Saelune said:
Wowiezowie, hundreds of dollars of shitty music, what a deal. Not saying its all bad, but the deal is only a deal if you don't have music preferences.
I mean, for every song by (band I like), theres gonna be a bunch of songs from (bands I don't like) and I doubt it will be worth it since (bands I hate) are terrible.
I'd imagine there's over a grand in shitty music. But some people actually did pride themselves on owning all songs, so it's not surprising.
What's surprising is that Harmonix thought THIS was the answer to the question of keeping your music library from previous versions.
"Sorry, no, but you can spend two and a half grand to buy a bunch of music you may or may not like."
The Rogue Wolf said:
Even if you marathoned this game and somehow managed to play fifteen songs to "completion" (whatever that entails to various players) per day, you'd still need more than four months to work your way through two thousand songs.
It's like buying a ton of peanut butter. You may love peanut butter, you can do a lot of stuff with peanut butter, but you're going to get sick of it long before you run out of it.
I don't know, I'm still playing Rock Band 3, which means I'm still scraping out peanut butter from a smaller set of jars...this is going to be a very tortured metaphor if I try....
Anyway, I mean, the good thing is that there's no time limit on Rock Band songs, so you could play one a day for the next five and a half years, or you could lock yourself in a room and marathon them until you drop. Or whatever. I mean, back in 2007, I have 28 days of music on my computer. My purchasing has slowed over the last 9 years, but when we're talking 9 years of music and a love of full albums, we're looking at a good sum. I obviously don't just sit down and listen to it all at once. Often, I put my full library on random. My library is big enough that it breaks estimates. I'm not going to get sick of music any time soon.
The major differences, I suppose, are that I picked out 98% of my collection, while this is just a bunch of random jars of peanut butter. Also, that music tends to be more passive when listening than when playing.
If you reeeeeeally like the game, then I imagine there could be some limited benefit.
This by no means should be taken as me being interested. As I said above, even my own Rock Band library is kind of a bloated mess.
