The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !
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Ritley
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Noodleface
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Man I got overloaded on Christmas. My total now is like 20 unplanned ps4 games. Plus dark souls and uncharted In a few months. Gotta step my game up.
spronk
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Best Buy has Rocksmith 2014 for PS4/xbone for $29.99 ($24 with GCU). Its the deal of the day so its instore or online TODAY ONLY. You can order for pickup and grab it later in the week for this price.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/rocksmit...&skuId=7839065
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/rocksmit...&skuId=7841207
its $20 on uPlay for PC too. All versions come with the cable you need. Great game to learn how to play guitar (you need a guitar with the big hole thingie in it, acoustic or electric or bass).
also best buy is running 30% trade in promo, I traded in all my physical games, converted to digital on some (battlefront, fallout 4, uncharted collection) and will rebuy later down the road when i want to play some others (blops 3, dark souls 2). The 30% promo is definitely good all day today, not sure if it continues next week.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/rocksmit...&skuId=7839065
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/rocksmit...&skuId=7841207
its $20 on uPlay for PC too. All versions come with the cable you need. Great game to learn how to play guitar (you need a guitar with the big hole thingie in it, acoustic or electric or bass).
also best buy is running 30% trade in promo, I traded in all my physical games, converted to digital on some (battlefront, fallout 4, uncharted collection) and will rebuy later down the road when i want to play some others (blops 3, dark souls 2). The 30% promo is definitely good all day today, not sure if it continues next week.
Palum
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Rocksmith still irritates me. It's not worthless but it is rather unfriendly to learn proper techniques through playing songs. It's so 'accurate' that they purposefully ask you to 'miss strings' and stuff to match mistakes made by the original artists.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure how a complete novice could learn with it. At least I know when they're doing a chord inversion or how to figure out how to finger a chord properly to transition in an awkward sequence or that a series of notes is just an arpeggio. This 'game' is pretty much just 'fuck you, figure it out'.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure how a complete novice could learn with it. At least I know when they're doing a chord inversion or how to figure out how to finger a chord properly to transition in an awkward sequence or that a series of notes is just an arpeggio. This 'game' is pretty much just 'fuck you, figure it out'.
Palum
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It's OK as a game if you are at least an intermediate player. Even then it gets very frustrating when you 'fail' a sequence because you played the right thing differently.
Then again, because of its sliding scale I'm not really sure how it treats a complete novice. Game really needs a difficulty setting instead of 'auto-frustration'.
Then again, because of its sliding scale I'm not really sure how it treats a complete novice. Game really needs a difficulty setting instead of 'auto-frustration'.
StoiCynic
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Where are you seeing the cable is included? Own the game but need a new cable so I was gonna grab the bundle solely for the Cable (60 bucks on amazon alone), but it looks like it's just the game.
spronk
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For which platform? For PS4/xbone I can verify the cable is included, since I picked up the game in store today and both the console versions included cable. There is only one SKU sold (online and in store) so it definitely includes the cable, I don't believe the consoles have a version without cable.
for PC i dunno, someone on CAG just said it includes cable when you buy from uplay store.
for PC i dunno, someone on CAG just said it includes cable when you buy from uplay store.
Noodleface
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Is rocksmith more for beginners and intermediates? Wondering if there's any fun in a guy playing 20 years picking it up
Palum
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It's frustrating. I haven't really been playing that long and honestly it frustrates me because of a few poor choices in how they designed it. The game punishes success by making it harder automatically. It's not 'absurd' but it has the same problem with a lot of songs which are done in a studio with 6 layered tracks or live hopped up on drugs and missing notes in that it requires accuracy to what they perceive is the way to play the song even if it's not howyouplay it or how it the part is actually played (IE it skips between layered tracks).
Easy example is several songs with a section that's just a vamp on one chord. The guy playing it spices it up a little by changing chord inversions, misses (omits) a string here or there, etc. If you actually play it properly but don't elect to miss a note that the guitarist in the song does, it can pick that up (sometimes, it's not exactly perfect) and 'fail' the chord because of that.
Also, it loves humbuckers but some single coils it doesn't like or pick up very well. My strat with hand wound texas specials does fine, but my tele with a bridge minibucker coil split it won't pick up well.
Easy example is several songs with a section that's just a vamp on one chord. The guy playing it spices it up a little by changing chord inversions, misses (omits) a string here or there, etc. If you actually play it properly but don't elect to miss a note that the guitarist in the song does, it can pick that up (sometimes, it's not exactly perfect) and 'fail' the chord because of that.
Also, it loves humbuckers but some single coils it doesn't like or pick up very well. My strat with hand wound texas specials does fine, but my tele with a bridge minibucker coil split it won't pick up well.
StoiCynic
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PS4 and yeah, the original copy I got the was the standalone game only as I had the cable from the original RS for ps3. Thank's for the heads up though, I might buy two for the cable alone.
Been playing about that long and I throw it on whenever I want to jam out without waking up the house. Guitar tones are pretty good and there is a pretty decent song list but I doubt you will learn much you don't already know. Only PITA is dealing with the hdmi audio lag, so if you don't use external sound I would pass.
Intrinsic
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As a complete Novice that had not played any guitar at all and dove in to Rocksmith 2014, it wasn't that bad. I'm not making any judgments about the ability for it to teach proper techniques, chords, or tabs of the songs though, so keep that in mind. Strictly as a way to learn the song and the progressive nature of the difficulty, it worked well I guess? It was easy enough to go from the initial pluck, pluck, pluck, to playing a few chords, to actually getting things moving and playing something that sounded like the real thing. Again, this is all relative to me, and no one around me that plays guitar to bounce stuff off of.
I probably spent as much time messing around with the mini games as I did the actual tracks though. Drill after drill of doing scales, slides, the space fighter game with random chords, and the other zombie or whatever game.
Really I hate that I fell off even playing it. Shit happened in life and work and it just fell by the wayside. Picked it up maybe a month ago and couldn't even get close to where the difficulty was on some songs.
Noodleface
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Got the new guitar hero and went from being able to do expert at 85%+ to feeling like a complete noob. I understand the progression to 6 buttons but it feels way weird.
Crone
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Noodleface
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Always been a big guitar hero fan, even though some of the games were awful. Besides I play real guitar
