Death on Two Legs..?

[word_cotton]

Don't get me wrong I love this song whole heartedly but does anyone else find this as a very strange selection from Queen? I would have expected the likes of A Kind of Magic or Breakthru but never Death on Two Legs.

[Dangimarocker]

Don't get me wrong I love this song whole heartedly but does anyone else find this as a very strange selection from Queen? I would have expected the likes of A Kind of Magic or Breakthru but never Death on Two Legs.

I think it's a good choice, i'm not a fan of 80s queen and Night At The Opera is their best CD in full.

[RockBandRocker]

I just hope it has the intro intact.

I'm still a little bit miffed that "Tie Your Mother Down" doesn't have the intro on it.

[Magnet]

HMX will choose less popular songs from bands sometimes if they're a good fit for the gameplay. I think they chose the perfect Queen song for Blitz, and I imagine a lot of people who have never heard it before will grow to love it. We already have a bunch of their hits, so I don't think going for a deeper cut should be too controversial here.

I just hope it has the intro intact.

I'm still a little bit miffed that "Tie Your Mother Down" doesn't have the intro on it.

I believe TYMD had two versions - a single and album version. I'm pretty sure DOTL only has the one version.

[Jibblypuff]

HMX will choose less popular songs from bands sometimes if they're a good fit for the gameplay. I think they chose the perfect Queen song for Blitz, and I imagine a lot of people who have never heard it before will grow to love it. We already have a bunch of their hits, so I don't think going for a deeper cut should be too controversial here.

which would also make me think that HMX would have been better off putting one of the songs from the queen pack that has almost nothing on 1 part (bicycle race, don't stop me now on guitar for example) simply because i can assume that missing 1 instrument most of the song would be less "bothersome" in Blitz then in a game where most people play just the guitar.

i'm sure DOTL will be fun in Blitz. but i also think it would have been more fun in RB3 than some of the other songs from the queen pack. If the pack and this song were licensed at the same time and they had a choice, i would've switched DOTL with a different one.

but of course i could just be the weird person here being 100% wrong

[Magnet]

Well, I'm just glad that many people who don't know the song and are interested in Blitz will have the chance to learn how awesome it is by playing the game, like how people will find new songs to love on the on-disc setlists of other music games. While radio hits can help get people interested in the game, I think the Blitz set list has plenty of them, and not every song needs to fall into that category.

Bothersome is a strong word, but I do think it will be less fun when there are less instruments to play in Blitz. The more choices of instruments you have to play at a given point in the song, the more power-ups you can collect and the more you can continue to switch tracks to grow each instrument's multiplier.

If they did switch DOTL with another hit from the last pack, I think a lot less people would wind up owning DOTL and having it as an option to play online, which would make me sad.

[Jibblypuff]

Well, I'm just glad that many people who don't know the song and are interested in Blitz will have the chance to learn how awesome it is by playing the game, like how people will find new songs to love on the on-disc setlists of other music games. While radio hits can help get people interested in the game, I think the Blitz set list has plenty of them, and not every song needs to fall into that category.

Bothersome is a strong word, but I do think it will be less fun when there are less instruments to play in Blitz. The more choices of instruments you have to play at a given point in the song, the more power-ups you can collect and the more you can continue to switch tracks to grow each instrument's multiplier.

If they did switch DOTL with another hit from the last pack, I think a lot less people would wind up owning DOTL and having it as an option to play online, which would make me sad.

oh definitely. i am glad people will get to know it now. but then again,people that would've bought the entire queen pack would have gotten it discounted and might get it because of that. now some people might not get Blitz because they "don't know" the song(s) that were chosen for it.

and yes, bothersome is a strong word, which is why i put it in ""s couldn't really find any other word for it that fast

[FujiSkunk]

I believe TYMD had two versions - a single and album version. I'm pretty sure DOTL only has the one version.

That doesn't really apply, though. Harmonix has released unique edits or mixes of songs before, even without counting new endings to replace face-outs. Sticking with Queen, "I Want to Break Free" is a custom mix in the game, sort of halfway between the album version and the extended dance mix.

Oh, and until we get "Flash" and "A Kind of Magic," I will always want more Queen.

[Magnet]

That doesn't really apply, though. Harmonix has released unique edits or mixes of songs before, even without counting new endings to replace face-outs. Sticking with Queen, "I Want to Break Free" is a custom mix in the game, sort of halfway between the album version and the extended dance mix.

I'm not quite sure how you can say there being one version doesn't apply and then list a song with three versions as a counterexample. (Also, "I Want to Break Free" sounds just like the 4 minute single version to me, with an altered ending to account for the fade-out.)

In any case, the version of DOTL in Blitz isn't altered from how it appears on the album, so it's kind of a moot point.

[FujiSkunk]

I'm not quite sure how you can say there being one version doesn't apply and then list a song with three versions as a counterexample.

I'm saying it doesn't matter how many versions of a song officially existed beforehand. Harmonix can still make their own unique mix, longer or shorter than any other versions out there.

The fact is, every song has to be remixed and re-edited by Harmonix's audio team anyway. Most of the time they mold the game track to follow a well-established version of the song, but that isn't always the case.

(Also, "I Want to Break Free" sounds just like the 4 minute single version to me, with an altered ending to account for the fade-out.)

Ah, you got me there. I hadn't heard the single mix before. I have the album version and the 12" mix. Still, there are other examples where the game track is different from any previously released version. I forget the name of the song, but within the past year there was one track that originally had a long piano intro. The single edit of the song snipped the intro entirely, but the game track kept half of it.

In any case, the version of DOTL in Blitz isn't altered from how it appears on the album, so it's kind of a moot point.

That will make the purists happy.