RockBand.com

  • 02-08-2012 04:18 PM
    Ryder35
    Just played them and rockband has a lot of catching up to do this month. Being able to play some of my favourite PJ songs and being able to hear it is so awesome. Black is fantastic the chord version is really easy but does not have a strumming pattern which is annoying but because of the way RS works you can make up your own and not be penalised for it. Got 99.8k on my second play through

    Love it it feels much more like I am making music compare to rb where it feels like I am hitting the buttons. I can add emotion into my playing which is impossible in rb. That is why rb needs to learn lessons from RS.
  • 02-08-2012 04:19 PM
    Doom878
    Hopefully for RB4. See my sig :p
  • 02-08-2012 06:09 PM
    Ryder35
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Doom878 View Post
    Hopefully for RB4. See my sig :p

    My sentiments exactly!
  • 02-08-2012 06:19 PM
    lvmathemagician
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by mikeyts View Post
    What's your source for that statistic? I wouldn't expect small kids to be playing it, but I'd think that a game to help learn guitar would have appeal for tweens and their parents.

    My source is admittedly weak. It's the poll on the forum itself. According to this poll, the great majority of the players are 30 -50. Of course, it's only an internet poll. Interesting results though.

    Here's a link to the poll:

    http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...-else-over-40?
  • 02-08-2012 07:09 PM
    raynebc
    I tend to agree that it would take a more mature audience (but not necessarily age) to seriously commit to learning to play a musical instrument. I'm glad the song language isn't being censored.
  • 02-08-2012 07:24 PM
    lvmathemagician
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by raynebc View Post
    I tend to agree that it would take a more mature audience (but not necessarily age) to seriously commit to learning to play a musical instrument. I'm glad the song language isn't being censored.

    Another reason may that while vocals are available, they are hardly featured.
  • 02-08-2012 07:26 PM
    Sargehalo51
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by lvmathemagician View Post
    My source is admittedly weak. It's the poll on the forum itself. According to this poll, the great majority of the players are 30 -50. Of course, it's only an internet poll. Interesting results though.

    Here's a link to the poll:

    http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...-else-over-40?

    Well, they have me pegged. Although I am a drummer, I never really bothered with the guitar before (other than pro-mode in RB3). But since Rocksmith, I'm playing all the time and have bought myself two guitars (Epi Les Paul and Squier Strat) and one bass (Squier Jaguar) and am loving both the game and playing outside of the game! Oh...I'm 40yrs old.
  • 02-09-2012 02:38 AM
    SeattleSauve
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Doom878 View Post
    Black looks hard as **** maxed out. Those chords man

    Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by Black. The chord version was simple, the combo takes skill to play smoothly, so there's something for both beginners and advanced players. Jeremy was fun, but Black was my favorite. It took me longer to master black than jeremy.
  • 02-10-2012 04:59 PM
    toymachineSH
    Quote:

    The dynamic difficulty was changed to assume you're really good until you make a mistake. So if you start a new profile, and only play songs you're perfect on, the game is going to assume you are an expert, and continually have new phrases start at a very high level. The dynamic difficulty heavily relies on the rate of improvement. So when you start a fresh profile, since you already know many songs, even though you level back down, if you still have 3+ songs you know really well and then play them perfectly, it's going to assume you can maintain that type of improvement.
    If you make mistakes, then there's no change in how the dynamic difficulty works. It should behave just as it did prepatch.
    If you didn't start a new profile, the only difference you should notice is how difficult new songs start. If you continually sightread badly, then sightreading will get easier overtime, but the system needs to learn that.
    -Matt

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    We aren't prioritizing experienced guitarists over beginners. The change helped make it easier for experienced guitarists to level up more quickly. If you can, give a little more faith in the dynamic difficulty system. Since you restarted a profile, it's going to be a little tougher if you are playing songs you've already leveled and learned before you reset your profile. It's going to take longer for the system to adjust since it no longer has the history of how long it took for you to get to that point - which is key to the system. Once the system notices that it's constantly giving you too hard stuff, it'll slow down a lot after that point.

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    Badly enough is hard to explain, as the dynamic difficulty system heavily relies on rates of increase and decrease. If you just leave the game on, and level everything down, it won't necessarily 'rejigger' the system, because once you start playing again, it'll see you're leveling everything up really fast, canceling out the huge rate of decrease, since you just gained a huge rate of increase. The 'rejigger' will happen, when you constantly fail without doing well immediately afterwards.
    Dynamic Difficulty has changed post-patch

    http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...lty-post-patch
  • 02-10-2012 07:05 PM
    Sargehalo51
    I am loving the Pearl Jam songs, fun to play and great to listen to!