Rock Band VR Coming In March + My Thoughts

We finally have a release date for Rock Band VR, and it’s March 23rd for the Oculus Rift. The majority of the game is the “Performance Gameplay” mode, which allows you to strum notes and chords over songs, similar to freestyle guitar solos in Rock Band 4. If you’re not into that “Classic Mode” is also available which features the note highways that you’re familiar with. Leaderboards will also be featured, which seems to indicate that there will be some sort of scoring in the performance mode meaning it’s a bit more in-depth than just noodling over selected songs from Rock Band. A bit of the setlist has been unveiled with the following three songs:

• Aerosmith – “Walk This Way”
• The Killers – “When You Were Young”
• Paramore – “Ain’t It Fun

It seems like more song announcements will be coming soon, given that the soundtrack “over 60 songs”. What’s really interesting is that Paramore’s Ain’t It Fun isn’t currently available for Rock Band meaning it’s likely going to show up as DLC in the future for the main game. It is also worth noting that Rock Band VR will have its own unique DLC down the line as well. Pre-orders are currently available on Amazon with a guitar bundle available for $69.99. It will also require an Oculus Rift and an Oculus Touch controller, which are sold separately.

I kinda don’t see the point of the game being on PC. I know it’s an Oculus Rift exclusive and Oculus invested money into Harmoinx from that to make it, but I can’t see this game being on a platform where the main Rock Band game isn’t. If Harmoinx’s Fig campaign to bring Rock Band 4 to PC actually worked then this would be awesome and makes sense. But because this will be a separate game I kinda feel like Harmoinx many alienate some of there fans with this. The argument could also be made that this game is similar to Rock Band Unplugged, in the sense that it’s its own experience on a different platform. But I digress, it’ll be interesting to see how this pans out for Harmonix and what this’ll mean for Rock Band in the future. Thoughts ?