the song starts or end.
3.Defenitly possible since the game will let you create your Own "Rocker" haha

[SnoopieDoop]

I hope Hyperspeed is made as an option (instead of a cheat) in Rockband, or that there is some other way to alter the speed of the notes.

Battle of Bands or similar, where bands can challenge each other and play various venues against each other, several modes could be added (ex. face off in GH2 or pro face off etc)

Midi support for the drumkit, Roland V-Drums support :)

Song Editor/converter - Would be nice to make custom songs

Lots of XBL songs in various genres, maybe even whole albums if possible.

Note Sheets/tabs for all the songs for each instrument (to plan SP paths etc)

Ability to play each measure seperatly in practice mode or some similar function.

Ability to take screenshot/save replays of top scores, and more details stored regarding scores (note streak, multiplier, SP etc).

[Teh_Grimm]

I think a great feature would be to save a performance of a song if you do really well and want to show off a little. And make it possible to hide the notes in case people want to use it in machinma.

[superpunkgohan]

Man, that sucks... Ya got my support. I've had a few friends complain that the strobes are distracting but I love 'em :P

Does things like putting lights around the TV help at all? Like so your eyes are constantly used to the bright light thus making the strobe effect less intense... Might be a stupid question, I dunno.


Dear Rock Band,

I bring you an urgent request from a grateful fan to your games. I have to tell you that I am physically unable to play Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero III, and it is quite possibly the most painful experience to see such an amazing game and not be able to play it. No, I am not broke.

I have epileptic seizures.

Guitar Hero 1 did not bother me at all, nor have 99% of the games on the market since the dawn of the Age of Atari. The flashing lights placed in the background causes people like myself to space out and have headaches, so much as to not be able to play a song on Easy. In Guitar Hero 1, I creamed Cowboys from Hell and Bark At The Moon on Very Hard. I unlocked everything and played through the game three times just to re-experience how flipping amazing it is. But the flashing lights in the latest games prevent me from even looking at them. I failed an easy song on Guitar Hero II solely because of those lights, and I am not alone with physical conditions such as these.

I'd like to see an option to turn off the flashing lights in the background. The colors are fine and so are the animations, but just get rid of the strobe light in options. Not only are the lights distracting to most people, but they cause huge fans like myself to refrain from buying the game at all. Let me tell you: I'm willing to fork over a good $500 for all the peripherals, game, and downloadable content on the way. But I can't do that with the most highly-anticipated game out there if the strobe lights can't be turned off.

If people agree with me, please say so. I want more than anything to play this game. I'm 25 with a desire to rock this game out hardcore, and I can't do it if it's anything like Guitar Hero II (and from what I hear, Guitar Hero III)

Thank you kindly!

Yeah man, that really sucks. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to create this option, but since I've never made a game before then I don't know. Turn this message into its own thread and maybe hmxsean will see it and consider it. You've got my support. Good luck.

[silversurfer2k7]

From what i read, create a character and create a band logo are all going to be a part of rock band anyway. You create a character and band logo first and take them through career. Thats cool, imagine all you're friends have there own personal band member thats unique. Its only a small thing but it will make a big difference.

I'd love to see what they do with the parts of the song where you can freestlye - on guitar. Do you just strum for points, or does it make the sound depending on the fret you're pressing, ie. you could just hammer-on like crazy? and get loads of points, that would be awsome just freestyling on drums and guitar.:D

[silversurfer2k7]

Yeah man, that really sucks. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to create this option, but since I've never made a game before then I don't know. Turn this message into its own thread and maybe hmxsean will see it and consider it. You've got my support. Good luck.

You've got my support to mate, i'll post in you're thread if you start one. You should be able to play any of these games, its not you're fault you cant. Sorry to hear that man.

[Atomixor]

How about some sort of secret patterns. During the "free jam" and the drum/guitar breaks when you get to play whatever you want, if you press a certain pattern, your character can do a secret animation. Nothing totally crazy, but things like having the drummer explode (spinal tap) or something like that. I think it'd be a nice touch and a lot of fun trying to remember what you pressed so you could do it again later. Almost like fatalities from back in the day, you'd be waiting for the free jam just to see if you could get the pattern down correctly so your drummer explodes.

[jsummersphd]

My biggest gripe about GH2 was not being able to use the tutorials for specific tips and practice... instead, I was forced to trudge through the tedium of learning how to strum before I could look up specifics on hammers and pull-offs.

Not a big deal, but it would be nice to be able to access the advanced stuff from the get-go for those of us with instrumental background.

