Rocksmith post release thread!

[Muttering Bill]

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.

I do realize it, yes. I played around with the chord game a few times. It was fun, and will certainly be a useful tool. I neglected chords the first time around - "I play metal, so I really only need power chords!" Yeah, well that's something that I'm working to remedy now.

I haven't unlocked the Scale Runner game yet. It's the only Guitar-cade game that I'm missing. Probably just have to play through a few more venues to unlock it. I'm not really sure how useful it's going to be (of course not, I haven't seen it yet). I can sit down for hours at at time just running up and down scales - well, specifically the Major Scale. Even for just a few weeks back in action, I think I've got a pretty good grasp of it (I spent A LOT of time working with it before my break). But I'm always interested in finding new ways to approach it, and this time around I should probably learn the Pentatonic better too. So I look forward to seeing what it has to offer.

But from what I've seen so far, this game seems to be far too forgiving. I stumbled my way through the first 10 (or whatever) songs, and the game seems to think that I'm better than I am. It keeps throwing out note charts that are too complex for me to pick up a while they're rolling down the screen, but refuses to drop the difficulty despite my missing half of it.

I downloaded Bring Me to Life. Played through the single note arrangement (chords not really being my thing, and reading chords in this game is especially challenging). Did OK, but not great. After my 2nd trip through the song, the result screen tells me that I've mastered it. No, I didn't. I didn't hit any of the harmonics - I didn't yet know what that symbol meant. Missed a bunch of other notes besides. And I know I was off rhythm for a fair portion of the song. Yet I still get a purple meter, over 100K points, and a message telling me how great I was.

 

[FrankieOliver]

I ordered it earlier today from Amazon...Prime. Should be here by Wednesday.

 

[rcole_sooner]

If you got any gamer in ya, you are going to love it. I say gamer, because it does have some grinding game aspects to it. I got some gamer in me, so I had no problem living with those parts.

 

[ZoomZilla]

You can "Master" a song without hitting every note. All it means is that you have unlocked all of the song and got over 100K on it. What is getting me at this point in the game is that all of the encores I do now are in master mode and I usually forget how to play them without the notes. Oh well, I need to play it more I guess.

 

[rcole_sooner]

I unlocked all 6 songs, after I got to level 11. I didn't plan on it, but then decided I wanted to. I had a few songs mastered, and yes, they tend to come up more often, for the encore. I just included them in the set, and they did not come up in the encore.

At the time I could handle a few MM (Master Mode) encores, like Next Girl, Angela, Go With the Flow, and Song 2. It just took about 2 weeks, lot of tries, and the whole game grinding thing. I had a pretty good set of songe, where I could get the required 120% RSP average during the event. I used them over and over again. I got 'er done.

 

[Mike-t]

I do realize it, yes. I played around with the chord game a few times. It was fun, and will certainly be a useful tool. I neglected chords the first time around - "I play metal, so I really only need power chords!" Yeah, well that's something that I'm working to remedy now.

I haven't unlocked the Scale Runner game yet. It's the only Guitar-cade game that I'm missing. Probably just have to play through a few more venues to unlock it. I'm not really sure how useful it's going to be (of course not, I haven't seen it yet). I can sit down for hours at at time just running up and down scales - well, specifically the Major Scale. Even for just a few weeks back in action, I think I've got a pretty good grasp of it (I spent A LOT of time working with it before my break). But I'm always interested in finding new ways to approach it, and this time around I should probably learn the Pentatonic better too. So I look forward to seeing what it has to offer.

But from what I've seen so far, this game seems to be far too forgiving. I stumbled my way through the first 10 (or whatever) songs, and the game seems to think that I'm better than I am. It keeps throwing out note charts that are too complex for me to pick up a while they're rolling down the screen, but refuses to drop the difficulty despite my missing half of it.

I downloaded Bring Me to Life. Played through the single note arrangement (chords not really being my thing, and reading chords in this game is especially challenging). Did OK, but not great. After my 2nd trip through the song, the result screen tells me that I've mastered it. No, I didn't. I didn't hit any of the harmonics - I didn't yet know what that symbol meant. Missed a bunch of other notes besides. And I know I was off rhythm for a fair portion of the song. Yet I still get a purple meter, over 100K points, and a message telling me how great I was.

Use the riff repeater. It will change your whole playing experience.

 

[FrankieOliver]

Woo hoo. The UPSa guy jussa droppa some a ting offa for me.

 

[ZoomZilla]

Have fun with it Frankie. It's a fun "Game"

 

[Muttering Bill]

So I finally unlocked the Scale Runner game. It's both disappointingly simple, and completely addicting. I would have liked more options on how to approach each scale, instead of being locked in to a basic box pattern. Or note movements beyond just one degree. But I see where it's helpful to people just starting out. And to keep things even for scoring.

I've scored between 8 and 10 million points for each scale, so I still have a fair bit of work to do. Currently sitting at #21 on the PS3 leaderboard (not bad for two hours work). My inner-gamer is telling me that I need to break the top 10. But I'll need to improve my (overall) score by about 62, maybe 63 million, to get there.

I did manage to qualify for Well OK Honey, but haven't touched career mode since (because Scale Runner unlocked after passing it).

