I mean, if you really have to scrimp, yes, you can make do with a used guitar. I’d ask the people to test it to make sure all the frets work, first. Make sure it’s a Rock Band 2 guitar. (Once again, just don’t get nervous, just relax, and ask for their help. If you want them to teach you, they probably will, nothing gamestop employees like more than showing off. As long as they’re not horribly busy.
Protip: Go get that guitar now, before The Beatles comes out. All the good ones will vanish in seconds if you wait.
Oh. So I got to play the demo, wandered past Best Buy. Playing Here Comes The Sun is even better than watching the video. It’s like being inside a sunny day. This may have something to do with where I used to groove when I was a kid, and listening to the album, but… it works.
Okay, over in the WoW thread, whenever I have a question which is blindingly obvious to everyone else, but because of my dementia, escapes me, I entitle my posts with the above line to let you know you may need to explain something in a little more detail. Is it okay to do that here, too?
From what I understand, y’all want me to buy the used version of Rock Band II (which comes in that long rectangular box, right?) and then just buy The Beatles set on its own?
Here’s what I thought:
I have the XBox 360 Pro
I buy a used guitar
I buy the discs and shove 'em into the drive and just start playing.
I think the others were assuming you’d want to play drums, too, since you’ve drummed before? And maybe you’d want to sing along with the boys from Liverpool? So if you got the on-sale-now-for-$99 boxed set of Rock Band 2 for XBox 360 (double-check the box to be sure), you’d get a guitar, drum set, microphone, plus the Rock Band 2 game disc which you might not really use. (And this way, you’d know the instruments would work with The Beatles: Rock Band.)
The $99 for all the Rock Band 2 instruments is cheaper than you’d pay for the special look-alike Beatles instruments if you got the big boxed set of The Beatles: Rock Band. So then you’d just shell out the cash for the game disc of TB:RB, use the instruments you bought on sale, and play away.
But you could pick up an instrument separately if you didn’t want all the instruments - they’re just saying that the boxed set deal for RB2 is a really good price.
And the boxed set is not used. (Used drums are unreliable.)
Ferret Herder is correct. We are giving you an array of options. The minimum here is picking up The Beatles and a used guitar. But, since you’re a drummer, I figured maybe you would like a little more.
You can also start off with the used guitar and The Beatles and pick up the Rock Band 2 box set later.
You can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind…
If you decide to go get the used guitar and game only… go get the guitar now, before everybody and their brother does. You want either the Black Rock Band 2 X-Box 360 Stratocaster, or the Sunburst Rock Band 2 X-Box 360 Stratocaster.
Yeah, I’ve always been a better drummer than a guitarist, and I still do have my Pearls (and god yeah, I miss playing them, but there’s no room to set them up!), but because the last time I tried to form a band, the guys and gals in it were more interested in drinking beer at practices and not practicing at home, I picked up the guitar and started taking voice lessons, so although I may eventually GO that route (and you say the used drums suck, so why should I?), right now, I’ll just be happy to play guitar/bass with The Fabs.
Between The Beatles Rock Band and WoW, my wife may actually have grounds for divorce!
Respectfully, no.
OK, yes, there is an option to play lefty, with any guitar. You just put the neck on the other side, the buttons on the screen flip, all’s well, right ? In the immortal words of Kevin Spacey, WROOOOONG.
See, the RB guitar is a copy of the Stratocaster. Notice those two protrusions at the base of the neck ? Notice one is longer and wider than the other ? Well guess what : the solo buttons (those smaller ones that are meant to make noodly solos easier because you don’t need to strum, only fingertap) are right there. A lefty’s hand is sandwiched between the neck and the big protrusion, making it difficult to position the wrist correctly/comfortably.
And that sucks, because Og knows there are a lot of noodly solos out there, and strumming them is a diseased bitch
Hmmmm. Let me see if I can “paint you a picture” of my lovely wife, ** DoR**:
First of all, she’s my complete opposite. Very sweet, very loving and very VERY proper.
She doesn’t like to be in the room with me when I’m playing my WoW warriors, and once even came up with a bowl of hot water and soap, after a particularly loud, cursing session that would have made a sailor blush.
I’m lucky just to get to play my games. Her joining me is NOT an option! :D:D:D
They are and they aren’t. They’re the ones that are going on the disc that the game comes on, but they’re selling the others - initially as albums. They’ve already announced and priced the first three, as well as “All You Need Is Love”, and have indicated that the intention is to see the entire catalogue released.
With that said, the Rock Band guys have been pretty good about not mapping non-guitar/bass lines to the controllers just so that there’s something to do, and if they stick to that practice there may be a number of songs that are pretty dull to play or are drum-and-vocal only.
Not meaning to hijack here, BigNik (or anyone in the thread), but outside of making it seem like the Fab Four are standing in your living room giving you a private concert (if they’re even THAT well-engineered/produced), why the big deal about the re-masters?
I know the early tracks had that “mono-limitation” where you heard the second channel almost as a faint “echo”, but I’m used to that, and it always was just a part of The Beatles’ recordings.
So now I have to buy “Meet The Beatles” and a few of the others (or is it ALL of them?) all over again?
Okay. I’ve been a Doper long enough to know I just asked what is known as a “loaded” question so let me “have it!”
Y’all know me well enough to know I have a very open mind (VERY open, as a matter of fact - when the wind blows hard enough, I think I hear flutes! :)) these days, so don’t be afraid of hurting my feelings and even changing my mind!
If you’re talking about CD remasters, I’ve got no idea.
But the Rock Band production required remastering from first principles - essentially they had to construct seven tracks (lead, bass-or-rhythm, drum, three vocal lines and another track for everything else) regardless of how many tracks the original had. There’s all sorts of technical mumbo-jumbo that Harmonix has gone into about how they did it, but they needed those seven separate lines for the game (whichever lines are being played come to the fore, and if you start dropping notes so does your line).
My takeaway from it was:
they had to remaster
in most cases they got to do it from the original tapes
