What's the first thing to do once you get RB?

[MartyMcFly]

Set up your "stage" arrangements?
Forget the stage, just start banging on the drums?
Hop right into a guitar career mode?
Or maybe head to the tutorials to get your singing lessons.

Discuss!

Myself, personally, will run home, pop open a beer (who cares if it's 10am??), plug in the drums, and make with the practice, cuz I know I'm gonna need it!

[Ultrace]

1. Create characters - eking out as much time as possible to get just the right look.
2. Team up with my wife (and possibly two extra friends)
3. It's Band Career mode time. :)

[PsycoCheerio]

Call all my sorry friends and wake them up and tell them to get the hell over to my home...While they are en-route to my home I will create a band and be ready upon their arrival...Then it's 3 days of rocking.

[ThePaska]

most of my friends will have class since I don't plan on playing it until the Monday after Thanksgiving break. I'll most likely create my character and try and fly through guitar career to get all the songs unlocked, then probably start taking up drums. When I can I'm starting up a band with all my friends as well.

[Emo_Reaper]

Well,Since it'll be Christmas when I most likely get it,Id probably open the big box last. (Gotta save the best for last) Then I'd completely ruin all of my friends Christmas's and get em over to my place to jam. Or just hit Live and team up with Xzyliac and Eman :D

EDIT: Id dont think that would be considered ruining it.Lets say...makin it better ;]

[aaron_wil]

Well, I probably will go right to bed, since I literally will have been up for 23 hrs with the previous night of only 3-4 hrs sleep......damn retail....... The next morning, I am sure my wife will awaken to the sound of me banging on the drums.:D

[Thrashdragon]

Get everything plugged in, make sure it all works, start making a character, then scream in rage as my 360 decides that the 23rd is the day it gets the red ring of death.

It's gonna happen, I just know it...

[Reaper0563]

create my character and start on the drum solo career . . . once I get "good" at drums then I'm moving on to multiplayer

[tf5_bassist]

I'm hoping that we'll have Black Friday off... but I dunno... i mean, I'm pretty sure that a sh!t-ton of people will buy our products on Black Friday, and we'll have a sh!t-ton of tech support calls. :/

but if we do, I'll be playing from maybe the 20th all through the weekend with my wife, her brother, and maybe another friend, except for a bit of turkey day stuff. maybe. lol

[Apples]

Probably spend hours in the character builder. Sure it's fluff, but I love those things. :cool:

[dethklok]

I know the first thing I'm going to do is play through Guitar Career just to unlock "Dani California". Once I unlock that one, then I will play Expert Drums on that song, just for fun :D Then Guitar... then bass... and lastly sing that song :D Once I do all four on Expert (Just for fun ;)) Then I will complete all my careers on every level.

[GrenadeJumper]

Play it perhaps?:p

[Criss2fur]

prior to picking up the game go grab a 30 pack of bud light and some ol # 7 Jack Daniels. Pick up the game call some friends over and the party is on.

[Oxyplox]

I'll go practice drums til I can beat the first few songs on Medium, then Hard.
Then I'll get my friends over and we'll go through career mode. Yeaaah~

[The_Future_Breed]

First, I will light my drum sticks on fire. Then, supreme game will commence. After a few minutes of painful (but freakin' awesome) drumming, I'll visit the burn ward of my local hospital where the Gods of Rock will descend from heaven and compliment my amazing skills.

I rule.

[tombrady]

First I'll burn some sage and dim the lighting. Then I'll read a short prayer and open my box with a ceremonial Native American blade. I will then uncork a 50 year old bottle of wine and pour myself a glass to consume during the ritual. I will then arrange the instruments and furniture in the room into the unicursal hexagram using Fuller's equilibrium model as a guide.

When all of this is complete, I will utter another short prayer and begin to meditate in the center of the hexagram. During this crucial phase of the ritual I will attempt to achieve an out of body experience and become one with the plastic drum kit. This could take days, but only with a spiritual understanding of the plastic drum kit can one become a true artist.

When I feel I am mentally, emotionally, and spiritually ready to celebrate life with the instrument, I will beat the game on medium and go from there.

[SmokaCola]

Beat the game on expert with guitar, then fix up my character and plays the drum career for a bit. When my friends want to i'll hop online and play or play offline with them. But unlocking all the songs through guitar career is my biggest goal.

[TheRocker]

Well get my little brother on the drums and my dad on the Guitar i will sing that right the first thing i will do is Sing my heart out.

[Apples]

Wait a minute, this is a trick question.

The first thing you do is open the box. Followed by "inserting the game disc" and "hooking up the controllers".

Clever devil. :D

[JackBNimble]

1. Create characters - eking out as much time as possible to get just the right look.
2. Team up with my wife (and possibly two extra friends)
3. It's Band Career mode time. :)

I've already got my band ,wife and three kids. the youngest is a year and a half ,he 'll be the groupie.

