There's a video right now on YouTube that supposedly leaks all of the Rock Band 2 tracks! Rock Band Forum poster XxMattxX starts the discussion in their forums off by saying,
"Has anyone else seen it?"
There are a lot of personal favorites on the list, but none stuck out more than "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd. Video and full list of songs and artists below, Rock Band Forum discussion after the jump.
Here's The List:
Warmup:
If You Wanna Get to Heaven - Ozark Mountain Devils
Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Possum Kingdom - The Toadies
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Don't Speak - No Doubt
Black - Pearl Jam
Drain You - Nirvana
Farmhouse - Phish
Santaria - Sublime
Apprentice:
You Oughta Know - Alanis Morrisette
We Got the Beat - The Go-Gos
Float On - Modest Mouse
Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford
Atomic - Blondie
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Piece of My Heart - Janice Joplin
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
Solid:
Panic Attack - Finger Eleven
Chop Suey - System of a Down
Give it Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Hello There - ?Cheap Trick?
Anyway You Want It - Journey
Pinball Wizard - The Who
Moderate:
Machinehead - Bush
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
What's the Frequency Kenneth? - REM
Want To - ?
I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic at the Disco
The Old Apartment - Barenaked Ladies
When I Come Around - Green Day
Zombie - The Cranberries
Soak Up the Sun - ?Sheryl Crow?
Skilled:
Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer
Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers
One Step Closer - Linkin Park
Misery Business - Paramore
American Woman - The Guess Who
White Wedding - Billy Idol
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Challenging:
Our Truth - Lacuna Coil
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
Bring Me To Life - Evanescence
Spoonman - Soundgarden
Head Like a Hole - Nine Inch Nails
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Double Vision - Foreigner
Rodeo - ?Rage Against the Machine?
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Blistering:
Magic Man - Heart
Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy
Testify - Rage Against the Machine
Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
Prodigal Son - Sevendust
Nightmare:
The Bleeding - Five Finger Death
Down With the Sickness - Disturbed
Hyper Music - Muse
Judith - A Perfect Circle
TNT - AC/DC
Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
Anna Molly - Incubus
November Rain - Guns N' Roses
Comfortably Numb - !!!!!!PINK FLOYD!!!!!!!
Impossible:
Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper
Peace Sells - Megadeth
Fuel - Metallica
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Forsaken - ?Dream Theater?
2 Minutes to Midnight - Iron Maiden
Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
Cowboys from Hell - Pantera
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws
TheGamer Writes "Harmonix has proven plenty of times it can make Rock Band work without instruments."
I mean, yeah, but was anyone saying otherwise? The fact is people liked the plastic instruments rather than pressing buttons on a controller. They enjoyed the simulated experience.
"Work"? No, but to be good? It's absolutely necessary. Not having the accessories is like playing a lightgun shooter with an analog stick sure it works, but one experience is completely unique and fun as hell, and other is torture trying to make do playing in a way it was never meant to be played
"trying to make do in a way it was never meant to be played"
I disagree. The accessories were a fun gimmick (and very marketable) but they were added AFTER the genre had been well established with games like Frequency and Amplitude (both also made by Harmonix).
The gameplay formula is different on a controller - there's a focus on switching lanes and contributing to all of the instruments.
Never played Frequency, but Amplitude and Rock Band Blitz were really good. I would love to get more of that kind of game. It's basically a different part of the genre, and stands on its own.
The insurmountable difference in popularity between Amplitude and Rock Band proves my point
Popularity isn't proof of quality. If it was, then Harmonix wouldn't be making music for Fortnite now. lol. Our disagreement wasn't over which one is more popular. Amplitude and Blitz just aren't "torture" to play.
Rock Band 4 and Guitar Hero Live failed to revive their sub-genre, and Rock Band 4 caused Mad Catz to have to file for bankruptcy. Doesn't mean that instrument-based music games are bad.
It does mean that there's too much overhead and risk for anyone to take a gamble on a big budget game that needs instrument accessories now though.
For the genre to thrive, for now, it needs to do so without the instrument accessories. That's just a fact, unfortunately.
VR games like Beat Sabre (a new sub-genre) and traditional music games make more sense and are more viable right now.
*"If quality is always proved by popularity, then Harmonix wouldn't be making music for Fortnite now."