[devilwithin]

I would like good story mode that lets you pick type musics you play during story mode

e.g. If you pick Punk then you would play punk music and nothing else
__________________________________________________ ____________________________________________

Another Idea is you can chose if your band want to sell out, you would get more money quickly but get less respect from Fans/people which would effect score.

or

You can chose not to sell out but that just means you need to work alot harder to gain money but you will get more respect from Fans/people

[DShizzle1029]

In the story mode, you should be able to play along side real musicians (i.e. Trent Reznor comes along and asks you to play along side with him and Nine Inch Nails, and when you beat the song, you get double the cash you normally would get).

Im still up for the star-power like crowd jumping for guitarists.

Drummer star-power should be a beat mode similar to Amplitude's extra scratch/sample mode.

Singer star-power should be a free style lyric mode in similar fashion as mentioned above.

Body Guard mode - keep as many fans off the stage for the duration of a song played by either the computer or a buddy.

[sa_nick]

In the story mode, you should be able to play along side real musicians (i.e. Trent Reznor comes along and asks you to play along side with him and Nine Inch Nails, and when you beat the song, you get double the cash you normally would get).


If that happens it's gonna look stupid in my game... seeing as how I'm going to make my character look like T-Rez, lol. NIN FTW!

[NitrosDragon]

It would be really nice if, instead of constantly having to hold down the (first) green button on the guitar, you could strum without any buttons and have it register as an OPEN note. Beast and The Harlot, on GH2, was interesting enough, having to hold down the Green button half the time.

Also...

STROBE LIGHT ON/OFF FEATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously.

-ND

[bubbameister]

This would make the game so much more enjoyable

-Custom Guitar maker

-Unlockable bands meaning reaching a certain level in the game and then unlocking an actual band from history to play as in the game.(wouldn't it be cool to see Pete Townshend giving his guitar a Pete Townshend)

-Create your own Character

[onlyrob]

Man, that sucks... Ya got my support. I've had a few friends complain that the strobes are distracting but I love 'em :P

Does things like putting lights around the TV help at all? Like so your eyes are constantly used to the bright light thus making the strobe effect less intense... Might be a stupid question, I dunno.

These are excellent questions.

While it's often beneficial for gamers to have lights on during strobe scenes, most people with seizures still receive crippling headaches to the point of spacing out or unable to watch the screen altogether. Now I must point out that there are varying levels of seizures, from minor conditions and all the way up to the evil Grand Mal seizures of total loss of control (i.e. from minor headaches or up to those televangelists and Bible belt shaking and falling people), so not every case of seizure is the same. I am very lucky to not be near that level, and my doctors have explained that I am not at the level of all those seizure warning screens in games these days. The only thing that affects me are fast strobes.

I've played video games since I was 3 years old, and kicked some major A since then. I'm fortunate enough to play 99% of the games out there and have no issues at all with them. I had a slight issue with the original Space Channel 5 for Dreamcast and my trips to E3 were quite painful with 7000 televisions in the Nintendo/Sony North Hall of last year, but nothing like Guitar Hero II and the videos I've seen of Guitar Hero III. Those really, really hurt; like a migraine's volume up to 11. My eyes get really, really twitchy and it's a shame that after all these years I am finally realizing limitations that I never really experienced before.

Now I want to clarify that I bring this up not just because of seizure people, but because of anyone with photosensitive conditions. If people's eyes begin to hurt or strain when viewing strobes like these, this would be a great option to turn off. I don't want to advocate seizure people into playing games when their doctors don't want them to, but there are a lot of people out there that are allowed to play these games and might really want to rock this game out. Some have serious eye problems when playing for long (or in some cases, very short) periods of time.

On a side note, I received a response from the development team and they said they're not too sure if an option like this can be implemented this late in the game's development, but they are forwarding the concern to the people who might make it possible. I've spoken to a lot of developers in the past and rarely is there a group so responsive. My hats are off to this team; they rock hardcore. I seriously hope that I don't have to rent the game and discover that I can't play it. :(

[jtuarus]

i would love for a DLC music converter so that you could take music cds and the converter make them into rockband tracks. that would be the best along with the regular dlc albums and songs being able to take your cds and convert them into playable tracks would take this game to an extreme more than it already is:D

[1crazyboy7]

These are excellent questions.

While it's often beneficial for gamers to have lights on during strobe scenes, most people with seizures still receive crippling headaches to the point of spacing out or unable to watch the screen altogether. Now I must point out that there are varying levels of seizures, from minor conditions and all the way up to the evil Grand Mal seizures of total loss of control (i.e. from minor headaches or up to those televangelists and Bible belt shaking and falling people), so not every case of seizure is the same. I am very lucky to not be near that level, and my doctors have explained that I am not at the level of all those seizure warning screens in games these days. The only thing that affects me are fast strobes.

