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Got Rock Band 4 today and I've been playing it a bit. I really like it. Nothing has really been changed or innovated or anything, they just took everything from previous games and refined it to make the best Rock Band game so far. In theory anyway. Rock Band 4 is weird in that it lacks a lot of features that previous games had. Nothing deal breaking but stuff like Multiplayer and a Practise mode are missing and I also really miss the Challenge section. They have added in some stuff I really like like how it counts you in, even half way through a song, and how it saves your preferences on your profile like Breakneck Speed rather than have to activate it every time you launch the game. I haven't played all the songs yet (Obviously) but the ones I have played a really fun even if I don't recognise most of them. My first port of call in this game was to play all the Impossible difficulty songs on Guitar and, to be honest, I find them easy as hell. I don't know if it's just a sign I need to move off of Hard and onto Expert but my lowest notes hit percentage was 97% (Halls of Valhalla) with me getting 99% on the majority of them. Still, a lot of fun. One thing I will say is the Freestyle Guitar solos aren't my thing. Nailing the solos in famous songs is the most satisfying part of Rock Band so taking that out seems backwards to me. Something else to mention is the Song store is currently completely broken on launch. Not Harmonix's fault, completely on SCEE. Barely any of the DLC has been changed over to RB4 on the store and as such, when you access like 90% of songs through the in game store, it just opens up the PSN store with a Content Not Found message. This is absolutely fine on the US Store so I assume it's down to Sony Europe. I hope they fix it, I spend a fair amount on DLC yesterday and I can't download any of it.

<blockquote data-quote="IncendiaryLemon" data-source="post: 26796" data-attributes="member: 107"><p>Got Rock Band 4 today and I've been playing it a bit. I really like it. Nothing has really been changed or innovated or anything, they just took everything from previous games and refined it to make the best Rock Band game so far. In theory anyway. Rock Band 4 is weird in that it lacks a lot of features that previous games had. Nothing deal breaking but stuff like Multiplayer and a Practise mode are missing and I also really miss the Challenge section. They have added in some stuff I really like like how it counts you in, even half way through a song, and how it saves your preferences on your profile like Breakneck Speed rather than have to activate it every time you launch the game. I haven't played all the songs yet (Obviously) but the ones I have played a really fun even if I don't recognise most of them. My first port of call in this game was to play all the Impossible difficulty songs on Guitar and, to be honest, I find them easy as hell. I don't know if it's just a sign I need to move off of Hard and onto Expert but my lowest notes hit percentage was 97% (Halls of Valhalla) with me getting 99% on the majority of them. Still, a lot of fun. One thing I will say is the Freestyle Guitar solos aren't my thing. Nailing the solos in famous songs is the most satisfying part of Rock Band so taking that out seems backwards to me. Something else to mention is the Song store is currently completely broken on launch. Not Harmonix's fault, completely on SCEE. Barely any of the DLC has been changed over to RB4 on the store and as such, when you access like 90% of songs through the in game store, it just opens up the PSN store with a Content Not Found message. This is absolutely fine on the US Store so I assume it's down to Sony Europe. I hope they fix it, I spend a fair amount on DLC yesterday and I can't download any of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="IncendiaryLemon, post: 26796, member: 107"] Got Rock Band 4 today and I've been playing it a bit. I really like it. Nothing has really been changed or innovated or anything, they just took everything from previous games and refined it to make the best Rock Band game so far. In theory anyway. Rock Band 4 is weird in that it lacks a lot of features that previous games had. Nothing deal breaking but stuff like Multiplayer and a Practise mode are missing and I also really miss the Challenge section. They have added in some stuff I really like like how it counts you in, even half way through a song, and how it saves your preferences on your profile like Breakneck Speed rather than have to activate it every time you launch the game. I haven't played all the songs yet (Obviously) but the ones I have played a really fun even if I don't recognise most of them. My first port of call in this game was to play all the Impossible difficulty songs on Guitar and, to be honest, I find them easy as hell. I don't know if it's just a sign I need to move off of Hard and onto Expert but my lowest notes hit percentage was 97% (Halls of Valhalla) with me getting 99% on the majority of them. Still, a lot of fun. One thing I will say is the Freestyle Guitar solos aren't my thing. Nailing the solos in famous songs is the most satisfying part of Rock Band so taking that out seems backwards to me. Something else to mention is the Song store is currently completely broken on launch. Not Harmonix's fault, completely on SCEE. Barely any of the DLC has been changed over to RB4 on the store and as such, when you access like 90% of songs through the in game store, it just opens up the PSN store with a Content Not Found message. This is absolutely fine on the US Store so I assume it's down to Sony Europe. I hope they fix it, I spend a fair amount on DLC yesterday and I can't download any of it. [/QUOTE]