Once again I have lust in my heart for a Bass.

[skyp1e]

I wouldn't probably even buy a real stringed bass that played Rock Band 3 PRO mode ala the Squier if there was another option. Not saying the Squier sucks or anything, but I am very happy with the Mustang for PRO guitar mode.

I would be equally (actually even happier) with a bass equivalent with buttons and everything.

I'm not looking for an electronic bass instructor. I just want to play a bass like instrument in the game.

A bass peripheral like the Mustang is about 100 times more likely to materialize for Rock Band than another Squier equivalent.

So, like I said I want a game controller not an instrument. I play bass, I have basses I don't necessarily want to play my own bass in the game if it won't detect where my fingers are (I just happen to like that about the Mustang). Also I want my instant feedback when I make mistakes. I want my streaks tracked and just about everything else that Rock Band 3 will do that Rocksmith won't.

I want to choose my difficulty level and stick with it. I don't want "lives" that I lose that force me to restart after 5 mistakes etc.

So emphatically if it's a choice between playing a real bass in Rocksmith or sicking with playing the Mustang to simulate bass (for lack of a dedicated Mustangesque bass controller) then I will chose the latter every time.

BTW, GNF I can't believe you have to guess at my gender.

[peterock2007]

No one ever said that. What I said is that you can't force anyone to want things. If skyp1e were to change her(?) mind, it'd be because she changed her mind, not because you followed her around going, "Why don't you like the things I like?"

You never know, I'm quite persitant.

it's actually not up to HMX, since they're out of the peripheral business now.

I'm talking more about plug and play the software side of it rather than a new bass controller, I realize a bass controler is not happening but the plug and play stuff could be developed by HMX

Also I want my instant feedback when I make mistakes. I want my streaks tracked and just about everything else that Rock Band 3 will do that Rocksmith won't.

I want to choose my difficulty level and stick with it. I don't want "lives" that I lose that force me to restart after 5 mistakes etc.

So emphatically if it's a choice between playing a real bass in Rocksmith or sicking with playing the Mustang to simulate bass (for lack of a dedicated Mustangesque bass controller) then I will chose the latter every time.

BTW, GNF I can't believe you have to guess at my gender.

You keep acting like I'm telling you to go play rocksmith, I'm not. I'm talking about wanting rockband to develop the plug and play that rocksmith has, so its not going to have the flaws (real or imagined) that you list. It would be rockband, the same old rockband. I too have instruments and amps I can play, but I play rockband because it's fun. I'm saying that if it's a choice between plug and play in rb4 or nothing, then I choose plug and play. For people like me and those who want a bass controler it's prolly this or nothing. Obviously your all set with your mustang, but what if madcatz pulls the plug on that much like squier?

[Scythemaster 37]

Can't you hear that boom-ba-doom-doom-boom-ba-doom-doom baby, got that super bass. I want that in RB. It would be fun.

Every time I see peter-rock-whatever's posts, someone is arguing with him.

[tnevaker]

You keep acting like I'm telling you to go play rocksmith, I'm not. I'm talking about wanting rockband to develop the plug and play that rocksmith has, so its not going to have the flaws (real or imagined) that you list. It would be rockband, the same old rockband. I too have instruments and amps I can play, but I play rockband because it's fun. I'm saying that if it's a choice between plug and play in rb4 or nothing, then I choose plug and play. For people like me and those who want a bass controler it's prolly this or nothing. Obviously your all set with your mustang, but what if madcatz pulls the plug on that much like squier?

although if the finger-position sensing and display is really as important to him as he says, this won't give him what he wants. but i agree that a rocksmith-style technology would be better for RB4, i think the value of the position sensing display is way overrated. howerver, i don't think it would be more likely though. besides the expense of licensing it and reprogramming RB pro mode to work with that tech, which would also require some gameplay changes for RB, since the detection lag would make RB-style scoring difficult, as well as having to basically start over with pro DLC (current DLC doesn't account for things like bends, harmonics, alternate tunings, and such other things that are effected when you start implementing pitch-detection instead of just reading finger positions and strums), means they'll probably stick with pro mode as is.