I've played video games since I was 3 years old, and kicked some major A since then. I'm fortunate enough to play 99% of the games out there and have no issues at all with them. I had a slight issue with the original Space Channel 5 for Dreamcast and my trips to E3 were quite painful with 7000 televisions in the Nintendo/Sony North Hall of last year, but nothing like Guitar Hero II and the videos I've seen of Guitar Hero III. Those really, really hurt; like a migraine's volume up to 11. My eyes get really, really twitchy and it's a shame that after all these years I am finally realizing limitations that I never really experienced before.

Now I want to clarify that I bring this up not just because of seizure people, but because of anyone with photosensitive conditions. If people's eyes begin to hurt or strain when viewing strobes like these, this would be a great option to turn off. I don't want to advocate seizure people into playing games when their doctors don't want them to, but there are a lot of people out there that are allowed to play these games and might really want to rock this game out. Some have serious eye problems when playing for long (or in some cases, very short) periods of time.

On a side note, I received a response from the development team and they said they're not too sure if an option like this can be implemented this late in the game's development, but they are forwarding the concern to the people who might make it possible. I've spoken to a lot of developers in the past and rarely is there a group so responsive. My hats are off to this team; they rock hardcore. I seriously hope that I don't have to rent the game and discover that I can't play it. :(

i dont think i have any problems with strobe lights and seizures, i just get scared when i see them because i dont know if i will get a siezure. it fulls with my mind(since im scared)and i think im about to have a seizure. so sometimes i fail songs because im afraid to keep staring at the screen with full concentration because i think im gonna end up losing that concentration and have a seizure so i look away(sometimes). But it barely effects me, since i 5 starred every song on expert but misirlou, but i would be sooo happy to have an option to turn off the strobe lights, and maybe i could get my scores up a bit :)

[endeyequote]

I didnt read through this entire thread so if any of this was already brought up sorry.

Anyway, i've tossed around a few ideas in my head for awhile that i think could be great for this and GH if executed correctly.

First off pedals. If they do pedals i hope its not just one, or at least have an option where you can change the function of the pedal, or it could change automatically. I'd love a waa, a distortion, and an effects pedal.

Secondly an actual string to strum instead of the strum bar. I know most would say this is impossible but it think it could be done, and actually not that tough. If you made it a bit longer than the current strum bar, say about twice the size. You can than mount in some way with protruding metal or plastic, kind of like what already surrounds the strum bar. And then, and here is the key, it would need to be removable so it can be replaced when it (inevitably) brakes from heavy playing. They could even include a few spares right off the bat so people wouldn't be too turned off to the idea of a part they may have to replace every now and then. And i couldn't see replacements costing more than $10 or $15 so that wouldn't be so bad.

With this set up you could actually use a pick to strum, or fingering/picking.

That leads me to my next suggestion which i have mentioned before in another thread. An ebow and a slide would be great. There does seem to be peripheral ports in the guitars now so i don't see this as being too difficult an idea, and it would work even better if there was an actual string.

Also any peripherals they make they would be smart to make peripheral through ports on all of them, so you could have combos, or multiple pedals hooked up.

And lastly, a talk box would be pretty crazy, although there wouldn't be too many songs you would need it for. (JAMBI!!! =P)

[bchaps]

I think that it would be interesting if you could see a first person view from your character like you were actually playing

[lambofgod1]

1: Creating bands I heard was already a feature, but when you hit it up online, you are not always going to have you're buddies right next to you on drums, bass, guitar, etc. So, I was thinking, you can send a message to someones band via the game, and they audition. So a virtual garage/studio whatever, and you can sit and watch how good they are, and if you want them, you can assign them a spot in your band. If not, you turn them away, but they can always return.

i agree with you goodbyebluesky...I think there should be some kind of auditioning room online, where people can audition to be in bands....

i would also like to be able to create a guitar (choose a guitar like a stratocaster or les paul and decorate it) and a venue (design a stage floor, install decorations, and choose where each band mate is placed, as well as fireworks and spot lights)

another thing i would like to see in rock band is a feature online to download new songs, like those from guitar hero 1 or 2, new guitars and drum sets, faceplates, new decorations and light work, and new venues....

[FunkaTrunk]

If they do pedals i hope its not just one, or at least have an option where you can change the function of the pedal, or it could change automatically. I'd love a waa, a distortion, and an effects pedal.(JAMBI!!! =P)
The game will have all that in it, don't you worry. Well, I don't know if it will be in pedal form or what, but waa, distortion, and all those other things have made it in.

[endeyequote]

The game will have all that in it, don't you worry. Well, I don't know if it will be in pedal form or what, but waa, distortion, and all those other things have made it in.

Haha. That's kind of funny that you cut out the one piece of my comment you wanted to say something about, but also cut out the (JAMBI!!! =P) and left it in.

