Ubisoft has announced that it will cease support for Rocksmith 2014 Edition on the PlayStation 4, as its San Francisco-based developer turns its attention to a “new project”. While it doesn’t specify what it’s working on, a blog post states that it “can’t wait to start the next leg of our music learning journey together”. Our money’s on more guitar tutorials for the PlayStation 5.
To be fair, the PS4 version has quietly amassed an outrageous array of content: "After 383 weeks of DLC releases, [the Opeth song pack] brings us to a total of 1,570 songs in the Rocksmith library, spanning over seven decades (or three centuries, in the case of Bachsmith) and covering a multitude of genres for guitar and bass."
How would you like this series to evolve as we enter a new generation? Point your axe of choice at the comments section below.
[source theriffrepeater.com]
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This game is awesome. Highly recommend to anyone desiring to play guitar. I started with this and it really does help build up some basic skills and gets you to learn how to play full songs.
If anyone has questions about the game feel free to ask!
Hi mate, I looked at this a little when it first came out but was put off by reviews saying the input lag was bad. What’s your thoughts as someone who obviously enjoys it?
@CFDennett I think you were trying to ask @Stragen8 but I can answer that I experienced the lag and still found it pretty useful. I definitely learned a few songs.
@get2sammyb
Thanks for taking the time to reply it’s much appreciated.
Might give it a go then if it’s at a decent price, I’ve always considered getting it.
@CFDennett It recommends using external audio via the PS4’s optical output - I experience no lag this way - but if you don’t have a sound bar it’s obviously another investment you’d have to make.
@M1359 It has something for all levels. There’s a lot geared towards beginners (they have ‘arcade games’ that are things like learning to pluck certain strings etc) but then there’s the actual songs transcribed note by note which if you’re already an intermediate player you can hop right into at performance level - if you’re a beginner it will dumb down the song and progressively add more complex notes until it builds to the actual song.
They also have a really cool ‘session’ mode which basically allows you to jam with an AI band. It actually works really well!
Looking through the list of DLC songs, there is a lot of really good music in there.
Two words: Rocksmith Bassoon.
I've used it to play the bass – but I do think the song selection is a little less impressive in this regard. Guitar does seem to be the main focus. Headphones solved the lag completely for me, but optical output to external speakers works as well. But yeah, I'd be up for a new version.
I use rocksmith with my Sony gold headset and there is little lag (almost non existent!). Try it this way if you don’t have an optical set of speakers or sound bar.
For me it’s not a game it’s a great guitar learning tool and it’s for all levels. It’s very very fun! I am very happy that it’s coming to ps5!
I need to try to find my cord again and get back into RockSmith. Yes I would pick up a new version on PS5.
Hope they do a complete edition
Game needs an auto tuner for Drop D and all other retuning of your guitar, or at least an option for it. Instead of having colored strings, have their notes on them for standard e tuning. E A D G B E
The low e string would look like eeeeeeeeeeeee
then the A string would look like aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ect ect.
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