Rock Band: Green Day

[55]

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you need to chill i was making a joke.

I'm fine and no, you weren't making a joke. You were making a completely oblivious comment with no frame of reference just like you do in the pro football forum on just about a daily basis.

[goh]

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Full song list:

http://kotaku.com/5514179/green-day-...ull-track-list

[Hooe]

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Full song list:

http://kotaku.com/5514179/green-day-...ull-track-list

Even for having Dookie and American Idiot complete on disc, there's still a number of good songs not included; off the top of my head, "Waiting", "Walking Contradiction", and "Macy's Day Parade" didn't make the cut.

That said, the song list is well worth the price of admission, IMO.

[CaptainZombie]

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Full song list:

http://kotaku.com/5514179/green-day-...ull-track-list

Not bad at all:

"Longview"
"Welcome to Paradise"
"Pulling Teeth"
"Basket Case"
"She"
"Sassafrass Roots"
"When I Come Around"
"Coming Clean"
"Emenius Sleepus"
"In the End"
"F.O.D."

Milton Keynes
American Idiot (2004)
"American Idiot"
"Jesus of Suburbia"
"Holiday"
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
"Are We the Waiting"
"St. Jimmy"
"Give Me Novacaine"
"She's a Rebel"
"Extraordinary Girl"
"Letterbomb"
"Wake Me Up When September Ends"
"Homecoming"
"Whatsername"

Warning (2000)
"Minority"
"Warning"

Nimrod (1997)
"Hitchin' a Ride"
"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
"Nice Guys Finish Last"

Insomniac (1995)
"Brain Stew"
"Jaded"
"Geek Stink Breath"

The Fox Theater, Oakland
21st Century Breakdown (2009)
"Song of the Century"
"21st Century Breakdown"
"Before the Lobotomy"
"Last Night on Earth"
"Peacemaker"
"Murder City"
"¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)"
"Restless Heart Syndrome"
"Horseshoes and Handgrenades"
"The Static Age"
"American Eulogy"
"See the Light"

Downloadable Content
"21 Guns"
"Know Your Enemy"
"East Jesus Nowhere"
"Last of the American Girls"
"¡Viva La Gloria!"
"Christian's Inferno"

[CaptainZombie]

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No Additional DLC for Green Day: Rock Band

Point of clarification: The tracklist for Green Day: Rock Band revealed this weekend included six songs labeled "DLC." These have always been available for Rock Band 2. A producer says there won't be any additional tracks released for this game.

The six DLC cuts are from last year's rock opera 21st Century Breakdown, the remainder of which will be included with the game. Harmonix' Chris Foster explained to Plastic Axe why there'll be no extra DLC for this game when there was for last year's Beatles counterpart.

"One of the reasons we could do open-ended DLC for The Beatles is that it's all tiny clips, and we could just reconfigure them for different songs as needed — and dreamscape backgrounds similarly had that.

With this, we're really creating sculpted experiences for every single song; there's an animation that plays all the way through, pretty much. That's something that's not really practical to do open-ended. So we decided we were going to make DLC just about finishing 21st Century Breakdown, using the DLC that was already out.

That created a great three-album game, and also let us give each of those [six DLC tracks] unique assets, more than we could easily pack into a DLC pack. Those songs have their own video-wall assets, their own [motion capture]."

Other tidbits: There's no pre-Dookie (1994) tracks because of restricted access to the band's master recordings. And there'll be no access to the main Rock Band store for other songs because - are you listening Activision? - "we want to have Green Day performing Green Day songs."

[Hooe]

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No Additional DLC for Green Day: Rock Band

This doesn't seem to rule out future Green Day songs for the Rock Band 2 platform, however. Just means that Green Day: Rock Band specifically won't see post-release support.

Still disappointing, but it could be worse.

[aukevin]

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So is Gamestop the only ones doing the preorder bonus so you get the free export key?

[demstix]

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The effort it takes to get good at these games should be used on learning a real instrument.

Probably my least favorite game genre

[Hooe]

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The effort it takes to get good at these games should be used on learning a real instrument.

Probably my least favorite game genre

The only reason my interest was piqued to learn how to play a real guitar in the first place was due to playing the first two Guitar Hero games. They're fun games that expose people to musical instruments on a manageable and fun level.

Further, playing these rhythm games actually helped me with playing guitar in terms of learning to strum chords in rhythm.

It's a real snobby attitude to take that these games are just worthless.

[rspencer86]

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The effort it takes to get good at these games should be used on learning a real instrument.

Probably my least favorite game genre

The effort it takes to get good at Modern Warfare should be used on joining the real U.S. Army.