[SpeedMetal09]

My Ideas would be
1.Double Bass Pedal For the drums (I dont think youll trully be able to feel the metal songs unless you have a double bass)
2.Customize not only your character but your drums,guitars, and mics
3.Create-A-Song mode
4.Not everyone can play expert ( I myself play songs on hard and songs on expert) but make the online just as fun for every player just not expert players (I can see this becomming an issue somehow)
4.A Clan or Guild like online system but with a BAND
5.Headsets online? I hope so or at least be able to talk thru the mic

[KillerEgo]

How about something for the leftys?
I know there are a load of lefty rockers out there (me included), and I would LOVE to see anything that could play on the idea of having lefty characters.
Maybe they could include that with character creation? So it would actually have the character playing a lefty guitar, rather than just the flip option.
Customization is key, so this is definitely one feature I would love to see.

[Elnino]

I wanna be able to make my character look like Angus Young from AC/DC, because that'd be awesome. I also want to customize my characters moves when he/shes on stage. If I can make Angus Young in the game, I wanna make him do the "Duckwalk", do that headbang thing where he bobs his knees up and down and just go crazy and spin around on the floor like he's having a seizure. Also in GHII in star power characters would spin the guitar around their leg, lick the guitar and steal the crowds souls! I wanna be able to make my character do these kinda things.

And I want to be able to have a "Battle of the Bands" sorta thing in online mode. And whoever wins, theres a big leaders board and it says who wins.

Also last thing. I don't know if this is possible but... I think it would be amazing if there was a "Rock Band" place in PS3 Home. A place where all the players could hang out, start bands and even watch other bands perform.

[MikeTwo]

These are what I think are the best suggestions I've seen from others:

-Practice mode where you play generic scales/drum beats/etc. You never know what creative people can do with just a little bit of flexibility.
-A mic stand
- An easy way to see high scores on a song. (Hit the yellow button and they pop up?)
- Random song pick for single/co-op play

And here's a few of my own:
- Allow players to join mid-song by pressing the start button (Nintendo-style). This is a party game... and not all parties are punctual. :)
- Make the blue and orange buttons scroll up and down 1 page in the setlist. It'll save some time getting to the songs at the end, especially once the setlist grows to something huge from downloaded content.
- Even more over-the-top audience antics (underwear on stage, mosh pits, and anything else to keep the non-players & non-soloists entertained). Also, the game should detect when you 5-star a song, and have your character do something unique and crazy when that happens (stage dive maybe?). Just a little extra reward for completing a song really well.
- Continuing with the Spinal Tap theme, have the drummer explode or die somehow -- repeatedly and often. Either right after a song... or when the drummer fails out... or just write about it in the loading screen. Something for comedic sake. :)
- Important: Please don't shy away from songs that are not "perfect" 4-band-member songs. I won't ALWAYS have 3 people over my house playing with me, and there are some really good songs out there with just a guitar and drums, or just a guitar and vocals. Consider including these in the downloadable/unlockable content. Don't focus on the 1-player and 4-player modes so much that you miss the 2-player and 3-player possibilities.

Lastly, and most importantly:
- Do not, under any circumstances, interrupt my gameplay or gaming experience to advertise MTV or EA junk. Make any and all cutscreens skippable, and make the loading screens be either something about my band or something funny/interesting about the original artists' band, but please no ads. I will vomit profusely if it has something like "BUY THE NEW METALLICA CD FOR ONLY $29.99 -- IN STORES NOW!" I worry about this because the latest press release sounds much less like Harmonix and much more like MTV propaganda -- The game will "showcase the incredible depth of the band’s music" and display Metallica's "incomparable songs" and other 7-second soundbyte bs that I'm just not interested in.

I understand they are providing a lot of money and such, but this is a pivotal moment in game development history. Stay true to the customer's needs, not the shareholder, and this game will live forever.

Rock on!
~Michael

[Xzyliac]

Interactive crowds!

I want to be able to select my own chant and unlock bigger better ones as time goes on. And I want my crowd to REALLY[/U] interact with the star powers the band pulls off. And finally I want to jump in the crowd. Sorry ol' dream of mine.

Make the crowd more of a part of the game!!!

[devo193]

These are what I think are the best suggestions I've seen from others:

-Decent sized list of really good ideas-

Rock on!
~Michael


I agree with everything he just said.

[DShizzle1029]

If that happens it's gonna look stupid in my game... seeing as how I'm going to make my character look like T-Rez, lol. NIN FTW!

Alright! T-Rez! I figured I would make his likeness as well, but Im debating over new-buff-buzzcut Reznor or classic thin-longhaired Reznor, or perhaps late 90's semi-buff-short cut Reznor...decisions decisions...But no matter what, this game needs The Hand That Feeds in the 2000's section OR We're In This Together Now in the 1990's section.

