1. I have both this and the original Rocksmith and this one is
better. Though I do miss a few things from the original, that this has
superior note recognition, less lag and a few more techniques give it a
solid edge.
2. I can only review this as someone who has played guitar for years. I think
it would work for learning guitar to begin with but what I can say for
sure is practicing with this will maintain and improve your guitar
skills if you already play. It is much better than just picking up a
guitar and noodling around for an hour and it is more fun than
practicing with a metronome. The only things I could recommend over this
is jamming with other players or taking lessons if you have the kind of time and patience required for interacting w/ human beings in real life.
3. For new players: learning guitar takes a long time. That 400 hours you spent before you got really good at twitch shots in Counter Strike, that is not even close. Sorry you had to hear it from me.
4.
For everyone: learn to play and get good at the songs you don't like.
You will be exposed to techniques and rhythms you would otherwise miss.
It will make you a better player.
5. Getting 100% on a song does
not mean you can actually play it well. I have seen way too many
YouTube vids of people 100%ing songs with this that just sound all kinds
of shaky rhythmically. This gives you the ability to listen back to
your performance. Give your fingers a break and do this every now and
again.
6. This still has trouble with note tracking on bass sometimes. Sometimes it's pretty severe. Yes, I checked my intonation.
7.
If you follow the path specified for you in this game, it makes you
spend a lot of time playing w/ these cheesy jam-along tracks and that is
just annoying. I dunno about you but playing scale notes to a poor
sounding fake classic rock band is just not my idea of a good time.
8.
The guitarcade games actually help you so play them. They do help w/
your playing somewhat but they really excel at is keeping your attention
on the screen and not on the fretboard since you can't memorize them
like you do a song.
9. It is kinda a bummer that they make you
pay an extra ten bucks to play the tracks from the original game. Or,
not so much that, but that you pay ten dollars and it still doesn't
transfer your progress over. Sucks to you for that, Ubisoft!
10.
The feature in this called riff repeater that lets you repeat and slow
down tough parts of the songs is way better than in the original where I
found it nearly unusable.
11. I would not suggest sinking
too much money into a guitar for this if you are just beginning. A
guitar in the range of like $150 or maybe even cheaper will be perfectly
adequate. Buy it at a guitar store and ask if they will check the
intonation and set up for you as a condition of your purchase. This is a
reasonable thing to do and they won't think you are being a big nerd or
anything.
12. Every now and again you will be truly killing it
on a rad song and the dumb cable will stop working and you will get
really, really mad. Express this anger. You are an artist.
13.
There is more to life than video games and more to life than playing
guitar but if you put both together, you are pretty damn close. Maybe
have a kid or something if you feel unfulfilled. I'm not gonna tell you
how to live your life.
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