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10-16-11, 07:42 PM
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Re: LOL @ Ubisoft: ROCKSMITH new guitar based game Sept. 2012
No way in Hell, I'll be sinking all of my time into Batman...then MW3...then Skyrim...etc... By the time I play through the pre-holiday titles this game will be $14.99
10-16-11, 07:58 PM
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I really hope this is good. I'd like to learn to play guitar better and this looks like a fun way to learn.
10-16-11, 08:03 PM
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I don't know if this will totally make sense, but I think this game is such a niche product that for those who actually want the game are probably not going to be dissuaded by a $20 surcharge. If you want this game, you're probably not a core gamer but rather a musician. If you've spent hundreds on an electric guitar and are really wanting to play it with your gaming system, I don't imagine that price would be too big a factor. Don't get me wrong : I think the game tanks, but some folks will pick it up regardless.
10-16-11, 08:28 PM
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Re: LOL @ Ubisoft: ROCKSMITH new guitar based game Sept. 2012
On the other hand, I'm not crazy about the on-disc playlist, and I agree that it's at least slightly overpriced. Especially considering that Rocksmith doesn't have to go through some of the same hassles Rock Band and Guitar Hero do...they're not digging up original audio stems and rebuilding songs track-by-track or anything, the charting is presumably a lot more straightforward, and there aren't nearly as many songs on the disc...I really don't think the price is justified, cable or no. Plus it's Ubisoft, so it'll be 60% off in a few weeks.
If not for Arkham City coming out this week, I could see myself grabbing it right now. One other problem: I'm torn about which console I'd buy it on. The 360 is my 'upstairs' console, and the PS3 is my 'downstairs' console. I'd have a little more privacy playing upstairs, so I could sound terrible and no one would really know, but my big sound system is downstairs, so if I got to a point where I sounded okay, that's where I'd wanna be. My other hesitation is that the PC version is coming out next month. I mean, you've gotta think there'll be a community of people who will just take tabs and MP3s and figure out some way to make new songs. I'm guessing there'll be a much wider variety of songs on the PC as people figure out the right hacks, plus they'd be available for free rather than premium DLC.
I'm pretty confident I'm buying the game...just haven't decided when yet. We'll see how impulsive I get once it's actually on store shelves.
For anyone wondering what the on-disc list is:
Best Coast – “When I’m With You”
Blur – “Song 2″
Cream – “Sunshine Of Your Love”
Dan Auerbach – “I Want Some More”
David Bowie – “Rebel Rebel”
Eric Clapton – “Run Back To Your Side”
Franz Ferdinand – “Take Me Out”
Incubus – “I Miss You”
Interpol – “Slow Hands”
Jarvis Cocker – “Angela”
Jenny O -”Well OK Honey”
Kings Of Leon “Use Somebody”
Lenny Kravitz – “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
Little Barrie – “Surf Hell”
Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Sweet Home Alabama”
Muse – “Plug In Baby”
Muse – “Unnatural Selection”
Nirvana – “Breed”
Nirvana – “In Bloom”
Radiohead – “High And Dry”
Red Fang – “Number Thirteen”
Silversun Pickups – “Panic Switch”
Soundgarden – “Outshined”
Spoon – “Me And The Bean”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Between The Lines”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Vasoline”
Taddy Porter – “Mean B.i.t.c.h”
The Animals – “House of the Rising Sun”
The Black Keys – “I Got Mine”
The Black Keys – “Next Girl”
The Boxer Rebellion – “Step Out Of The Car”
The Cribs – “We Share The Same Skies”
The Cure – “Boys Don’t Cry
The Dead Weather – “I Can’t Hear You”
The Horrors – “Do You Remember”
The Pixies – “Where’s Is My Mind”
Queens of the Stone Age – “Go With The Flow”
Rapscallions – “California Brain”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Higher Ground”
The Rolling Stones – “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
The Rolling Stones – “Play With Fire”
The Rolling Stones – “The Spider And the Fly”
The Strokes – “Under Cover Of Darkness”
Sigur Rós – “Gobbledigook”
The White Stripes – “Icky Thump”
The Yellow Moon Band – “Chimney”
Titus Andronicus – “A More Perfect Union”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Good Enough”
Velvet Revolver – “Slither”
VsThem – “6AM Salvation”
White Denim – “Burnished”
The xx – “Islands”
Blur – “Song 2″