[Error302]

i think that if you're going to go through the trouble to make these freeform sections, you may as well go the extra yard and include a way to make custom tracks, like in frequency. i wanna make my own solo =p even if i have to stay primarily pentatonic

[JimNasium]

These have probably been mentioned before.

1. Never gonna happen, but the ability to add our own songs, and create our own Rock Band tracks

2. Online battle of the bands, and let the people watching vote for the winner. Winners get some kind of prize

3. Please don't gouge us on the downloadable tracks. Please.....

[DShizzle1029]

i think that if you're going to go through the trouble to make these freeform sections, you may as well go the extra yard and include a way to make custom tracks, like in frequency. i wanna make my own solo =p even if i have to stay primarily pentatonic

That would be pretty sick to remix the songs...I would totally stand behind that dude! Nice idea.

[monoxidehektik]

change the topic name would ya, it's YOUR

[PJMustang351]

I think the worst thing about playing Guitar Hero I/II is that not all people have the same hand size. Make the guitar a little bit more realistic in size.

Also, put the start button somewhere else. Or disable it on songs unless you hit it twice. I can't tell you how many times I've hit it with my palm, and what not.

Also, on the pause screen? Make it so you can -see- the notes behind you. That's annoying that you can't see them, let alone know what you're going to play next. So your perfect song? Now ruined.

The pause in the middle of playing is the worst. Especally when you didn't mean to hit it.

[TylerSalak]

i want to have somethin where you can custumize a guitar and your whole band

[Elnino]

How bout' when you put the mic up to the screen, the crowd sings the chorus of the song. That would be cool.

[devilwithin]

How bout' when you put the mic up to the screen, the crowd sings the chorus of the song. That would be cool.
Thats kl idea

[DShizzle1029]

How bout' when you put the mic up to the screen, the crowd sings the chorus of the song. That would be cool.

Hahaha, that idea is so cool I could slap a old lady. LOL!


...WAIT! That could be the star-power for the singer!!!

[turbobeta]

I'd love to do lead guitar + vocals. The ability to disable claps and tambourine for the microphone would be perfect.

[turbobeta]

Oh, I'd love to be able to buy a telecaster controller. White, mother of pearl, black, red, yellow (like the one from BECK), I don't care, just let me buy a telecaster!

[khaxel]

My friend was talking about what he wanted in the game the other day and he suggested something like creating your own set list. You could select 3-4 or how many songs you want, then you play through them one after the other without load times, would make it feel just like a concert.

[BriGuy]

Hey onlyrob (guy suffering from seizures)

There is an easy way for you to enjoy all of the goodness of GH2 without seeing any strobes. There is a code you can enter to turn off the venue for PS2 only.
At the loading screen hit: Blue, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Yellow, Orange

Alternatively or for the XBOX, you can make a cardboard cutout of the fretboard and tape it to the top of your tv in a way that you can flip it up when not playing a song, then down to block out everything but what you need to see to play the game.


Anyway, my other suggestions for Rock Band are:

1. Adjustable audio and video delay for perfect lag calibration. The current method for GH2 is terrible!!

2. A way to track your history playing every song. I picture a line graph that tracks your scores for every score above a certain threshold (not including restarts and other mistakes)

[Lordgrunty]

I'm not sure if they are still doing that thing at the end where all of the players just play anyting as fast as they can and come together at the end for a "ending bonus" but instead of that which is just wailing on your instrument as fast as you possibly can but instead you in the loading screen it should have the normal notes that would be there at the end go across the screen very fast and give you a quick glimpse of it, then when it comes at the end of the song you will have to try and play what you saw on the loading screen. what do you guys think?

[wvumak]

i love u bluesky! (in a non-*** way) i think you should make the game. u got me excited and wanting to know now what harmonix is doing with this

[endeyequote]

I'd love to do lead guitar + vocals. The ability to disable claps and tambourine for the microphone would be perfect.

Eye agree.

[Brock_Landers]

After seeing the character creation in the gamespot preview, I just want to say that I REALLY hope that the final version is a little more indepth for facial features.

And even if we can't do much with the face, please let us alter the size of their eyes coz christ, it's some scary fish eyed looking rockers right now, and I do declare!

[x3ar23]

a concert idea mention before sounds good. where you can choose up to like 8 songs and play them back to back.

[FunkaTrunk]

After seeing the character creation in the gamespot preview, I just want to say that I REALLY hope that the final version is a little more indepth for facial features.



Na, you can tell there's allot more to choose from for every aspect of the character creation, she just wasn't showing it off like she sould have.

