Rock Band 2 Development Rock Blog!!!

[Jediknt]

Finally! Now I can finally say **** you to GH:WT, cause I'm just gonna wait for RB2!

Only thing keeping me with getting both GHWT and RB2 is Linkin Park, so Hmx please save me some money by putting LP in RB2 :P


http://www.petitiononline.com/lprbm2m/petition.html

[mysticneji]

Can you just tell us ONE song? I'm very dissapointed that NO songs were announced.

I was pretty sure it was said a month or two ago that Testament was going to have two songs in RB2. Souls of Black and Electric Crown. I was sure this was stated on Testaments website. I will see if I can find the thread about this.

EDIT: OK found it Testament in Rock Band

[drag_racer]

One thing they could do for us PS3 users is since they have a 25gb limit (which they probably aren't coming close to), is put all the RB1 disc songs on the RB2 disc.

[BAzombie]

Can someone copy the text of the blog and paste it in this forum? That page will not open for me

Hi rockband.com!

My name is Dan Teasdale, and I'm the lead designer on Rock Band 2. Along with Sylvain Dubrofsky (senior designer) and Casey Malone (designer), we're the design team that's slaving over a hot keyboard to get Rock Band 2 into your hands very soon.

Needless to say, we're really excited that we can finally talk about Rock Band 2. It's a true expansion of the platform, and a realisation of our goals to produce the most authentic band experience available.

A lot of the changes that we've been working on are directly influenced by the wish list that you have all been posting to. As well as improving everything in Rock Band that we felt could be improved, we've introduced some exciting features that'll have people playing as bands with their music collection in fun and new ways. I'll be talking about these over the next few weeks.

Naturally, all of your purchased Rock Band DLC will work in Rock Band 2, and all of your Rock Band instruments will still work (although you might want to buy the new instruments anyway when you see our improvements). We are totally committed to ensuring that Rock Band is a music platform that you can enjoy with friends for years to come, and not just another music game.

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be talking about life during development of RB2, as well as revealing some of the details to RB2 that get glossed over in press previews. If you have anything specifically that you have questions about, please post in the comments! I can't promise I'll be able to get my answers past the kind and friendly PR and Community team, but I'll do my best!

-DanT

[arsenal4eva]

Does anyone know if the songs from the main setlist of RB1 will be playable in RB2? Because I really like the RB setlist, and it would be a shame not to be able to play them when the sequel comes out.

[Eman311]

very cool.

[Koenn]

Does anyone know if the songs from the main setlist of RB1 will be playable in RB2? Because I really like the RB setlist, and it would be a shame not to be able to play them when the sequel comes out.

That is the question today, isn't it? :P I'm sure we'll find out more by E3 at the latest, it would be really nice to somehow be able to play all of the content from RB1 with RB2's new features and be able to play setlists of RB1 songs and RB2 songs combined. We'll see...

[doomed26]

I'm disappointed about the unknown release date of Rock Band 2 for the PS3, but I'm still interested about what the new instruments will look like...

[XeRo133]

so how long is this exclusive time that one better be anwsered quick, 4 months or some crap like in europe? or one month? a year? im fine with a one month thing

[RBX28]

i know they announced that previously downloaded dlc will be compatible with rb2 but i was wondering if my old scores will transfer to rb2. it would be a hardcore bummer if my gold stars reset.
PS will i still be a platinum artist and does my character carry over?