The effort it takes to get good at Madden should be used on spending 4-5 hours a day in pads on a football field.

The effort it takes to get good at Forza should be used on buying a race car, learning how to tune it, and racing on a real-world track.

You could use this argument on a lot of genres.

Video games are for fun. Spending three hours a day on chords or tabs or whatever just to be able to play a couple bars of a Rush song on a real guitar doesn't sound like too much fun to me.

[55]

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The effort it takes to get good at Modern Warfare should be used on joining the real U.S. Army.

The effort it takes to get good at Madden should be used on spending 4-5 hours a day in pads on a football field.

The effort it takes to get good at Forza should be used on buying a race car, learning how to tune it, and racing on a real-world track.

You could use this argument on a lot of genres.

Video games are for fun. Spending three hours a day on chords or tabs or whatever just to be able to play a couple bars of a Rush song on a real guitar doesn't sound like too much fun to me.

[peteykirch]

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The video footage from the new trailer is amazing. I can't wait to play Dookie start to end. However the editing of songs does make me a sad panda at times.

[CaptainZombie]

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The only reason my interest was piqued to learn how to play a real guitar in the first place was due to playing the first two Guitar Hero games. They're fun games that expose people to musical instruments on a manageable and fun level.

Further, playing these rhythm games actually helped me with playing guitar in terms of learning to strum chords in rhythm.

It's a real snobby attitude to take that these games are just worthless.

The effort it takes to get good at Modern Warfare should be used on joining the real U.S. Army.

The effort it takes to get good at Madden should be used on spending 4-5 hours a day in pads on a football field.

The effort it takes to get good at Forza should be used on buying a race car, learning how to tune it, and racing on a real-world track.

You could use this argument on a lot of genres.

Video games are for fun. Spending three hours a day on chords or tabs or whatever just to be able to play a couple bars of a Rush song on a real guitar doesn't sound like too much fun to me.

We always get one of these cats always trying to spoil the fun w/ the use of a real instrument.

[demstix]

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The effort it takes to get good at Modern Warfare should be used on joining the real U.S. Army.

The effort it takes to get good at Madden should be used on spending 4-5 hours a day in pads on a football field.

The effort it takes to get good at Forza should be used on buying a race car, learning how to tune it, and racing on a real-world track.

You could use this argument on a lot of genres.

Video games are for fun. Spending three hours a day on chords or tabs or whatever just to be able to play a couple bars of a Rush song on a real guitar doesn't sound like too much fun to me.

haha please apply your brakes. I'm not saying the genre is useless. I have plenty of friends that enjoy the rockband/guitar hero series. So I get it, some people enjoy playing the games. It's not an exhibition of snobbery, I just personally can't really get into the games. I play a "little" guitar so the games does absolutely nothing for me. I might play a round or two at a buddy's house but no way am I buying the decked out $200+ band kit.

As far as the argument of stop playing games that simulate real life, well that's just a bit of a stretch. It doesn't really apply.

the effort it takes to get good at Modern Warfare should be used on joining the real U.S. Army.

- sure if you want to kill people for a living. I know a bunch of troops that play MW all the time.

The effort it takes to get good at Madden should be used on spending 4-5 hours a day in pads on a football field.

- as long as you can run a 4.5 40 go right ahead. If not, its either madden on flag tag football.

The effort it takes to get good at Forza should be used on buying a race car, learning how to tune it, and racing on a real-world track.

- come on man, really?


I simply require more context in my button mashing these days.

[Blzer]

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^ See, your argument would hold more water (not much more though) if this game genre only featured a guitar. That is, when you play the songs, all you hear is the guitar portion. There's no singing, no background instruments, no crowd, nothing. That would be the equivalent of playing a single football position in your games (as opposed to being every player as well as calling the plays).

But the fact that you're getting a combined package, like football video games, makes it that much more enthralling because it's not something that you can do as a single-person experience... re-creating a concert ensemble while you only have to do one portion is part of the excitement of the game. Just hearing the guitar would be useless.

Besides, I've played real guitar for seven years. I've only played acoustic, as I don't want to shell over money on an electric that I know I don't want to learn. Even if I did, it would take a long time to be able to jam some Megadeth on there while the simplicity and fun level on RB and GH is tenfold greater when you have the rest of the band behind you. It's not a cover, it's "the real thing" this way. Just like how I could go out and pick up that baseball bat, but I'm no Ryan Howard no matter how much I mimic his stance.

The only problem with this genre is how poorly Activision has milked it dry. It sounds like Harmonix is stepping up their game for the next RB and is taking the instruments up to the next level, so hopefully it will be a little more intriguing for those that pass it off as a gimmick when they should be playing the real thing (which I am).