RB3 General Discussion!

Jerichoholic · 04-11-2010 2:44pm

calex71 wrote: »

Aye I only knew that one from back to the future, was the 1st song I did when i got it

If only I could stick Summer of 69' from Lego onto the playlist I'd be real happy.

Jerichoholic · 04-11-2010 3:12pm

How is the character creator by the way? I wan't to make a decent Bruce Springsteen to front my band.

calex71 · 04-11-2010 3:32pm

Jerichoholic wrote: »

If only I could stick Summer of 69' from Lego onto the playlist I'd be real happy.

You can import lego into rock rand 3

Jerichoholic · 04-11-2010 3:35pm

Not without a code

calex71 · 04-11-2010 10:38pm

pmass4 wrote: »

I'm so happy My cymbals for Pro-Drums just got delivered there just home for lunch too. Can't wait to play it later on now and I'm probably going to get the keyboard today. Anyone know if it sin stock for PS3 now?

Thanks

How are they ???????? Do they let you use a 2nd pedal for high hat?

Anyone else have the game lock up and freeze on them ? Happened to me a few times this week, usually during a cutscene between songs. Wish I could turn those off now sick of seeing them every time.

D4RK ONION · 04-11-2010 10:55pm

Calex, no lock ups, have had some problems with the "player shell" though. I'll get stuck on that even when the bar goes down, so I can't use the menu and have to drop to dashboard.

calex71 · 04-11-2010 11:30pm

Hmm only happened to me once that, when i was swapping from guitar to drums.

I've been working on the goals trying to get from the gold record to the platinum star. Completing a goal barely makes a dent in the progress bar. I have 260mil fan's I reckon you will need to do all the goals to get platinum, that is some bloody effort.

Checked my progress on the HO-PO achievement. 9000. Only 45000 more to go

calex71 · 05-11-2010 2:35am

You can now link you account on RB www to RB3 for that 6gs and get the well connected cheevo

D4RK ONION · 05-11-2010 3:07am

No thanks! That 4g fixed my gamerscore, I'm never connecting it!

tman · 05-11-2010 8:49am

D4RK ONION wrote: »

No thanks! That 4g fixed my gamerscore, I'm never connecting it!

Haha, same here!:p
Haven't had any freezing at all, or any issues whatsoever apart from that low frame rate/strobe effect or whatever it is

One complaint is that it's a pain in the arse to modify the look of other band members - My own character looks totally ****ing awesome (hungry like the wolf helmet and a cape!:p), but the presets are getting boring and I don't really want to go through creating a totally new character for each

ongarite · 05-11-2010 9:04am

calex71 wrote: »

I've been working on the goals trying to get from the gold record to the platinum star. Completing a goal barely makes a dent in the progress bar. I have 260mil fan's I reckon you will need to do all the goals to get platinum, that is some bloody effort.

Without Pro-Guitar you can't get the platinum rank. Basically you are already at the best you can get.
You are at Rock Legend rank, you need to 5 star every song on Expert Pro-Guitar to reach the top rank supposedly.

Just finished 5-star every song on Hard guitar (last song took ages to get, Anthrax one), reckon I'll give Bass expert a shot next and gradually work my way to 5-star expert guitar.

Jerichoholic · 05-11-2010 1:53pm

My guitars are both a little worse for wear, I can't enjoy the game as much as I could be. How much are cheap guitars going for? I know I saw a few Van Halen ones gathering dust in a gamestop a while back.

Burning Eclipse · 05-11-2010 3:30pm

calex71 wrote: »

You can now link you account on RB www to RB3 for that 6gs and get the well connected cheevo

Done!

I'm also stalking you on rockband.com now... I mean following, yes, that's it!

Anyone else on there?

ongarite · 05-11-2010 4:11pm

My stats:
http://www.rockband.com/users/navanman_gaf

calex71 · 05-11-2010 6:07pm

Jerichoholic wrote: »

My guitars are both a little worse for wear, I can't enjoy the game as much as I could be. How much are cheap guitars going for? I know I saw a few Van Halen ones gathering dust in a gamestop a while back.

