If there were modchips for the PS3 (to run backups) and I lived on europe I would pirate this game. IMO is the best way to protest against this kind of consumer abuse. Scratch the first one (cheaper oil yeah but you wont find cars in america with the kind of MPG you see in europe) and the third, since is cheaper but also piss-flavored...
Stage 4 - Get bored due to there only being about 5 exclusive titles on your PS3 that are any good ;-) The other problem with that - 40Gb PS2 £299.99 Rock Band PS3 $160 (approx £80) USPS Priority (cheapest method) to UK $79.50 Insurance $4.30 (approx £45 for those two) Then add something for the conversion charges, if you use PayPal then their 4% fee, and buy your US friend a drink for doing all that for you (if you're lucky enough to have a US friend, otherwise it'll cost more!) - shall we say that'd be about £20 extra in total? So you've just spent £145 importing a US copy for PS3, and £299.99 on a PS3. That's £445. Just to play a game that would've cost you £180 on your 360. Or, if you shop around, £140. Which is cheaper than importing the US version!!
Does anyone know if this will work with the Guitar Hero controller for 360? I'm about to buy the game, I'm one click away.
Ive acctually got the game, (paid £135) and all the guitar hero controllers for 360 (2&3) work with the game, also you can use a 360 head set as a microphone, so i you have some GH guitars and a 360 head set, buy the drums on their own and you`ve got a working set.
it's better anyway. the finales at the end of some songs, you just mash the solo buttons on the RB controller for points. on the GH controller you have to strum. and on the solos, you canjust finger tap with the solo buttons.
I used to get mad at the price difference between the Uk and US. But now that I live here, I realised that you can't compare it apples to apples. Everything costs different amounts here, and wages are different. Beer is not really cheaper here than the UK. However, it is a myth that all beer here is lite, or Budweiser. There is a fantastic selection of beers, many small brewery type beers and good ale (not as good as the UK, but close) but expect to pay around $8 for a pack of 6 bottles. Then tax. Also, the fat junk food scoffing Americans sterotype is unfair Retro. There are about as many fat lazy British people AND they tend to have alcohol problems too. You need a bigger car in the US, America is a big country. For instance, if I wanted to go to the beach (and I live in a coastal state), the closest one to me is 2 and a half hours drive (around 200 miles). To visit the mother-in-law, who is in the neighbouring city, takes 40 minutes. That is considered to be 'just down the road'. If petrol cost the kind of price it cost in the UK, then the country would not be able to survive. That is why the American government doesn't rape us over it. It's easy to compare directly when you live in a small country with a completely different set of standards and lifestyles. But, it's an ignorant comparison. You'd have to live here to really understand what I mean. I don't know why the UK has such a negative stereotype of the US, it's mostly in pushed by the media. There is a cultural history I guess. The biggest reason petrol costs so much in the UK is tax. If you want to whine and complain about costs in the UK, complain to the government. Petrol is about 2.5 times the price that it is here. But you have diesel engines and diesel is easily obtainable and diesel engines are much more efficient. You also have a decent public transport system and well maintained roads. Americans only have petrol, no real alternative, and as Shadowlayer says, fuel efficiency is only just becoming a popular concern here, so the options are fewer. The average car has a much higher number of miles on the clock than in the UK because everything is a long journey away. Everything is spread out instead of crammed in like a sardine tin. You can't use a bus to get to work in most cases and you can't take a bus to get from place to place, city to city yes, perhaps, but not like you can in the UK. Finally, the roads in the US are an absolute joke, potholes and rough surfaces everywhere.
I couldnt have said it better myself Taucias. Maybe is a vengance for years of similar jokes on the british, dunno. But really (and I dont want to offend anyone from the UK) theres this dumb nationalism that just screams old, like every friggin time I go to a UK car site (to see stuff that will never make it over here) theres a MINI quote. 90% of the time is "nice car, but is no MINI" even when the other car is in the exact opposite market range. Newsflash: the MINI isnt british anymore, is owned and designed by BMW. They make it on the UK yet theres rumors of ze germans moving the production to (cheaper?) Austria. Honda makes the Civic in canada, yet I dont hear every canadian saying its the best car in the world...
If it was shorter, I'd quote it for the truth. I think the British just bash americans for years of jokes about tea, crumpets, "chip chip cheerio" and Pip pips... i try to think about stereotypes at all.
As a Brit myself, a lot of any apparent resentment I've come across (or felt) stems from the auto-assumption that by posting on a message board in English I am a white American male. Generally (certainly not here), there seems to be a one-way expectation for cultural knowledge - that is, that I'm expected to be aware of the price of things in USD, know the American name for whatever game I'm talking, use American colloquialisms about and so on, but not the other way around. My mate's American, he lives in California and when I went to stay with him I had a great time and everyone was friendly, intelligent and didn't expect me to constantly quaff tea from a bone china cup. I think it's just a classic case of t3h internetz - behind the safety of anonymity people will be jerks.
Anyway whats all this got to do with rock band? In the end rockband is just overpriced & overhyped. Pay all this cash just to play games that i was playing waaay back on playstation 1/2 Guitar freaks, drummania, karaoke revolution wonder how many more of konami's bemani series will be ripped & turned into the next new installment as everyone screams OMG Teh innovazition!!!!
