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So I have been looking at the track list for Rock Band and GH: world tour trying to figure out wich one I like more right now I think I am leaning to GH but RB has The Whos Pinball Wizard and I love that song. Any one else play music games and looking at one of these?

GHWT track list

311 - “Beautiful Disaster”
30 Seconds To Mars - “The Kill”
Airbourne - “Too Much Too Young”
The Allman Brothers Band - “Ramblin’ Man”
Anouk - “Good God”
The Answer - “Never Too Late”
At The Drive-In - “One Armed Scissor”
Beastie Boys - “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”
Beatsteaks - “Hail to the Freaks”
Billy Idol - “Rebel Yell”
Black Label Society - “Stillborn”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Weapon of Choice”
blink-182 - “Dammit”
Blondie - “One Way or Another”
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - “Hollywood Nights”
Bon Jovi - “Livin’ On A Prayer”
Bullet For My Valentine - “Scream Aim Fire”
Coldplay - “Shiver”
Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Up Around The Bend”
The Cult - “Love Removal Machine”
Dinosaur Jr. - “Feel The Pain”
The Doors - “Love Me Two Times”
Dream Theater - “Pull Me Under”
The Eagles - “Hotel California”
The Enemy - “Aggro”
Filter - “Hey Man, Nice Shot”
Fleetwood Mac - “Go Your Own Way”
Foo Fighters - “Everlong”
The Guess Who - “American Woman”
Hush Puppies - “You’re Gonna Say Yeah!”
Interpol - “Obstacle 1”
Jane’s Addiction - “Mountain Song”
Jimi Hendrix - “Purple Haze (Live)”
Jimi Hendrix - “The Wind Cries Mary”
Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
Joe Satriani - “Satch Boogie”
Kent - “Vinternoll2”
Korn - “Freak On A Leash”
Lacuna Coil - “Our Truth”
Lenny Kravitz - “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
Linkin Park - “What I’ve Done”
The Living End - “Prisoner of Society”
Los Lobos - “La Bamba”
Lost Prophets - “Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)”
Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)”
Mars Volta - “L’Via L’Viaquez”
MC5’s Wayne Kramer - “Kick Out The Jams”
Metallica - “Trapped Under Ice”
Michael Jackson - “Beat It”
Modest Mouse - “Float On”
Motörhead - “Overkill”
Muse - “Assassin”
Negramaro - “Nuvole e Lenzuola”
Nirvana - “About a Girl (Unplugged)”
No Doubt - “Spiderwebs”
NOFX - “Soul Doubt”
Oasis - “Some Might Say”
Ozzy Osbourne - “Crazy Train”
Ozzy Osbourne - “Mr. Crowley”
Paramore - “Misery Business”
Pat Benatar - “Heartbreaker”
R.E.M. - “The One I Love”
Radio Futura - “Escuela De Calor”
Rise Against - “Re-Education Through Labor”
Sex Pistols - “Pretty Vacant”
Silversun Pickups - “Lazy Eye”
Smashing Pumpkins - “Today”
Steely Dan - “Do It Again”
Steve Miller Band - “The Joker”
Sting - “Demolition Man (Live)”
The Stone Roses - “Love Spreads”
Stuck In The Sound - “Toy Boy”
Sublime - “Santeria”
Survivor - “Eye of the Tiger”
System of a Down - “B.Y.O.B.”
Ted Nugent - “Stranglehold”
Ted Nugent’s Original Guitar Duel Recording
Tokio Hotel - “Monsoon”
Tool - “Parabola”
Tool - “Schism”
Tool - “Vicarious”
Trust - “Antisocial”
Van Halen - “Hot For Teacher”
Willie Nelson - “On The Road Again”
Wings - “Band on the Run”
Zakk Wylde’s Original Guitar Duel Recording