[JetWolf]

I'm thinking "stare longingly", since we plan to get it on release but not open it until Christmas.

There may also be drool.

[TheTogfather]

If it does slip out on the 20th, unfortunately I'll finish working. If it's the 23rd, I'll head straight to my buddy's house w/ the bundle and a 30 pack of bud select. We'll create a band, him drumming, me singing, and go from there...

[Jp7588]

Shove a cucumber in my leather pants and snort a line of pure columbian off of a dead horse which I will shortly thereafter sacrifice to the eternally gracious God of Rock.

[IbanezBassist_v2]

I'll be hitting the guitar career first. That way I'll have all the songs and many extras unlocked. Then I will work on CAR as there will be more options unlocked for the characters.

[IbanezBassist_v2]

I'm thinking "stare longingly", since we plan to get it on release but not open it until Christmas.

There may also be drool.

Thats just insane! Bet you don't wait that long.

[tf5_bassist]

If it does slip out on the 20th, unfortunately I'll finish working. If it's the 23rd, I'll head straight to my buddy's house w/ the bundle and a 30 pack of bud select. We'll create a band, him drumming, me singing, and go from there...

This is one of the few moments I'm happy that I get to work at 6:30am and leave at 3pm.

:D

[JetWolf]

Thats just insane! Bet you don't wait that long.

We had GH2 for six weeks or more, I think it was. It was hard as hell, but we made it. The all-day Christmas experience is worth the pain and suffering ... though the allure of Rock Band is just as strong as it was for GH2, if not stronger.

It's going to be a long pre-holiday season, to be sure.

[IErrantVentureI]

Start up the Drum Tutorial. Then go through Drum Career on Easy, Medium, Hard, then Expert.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[drno830]

I will take the box home, set it down, and head off to the CU - Nebraska game. That is if it is actually a black Friday release. It isn't going to be fun.

[MartyMcFly]

I will take the box home, set it down, and head off to the CU - Nebraska game.

Yuck dude.

Rock Band > Football :D

[sa_nick]

Open up the box, take everything out slowly, check its all in 1 piece.

Plug in the peripherals, put in the game and start it up.

Bask in the glory of the Harmonix logo coming on screen then watch the intro vid etc.

Calibrate the Lag.

Intro Drumming tutorial, Advanced Guitar Tut, Vocal Tut, Advanced Drum Tut.

Check out other random stuff around the menu's.

Create a character.

Play the drum career on medium.

[teh_Raccoon]

Die from the slowness of the clock the day it comes out...Dam school...

Run home and wet my pants at the sight of the box.

Stare at it...

Staring...

Open it and frantically plug in the guitar and disc.

Brain fart through the opening cinematic stuff.

Spend forever making a real life, older, rockstar version of myself in Character Creation mode (I shall have Glam Hair with my Lucky Fedora! :D)

Yell at my buddies to get on theirs game.

Do tutorial to get used to the new buttons and such.

ROCK OUT ON THE STAGE AS THE PELVIC THRUSTERS! *plays Highway Star's solo*

[greetdeath]

I will definitely dive right in and start playing before I start the character creation or anything. Depending on if any friends are in town/online I might have them playing with me. I want to play Maps & Cherub Rock so badly it hurts me and haunts my damn dreams.

[Keebler]

I'm going to create my rocker and then head to one of the Solo Modes.... which one? That will depend on which peripheral excites me the most after I unpack everything.

If I have my cousin over or my sisters are interested, I'll make their characters, too, and we'll explore Band World Tour.

[FatWilma]

i'll probably setup my guitarist's character and breeze thru solo career on hard to unlock everything and leave expert for later. sometime during that, i KNOW i'm gonna start up the solo drum career as well, but i definitely wana knock out some guitar first, almost to get it out of the way. i'll also dabble a bit in vox career, but that might have to wait. hopefully sometime during that day, weekend, whatever i'll be able to round up some friends to start on the band world tour.

[Edgehopper]

1. Set up drums
2. Play a few drum songs on Medium
3. Breeze through expert Guitar career
4. Play some more drum songs, possibly finish medium drum career
5. Play through vocal career, probably on Hard
6. And since by that time it should be the following Saturday, it's party time.

[animekid3515]

create characters, practice on drums, then try and do some songs doing guitar and vocals together.

[Balsac]

First thing I'm going to do is rip that bastard open, throw the drums together, pop in the disc, fire up some quickplay, immediately fail the first song on easy, shout profanities, repeat.

[A_Perfect_TOOL]

The mall here opens at midnight before Black Friday, so after the turkey naps have worn off, my friends and I are going to make a late night burn-ride to pick it up, make our characters and play it til we pass out.

[Schultzy]

Well, seeing as I probably won't be getting this game for a while, like until June, I'll be reading all your reviews of the awesomeness.
But once I do get the game, I'm rocking out until I die! :D