OXM Podcast News!

[Joigga]

Lock And Delete All My Other Threads About This Stuff Soooooo Sorry For Making So Many Threads

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Online Leaderboards Hinted?
So I Am Listeing To OXM Podcast And Alex Rigupolos Is On It And He Said That You Dont Just Play Through Online Band COOP Once You Have To Keep Playing To Build Your Fanbase And At the Same Time Get Your Score Up So You Can be Top Rank Against The Other Bands Online
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Hub In 360 Bundle
Just Listeing To OXM Podcast They Have Alex Rigopolus On There And He Said So 360 Owners Have A Fair Chance With PS3 Owners They Will Be Including A HUB In The 360 Budle IDunno If This Is Old News Or Not But Its New To Me
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Band Story Plot
Listening To OXM Podcast Alex Rigupolos Is On There And He Said That There Will be A LIttle Plot For Example If Your Playing A Venue In Tokyo And The Owner Of The Arena Walks Up To You And Says If You 5 Star All Of Your 5 Songs Ill Give U Triple The Amount But If Ya Dont You Get Nothing. So Its Kind Of A Risk Reward Kinda Thing
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HMX 98% Done
I Was Listening To OXM Podcast Just Now And They Had Alex Rigupolus(Spelling) On For A Phone Call And He Said Well Rock Band Is About 98% Done About Now ... If You Wanna Listen To It www.oxmpodcast.com ... Its the Newest Episode At About The Time 32:00
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I Was Just Listening To Teh OXM Podcast Again!! And Alex Rigupoluos Is On There And He Says That There Will Be Diffrent ESRB Ratings For Diffrent DLC And He Said That He Would Like to Get Original Songs Other Then Radio Edits

[Eman311]

Some great info in there.

This game is gonna rock.

Guess i'll need to find some consistent people to play with.

[ZkDotNet]

The podcast was pretty cool. Way more informative than I expected.

[Magnet]

As I said in the other topic, I think the 98% remark is possibly being taken out of context...

Asked about if they're still working on Guitar Hero, Alex responds, "Well, at this point we've either entirely or mostly wrapped up our development work on Guitar Hero, and at this point we're pretty much 98% on Rock Band."

Personally, I take this to mean that 98% of their company's focus is going into Rock Band right now (the other 2% presumably in wrapping up their Guitar Hero contract), not that the game's completion is 98%. But I guess it could be interpreted both ways.

[the_spike]

Ahh ****. It's what I feared.

There will be no 360 bundle with wireless guitars. Now I have to buy a drums + mic bundle and the wireless guitar seperate.

Please make a bundle with 360 wireless guitar too!

[Kaboobi]

Why Do You Capitalize Every Word?

Anyway, good stuff, lots of new info revealed on that podcast.

[dethklok]

Great set of info today... It's a good idea for them to give us hubs, there's no point in buying extra stuff. I can't wait...

[DarK_AssassiN]

As I said in the other topic, I think the 98% remark is possibly being taken out of context...

Asked about if they're still working on Guitar Hero, Alex responds, "Well, at this point we've either entirely or mostly wrapped up our development work on Guitar Hero, and at this point we're pretty much 98% on Rock Band."

Personally, I take this to mean that 98% of their company's focus is going into Rock Band right now (the other 2% presumably in wrapping up their Guitar Hero contract), not that the game's completion is 98%. But I guess it could be interpreted both ways.

I totally agree.. nowhere near that line was he talking about completion or progress of the game. He was talking about how much they will be working on GH2 still and how much they we will be working on it in the future. This 98% statement was just saying they are focusing 98% of the team on Rock Band.

[parastroke7]

Why Do You Capitalize Every Word?

Anyway, good stuff, lots of new info revealed on that podcast.

HAHAH. Who was it who did that last time that I criticized for that?

Anyway, I'm happy to hear about the plot thing. That makes me happy.

[Electric_Zen]

Other good takeaways from the podcast:

1) Online will not be hosted on EA servers. Thank God. In addition to being an inferior online infrastructure, EA turns off games after two years, rendering them unplayable online.

2) Alex confirmed that equivalently priced bundles will have wired guitars for the XBox 360, and wireless guitars for the PS3. This is very odd, because Red Octane announced this week that their $100 bundles will have wireless guitars for both platforms. Why does Harmonix have to charge more for XBox wireless when Red Octane doesn't have to?

3) Harmonix is not just being coy about bundle/SKU announcements. Alex says they are still in active negotiations with the retailers about this, and no final decisions have been made. Evidentally, they have to work closely with retailers to get the right SKUs put together because retailers are going to have to use a lot of brick and mortar space to store the product.

4) Alex confirms that each instrument will have its own solo career track. The drum finale will be Won't Get Fooled Again. The guitar finale will be one of the ten unannounced songs. He did not say what the vocal finale would be.

[TheRocker]

I totally agree.. nowhere near that line was he talking about completion or progress of the game. He was talking about how much they will be working on GH2 still and how much they we will be working on it in the future. This 98% statement was just saying they are focusing 98% of the team on Rock Band.

Bahahahah!! Urahara

[DarK_AssassiN]

Bahahahah!! Urahara

XD lol, your the first one here to notice. Tis my sexy hat.

[espher]

2) Alex confirmed that equivalently priced bundles will have wired guitars for the XBox 360, and wireless guitars for the PS3. This is very odd, because Red Octane announced this week that their $100 bundles will have wireless guitars for both platforms. Why does Harmonix have to charge more for XBox wireless when Red Octane doesn't have to?

Perhaps they're just charging more for the PS3 bundle to keep pricing the same instead?

[Brock_Landers]

Alex says that they did consider band vs band but decided against it since there's no real world equivelent to it.