RB track list…
1960s

Norman Greenbaum “Spirit in the Sky”
The Who “Pinball Wizard”
1970s
AC/DC “Let There Be Rock”
Allman Brothers “Ramblin’ Man”
Bad Company “Shooting Star”
Blondie “One Way or Another”
Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue”
Cheap Trick “Hello There”
Elvis Costello “Pump It Up”
Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way”
Jethro Tull “Aqualung”
Journey “Anyway You Want It”
Kansas “Carry On Wayward Son”
Rush “The Trees”
Squeeze “Cool for Cats”
Steely Dan “Bodhitsattya”
Steve Miller Band “Rock’n Me”
Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”
The Guess Who “American Woman”
1980s
Billy Idol “White Wedding Pt. I”
Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer”
Devo “Uncontrollable Urge”
Duran Duran “Hungry Like the Wolf”
Jane’s Addiction “Mountain Song”
Joan Jett “Bad Reputation”
Megadeth “Peace Sells”
Metallica “Battery”
Motorhead “Ace of Spades”
Ratt “Round & Round”
Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot”
Survivor “Eye of the Tiger”
The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat”
The Grateful Dead “Alabama Getaway”
The Replacements “Alex Chilton”

1990s
Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know”
Alice in Chains “Man in the Box”
Beastie Boys “So Whatcha Want”
Bikini Kill “Rebel Girl”
Dinosaur Jr. “Feel the Pain”
Foo Fighters “Everlong”
Judas Priest “Painkiller”
L7 “Pretend We’re Dead”
Lit “My Own Worst Enemy”
Lush “De-Luxe”
Mighty Mighty Bosstones “Where’d You Go”
Nirvana “Drain You”
Pearl Jam “Alive”
Presidents of the USA “Lump”
Rage Against the Machine “Testify”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give it Away”
Smashing Pumpkins “Today”
Social Distortion “I Was Wrong”
Soundgarden “Spoonman”
Testament “Souls of Black”
The Muffs “Kids in America”
The Offspring “Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Separated)”
2000s
AFI “Girl’s Gone Grey”
Avenged Sevenfold “Almost Easy”
Beck “E-Pro”
Disturbed “Down with the Sickness”
Dream Theater “Panic Attack”
Guns N’ Roses “Shackler’s Revenge”
Interpol “PDA”
Jimmy Eat World “The Middle”
Lacuna Coil “Our Truth”
Linkin Park “One Step Closer”
Mastodon “Colony of Birchmen”
Modest Mouse “Float On”
Panic at the Disco “Nine in the Afternoon”
Paramore “That’s What You Get”
Rise Against “Give it All”
Silversun Pickups “Lazy Eye”
System of a Down “Chop Suey”
Tenacious D “Master Exploder”
The Donnas “New Kid in School”
Bonus Tracks
Abnormality “Visions”
Anarchy Club “Get Clean”
Bang Camaro “Night Lies”
Breaking Wheel “Shoulder to the Plow”
The Libyans “Neighborhood”
The Main Drag “A Jagged Gorgeous Winter”
Speck “Conventional Lover”
The Sterns “Supreme Girl”
That Handsome Devil “Rob the Prez-O-Dent”

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Itchy wrote:
En Sabah Nur wrote:

This is why I play most of my games on consoles. I hate a great game coming out and have to shell out $200 - $300 additional dollars just to play it.

Fuck that.

I figure it’s time to upgrade anyway. The computer I use at home is not very powerful, so I can’t play most of the games everyone is always talking about. But I’ve been waiting for Fallout 3 since I heard about it last year and it looks way too sick to skip.

Why do you hate consoles so much?

What did an X-box/PS3 ever do to you, huh!?[/quote]

I actually used to despise consoles, because back when we had the PS1, my computer would run laps around it performance-wise.

Once I got onto an Xbox 1, it was great because of the hard drives, media center and all that stuff - and then came the 360 and PS3 which had me sold.

Not having to upgrade everytime a new game comes up is a nice feature. I still think PC’s rock the hell out of MAC’s, though.

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Itchy wrote:
En Sabah Nur wrote:

This is why I play most of my games on consoles. I hate a great game coming out and have to shell out $200 - $300 additional dollars just to play it.

Fuck that.

I figure it’s time to upgrade anyway. The computer I use at home is not very powerful, so I can’t play most of the games everyone is always talking about. But I’ve been waiting for Fallout 3 since I heard about it last year and it looks way too sick to skip.

Why do you hate consoles so much?

What did an X-box/PS3 ever do to you, huh!?

I actually used to despise consoles, because back when we had the PS1, my computer would run laps around it performance-wise.

Once I got onto an Xbox 1, it was great because of the hard drives, media center and all that stuff - and then came the 360 and PS3 which had me sold.

Not having to upgrade everytime a new game comes up is a nice feature. I still think PC’s rock the hell out of MAC’s, though.[/quote]

That makes sense. I can understand how true computer geeks might think the earlier consoles were subpar, but I doubt they can claim that now at all.

