Posts Tagged ‘dlc

31
Jul

Arcade Summer: XBLA Makes Up For Past Transgressions

By Tyler Miller 1 Comment
Categories: Games and Reviews
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Can you feel it? It’s on the way, people. Two months of seriously awesome games heading to XBLA. 1942, Geometry Wars 2, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Braid, Galaga Legions and Castle Crashers.

We’re already headlong in to this little season of radness, 1942 and Geo-Wars 2 are available for download at relatively low prices. Watch this space for reviews on both titles.

Next up is Braid on Aug 6th, Bionic Commando (w00t!) on the 13th, Aug 20 sees Galaga Legions and the Coup d’État: Castle Crashers on Aug 27th. Some August huh?

30
Jun

Potential My Gripe or My Fave: Rock Band DLC Song Transfers (Updated)

By Russ Crandall 0 Comments
Categories: Games, Music, My Faves and My Gripes
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Update: YESSS! Rock Band 2 was just announced, and that “all the current and future DLC will be compatible with both versions of Rock Band, as well as the same instrument controllers” - so put this in the “my faves” grouping.

I have to hand it to Rock Band-developers Harmonix - they’ve always done right by me. Whereas I feel gypped by the monster that is Activision and Guitar Hero III, Harmonix has always seemed to give us what we want (but sometimes not when we want it). Their DLC songs are cheaper (and usually better than the crappola offered by GHIII), and the full-album DLC idea is just about awesome.

But we’re at a crossroads, folks, and I bet you didn’t even know it. What happens to all my DLC content when Rock Band 2 comes out? I have at least 30 songs downloaded so far, and I’m sure there’ll be more to come. Considering that the average song costs $2, that’s $60 in DLC investment alone. It would be awesome if I can play the songs that I already paid for in Rock Band 2 (maybe even with whatever new features the RB2 will have?). I don’t want to have to pop the old Rock Band back into my Xbox 360 just to play some old songs - I want them to follow me to my new profile. Let me build a DLC library!

26
Jun

My Faves: Top Six (Actually) Classic Albums For Rock Band - Indie 90s Edition

By Russ Crandall 1 Comment
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I, like Tyler, feel that the folks behind Rock Band may not truly understand what a “classic” album is. Judas Priest? No, sir. That being said, I’m here to give them a little free advice, in the form of lists of albums that should become fully-downloadable DLC albums.

The 90s are when things get heated. Everyone’s got an opinion. We’re still feeling the reverberations of this decade, and I can see this list changing over the years. I had a hard time fitting only six albums into one list, so I split them by popular releases and indie titles. This is the indie list. Let the comments flow:

90s! Unite!

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24
Jun

My Faves: Top Six (Actually) Classic Albums For Rock Band - Popular 90s Edition

By Russ Crandall 4 Comments
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I, like Tyler, feel that the folks behind Rock Band may not truly understand what a “classic” album is. Judas Priest? No, sir. That being said, I’m here to give them a little free advice, in the form of lists of albums that should become fully-downloadable DLC albums.

The 90s are when things get heated. Everyone’s got an opinion. We’re still feeling the reverberations of this decade, and I can see this list changing over the years. I had a hard time fitting only six albums into one list, so I split them by popular releases and indie titles. This is the popular list. Let the comments flow:

90s! Unite!

Continue reading ‘My Faves: Top Six (Actually) Classic Albums For Rock Band - Popular 90s Edition’

19
Jun

My Faves: Top Six (Actually) Classic Albums For Rock Band - 80s Edition

By Russ Crandall 1 Comment
Categories: Editorials, Games, Music and My Faves
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I, like Tyler, feel that the folks behind Rock Band may not truly understand what a “classic” album is. Judas Priest? No, sir. That being said, I’m here to give them a little free advice, in the form of lists of albums that should become fully-downloadable DLC albums.

Unlike my 70s list, my 80s list is influenced a little more by the singles that some of these albums produced, and I would be okay with skipping a couple tracks from each of these records. I must also admit that The Pixies’ Doolittle would have made this list if it wasn’t already dropping next week.

Onward, 80s!

Continue reading ‘My Faves: Top Six (Actually) Classic Albums For Rock Band - 80s Edition’

17
Jun

My Faves: Top Six (Actually) Classic Albums For Rock Band - 70s Edition

By Russ Crandall 8 Comments
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I, like Tyler, feel that the folks behind Rock Band may not truly understand what a “classic” album is. Judas Priest? No, sir. That being said, I’m here to give them a little free advice, in the form of lists of albums that should become fully-downloadable DLC albums.

