Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses
Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses
Now's a good opportunity to promote Clone Hero
YARG as well
It'll never be quite the same without the master tracks.
For customs? Yeah. But pretty much every master used in the RB or GH games have been ripped and are available for use there too
For about 1 year my two sons and I played Rock Band, mostly The Beatles, everyday when they came home from school. At least an hour each day. We played other versions of Rock Band, but the Beatles was easily our favorite.
It directly led one of them to learn the piano and eventually get a master's degree in composing, and the other to enjoy playing in bands and performing in musical theatre.
And this is why disc games should never go away.
Don't worry, the games industry has you covered on that now. They just release games that are broken or half-finished without the day 1 patch, but then allowing it to update removes all of the licensed content.
The digital download isn't going away either (yet).
I have so many good memories of playing Rock Band in college. I just picked this up for PS4 for like $10, but it looks like the instruments are going to cost an arm and a leg...
Just like being in a real rock band!
This is one of the weird aspects of games that seems to make no sense because of archaic laws that never entered the 20th century, nevermind the 21st. It seems to be about manufacturing new copies of the already made game, not selling them. So it only affects digital sales, I would assume because of their "creation" on a new sale, every physical game copy was already manufactured and out there, nothing changes there.
End of an era 🥲
Obligatory plug: Rock Band 3 Deluxe mod, Rock Band 4 Deluxe mod
Shoutout to the Milohax team
So uh, happy... anniversary... I guess?
Too bad PS4 emulation isn't quite there yet. You can, however, pirate the fuck out of the earlier games, DLC and all. Truly a better way to play, cause that DLC was hella expensive.
Rock Band 4 does get in-game now on ShadPS4, but it's a long ways off from playable.
https://github.com/shadps4-compatibility/shadps4-game-compatibility/issues/1165
Man, this sucks. I haven't played any games like this in a while (i legit have my guitar hero mounted on the wall) but it sucks to see something like this going away
I've heard good things about YARG (yet another rhythm game). Basically an open source rock band clone on PC.
There's also Clone Hero