 

[FrankieOliver]

It is fun.

 

[Muttering Bill]

I really don't get the Guitarcade online leaderboards.

I play a scale in Scale Runner, and the results screen gives me a leaderboard rank. Generally somewhere between 50 and 100. Now I read somewhere, that that only includes the last 11 scaled played. (Actually, it looks like the last posted score from each of the 11 scales.)

Anyway, go to the games front screen, and it says to press the square button to view the leaderboard. I do that and see that I'm ranked 21'st with about 100 million points. So I figure that must be tallying my best scores, and I should go by this since the results screen is inconsistent.

Then yesterday I played Dawn of the Chordead for a bit. Now, I've said before that I was never very strong with chords, so my scores there were much less impressive. Per the results screen, my leaderboard rank was coming in anywhere between 100 and 1000.

I decide to check the leaderboard via the games front screen to see where I'm really at. Rank 21 with 350 thousand points. Huh? That's definately not right. Same rank as in Scale Runner, and a minute ago the game put my 350k in about 900th place.

So has anybody figured this out yet? I'm guessing 21 is maybe my overall Guitarcade rank - totaling all the mini-games? Even so that sounds way too high, considering how badly I've done in most of them.

I'm probably the only one here who even cares about this. But I still see the game as a game (more than as a learning tool), and scores are important in games!

 

[rcole_sooner]

I do view RS, as a game. Still, I am more into the song playing, so I don't know how the leaderboards work. There are a few guys over on the Ubisoft RS forums that post their success at the various arcade games. So, you are not completely alone. Actually I think quite a few people enjoy the arcade games, in RS.

Scale Runner is one I keep thinking I'd like to spend some time with. Getting some time, is the problem.

 

[naturalblack]

super ducks is the guitarcade game i spend the most time on. I'm trying to change the way I hold my fretting hand so it has been helping me reshape my habits. When I'm doing good I'm doing great but still inconsistent.

Im trying to eliminate the extra thinking I do between seeing a note - thinking what string its on - moving my hand if needed -picking the best finger - and finally fretting a note. I'm better and I keep getting better. But it is nowhere near second nature for me to navigate the fretboard and that is my goal.

 

[a Mad Cow]

word, I'm about to download that evanessence, haven't played in like a month.

Amy Lee is SMOKIN'

 

[GNR4EVR]

I ordered it earlier today from Amazon...Prime. Should be here by Wednesday.

Youre gonna love it... I guarantee it. Makes practicing crazy fun.

 

[Muttering Bill]

I do view RS, as a game. Still, I am more into the song playing, so I don't know how the leaderboards work. There are a few guys over on the Ubisoft RS forums that post their success at the various arcade games. So, you are not completely alone. Actually I think quite a few people enjoy the arcade games, in RS.

I'd like to play the songs more too. But it's rough because I still have trouble reading the screen. Scale Runner is helping me to get more comfortable with the string colors. And with Dawn of the Chordead I'm learning more chords (obviously) and getting better at reading them from the games charts as well.

They're also just fun games that I can get lost in for an hour or two.

I also have to start playing Ducks/Super Ducks more so that I can navigate the fretboard more easily without looking.

I'll get back to playing songs eventaully. Too bad that they don't have leaderboards for those too. Official setlist challenges, like Rock Band does, would be great.

 

[ZoomZilla]

If you view it as a game and your goal is to get high ranks on the leaderboard, then that is your motivation for playing more. That's a great thing! That's why I think this game is brilliant. The gamers will resort to their gaming mentality and worry about points, but in order to get the points, they have to play guitar. Win!

Who cares why you play, it's the fact that you are playing. It's so much better than just plugging in and playing the same songs over and over. I would have never even tried some of the songs in this game because I don't find them interesting, but they actually add to your playing skill.

 

[rcole_sooner]

I'd like to play the songs more too. But it's rough because I still have trouble reading the screen. Scale Runner is helping me to get more comfortable with the string colors. And with Dawn of the Chordead I'm learning more chords (obviously) and getting better at reading them from the games charts as well.

They're also just fun games that I can get lost in for an hour or two.

I also have to start playing Ducks/Super Ducks more so that I can navigate the fretboard more easily without looking.

I'll get back to playing songs eventaully. Too bad that they don't have leaderboards for those too. Official setlist challenges, like Rock Band does, would be great.

I've never participated, but there are some leaderboards out there for RS. Here is one.

I like the weekly song challenge at the Ubisoft RS forum. It is very non-formal, and just fun. This weeks song is killin' me. I've got a blister on my pinkie, for the first time in 30+ years of playing. Such a simple sounding tune too, but the picking and chord pattern have me over a barrel.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DbcAl3EbIs[/ame]

 

[b3john]

This weeks song is killin' me. I've got a blister on my pinkie, for the first time in 30+ years of playing. Such a simple sounding tune too, but the picking and chord pattern have me over a barrel.

The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies - YouTube

Well, no wonder, he's playing that guitar backwards!

 

[rcole_sooner]

Well, no wonder, he's playing that guitar backwards!

I had to go look again. I thought maybe I missed that he was left handed or something. But he wasn't, so I don't get it.