That's very true Importaku. I experienced the same thing when WoW came out. As a seasoned Everquest player I was constantly told how I must try this new kind of game, how it was like nothing else and they'd explain to me what a 'raid' was, how 'twinking' was to pimp up your character with the best gear, how you could play with hundreds of strangers online etc. at work, during lunch breaks. I'd listen. Then I'd tell them that I'd been doing the same thing for 4 years and that EQ was the origin of all that stuff. They'd just give me blank stares and argue it out. How could it be? NOTHING was like WoW. It was laughable. Yet, WoW was a simplified version of the same game I'd been playing all that time and the designers were actually hardened EQ fans that wanted to take it to the mainstream. Usually fads or trends arise from older versions of the same thing. For whatever reason someone somewhere with stylistic credibility catches on and before you know it everyone is in on the game and believes that they are part of something new. It was the same in primary school with YoYos. We thought we were the coolest kids in the world. :lol: Er... I don't know what website you visit, I'm assuming you're talking about compact 'smart car' websites. Because, let me tell you, a lot of people like the new mini as a car in its class, but no way in hell would the majority of Brits choose a mini over anything other than that class of car. BMWs, Audis, Mercs, Austin Martins etc are desireable cars in the UK. They are 'aim-fors'. I think part of your problem is you think of England as a Mary Poppins movie and can't shake your view of it, so whenever you see something like the mini example it jumps out and re-enforces it (I can only assume that based on your past comments about gun crime in the UK). The UK isn't gansta like the US, as rap music is not as ingrained into the modern psyche - the whole black american culture thing does not really exist there. But it is a modern European country with the pros and cons of what is modern Europe. On the whole, it is not that different from the US in terms of fashion, modern music and consumer aspirations. The 'old nationalism' thing is not there, infact there is a desperate need for more national identity in the UK. People in the US love to joke about the Brits being like Pippin in South Park or the numerous other UK stereotype characters you see on popular US shows. I hear it all the time from people here. But it's only present in US shows, you'd almost never see it for real in the UK if you visited. Kimimi is absolutely correct too, good point well made.
Disney has a lot to answer for LOL We all dont talk in a cockney accent & say "shine ya shoes govnor" & we don't all go have tea with the queen either. And in 31 years of living here i have yet to ever hear anyone say "cor blimey" in a proper sentance. The funniest thing i find with american toursts is when they say "oh i have a friend in london called kevin do you know him" i know the uk is small compared to the us but it's not small enough where we know everyone on first name terms hehe.
i mentioned GF on 1up message board back when GH was just getting popular and i was flamed. It's not because "innovation" it's the game is done right. I'd rather play GH or RB than GF. the songs and note charts are better, and star power makes a big difference.
It comes down to the music as well though, i prefer the soundtracks in konami's versions than the stuff rockband has. Probably why im not impressed with it at all.
Is difficult to explain it, but I believe a lot of rockband's appeal is thanks to this desire for new types of controllers. Also the geek culture is becoming more mainstream: 9 years ago nobody would've gone to a party with a Guitar Freaks controller and get their friends to play it. Now playing GH is the norm even at frat parties, and you have these amateur RockBand groups that seem to believe they're real musicians playing real music, yet nobody laughs at them (like they would do to, say, a guy with a light gun pretending to know about firearms). I believe theres has been a big misunderstanding of what I said. The MINI I'm not saying they compared it to a CLS or a Hummer, but for example is pretty common to hear comments saying it beats the 308, a car considerably larger (even the 207 is larger). Thats the equivalent of comparing a Corolla to a Camry: those belong in two different categories. Lets not forget the MINI is technically a premium car (entry-level) since for the same money or even less theres several cars with even better equipment and technology (and a backseat that suitable for humans:lol. Is kinda what happens with the Versa and the A3: they have similar dimensions and such, but the A3 is almost the price of the base Maxima, which is Nissan top of the range car. And thats the "pride" I'm talking about: I dont understand why but theres that "is the british car mate!" thing going on with most brit car entusiasts that drives them to defend the MINI to the point that some of the "facts" brought to the table made little sense, ir any. And about UK culture, look I was joking on the gun thread K? I know about chavs, chavettes and the like. I dont expect a british to drink tea, just like I wouldnt expect every brazilian to know capoeira.
More people would rather play songs they know, rather than 1:30 JRock composed by a video game company. I know when I found out Blink 182 songs were in RB I jumped for joy and pulled out my debit to put them on my 360's hard drive. It's not just pretending to play instruments - it's pretending to play your favorite songs.
Just shows you how little you know about bemani games Although it's true that konami make some of the music on their original label a lot of the other tracks come from proper musicians / Avex trax, just because it's not by a western mainstream bands doesn't mean it isn't any good. Personally my tastes are for j-pop & eurobeat which is why im not one of the countless thousands who are going mad over rockband at the moment.
little about bemani? I owned Guitar Freaks, and I had the full size metal pad for DDR... You missed my point, that in AMERICA, where Rock band is VERY popular, more people want to play songs they know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuitarFreaks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuitarFreaks As with DrumMania, the current version of GuitarFreaks features 500 songs in total. Most songs are either crossovers from other Bemani games, and J-pop and J-Rock. Some mixes also contain covers of popular North American songs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GuitarFreaks_%26_DrumMania_songs#Percussion_Freaks.2FDrumMania_1st_Mix only a small fraction of those songs are Mainstream Western songs. I recognized 9 Western artists out of that list.
Yeah true most americans are going to want to play stuff they know. For the rest of us theres alays bemani. Unless they put weird al on rockband & then i might just be tempted hehe.
