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Giant Bomb #6 | You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better threads this year.
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Dude, Rocksmith is honestly kind of incredible when you consider what you're actually getting.
For anyone that plays guitar in the slightest sense, it's an immense value proposition.
You can buy the OG Rocksmith with cable for $30 new with a cable, and the new game for $60 without the cable. If you own the original Rocksmith you can import all your songs into the new one. So for $90, you get two pretty stellar soundtracks mixed in to play with.
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"House of the Rising Sun" The Animals 1964
"When I'm with You" Best Coast 2010
"I Got Mine" The Black Keys 2008
"Next Girl" The Black Keys 2010
"Song 2" Blur 1997
"Step Out of the Car" The Boxer Rebellion 2011
"Sunshine of Your Love" Cream 1967
"We Share the Same Skies" The Cribs 2009
"Boys Don't Cry" The Cure 1979
"I Want Some More" Dan Auerbach 2009
"Rebel Rebel" David Bowie 1974
"I Can't Hear You" The Dead Weather 2010
"Run Back to Your Side" Eric Clapton 2010
"Take Me Out" Franz Ferdinand 2004
"Do You Remember" The Horrors 2009
"I Miss You" Incubus 1999
"Slow Hands" Interpol 2004
"Angela" Jarvis Cocker 2009
"Well OK Honey" Jenny O 2010
"Use Somebody" Kings of Leon 2008
"Are You Gonna Go My Way" Lenny Kravitz 1993
"Surf Hell" Little Barrie 2011
"Sweet Home Alabama" Lynyrd Skynyrd 1974
"Unnatural Selection" Muse 2009
"Plug In Baby" Muse 2001
"In Bloom" Nirvana 1991
"Breed" Nirvana 1991
"Where is My Mind?" Pixies 1988
"Go With the Flow" Queens of the Stone Age 2002
"High and Dry" Radiohead 1995
"California Brain" RapScallions 2011
"Number Thirteen" Red Fang 2011
"Higher Ground" Red Hot Chili Peppers 1989
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones 1965
"The Spider and the Fly" The Rolling Stones 1965
"Play with Fire" The Rolling Stones 1965
"Gobbledigook" Sigur Rós 2008
"Panic Switch" Silversun Pickups 2009
"Outshined" Soundgarden 1991
"Me and the Bean" Spoon 2001
"Between the Lines" Stone Temple Pilots 2010
"Vasoline" Stone Temple Pilots 1994
"Under Cover of Darkness" The Strokes 2011
"Mean Bitch" Taddy Porter 2010
"A More Perfect Union" Titus Andronicus 2010
"Good Enough" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 2010
"Slither" Velvet Revolver 2004
"Burnished" White Denim 2011
"Icky Thump" The White Stripes 2007
"Islands" The xx 2009
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"The Trooper" Iron Maiden 1983
"Paranoid Android" Radiohead 1997
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"Say It Ain't So" Weezer 1995
"Thunder Kiss '65" White Zombie 1992
"Sixteen Saltines" Jack White 2012
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"You Really Got Me" The Kinks 1964
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"Now" Paramore 2013
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"Round and Round" Ratt 1984
"The Spirit of Radio" Rush 1980
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"Everlong" Foo Fighters 1997
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"Every Breath You Take" The Police 1983
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"Self Trap (Unlockable Song)" Playground Kings 2007Using the practicing tool, it basically gives you a really, really in depth method of learning all of those songs - letting you slow them down, remove notes and let them add them in as you get more comfortable, select and loop specific sections, have the actual music playing behind you, and have the notes showing on screen too you. It makes learning really, really intuitive and makes staying in rhythm really way easier since the musics playing with you.
The guitarcade makes one of the most monotonous parts of learning guitar - practicing - actually enjoyable and incentivizes it. They've got multiple games for learning scales which notoriously takes forrrrreverrrr to lock down right, they have something for learning to tremolo pick so you can pick notes super fast and have an incentive to get faster without getting sloppy, a game for learning the neck of your guitar so that you don't have to constantly look down, even a game for practicing your natural harmonics that is based entirely on risk reward and is totally creative!
