5 February 2014
Been playing just about every night until 1:30 or 2:00 and
it’s killing me. Or at least making me very tired and possibly sick. I skipped
Monday night in favor of getting more than 4 hours of sleep for a change.
Tuesday I woke up – barely – sick as a dog and called into work. Stayed in bed
the entire day except for dinner, and then I played for maybe an hour or so.
Still got to bed by midnight which is early by recent standards.
The latest DLC is out (R.E.M.) and I noticed that they’ve
started adding new DLC to our song list as locked songs. I see good and bad in
this. More bad than good for players, though. On one hand, if you want to buy
new DLC, you don’t have to hunt it down in the online store. Just click on it
in the song list and you go straight to the buying page. Kind of handy. On the
other hand, song lists will get much longer fast and include more songs that you
might never want to buy. Now we’ll have to scroll through a bunch of stuff that
we may not want. Plus, I’m guessing this new approach is taking up at least
some additional memory on my console, and I definitely don’t like that.
Thanks to the new sorting feature in RS2014, navigating a
growing song list is a little easier to work around. Just mark all the stuff
you like or even think you might like as Favorites and then sort your song list
on Favorites; everything that isn’t a Favorite will be grouped at one end of
your song list. (Sorting on Owned songs would presumably group all the
unpurchased DLC at one end of your song list or the other, but then you’d still
have a bunch of “non-favorite” songs mixed in alphabetically with stuff you
like.)
The easy answer would be to allow players to sort the song
list on 2 or more criteria. Owned songs AND favorites, for example.
I really don’t want all the new DLC showing up in my song
list as locked songs. If I want to buy DLC, I know where to go. There are some songs
that came with the game that I’d like to delete, and there’s a bunch of DLC
that I’ll never buy. This new arrangement will just add more “junk” to cull
through to get to the songs I like.
On a more positive DLC-related note, I watched the R.E.M.
DLC preview video and was very relieved to see that even the pros who play in
those videos get some “Missed” notes! I really get angry with myself (or RS)
when I get a “miss,” but clearly much better players than I miss some notes,
too.
I noticed that too. I sort by "Recommended", and suddenly it wasn't defaulting to the top of the list (the R.E.M. songs were prepended to the top of the list). I don't like the idea of a cluttered list either, but I won't totally hate it if all of the locked songs are grouped together.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm getting the impression that it's not good to be a "big fan" of a group that gets their DLC added. I'm a pretty big R.E.M. fan, and *hate* the song selection that they chose. I was looking forward to the release after they announced it, and was totally underwhelmed. I don't plan to buy it, although I may eventually pick up Kenneth or One I Love if I run out of other material (which I can't really imagine happening).
ReplyDeleteLooks like the R.E.M. DLC in my LAS list got replaced by Kiss DLC (the latest release). I assume that today or tomorrow, it will be replaced by todays' DLC release (Rise Against?). It seems like they won't "build up" in the list - it will just be whatever the latest release is. I even scanned the list and didn't see R.E.M. anywhere, so it doesn't seem like it gets bumped to the bottom, or anything like that.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you called that one, skydvr. Rise Against popped up after KISS. If this is how they plan to do it, I can handle it. Probably a good way to sell more DLC - which is fine by me as long as it doesn't get intrusive. The more they sell, the more new DLC we're likely to get. And that's a good thing.
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