Rock Band Blitz – Rumors and Facts

[Ehfahq]

This kinda reminds me of the Rock Band DS game. Which I enjoy while on the crapper.

I will probably pick it up for the DLC.

[jeronemitchell]

I know one thing bruther. They haven't revealed the other 20 songs yet dude but it better be one hell of a setlist for me to buy this bruther. Once bitten Twice Shy and Mental Health isn't going to sell me just yet bruther. I think it's cool you can transfer it to rock band 3 bruther but I'm not buying this for 2 songs I like bruther. The next 20 songs better be off the charts dude.

I don't... understand... why it must be... twenty songs? Even if... it costs $20... that's the same as... ten tracks. If you already... like two... don't you only... need to like eight... more max?

That was my attempt at writing like Randy Orton. Unfortunately, only current WWE fans would get that.

[Odin Force]

So who else is hoping that 1 or more of the 20 unrevealed songs is/are Lady Gaga song(s)?

I know I'd be extremely lucky to get 1, but maybe since they're trying to appeal to new gamers and bring people in, they'll include Lady G! I really hope so.

The only Gaga song I could see happening is Edge of Glory and it is entirely likely. I really believe this setlist will be poppier much like Lego. Fingers crossed for Fun.

Random Question: Does anyone know if the RB3 on-disc songs will somehow export? I'd assume they are the songs which aren't compatible with Blitz.

[CloudWolf]

The only Gaga song I could see happening is Edge of Glory

Not Yoü and I? I'd say that song is a lot more Rock Band friendly.

[FairwoodStudios]

Hmm. Makes me wonder.

Will RB3 get a title update to have it know to look in the RBB game data when building the RB3 song library?

If so, might this be a chance for HMX to slip a few other bells and whistles into an RB3 title update?

Like ZigZag indicated, there's no such thing as "Rock Band Blitz Files". Blitz reads RB3 files, the 25 songs in Blitz are effectively just 25 RB3 DLC tracks that come with the game. (Which makes me also agree with the all-or-nothing expectations on Pro upgrades.)

I suspect/hope that, after Blitz launches, we'll start to see a growth over the three-a-week DLC rate we've had lately. It just makes sense to increase the output after a new game release, and the audio team will have been done authoring these tracks for a little while now so the manpower should open up.

[Odin Force]

Not Yoü and I? I'd say that song is a lot more Rock Band friendly.

I was just thinking more along the lines of the rhythm, but you're right. Pumped Up Kicks is pretty slow, too.

[JBlack240]

I hope there's a couple more metal songs besides Metal Health.

[thatmarkguy]

I would think it's more likely that RBB is designed to use existing RB folders.

I can understand it being designed to read existing RB folders (to play RBB with old RB DLC and exports). It's a dangerous move to allow it to write to the RB folders (as it would need to to get RB3 to see the new songs). Much safer to have each game have a read-only relationship with any folder that isn't its own native data folder.

[Tom Imp]

Once bitten Twice Shy and Mental Health isn't going to sell me just yet bruther. I think it's cool you can transfer it to rock band 3 bruther but I'm not buying this for 2 songs I like bruther. The next 20 songs better be off the charts dude.

I'm the exact opposite. I'm sold on the game simply because of those two songs ("Jessie's Girl" doesn't hurt either). I can only imagine the rest will be pretty good, so even if I only play this Blitz game once or twice, I will gladly buy it just to get the songs into my RB3 rotation.

[LoopyChew]

Here's the announce trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYuIXnniEZQ

Someone above was asking how they will do tracks. You can see in the trailer the difference between Metal Health (4 tracks, no keys) and Jessie's Girl (5 tracks, keys).

Ergo, the number of tracks that appear equate to the number of tracks that the song has on RB.

That means there may be the possibility of 3 track songs (YYZ with only lead, bass, and drums) and 2 track songs (Toast from RBN with only drums and vocals).

There are a good number of 1-track songs, too (some RBN stuff, and Song of the Century for official Harmonix charts).

Hmm. Makes me wonder.

Will RB3 get a title update to have it know to look in the RBB game data when building the RB3 song library?

If so, might this be a chance for HMX to slip a few other bells and whistles into an RB3 title update?

Who says they haven't already slipped it into this last update? Given the dev cycle on games like this, maybe they already had something anticipated.