Impressions from playing at PAX

[TubaDude49]

One of the cool features of Rock Band Blitz is the "Recommended" feed. This screen greets you every time you load up the game, and is a fresh feed of recommended songs each time you start it up. This will suggest challenges for you to send to a friend, show you songs that are new to the Music Store, taunt you with songs your friends are beating you on, etc. One of the cool things it'll also do is prompt you to play songs you haven't posted any scores on. In effect, the game knows which songs you own that you might have forgotten you own!

Also, Random Song is currently an option in the game's song list as well.

So, like RiderNet and AutoLog?

[Blasteroids]

One of the cool features of Rock Band Blitz is the "Recommended" feed. This screen greets you every time you load up the game, and is a fresh feed of recommended songs each time you start it up.

Oh great... is there an option to turn that off?

[The-XaiaX]

All dev kits, even the stage! In fact, we have almost never used commercial kits for events; think of all that DLC we'd have to pay cash-money (cash-mspoints?) for.

Is that why you almost never have RBN stuff?

We were gonna do The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny on the stage at PAX but that's RBN so no es bueno.

[FairwoodStudios]

Is that why you almost never have RBN stuff?

We were gonna do The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny on the stage at PAX but that's RBN so no es bueno.

They actually had a bunch of RBN, I saw Sunny Day Real Estate and dB soundworks on the Freeplay kit. I suspect they picked really popular and/or relevant-to-PAX ones and put them up, or maybe all those that were sent to PS3 since they would've had to have done some touching of files and could have them around.

[dabrry0523]

I think this configuration would make more sense from a game play stance. It works in a kind of symmetrical way too. Drums in center, then strings to the right and left, then melodic parts at the edges.

a keyboard/piano is also considered a string instrument.............

[Leodwyld]

Actually, a keyboard/piano is a percussion instrument.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

It depends on if you use the hammer or the string to define it. I'm pretty sure neither is wrong.

[BachiG]

GNF...always the peacemaker!

[Lowlander2]

He's basically right. It's both.

[DavyinaToga]

They actually had a bunch of RBN, I saw Sunny Day Real Estate and dB soundworks on the Freeplay kit. I suspect they picked really popular and/or relevant-to-PAX ones and put them up, or maybe all those that were sent to PS3 since they would've had to have done some touching of files and could have them around.

The freeplay system changed a couple times during PAX. On Sunday, there were considerably more songs on the console than what was there Friday (1200->2000). I'm thinking that the Freeplay kits were provided by PAX and not HMX, considering the variance of systems and the non-MadCatz instruments (Ions and GH guitars).

EDIT: I just realized I have not been on topic at all.

OK, after playing it on the floor at PAX, I'd say that RBB is a definite buy for me. Aside from the "cheap-ass song pack +game" aspect, it's a solid game that has enough replay value for me to squeeze out to be worth whatever price tag it'll be. Plenty of replay value as song library builds, and is a decent alternative to lugging out instruments and waiting for friends to join in.