Cream – “Sunshine Of Your Love”
Dan Auerbach – “I Want Some More”
David Bowie – “Rebel Rebel”
Eric Clapton – “Run Back To Your Side”
Franz Ferdinand – “Take Me Out”
Incubus – “I Miss You”
Interpol – “Slow Hands”
Jarvis Cocker – “Angela”
Jenny O -”Well OK Honey”
Kings Of Leon “Use Somebody”
Lenny Kravitz – “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
Little Barrie – “Surf Hell”
Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Sweet Home Alabama”
Muse – “Plug In Baby”
Muse – “Unnatural Selection”
Nirvana – “Breed”
Nirvana – “In Bloom”
Radiohead – “High And Dry”
Red Fang – “Number Thirteen”
Silversun Pickups – “Panic Switch”
Soundgarden – “Outshined”
Spoon – “Me And The Bean”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Between The Lines”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Vasoline”
Taddy Porter – “Mean B.i.t.c.h”
The Animals – “House of the Rising Sun”
The Black Keys – “I Got Mine”
The Black Keys – “Next Girl”
The Boxer Rebellion – “Step Out Of The Car”
The Cribs – “We Share The Same Skies”
The Cure – “Boys Don’t Cry
The Dead Weather – “I Can’t Hear You”
The Horrors – “Do You Remember”
The Pixies – “Where’s Is My Mind”
Queens of the Stone Age – “Go With The Flow”
Rapscallions – “California Brain”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Higher Ground”
The Rolling Stones – “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
The Rolling Stones – “Play With Fire”
The Rolling Stones – “The Spider And the Fly”
The Strokes – “Under Cover Of Darkness”
Sigur Rós – “Gobbledigook”
The White Stripes – “Icky Thump”
The Yellow Moon Band – “Chimney”
Titus Andronicus – “A More Perfect Union”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Good Enough”
Velvet Revolver – “Slither”
VsThem – “6AM Salvation”
White Denim – “Burnished”
The xx – “Islands”
There are also a few bonus songs, but they're not from anyone I've ever heard of. I mean, they could turn out to be awesome, but they're not a selling point, so I guess there's no real point in listing them here. I could've copied and pasted them in the time it took me to write that, but whatever.
Gamestop preorders get a $25 Guitar Center voucher along with Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" and Radiohead's "Bodysnatchers".
Best Buy preorders get more pedals to use in the game.
DLC is supposed to be available at launch, I think, but there's no word on what that'll be yet. Bass support will be available as DLC at some point too, and considering this recent purchase o' mine, I really, really can't wait for that:
Edit: Bit the bullet and ordered it for the PS3.
10-17-11, 07:39 AM
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Re: LOL @ Ubisoft: ROCKSMITH new guitar based game Sept. 2012
I could maybe see myself getting this game after it drops a bit. I do happen to own a decent electric guitar that gets no use because I well...suck. No point sugar coating it. I have a decent voice, however guitar playing is not my forte. So if this game has a decent (make that good) learning interface, I would be willing to give it a shot. The songs don't really excite me either, but there is enough there that I would be willing to learn from.
10-17-11, 11:21 AM
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While the song list does not include my favorites its worlds better than the songs in my basic guitar lesson book.
10-17-11, 01:23 PM
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Didn't even realize this was coming out already. I have an electric guitar I bought like 8 years ago to try to learn to play and couldn't do it, so it's been sitting in it's case ever since. I liked all the GH/RB games but got totally burnt out on them. When I tried last time, all the methods of learning w/o paying for lessons were boring as hell. So in that regard, $80 seems like a steal if it would actually work and be fun.
10-17-11, 01:46 PM
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I never played Guitar Hero but this game does sound interesting for guitar playing.
I never played Guitar Hero but this game does sound interesting for guitar playing.
10-18-11, 01:19 PM
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My kneejerk reaction when I first heard about the concept was "::haughty scoff!:: no!" As it turns out, though...? The pre-release buzz -- once people started playing it -- has been enormously positive, and the videos that have been floating around have me very, very excited. That I can use a real guitar (not limited to Rock Band's grossly overpriced and not-as-playable-as-I'd-like Squier) and that it adapts to my skillz rather than using a pre-defined difficulty level...oh, just all-around sounds great.