-900,000 awesomeosity points to you, sir!

(I'm pretty sure there's not many drum battles happening around the globe either ;))

[Coldplayer]

Why does every info start with "I just listened to the OMX Podcast and Alex Rigupolos is on it" lol

Anyway, great infos.

[ZkDotNet]

XD lol, your the first one here to notice. Tis my sexy hat.
Ha! I just noticed (now that it's been made obvious)... Great hat. Do you have sandals too?

[DarK_AssassiN]

Alex says that they did consider band vs band but decided against it since there's no real world equivelent to it.

-900,000 awesomeosity points to you, sir!

(I'm pretty sure there's not many drum battles happening around the globe either ;))

I think that's a bad decision. It's a game... who cares if there is no "Real-world equivalent"?! I for one, would like to play in tournaments, me and my friends vs another band. That would be f****ing awesome....

[Coldplayer]

Alex says that they did consider band vs band but decided against it since there's no real world equivelent to it.

-900,000 awesomeosity points to you, sir!

(I'm pretty sure there's not many drum battles happening around the globe either ;))

Eh?? That doesn't make sense. There are tons of battle of the bands contests and events in the "real world". There are more battle of the band contests than guitar player contests, I think.

I will miss that in Rockband.

[Bakkster_Man]

1) Online will not be hosted on EA servers. Thank God. In addition to being an inferior online infrastructure, EA turns off games after two years, rendering them unplayable online.

4) Alex confirms that each instrument will have its own solo career track. The drum finale will be Won't Get Fooled Again. The guitar finale will be one of the ten unannounced songs. He did not say what the vocal finale would be.

1) Alleluia!

4) I thought Sean said there was no bass career? Is this a retraction, or a mistake?

Please let there be a bass (mini) career...

[thesemodernsocks]

1) Alleluia!

4) I thought Sean said there was no bass career? Is this a retraction, or a mistake?

Please let there be a bass (mini) career...

It was actually stated during the podcast that there wouldn't be a bass career mode.

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I Was Just Listening To Teh OXM Podcast Again!! And Alex Rigupoluos Is On There And He Says That There Will Be Diffrent ESRB Ratings For Diffrent DLC And He Said That He Would Like to Get Original Songs Other Then Radio Edits

THANK YOU!!! Harmonix!!!

[SoraRikuVGM]

Lock And Delete All My Other Threads About This Stuff Soooooo Sorry For Making So Many Threads

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Online Leaderboards Hinted?
So I Am Listeing To OXM Podcast And Alex Rigupolos Is On It And He Said That You Dont Just Play Through Online Band COOP Once You Have To Keep Playing To Build Your Fanbase And At the Same Time Get Your Score Up So You Can be Top Rank Against The Other Bands Online
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Hub In 360 Bundle
Just Listeing To OXM Podcast They Have Alex Rigopolus On There And He Said So 360 Owners Have A Fair Chance With PS3 Owners They Will Be Including A HUB In The 360 Budle IDunno If This Is Old News Or Not But Its New To Me
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Band Story Plot
Listening To OXM Podcast Alex Rigupolos Is On There And He Said That There Will be A LIttle Plot For Example If Your Playing A Venue In Tokyo And The Owner Of The Arena Walks Up To You And Says If You 5 Star All Of Your 5 Songs Ill Give U Triple The Amount But If Ya Dont You Get Nothing. So Its Kind Of A Risk Reward Kinda Thing
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HMX 98% Done
I Was Listening To OXM Podcast Just Now And They Had Alex Rigupolus(Spelling) On For A Phone Call And He Said Well Rock Band Is About 98% Done About Now ... If You Wanna Listen To It www.oxmpodcast.com ... Its the Newest Episode At About The Time 32:00
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I Was Just Listening To Teh OXM Podcast Again!! And Alex Rigupoluos Is On There And He Says That There Will Be Diffrent ESRB Ratings For Diffrent DLC And He Said That He Would Like to Get Original Songs Other Then Radio Edits

Why do you type in all caps?

[Tendoza]

Why do you type in all caps?
No one knows, and he seems oblivious to the fact that people don't like it.

[admanimal]

No one knows, and he seems oblivious to the fact that people don't like it.

I think it's actually worse than if he typed in all caps.

[Bakkster_Man]

It was actually stated during the podcast that there wouldn't be a bass career mode.

I figured it was a mistake. DAMN YOU ELECTRIC_ZEN!

[Supergeek]

4) Alex confirms that each instrument will have its own solo career track. The drum finale will be Won't Get Fooled Again. The guitar finale will be one of the ten unannounced songs. He did not say what the vocal finale would be.
He did not say definitively that WGFA will be the drum finale, but would very likely be.

[Supergeek]

And for everyone misspelling it, it's "Rigopulos".

[SoraRikuVGM]

I think it's actually worse than if he typed in all caps.

He does type in all caps, the sensors just have caps limits.

[sushi111]

I dont doubt that WGFA will be the final drum song. I cant imagine hitting half those notes.

We're all going to be ripped by the time we FC it :p

[Electric_Zen]

I figured it was a mistake. DAMN YOU ELECTRIC_ZEN!

Re-read my post, buddy. I never said anything about bass.

[ThePaska]

The few things I'm really happy with coming away from this podcast are:

The possible use of songs as DLC that are not radio versions, independent ESRB ratings for songs

The hub packaged in bundles

Their constant negotiation with the price with retailers

I'm really excited to hear more about the Band World Tour Mode, it sounds like it is going to have tons of replay value, and be really fun and immersive to play.

Also excited to find out the hardest/final guitar song in the game

Finally I can't wait to see how this "huge" investment in the Rock Band Forums turns out