The Rock Band Drum "In-between Sock Mod"
Here's a little guide I wrote for a Rock Band drum mod (based off of another mod). It's working great for me, but I'd love to get more feedback on it. If you try it, let me know how it works!
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The Rock Band Drum "In-between Sock Mod" (guide now up)
Friday, April 25th, 2008Review: "Rock Band" Part 2: Bullet points!
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Review: "Rock Band" Part 1: hardware, difficulty, modes
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Note: we have it for the Xbox 360. Each person needs to be signed into an Xbox profile (it can be the same one). Some things may be a bit different on PS3.
I started writing this review right after getting the game, two months ago, and have since added to it. There is so much more to say about the game, though, that I have left some things out to talk about later. I have broken it into two parts, and apologize for the unorganized format. It's not so much a review as it is a discussion.
Quick Summary: Rock Band is Guitar Hero/Drum Hero/Karaoke Revolution combined. Made by Harmonix, the creators of Guitar Hero, it's the ultimate party music game.
AN-I-MAL!!
Friday, December 28th, 2007I finally beat the last Expert drum song. I would have done it much sooner, but the final song, "Won't Get Fooled Again," has tons of bass notes towards the end (plus we've been playing TONS of BWT mode). If I had a real bass pedal, it wouldn't have been a problem at all, but the crappy plastic pedal just wears your leg out so quickly. The song itself really isn't very hard…which is true for most of the songs. Other songs I had some trouble on:
Dead on Arrival:
This was the first song I failed on. Maybe it's because I really didn't know this song at all, but it also has a weird pattern that's pretty fast. I got it on my third or fourth try, scraping by with overdrive.
Foreplay/Long Time:
This song is fun, but the beginning is pretty tough, mostly because of the lack of rebound on the drum pads (haven't modded yet). There's a fast "L L R" pattern you need to do, but after that the song is easy.
Next to You:
I forget if I actually failed this song, but it's definitely hard. Very fast, lots of bass.
Run to the Hills:
Very fast rolls, not very complicated though. The problem was that the pads weren't registering all the hits, so I failed a few times. On my next try I played really lightly, which helped tremendously, and I passed it. It must have been pretty funny to watch.
In other news, we just got a whole bunch of DLC, including the Metallica pack. I'll have to see if I can get through Blackened, as that has tons of notes close together. Hyperspeed, please!
Rock Band Drums: Score Duel TIE! Same 1 note miss! (screenshot)
Saturday, December 8th, 2007I have a free month of Xbox Live Gold because I just signed up, so I figured I might as well try to get the online achievements while I can. I'm not really an online gamer for the most part, but it was fun. I was trying to get the "five-in-a-row wins" achievement.
I kept running into the same few people online — because it was late, or not many people play on Hard*, or everyone's playing Guitar.
* I would play Expert, but the songs are random, and I can't stand playing "Don't Fear the Reaper" with its ten billion bass notes in a row.
After playing Shoombabi I think two times, we played again and got "Should I Stay or Should I Go." This was the final result:
TIE! We both missed the SAME SINGLE NOTE! It wasn't even an off-beat note or anything! It was almost at the very end of the song (the 986th note, not sure how many there are total). I know I hit it, and he said he hit it too, so what's up? Either both our drums happened to glitch on us at the same time, or the game glitched. Crazy. Who else has gotten a tie (not counting 100% ties)?
Oh, and I did eventually get the achievement. :)
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Update: Regarding the probability of this happening (if it wasn't just a glitch):
Assuming there are exactly 1000 notes total, for the sake of simplicity, there's a 1/1000 chance of randomly selecting a "chosen" note. But we BOTH missed the same note, which would be:
1/1000 * 1/1000 = 1 in 1,000,000!
Correction by WildBillKickoff:
Actually, the chances of missing the same note in a scenario like that would be 1 in 1000, assuming you both intentionally missed one random note. You can't count the first 1 in 1000. It's one in a million that you would both miss that one exact note.
However, that probability is only if we CHOSE to only miss one note! But we didn't, we *accidentally* each missed only one note, and it was the same note. We could have missed more notes. So there's the probability that we each missed one note only, and the probability that it was the same note, and the probability that we were playing against each other when it happened, and…. [insert head spinning emoticon]
Anyway, the point is, it was very unlikely!
Rock Band: Two #1 (in the WORLD*!) Expert drum scores, leaderboards question, Rock Band vs. Drummania.
Monday, December 3rd, 2007That's right, I have two of the HIGHEST ROCK BAND DRUM SCORES in the WORLD*!
Okay, this isn't nearly as impressive as it sounds, but I've gotta milk this for all it's worth, since this'll surely last a whole…hour? (day? week?) Actually the first one is pretty good, five gold stars:
It's time to ROCK! How we got Rock Band, and what's to come.
Saturday, December 1st, 2007I've been crazy excited about Rock Band ever since it was announced. Even after hearing about how tons of people's guitars/drums were breaking after a few hours, I just had to get it; largely because relatives were over for the holidays, and I wanted to play it with them.
I finally got a chance to get it (on Black Friday, ugh), even though I was about to go to sleep. We ran over to Target (close by, and I called first to make sure they had it), came back, and played for four or five hours straight. After everyone left, I played a bit of the solo tour for another hour, then went to sleep. Six hours later, I heard my roommates getting home, so I jumped out of bed, ran downstairs, and we played for another five hours. It was a strange couple of days. We don't have any Guitar Hero guitars for the 360 yet, so we only played with three people (me on drums, and my roommates switching mic/guitar).
Now we've "completed" the Band World Tour (BWT) mode, and some questions I had are answered, so I'm going to be posting a lot about it soon. I have been writing a huge review, but decided to break it up into multiple posts instead.
There's a new category specifically for Rock Band, so you can always go there to find the new updates.