The Dali
MeltedClockologist
Ok, so I sold a bunch of random equipment and pickups and scrounged up enough money to buy a PS3 and a copy of the new Rocksmith guitar game. Got it set up last night and played with it for about 2 hours. Here are my initial thoughts.
- The game interface is a little clunky. In fact, all the PS3 interfaces are kinda funky. Instead of a main menu you have to scroll to the right and select, then scroll again. Seems like a weird system to me, but I might just need to get used to it.
- It works. No doubt about it... you hit the strings and it immediately tells you if you are correct, on the wrong fret, wrong string, etc... Very impressive.
- The game is a little scattered... it unlocks all these different things you can do, almost randomly. I know it isn't random, but instead of working on a song until you have it mastered it opens up other songs or tutorials. Some of the tutorials are not related to the song you are working on. For instance, I was working on the first song, "Satisfaction" by the Stones. After I played it on one string it opened up the "palm muting" tutorial/game. Odd. But, you can go back to the song over and over which is good. You don't HAVE to move on if you don't want to.
- The game really adapts to how well you are playing the song. The game starts with Satisfaction on one string. If you are consistently hitting the notes it will just start adding new notes and strings during the song. If you start to mess up on those notes it goes back to the single notes. Pretty cool.
- You can play each song at your level. For instance, you can work on the individual notes for Satisfaction or play it with chords. When you work on the chords it starts with E and D chords that are widely spaced out, then starts to add in the A chord. Then it speeds up the chords to be more in-line with the song. Then it adds the other, smaller, chords like B5. One thing I'd like to see is a description of the chords needed for each song so you can learn the shape of chords youare not familiar with... having a chordbook with you is essential because reading the chords on the screen as they stream toward you is not easy if you don't know the chord.
- The fretboard itself, to me, is hard to decipher at first. It almost seems upside down at first (Low E string is at the top, but looks backwards). It makes sense after a while, but the chord fingering is tough because you are kinda looking at the board as though you were looking at a mirror. Anyway, it works, but takes practice.
- I like that you don't have to unlock songs. You can play whatever you want, although some might be too tough for first-time players. I was able to play "Boys Don't Cry" by the Cure after Satisfaction even though it was listed as the 15th song.
- The song list has a bunch of tunes I'd never heard of, but has some pretty familiar ones as well. I haven't checked out the online library, but someone told me that they have already added a bunch of downloadable songs.
I'll update my progress for you as I get deeper into the game.
- The game interface is a little clunky. In fact, all the PS3 interfaces are kinda funky. Instead of a main menu you have to scroll to the right and select, then scroll again. Seems like a weird system to me, but I might just need to get used to it.
- It works. No doubt about it... you hit the strings and it immediately tells you if you are correct, on the wrong fret, wrong string, etc... Very impressive.
- The game is a little scattered... it unlocks all these different things you can do, almost randomly. I know it isn't random, but instead of working on a song until you have it mastered it opens up other songs or tutorials. Some of the tutorials are not related to the song you are working on. For instance, I was working on the first song, "Satisfaction" by the Stones. After I played it on one string it opened up the "palm muting" tutorial/game. Odd. But, you can go back to the song over and over which is good. You don't HAVE to move on if you don't want to.
- The game really adapts to how well you are playing the song. The game starts with Satisfaction on one string. If you are consistently hitting the notes it will just start adding new notes and strings during the song. If you start to mess up on those notes it goes back to the single notes. Pretty cool.
- You can play each song at your level. For instance, you can work on the individual notes for Satisfaction or play it with chords. When you work on the chords it starts with E and D chords that are widely spaced out, then starts to add in the A chord. Then it speeds up the chords to be more in-line with the song. Then it adds the other, smaller, chords like B5. One thing I'd like to see is a description of the chords needed for each song so you can learn the shape of chords youare not familiar with... having a chordbook with you is essential because reading the chords on the screen as they stream toward you is not easy if you don't know the chord.
- The fretboard itself, to me, is hard to decipher at first. It almost seems upside down at first (Low E string is at the top, but looks backwards). It makes sense after a while, but the chord fingering is tough because you are kinda looking at the board as though you were looking at a mirror. Anyway, it works, but takes practice.
- I like that you don't have to unlock songs. You can play whatever you want, although some might be too tough for first-time players. I was able to play "Boys Don't Cry" by the Cure after Satisfaction even though it was listed as the 15th song.
- The song list has a bunch of tunes I'd never heard of, but has some pretty familiar ones as well. I haven't checked out the online library, but someone told me that they have already added a bunch of downloadable songs.
I'll update my progress for you as I get deeper into the game.
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