Let’s take a page from the 1970s first, okay?

Continue reading ‘My Faves: Top Six (Actually) Classic Albums For Rock Band - 70s Edition’

13
Jun

Review / My Faves / My Gripes: Rock Band’s Album Selection

By Tyler Miller 7 Comments
Categories: My Faves, My Gripes and Reviews
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When news first hit way back in July 07 at E3 that Rock Band would provide full length albums as DLC, all of our heads were bedazzled with thoughts of getting to play whole LPs like Weezer’s “Blue Album” and Ini Kamoze’s self-titled debut, featuring the record shattering hit “Hot Stepper”.

Sadly, the first album released was Judas Priest’s “Screaming For Vengence”… Not a good start. I think I and every other literate, halfway intelligent non-mouthbreathing person on the Earth collectively sighed and did a slow, Three Stooges-esque face wipe in disbelief. My hopes of playing either classic rock anthems or late 90’s punk/alt/rock were dashed by patent leather and studded bracelets. I hate when people go for the low hanging fruit of track selection that is Heavy Metal. Prime example: KISS. I hate KISS. You know why? Because everyone knows who they are, but no one knows their songs. People think KISS and they think make up and costumes, not classic rock. Name me two KISS songs. “I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night (And Party Every Day)”, and…? What? That’s right, nothing. Because they suck. Now, name me one Judas Priest song. “Breaking the Law”? Good job, you must have watched Beavis and Butthead when you were younger. The same goes for The Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd to a certain extent.

NOTE: Snail Face = Bad

Screaming for Vengeance gets 5/5 Snail Faces

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31
May

Backwards Influence

By Russ Crandall 5 Comments
Categories: Editorials, Games and Music
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Rock Band has a crazy hold on me. I just downloaded The Cars’ debut album (the music album, not the RB album), which was recently made available as a DLC purchase for the game. I actually plan on listening to the album today and seeing how much I like it and if it will warrant a purchase. I know The Cars very casually, and their biggest hit, “Just What I Needed”, I first heard from a Ghoti Hook cover about 10(!) years ago:

It’s really strange that I, a very choosy listener, am actually going to listen to an album because of a video game. What a tangled web we weave.

31
Mar

modernization

By Mark Hill 0 Comments
Categories: Editorials, Games and News
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Ahhh, memories
I just found out that one of the new COD4 maps coming through DLC this week, Chinatown, is actually just kind of a re-skinning of the map Carentan from the Call of Duty 2 multiplayer. I had to watch a video to remember which map Carentan was, you know, because COD2 was so two years ago, and it was a pretty fun one. After watching a video of some Chinatown action, I can totally tell that they are just different flesh on the same skeleton.

I actually think this is really cool. I loved some of the previous COD maps so much, that I wish they could just put them into the new ones. Can you imagine how rad it would be to play in Eder Dam with all the modern weapons? The only thing that would make it perfect would be if you could ride in the vehicles, too. Check out video of this map here, or just wait five days and make your own.

15
Feb

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

By Russ Crandall 2 Comments
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I thought this was a joke at first, until I sadly realized that April Fool’s Day is over a month away.

What I like about Rock Band (among other things) is that they have a whole slew of content in the pipeline for us to download: about 200 songs planned, last I heard. Today, Rock Band’s rival Guitar Hero announced that a new game is scheduled to come out this June. Yeah, and this is on the heels of Guitar Hero III, which came out just this past October 28th. You know, 111 days ago.

My gripe? This new “game”, which features only Aerosmith songs, is not worthy of a new release. The Video Game God created downloadable content (DLC) just for this purpose - howzabout you just release a cool “Aerosmith Pack” that features a bunch of their songs, and the ability to play as some of their members? Should we have to shell out $60 for a whole new disc? Chances are, it’ll come at a “discounted price” of $40, but it’s still a rip-off.

So my hat to you, Rock Band, since you plan on releasing entire albums as DLC, and not clogging up our stores (and confusing all those game-buying parents and grandparents) with unnecessary junk.

18
Nov

Second Chances

By Tyler Miller 1 Comment
Categories: Games
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cornocopia

Thanks Microsoft. Seriously, I appreciate you making Xbox titles available over Xbox live on my 360. I can’t wait until I can play some of the games that I’ve been missing for years. For the time being, I’m pretty much a one console guy. I don’t have the scratch to put up for a PS3 and Wii isn’t winning me over with it’s library just yet. That said, my 360 handles the workload of my gaming needs. Continue reading ‘Second Chances’

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