[Game] Rocksmith 2014

http://rocksmith.ubi.com/rocksmith/en-US/setup/index.aspx

Clicky that and scroll down, it will have instructions to help you get rid of the audio lag. (I haven't looked at them in detail, so you may not want to do them)

I'm not sure on consoles; on steam you can right click a game in your library and see your play time.

Also if you register on their site for the 60 day challenge, Ubisoft will track stats for you. That will definitely show you hours going forward.

 

UPlay is whatever, I agree... (I have a few games on there already so it wasn't a huge ordeal). I've basically given up on avoiding signing up for these services. I didn't want Origin but had to for Titanfall. I know I'm asking a lot for everyone to just give up to their competition (Steam), but they need to freaking do this.

The original Rocksmith was available through Steam only, then when Rocksmith 2014 came out they decided to make Uplay mandatory even if you purchased through Steam. Blech.

 

Not my cup of tea, but I imagine someone will be excited about this:

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I play Muse a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot. Not playing in Rocksmith is definitely integral. When you don't have the background track you can hear all the imperfections in your playing, it certainly will make you better/more accurate when you come back in.
The way that I see it, Rocksmith is basically training wheels. You're so early in playing, you really shouldn't worry too much about accidental muting and what not. Because quite frankly, it's just going to happen. Eventually you'll get the hand placements / finger bending techniques down properly and you won't have that issue.

They just added songs from Garbage! I'm very excited about it. I'm only happy when it rains, ya know?

 

Lots of free music/learning tools available on the amazon appstore today.

I downloaded: Ultimate Guitar Tabs (3.99?), Guitar Riff Pro (2.00?), iReal Pro ($10.99 -- this is some kind of really nice chord book) and a couple other freebies like TuneIn Radio Pro for free. Definitely good to supplement rocksmithing with other stuff.

As a side note, Rocksmith added some 90s music. I've always liked the spin doctor's song, but I don't think I'll pay for it.
You'd think if they were going to pick Everclear they would have picked one of their less emo songs. Ah well!

I always thought that Tomorrow (Silver Chair) song was Pearl Jam (I hate Pearl Jam, haha -- not that I'm into Silver Chair either).

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Yeah, I am almost done with an Introduction to Guitar course on Coursera.org from Berkley College of Music. It's really useful, eventually I'd like to be able to play in a ****ty band. So I definitely want to understand some of the theory.

I do not get tired of playing Rocksmith though. It's amazing. I'm going to start playing with the tone studio; eventually I'd like to utilize effects well. I have a multieffects pedal, but haven't messed around with it much yet.
97 hours and there's still about 3 or 4 areas of the game I haven't even touched.

 

Rocksmith is $30 on 360 (via XBL) right now.

 

Side note: I'm officially at 100 hours in Rocksmith 2014. (I ended up with 36 in the original)
I'm really happy with myself. I'm not amazing by any means but I can play a lot of songs, and I can play quite a few quite well. I'm also getting to a point where I can play some solos that require complex fretting. It's a lot of fun and keeps me motivated, plus I just love music -- I can't see this growing old. Sometimes I'll sit down and play for a couple hours and not even notice the time has gone by, but I absolutely feel accomplished each time. Even if I'm having a bad day like today where I felt like I was having a lot of issues (it's been a few days, I was out of town), I still noticed progression. (even on a couple I play all the time)

 

They released a 311 pack recently (beautiful disaster / down / amber), ah the nostalgia. Lots of fun to play of course. I've started playing around with effects, and learning about what they do. The tone designer is a lot of fun. The fact that you get an authentic version of the setup / effects used for each of the dlc you pay for makes it an even better value. you can go back later and free style with that particular tone and see if you may want to emulate a real world set up with it.

 

So I'm at about 170 hours total or something like that. That's not including the time where I just pluck at chords or what not with my guitar, but that's not nearly as much time as I've put into Rocksmith at this point.

Simple songs are simple, complex songs are still complex...but I can definitely kill some songs. I still notice progression almost every time I pick up the guitar, and it still makes me happy just playing along with music I love.

Now...more importantly...I downloaded about 50 (maybe more) songs for free today. The PC version (xbox and ps3 versions allow this, but I think they have to be modded) allows for downloadable songs other than the ones you pay for due to some modders being amazing. All you do is place one dll file in the directory and voila, you can download custom songs.

At any rate, there is a ridiculous amount of free content you can get there and it keeps growing. The database is massive in a lovely way. If you like Artic Monkeys, Muse, Metallica, Led Zeppelin...anything like that you'll be very happy with what you find. (you have to register, but it's worth it)

customsforge.com

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Agree to disagree on that.

 

Wasn't referring to that; was referring to this:

It being an adjustment to what you're used to playing makes sense because it may very well differ. The game doesn't generally penalize you for playing it the "right way" even if the notes listed are different. For example fretting low E when you're using one of the X5 chords, it will still accept the chord because you played the low E.

I was primarily referring to tabs being easier. That's an opinion, and for me I'd have to disagree.

 

161 hours and rolling...

 

I may be the only who cares about this, but whatever -- updates!
I am absolutely buying the Killers pack the second I get home.

a) Rocksmith 2014 is coming out for Xbox One / PS4 on November 4th.
b) The White Stripes added a song pack last week (Tracks below)
c) They added a Killers pack today!
d) My understanding is they're going to keep releasing awesomeness.

The White Stripes “Blue Orchid”
The White Stripes “Fell In Love With A Girl”
The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army”
The White Stripes “The Hardest Button To Button”
The White Stripes “You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You’re Told)”

The Killers “Mr. Brightside”
The Killers “Runaways”
The Killers “Somebody Told Me”
The Killers “Spaceman”
The Killers “When You Were Young”