A rhythm game you play with a REAL guitar

[J T]

"Rocksmith" is a new title coming out from Ubisoft that allows you to directly plug in a real guitar to play the game. This looks like it could be a great tool for improving your real life guitar playing.

Read about it and see videos here:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03 ... more-54103

[Erik_Twice]

Seems cool! Hope it plays well and let's you do chords as there was some talk concerning not being able to do chords. As you say it may be a good, solid tool to improve your guitar playing.

I don't really think I would shell money for an automatic partiture tough as there seem to be some out there already.

[MrPopo]

It's an interesting different take on how to recognize guitar inputs. Harmonix went with a customer controller that can detect how you're fretting but doesn't support certain operations such as harmonics. This one analyzes the electrical signal you generate but now you have to write a parser for that, which can be affected by such things as the tuning. Personally I think from a technical perspective the Harmonix solution is better; it's going to give you more consistent results and you can get instant feedback on how you're fingering through the TV display. I imagine that Harmonix tried out this solution (as it's kind of the first thing you'd think of when you want to get a real guitar to work) and it fell short.

[emwearz]

My Les Paul has been sitting in its case since I finished High School 3 years ago, if its any good might actually motivate me to pick it up and start playing again.

[AmishSamurai]

Oddly enough, this is perhaps one game I could see the Kinect being useful in. It isn't capable of zooming in and seeing your fingers from what I know, but it does have a mic. You could use that to determine how accurate you are. It'd take an assload of calibration and tuning though.

That said, I welcome a game without annoying clicky plasticy guitar controllers with open arms.

[aaron]

there's already one of these types of games out:

http://www.powergig.com/game/overview

it sucks pretty hard and doesn't really help you with playing guitar.

a friend of mine asked me what the best way to learn guitar was and i told him to take piano lessons.

[AppleQueso]

I learned guitar by just picking it up and fumbling around until I started making sense of what I was doing. Just did that for 5 or 6 years and got to where I am now.

I'm a sloppy ass player though, but I don't mind. I don't try to impress anyone.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Some people enjoy failure and buying cheap crap (seriously though, don't get any music games, they're not worth it anymore):

[Erik_Twice]

Some people enjoy failure and buying cheap crap (seriously though, don't get any music games, they're not worth it anymore):

Haters gonna hate

I have been playing Beatmania, DDR and PIU for years and plan to get Pop'n'music and Taiko soon. I think they are very much worth it. In fact I would say that each new version is better than the previous one.

I would also say that the Pong/Music game hybrid from Konami looks very cool. Don't remember the name know.

[aaron]

those kinds of music/rhythm games can be viewed completely differently from guitar hero/rock band etc, imo. i actually really like rhythm games but i don't care for the guitar type games. i did like frets on fire, though.