UkuleleSHIMA_2
06-24-2007, 02:46 PM
I absolutely cannot wait for this game! Everything I've seen so far seems to best Guitar Hero (which I also love dearly). Here's some more things I'd LOVE to see RB do better than GH. Sorry, if some of these requests have been posted before. Just take as me reinforcing those requests! :)
Ultimate ROCK BAND *FEATURE* Wishlist Part I
1. At song completion, to be able to immediately have the option to jump right to practice mode whether I beat the song or not.
2. At song completion, to be able to immediately have the option to jump right to right to the Leaderboards to compare score to friends.
3. At song completion, the results screen displays not only the tradition information that GUITAR HERO has shown (score, stars, etc.) but also informs you if you achieved a new personal/band high score by showing how it fell in within your top 3-5 scores.
4. Leaderboards rank you not only on your all time best score, but also break it down by difficulty. Even though my score on HARD might be bigger than my EXPERT score on a song, I’d like to see how my EXPERT score compares to my friends’ expert scores.
5. Leaderboards rank you using a Career Score ala GH, but in addition to having an ALL SONGS or CAMPAIGN ONLY scores, players have the ability to filter whether the ALL SONGS score includes Downloadable Content or not. (This is to allow people to rank themselves against others who haven’t “boosted” their All Songs score using the DLC)
6. Leaderboards display separate Single and CO-OP scores for 2,3, and 4 person co-op bands.
7. Leaderboard info also can be filtered according to instrument used.
8. Leaderboard information is available online at the rockband.com website and includes more detailed information such as the song “stats” (perhaps being able to see where the trouble spots were or when they deployed “star power”) and information about their band. (part of country/world, what instruments where used during co-op scores, etc.)
9. At the song selection screen, if Rock Band uses a single list like GH, ALWAYS have the selected song default to the last song you played, whether you beat the career or not. I hate always having to start at the bottom of the setlist in GH (at the last song you haven’t beaten) and have to scroll all the way to the top if I want to play Strutter or something.
10. Song selection screen navigation moves horizontally to select the set, then scrolls down to choose the song in that specific set. This will allow players to access songs quicker instead of going up and down a single LONG list.
11. Give option to allow changing of difficulty when playing career mode in an easier fashion. i.e. in OPTION menu, be able to toggle whether the game will always ask which difficulty setting you want to play at the start of a song at or not. Basically it will work like QUICKPLAY works, but within the career. (Perhaps pushing the Orange button on the Song Selection screen would change the difficulty on the fly? Kinda like DDR does.)
12. For online co-op play, give option to NOT hear the other players singing voice on my end, instead hearing the original vocal track instead. If the singer is terrible, messes up or starts acting stupid, I really don’t want to hear it coming out of my speakers.
13. For online co-op play, give the host to ability to control of who plays what instrument.
14. For online RANKED battles (if there are any), matches should be matched not only according to skill level, but as to how may LIVE people are in the band. Just a guitarist and bassist, shouldn’t be able to play against a band that has 4 live members in ranked.
15. When playing a song, please don’t have the game make that ANNOYING sound Guitar Hero II makes when a player misses a note after getting a x4 multiplier (or at least give the option to toggle it off in the Settings menu). The little “clink, clink” sound is fine (Guitar Hero 1 handled this better) but that big CRAAANG sound is just awful. Ultimately I’d rather have no missed-note sound at all, instead just having the instrument cutout and get a screen shake or something visual as a penalty, making for a more enjoyable play experience.
16. [ADDED] (thanks to starsandskulls for reminding me) Jukebox Mode allows automatic loading of songs (hopefully without much load time in between). This mode could be set to random song selection, done in order starting from whatever song the player picks first, or a custom/favorites list created by user.
I put Part I because I'm sure I'll think of some more things as time goes on. Here's hoping EA shows this game playable at the E For All Expo!!!! I'll be there!
Ultimate ROCK BAND *FEATURE* Wishlist Part I
1. At song completion, to be able to immediately have the option to jump right to practice mode whether I beat the song or not.
2. At song completion, to be able to immediately have the option to jump right to right to the Leaderboards to compare score to friends.
3. At song completion, the results screen displays not only the tradition information that GUITAR HERO has shown (score, stars, etc.) but also informs you if you achieved a new personal/band high score by showing how it fell in within your top 3-5 scores.
4. Leaderboards rank you not only on your all time best score, but also break it down by difficulty. Even though my score on HARD might be bigger than my EXPERT score on a song, I’d like to see how my EXPERT score compares to my friends’ expert scores.
5. Leaderboards rank you using a Career Score ala GH, but in addition to having an ALL SONGS or CAMPAIGN ONLY scores, players have the ability to filter whether the ALL SONGS score includes Downloadable Content or not. (This is to allow people to rank themselves against others who haven’t “boosted” their All Songs score using the DLC)
6. Leaderboards display separate Single and CO-OP scores for 2,3, and 4 person co-op bands.
7. Leaderboard info also can be filtered according to instrument used.
8. Leaderboard information is available online at the rockband.com website and includes more detailed information such as the song “stats” (perhaps being able to see where the trouble spots were or when they deployed “star power”) and information about their band. (part of country/world, what instruments where used during co-op scores, etc.)
9. At the song selection screen, if Rock Band uses a single list like GH, ALWAYS have the selected song default to the last song you played, whether you beat the career or not. I hate always having to start at the bottom of the setlist in GH (at the last song you haven’t beaten) and have to scroll all the way to the top if I want to play Strutter or something.
10. Song selection screen navigation moves horizontally to select the set, then scrolls down to choose the song in that specific set. This will allow players to access songs quicker instead of going up and down a single LONG list.
11. Give option to allow changing of difficulty when playing career mode in an easier fashion. i.e. in OPTION menu, be able to toggle whether the game will always ask which difficulty setting you want to play at the start of a song at or not. Basically it will work like QUICKPLAY works, but within the career. (Perhaps pushing the Orange button on the Song Selection screen would change the difficulty on the fly? Kinda like DDR does.)
12. For online co-op play, give option to NOT hear the other players singing voice on my end, instead hearing the original vocal track instead. If the singer is terrible, messes up or starts acting stupid, I really don’t want to hear it coming out of my speakers.
13. For online co-op play, give the host to ability to control of who plays what instrument.
14. For online RANKED battles (if there are any), matches should be matched not only according to skill level, but as to how may LIVE people are in the band. Just a guitarist and bassist, shouldn’t be able to play against a band that has 4 live members in ranked.
15. When playing a song, please don’t have the game make that ANNOYING sound Guitar Hero II makes when a player misses a note after getting a x4 multiplier (or at least give the option to toggle it off in the Settings menu). The little “clink, clink” sound is fine (Guitar Hero 1 handled this better) but that big CRAAANG sound is just awful. Ultimately I’d rather have no missed-note sound at all, instead just having the instrument cutout and get a screen shake or something visual as a penalty, making for a more enjoyable play experience.
16. [ADDED] (thanks to starsandskulls for reminding me) Jukebox Mode allows automatic loading of songs (hopefully without much load time in between). This mode could be set to random song selection, done in order starting from whatever song the player picks first, or a custom/favorites list created by user.
I put Part I because I'm sure I'll think of some more things as time goes on. Here's hoping EA shows this game playable at the E For All Expo!!!! I'll be there!
