Rock Band 4 has been officially announced by series developer Harmonix. It's coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later in 2015.
It will support old peripherals, though Mad Catz is creating new ones as well.
Better yet, it will allow players to import all their content from previous games on PS3 and Xbox 360 into this long-awaited series resurgence. The previous Rock Band game, Rock Band 3, launched five years ago in 2010.
We caught up with the game's project manager Daniel Sussman at GDC for further details on why Harmonix thinks now is the time to rejuvenate Rock Band and what's changing in this latest iteration.
"After taking some time off, it was really interesting to kind of come back and play the games that we bled and sweat over for years and years and years. Two things emerged very quickly: One was 'holy motherf***, these games are FUN!' Sussman exclaimed.
"At the same time we were able to be quite critical of the work that we had done and saw lots of room for improvement. And that was really important to us as well because we are all creative people and it was important for us to be able to sink our teeth into to something that was deserving of the 4 at the end of the title. We didn't just want to rehash Rock Band 3 for new consoles. We felt it was really important for us to evolve the gameplay in a way that would be interesting."
I was fairly restrained with DLC. I think I topped out at about 250 songs, including the ones on all three game discs. If that costs more than an Xbone, I guess I'll just buy one of them
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
I was fairly restrained with DLC. I think I topped out at about 250 songs, including the ones on all three game discs. If that costs more than an Xbone, I guess I'll just buy one of them
No idea how many I had, but it was all game discs (inc Lego and Green Day) plus about 100 DLC songs.
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This actually might be my flimsy use-case for getting an Xbone.
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Or my wildly-fluctuating feelings about it means I could decide this was one of those novelties that was good in the past, but it's had its time and there's no point trying to recapture that initial feeling where all we did at parties for a few years was lock ourselves away in a room playing Rock Band all night.
Ho hum.
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