Imagine a game made solely of music you've never heard. Imagine a game where you could play along with countless songs that you've never known. Imagine a game that assumes you'll be familiar with everything in it, but you're not at all. That song for me is every guitar-based music game out there: Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Hero Rocker, (insert band name) Hero, Band of Guitar Brothers -- whatever that sh*t is called. It may be hard to wrap your head around the concept of not knowing the songs, but imagine that you're playing a game made of Chinese pop tunes. Would you have fun playing that?
One of these plastic guitar games, Rock Band 3, is now priced at $19.99, for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Amazon, Gamestop and Best Buy have the title available now at the dissociated price. Have a f*ckin' blast with a bunch of old songs I've never heard at your little parties. Rock out hard, break a sweat. Show off that you can beat every song on Super Hard Perfect Extreme or whatever. Sing the song real guuud in your plastic mic. Tell yourself that drumming in this game is a useful skill. I'll be over here pretending like I know what you're talking about when you reference old movies, list off actor names and talk about comedians or politics or whatever.
Fu*k! Where are all the cool people at these days?
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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7:30 PM on 04.05.2011 | 
FUCK YES.
Give it to me now plus karaoke mode and dance mat functionality!
Isn't this blog supposed to post gaming news often with the editor's opinion of it, rather than just bitching about something loosely related to a news item mentioned only in passing?
Troll's remorse?
Either way there's no point getting riled up over it.
Greenellow, there is the 25+ Foo Fighters songs in the Rock Band series and Rope is coming to the music store soon. You should probably get the games in the series.
Also, weeaboos.
Imagine King Kong. He's sitting on top of the Empire State Building, fighting off planes and dealing with all that crap. Then suddenly, he takes a look at you. He takes you in, somehow examining you to your core, and then he slaps one hand over his eyes and lets the fighter pilots shoot him down, so disgusted with you is he that death is preferable to the knowledge of your existence.
That is the level of fail for anyone who took this post seriously.
also related to the post at first I was like
and then I read the comments and I was like
"oh yeah it was sarcastic"
[couldn't find a picture for that lol]
"HAHAH people have to realize that everything on the internet isn't serious -- you guys are so cute when you're mad!"
That didn't take long.
I'll definitely be picking this up. Only reason I didn't before is because I was kind of broke. I mean, I still am but at least I have income now.
....this community. My love for it is infinite x30, but c'mon. Sarcasm: know it.
In my apartment watching the X-Files and drinking grapefruit juice.
Maybe Nick should keep handling all the Rock Band news since he actually cares about the series.
'Educate yourself motherfucker. If you don't know any of the music, it won't hurt to pick a few and give them a try'.