On the other hand, I'm not crazy about the on-disc playlist, and I agree that it's at least slightly overpriced. Especially considering that Rocksmith doesn't have to go through some of the same hassles Rock Band and Guitar Hero do...they're not digging up original audio stems and rebuilding songs track-by-track or anything, the charting is presumably a lot more straightforward, and there aren't nearly as many songs on the disc...I really don't think the price is justified, cable or no. Plus it's Ubisoft, so it'll be 60% off in a few weeks.
If not for Arkham City coming out this week, I could see myself grabbing it right now. One other problem: I'm torn about which console I'd buy it on. The 360 is my 'upstairs' console, and the PS3 is my 'downstairs' console. I'd have a little more privacy playing upstairs, so I could sound terrible and no one would really know, but my big sound system is downstairs, so if I got to a point where I sounded okay, that's where I'd wanna be. My other hesitation is that the PC version is coming out next month. I mean, you've gotta think there'll be a community of people who will just take tabs and MP3s and figure out some way to make new songs. I'm guessing there'll be a much wider variety of songs on the PC as people figure out the right hacks, plus they'd be available for free rather than premium DLC.
I'm pretty confident I'm buying the game...just haven't decided when yet. We'll see how impulsive I get once it's actually on store shelves.
For anyone wondering what the on-disc list is:
Not a bad list at all, but it's a lot of "oh, yeah, that's pretty good" type songs and not all that much in the way of "I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!"s.
There are also a few bonus songs, but they're not from anyone I've ever heard of. I mean, they could turn out to be awesome, but they're not a selling point, so I guess there's no real point in listing them here. I could've copied and pasted them in the time it took me to write that, but whatever.
Gamestop preorders get a $25 Guitar Center voucher along with Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" and Radiohead's "Bodysnatchers".
Best Buy preorders get more pedals to use in the game.
DLC is supposed to be available at launch, I think, but there's no word on what that'll be yet. Bass support will be available as DLC at some point too, and considering this recent purchase o' mine, I really, really can't wait for that:
Edit: Bit the bullet and ordered it for the PS3.
On the other hand, I'm not crazy about the on-disc playlist, and I agree that it's at least slightly overpriced. Especially considering that Rocksmith doesn't have to go through some of the same hassles Rock Band and Guitar Hero do...they're not digging up original audio stems and rebuilding songs track-by-track or anything, the charting is presumably a lot more straightforward, and there aren't nearly as many songs on the disc...I really don't think the price is justified, cable or no. Plus it's Ubisoft, so it'll be 60% off in a few weeks.
If not for Arkham City coming out this week, I could see myself grabbing it right now. One other problem: I'm torn about which console I'd buy it on. The 360 is my 'upstairs' console, and the PS3 is my 'downstairs' console. I'd have a little more privacy playing upstairs, so I could sound terrible and no one would really know, but my big sound system is downstairs, so if I got to a point where I sounded okay, that's where I'd wanna be. My other hesitation is that the PC version is coming out next month. I mean, you've gotta think there'll be a community of people who will just take tabs and MP3s and figure out some way to make new songs. I'm guessing there'll be a much wider variety of songs on the PC as people figure out the right hacks, plus they'd be available for free rather than premium DLC.
I'm pretty confident I'm buying the game...just haven't decided when yet. We'll see how impulsive I get once it's actually on store shelves.
For anyone wondering what the on-disc list is:
Not a bad list at all, but it's a lot of "oh, yeah, that's pretty good" type songs and not all that much in the way of "I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!"s.
There are also a few bonus songs, but they're not from anyone I've ever heard of. I mean, they could turn out to be awesome, but they're not a selling point, so I guess there's no real point in listing them here. I could've copied and pasted them in the time it took me to write that, but whatever.
Gamestop preorders get a $25 Guitar Center voucher along with Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" and Radiohead's "Bodysnatchers".
Best Buy preorders get more pedals to use in the game.
DLC is supposed to be available at launch, I think, but there's no word on what that'll be yet. Bass support will be available as DLC at some point too, and considering this recent purchase o' mine, I really, really can't wait for that:
Edit: Bit the bullet and ordered it for the PS3.
