Ideas before Launch

[cashandbro]

Rock Band Blitz should be 3D compatible.

Also We should be able to use our instruments if we choose to. For example If I want to use a guitar, holding down the corresponding color, plays the corresponding lane. Or for instance drums hitting the corresponding colored drum pad determines which lane you are playing in (Of course you would need at least one cymbal designated for the last lane)

I think it would feel more familiar and probably seem more fun if I could hold down the green fret and strum the notes of the drum, Switch to the red fret and be playing bass, yellow guitar, and so on.

And I think 3D on this game would really help bring you into the experience, and make it less iPhone game feeling.

I know not everyone has 3D setups but throwing on my 3D glasses and guitar would make this game a blast.

[skyp1e]

Rock Band Blitz should be 3D compatible.

Also We should be able to use our instruments if we choose to. For example If I want to use a guitar, holding down the corresponding color, plays the corresponding lane. Or for instance drums hitting the corresponding colored drum pad determines which lane you are playing in (Of course you would need at least one cymbal designated for the last lane)

I think it would feel more familiar and probably seem more fun if I could hold down the green fret and strum the notes of the drum, Switch to the red fret and be playing bass, yellow guitar, and so on.

And I think 3D on this game would really help bring you into the experience, and make it less iPhone game feeling.

I know not everyone has 3D setups but throwing on my 3D glasses and guitar would make this game a blast.

As much as I would rather play with my instruments over a controller, it would give you an unfair advantage and defeat the purpose of the game.

[Lowlander2]

Actually, 3D would be good for this game. Just the way the bright aesthetic would work with it. It would be awesome.

My personal wish is to somehow let me play the precursor to Blitz, Unplugged, on my Vita, but that's a distant pipefream.

[itsyorak]

Also We should be able to use our instruments if we choose to. For example If I want to use a guitar, holding down the corresponding color, plays the corresponding lane. Or for instance drums hitting the corresponding colored drum pad determines which lane you are playing in (Of course you would need at least one cymbal designated for the last lane)

The way you described using the instruments for controlling the game throws away any challenge the game has to offer. Just be happy with RB3.

Hopefully there is a customizable control option. I would have more fun playing the game with different control schemes.

[skyp1e]

Actually, 3D would be good for this game. Just the way the bright aesthetic would work with it. It would be awesome.

My personal wish is to somehow let me play the precursor to Blitz, Unplugged, on my Vita, but that's a distant pipefream.

I do agree about this though. The game looks like it would be a treat in 3d. Alas, I haven't the hardware or cash to acquire said hardware if they take this advice. Still I can appreciate how neat it would be.

[SirDavidTLynch]

The whole point of the game is that you don't need the instruments and can play with a regular controller. I think it would feel more unnatural to have to strum up and down for left and right lanes (not to mention impossible to hit chords) than to play a completely different game with a completely different controller. How would drums work? You hit a drum to switch lanes, then what?

3D is an overhyped gimmick that movie studios have invested way too much in to just let die.

[Doc_SoCal]

3D is an overhyped gimmick that movie studios have invested way too much in to just let die.

I tend to agree. I have yet to see anything "3D" that made me think it was neccessary or even an "enhancement". (Other than real life of course)

Lets let the game come out before all the... what was it?... (backseat armchair developers? yeah I think that was what Drake said) go to work on making it "better".

[cashandbro]

I'll start by saying I am a PS3 user. I have never played the other games similiar to this so I guess I just don't understand how the controls worked on those games. If it doesn't make sense to use a guitar controller, It doesn't make sense. I playstation move controller would be cool. Using the wand to change lanes and the trigger/X-button to hit the notes seems easy enough.

As for the 3D, it's a matter of opinion I suppose. It seems like it would make for a fun feature for this type of game. For instance a game like Super Stardust doesn't interest me at all, but the simple fact that you can play it in 3D caused me to buy it. There isn't a lot of content in 3D so I, and I'm assuming others would buy the game just because we have the equipment to use it.

Whether it "enhanced" the game is a matter of opinion. Does the stage kit enhance the game? No but it gives some people a more interactive feel, the same way 3D adds depth to the screen. I've played Rock Band 3 in "3D" via samsung converting the image, did it enhance the game no, but adding depth to the note-highway and having the notes come out at me a little was fun.

p.s. not trying to be a backseat developer or anything, just offering an idea that seems simple enough, to me. But what do I know.

[skyp1e]

I tend to agree. I have yet to see anything "3D" that made me think it was neccessary or even an "enhancement". (Other than real life of course)

Lets let the game come out before all the... what was it?... (backseat armchair developers? yeah I think that was what Drake said) go to work on making it "better".

I feel that way about every 3D movie except for the first non red/blue 3D movie I ever saw. Avatar was definitely a new movie going experience for me.

Since then though, I've seen about a dozen 3D movies with my kids. The movies themselves were really good (Toy Story 3, Despicable Me, etc. ) the 3Dness was tacked on.

But Avatar was definitely different.

Now back to the topic.

[Lowlander2]

3D is an overhyped gimmick that movie studios have invested way too much in to just let die.

That's just what The Man wants you to think.