Rocksmith discussion thread - New real guitar game.

[toymachineSH]

But Rocksmith breaks each song into dozens of bite-sized phrases and keeps track of the sections in which the player stumbles and the sections they breeze through. It uses the data to dynamically adjust how difficult to make each phrase, ramping up the areas that players find easy and making up mini-tutorials on the fly for sections in which the player has trouble.

The game also comes with mini-games aimed at teaching techniques, such as note-bending (where a player plays a note that turns into another note) and sliding (a trick often used by blues musicians to create a wailing sound).

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ente...al-guitar.html

[Witticus]

It's good to see some competition that has far better ideas for real guitar compared to Powergig. If it really lets you use your own guitar and doesn't require a $200+ adapter to do so, then thats a huge plus. However the lack of finger position showing thats helped me out tremendously in Rock Band 3 is a big downside. Only time will tell though.

[raynebc]

At least that new article has a real in-game screen shot. Back to front scrolling track and a front view of a guitar fretboard. So far, the visuals appear to be a cheap imitation, but this game might be a good secondary game as far as teaching guitar techniques.

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

Okay, it has bending?

I still wish it had "start with full charts" / "turn off adaptive difficulty for a full run", though.

As for the guitar Epiphone chose to include in the "bundle" version, the link in the article points to this: http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Elec...P-Express.aspx. They could have done better and offered the full-scale Special II, with option of SG version.

[Stol-FA-Lin]

This certainly doesn't seem to really compete 1:1 with RB3 and/or the pro modes, other than having a guitar in it. It's more like a tutorial sort of thing? We'll have to see in a few months what's up with the converter etc, for what might be better said to be tab learning or educational software and so on. Nobody in this overall genre is advertising much or saying anything much of substance to anyone, so who knows right now.

If there's separate lead and rhythm parts with the supposed support for "any guitar with a plug" that could be something, especially when combined with the content. Lead guitar version, rhythm guitar version, acoustic guitar version, bass guitar version? Support for what. Tabs for what. Seeing as how there's a void for bass games/learning tools, maybe somebody will move into it if they don't.

For now though, it's all just vaporware with no real details anyway. We'll have to wait until later to see. And we're all used to waiting anyway, aren't we?

[mec_os]

yes, you can do bending, you can do all sorts of stuff since it doesn't count against you.

[toymachineSH]

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Elec...P-Express.aspx

This may be the guitar that comes bundled

[LunaticSoul]

I've already seen more articles/fuss about this game than the whole RB3 Pro mode. This is kind of sad. The lack of advertisement is not good, honestly.. It's just wasted potential.

I also disagree with Drake, as if this turns out to be what the first interviews claimed to be (I said IF, a huge IF, as imho "Ubisoft = meh stuff") I think we can say that for the first time HMX has to learn from someone else, as one of the major complaints about pro guitar (I can't use mine boohooohh) is solved.

However, I think HMX already tried this kind of tech and realized it wasn't good enough for Rock Band, maybe. Mmh, we'll see.

[princessjessa13]

I feel like this isn't so much of a game as it is another way of learning guitar and/or guitar tabs. I might pick it up when it comes out, because by that time I'll have had 6 months of RB pro-guitar, and might just be looking for something to complement my guitar experience.

I feel like it's not in direct competition with RB. RB is still definitely a GAME game. It just has the added bonus of being able to learn real guitar too. But I know that I'll never play pro-guitar with my friends. When rocking with my friends, I'll always just want a purely game simulation experience that you get by pushing 5 coloured buttons.

[Mega-Tallica]

They say you can use any guitar...

If this is true, a lot more people would be interested in Rocksmith than RB3 and Powergig combined.