| Rock Band Bromance |
[Apr. 18th, 2009|01:12 am] |
| [ | Feeling... |
| |  amused | ] |
| [ | The music in my mind... |
| | Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son | ] |
Rock Band 2 at Blue Skies with Apags last Thursday morning. It was my first time.
Met up at Skies at around 930am. We went early to secure a spot. I must say, Skies has excellent equipment. The guitars were of good quality and the HDTV was beautiful, not to mention huge. The track selection was also pretty extensive, though I was disappointed to find that they didn't have a single Iron Maiden song (*hint hint*).
I rocked the guitar while Apags took to the bass. Apags was confident enough to play on Extreme as he frequents RB quite a bit. I'd played Guitar Hero before and am an avid fan of the series, so I figured I'd do well enough in RB as the guitar setup shouldn't be too different. That in mind, I resolved to play on Hard difficulty from the get-go, having been playing on Hard and Extreme in GH. And, playing on anything below Hard is just not fun. There are hardly any scaling runs and hammer-on/pull-off combos, the notes are few and far between, and the timing is just too slow. No fun at all. If I fail, I fail (and fail I did many times). But anything worth doing is worth doing badly! ☻
Apags gave me first pick, so I scanned the selection and found one of my favorite GH songs: Carry On Wayward Son. I was curious to see how different it was on RB. It wasn't much different, but it was just as fun, especially during the sweet-ass solo. Much love Kansas! After the song, I thought to myself, "I could've done it on Expert." That marked the first and only time I'd score higher than Apags. Hahahahaha! Apags chose next, picking Highway Star. It was long and tiring, but extremely fun.
We took turns choosing songs. Notable were the RHCP songs (which Apags thoroughly enjoyed, I'm sure), metal songs like My Curse and Indestructible (which I thoroughly enjoyed despite their difficulty), The Kill (which killed since I played it on Expert), and Detroit Rock City (which caught my eye in Mall Cop and was very enjoyable). We'd chill out with rest songs like Message In A Bottle, which was easy even on Expert. We also went for demonic songs like Master Exploder and Painkiller, both of which chewed us up, seeing us fail miserably. The System of A Down songs were also quite difficult.
Later, another group took to the RB stage in the room next to ours. Apags and I constantly sized them up, checking out the songs they were playing and the difficulty they chose to play on. They were chumps. We gave them a little taste of Metallica's Blackened, which we failed once or twice (hahahaha), but on harder difficulties than the chumps in the next room were playing.
We played for around 3 hours that morning. In fact, we weren't even aware we had been playing for that long until 2 and a half hours in. That's how much fun we were having, I guess. At P280/hour, it was very expensive fun, but quite worth it. It would've cost us less if we had more players though, since it's only P380 per hour if all 4 instruments are used. Sulit! After getting bring Rock Band devirginized, I highly recommend it for those who, like me, are dying of the heat-boredom combination of the summer break. And don't forget to invite me! I can sing, too. Hahahaha!
Apags and I had lunch at Pancake House and it was then that we realized a disturbing truth: we were on a man-date! Hahahahaha. Ah, the splendid scent of BROMANCE! Next time, we'll invite more people on our RB runs. ☺ |
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kenny! you read the poem! <3
Of course I read the poem. Icarus has always been one of my favorite mythological figures. He's Don Quixote. | |
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