Rocking Some Band

Well, I went full into Rock Band 2.

There is much to say about this game. I started a new band cause apparently my save file rom when I was first playing it disappeared. Maybe I never played Rock Band 2 as much as I did Rock Band. Regardless, I created a new band and called it The Halfshells, with front man Leo. The rest of the players will be Mike, Donnie, and Ralph as I get to them.

So far I've been playing guitar on expert pretty consistently.
The only downside to this game is how much repetition there is in songs. I've been on the local tour mode and there are a lot of long set lists where I have to play several songs in a row.

Still, this is a game I can spend months on.

The only other thing I can say about Rock Band is that Harmonix scared me half to death. Ever since I bought this game, I knew I was going to spend some money on songs and track packs, but then I went on this alphabetical order feat and Rock Band got put all the way to the end. Now, I assumed I had all the time in the world to play the game and buy my songs, but I got a bit of a rude a awakening. At some point, when I was finishing Devil May Cry 3, I got reintroduced to Manfred Mann's "Blinded by the Light." It's an amazing song and I thought I'd log on to the Rock Band store to see if I could purchase it. To my horror, I could not log on to the online store! I went on the phone to customer service with Sony and EA. Nobody had an answer for me. I kept being told that the Rock Band online store was no longer being supported. I could no longer download songs! I couldn't even pay anyone to take my money (yeah, I meant to type that.)  Finally, I contacted Harmonix by email and they came back with an answer: the week I tried to log on, they were having server stability issues, but the store was still up and running and they'd willingly take my money. I promptly got some PSN funds for my wallet and downloaded some tunes for when I got to it. For some reason, there's some songs that I can't purchase, since they only run on Rock Band 3, but I got most of what I was interested in, and I can always go back and download what's left that I'm still interested in.

Top on the list of things that I wanted to download was More Than a Feeling. This was the first song on the first Guitar Hero and it was a beautiful way to set the tone for that game. Now I have it on Rock Band.
Equally worth mentioning is Weezer. I got every song available to me. I got some Dinosaur Jr and Satriani's Surfing With The Alien (I still haven't played that on expert cause it frankly scares me. Fucking Satriani!)

I'm going to have to move on to some other game before I finish this game because, let's face it, there is no "finishing" this game. I will gladly keep playing while I start other entries on the list.

I just love Rock Band. I'd take this game to a deserted island. It is that good.
Up next, Samurai Shodown II.