This Week in Custom Rock Band

Well it's been a flurry of activity on my blog about the rhythm and real rock games, I thought I would start yet another DLC thread on this blog (like I don't have enough), but this one is a bit different.  A small pool of awesome RB diehards have formed C3 (Custom Creators Collective) and have released free DLC for RB3, including PRO tracks for Guitar, Bass, and Keyboard.  I really, really wish Harmonix would take a look at these guys and throw some money their way or at least get some Kickstarter funding going so I may be able to rock on RB3 with some great tunes!  I think these custom tracks are only for the Xbox 360, but please, don't quote me on that!

Now there are almost 300 songs on their website, but I thought I would post what came out this week, are you ready?  I said, Are You Ready?!?  Okay.  Here we go!

C3 Custom tracks for Rock Band 3 on 5/24/13:

Angra - "Wuthering Heights" *
Bonnie Tyler - "Have You Every Seen the Rain?"*
The Damned - "Eloise"*
Faith No More - "Easy"*
Gary Jules - "Mad World"*
Hugo Montenegro - "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" X *
Pantera - "Planet Caravan"
Sinead O' Conner - "Nothing Compares 2 U"*
William Shanter - "Common People"*

(X denotes PRO Guitar/Bass * denotes PRO Keyboard)

Now grated these customs are only available in local play only and not all the instruments are recognized in each song, and you have to do some wizardry for all the customs to work on the 360 that I haven't even looked into (maybe that is another blog post all together) but the staggering amount of FREE DLC these fine folks are putting out is mind-blowing.  Good job to C3 on keeping the Rockin' dream alive for a ton of us die hard RB fans! 

Curious on what else they've done?  Here's the website:

C3

You Rawk (Rock) Band me Round, Like a Record... Baby.

So it's another exciting post about Rock Band.  In just a few days at Pax East 2012, Harmonix, is launching a new title... what is it?  XBLA title?  New Rock Band-centric game?  New Rock Band 4 game?  Maybe.  I don't know personally.  What I am hoping for (besides all the above options) is that Rock Band is going to make a Guitar jack to USB and allow us gamers (and guitarists/bassists) to be able to plug in a real axe and play their PRO Guitar/Bass upgrades that were introduced to us in Rock Band 3.  I mean, why not Harmonix?  Give RockSmith/Ubisoft a run for their money.  You already have a ton of PRO tracks above and beyond Rocksmith's count. 

I also see that you were able to PRO all the old drum charts as well.  Is it really that much harder to do the same for Guitar/Bass upgrades to all existing songs?  Though I've never worked in the game industry as an engineer so I don't know how complex it would be to do that.  If someone could answer that question, or direct me to an answer on that, it would be most kind.

I can't wait for the announcement either way and I'm sure I'll post it here in all it's splendor.  I was going to post this next bit over at the official Rock Band forum, but what the hell, I'll just do it here...

If you could ninja into the Harmonix office, to where the great and terrible, spawned from the Depths of Hell, DLC Master Computer is... what?  You ask what is this is?  Why it's only the most magical item in the Multi-Verse.  Like the Great Oz, its decision is final.  See the folks at Harmonix only put out what the DLC Master Computer says, they actually don't have any control over what DLC is put out.  The Master Computer rules all...

Anyways... If you could sneak into the offices and overrun the DLC Master Computer long enough to put ONE SONG of DLC to the top of it's list and the techies in the trenches would have it completed by next week, I ask you Dear Readers, what song would you pick?

Please respond in the comments below sections and pretty please only limit it one song, and one song only...

Video Games: RockGamer Studios

So I began play testing/peer reviewing for RockGamer Studios.  The gig doesn't pay much but it's totally a foot in the door.  I'm having connection problems between Magma transferring and it recognizing my Xbox 360 in Audition Mode for Rock Band 3.  Still trying to work out those bugs with a bit of help from some authors in Rock Band Creators' Club Forum so hopefully I'll be up and running and reviewing like a madman.

I've always wanted to work in some capacity in the video game industry and I'm just stoked to be doing it.  Maybe it is time I learned C++ and what not.

Want to share your experience with peer reviewing or play testing in the video game industry.  Sound off in the comments below.

Video Games: Rock Band 3 or Do you Rock with Plastic Guitars?

I've done other posts about Rock Band (see earlier post on this blog).  Well this one is about Rock Band 3.  Great game.  There are some things that I love about it.  Better visuals.  The revamp song library screen with searchable tabs.  More DLC than you can shake a drum stick at!  At this point there are just over 3000 songs.  The list is located here:

Rock Band's growing list of music

There is also a great website that is not affiliated with Harmonix/Rock Band

DLCQuickplay sortable list of Rock Band music and more!

Also if you're curious about my personal profile on Rock Band, you can find it here:

Sourdaddyjones' Rock Band profile

I usually play guitar or bass.  I normally don't play vocals or drums online because I am still only in the Easy-Medium tier.  If anybody on XBOX LIVE wants to play, check out my dlc and send me a Game Invite with Rock Band in the header.  Hope to see you on LIVE!

Video Games: Rock Band (franchise)

I've been an avid rhythm video game player since Guitar Hero 2.  I even still play on Guitar Hero 2 guitars, I tried a Rock Band guitar (from Rock Band 2) and I didn't care for it.  Though I don't play Guitar Hero anymore to say the least.

If you'd like to see my insanely large list of DLC for Rock Band, please direct your attention here:

IT WILL MAKE YOUR EYES BLEED

It's a awesome game!  Can't wait to see what the rest of the year brings for Rock Band and the DLC library.