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| MiddleOfNowhereGaming.com |
I woke up Thursday morning, and before I even looked outside to see how much snow had piled up outside, I checked my phone.
I didn't care about the snow after that.
Rock Band 4 is real, and better yet, it's coming out this year.
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| <o> \o/ YES! <o> \o/ YES! <o> \o/ YES! (ThreeManBooth.com) |
The announcement of a new game for PS4 and Xbox One might not have been all that surprising. The survey that was released online back in January was enough to guess that Harmonix was doing something with the series, and reports that the developer was indeed working on a new Rock Band game followed pretty soon after.
But man am I hyped that it's official now.
Why? Because to this day, the Rock Band games have been some of the more unique ones I've ever played, and ones that hold up well against the test of time.
The concept of using plastic instruments to play along to the rhythm of a song -- with a selection from a music library that has grown to over 4,000 songs since the original Rock Band released in 2007 -- is a simple one, yet it's insanely fun because of its easy to learn, hard to master nature. The good times only get better once you get a group of friends to fill out the whole band.
It doesn't take long to get a grasp over Rock Band's controls on guitar or drums, but it does take plenty of practice and patience to be able to shred through any song on the expert difficulty.
Granted, some songs were more soul-crushing on expert than others, and now that I think of it, if I put even half the time I spent playing these games into learning a real instrument, I'd probably be a way cooler person. But I digress.
The point is, I'm glad Rock Band is coming back, and coming back very soon at that. Music games hit a decline, and almost completely disappeared, at the start of the new decade. But Harmonix still created a well received franchise, and one that helped define the last generation of consoles.
Past Rock Band games were published by EA and MTV. However, Harmonix is developing Rock Band 4 independently, allowing themselves to make the game they want to make without any outside interference.
There hasn't been any glimpse of gameplay for Rock Band 4 yet, or any hints to what the on-disc setlist will be. The only definites right now are a 2015 release date, that all previously purchased songs will transfer over from Xbox 360 to Xbox One and PS3 to PS4, respectively, that there will be new instruments, and, with luck, your old instruments will still work so you don't have to pay another $200.
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| Although I do like the red (IGN.com) |
But the fact that this console generation will have a Rock Band is enough to sell me on the game. Even though I'll probably have to buy the new instruments and re-buy all my downloaded songs.
No Wii U version got announced, and I bought the instruments and the games for the original Nintendo Wii...
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If you're still here, thanks for reading the article! I really appreciate that!
Back at the beginning of February I wrote up a post explaining why The Beatles: Rock Band is my favorite game in the Rock Band series, as well one of my favorite games of all-time. But I also talked about what I felt the game could have done better, and what a Beatles: Rock Band 2 would be like should Harmonix ever take another stab at the idea.
Back at the beginning of February I wrote up a post explaining why The Beatles: Rock Band is my favorite game in the Rock Band series, as well one of my favorite games of all-time. But I also talked about what I felt the game could have done better, and what a Beatles: Rock Band 2 would be like should Harmonix ever take another stab at the idea.
It's a bit long, but click here to go ahead and give it a read if you have a few minutes.
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