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Rocksmith/Bandfuse...
- Thread starter BassGoblin
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I have decided to buy Rocksmith. Bound to be fun! my son wants to play with me, and that's reason enough. thanks to everyone that has posted.
There should be no war between us, but we all have a voice here. No matter the why or how, play your bass everyday.
So I've had RS for almost three months now, and the song choices available are wearing on me. As my skills progress, I am finding that I prefer to play along to MP3s that I can find some tab for.
Going to a RS get-together with friends this weekend, and I still play with my son, but it is loosing its luster.
But there is no doubt that I would not haven gotten over the "can't play squat" hump without it, so it was very much worth it.
But the Steam and UPlay load times on the PC, complete with the needless updates have gotten really old...
Going to a RS get-together with friends this weekend, and I still play with my son, but it is loosing its luster.
But there is no doubt that I would not haven gotten over the "can't play squat" hump without it, so it was very much worth it.
But the Steam and UPlay load times on the PC, complete with the needless updates have gotten really old...
No, I meant that I play MP3s on my computer, and plug in to my amp to hear my bass.
I like the way the songster site has a moving bar on their bass tabs- helps me keep place enough to get rough competence, then I move to the MP3 as soon as I can.
I like the way the songster site has a moving bar on their bass tabs- helps me keep place enough to get rough competence, then I move to the MP3 as soon as I can.
I'm still loving Rocksmith. I've learned two songs from it now (memorized and can play without the note highway), but more than anything it has forced me to become more familiar with the fretboard and helped muscle memory. The technique games are great too IMO, at least as a newbie bass player.
MY RS14 copy is through Steam and I did have the original RS but that was on PS3. I much prefer it on PC, so If I want to get the songs from the first (which I thought were pretty good) it would end up costing me 40. I still think its worth it for the amount of songs you get. Trying to decide between doing that or picking up BF and giving that a try. I had read on some other threads (other sites) that they felt BF was lacking in bass but that doesn't seem to be the sentiment here.
There are some incredibly challenging songs on Bandfuse for bass. I'm new to bass but I manage to get by on most of the songs however there are a few thatI had my forearm on fire because I'm not used to playing at the speed of light.
I like bandfuse better. But I'm more used to the interface than rocksmiths. It is more fun to me than RS, but they're both fun. I to say I think RS did a better job with the effects and amp sims.
The only thing about BF that is really lacking in the bass department is the backing tracks, there's only about four for bass as opposed to maybe twenty or more for guitar.
After having both for a few days and playing BF for 3 hours tonight I am pretty sure I can say I like BF better.
Reasons:
Over all I like the music better. RS has some good ones so I'll still keep it, but as a whole I like the BF music better.
Music presentation. I like the BF tab presentation better that the note highway in RS.
Finger coloring. BF shows which fingers to be using.
RS has session mode thought which is much better.
Over all I have a lot more bass playing to do
Reasons:
Over all I like the music better. RS has some good ones so I'll still keep it, but as a whole I like the BF music better.
Music presentation. I like the BF tab presentation better that the note highway in RS.
Finger coloring. BF shows which fingers to be using.
RS has session mode thought which is much better.
Over all I have a lot more bass playing to do
Rocksmith does too, but its not as visible due to the layout of the highway.
See below, the frets are highlighted and the lanes are blue. That is their version of the finger placement.
The difference is RS just shows you different colors for strings (red blocks indicates frets to be played on the E string, yellow blocks indicate frets to be played on the A string, etc.). BF has different colors for each finger.
So in the BF tab scroll, if the note is green you should use your index finger, if its red use your middle finger, yellow for your ring finger and blue for your pinky. Of course you can play the notes any whay you want but for beginners its helpful to know which fingers to use.
So in the BF tab scroll, if the note is green you should use your index finger, if its red use your middle finger, yellow for your ring finger and blue for your pinky. Of course you can play the notes any whay you want but for beginners its helpful to know which fingers to use.
AFAIK, with the RS cable there is some kind of proprietary chip or something in that big black rectangular part that allows the cable to work with the RS software that isn't there in other cables. I imagine it's the same with the BF one.
Bandfuse might have been smart to use the same cable type. They could get more converts from both RS games. Might have been copyright issues to prevent that though.
I can just imagine that conversation. Hey RS can we use your propriety cable so that we can make a competing product and steal your users and customer base?
The real money in these games is likely in people buying the DLC for new songs.
Yea, they could never come out and say it or ask Ubi, but if their design just "happened" to be compatible, word of mouth would take care of the rest. Then again, they are a company and want to make money off their own cable as well.
DLC is pricey at 3 bucks a song. I wish they offered bulk deals with some discounts. (more then the current song packs).
About taking rocksmith's customers, I would bet that at least 75% of the people who bought BS own RS or RS14 as well.
Is there any form of online Multiplayer for either game? I'm not at home so I can't check and I haven't paid much attention to that. It'd be cool to play with you guys as I play guitar as well.