I hear smiths were selling off the new guitar hero bundle for around 60 (guitar and game) game was ok for a few days then I lost interest but the guitar is a 1st rate performer and thats some praise coming from me as I always favored Rock Band ones. I got €30 for the game by the way when I traded it in gamestop for fable 3

xbox-360-guitar-hero-warriors-of-rock-guitar-bundle-me5030917087776.jpg

There is also a new rockband blue wireless strat coming out soon , I saw it on amazon for around 60 pounds looks very nice but could be for PS3

Jerichoholic · 05-11-2010 6:13pm

Saw one for 15, so I'll get that tomorrow...maybe. Having no joy with this game at all. Both guitars I own are busted, notes not recognised, dodgy strumbars. I just tried out my drum kit there and OF COURSE the yellow cymbal is as dodgy as hell. I nearly broke the whole damn set throwing it in the corner. I think it's destined to piss me off.

Banjo Fella · 05-11-2010 8:02pm

calex71 wrote: »

Anyone else have the game lock up and freeze on them ? Happened to me a few times this week, usually during a cutscene between songs.

Yep, I'm having the same problem. It's particularly bad tonight, it's frozen on me three times in the space of an hour. Rock Band Central also seems to be down/extremely slow, probably because of account linking... maybe they're somehow related?

Jerichoholic · 05-11-2010 9:22pm

I'm sorted now, callibration was false. Did it with the drums and now my guitar is perfect. It has to be, got a 100% on expert. Now I love this game. The challenges are such a fantastic addition.

Also if anyone has a Lego Rock Band Export Code (360) that they aren't going to use, I would be very grateful if you could pass it on to me.

ongarite · 06-11-2010 11:48am

The Rock Band guitar stand is available in HMV for €30; holds 3 guitars in tripod stand.
The Keyboard stand is available in GAME for €30 also.

calex71 · 06-11-2010 2:35pm

been looking for one of them, my guitars keep falling over as I've been leaving them against the drums,

Nockz · 06-11-2010 11:04pm

Picked up the game today and I am loving it. I had to clear up a lot of memory and will do the exprt shortly.

Quick question: I made a UK silver account to get RBN songs. When I try to redeem my code for 2100 points it asks for all sorts of billing info and what not. I should be ok for this sort of stuff right? And what postal code will the system accept?

calex71 · 06-11-2010 11:46pm

Nockz wrote: »

Picked up the game today and I am loving it. I had to clear up a lot of memory and will do the exprt shortly.

Quick question: I made a UK silver account to get RBN songs. When I try to redeem my code for 2100 points it asks for all sorts of billing info and what not. I should be ok for this sort of stuff right? And what postal code will the system accept?

hey nockz , welcome welcome to the forum

If i remember correctly I just googled a business address and used that, post code and phone number are the key ones I think.

Try using this if it will allow and you have problems using a googled one (same as I used)
Address 1 = Stoney Lane
City = London
Post code = NW1 8TQ
Phone = 0044862438528

Nockz · 06-11-2010 11:53pm

calex71 wrote: »

hey nockz , welcome welcome to the forum

If i remember correctly I just googled a business address and used that, post code and phone number are the key ones I think.

Try using this if it will allow and you have problems using a googled one (same as I used)
Address 1 = Stoney Lane
City = London
Post code = NW1 8TQ
Phone = 0044862438528

Haha brilliant idea.

I am just using the gmail equivalent of my hotmail address but there are no obvious downsides to this right? I just want my RBN stuff

Exporting the RB2 songs with the UK account will still allow my Irish tags to use the content right?

Really gotta get me and my bro active here. We play too much Halo and not enough RB.

calex71 · 06-11-2010 11:57pm

I prefer to keep as much as possible to my irish account like the export and the UK account just for RBN but it's not like you can split a points card to do that.

It will work as long as that profile is on your xbox and the content will be available to all other profiles then.

Nockz · 07-11-2010 12:09am

calex71 wrote: »

I prefer to keep as much as possible to my irish account like the export and the UK account just for RBN but it's not like you can split a points card to do that.

It will work as long as that profile is on your xbox and the content will be available to all other profiles then.

Cheers, I would keep it to one account but the points splitting is an issue.

