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Saturday, 13 March 2010

Rock Band DLC

So, I love Rock Band. Like, a lot. I think I've made it clear before, but it is just fact. Although it's kind of irrelevant for me to have a list of all my Rock Band DLC, considering I do not have XBox Live Gold and hence will not be playing online until I do, I just
a) Like making lists
b) Maybe people want to play Rock Band with me? I dunno
So yeah, I'm going to keep this particular post updated with my Rock Band DLC in the future. The more you know!
Most Recent Update: 3/13/10
Along with the entire Rock Band 1 and 2 setlist, I have downloaded;
30 Seconds to Mars
Attack
The Kill
The 88
Sons and Daughters
Against Me!
Stop!
Airbourne
Runnin' Wild*
Alien Ant Farm
Smooth Criminal
All-American Rejects
Dirty Little Secret
Gives You Hell*
Real World
Authority Zero
No Regrets
Avenged Sevenfold
Afterlife
Bang Camaro
Rock Rebellion
Push Push Lady Lightning* [Rock Band Network]
Between the Buried and Me
Prequel to the Sequel
Blink-182
All the Small Things*
Feeling This
Boston
Hitch A Ride*
More Than A Feeling*
Peace of Mind*
Rock and Roll Band*
Smokin'*
Something About You*
Buckcherry
Rescue Me*
The Cab
Bounce
The Chevelles
Get It On
Chiodos
I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was A Wizard
Cocktail Slippers
Give it to Me
Coheed and Cambria
A Favour House Atlantic
Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)
Count Zero
Shake
Dashboard Confessional
Hands Down
Dealership
Database Corrupted
Disturbed
Indestructible*
Inside the Fire*
Endeverafter
I Wanna Be Your Man
Escape the Fate
The Flood
Fall Out Boy
I Don't Care
Foo Fighters
Best of You
DOA
This is a Call
Times Like These
Foreigner
Juke Box Hero*
Freezepop
Get Ready 2 Rokk
Less Talk More Rokk
Sprode
The Fratellis
Flathead*
Ghost Hounds
Ashes to Fire
GLaDOS
Still Alive
Gorillaz
Feel Good Inc.
Hinder
Use Me*
Hollywood Undead
Young
Honest Bob and the Factory-To-Dealer Incentives
Entangled
Iron Maiden
The Trooper*
Jimmy Eat World
Futures
Lucky Denver Mint
Sweetness
The Knack
My Sharona*
Kutless
The Feeling
The Len Price 3
If I Ain't Got You
Lesley Roy
I'm Gone, I'm Going
Lights Resolve
Dreaming of Love
Miranda Cosgrove
Headphones On
Mötley Crüe
Dr. Feelgood*
Kickstart My Heart*
Saints of Los Angeles*
No Doubt
Hey Baby*
Just a Girl
The Offspring
All I Want
Gone Away*
Hammerhead
Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)*
Self Esteem*
Opiate for the Masses
Burn You Down
Panic at the Disco
She's a Handsome Woman
Papa Roach
Last Resort*
Lifeline*
Time is Running Out*
Paramore
Crushcrushcrush
The Police
Can't Stand Losing You*
Message In A Bottle*
Roxanne*
Synchronicity II*
Truth Hits Everybody*
Queen
Killer Queen
Somebody To Love
The Raconteurs
Steady As She Goes
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Snow ((Hey Oh))
Suck My Kiss*
Tell Me Baby
The Kids Aren't Alright*
Under the Bridge*
Rise Against
Prayer of the Refugee*
Savior
Rob Zombie
Dragula
Rush
Closer to the Heart*
YYZ
Semi Precious Weapon
Magnetic Baby
Shaimus
Like a Fool
Spongebob Squarepants
The Best Day Ever
Stephen and the Colberts
Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)
Styx
Renegade*
System of a Down
B.Y.O.B.
Taking Back Sunday
Liar (It Takes One to Know One)
MakeDamnSure
Tenacious D
Tribute
Thenewno2
Crazy Tuesday
Tickle Me Pink
The Time is Wrong
Tokio Hotel
Ready, Set, Go!
Underoath
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Vesuvius
Promised Land
Weezer
My Name is Jonas
The Who
Who Are You*
Wolfmother
Joker & The Thief
Woman
X-Japan
I.V.
[* means that the song belongs to Jason, which means I cannot play it unless his account is signed into my console. Exceptions include Gives You Hell, Prayer of the Refugee, Push Push Lady Lightning and Under the Bridge. The easy way to explain is that Jason downloaded these songs, although on his account, on my console, so the licences for these songs is associated with my console; I'm fairly sure as long as he's logged into XBox Live he can play them on his console regardless.]

