CFD!'s John DeLuca (with an assist from Dustin Stevens) takes the stage to look at the latest iteration of the Harmonix franchise:
"When I was in fifth grade, I decided that I wanted to learn how to play a musical instrument, so I picked up a trumpet and joined band class. I’m afraid my curiosity didn’t last long — as I soon learned, instruments were expensive, demanding, and oftentimes unsanitary (any instrument that periodically requires you to empty a “spit valve” should send up a red flag). Hygiene issues aside, the main reason I didn’t stick with the trumpet was that learning how to actually play the damn thing was too much work. I didn’t want to take the time to sit in the basement and practice “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” every night — I had video games to play. If only there had been a video game that could have taught me how to play music…
"Such video games may not have existed when I was in grade school, but here in the year 2010, video games can teach you how to speak a foreign language, prepare delicious meals or even perform surgery utilizing techniques used by real doctors in Japan, so it shouldn’t be surprising that games which let players live out their latent rock star fantasies have been welcomed with open arms and virtual lighters held aloft. In the third installment of its groundbreaking Rock Band series, developer Harmonix seriously ups the ante by throwing keyboards and a host of other new features into the fray. Slam on the jump to find out whether Rock Band 3 is the series’ triumphant comeback tour, or merely faded glory."
Dave writes: "Hopefully time will be kind to Rock Band 3. It’s the equivalent of a Blade Runner or Van Gogh, unappreciated and undersold in its own time, but something that has undeniable quality. We may never see another Rock Band, no encore to this great series, but in Rock Band 3 and Rock Band 4, we got some pretty awesome final tracks."
This week Omari (@OmariAkil) from @bgbrothas makers of #RapGodz joins Mike (@AssaultSuit) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) to talk about: Rap Godz and the Sonic the Hedgehog movie in addition to a plethora of board games and video games.
Joe Y writes: With server closures, glitches, and broken patches, many games have unobtainable achievements and trophies. Here are the top 10 you can't 100% anymore.
"It sounds simple enough, but due to the expiration of licenses, one of the four songs, Promised Land by Vesuvius, is no longer available to download. If you previously had it downloaded, it will *not* be taken away, so you'll still be able to grab this one."
Well damn it. I really dig that song from The Rocker and I did not know it was in RB3. I stopped playing after RB2.
Online achievement/trophies are dumb. I’m not sure why they still include them. I recall the modern warfare games were applauded for not including them.
Unless the game is an online only game because what choice is there at that point.
Uhm trophies are fantastic, they give you real reason to keep playing a game after you beat it
If you need trophies to keep playing a game after you beat it, then is the game worth playing any further? It's imaginary points, not better gaming. Good games will be replayed regardless of imaginary points.
@Christopher
That logic makes zero sense. It's most definitely 'worth playing further' as you go and do things you clearly didn't do the first time....hence why do didn't get the TROPHY. It's not about better/worse gaming, it's about a replay of a game feeling fresh and not redundant.
***It's most definitely 'worth playing further' as you go and do things you clearly didn't do the first time....hence why do didn't get the TROPHY.***
If you need a trophy to do something and not the fact that you enjoy it, is the game actually worth playing? Seriously, how is that a foreign concept? How is that nonsensical? I guess it's nonsense to someone who plays for trophies, but that's about all you're playing for when you promote the reason for doing more to just get trophies and not because you enjoy it.
Chris
In fairness sony did have that gold trophy auction for all those commercial props.
Would have loved to have enough trophies for that.
Pretty ignorant statement to have... there are lots of fun achievements/trophies to be had playing online... I've never played through the single-player campaign in any COD... but had lots of fun playing online... Companies have to be sure to cater to all gamers when it comes to achievements/trophies... a good mix is never a bad thing...
...except if you want to play a game online a couple of years later and not being able to, hence from getting all the trophies.
I’m not obsessed with getting every achievement/trophy but if I like the game I may try to. I’m simply being punished for not discovering the game earlier.
Most games... minus complete failures last much...much longer online than I believe you are giving credit for...
Half of these are false .. The Evolve one can still unlocked... Ghostbusters is only unachievable on PS3 its still online on 360.. Destiny 2 one is only unobtainable for a while as said by bungie... GTAV one can still be unlocked too in a private game. And the Black Ops 3 one can still be unlocked using a few different methods. Guy who wrote this is clueless.
When a games server goes offline then they should allow users to create their own p2p servers to keep these games active. They should also unlock or delete the trophies from any list to those who havent got them.
I can think of a few honorable mentions. there is one for smartglass seeing as smartglass is now defunct. there is also ones for 1v100 and dorito crash course 2 since both of those games are also defunct.
Curse my lack of physical space for so many instrument controllers.
Still need to reunite Juice 4 Chewbacca and jam this beast SO HARD.
Back when Guitar Hero came out I had a lot of expendable income, but since then I haven't bought any of the music games.
Fantastic game. This is the game I'll probably put the most time in in 2011!
If my duct tape-bound drums can hold out, I might give this one another go.