The Beatles Rock Band

Liathroidi Dana · 17-09-2009 7:32pm

Im guessing this is worth getting then

What would the price be for the game only?

And where abouts can I get a cheapa** microphone stand, cos I really wanna voxtar.

Jerichoholic · 17-09-2009 7:35pm

Game is €55 or thereabouts. Go to a music shop and look for a stand, it doesn't have to be made by harmonix does it?

D4RK ONION · 17-09-2009 7:36pm

HMV or gamestop for the gam eon it's own I'd say, and try your local music shop for a cheap mic stand.

Also came across this.
http://www.buymicstands.com/

Liathroidi Dana · 17-09-2009 7:50pm

Thanks for the quick replies, will check out the local Music Shop.

That MicStands linky had a link for mics for RockBand right on the homepage.. handy!!

calex71 · 17-09-2009 8:29pm

went back to this for a bit earlier , think I need to get my eyes tested

Is it just me or are the charts a little difficult to see clearly ? I find it's no way near as clear as rb2 , especially when you activate overdrive on bass?

ongarite · 18-09-2009 7:59am

calex71 wrote: »

went back to this for a bit earlier , think I need to get my eyes tested

Is it just me or are the charts a little difficult to see clearly ? I find it's no way near as clear as rb2 , especially when you activate overdrive on bass?

Your not the only one. The highway on some songs is nearly the same colour as the frets and especially when beatlemania is activated, the frets just seem to blend in and appear on screen causing me to miss a few notes.

D4RK ONION · 18-09-2009 2:06pm

Increase the contrast on your screen and bring down the colour a bit. That might help... Just a guess.

CAPTIAN CRAZY · 20-09-2009 12:34pm

were i ireland can i buy the full set ? can't wait to get it

omlette · 30-09-2009 10:00am

My sister won "The Beatles Rock Band" for Xbox. It finally arrived yesterday, and as we feared, she won the disc only and no instruments! :mad: Is it possible to buy the Beatles instruments separately and where might offer the best value on these? Or would the old Rockband instruments be much cheaper but do the same job?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

Goodshape · 30-09-2009 10:05am

The old ones will work and will be much cheaper.

Also, the Guitar Hero controls will work for this game too, to the best of my knowledge, and may be cheaper again.

omlette · 30-09-2009 10:31am

Goodshape wrote: »

The old ones will work and will be much cheaper.

Also, the Guitar Hero controls will work for this game too, to the best of my knowledge, and may be cheaper again.

Thanks Goodshape. I just saw "Rockband: Band in a Box" instruments on the Smyths website, on sale for 50euro.

http://www.smyths.ie/Band-in-a-Box-X360-PRICE-REDUCTION-!F00067-prod.aspx?qwSessionID=33306109-389f-4dd2-84be-6d1fd15dec26

Are these Rockband 1 or Rockband 2 instruments? I heard the RB2 instruments are quieter than RB1.

Thanks again for your help!

Greyjoy · 30-09-2009 4:17pm

The "Band in a box" set contains the RB1 instruments, the RB2 instruments haven't made their way over here yet (apart from the Beatles stuff which are based on the RB2 designs).

D4RK ONION · 30-09-2009 10:25pm

That is indeed the RB1 set. They're what most people here are running on I'd say. The drums are loud, either over hit or drop notes, your pedal will not survive more than 3 months, and yet, I still love them. I'm a sucker for pain

calex71 · 30-09-2009 10:50pm

D4RK ONION wrote: »

That is indeed the RB1 set. They're what most people here are running on I'd say. The drums are loud, either over hit or drop notes, your pedal will not survive more than 3 months, and yet, I still love them. I'm a sucker for pain

The snare is the biggest culprit for drops i find, well on mine being the green pad as im lefty, you're right about the pedal , not a patch on the GH:WT one.

D4RK ONION · 30-09-2009 10:55pm

Which is, in itself, not a patch on THE DESTROYER

Yes, you're right, the outside pads are the worst. PROTIP, place your knee under the pad and you get perfect hits everytime. Just extremely incomfy :P

calex71 · 01-10-2009 12:18am

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Which is, in itself, not a patch on THE DESTROYER

Yes, you're right, the outside pads are the worst. PROTIP, place your knee under the pad and you get perfect hits everytime. Just extremely incomfy :P

**** thats kind of awkward if your left handed and right footed or vice versa

D4RK ONION · 01-10-2009 12:27am

Left handed and right footed? That's odd! Also never knew you were a lefty... cool

cedomination · 01-10-2009 3:56pm

I'm left handed but I learnt to play instuments right-handed for handiness.

D4RK ONION · 01-10-2009 4:07pm

interesting... You play real guitar right hand too?

cedomination · 01-10-2009 4:13pm

D4RK ONION wrote: »

interesting... You play real guitar right hand too?

Yeah. I started with the violin when I was 5/6 years old, I never played any instrument left-handed.

Vico1612 · 01-10-2009 4:16pm

I’ve just completed The Beatles: Rock Band, and it’s got to be the most depressing ending ever. John gets shot

, Paul gets divorced :rolleyes:, George gets cancer, and Ringo lives.:pac:

cedomination · 01-10-2009 4:17pm

Use spoiler tags dammit!

Twilightning · 01-10-2009 6:09pm

cedomination wrote: »

Use spoiler tags dammit!

Too late.

D4RK ONION · 01-10-2009 8:40pm

Luckly I read Cedom's message first, so this hasn't been ruined for me whatever it is. Put the tags in now!

calex71 · 02-10-2009 12:34am

cedomination wrote: »

Yeah. I started with the violin when I was 5/6 years old, I never played any instrument left-handed.

Don't play seriously anymore (real guitar) just do a rockband and play along to songs, feel old now:o

But only restrung my guitar in recent years to proper lefty and had do some retraining lol, before that id been playing lefty strung right handed for the same reason, handiness.

/shakes fist at spoilers

D4RK ONION · 20-10-2009 7:09pm

http://www.destructoid.com/the-beatles-rock-band-defeats-guitar-hero-5-152516.phtml

Great news for Harmonix, they thoroughly deserve it.

calex71 · 20-10-2009 10:59pm

To be fair and in a shocking turn of events I played GH5 for a lot longer than the Beatles :eek:

GH5 is solid enough, ok theres the usual issues with them fluffing up the exports and what not, but the challenges they implemented are quite fun and interesting. Got about 50 hours out of it

Beatles is fun but the fact its all one band i think the songs and game got a lot less attention from me than other RB games

D4RK ONION · 20-10-2009 11:07pm

B:RB was always going to be that kind of game though, only true beatles fans were ever going to hang around for too long.

This is an important achievement for Harmonix though, because it sets them with a pretty big install base, and hopefully they can build on that.

Is anyone here going to invest on any B:RB DLC?

calex71 · 20-10-2009 11:19pm

theres plenty of songs id love to play but cant see me parting with points if it's tied to that game

ongarite · 30-10-2009 9:57am

Anyone pick up the Abbey Road DLC?
It was eventually released on PAL PSN yesterday and its pretty pricey for the full album.

You can get the 3 singles for €1.49 each, think that 200 points in MS funny money but the album is €11.25 (1360 MS points)

You can only get the medley by buying the whole album but is it worth that considerable amount of money?

The medley consists of the B-side tracks:
You Never Give Me Your Money
Sun King
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Her Majesty

The Beatles Rock Band

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