Monday, 08 March 2010

Ask Me Questions!

Ok so normally I keep my Hardestlevel posts kept strictly about video games. And I kinda am! For serious!
I made one of those popular Formspring things that everyone is doing or something. And you can ask me questions! They can be about video games! Or life. Or fun things. But in this instance, video games!

Friday, 26 February 2010

Filler: It's Not a Big Deal

Anyone care to hazard a guess at what I, "Achieved," today?
My gamertag says
My Facebook says
XBox.com says
10000 Gamerscore!
I don't really care all that much, but it's kind of a cool milestone. That, and as you may have noticed, I've had very little to write about in this video gaming world of ours. I have nothing new to play. Been playing a lot of Super Smash Bros Brawl [which I may write about in a future time], and actually just went back to play Star Wars: Force Unleashed, partially in anticipation for the sequel, but also because I have an interest in obtaining the DLC missions for the game, upon recieving some form of currency [note; this'll be awhile]. The Force Unleashed is actually where I got my 10000th Gamerscore, about an hour ago!

There are a set of achievements in the game that essentially require you to kill a certain amount of enemies [100/500] with your force powers, and one of the ones I was missing [and the only one worth 5 gamerscore, so I could get exactly 10000] was taking out 100 enemies with Lightning Shield. I had no idea how the Lightning Shield caused damage, so I had to look it up. Apparently, I had to level it up once and fully charge it for it to, "Arc lightning," out from the shield. That's a bit of an innacurate description, since it makes it sound like bolts will shoot from the shield and strike enemies. Which... technically, it does, but instead of a kind of strike action, it more saps the opponents health while you stand around them. It's fantastically cool, although I'm not sure where exactly it would be useful. Keeping up the light saber throws and all that.
So not much happening. Hoping to go to the gym today. How very ungamer of me.

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

I Got Blisters on Me Fingers!

