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I guess I helped out a little too, when I bought Just Dance. Cool. Haven't ever played it, though, due to our home theater setup.
I guess I helped out a little too, when I bought Just Dance. Cool. Haven't ever played it, though, due to our home theater setup.
We still need to do our part and support them via DLC, continue to be vocal about bugs and errors, and share our experiences with friends offline and people who might be interested online.
As far as Rockband, I still love it....always will. If anyone ever wants to play with a somewhat decent pro drummer with over 800 songs on PS3 drop me a line....psn is RavageX.
I rarely play now but I can be convinced if someone wants to.
Rock Band 3 is, certainly... Rock Band 4? Dunno... In fact, if they could figure out how to rip off Ubisoft and introduce the real guitar into their game, with their back catalogue of pro-mode songs in place, they'd have a pretty good foothold on the marketshare. I know I'll be playing RB4 if their pro-mode features a real guitar. Doesn't mean I'll stop playing RS, but at that point RB would cease to be a party game and nothing more.Originally Posted by fatherrock
Oh, I don't know... given your current rate of progress, after only a quarter of a year, don't you think you could get 50 songs down pretty good? I don't disagree with you that that's plenty of songs, but I do think we'll be able to keep up with that pace, to a degree.
So are you saying that you don't need a real guitar to play Rocksmith? I use the fender Squier RB pro controller now and it seems to work fine. I must be doing something wrong.
I will support Ubi's DLC when I feel the DLC is worth supporting. So far, it hasn't been much.
Thanks for that info, very interesting. "there will be more rocksmith" . I wonder if that's a quote or if it's editorial opinion
Nothing's dead where Activision is concerned. Look at the Tony Hawk series. They roll out that rotted carcass of a pinata for a fresh round of beatings every year.
Nice find. Hope this translates into a long life for RS
Well. the RB Squier is as much a real electric as the Power Gig guitar. Highly modified game controllers aren't quite the same as straight-up electrics
Actually the Fender Squier is a real guitar. It works better than my semi accoustic does right now. I'm not familiar with the PG guitar. Is that what you use?
Well. the RB Squier is as much a real electric as the Power Gig guitar. Highly modified game controllers aren't quite the same as straight-up electrics
I don't know what you're talking about. My post was a response to fatherrock's assertion that Rock Band is just a party game. I agreed... for now. I pointed out that if Harmonix was able to steal or create their own reliable tech that could enable a real guitar to be played in RB4 pro-mode, while retaining their large catalogue of pro-mode songs, they'd certainly be a contender with this game, far beyond just being a party game... Obviously you need a real guitar to play Rocksmith... Right now, for RB3 pro-mode you have the option to use a real guitar (the Squier), but not to use it as a real guitar. The strings must be muted, it doesn't actually play your sound, etc. Were that changed for the next RB title, conforming closer to RS, then RB would be right in the mix again, not just party appropriate. That was my only point.
Except they've never said that the Tony Hawk franchise is dead and will no longer produce additional titles. They have said that about Guitar Hero... GH is dead.
That's simply not true. The Squier pro-mode guitar is a real guitar. It's full-size. The Power Gig guitar is fully plastic. You can actually see the giant seem running along the edge of the entire body of the guitar. The Squier is made of basswood. Certainly not a hugely refined guitar, but in no way, shape or form not a real guitar. It isn't played like a real guitar, in the sense that you have to mute the strings and whatnot, just like the Power Gig one, but that's in the method of play for the specific game, not a statement of the ability or functionality of the guitar itself.Well. the RB Squier is as much a real electric as the Power Gig guitar. Highly modified game controllers aren't quite the same as straight-up electrics
That said, the Squier is still a POS, for the most part... but you're not right in comparing it to the Power Gig guitar.
As has been mentioned, this is incorrect. It has some real value for playing real music, including playing piano/guitar scales, practicing chord progressions, showing you guitar tablature so you can play along with the original studio backing tracks, etc. The only reason that the Squier guitar has to be muted is because the MIDI pickup is too crappy to reliably detect when the strings are plucked. If Harmonix could combine the use of the fret tracking in addition to using pitch detection to detect string hits, it would allow for unmuted guitar playing and fret detection that is more accurate than frequency analysis alone.
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