[Emo_Reaper]

yea,lol, she seemed a bit nervous or somethin

[DShizzle1029]

I bet she was all like "OMGZ I HOPE I DONT MESS UP SOMETHING AND SHOW THEM THE HUGE SECRET IN CUSTOMIZING!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Not saying there will be some huge secret....just connecting it with the mood...lol.

[grandmasterflash]

There should be contest online or other wise were people submit orignal song creations and the best one as pick by votes online on x-box live or the internet (this website or another) or by a panle of judges. The selected song would then apear in the on one of the weekly song pack.


-A get a song in the game contest:cool:


sincearly
Grandmaster flash


p.s the game looks awsome can't wait.

[kindmortal]

You can create a band member. It says so on the home page. Dont know about guitar skins though...

[xHeadbang_X_Herniax]

So basically, you wont be playing with your friends, but rather a statistical probability of how your friends might play. IF this is what they're using.


Actually you wont be playing with other people? D:

[xHeadbang_X_Herniax]

How bout' when you put the mic up to the screen, the crowd sings the chorus of the song. That would be cool.

OMFG!
GENIOUS idea! *bangs head on table* xD sorry for that

[FunkaTrunk]

Did you guys see how much money the guy had when they were in character creation? Friggin $41,675 or whatever! YES, they put in my idea of making the money you earn. Now all they have to do is put Lordi in the game, and we're all set.

[Riboflavin]

I think you should be able to adjust/mute the volume level of the original vocals...once you get good enough, you should be able to sing the song and only hear your voice as opposed to hearing your voice and the original voice.

[Rock_Starman]

Someone might've said this but I'm not looking through 22 pages.

If you already own an album it would be cool that once it's up for DLC there'd be a way to detect that you already own it and would be able to DL it for the game without having to pay or have it at least be at reduced cost like 75% off.

[Shocktrooper42]

Ive been sayin this alot, but if Nofx was in the game I would be extremely happy. The song All His suits are torn would be perfect for RB while their other songs would be good for GH3 XD also I would like a create a bandmember mode or pick from fake singers/bassists/guitarists/drummers (depending on what your playing) with each of them having different stats. If there is a mode to create a bandmember...it should be called "Create a Sidekick" (hence that you are a rock hero sorta). But thats all Im super duper lookin for in this game. So far it looks alright but I think the weezer song should be El Scorcho...but its great to see Weez in both Gh3 and RB! Welcome to the jungle being in both games (what ive heard as of now) would be weird..forcing me to buy only one =P. So ya....I end my statement. NOFX, Create A ___ modes, different Weezer song, and I hope they seriously dont put WTTJ in both games :X

[benjamin]

Someone might've said this but I'm not looking through 22 pages.

If you already own an album it would be cool that once it's up for DLC there'd be a way to detect that you already own it and would be able to DL it for the game without having to pay or have it at least be at reduced cost like 75% off.

You are not paying for the album, you are paying for the gameplay.


Ive been sayin this alot, but if Nofx was in the game I would be extremely happy. The song All His suits are torn would be perfect for RB while their other songs would be good for GH3 XD also I would like a create a bandmember mode or pick from fake singers/bassists/guitarists/drummers (depending on what your playing) with each of them having different stats. If there is a mode to create a bandmember...it should be called "Create a Sidekick" (hence that you are a rock hero sorta). But thats all Im super duper lookin for in this game. So far it looks alright but I think the weezer song should be El Scorcho...but its great to see Weez in both Gh3 and RB! Welcome to the jungle being in both games (what ive heard as of now) would be weird..forcing me to buy only one =P. So ya....I end my statement. NOFX, Create A ___ modes, different Weezer song, and I hope they seriously dont put WTTJ in both games :X

I am not trying to flame you, but there is a section entirely for band ideas. Please go their, this is for extras relating solely to Gameplay extras.

Also, paragraph spacing, it is a good idea.

[Frostbitten_Norseman]

I'd like to see an option where you can purchase an unlock so that you may have a drummer with one arm, Def Leppard style.

[xHeadbang_X_Herniax]

I'd like to see an option where you can purchase an unlock so that you may have a drummer with one arm, Def Leppard style.

that's neato (:

[Elnino]

Will you have to play with one arm?

[nickp4512]

first off i am a rock singer and professional game developer and there are a few simple features that i would love to see that would make the singing experience super advanced and rewarding as the guitar and drums are!

difficulty modes for singing

Hard singing mode - no vocal background track
Expert singing mode - no lyrics.... no vocal track.... its just you truely performing the song!

recording mode

a recording feature that lets you record your band and save it to a in game jukebox or even mp3.

thanks for listening!

