Rock Band

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Now here is a game I thought I would never play. I ranked it right up there with the Dancing games. About two weeks ago I came across a Rockband 2 set that I just couldn't pass up on the price and bought it for the kids. Well, I'm playing the shit out it more than the kids are. Of course I wont play anything beyond Medium settings since Hard pretty much hands me my ass. Overall, its a fun game. Plus its a good way to discover some new music when you play career mode.
 
I always scoffed at it, probably because most people I know that play it take it WAY too seriously.
I play on easy/medium just to have fun...I suck too much to play any harder.

Funny thing is, I can play a real guitar fairly well. The two do NOT go hand in hand, and the game isn't even close to the real thing.

I can't stand the button clicking though, drives me INSANE to hear it playing along with the song.
 
Yea, I play it just for fun. Plus getting all the kids together to play is a fun time as well. I can't play the real thing so this works for me. I was thinking about buying that RockSmith game that is suppose to be really close to the real thing, but I dont know of anyone that has bought it. Would like to get some feedback on the game and if it turns out to be really good, I might have to pick it up. Especially if it does help to teach you how to play the real guitar.
 
Yea, I play it just for fun. Plus getting all the kids together to play is a fun time as well. I can't play the real thing so this works for me. I was thinking about buying that RockSmith game that is suppose to be really close to the real thing, but I dont know of anyone that has bought it. Would like to get some feedback on the game and if it turns out to be really good, I might have to pick it up. Especially if it does help to teach you how to play the real guitar.

Rocksmith is awesome. I was on the fence about buying it because of how Rockband 3's "real guitar" feature was so terrible. But once I read up on it, I took the plunge and am thoroughly impressed with Rocksmith. It works with any electric (even elec/acoustic) guitar, and it increases or decreases difficulty on the fly. It will start out with a type of challenge called "single note" (or one note, cant remember) and it lets you sort of get the feel of how the song works. Then once it notices that you're hitting all the notes right, it 'levels up' your guitar part and starts throwing more notes at you. Then more and more until it notices you can hit chords, etc. Then if you seem to level up somewhere and you start missing a lot, it levels down.

I play guitar, been playing for 20 years (but I sound like a newb because I suck) and this game is actually quite helpful.

Rockband 3's "real Fender guitar" is a piece of shit. And RB3's guitar learning section is TERRIBLY designed. It's absolutely atrocious. It doesn't LET you learn. If you miss a note in the practice/learning area, it will STOP cold. Rewind some weird amount, like not even a couple of beats. Just like 2.54 seconds or some crap, and then starts up again - which doesn't let you get ready for the next note, so you miss again... and it stops... rinse and repeat.

Rocksmith doesn't do that. If you miss a note, or even if you don't play a single note the entire song, it still keeps going. It doesn't 'fail' you and stop halfway through the song. If you don't get enough points to 'qualify' for the song, then you'll just have to play through it again. Simple as that. It's really awesome, and it's not even presented as a 'game'. It's presentation is much more like a teaching video.
 
Rocksmith is awesome. I was on the fence about buying it because of how Rockband 3's "real guitar" feature was so terrible. But once I read up on it, I took the plunge and am thoroughly impressed with Rocksmith. It works with any electric (even elec/acoustic) guitar, and it increases or decreases difficulty on the fly. It will start out with a type of challenge called "single note" (or one note, cant remember) and it lets you sort of get the feel of how the song works. Then once it notices that you're hitting all the notes right, it 'levels up' your guitar part and starts throwing more notes at you. Then more and more until it notices you can hit chords, etc. Then if you seem to level up somewhere and you start missing a lot, it levels down.

I play guitar, been playing for 20 years (but I sound like a newb because I suck) and this game is actually quite helpful.

Rockband 3's "real Fender guitar" is a piece of shit. And RB3's guitar learning section is TERRIBLY designed. It's absolutely atrocious. It doesn't LET you learn. If you miss a note in the practice/learning area, it will STOP cold. Rewind some weird amount, like not even a couple of beats. Just like 2.54 seconds or some crap, and then starts up again - which doesn't let you get ready for the next note, so you miss again... and it stops... rinse and repeat.

Rocksmith doesn't do that. If you miss a note, or even if you don't play a single note the entire song, it still keeps going. It doesn't 'fail' you and stop halfway through the song. If you don't get enough points to 'qualify' for the song, then you'll just have to play through it again. Simple as that. It's really awesome, and it's not even presented as a 'game'. It's presentation is much more like a teaching video.

So would you say that this would be good for someone with no guitar skills at all to learn how to play one? Would love to learn, but dont have the money to take lessons.
 
So would you say that this would be good for someone with no guitar skills at all to learn how to play one? Would love to learn, but dont have the money to take lessons.



Absolutely. If you haven't already, check out some gameplay vids on Youtube. It will show you how it works. It even helps you tune your guitar before every song.
 
I highly recommend Rock Band 3, since they added the "key-tar" it means they have added a pile of awesome 80's stuff and us arcade guys rocked to a lot of these tunes when we were young. The "key-tar" is just as enjoyable to play as the regular guitars even if you're not a musician (like I am not).

Oh, and don't feel bad if you are a real guitarist and can't play these songs on harder settings. Krist Novoselic can't even play his own Nirvana songs!
http://www.mychemicaltoilet.com/2009/01/krist-novoselic-cant-even-play-nirvana-songs-on-guitar-hero/
 
I agree that Rockband 3 is a great party/family game. I love playing the drums on it. No doubt about that. But if you're more interested in learning the guitar (or improving, like I am) then Rocksmith is the one to get.
 
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