The Beatles: ROCK BAND - Rumors and Facts

[Sayburr]

Just added this to the first post:

Added 2/6/2009 - It looks like the game will have distinct stages based on the career of the Beatles. In an interview with McCartney he stated the following “[Harmonix said] "We’d like to do just a special Beatles edition, we’d like to do different periods -- you know, you get early days, Liverpool, then psychedelic, and on from there." It’s very cool.” Thanks to p34ch for finding this information. – Link

[cherokeesam]

I will never understand this argument that people make. So what if there are 5 instruments? You can only have 4 controllers connected at a time (on 360/Wii, 7 on PS3) so the game would let you select the 4 instruments that you currently have connected to the console. They already block out vocals on YYZ and Caprici, so why couldn't they block out "Keyboard" if there is no keyboard connected?

Exactly.

And it's not like The Beatles were ever a 5-man band. You play EITHER keyboards, OR something else like Bass.....just like Paul did.

A keyboard peripheral *would* be a cool add to the game, but I won't hold my breath for it.

[iamtheddrman]

Exactly.

And it's not like The Beatles were ever a 5-man band. You play EITHER keyboards, OR something else like Bass.....just like Paul did.

A keyboard peripheral *would* be a cool add to the game, but I won't hold my breath for it.

Yeah, I'm certainly not holding my breath either. I'd like to see it make it eventually, but keyboard would require a very large number of keys to be challenging, which might make it inaccessible to beginners (unless they do like guitar and step up the number of buttons based on difficulty). At any rate, I think HMX is gonna do this game right, and it'll be worth renting even if you don't like the Beatles all that much.

[Drfirewater RB2]

I am disappointed hearing this for two reasons

1. this means that its possible that we will have to buy all new perperials like new drums and guitars cause nothing works together (look at GH and RB crossover problems)

2. Different disk and seperate game means the songs wont be crossed over so you will have to swap out disks ... this means no beatles at my rock band parties and if i cant play with my friends with out being forced to only play one band ... chances i will sadly miss out on this large waste of money if they are not transferable.

I LOVE THE BEATLES AND RB

and i think that if the songs are not transferable to rb2 then this project is gonna bomb.


ps. I play keybord and i can tell you there is no way to intelligently do a keybord in a rock band type game without it being near if not completly impossible for anyone who doent already read music and play the piano.

[BruceDickinson]

I doubt it will bomb. It will probably do just fine even without transferability.

[whofan]

I am disappointed hearing this for two reasons

1. this means that its possible that we will have to buy all new perperials like new drums and guitars cause nothing works together (look at GH and RB crossover problems)

2. Different disk and seperate game means the songs wont be crossed over so you will have to swap out disks ... this means no beatles at my rock band parties and if i cant play with my friends with out being forced to only play one band ... chances i will sadly miss out on this large waste of money if they are not transferable.

I LOVE THE BEATLES AND RB

and i think that if the songs are not transferable to rb2 then this project is gonna bomb.


ps. I play keybord and i can tell you there is no way to intelligently do a keybord in a rock band type game without it being near if not completly impossible for anyone who doent already read music and play the piano.

/facepalm

1) This is an Harmonix product. What makes you think that it won't support their own periphreals? To think that it won't, you'd have to be pretty dumb

2) The separate disk issue has not been resolved yet. We do not know whether or not it will be exportable. The popular theory right now (not saying that's what's going to happen, it just makes the most sense) is that at the end of the career mode you will be given access to a code that will allow you to export the tracks onto the RB Platform. However, nothing has been confirmed just yet.

[Doesany1rememberlaughter]

/facepalm

1) This is an Harmonix product. What makes you think that it won't support their own periphreals? To think that it won't, you'd have to be pretty dumb

2) The separate disk issue has not been resolved yet. We do not know whether or not it will be exportable. The popular theory right now (not saying that's what's going to happen, it just makes the most sense) is that at the end of the career mode you will be given access to a code that will allow you to export the tracks onto the RB Platform. However, nothing has been confirmed just yet.

I think it is better to assume that it won't be transferable... that way when we find out that it doesn't people wont be freaking saying "but you said it would be!" If we have low expectations we can all not freak out later.

[Doesany1rememberlaughter]

I am disappointed hearing this for two reasons

1. this means that its possible that we will have to buy all new perperials like new drums and guitars cause nothing works together (look at GH and RB crossover problems)

2. Different disk and seperate game means the songs wont be crossed over so you will have to swap out disks ... this means no beatles at my rock band parties and if i cant play with my friends with out being forced to only play one band ... chances i will sadly miss out on this large waste of money if they are not transferable.

I LOVE THE BEATLES AND RB

and i think that if the songs are not transferable to rb2 then this project is gonna bomb.


ps. I play keybord and i can tell you there is no way to intelligently do a keybord in a rock band type game without it being near if not completly impossible for anyone who doent already read music and play the piano.

well in this case I am glad it is Harmonix job to try to integrate a keyboard and not yours. Because with that attitude nothing would get done. I think if hmx is capable to make Rockband then they are fully capable of making a keyboard that people can enjoy without learning how to play a real keyboard. Just my opinion though.

[princeofcups]

Yeah, I'm certainly not holding my breath either. I'd like to see it make it eventually, but keyboard would require a very large number of keys to be challenging, which might make it inaccessible to beginners (unless they do like guitar and step up the number of buttons based on difficulty). At any rate, I think HMX is gonna do this game right, and it'll be worth renting even if you don't like the Beatles all that much.

You have no basis for any of this. The guitar doesn't have strings for gods sake. Why can't the keyboard be similarly different. It can have any number of keys. I'd expect 10 or 12.

There is no reason to think that they could not make their keyboard charting easy for beginners. Just cut down the number of colors to hit to 4 for easy, and add complexity from there. Two fingers per hand sounds pretty easy to me.

[Sayburr]

1. this means that its possible that we will have to buy all new perperials like new drums and guitars cause nothing works together (look at GH and RB crossover problems)

I really doubt there will be a problem here. Sure, there's RB and GH crossover problems, but that is also two different companies, one of which doesn't want to play nice with the other.

I am pretty sure they will release new controllers with a Beatles slant to them, but the RB1/2 controllers will work also. I would be very surprised if this is not the case.