Actually, Activision didn't acquire Blizzard and that is simply a major misconception. Vivendi (who, incidentally, MTV, the parent company of Harmonix Music Systems, which makes Activision's treatment of Guitar Hero and constant attempts to make Rock Band seem like garbage even more facepalm worthy) acquired Blizzard and felt it best to pool the two companies' resources. Both Activision and Blizzard operate independently.
$3.50 to import not even half the set as opposed to getting twice as many from Rock Band 1 to Rock Band 2 for $5? That's a rip off right there, but add in that I only like 4 of the songs available for import? Not to mention that 2 of the only 3 songs from Smash Hits I like from the importable list I already have on Rock Band. Yeah. Way to drop the ball Activision.
Dr. Steel is all I got the electronic stuff. As for folk, if folk metal counts: Korpiklaani and Tyr.
For hip-hop/rap: Dr. Steel. He fits more on the electronic side of the genre, but is easily a great choice. For jazz: Marcus Miller. A relatively well known jazz bassist and one of my personal influences. Louie Armstrong. Can't go wrong with good ol Satchmo. For country: The Charlie Daniels Band Johnny Cash. Both of these guys should be quite obvious.
Which is fair enough. I personally find XBL to be a lot more user friendly (and Standard Definition friendly as well) and I've had far less connection issues with it (my PS3 tends to forget my DNS a good 40% of the time,) but that's just me.
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The price tag is less than $4 a month! That's so little that its a non-issue!
Not arguing that the PS3 is more powerful and I was only referring to multi-platform titles. It would be somewhat pointless to argue which console has better looking exclusives as different teams are going to do different things and a developer working on an exclusive title doesn't have to worry about the opposite console, so they aren't as limited in what they can do. Numbers-wise, the PS3 is superior (albeit, not by nearly as much as Sony would have you think). As for stability, I've only had crashing issues with my XBox on games that are known for stability issues (Castle Crashers pre-patch and Fallout 3.) Otherwise, I can run it for hours on end with no issue. As for "******s with bad spelling," how the hell does the ability to spell matter with voice chat? And a "mic and horrific accent," voice chat is available to all PS3 owners as well and you'll have to sit through these "horrific accents" either way. Now, for online features, XBL has group chat available in game, a better friends list system, faster and more stable download servers, more stable servers for online first party titles, the ability to use Netflix downloaded movies on a television as opposed to a computer monitor (which is entirely the advantage of using it on the XBox as opposed to the computer.) Otherwise for less than US$4 a month ($3.84 to be exact), which is practically nothing, you have easily the best online service available to console owners. Lets just say there's a reason I don't feel the "but you have to pay for XBL" argument is a good one. Speaking of the fee, it is interesting to note that Sony actually claims they have a better service and that the fee is unnecessary. Ironically, it is partially thanks to this fee that Sony scoffs at with every chance they get.
Ah, this myth again. While it is true that difference in graphics quality is indeed minimal, the console in which development is based on is usually going to be the better looking version of the game. For example, Fallout 3 looks and runs better on the 360 than it does on PS3 while Mirror's Edge looks and runs better on PS3 than it does on 360. Fallout 3's development was based on the 360 while Mirror's Edge's development was based on the PS3. The better looking version is generally going to be the version that was used as the main development version. However, its not unheard of for the opposite version to look and run better than the main version as is the case with games like Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters was built on the PS3, but for some reason, the textures and framerate are better on the 360 than the PS3. While I won't argue blu-ray as blu-ray is great (albeit somewhat expensive), XBox Live is actually considered superior than Playstation Network. With ownership and experience with both, XBL is in fact better.
It would be a good suggestion if it wasn't such an involved album for listening to. Hmm, to recommend Satriani or not to? Eh, why not? Joe Satriani might suit your needs.