I think CHEAP plastic instruments is THE reason why the instrument-genre ‘died’.
People invested in buying the game AND the peripherals, so the guitar, the dj-set, the drum, whatever, and the experience was absolutely fantastic. Great fun, great music, etc.
But then the instruments would break. A button would stop working, or your hits wouldn’t register, and that kind of hardware failure would end in you not being able to play the game as intended, and thus you not getting the scores you deserve.
So, now you had a great game, but a broken instrument, and nobody is gonna buy a new plastic instrument every 3-6 months in order to keep playing the game.
A solution would have been to release better quality instruments (obviously), at a slightly higher price, so you could have kept the new games coming and the genre alive, but sadly, that didn’t happen.
The only issue I ever had with any of the hardware was the drum pedal on the original rock band set stared to crack in half. The reason I, and other friends I know who played, lost interest is they weren't putting out new tracks that we were interested in anymore. I think earlier this year I looked through the releases for the last 2 years or so, and there was maybe 3 songs I would have bought.
Yeah I had this happen too with my drum controller, I ended up attaching a metal strip to it which fixed it up nicely.
Bust a Groove, Gitaroo Man and Parrapa the Rappa were such good games. Neither needed any extra peripherals
Player 2's long-form feature about kids and video games continues with a look at introducing toddlers to games for the first time.
Music rhythm games dominated the video game market in the mid-2000s. Unfortunately, the genre would fall from grace shortly after finding success.
More like faded away than failed. Failed implies it was new and didnt take off... that is not the case. Rhythm games were hugely popular but the lights dimmed and the show is over.
You would think the current situation would cause a resurgence but im actually seeing more people picking up real instruments and learning to play. My son is one who started out on GH and now he plays real guitar.
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I also got into playing guitar through Guitar Hero and Rock Band. And I know at least three other people who did the same.
Still get Rock Band out a few times a year. I really don't think you can say it failed when they're still bring out DLC every week! They must be making enough money from it to keep the licensing going!
Basically the reason the artist Prince did not want his music on those types of games. As he believed it was better for kids to actually learn to play a real instrument than to play with toys that really did not teach how to read music and how to actually play an instrument correctly.
A lot of music now a days is just done on a sound board and the creator has no real clue if the music was put on a sheet in front of them to play. The term musician has taken on a new meaning in recent times.
I lost interest when they stopped allowing you to use the controller to play with, just couldn't get into playing with the guitar.
Rock band 4 allows controller. Though I just bought RB4 again so I can replay my favorite music rhythm game.
I didn't know that. I haven't played a lot of Rock Band, but have a lot of Guitar Hero, I'll definitely check it out.
Not the sole reason, but over saturation by Activision releasing 5 GH games in one year, charging full price for all of them while only Metallica and GH5 were worth it.
I dont think these games failed at all. People aren't going to keep buying games and peripherals over and over. All songs need to work on either rockband or guitar hero thru updates. Guitar hero live was actually good but rockband with all its songs and same equipment killed it.
I'm sure part of the reason they faded away, at least over the long term, was that you couldn't download them digitally.
I don't know about this, looks like it might be fake, but if it is real, Holy Cow (I almost cursed, and I'm not someone who curses)!! I mean, I know they said it was going to be a who's who of great rock songs, but this is a ridiculously amazing list, and if it's true, there's not much GH could do to counter it.
then nice mix and really super wow to Pink Floyd and AC/DC. Wow, I never thought they would ever be offered. Amazing list.
It has to be fake, just look at the background, theres no movement.
Its not hard to make a basic menu like this and put some sounds samples to it.
yeah i can't help but be sceptical from this list. If true, this is a great mix, and it appears each tier has something for everybody, I too am excited for ACDC but TNT, thunderstruck would have been a better choice for Nightmare.. if it does turn out to be true, GH:WT better have an even better line up, as us Europeans will probably get RB2 6 monthes later again :/
As per usual, I know but a mere few of these tracks, but as per usual, I'm sure I'll love all of them (well, 99%) and enjoy 'discovering' new music. Can't wait for RB2 to release. I know it's all supposed to be BC, but I hope there's not enough innovation in the new periphs to make me want to uppgrade. If it's just a matter of wires, I'm quite fine being tied down.