You gotta wonder why Harmonix is in bad shape with Sony. It's not like they can't get special permission to post shit early. They just don't care to try.
Like how they spend 4 months working on the RB2 PS3 patch PAST the 360 the one and NOT A SINGLE FEATURE IS CONSOLE-EXCLUSIVE. It's all in-engine shit and there's NO EXCUSE why it would take that long, especially when the original RB2 game was only 6 months in development. Hell, they even LIED on it saying they added wireless Singstar mic support when it worked before hand and NOTHING changed after.
4 MONTHS. NOTHING EXTRA, unless you consider the half-assed bug fix to their star sorting. Where it gives you a star ranking off of the system's highest score not the most recent one, something that is 1 FUCKING LINE OF CODE. Yet none of the other bugs or discrepancies were addressed.
In 1 month, I got VOIP and online networking working MYSELF on a PS3 and I had NEVER done it before. There's NO EXCUSE for the shit they pull, yet 360 owners just assume it's all the same and they're treated equally or over-reacting.
Rich presence? Want to know what song your friend is playing from the buddy list? AGAIN, ONE FUCKING LINE OF CODE, and they don't do it. Oh wait, it's a REQUIREMENT for 360 games but a FEATURE for the PS3, so HMX doesn't give a shit.
Message of the day? Sony requires a button confirmation to pop it up? YOU HIT START BEFORE THAT MENU POPS UP.
Delete individual songs? Hell, shit as far back as Time Crisis 4 supports uninstalling from in-game. More recent titles do, too, like the Buzz! games.
Actually, I take it all back. The patch did have an exclusive feature on the PS3. You can NO LONGER browse the in-game store on anything OTHER than controller #1. You can GO INTO IT with another controller but can't even leave.
And the cheat codes STILL can't be entered on Japanese consoles because they're fucking shitty at doing the X/O Region check.
VOIP still fucking doesn't come through the headset. It's just on the TV. THAT'S ONE LINE OF CODE TO CHANGE THE OUTPUT SOURCE. FUCK!
Oh, and don't forget, the Singstar mics work, but ONLY IF the singer is using the blue mic and ONLY on port #1. NO OTHER CONTROLLER PORTS WORK if you want to use the Singstar mics. Oh, the red mic will work if the Sixaxis is on controller 2, but only enough to ping up on the screen. You'll still completely fail every song because it barely registers, making you think the mic is broken.
NO OTHER GAME HAS THIS FLAW WITH THE MICROPHONES. It's their own bullshit. And they STILL didn't fix the wavy-arrow glitch on the PS3. That's apparently what they spent 4 months doing. They said they tried to put in the Beatles vocal code, which was rewritten, so it doesn't happen on that, but they couldn't do it and gave up. I KNOW why the audio fucks up. It's a sampling rate issue when the PS3's audio I/O buffer gets filled. It's like the first issue you fix when working on the PS3 audio input.
They're goddamn incompetent programmers that get WAYYY too much praise for sitting on their asses. Let's not go into the abortion that's Rock Band 1 on the Wii.
RB3 better shine like fucking gold if they've spent so long on it. GH5 was polished to hell. Outside of the curious song selection, Expert drums pedal glitch and piss-poor game exporting, they caught up and surpassed Rock Band in MANY areas including graphics, playlists, party modes and venue design.
RBN is a great thing to be praised. It's a way for them to get a lot of great artists into the game. Now let's have Harmonix focus on making RB3 something to remember. Can you tell me ANY venue from Rock Band 1 or 2? Lego Rock Band, yeah. Lots of crazy ones. Trying to keep RB1/2 all moody and stylized, it lacked in a lot of areas. LRB showed they recognized some of that, but they also went backwards with it.
BOTH LRB and TBRB suffer from WAY too much busy shit on the fretboard. Whereas GH finally got rid of the scrolling pattern and went to a translucent black, LRB changed the HOPOs to nigh-indistinguishable single-stud blocks and The Beatles Overdrive modes just fill your highway with a ton of fruity distracting garbage, which is a PLEASURE for someone with even a SLIGHT red-green and green-yellow colorblindness (Like yours truly), which is compounded even further when Bass groove kicks in and adds ANOTHER texture layer. But yes, let's focus on how soulful John Lennon's eyes are, even though I can't see fucking 4 notes ahead.
(Counterpoint: Guitar Hero uses a fucking ATROCIOUS font for singing. Band Hero cleaned it up a bit, but it's still a fucking disappointment. At least they fixed the vocal engine in those games from GHWT.)
And don't get me started on the Lego Rock Band glitches, crashes and bugs. It was a total rush job. Hilarious because it lacks features that TBRB has, even though that launched 2 months earlier.
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I'll probably pick up the Who medley next Thursday.
