Comments on: Rock Band 3 Will “Actually Teach People to Play” http://www.plasticaxe.com/2009/11/06/rock-band-3-will-actually-teach-people-to-play/ For those about to virtually rock Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:20:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.plasticaxe.com/2009/11/06/rock-band-3-will-actually-teach-people-to-play/#comment-1224 Mike Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:19:12 +0000 http://www.plasticaxe.com/?p=2380#comment-1224 I suspect we'll see some new interface eventually that will use a real guitar. The note highway won't work, but perhaps some sort of moving tab might work. I think a new game would be the best method, but I can see learning to play real guitar be pretty easy/fun if they incorporate some of the ideas that make GH/RB fun: difficulty levels that still have you feel like you're playing something, videogame style rewards (score, unlocks, etc), and most importantly instant feedback. I suspect we’ll see some new interface eventually that will use a real guitar. The note highway won’t work, but perhaps some sort of moving tab might work. I think a new game would be the best method, but I can see learning to play real guitar be pretty easy/fun if they incorporate some of the ideas that make GH/RB fun: difficulty levels that still have you feel like you’re playing something, videogame style rewards (score, unlocks, etc), and most importantly instant feedback.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.plasticaxe.com/2009/11/06/rock-band-3-will-actually-teach-people-to-play/#comment-1216 Ryan Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:14:21 +0000 http://www.plasticaxe.com/?p=2380#comment-1216 If you have a real guitar then project natal would be a great tool to help them accomplish what he is saying...not hard at all. Even if you don't all you need is a plastic guitar you can string yourself and bam. Your wish is their profit margins. If you have a real guitar then project natal would be a great tool to help them accomplish what he is saying…not hard at all. Even if you don’t all you need is a plastic guitar you can string yourself and bam. Your wish is their profit margins.

]]> By: Tim http://www.plasticaxe.com/2009/11/06/rock-band-3-will-actually-teach-people-to-play/#comment-1169 Tim Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:43:57 +0000 http://www.plasticaxe.com/?p=2380#comment-1169 Sounds like a handed down acid flashback of Magic Alex claims. No seriously within 5 years YES this is very possible, but as Grasa Total says, it won't be in RB3, it likely won't even be in the RB-proper franchise and it will require an expensive peripheral or perhaps interpret a real guitar. The biggest challenge will be the visual nomenclature for sight-playing guitar, unless they are ditching the entire waterfall-note-highway approach. Sounds like a handed down acid flashback of Magic Alex claims.
No seriously within 5 years YES this is very possible, but as Grasa Total says, it won’t be in RB3, it likely won’t even be in the RB-proper franchise and it will require an expensive peripheral or perhaps interpret a real guitar.
The biggest challenge will be the visual nomenclature for sight-playing guitar, unless they are ditching the entire waterfall-note-highway approach.

]]> By: Grasa Total http://www.plasticaxe.com/2009/11/06/rock-band-3-will-actually-teach-people-to-play/#comment-1159 Grasa Total Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:00:15 +0000 http://www.plasticaxe.com/?p=2380#comment-1159 All credit to Dhani Harrison for getting the conservative Beatles rightsholders to do Rock Band, but this sounds to me like the kind of thing people say before they've actually tried to do it. I bet, if they had the resources to put into it, Harmonix could make a great intro-to-guitar game with, I don't know, 21 fret buttons and three strum bars (seven 'frets'), but the controller would cost $120 and it wouldn't be in Rock Band 3. All credit to Dhani Harrison for getting the conservative Beatles rightsholders to do Rock Band, but this sounds to me like the kind of thing people say before they’ve actually tried to do it.

I bet, if they had the resources to put into it, Harmonix could make a great intro-to-guitar game with, I don’t know, 21 fret buttons and three strum bars (seven ‘frets’), but the controller would cost $120 and it wouldn’t be in Rock Band 3.

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