This will take a while to go through, so have fun: 3 Inches of Blood (thrash metal) abingdon boys' school (rock) Abney Park (goth rock, steampunk) Alestorm (heavy metal) Alex Lifeson (rock) Amon Amarth (melodic death metal) Anvil (heavy metal) Apocalyptica (neo-classical metal) Avantasia (power metal) Bang Camaro (hard rock) Battlelore (power metal with industrial and death metal elements) Between the Buried and Me (progressive death metal) Beyond Fear (heavy metal) Black Label Society (heavy metal with sludge metal elements) The Black Mages (neo-classical metal) Black Sabbath (heavy metal) Blind Guardian (power metal) Cellador (power metal) Chickenfoot (hard rock, super band made up of Joe Satriani (solo), Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony (both ex-Van Halen) and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers)) Coheed & Cambria (progressive rock) Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains (progressive rock, super band made up of Primus's Les Claypool (Colonel Claypool), Buckethead (Bucket), Bernie Worrell (Bernie) and Bryan "Brain" Mantia (Brains)) Conception (progressive metal, the original band of Kamelot's vocalist, Roy Khan) Demons & Wizards (power metal, super band made up of Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer and Blind Guardian's Hansi Kursch) Derdian (power metal) Dio (heavy metal) Dr. Steel (hip hop and electroica with heavy steampunk and mad scientist themes) Dream Theater (progressive metal) E Nomine (electronica in the style of gregorian chanting) Eisbrecher (Neue Deutch Harte, an electronica influenced subgenre of industrial metal) Epica (symphonic metal) Galneryus (neo-classical metal) Geddy Lee (progressive rock) Heaven & Hell (heavy metal with doom metal elements on their latest release, basically Dio era Black Sabbath. They perform material from Dio's Sabbath albums, plus their new release, The Devil You Know.) Helloween (power metal) Iced Earth (heavy metal with power metal like themes) Iron Maiden (heavy metal) Jethro Tull (blues for their earliest albums, progressive rock for most of their albums and synthpop for a time in the 80s) Jimi Hendrix (hard rock, psycodelic rock) Joe Satriani (hard rock, progressive rock and instrumental rock) Journey (rock, progressive rock) Judas Priest (heavy metal) Kamelot (power metal) Korpiklaani (folk metal) Liquid Tension Experiment (instrumental progressive metal, super band made up of Dream Theater's John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess and Mike Portnoy and King Crimson's Tony Levin) Lordi (heavy metal) Luca Turilli (power metal) Luca Turilli's Dreamquest (power metal, symphonic metal) Machinae Supremacy (power metal, three free albums available on their website) Masterplan (power metal) Mastodon (progressive metal, sludge metal) Megadeth (thrash metal) Metallica (thrash metal) Motorhead (heavy metal) Nightwish (power metal) Nine Inch Nails (industrial rock) Opeth (progressive metal) Ozzy Osbourne (heavy metal) The Project Hate MCMXCIX (death metal) The Protomen (I honestly can't figure out what genre they play) Queen (rock, progressive rock) Queensryche (progressive metal) Rhapsody of Fire (power metal, symphonic metal) Richard Cheese (lounge, comedy, does covers of rock, rap and metal songs in a lounge style. Especially hilarious are his versions Baby Got Back and Down With the Sickness) Rush (progressive rock) Scar Symetry (melodic death metal) Scars on Broadway (alternative metal) Serj Tankian (alternative metal) Sonata Arctica (progressive metal, power metal) Sons of Seasons (power metal) Static X (industrial metal) Stratovarius (neo-classical metal) Symphony X (progressive metal) System of a Down (alternative metal) Tarot (heavy metal) Tool (progressive metal) Trans-Siberian Orchestra (holiday, rock) Tyr (folk metal) Velvet Revolver (hard rock) Versailles (power metal) Wierd Al (comedy) The Who (rock) Within Temptation (symphonic metal) X Japan (heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal) Xandria (symphonic metal) Yes (progressive rock) Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force (neo-classical metal) ZZ Top (hard rock, blues rock)
The console with the head start always has problems. The Dreamcast died because most people waited for the PS2, the PS2 had disc read errors and the 360 had the red ring of death. Why can't Sony/Microsoft realize that rusing out a console to get a head start will cause problems.
Too bad Viva La Vida was ripped off of Satriani.
If I still had it, a certain image of Captain Picard would speak more truth about how I feel about this thread than I ever could.
Yeah, because developers HAVE to make their games on a console with about half the sales and potential customers than the other console....
I agree, that was just about the dumbest thing I've read in a while. And not everything that is made on the PS3 has the developer taking time to build a demo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs4tNeGyTyI Not the one I was looking for (which mashes up three songs and still sounds coherant), but it should get the job done. Seriously, this is worse copy/paste "writing" than even DragonForce. Better one.
It is one of the few games I recommend to everyone regardless of whether or not they like the genre. The gameplay is great, the boss fights are epic, the story is amazing (even if some of the changes from the original version of MGS are a bit cheesy). You owe it to yourself to play it.
There really aren't many new prog acts out there, but Coheed definitely is the best of what is out there. Though I wonder what they plan to do next since The Amory Wars wrapped up.
