Rocksmith discussion thread - New real guitar game.

[NOT_Travis]

Are you not reading the thread before you post? This was revealed in a video demoing the feature (here) link to in a post above.

Also, they announced it like it was news on FaceBook. So...that's why. I've read every single post in this thread and I don't remember seeing anything like that. Of course, I'm usually on here at work where YouTube ist verboten!

[NOT_Travis]

Announcement in their Facebook page is more official than announcement on a gaming blog's YouTube channel ??? It was a statement to the press!

No big; additional corroboration doesn't hurt and as NOT_Travis points out, not everyone can check out YouTube clips from work.

That's what's frustrating about reading here while waiting for stuff to install: I can't see half the links people put up on here.

[mikeyts]

Yeah but this is official yo!

Announcement in their Facebook page is more official than announcement on a gaming blog's YouTube channel ??? It was a statement to the press!

No big; additional corroboration doesn't hurt and as NOT_Travis points out, not everyone can check out YouTube clips from work.

[NOT_Travis]

Announcement in their Facebook page is more official than announcement on a gaming blog's YouTube channel ??? It was a statement to the press!

No big; additional corroboration doesn't hurt and as NOT_Travis points out, not everyone can check out YouTube clips from work.

That's what's frustrating about reading here while waiting for stuff to install: I can't see half the links people put up on here.

[toymachineSH]

Announcement in their Facebook page is more official than announcement on a gaming blog's YouTube channel ??? It was a statement to the press!

No big; additional corroboration doesn't hurt and as NOT_Travis points out, not everyone can check out YouTube clips from work.

I don't think TOV was supposed to post that video yet lol

[daxx1970]

Quick question Rocksmith gurus and Di (hehe). Mrs. Daxx plays the pro guitar and pro bass (she loves the bass, working on the chords for guitar) on Rock Band but we do not have Rocksmith. I think she is a little hesitant to try a whole new style of learning so long question short, will Rocksmith make her better or just confuse her and slow down her Rock Band progress due to it's apparently different game style? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[NOT_Travis]

Quick question Rocksmith gurus and Di (hehe). Mrs. Daxx plays the pro guitar and pro bass (she loves the bass, working on the chords for guitar) on Rock Band but we do not have Rocksmith. I think she is a little hesitant to try a whole new style of learning so long question short, will Rocksmith make her better or just confuse her and slow down her Rock Band progress due to it's apparently different game style? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think that it depends on how well RB3's Pro interface works for you (or her, as the case may be). For me, I find that RS is better for me as a learning tool. FAR superior. The interface is different--they could do that, it was a new game, instead of the 3rd installment of a popular and gamier franchise--and it feels less like a square peg in a round hole. That being said, RB3's implementation is genius, given the framework that they had to work within. But being able to see a ghost-like fretboard with the shapes overlaid with where I'm supposed to put my fingertips just works better for me.

And then there's the practicing. Oh, the waste that RB3's practice mode is. You can only drop the speed to 70% as has been lamented by many here in the past, and if you want to use the game to actually play the full song, i.e. Expert difficulty, then probably 30% is too fast. Even in the trainer, it only goes down to 50% and THAT'S too fast for me, too. RS's allows you to come at it at a few different angles that I find more conducive and less frustrating than RB3's system.

The last major difference is the number of difficulties. This comes back to new game vs. old game with an established UI and expectations. But there are too many more notes and chords going from even Easy to Medium in RB3. I've gone into the "Set Mastry" for a section and gone to increase it. It's less than 10% from one difficulty level in some cases. It's so much more granular in Rocksmith.

TL;DR: your best bet is to have Mrs. Daxx find a way to try it out and see how it works. I'm pretty sure that someone here somewhere in this thread said that they actually prefer RB3's presentation. For learning the real guitar, RS wins hands down for me. But I can't play Pro Drums in that game, or let me pretend to be in a full band, so I play RB3 for that.

[daxx1970]

Thanks N_T, I appreciate your opinion and the time it took to write that out. It matched up with I was thinking so it's good to get a confirmation. The leap between RB pro guitar easy and pro guitar medium is daunting to say the least. Reading about RS and it's large range of difficulties that match the players ability, sounds hands down better than the current method. I guess seeing the announcement about the bass coming to RS got my interest up since she said something about wanting a real bass the other day.

I'm also assuming not needing to have the guitar muted to play is a big plus.

[NOT_Travis]

Thanks N_T, I appreciate your opinion and the time it took to write that out. It matched up with I was thinking so it's good to get a confirmation. The leap between RB pro guitar easy and pro guitar medium is daunting to say the least. Reading about RS and it's large range of difficulties that match the players ability, sounds hands down better than the current method. I guess seeing the announcement about the bass coming to RS got my interest up since she said something about wanting a real bass the other day.

I'm also assuming not needing to have the guitar muted to play is a big plus.

This is still JUST ME, but: Easy-Medium=more than daunting; it's better for me, YMMV; and I forgot about the mute, yes, that's a huge plus. But if you have the Squier (assuming you do or why would you mention it?) and you're truly dedicated, you can tune the sensitivity to the point where you can play without the mute. I've got mine about 95% of the way there. I rarely get overstrums even with the mute down.

[daxx1970]

Yes we have the Squier and the Mustang but she prefers the Squier. I bought her an acoustic guitar with a built in pick-up several years ago so I figured she would play it on RS.

The easy to medium jump is utterly ridiculous looking to me but I don't play the thing in RB other than easy bass for a break every now and then. I have enough trouble with the easy to medium jump on pro keys or the hard to expert jump on pro drums but they don't look nearly as bad.

Are you adjusting the "pots" (I have no idea if that's what they really are) inside of the battery compartment under the little cover? We had to adjust one recently to get the 5th string to register properly as it was missing about every other note.

I would have to figure out if I can live with bad sounding missed chords or that dull scraping sound we get now.