Besides, I sort of like having one system that handles my movies, music and games without me having to buy anything extra but the game.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
RSGZ wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Itchy wrote:
En Sabah Nur wrote:

This is why I play most of my games on consoles. I hate a great game coming out and have to shell out $200 - $300 additional dollars just to play it.

Fuck that.

I figure it’s time to upgrade anyway. The computer I use at home is not very powerful, so I can’t play most of the games everyone is always talking about. But I’ve been waiting for Fallout 3 since I heard about it last year and it looks way too sick to skip.

Why do you hate consoles so much?

What did an X-box/PS3 ever do to you, huh!?

I actually used to despise consoles, because back when we had the PS1, my computer would run laps around it performance-wise.

Once I got onto an Xbox 1, it was great because of the hard drives, media center and all that stuff - and then came the 360 and PS3 which had me sold.

Not having to upgrade everytime a new game comes up is a nice feature. I still think PC’s rock the hell out of MAC’s, though.

That makes sense. I can understand how true computer geeks might think the earlier consoles were subpar, but I doubt they can claim that now at all.

Besides, I sort of like having one system that handles my movies, music and games without me having to buy anything extra but the game.[/quote]

I always used to prefer PCs to consoles, but with pretty much needing a new $300 video card if not a completely new system each time a new game comes out, I’ll take a console thank you very much.

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[quote]Himora22 wrote:
So I have been looking at the track list for Rock Band and GH: world tour trying to figure out wich one I like more right now I think I am leaning to GH but RB has The Whos Pinball Wizard and I love that song. Any one else play music games and looking at one of these?

List of tons of songs here…
[/quote]

Yep. I have Guitar Hero II for my 360 and enjoy the hell out of it, even if the songs aren’t originals. I’m decent at the game; can 5-star all medium songs, play most of the hard songs and can’t even hang in expert.

I’m leaning towards getting Rock Band, only b/c I’m used to the timing windows Harmonix used in GH I&II. I tried to play GH: Aerosmith at a friend’s house and missed a ton of notes as I was anticipating the notes too early and trying to get them precise, not knowing you actually have close to a 1/2 second delay.

The Rock Band song list gets my vote for the inclusions of “Battery” and “Ace of Spades”

Only thing that holds me back from buying Rock Band is that I mostly play games alone, so not sure it’s worth it to buy the whole kit. But, I suppose I could do single-player tours on drums and vocals…I might just wait for the original RB to go down a bit more in price, then pick it up.

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Only problem with Guitar Hero and Rockband is that the complete games themselves cost almost as much as the console.

Not for me, thanks.

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:
Only problem with Guitar Hero and Rockband is that the complete games themselves cost almost as much as the console.

Not for me, thanks.[/quote]

That’s a pretty big deterrent for me getting Rock Band. It doesn’t help that it’s a party game. Unless you don’t live alone or have people over all the time, the appeal of Rock Band isn’t as high.

However, I will probably get GH 4 eventually, since I already have GH 3.

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[quote]analog_kid wrote:
Professor X wrote:
RSGZ wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Itchy wrote:
En Sabah Nur wrote:

This is why I play most of my games on consoles. I hate a great game coming out and have to shell out $200 - $300 additional dollars just to play it.

Fuck that.

I figure it’s time to upgrade anyway. The computer I use at home is not very powerful, so I can’t play most of the games everyone is always talking about. But I’ve been waiting for Fallout 3 since I heard about it last year and it looks way too sick to skip.

Why do you hate consoles so much?

What did an X-box/PS3 ever do to you, huh!?

I actually used to despise consoles, because back when we had the PS1, my computer would run laps around it performance-wise.

Once I got onto an Xbox 1, it was great because of the hard drives, media center and all that stuff - and then came the 360 and PS3 which had me sold.

Not having to upgrade everytime a new game comes up is a nice feature. I still think PC’s rock the hell out of MAC’s, though.

That makes sense. I can understand how true computer geeks might think the earlier consoles were subpar, but I doubt they can claim that now at all.

Besides, I sort of like having one system that handles my movies, music and games without me having to buy anything extra but the game.

I always used to prefer PCs to consoles, but with pretty much needing a new $300 video card if not a completely new system each time a new game comes out, I’ll take a console thank you very much.