[Riboflavin]

difficulty modes for singing

Hard singing mode - no vocal background track
Expert singing mode - no lyrics.... no vocal track.... its just you truely performing the song!


that is an EXCELLENT solution to my suggestions. It seemed from the preview videos that your vocal laid over the original vocal made it somewhat lackluster as opposed to just your vocal (with no original vocal)

[Joigga]

How bout' when you put the mic up to the screen, the crowd sings the chorus of the song. That would be cool.

OMFG best idea yet email this to harmonix or i will man f***ing best idea yet

[TheTogfather]

That is a pretty good idea, pretty cool. Dunno if it'd work since you'd need some kind of motion sensor in the mic to detect when it was close to the screen though. Would probably work better as like a star power activation kinda thing. If the singer builds up enough 'star power' (assuming something like this will be in Rock Band) then he can hit a button or something on the mic to activate 'crowd sing-a-long'.

That would rock pretty damn hard.

[tmcdizzle827]

i think an ideal mode in rock band would be some sort of "free rock out" mode, where the player can choose an instrument and a song, and the song would play everything except for the instrumental part of the intrument the player chose. for example, i want to play a free rock out drum part for "dont fear the reaper". Vocals, guitar, and bass can be heard as thier normal parts, but the player can rock out and create thier own beats on the drums to thier hearts content. I think this mode would work especially well with the drums, due to the fact that you can make fills with ease.

[Plekto]

My main complaint with GH2 is that I can't play the alternate parts in the main game. So if there are different parts(say a choice between rhythm and lead guitar) allow us to chose.

oh - the mic sing along star power idea is brilliant. :)

[Elnino]

OMFG best idea yet email this to harmonix or i will man f***ing best idea yet

If my idea is in the game I wanna be recognized in the game credits.

[Phiromos]

That idea about the crowd singing the chorus...is amazing...and if they put it in the game i'd be blown away...being a singer and all

[Nitz13]

That idea about the crowd singing the chorus...is amazing...and if they put it in the game i'd be blown away...being a singer and all

That would just take singing to a whole new level, but they should make it a more recognizable part like say if you sing the whole first verse perfectly when the start of the chorus comes up you get the crowd to sing it. like that video of all the producers/critics playing wanted dead or alive They all sing the Chorus but you can tell they don't know the verses as well.

[Phiromos]

yeah, it should be activated by like verse by verse or you could use it at the end to get the crowd excited for the next song...paul mccartney does it with hey jude all the time

[AquaZombies]

man they should have keyboards in there so you can play 70s prog rock. And you NEED to have horns so you can play CAKE!!!

[NorrenRadd]

difficulty modes for singing

Hard singing mode - no vocal background track
Expert singing mode - no lyrics.... no vocal track.... its just you truely performing the song!


Wow that would be incredibly difficult. That fits the hard core players very well. I myself would never reach that though :(

[Huwonk]

If my idea is in the game I wanna be recognized in the game credits.

What if they already had plans to implement that prior to your idea's conception? There are a lot of ideas on the first few pages that turned out to be real, but I highly doubt they were a direct result of those people sharing ideas.

[spagetti]

It would be nice to have some fun videos ala gh series, one on how to twiddle
drum sticks and chuck em and catch em again.

[nickp4512]

Wow that would be incredibly difficult. That fits the hard core players very well. I myself would never reach that though :(

well i cant do expert on guitar hero 2 but it always gives me something to work towards

[Phiromos]

Wow that would be incredibly difficult. That fits the hard core players very well. I myself would never reach that though :(

Yeah it would be very hard to complete...but i'm up for it...id love to challenge myself by making the song my own and somewhat improvising since there are no lyrics

[nickp4512]

Yeah it would be very hard to complete...but i'm up for it...id love to challenge myself by making the song my own and somewhat improvising since there are no lyrics

well thats the thing ....the game doesn't really allow you to improvise and still give you a score... mainly because its still has the phenome detection and the pitch. so you start singing wrong.... you fail the song.

you'd still have to sing it perfectly on cue.... and sing it correctly

[Vigorousjammer]

they should have a "smash your guitar" minigame that automatically activates if you end the song with starpower...
not sure how it'd work... but it sounds cool...

[Phiromos]

thats true...memorizing every song for expert mic mode seems a bit much....you have to memorize pitch..timing...but for hardcore players..its doable..maybe an extra difficulty for mic..like memorize mode or something

[sa_nick]

thats true...memorizing every song for expert mic mode seems a bit much....you have to memorize pitch..timing...but for hardcore players..its doable..maybe an extra difficulty for mic..like memorize mode or something

Guitar Hero 2 had that. Performance mode. It was just a cheat you could put on that got rid of the HUD.

