Rocksmith post release thread!

[Hamtone]

RS seemed to drop right off the map lately. No updates on fb, not words at all. A friend of mine at a game distributor said the game gagged, didnt sell. This happens when you do not advertise properly

 

[rcole_sooner]

There was fb post with the last DLC release, and there will be on tomorrow with the Judas Priest release.

That is correct, I said Judas Priest.

Edit: Sorry, I am behind. They posted last week about the Priest pack, for this week.

 

[Hamtone]

There was fb post with the last DLC release, and there will be on tomorrow with the Judas Priest release.

That is correct, I said Judas Priest.

Living after midnight I would suspect lol

 

[rcole_sooner]

Yep,

This pack features two hit songs off their 1980s album, British Steel featuring: “Breaking The Law,” “Living After Midnight,” and of course a song that all music game enthusiasts should know by now, “Painkiller.“

Still should be some fun stuff.

 

[Hamtone]

Breaking the law was my second guess. I dont know painkiller.

Cool

I wished they would do cliffs of dover

 

[naturalblack]

Also just last week they released some pop music(evanessance and maroon 5) and about 2 months ago there was a big survey and a gibson SG giveaway. Based off the survey questions it sounds like they are aware of what people want out of the game

 

[ZoomZilla]

I was hoping I would win the SG, but no dice! I did tell them what I wanted to see in DLC though.

 

[Muttering Bill]

Well, after my last post here, I ended up hitting a song that I couldn't pass on sight-read. The song was Well OK Honey - I think the game wanted me to score over 24k, but I only got around 20k. Oh well.

At that point I went off to play through the technique challenges. Got them all gold medalled in short order. Exept I had a lot of trouble with the Double Stop Challenge, it just refused register anything. I ended up having to play the notes a bit early to get credit for them. I haven't done much else with it since.

Maybe it's just me, but everything I play seems to come off sounding a bit clunky, compared to when playing through my amp. I could be the latency playing tricks on my ears. Or a matter of not having the songs groove, as mentioned by natrualblack. I like having the backing music to play along with, but it comes off sounding a little too rough, so I'm still favoring just practicing with my amp.

 

[Mike-t]

Well, after my last post here, I ended up hitting a song that I couldn't pass on sight-read. The song was Well OK Honey - I think the game wanted me to score over 24k, but I only got around 20k. Oh well.

At that point I went off to play through the technique challenges. Got them all gold medalled in short order. Exept I had a lot of trouble with the Double Stop Challenge, it just refused register anything. I ended up having to play the notes a bit early to get credit for them. I haven't done much else with it since.

Maybe it's just me, but everything I play seems to come off sounding a bit clunky, compared to when playing through my amp. I could be the latency playing tricks on my ears. Or a matter of not having the songs groove, as mentioned by natrualblack. I like having the backing music to play along with, but it comes off sounding a little too rough, so I'm still favoring just practicing with my amp.

I would keep practicing until it doesn't sound bad. 20,000 points on a song is barely even scratching the surface. Once you get a song or songs close to being mastered or mastered you probably will have a different outlook. I view Rocksmith as band practice and I try to pay as much attention to having the songs sound good as I do to playing them correctly.

 

[naturalblack]

I would keep practicing until it doesn't sound bad. 20,000 points on a song is barely even scratching the surface. Once you get a song or songs close to being mastered or mastered you probably will have a different outlook. I view Rocksmith as band practice and I try to pay as much attention to having the songs sound good as I do to playing them correctly.

What he said. You want to get as close to 100,000 as possible. If your not there then you don't even have all the notes unlocked yet. Keep at it

 

[ZoomZilla]

People that give up on this game after a little bit are interesting to me. First off, why buy the game. Secondly, do you give up on everything this quickly? There are ways to reduce the lag, have you tried them? Getting 20K on a song is nothing. I can probably get that on my first try on any song.

 

[rcole_sooner]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXHrvEUNc1M&feature=player_embedded]Rocksmith DLC - Judas Priest - YouTube[/ame]

I you want, skip to about 1:12 to the Painkiller intensity. Yikes!!!

 

[ZoomZilla]

Wow, painkiller looks like a good workout.

 

[Mike-t]

People that give up on this game after a little bit are interesting to me. First off, why buy the game. Secondly, do you give up on everything this quickly? There are ways to reduce the lag, have you tried them? Getting 20K on a song is nothing. I can probably get that on my first try on any song.

I agree, people who try the game and then give up on it in a day blow my mind. I think it may have something to do with the game pulling back the curtain and showing them that they are not really as good as they think they are. Especially the people that claim the songs are crappy or easy and then when they try to master them they realize that playing an entire song perfectly and in a way that sounds pleasing is much harder than they realized.

I could fart around on my guitar for hours "practicing", which only really amounts to me noodling, practicing some riffs and adjusting amp settings that don't need adjusting etc. Instead I spend a lot of my time lately playing Rocksmith which gives me real goals and real time feedback of how my playing is, good or bad.

I think about my practice regiment pre Rocksmith and Post Rocksmith and its easy to see a difference. Take a song like Surf Hell. The riff is not super challenging if you're playing it once or twice to impress yourself or your wife, however, playing the riff in context with the song is quite a bit harder and when you throw in slides and chords it becomes a real challenge.