[/quote]

I also used to prefer PC games. I thought back then that PC games were better and there were a lot more to choose from. These days, it doesn’t seem like there are as many PC games coming out.

Here’s an unusual thing for me. When I was more of PC gamer, I loved FPS games, but I can’t stand playing them on consoles. I just preferred the old mouse/keyboard control combination. I’ve never liked, or have gotten used to, the control of FPS games on consoles. I’d still play FPS games on PC, but those usually require the beefiest systems to get the best performance.

I will say that I think PCs are still better for RTS games, but that’s about the only thing. Everything else I prefer on consoles now.

Then there’s the cost issue. A new video card can cost as much, if not more, than a new console. That’s pretty ridiculous and makes it pretty much impossible to keep your PC up to date with the latest hardware, unless you have unlimited funds.

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God, do any of you remember Crusader: No Remorse and its sequel, Crusader: No Regret?

The former had the better soundtrack but the latter had better controls, graphics and weapons.

I’m also ashamed that I never played Baldur’s Gate.

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[quote]Djwlfpack wrote:
Himora22 wrote:
So I have been looking at the track list for Rock Band and GH: world tour trying to figure out wich one I like more right now I think I am leaning to GH but RB has The Whos Pinball Wizard and I love that song. Any one else play music games and looking at one of these?

List of tons of songs here…

Yep. I have Guitar Hero II for my 360 and enjoy the hell out of it, even if the songs aren’t originals. I’m decent at the game; can 5-star all medium songs, play most of the hard songs and can’t even hang in expert.

I’m leaning towards getting Rock Band, only b/c I’m used to the timing windows Harmonix used in GH I&II. I tried to play GH: Aerosmith at a friend’s house and missed a ton of notes as I was anticipating the notes too early and trying to get them precise, not knowing you actually have close to a 1/2 second delay.

The Rock Band song list gets my vote for the inclusions of “Battery” and “Ace of Spades”

Only thing that holds me back from buying Rock Band is that I mostly play games alone, so not sure it’s worth it to buy the whole kit. But, I suppose I could do single-player tours on drums and vocals…I might just wait for the original RB to go down a bit more in price, then pick it up.[/quote]

I got one just for a cupple of the song but it was so far behind the others that I played it once and never touched it again and It had great songs on it! Ace of Spades, Cowboys from Hell and some others but you wont play it more than once or twice.

3 was a good game but it dose take alittle getting use to but once you do, you really cant tell the difference. It had some really good songs on it but 2 just had better songs.

Now looking at GHWR its has the better older songs on it like Billy Idol - “Rebel Yell”, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - “Hollywood Nights”(great driving song), Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Up Around The Bend”, The Doors - “Love Me Two Times”, The Eagles - “Hotel California”, Filter - “Hey Man, Nice Shot”(not really and old song but one that I love!!), Jimi Hendrix - “Purple Haze (Live)” and “The Wind Cries Mary”…

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? that is what really sells it to me right there.

Then it also has Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)”, Michael Jackson - “Beat It”, Pat Benatar - “Heartbreaker”, Steve Miller Band - “The Joker”, Sublime - “Santeria”(GREAT GD SONG!) and last(not really, not even close) but sure aas hell not least ITS GOT THE NUGE!! Ted mutha fuck’en Nugent!

Then RB2 has some good classics too but its best songs are in the 90’s with the likes of Alice in Chains “Man in the Box”, Pearl Jam “Alive”, RATM “Testify”, Chili Peppers “Give it Away”, then Avenged Sevenfold “Almost Easy”, Disturbed “Down with the Sickness”, and System of a Down “Chop Suey”.

I would really like to play Man in the Box and Alive but I am just a sucker for the classics and GHWT has RB2 beat hands down in that department.

As far as the games cost, you can always buy the instruments separately and if you dont have anyone to play with you can play online =)

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
God, do any of you remember Crusader: No Remorse and its sequel, Crusader: No Regret?

The former had the better soundtrack but the latter had better controls, graphics and weapons.

I’m also ashamed that I never played Baldur’s Gate.[/quote]

O yes I remember them…I dont really remember anything about them b/c it has been SO LONG sense I have played them though. But I do remember them being fun has hell!

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I’ll own up to it. I bought Lego Batman tonight for 360, and I’m damn proud. Those are some fun, careless games to play. Plus I got it for only $40 with my employee discount.