[Axident]

After watching numerous videos out there, I noticed that with the microphone you have to tap it for the tamborine and such during parts where there is no singing involved. The only problem I see with this is that there may be some people who are going to have three people playing and want to sing as they play. Having the ability to turn off the percussion effects on the microphone would be a must as I really don't fancy banging my head into the microphone to hit the percussion parts as I am trying to play the guitar/bass and sing at the same time. Simple feature to add would be to just turn off the percussion of the singer but still be able to sing. I can see a few people out there who like to sing while they play and this feature would be the only way to properly accomplish it.

[Elnino]

What if they already had plans to implement that prior to your idea's conception?

What if they didn't?....

Also new idea

What if, you could just watch people play? What if you could have an option to watch a band play online and be a part of the crowd. For example, say you wanted to watch someone's band play online and you went to go watch it. My idea is that for PS3 you could press (PS3 controls coming up) X to flash the devil horns with your hands, O to whistle, Square to yell "you rock" and triangle to do air guitar, and you could walk around in the crowd. That would be amazing. And by watch people play, I don't mean watch notes come down and see how good someones doing, I mean actually seeing these people's custom characters playing on a stage and you and your X-Box live/ PS3 friends watching the show.

More ideas, they just keep coming. What if i the game you had a trophy case, or collectible case. Like put my last idea together with this. Say, one person online is playing the drums and had the option to throw his/her drumsticks into the crowd, then someone watching the band play (other idea) could catch those drumsticks and put them in his/her pocket then go put them in a collectible case. More items for collection would be things like, getting the singer's shirt (if it was possible to have the singer do a stage dive) pieces of a guitar or bass guitar (if the guitarist could bang the guitar on the ground).

Another idea. RIOTS!!! What if you were in a crowd (read 1st idea) and the band you were watching just sucked ass. What if you could have a riot!? Trash everything! I know it it's probably near impossible but it could be fun.

[sa_nick]

What if, you could just watch people play? What if you could have an option to watch a band play online and be a part of the crowd.

I can see this MAYBE happening during battle of the band tournaments (if there are any). Even if the band playing had a camera or whatever it could be cool. And I'd like to see the notes they're hitting, where they screw up etc.

Catching drum sticks and shirts might be a bit much though.

[Consolcwby]

I think it would be cool to be able to 'purchase' or unlock different stage effects for your band to end with on-stage, like fiery explosions, or laser lights, or fireworks. Being able to cusomize these might be a little too much, but I'd still like it if they could add that too! :p

[x3ar23]

id like 2 see a double bass pedal for the drumkit some where down the line.

[thegame696911]

I think the idea with crowd interaction is really the future of rock band, trying to make it the most real concert experience. Giving u the ability to interact with the crowd and having the crowd react to u and what u do and say in a super realistic fashion would be so awesome. I think with the first Rock Band they have laid the foundation for what could be the most pure Rock simulation ever made, who wouldn't want to be a rockstar, right ?

[Elnino]

I think the idea with crowd interaction is really the future of rock band, trying to make it the most real concert experience. Giving u the ability to interact with the crowd and having the crowd react to u and what u do and say in a super realistic fashion would be so awesome. I think with the first Rock Band they have laid the foundation for what could be the most pure Rock simulation ever made, who wouldn't want to be a rockstar, right ?

Interacting the crowd like yelling into the mic "I wanna hear you guys sing!!!" And everybody reacts to it.

[Guitarplayer777]

I would like to see something like a concert recorder. That way when you play an awesome song with your friends, you can watch it again and see how you did. Also it would be cool if you could watch it with out the notes and lyrics coming down. Then it will look like a real band is playing.

just an idea.

[psychoboy]

All I ever wanted to see since the 1st g-hero was a gig mode where you can pick a selection of songs and play them 1 after the other instead of returning to a menu. U would then get an overall score of how well you did at the gig,if u werent doing very well u could walk of the stage and not do an encore. I seriously want this cos I really hate returning to a menu just when i'm starting to really get in2 the game. other than that just give me an online mode that wont be ruined by latency issues and maybe a guitar and vocals combined mode. oh and please keep the game and any downloaded tracks at a reasonable price

[thegame696911]

Ya i like that idea psychoboy, i think its something that could definitely be done in Rock Band.

[Guitarplayer777]

All I ever wanted to see since the 1st g-hero was a gig mode where you can pick a selection of songs and play them 1 after the other instead of returning to a menu. U would then get an overall score of how well you did at the gig,if u werent doing very well u could walk of the stage and not do an encore. I seriously want this cos I really hate returning to a menu just when i'm starting to really get in2 the game. other than that just give me an online mode that wont be ruined by latency issues and maybe a guitar and vocals combined mode. oh and please keep the game and any downloaded tracks at a reasonable price

that's better than my idea. I would love to play a full gig.

[Vigorousjammer]

that's better than my idea. I would love to play a full gig.
agreed... I never thought of having a gig mode, but now I can't imagine living a fufilling life without one!!