The Beatles: Rock Band Bundle Revealed

[AceDefective]

This is why our culture is doomed.
People prefer to spend $250 on a plastic piece of shit and a DVD containing a dumb button-mashing game instead of buying a real guitar, a collection of The Beatles' records and music sheets for their songs. I know it has been said a thousand times, but this is really frightening.

I bought a guitar and I'm trying! Honest!

Mad props.

Also another funny thing is that people refuse to learn to play guitar, becuase "it takes too much time" yet still throw away shitloads of money on games, because they are bored at home. It seems like we're living in times when everyone has ADD.

Welllllll sorry Mr. Internet man i only get guitar and game also i (slightly) know the Base if how you spell it)- I buy it because i am obligated to buy anything with the beatles on it because there AWSOME!

 

[Chezzz]

Does this mean you have to play the guitar left handed?

 

[sneakypenguin]

This is why our culture is doomed.
People prefer to spend $250 on a plastic piece of shit and a DVD containing a dumb button-mashing game instead of buying a real guitar, a collection of The Beatles' records and music sheets for their songs. I know it has been said a thousand times, but this is really frightening.

Maybe you can explain to me why this is a sign of the downfall of culture, because what you described as an alternative seems far worse. Let's see: buy a "real" guitar (probably some $200 acoustic), spend countless hours alone guitar-sterbating until you can crank out 50-year-old Pop music. Then show up at a party with your one guitar, insist that everyone stop talking and listen to you, and crank out a poorly delivered, acoustic version of "Penny Lane". Explain to me why THAT has intrinsically more value to society and "culture" than group of friends getting together and engaging in a shared experience, enjoying old music and discovering new artists, and gaining an appreciation for songs that goes beyond passively listening to them.

Games like Rock Band aren't a substitute for the generation and performance of music, no one thinks they are. There's more music now (and more people making a living off it) than any time in history. Games like this are a step UP from putting on a pair of headphones, getting stoned and doing /nothing/.

By that logic, the fact that racing games exists means no one would want to drive cars (or even become racecar drivers), and that instead they should just go out, take a few professional driving courses, buy a half-million-dollar F1 car, and drive in circles in their neighborhood.

The urge to create something is not supplanted by the ability to easily reproduce the works of others. If it is for you, you live a sad life.

Hey Hey a rant I agree with now I don't have to type out one. Really I'd say guitar hero could stimulate interest in learning the actual thing. Technically you could use Kakuls(and many others) points in anything. You play shooters why don't you go to the range, you play madden why don't you join a football team etc. and it just doesn't work

 

[Rack]

Our culture is doomed because not everyone in it wants to play guitar.

Wait what?

 

[Maet]

Game Informer has it that The Beatles: Rock Band will indeed feature multi-microphone support for the very purpose of allowing singers to harmonize.

Ughh... Nerds trying to harmonize. I like the idea and concept, but this is actually the first ever instance where even real world rudimentary musical talent is actually involved in a rhythm/music game (solo vocal massacre notwithstanding).

I'll probably fork over the cash for this set too. There's something compellingly... "groovy" about a squeaky plastic McCartney signature bass. I'd love to seem some pictures of the instrument set.

 

[ironfist86]

This is why our culture is doomed.
People prefer to spend $250 on a plastic piece of shit and a DVD containing a dumb button-mashing game instead of buying a real guitar, a collection of The Beatles' records and music sheets for their songs. I know it has been said a thousand times, but this is really frightening.

agreed. If you want to sit around tiring your wrist out with nothing to show for it i can think of a few other things that might be more fun and cheaper too...that said sadly the remaining beatles dont own the rights to most of their catalog (thank you micheal jackson for being a prick and not selling them to Paul) so their material can be used in this manner.

actually, i'm pretty sure paul mccartney is a giant tool, and would totally use their catalog in this manner, haha.