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[quote]Himora22 wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
God, do any of you remember Crusader: No Remorse and its sequel, Crusader: No Regret?

The former had the better soundtrack but the latter had better controls, graphics and weapons.

I’m also ashamed that I never played Baldur’s Gate.

O yes I remember them…I dont really remember anything about them b/c it has been SO LONG sense I have played them though. But I do remember them being fun has hell![/quote]

Memories!

Particularly the intro song with the intro screen up, in the beginning of this clip:

I miss the well-thought out adventure games like Myst, Journeyman Project, etc.

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[quote]SSC wrote:
I’ll own up to it. I bought Lego Batman tonight for 360, and I’m damn proud. Those are some fun, careless games to play. Plus I got it for only $40 with my employee discount.[/quote]

There’s no shame in that. I’ve enjoyed every Lego game I’ve played. They’re really well done.

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Any geeks share my nostalgia for this?

I remember looking up theme songs and just letting them play, kicking back in the sun in my backyard.

That game spawned a generation of controller pad and button combinations. That was one of the “Pongs” of our generation.

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ya know I am waiting for some one to remake Toe Jam & Earl and Earthworm Jim

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Oh man, Earthworm Jim was one of the coolest character ‘ideas’ ever. The whole world, all the enemies and the story line. Just nicely done and entertaining.

They should totally do it for the 360, if not then for the PSP - definitely a killer title for a portable.

Anyone recall Vector Man for the Genesis? Awesome game.

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[quote]analog_kid wrote:
Professor X wrote:
RSGZ wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Itchy wrote:
En Sabah Nur wrote:

This is why I play most of my games on consoles. I hate a great game coming out and have to shell out $200 - $300 additional dollars just to play it.

Fuck that.

I figure it’s time to upgrade anyway. The computer I use at home is not very powerful, so I can’t play most of the games everyone is always talking about. But I’ve been waiting for Fallout 3 since I heard about it last year and it looks way too sick to skip.

Why do you hate consoles so much?

What did an X-box/PS3 ever do to you, huh!?

I actually used to despise consoles, because back when we had the PS1, my computer would run laps around it performance-wise.

Once I got onto an Xbox 1, it was great because of the hard drives, media center and all that stuff - and then came the 360 and PS3 which had me sold.

Not having to upgrade everytime a new game comes up is a nice feature. I still think PC’s rock the hell out of MAC’s, though.

That makes sense. I can understand how true computer geeks might think the earlier consoles were subpar, but I doubt they can claim that now at all.

Besides, I sort of like having one system that handles my movies, music and games without me having to buy anything extra but the game.

I always used to prefer PCs to consoles, but with pretty much needing a new $300 video card if not a completely new system each time a new game comes out, I’ll take a console thank you very much.

[/quote]

Some games are only available on PC or MAC. This is the case with the Fallout games and a lot of other RPG’s. As far as I know, Fallout 3 will only be on a computer platform. I honestly don’t play video games often enough to plop down $600 or whatever obscene price they’re asking for a PS3. I haven’t even bought a new game in about a year–the last one was God of War II. But I 'm a big fan of Fallout, which is the only reason I might spend a couple hundred on upgrading my PC.

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Backlash79 wrote:
I thought Too Human was pretty decent overall. There were some glaring weakness in the game though and it seemed to have been hit by the “rush at the last second to get the game done” that a lot of games seem to be suffering from lately.

The story was semi-weak I was expecting more, the gameplay I found fun, once I learned the controls a little better. Sometimes the gameplay just got irritating as heck when dying a LOT because you’re surrounded by a mob as well as getting shot at from ranged attacks.

That got irritating. The boss fights seemed fairly easy compared to some of the regular fights in the game.

That was ultimately why I got frustrated with the game and took it back. You’re trying to fight off a mob that has you surrounded, yet you’re somehow also taking damage from ranged attacks that doesn’t seem to affect the mob surrounding you.

When you’d resurrect, it would take WAY too long and you couldn’t skip past the animation (dumb). Plus, sometimes they’d respawn you right in the middle of the mob that just killed you, so you were almost certain to die again at the same exact spot.[/quote]

I’m curious to play it online but currently no Xbox Live. If my son wasn’t still playing it I’d probably take it back to get some store credit for Fable 2 though.

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Anyone read the Star Wars: Legacy comic books? I just finished the first 2 TPB’s now really want to know what happens in the 3rd.