This is ubisoft and a music game. Not even taking into account that the songs on the disc are kind of meh, and the fact that this needs a real guitar which not everyone has nor will likely buy just for this game I see this being 30 or 40 bucks on black friday so I may wait.
By the way, here are my babies, not nearly as nice as yours but they work fine for me.
Edit. Doh and not only that, yours is a bass lol. I must be tired to have not caught that.
10-18-11, 06:19 PM
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Re: LOL @ Ubisoft: ROCKSMITH new guitar based game Sept. 2012
I'm only through the first event, but I'm having a blast with Rocksmith so far. Um, I'm not very good, though.
10-18-11, 07:06 PM
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Well, I bought it for my Xbox 360 which I have outside of my main home theater, and I have it connected directly to the TV via RCA if I don't feel like using optical through my upstairs receiver. I haven't had a problem with lag. Whenever it first says to start strumming, there's some slight lag, but after a couple strums, it seems to even out. My scores definitely haven't dropped off from lag. I also haven't touched any of the tools to adjust lag.
10-20-11, 01:20 AM
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Well I bought it as I've been hearing such good things about it. Was busy with Batman AC tonight but I will tear into it tomorrow and post my thoughts.
10-20-11, 04:38 PM
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I looked at some of The Deft Gamer's videos of this, and I noticed that when they show the strings, the one on top is the low E string and it goes from there. That kinda makes sense since it's the highest string if you were behind the guitar and looking through it as you hold it. But, it seems to me that it's going to look strange for chords, because I'm used to seeing them with the neck displayed vertically. When they show chords in this game, when I tilt my head to look at the neck vertically they're going to appear backwards. Does the game allow you to reverse the order of the displayed strings?
10-20-11, 04:59 PM
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I haven't tried this, but I'm pretty sure I read on the thread at the rockband.com forums that you can flip the order so that high E is at the top.
10-20-11, 05:01 PM
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I looked at some of The Deft Gamer's videos of this, and I noticed that when they show the strings, the one on top is the low E string and it goes from there. That kinda makes sense since it's the highest string if you were behind the guitar and looking through it as you hold it. But, it seems to me that it's going to look strange for chords, because I'm used to seeing them with the neck displayed vertically. When they show chords in this game, when I tilt my head to look at the neck vertically they're going to appear backwards. Does the game allow you to reverse the order of the displayed strings?
Edit. I just checked the options and it IS there.
In options go to Game Options then String Layout. It is on Standard by default but you can Invert it to standard tab specs.
10-20-11, 06:06 PM
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I just played around a bit with the mini games and wow. I played the zombie one where you kill them before they get to you by playing the right chord and it was awesome. I think this is going to help me with my chords and chord changes more than anything else i could do.
10-20-11, 07:17 PM
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I just played through the first "event" as a complete noob to guitar playing. I nailed the two songs, so I got an encore of Angela...which I didn't see prior to then, and sucked. Now, my finger tips are too sore to even consider playing more tonight. But, from what I've seen - it could be possible to learn something here.
10-20-11, 10:49 PM
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I just played through the first "event" as a complete noob to guitar playing. I nailed the two songs, so I got an encore of Angela...which I didn't see prior to then, and sucked. Now, my finger tips are too sore to even consider playing more tonight. But, from what I've seen - it could be possible to learn something here.
My index finger feels like it's going to bleed after the slide exercises. I really need to get some of that stuff you put on the strings to make them slicker.
10-21-11, 11:39 AM
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i might have to pick this up for the PS3 when it goes on sale/clearance. sounds kind of cool. often when i practice guitar or bass i cant think of what to play so a game like this could be great
10-21-11, 11:46 AM
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So this is good for absolute beginners? that have never picked up a real guitar, and can't read any sheet music?
10-21-11, 11:57 AM
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I would say that yes, this could be an awesome learning tool. i haven't gotten into it much yet, but there is a lot of potential here. I think it is well worth the 80 bucks now. Rock band 3 is still a game, but this is mainly meant for teaching so don't listen to the reviews about presentation, this wasn't really meant to be a game so much as a way to teach guitar.