11/29 DLC: Roadrunner Pack (Opeth, Trivium, Dream Theater), + Starship

**nextlevel88** · Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 573

I know you purists will likely hate me, but I actually liked a good part of DT's recent work. I wouldn't say it was better than what they've done before, just different, and as a metal fan, different in a way I enjoyed.

To be fair, I think I enjoyed their albums more going from Six Degrees back, and liked individual songs going from Train of Thought forward (i.e. I think Scenes is a great composition in its entirety, where I like the song Octavarium more than the album, and I like a song here and there from Systematic Chaos). However, starting with Black Clouds I went to liking parts of songs instead of songs or albums.

I guess what I'm saying is that while I think it's fair to say their overall quality started to decline, it wasn't throwaway, just more of it was throwaway than it was before. I liked the new album and wasn't at all upset with the return to pure prog, but found I was still picking songs as opposed to just letting it play like I did with the old "pure prog" albums.
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**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

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(Ignoring the first couple of paragraphs because I don't know anywhere near enough about Dream Theater to continue the discussion.)

It doesn't upset me, I just find it completely baffling. I wouldn't buy a song I didn't like listening to, even if the chart was the best thing in the world. Conversely, I will always enjoy playing a song I love listening to, even if the chart is really boring (example: all the New Pornographers DLC). Seems I'm alone on that. But yeah, "SH only cares if stuff is hard" is pretty much what I got from your original post - whether or not that's what you meant, it's unfortunately the fact of how it is around here since all the casual players disappeared. I don't think anyone's worried that HMX aren't putting out enough accessible DLC, but it must be galling for them when nobody seems to care about anything except this sort of stuff.

Anyway. It's probably for the best if I stop getting involved in Rock Band discussions, see you in General Chat.
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**MSH-Hitman** · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 4481 Location: Florida

Eh, not really excited by the Roadrunner pack. Nothing bad, I'm just not excited by any of those three bands. Probably end up passing on these for awhile.

**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

Over/under on complaints about the charting tomorrow?

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**raynebc** · Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 992

Harmonix doesn't author charts to include fade outs. I expect it will be full volume until the instrumentation stops.

Edit: But perhaps that's not what you meant. I don't remember how the strumming is at that part of the song.

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**FL4RE** · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 4178 Location: Liverpool yano

I hope they don't screw up the charting for the songs...seriously if we have the same guy who charted Pulse of the Maggots, Child of Time or the Poison Pack I will not be pleased.
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