10) Revolving doors
- This happens regularly. You look for a game, you get matched up in a band. You wait. You wait. The leader keeps waiting for a lead singer. And you keep waiting. As the leader stubbornly refuses to just play as a 3 man band (it's not like you can even hear the singer anyway!) you eventually decide to leave. You search for a new band and lo and behold, it's the same group again. My guess is the server continuously tries to match you up with the best connection, even if you don't want that game. This is usually a good time to rework your character's look, and hope someone else falls into your slot by the time you get back.
9) Getting kicked out of bands before you play
- When you try to join a game, the server goes out and matches you up with any open game. Sometimes people sit with open games waiting for their friends to randomly join (these people are called idiots, since there's a perfectly good friend invitation option). When you join their game, you get kicked. So you try to go back and choose your character again and search for a new game, and you end up in the same game just to get re-kicked... it's like you're Dave Mustaine circa 1983.
8) Cheapskates
- Never has such a delectable deluge of DLC been available for a single console game. With downloadable tracks from every genre of rock, it's hard to believe more people aren't snatching up the added goodies. But for some reason whenever I'm in a band of 3 or more, I am left unable to play any of the SEVERAL downloadable songs I've purchased. You see, everyone in the band needs to have bought the track to play it online, and there's always ONE cheapskate. For real, if you own the game and can't shell out the $1.99 for March of the Pigs, Gimme Three Steps, or Interstate Love Song then I just feel bad for you.
7) OMIGOD WE HAVE THE SAME SONGZORZ!
- The antithesis of complaint #8 can be even more annoying. When you're in a band and everyone DOES have one of the same DLC songs, you're invariably going to play it. I bought Roxanne for the joy of hearing friends try to sing it, not because I really love the bleating guitar riff. There has to be a middleground between never getting to play Blackened, and having to strum along to Cherry Bomb twice an hour.
6) Quitters.
- You know who you are. You play half way through a song, and then leave the game. It causes the rest of us to fail even if we were 3/4ths of the way through a full combo on Expert. I hate you, quitter!
5) The singer should always be the leader.
- If I have a mic in my hand, don't think my drummer is going to decide we're playing Coheed and Cambria. it's not your call dude. Also, it's not fun singing Bon Jovi every third song.
4) Yes you might actually have to play bass once in a while.
- It's a fair proposition. Unless someone has a specific preference for bass, the two guitarists should alternate back and forth between guitar and bass. Nothing is worse than playing 100% expert on bass behind a kid who slops up an 81% easy on lead guitar, then having the kid wrestle guitar away from you on the next track. It's your turn for bass, d-bag! This is the only time quitting is acceptable.
3) Blub blub bass
- If you ever do get someone else to play bass, they invariably have the effects pedal on. You know how many major rock bands use a flanger or wah wah pedal on their bass? None. There's a reason. It sounds like a whale is getting off in my ear canal. Flip the effects switch off.
2) Overdrive hoarders
- It's rare enough that the drummer and singer get the chance to kick overdrive in at the same time, but when they do and either the bassist or guitarist just keeps plugging along with a full overdrive meter? That's absolute agony.
1) Overconfident drummers
- If you've never played it on Hard or Expert before, don't experiment with Ballroom Blitz. In fact pre-test every song in solo mode before you trot it out in multiplayer. Otherwise everyone will fail because you are so very very bad.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I agree with most of it, especially #8!! Buy the DLC songs, you cheap bastards!!!
8, 4, and 2 :).
Funny blog here. Had my share of quitters before, both on Rock Band and Guitar Hero (had someone skip on me on the EASY version of Through The Fire And Flames before it even began).
Only thing that I would have to say about the DLC that may differ from your POV, though: Not everyone has the same music tastes. I may like the Serj Tankian track (LOVE the name of that track, BTW...can't say it here because it's KIND of obscene), but not everyone else will want anything to do with it, thus won't download it because they hate the song. That would be the only reasonable excuse (to me, at least).
Oh, the Echo effect is cool. You should try that one. Though I don't hear any big effect change out of the Chorus option.