The character options are quite varied this time around, whether you want to make a fat slob or some skinny coke-head that popped too many phentermine diet pills, or something in between. A lot of the clothing and stuff requires unlocking by completing goals in the game. I think I preferred the RB2 method of paying virtual money to unlock stuff cause you could just look through the gear, play some songs to get the money for what you want and go buy it. Now you could get stuck with some very hard goals to beat in order to get the gloves you want or the ability to do facial tattoos or what-not.

My biggest complaint so far, the Pompadour looks really stupid this time around. I hope there’s a better one that just needs to be unlocked, but it’s probably just wishful thinking.

I was kind of planning to wait for the midi adapter to come out before doing keyboards since I’ve already got a full size keyboard with midi jacks. I’d love to have been able to try out pro drums though, but that will have to wait as well. So like other music games, I’m stuck playing regular guitar. No pro guitars around here for a while I figure. The Mustang should be released soon but I’d rather get the Squier since it’s real instead of 100+ buttons.

The actually breaking of the 25k was a result of finishing the story in Lego Rock Band!

I’ve been checking out vids of it on youtube and it looks to be very well done. Typical smooth Rock Band action, lots of good songs to play and it’s compatible with a pretty good chunk of the existing downloadable content. It’s designed to be family friendly, so existing songs with a more mature theme/language aren’t playable in the Lego version. To make it even better, all the songs can be exported for use with Rock Band 1 & 2. Exporting will cost you $10 though, but this is offset by the fact that the game retails for $10 less than most new games. So put away the Kettlebell, grab yer fake plastic instrument of choice and get rocking Lego style, tear down buildings and bust ghosts with the power of rock.

It seems to be working though, I’ve sold most of the used guitars and copies of RB & GH in the last week, but there’s still some left. With Rock Band 2 out now I expect to be flooded with RB1 stuff over the next couple of months.

I’ve been playing Rock Band quite a bit again lately, working on improving my scores on expert songs. I finally put down Flirtin’ With Disaster but I still can’t make it through Green Grass and High Tides. Best I’ve managed so far is around 74%, but since the last half the song is one long solo it doesn’t look like I’ll be through it any time soon either. My career score was around 4.9 million but now I’ve got it up to around 6.1m, some good increases! I improved most of my songs by at least 1 star rating.