I don't know how often I talk about it [I'm fairly sure it's all the time], but I love Rock Band. What I do not love so much? The Beatles. So the fusion of which may be disastrous. I was fairly certain I was going to hate it to the max.
On expert guitar, the setlist is easy. Like, incredibly so. I'd say I've got a good amount of ability in the game. For the most part I try to 5 star songs on expert, rather than simply clear them. But I'm not leaderboards good; Battery is hard to finish. Hell, it's not like I can even do Pinball Wizard all that well [If the option comes up to, "Replace a song on your set for a song that is difficult on the drums," on Rock Band 2, it is a lie, because it's Pinball Wizard]. Playing through the story on The Beatles: Rock Band, sight reading every track, I 5-starred everything in the game on the first try, with the exception of, "I Feel Fine." Which only required a second attempt to rectify.
It has a certain charm in it's simplicity; I mean, they aren't boring charts. Some of the songs get repetitive, since it uses an almost archaic structure of song [Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, a lot of the time, the notes never variate], but for the most part, they were fun to play. Which makes room to pay attention to it's funky visuals. They still use the style for the characters from the Rock Band character creator, except that it's The Beatles, but that's not what I'm talking about. The venues are replaced by... well, technically I guess they'd still be considered, "Venues," but it's more like the places where the Beatles played more historic shows [I don't know, I'm not a doctor... or a Beatles fan]. The BEST though are the ones where they're just in the studio recording, cause that's when the, "Imaginaaaattioooon Traaaiiin," [what am I, 5?] is going full throttle. Or the drugs are starting to hit you. I'm not entirely sure which. For an example, I present Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With A Little Help From My Friends. I dunno if they, normally, played these songs together, but I love medleys.
Speaking of the character creator, it does not exist. Am I the only one disappointed? I mean, logically it makes sense; you're playing through the Beatles career, it's almost a strange documentary-music genre game [which does not exist], but... but... I love making characters! And I guess my mindset is, they could have let you have a character creator [with a more... clearly of the decade clothesline/hairstyles], inserted your character into the band, and it would have turned out as a bad fan fiction. Like, a really bad fan fiction.
Although I found the setlist itself as very enjoyable, I can safely say that it is horrificly short; there's already a strew of DLC specifically for the title, however I can't imagine wanting to spend money for the DLC if it isn't currently compatible with Rock Band 2 [which is my understanding that it is not] and if, "Hey Jude," isn't on there yet [which I know for certain is not]. For your comparing pleasure, The Beatles: Rock Band has a grand total of 45 songs [I was pretty sure it only had 42, but the Wikipedia page says otherwise. I could just load up my game and check, but would not want to incur the wrath of the WikiGods of destruction]; compared to Rock Bands 58 or, even better, Rock Band 2s 84 songs. Admittedly, Lego Rock Band also only has 45 songs, but it is fully compatible with Rock Band 2.
The Achievements/Trophies on the game are alright. Rather than things like, "Your first gold starred song!" it has specific sets of songs they want you to gold star. A few story ones, play specific songs a certain way [in most cases, correctly], beat the game in 24 hours [lest I remind you, it is awfully short]. One achievement I found fun to get was the, "How Could I Dance with Another?" which was playing the song I Saw Her Standing There on the expert bass at 100%. My thought process exactly: It's bass. This'll be easy. I urge you to think otherwise. The bass parts in the game are pretty fantastic; the real difficulty in the song comes from the back and forth playing in a chart that has essentially no hammer-ons and/or pull-offs.
...I got it on my second try. So maybe it's not all that bad.
I'm going to give getting the achievements that I can get myself a shot, but otherwise, I'm pretty much done with The Beatles: Rock Band. It was fun, but I'm not sure I can really recommend a purchase... a rental or a borrow [yay me!] will pretty much be all you need to. On the other hand, if you are a Beatles fan, or wanting to delve into the world of Rock Band, due to its, in comparison, simplicity, this could be a good title to start with. Next up in the world of Rock Band: Lego Rock Band, and the Rock Band Network. I am excited!

Friday, 05 February 2010

Sonic Team... is This for Serious?

I... I think I love Sonic Team again. And it may be a mutual relationship.
Sonic. The Hedgehog. 4. As in, a direct sequel to Sonic 3 [& Knuckles]. Jordan just told me today about it, as I told him about my lack of faith in the Pokémon fandom, and he returned the favour with a similiar opinion on the Sonic fandom.
Don't get me wrong. My sudden excitement for this game [and I'm actually kind of surprised I'm so excited; child-like wonderment and all that!] doesn't all of a sudden make me forgot that I actually really liked Sonic Unleashed [atleast the XBox 360/PS3 one. I couldn't... play the Wii one] and the DS Sonic Rush series, so it's not that I don't believe a good Sonic game can be made again. But I guess that it's the concept of, not trying to write in a blockbuster script, introduce 30 new characters whom are all disliked, with 15 of those disliked characters returning in the future while the other 15 go forgotten, and a general slowdown of Sonic himself [as they say, Keep it Simple, Stupid]. My exhaggerations make valid points!
I remember being excited about the concept of Megaman 9, using the old sprites and gameplay style to make games easier to make, and hoping that other companies would use the same idea to make sequels to old series of games as well. Well, they didn't quite do that, because it's still super graphically awesome [Sonic 4, I mean], although his running animation is awkward. But it's still coming out on the virtual downloading system of... well, the respective consoles virtual stores [Wiiware, XBox Live Arcade, Playstation Network], and apparently, by rumour, it may be coming out for the iPhone [Does that also include the iPod Touch?] and I think that is fantastically cool.
It's coming out in episodes, which leaves a somewhat bitter taste after all that goosebump-feeling goodness, but I'm not saying it as an entirely negative. I'm also an impatient person.