After years in hiding / on hiatus, the age of "instrument controllers" is yet again upon us. Harmonix has announced that Rock Band 4 — the first Rock Band title for this generation of home consoles — will be launching this year on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.The next Rock Band will largely be a continuation of the platform, insomuch as players will be picking up guitar controllers, drum controllers, and a microphone to play along with both classic and more modern songs. Alas, there isn't much else to go on at this point; when we sat down with Harmonix product manager Daniel Sussman during this week's Game Developers Conference, he was pretty cagey about revealing what was new in Rock Band 4. Instead, we talked about the legacy of Rock Band, a game that continues to have hundreds of thousands of players every month — a franchise that made hundreds of millions of dollars across a half dozen iterations and over 2,000 songs you could strum, drum, or sing along to.Speaking of, virtually all those songs you bought for previous Rock Band games should transfer over to Rock Band 4, provided you stuck to the same console manufacturer when transitioning from generation to generation (e.g. Xbox 360 to Xbox One and PS3 to PS4) — and if you have the old hardware, Harmonix is doing everything it can to make it compatible. (There will be new hardware to buy, of course, care of Mad Catz.) That's a pretty big promise to those who invested a lot into years past; as for what else, Sussman promises we'll know more at this summer's E3 gaming convention.
>TFW I knew it was coming
There will be new hardware to buy, of course, care of Mad Catz.
I've wanted to play a Rockband for a while, I sorta missed it all. And I enjoy music games, coincidentally i've just been playing Rayman legends and the final missions of each section are absolutely fucking amazing. If you've not played them you are missing out big-time
Quote from: Sprungli on March 05, 2015, 03:07:20 PMI've wanted to play a Rockband for a while, I sorta missed it all. And I enjoy music games, coincidentally i've just been playing Rayman legends and the final missions of each section are absolutely fucking amazing. If you've not played them you are missing out big-timeRayman Legends is awesome. Even better than Origins.
Oh yay. I can't wait for all of the one song DLC to be everywhere
As long as it has a good sized setlist, I can't say I won't buy it.
Quote from: Prime Meridia on March 06, 2015, 03:16:19 PMAs long as it has a good sized setlist, I can't say I won't buy it.I think you listed Rock Band II as one of your favorite games ever. Instead of the third one. Are they all not literally the same thing, though? Just with more songs?
Keyboard?... That's gotta be hard as fuck to play.
Rockband 4 announced!
