I've found that if you get stuck on one lesson, the game cannot guide you though in smaller steps, nor can it increase the challenge over and above giving you a separate, harder lesson on the same topic.Īs for my own complaints, I do not like the colours they picked for the strings as they are too similar and I'm colourblind (deuteranomoly). While they do cover the basics, they function as little more than practice arenas for that particular skill. Lastly, the lessons have been given a good shoeing, and rightly so. The only aspect of RS2014 that suffers from lag is the technique games which rely on on-screen prompts rather than a drum beat and memory. In order to calibrate lag more accurately, I pick a song and slow it down to make sure the onscreen notes are in time with the drums on the backing tracks.
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As an aside, you can check the lag out for yourselves by turning on the hi-fi and TV sound simultaneously, where the lag is obvious even on the XMB or Dashboard. For console editions you use an old RGB or composite scary lead to jack into your hi-fi and set up an multi-channel output so that the display and the associated lag do not impact the delivery of audio, and then you're golden. HD TVs and monitors waste time doing something called handshaking and both Rocksmith and RS2014 compensate by pushing the video out early rather than the audio out late.
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Secondly, complaints of lag are greatly exaggerated. I know when I've played a hammer-on or missed a note it credited me for and so practice, practice, practice. I've since turned off the subtitles and voiceover to avoid this and spend most of my time replaying songs to hone my timing and execution. I have experienced this first hand and know how patronising it feels to play poorly and be given a jovial "You're gonna be a superstar" and an accuracy of 95%. Firstly, the game is fairly forgiving in terms of timing and I think it does so because learning an instrument is hard enough without being denied a successful hit for being slightly ahead or behind the beat. Once a song or phrase is mastered, it becomes fairly easy to find what to play through muscle memory and onscreen cues.Īs a nod to previous posters on this subject, I want to address a couple of complaints.
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There is far too much information for the brain to process when running at full speed, so knowing that X follows Y is necessary and the only way to see what's going on is to slow the track down to a crawl, pause and practice a bit, then have another go. It's worth mentioning that I still have to learn the songs. This system of progression through dynamic difficulty is analogous to increasing precision at constant tempo, rather than constant precision at increasing tempo, as would be the case of a sight reader or tabman. While this system is flattering, I still need to reduce a new song to a simpler setting to start with, just to learn what I'm supposed to be playing, and often I will set it up to increase phrase difficulty regardless of how I perform just to see where I'm ultimately heading. If I switch over to 6-string, these drop down to my level there. On the other hand, Incubus's I Miss You starts fully maxed out because it's easy throughout. In addition, the game sets up your initial mastery based on your overall performance in the game so far for instance when I load up Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark, my initial mastery is roughly 88% but varies depending on individual phrase difficulty (the intro is easy and therefore 100%, the bridge slightly harder and starts at 75%).
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One improvement over the first title is the ability to set a songs' mastery phrase by phrase without the need to 'level up'.
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Songs are split up into phrases and as you perfect each phrase, it adds more notes or techniques into the phrase until you max out the songs' score. Meanwhile, the columns the notes appear on represent the places where your fingers should go and contain information on note duration and finger placement. Some notes incorporate symbols to indicate slides, bends, hammer-ons or pull-offs, palm or fret-hand mutes, natural or pinch harmonics, tapping, accents, slaps, pops, sustains, tremolos and vibratos. The premise is that strings are colour coded, and coloured notes travel down columns representing a frets and hit the string at the point when the note is played. The difference is moot as it does roughly the same thing, only now with a few additions and a much better menu system. About Nov last year RS2014 came out, now rebranded as learning software. I'm new here and pretty inexperienced when it comes to bass, however, games I do know inside out, so I offer you my experiences with Rocksmith 2014 and the improvements over the previous Rocksmith title.įor anyone who doesn't know, Rocksmith was a videogame designed to use a guitar as an input device.