Is it me or is Rocksmith a horrible game
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Jan 22, 2013 5:50 pm GMT
I'm a new guitar player just got a guitar for Christmas and I'm loving it I got rocksmith to help me learn some stuff about the guitar and it was a BIG mistake the game is horrible for beginners it's waaaaaayyyyyyyy to frustrating I almost rip a string off my guitar from being angry at it. It happens with every song you do we'll the first time on the song and the second time you play it they start throwing chords and a million notes at you thinking like your a expert guitar player. I was playing Hanger 18 I played the song a couple of times got decent I at it went for another shot at the song and bam million of notes and slide notes come rushing down my screen and the solo is worst there expecting me to play like Marty Friedman. Why can't they make it like rock band and guitar hero with Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert? I would like to hear your opinion about the game
Jan 22, 2013 9:39 pm GMT
Well, I could play chords fairly well (slow on my bar chord changes though) and knew the common scales (major, minor, modes, pentatonic, etc.) before I got Rocksmith. I think it's a great game. It really got me practicing a lot and I've improved a lot faster than I would have on my own.
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Jan 22, 2013 9:41 pm GMT
I guess you can use the riff repeater to practice one section at a time. Or if you keep messing up, the game will go back down in difficulty.
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Jan 23, 2013 6:22 am GMT
Learning an instrument is hard and it requires that you be challenged. The game is pushing you out of your comfort zone to force you to learn how to play those chords, slides, etc. In the end you will be a better player for it. In the meantime, there are dozens of less technical songs for you to develop your technique more gradually. Don't jump right into Hanger 18 as a beginner if you don't want to get frustrated.
Honestly, if it was like Guitar Hero, you'd have the same complaint. You'd be rocking the song on Easy, then you'd go to Medium and it would be much more complex and difficult for you. What would you rather do - keep treading water on easy without ever really improving, or try medium to build up your chops? RS is like that. The difference is that it has about 20 difficulty levels and chooses them automatically. Overall it's a better system.
If you need to, there's an option in the menu to reset the difficulty to 0% so you can build it back up again.
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Jan 24, 2013 2:58 pm GMT
KeryAdams posted...Learning an instrument is hard and it requires that you be challenged. The game is pushing you out of your comfort zone to force you to learn how to play those chords, slides, etc. In the end you will be a better player for it. In the meantime, there are dozens of less technical songs for you to develop your technique more gradually. Don't jump right into Hanger 18 as a beginner if you don't want to get frustrated.
Honestly, if it was like Guitar Hero, you'd have the same complaint. You'd be rocking the song on Easy, then you'd go to Medium and it would be much more complex and difficult for you. What would you rather do - keep treading water on easy without ever really improving, or try medium to build up your chops? RS is like that. The difference is that it has about 20 difficulty levels and chooses them automatically. Overall it's a better system.
If you need to, there's an option in the menu to reset the difficulty to 0% so you can build it back up again.
Well stated.
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Jan 24, 2013 6:30 pm GMT
This game is good at what it does, and the mistake most people make is coming into it thinking it's a game. It's more like a tool or a training/practice exercise.
It pushes you, yes, and that's the core of it. It doesn't exist to put you in huge arenas and pretend you're playing in front of thousands of people. You're not guitar dueling Joe Satriani or Slash. You're here, in reality, learning how to play an instrument.
It's not perfect but it does that well. It's rare that after a session of most anything you do on a pc, xbox, whatever as a game that you come away from it being better at something that you do without the console. Squeezing a bit of fun out of the process is a bonus compared to what you can potentially come away with if you really want to learn. If you don't... people like Rock Band and Guitar Hero too. It's the difference between having fun doing it and pretending to do it. It's up to you. It may not be for everyone.
Jan 28, 2013 2:26 am GMT
Sym-bio-sis posted...I'm a new guitar player just got a guitar for Christmas and I'm loving it I got rocksmith to help me learn some stuff about the guitar and it was a BIG mistake the game is horrible for beginners it's waaaaaayyyyyyyy to frustrating I almost rip a string off my guitar from being angry at it. It happens with every song you do we'll the first time on the song and the second time you play it they start throwing chords and a million notes at you thinking like your a expert guitar player. I was playing Hanger 18 I played the song a couple of times got decent I at it went for another shot at the song and bam million of notes and slide notes come rushing down my screen and the solo is worst there expecting me to play like Marty Friedman. Why can't they make it like rock band and guitar hero with Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert? I would like to hear your opinion about the game
This topic very much sounds like a joke topic.
You are saying the game is too hard yet you yourself picked one of the hardest songs in the game? You have to hit the notes pretty accurately for the game to start throwing in the kind and amount of notes you are talking about.
Why don't you try a song like "Angela"? If you are playing Hanger 18 as well as you are saying, since you are getting those kinds of notes, "Angela" would be nothing for you to play.
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Jan 29, 2013 10:43 am GMT
I'd say start in the easier song. You can't just jump in and play Hanger 18 after receiving your first guitar
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