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There's never been a better time to get into the GHPC community, OP
Modders have blown this game wide open in capabilities; tap notes, HOPO chords, and limitless note counts have been added since 2015
The community makes some of the best fucking music you'll ever hear

I never did play Rocksmith. It looks good, but it really seems like it sidelines the "video game" aspect, and also its accuracy is worse than Rock Band 3 (as it's detecting notes from the an analog rather than a digital signal).

I think neither one really does a better job than the other, as they have different goals and foci. Rock Band 3 is a video game with a controller that doubles as a real guitar, and you play it by playing real tableature. Rocksmith is a learning tool with some game mechanics where you just need their $40 adapter and you can use any electric guitar you already have.

Bullshit. It's also not the reason you play board games. The reason to play video games is because it's a game. The whole point is to use a skill to win within the rules presented by the game. Nothing more, and nothing less. Do you think Paperboy was successful because people want to deliver papers but can't?

Activision did make a Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 and shoveled it out the door the day before their license to the Tony Hawk series expired. They couldn't resist letting it die peacefully instead of taking a shit on their fan's childhood.

as a rocksmithfag, i can tell you that the accuracy is indeed worse but that's more on your guitar than anything. make sure your guitar's volume is high enough and you're well in tune and you should be fine. i can also tell you that rocksmith is deeply, deeply satisfying - i started playing Steel Panther songs and felt real, genuine joy in my heart, or when you realize that you understand how the chorus to Raining Blood works or whatever, it gives you real actual musical satisfaction (and also impresses bitches when you grab that shitty acoustic guitar they hang up because it looks good and bust out some flamenco shit, or play some surf song that they don't realize is piss easy)

It took me a solid 20 minutes before I was able to start hitting the slide notes and even then barely, but the moment I jammed out the little blues sound they wanted using those slide notes it felt amazing. I found it hard to play for lengths though due to the strings cutting into my fingers.

when I first got it, I played so long my fingers actually bled. You'll gain calluses soon enough

also, when I 100% nailed Pour Some Sugar On Me i actually yelled YES YES YES YES out loud

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There was honestly only one good thing for guitar hero/rock band: the isolated tracks people ripped for each instrument

>tfw most isolated tracks were on megaupload

With this game specifically?

Activision wanted more of the same, but the original guys who made guitar hero 1/2 wanted to be treated like talent and expand into new territory.
Bobby kotick said"fuck you I want money"

So ea gave the developers the ability to make rockband

As for the genre in general?

To many games made by Activision, I remember guitar hero 3, band hero, DJ hero 1/2 all occupying the same shelf space. The more popular namesake had no innovation, and attention to detail. So they felt like soulless cash grabs. So the general audience became unhappy with and moved on.
Some went on to the rockband brand, others just jumping on the next bandwagon craze.

Also alot of issues with plastic controllers cluttering up stuff and the fact that music is the last thing people are passionate about. If it doesn't have their jams, why bother?