Klutz is me. I had redeemed the RB2 on my irish account, but I hadn't the points to use it. So I put points on my UK tag and now I have a UK tag with 2100 points that can't redeem the code :cool: Ah sure, looks like I will have a lot of points to spend on the RBN and various Halo DLC when they come out.

calex71 · 07-11-2010 12:15am

Nockz wrote: »

Cheers, I would keep it to one account but the points splitting is an issue.

Klutz is me. I had redeemed the RB2 on my irish account, but I hadn't the points to use it. So I put points on my UK tag and now I have a UK tag with 2100 points that can't redeem the code :cool: Ah sure, looks like I will have a lot of points to spend on the RBN and various Halo DLC when they come out.

If i remember I saw an option in RB3 to redeem an already used code? Worth a shot. Not sure what that was for at all but the option was there in RB3 when i was exporting RB2.

Banjo Fella · 07-11-2010 2:56am

How do you create a UK Live account, actually? I tried it earlier but couldn't figure out how/when you're supposed to enter your location.

D4RK ONION · 07-11-2010 3:36am

I think it comes up when you're making a new account? Well you have to make the profile on your xbox and then "sign up" to xbox box live silver afterwards by signing into that profile and clicking one of the 100s of ads to sign up all over the place

calex71 · 07-11-2010 10:44am

do it through xbox.com it's quicker. Just have a new gmail address ready to go 1st and have it tied to a windows live account (msn messenger) and make sure that you tell it that you are in the UK at each step.

tman · 07-11-2010 12:54pm

calex71 wrote: »

do it through xbox.com it's quicker. Just have a new gmail address ready to go 1st and have it tied to a windows live account (msn messenger) and make sure that you tell it that you are in the UK at each step.

You don't even need a new email address if you use gmail
You should be able to use either yourname@gmail.com or yourname@googlemail.com

Adam · 07-11-2010 6:41pm

any word on the mustang lads? i inquired in gamestop in letterkenny over the weekend and they told me it was pulled altogether, which i assume is bull?

sniper_samurai · 07-11-2010 9:55pm

Adam wrote: »

any word on the mustang lads? i inquired in gamestop in letterkenny over the weekend and they told me it was pulled altogether, which i assume is bull?

HMV have it up on their website now at full £125 retail price and have a release date for it of tomorrow. They will courier it here for £2.50(well they did with my prestige MW2), and if you have a HMV student card you'll get 10% off. Since its on their website you should also be able to order one in store.

If you have someone just over the border that you can get it shipped to, Zavvi and The Hut are selling it for £100 and are showing it as being in stock.

Zapp Brannigan · 07-11-2010 10:35pm

So how hard is the keyboard? Had a quick bash of the training and my stupid bass playing hands just can't seem to manage.

Gonna have to practise a lot!

calex71 · 07-11-2010 10:59pm

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

So how hard is the keyboard? Had a quick bash of the training and my stupid bass playing hands just can't seem to manage.

Gonna have to practise a lot!

Well for me zapp it's been a long time since I was so Sh!te at a rhythm game, talk about getting taken back to school. Almost rage inducing :mad:

It's the black keys. I need to play every song twice in a row to do well, 1st one as a practice run to learn the hand positions and the 2nd a scoring run.

There really is no help in the game regards technique. eg do I use my thumbs or not? Found when I did the notes in the chords were not hitting all the notes at the same time.

Also it has no tolerance for being sloppy, I find when I am playing regular keys im accidentally bumping keys left or right of the ones im hitting breaking my combo streak. Then there's the do I use my left or right hand or two hands

On the plus side it's forgiving when it comes to failing out, you can recover from losing your hand position but you can't take all day to look down correct and look back up

johnny_ultimate · 07-11-2010 11:07pm

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

So how hard is the keyboard? Had a quick bash of the training and my stupid bass playing hands just can't seem to manage.

Gonna have to practise a lot!