Would I have ever played through a single song 30+ times before Rocksmith? No way! I would have learned the basic riff and then convinced myself that if I ever needed to play it in real life I could learn the rest at that time with very few issues, which now I know is BS.

Rocksmith has humbled me and made me work really hard to be able to play songs all the way through and to have them sound good. Even the little things like forcing myself to sit through the playback no matter how ear piercing it may be has done wonders for my playing because I can now actually hear when I'm playing something that sounds like crap and fix the technique to make it sound great.

 

[ZoomZilla]

I agree, people who try the game and then give up on it in a day blow my mind. I think it may have something to do with the game pulling back the curtain and showing them that they are not really as good as they think they are. Especially the people that claim the songs are crappy or easy and then when they try to master them they realize that playing an entire song perfectly and in a way that sounds pleasing is much harder than they realized.

I could fart around on my guitar for hours "practicing", which only really amounts to me noodling, practicing some riffs and adjusting amp settings that don't need adjusting etc. Instead I spend a lot of my time lately playing Rocksmith which gives me real goals and real time feedback of how my playing is, good or bad.

I think about my practice regiment pre Rocksmith and Post Rocksmith and its easy to see a difference. Take a song like Surf Hell. The riff is not super challenging if you're playing it once or twice to impress yourself or your wife, however, playing the riff in context with the song is quite a bit harder and when you throw in slides and chords it becomes a real challenge.

Would I have ever played through a single song 30+ times before Rocksmith? No way! I would have learned the basic riff and then convinced myself that if I ever needed to play it in real life I could learn the rest at that time with very few issues, which now I know is BS.

Rocksmith has humbled me and made me work really hard to be able to play songs all the way through and to have them sound good. Even the little things like forcing myself to sit through the playback no matter how ear piercing it may be has done wonders for my playing because I can now actually hear when I'm playing something that sounds like crap and fix the technique to make it sound great.

Exactly Mike. This game has made me play songs I would NEVER work on by just practicing on my own. It also makes you play a lot of different types of music, so you get a nice well rounded group of songs to work on. I will not master every song on the disc, that will not happen, but it makes practicing more fun than just sitting down with my amp playing by myself. Unless you are using a backing track or metronome, how are you sure you are staying on beat when practicing. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but to give up immediately is a joke.

 

[Muttering Bill]

Hold on now, I never said I was giving up on anything. But playing a video game isn't my first inclination when I pick up my guitar. My first choice would be to plug into an amp and practice my scales and chords. It's a cool game, but not something I'm about to dedicate all of my practice time to. So every couple of days I'll plug into it and try to play a few songs or the mini-games.

Like I said originally, I just got this game and feel like I need to just rush through get everything unlocked - much like I would do with a Guitar Hero/Rock Band game. Now obviously those take a lot less effort to get through. I was just saying that I've hit a point where I can't scrape through unfamiliar songs on sight read anymore. So it looks like it's time to step back and start actually learning the songs. I'm under no illusions that 20k points is an impressive score. Up until this point, was enough to get me to the next venue. And now it isn't. That's all. (Not that it makes any difference, but I was scoring better on the songs prior to this as well.)

Maybe I wasn't clear, but I never claimed to be a great player either. I'm about 6 or 7 weeks back from an 8 year break. And while it does come back quickly, I've still got a lot of work in order to get back to where I was. There's a difference between knowing how to play (which I do), and being able to play well (which isn't where I'm at just now).

 

[ZoomZilla]

Hold on now, I never said I was giving up on anything. But playing a video game isn't my first inclination when I pick up my guitar. My first choice would be to plug into an amp and practice my scales and chords. It's a cool game, but not something I'm about to dedicate all of my practice time to. So every couple of days I'll plug into it and try to play a few songs or the mini-games.

Like I said originally, I just got this game and feel like I need to just rush through get everything unlocked - much like I would do with a Guitar Hero/Rock Band game. Now obviously those take a lot less effort to get through. I was just saying that I've hit a point where I can't scrape through unfamiliar songs on sight read anymore. So it looks like it's time to step back and start actually learning the songs. I'm under no illusions that 20k points is an impressive score. Up until this point, was enough to get me to the next venue. And now it isn't. That's all. (Not that it makes any difference, but I was scoring better on the songs prior to this as well.)

Maybe I wasn't clear, but I never claimed to be a great player either. I'm about 6 or 7 weeks back from an 8 year break. And while it does come back quickly, I've still got a lot of work in order to get back to where I was. There's a difference between knowing how to play (which I do), and being able to play well (which isn't where I'm at just now).

Ok, so your first inclination is to plug in and play scales and chords? You realize that exactly what the minigames are right? I think you will find you will progress faster in your re-learning by playing the game.

 

[GuitarToneFreak]

Played this again yesterday and totally, and I mean totally, butchered Rebel Rebel by Bowie. Still, real fun game!

@Muttering Bill - Well OK Honey kicked my ass the first few times around as well.

 

[rcole_sooner]

Yeah, Rebel Rebel is, IMO, one of the least fun songs in RS. The riff is interesting, if it was not the same riff, for the whole song. After what seems like forever, I get twisted up and can't keep playing it. That happens for any riff, that I have to play for that many times in a row.

Ok Honey is one I hated, but it grew on me, and yeah it takes a few refresher times to get it flowing smooth.

 

[FrankieOliver]

Huh? What is this Rocksmith? I will have to ask my friend Google.

Where the hell have I been that I've missed this thread?