But the thing that pushes it just from awesome game in to INCREDIBLE value is the tone designer mode.
Dude. Holy shit.
When I first messed around with tone designer I was completely amazed that they included it.
You know those expensive multi-effect pedals that throw together a bunch of different effect pedals but they all sound sort of cheap and digital?
Rocksmith has that, expect it works REALLY well and sounds REALLY good.
They've got dozens of different guitar pedals you can choose, sections like distortion, filters, delays, modulation, EQ's, everything. They have bass emulation pedals, wah-wah filters, compressors, noise gates, 8-bit converters, helicopter delays, flanges, absolutely everything.
On top of that, they've got dozens of amps to choose from, all of which sound different from the other and offer their own unique sound to your tone.
On top of THAT they've got a ton more heads to choose from that change your tone even further.
The craziest part, is that every step of the way, every single one of these pedals, amps, and heads have completely customizeable options that you would find on the actual pedal if you were to buy it. So that distortion pedal has balance, gain, distortion, mix, everything in it. The amp has bass, mids, trebles, gain, overdrive, AND microphone placement around the amplifier. The head has all the settings on top of that.
So for your $60, you're getting pretty much the most incredibly diverse and customizable effects pedal for achieving basically any tone you want, AND you have this incredible practice tool that makes the act of actually learning guitar way more enticing and enjoyable so you'll stick with it. And for $30 on top of that, you expand the library of songs you can learn on top of that.
The last couple things I didn't even mention but are worth noting - session mode in the new Rocksmith makes noodling around learning to keep in rhythm with an actual band something viable when no one else is around and works really well, and Rocksmith on PC has custom song support, so you can learn even more songs than are just on the soundtrack. You can learn any song you feel like implementing in the game, or any song you find on forums that someone else already put in.
Seriously, for any person who even has a remote interest in playing guitar or bass (it fucking supports bass too oh my godddd), it's the most incredible tool I've ever seen.
SteveWinwood
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I can't wait for Brad to start dota and get fed up with it in less than 2 hours.
Backfoggen
Banned
Jeff droppin the true next-gen bombs
Cancel video games
Cancel video games
Brad should just live stream him filling out customer reviews on metacritic for 24 hours.
SteveWinwood
Member
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give endurance run
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Literally or figuratively?
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Brad, if you're reading this, please play through Mario Galaxy. Now is the perfect time.
That would be perfect! Do it Brad!
If he plays Dota for anything more than, like, an hour, it's gonna be a wasted opportunity.
Gozer the Gozerian
Member
quick someone tweet him
shadyspace
Banned
can someone PM when Brad moves on from playing dota thnx
Hot Coldman
Banned
So how many hours to go until Brad starts?
Half an hour?
Hot Coldman
Banned
:O Fuck yeah!
SteveWinwood
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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give Mario Galaxy
SnakeLinkSonic
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Someone get him to log back in with his XIV character.
The Wizard
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I hope he plays a good amount of stuff besides dota, Mario Galaxy would be great.
MrTroubleMaker
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Hot Coldman
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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give Game of the Generation
iAmMaximus
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Godspeed, Brad.
You post that trainwreck as a follow up to the Rocksmith QL? Weird...
Zabant
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Hot Coldman
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I'm working on it.
shadyspace
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hey guys if a new thread is made can we all agree to post in that one and not in that one AND this one cause that shit is always mad annoying
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Wub wub for the kids.
SteveWinwood
Member
move to a normal place
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
All the heat sapped my energy, all I can do is sit here, baked.
SeventhSon
Member
Brad looks like he already did 24 hours.
He'll never make it.
He'll never make it.
Rabbit Clock
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starting the show with a show stopper..
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