It's a step up from anything else for sure. As calex said, it is hand positioning and black keys that really get you on higher settings. Just never quite sure where my hands are and where they should be. I'm getting better though, slowly but surely: medium isn't a hassle anymore, and a handful of hard songs are passable. Just practice really, and lots of it necessary. I find myself playing the same songs again and again just to get comfortable with the shifts and changes. I'm good enough when the note chart doesn't shift. Three note chords though, now there's something that gets me every single time :pac:

Picked up Lego RB yesterday and disgusted to find that they had run out of 'tokens'. Had a quick whirl of the game and that's one hell of a setlist, didn't realise how good it actually was. Some bland family friendly stuff on there, but also lots and lots of win!

Nockz · 07-11-2010 11:22pm

I had a go of keys for the first time last week. Went expert pro for the lolz on Free Bird and I was digging it after a while. Found it way easier to use one hand for the organ cords and two hands for piano progressions. My biggest issue was navigating where my hand should be. Why is there a single orange key???

robinph · 08-11-2010 1:23pm

Picked up RB3 at the weekend and the keyboard, think I prefer this way of playing the tunes, and my fingers don't seem to be suffering quite as much as they do after my attempts at playing the guitar. As I was walking out of the shopping centre I noticed that HMV were flogging off the original RB drums kit for £10, so I got that as well seeing as I now have a bit more space for such things where I'm living.

Now I have to learn how to hit stuff too.

Nockz wrote: »

Why is there a single orange key???

Because that is the next C.

pmass4 · 08-11-2010 3:19pm

How are ya' Lads,

Any updates on the keyboards for PS3 yet? I really want to play it!

Thanks.

Zeouterlimits · 08-11-2010 7:01pm

Completely out of the UK Top 40, yeesh.
Tis a great game, shame.

Zapp Brannigan · 08-11-2010 8:23pm

Bought 4200 points today, should I set up a new UK account for RBN songs? Are there even good ones on it?

Pedro Monscooch · 08-11-2010 9:52pm

Here's the list of RBN songs available.

I'm only spending 800 points there for now: Flight Of The Conchords, Band Of Horses, Rodrigo y Gabriela and a few novelty ones.

johnny_ultimate · 08-11-2010 10:03pm

Yeah the RBN will probably only have a handful of songs for most tastes. Once I got my Hold Steady / Sleater-Kinney songs, I struggled to spend my last 160 points! Flight of the Conchords it was!

They are, however, extremely handy for the spotlight based road challenges

Zapp Brannigan · 08-11-2010 10:10pm

Bang Camaro 'Push Push' and Stan Bush 'The Touch' are almost worth it alone!

Overall RB needs some more Rush and a lot of power metal! I wanna be playing some Edguy or Kamelot songs!

Oh, is it wrong I want to buy Cartman singing that Lady GaGa song?

Konata · 08-11-2010 11:02pm

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

Oh, is it wrong I want to buy Cartman singing that Lady GaGa song?

Isn't that free? I got it for free anyway. And it's awesome

Nockz · 09-11-2010 12:41am

Pedro Monscooch wrote: »

Here's the list of RBN songs available.

I'm only spending 800 points there for now: Flight Of The Conchords, Band Of Horses, Rodrigo y Gabriela and a few novelty ones.

Splurged on Business Time and Buster Voodoo. Soooo good. I am already getting to terms with Gabriela's bits... PARTS.... GUITAR SECTIONS!!!!

calex71 · 09-11-2010 1:15am

Got this one from RBN today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otsMXq-1xQw

Gomez - How We Operate is good aswell, and so is the flogging molly track. I also recommend A day to remember - I'm Made of wax larry

This is a much better site for the releases and regular dlc http://dlcquickplay.com/dlc.php?sub=2&pro= as it has videos of the charts.

pmass4 · 09-11-2010 2:41pm

Does anyone have updates on PS3 keyboards?

I want to play it so bad!

calex71 · 09-11-2010 3:55pm

pmass4 wrote: »

Does anyone have updates on PS3 keyboards? I want to play it so bad!

Few complaining also on the RB forum from the UK also, the rep from Madcatz there skirted the issue by saying they could be ordered from the madcatz site.

pmass4 · 10-11-2010 1:17am

Post #150!

Sorry... Had to do it.

D4RK ONION · 10-11-2010 1:40am

I am rather tempted to delete some random post of mine in here and take it, but I'm just not bothered :P

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