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My biggest takeaway from my initial session with BandFuse:
Granted, I'm more used to Rocksmith's note highway than I am BandFuse's left-to-right moving tab, but even if you sight read tab perfectly at speed, you have to READ the tab numbers to know whether you're going to be moving up or down the fretboard. You can't use your peripheral vision to see what's coming up and you don't get to see chords coming at you in boxes. I found BandFuse's moving tab more difficult to read and interpret. I'm sure I'll get better at it, but I can't imagine it'll ever get as easy to read as Rocksmith's note highway.
With Rocksmith you can peripherally see what is coming down the highway -both string and fret location -and prepare yourself for it because the notes are coming AT you, not going by left-to-right. (Watch some YouTube videos to see what I mean.)
I think both Rocksmith 2014 and BandFuse are great learning tools. If you can, get both. Each one is the price of a couple of lessons. If you're going to get just one, watch videos of both on YouTube and decide which display style -Note Highway or Moving Tab -you prefer.
Both Rocksmith 2014 and BandFuse have lessons and other cool features like Session Mode (Rocksmith) and Jams (BandFuse), but the display is the main thing. Figure out which one you prefer and rock on!
Edit (to help you interpret the BandFuse and Rocksmith videos):
BandFuse uses colors to indicate which finger it recommends you use: Green/index, Red/middle, Yellow/ring, Blue/pinky.
Rocksmith uses colors to indicate strings: Red/E, Yellow/A, Blue/D, Orange/G, Green/B, Purple/E.
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I've been playing this game for hours now, and my fingers are sore, but I can't stop. It's just too good.This game uses guitar tab to show you what notes to play. This is exactly what any guitar teacher or book of music uses to teach guitar players of all levels. Rocksmith uses their own method of displaying notes. I found it overly complicated. Learn to read music in Rocksmith, and you can read music in Rocksmith, but nowhere else. Learn to read music in Bandfuse, and you can read music the way that literally everyone else does. There are tons of tab books in music stores, and millions of songs in tab online you can get easily. This is the way it's done.
The amp sims sound amazing, and they're completely customize-able. They're all unlocked from the beginning. I was able to get sparkling clean sounds, and face-melting hi-gain sounds with ease, and everything in between. There is no latency as far as I could tell when I plugged it right into my stereo system. I had it cranked and was able to pretty closely match the tones I can get out my Vox amp, and I could get lots of useful sounds I can't get out of my Vox amp. It just feels and sounds good.
Full notations of 55 songs is going to keep me very busy for a long time. I'm a pretty solid intermediate player, and with some effort, I was able to get 5 stars on level 5 on a couple of songs, but these were the easier songs. The game has some great ways to learn the songs. The Lick Lab is amazing. It just eases you into learning the riffs in the time-honored method of "Start by playing slow, then speed it up slowly until you can do it at full speed". I tried it on a song that I had a LOT of trouble playing. Within 30 minutes of using the Lick Lab, I was able to get through the song at the highest difficulty without much trouble. Fantastic. The "Practice" mode is cool too. Take a section of a song you want to learn and loop it. Play against the loop until you have it down. This game takes the teaching stuff seriously.
This game also has a personality. You have real rock stars inviting you into their world and not judging you in any way. They just talk to you like a normal person. They call them "Legends" in this game, and I agree. I don't really play the bass, but it's cool that they got Bootsy Collins as the bass teacher.
I love the fact that all of the songs are unlocked at the beginning. I just went into Quick Play, found a song I wanted to try, and I could access all of the difficulty levels I wanted at all times. None of this "Play 10 songs I hate to get to the song I want to play" crap.
The little stuff is great too. The tuner works great, and makes tuning to weird tunings fast and accurate. There's a mode that shuts off the notation so you have to play from memory. You get 2X points in this mode. it supports vocals as well. I don't have a mic, so I didn't try this out, but it looks like fun. No cover songs. These all have videos with the original artists, and the original songs as far as i can tell. Loading times are almost non-existent. Loads take 2-3 seconds tops.
Let me tell you, if you want to learn to play guitar, but it seems "Too hard", get this game and you won't have any excuse. Now, excuse me (English is weird), I'm going to make my fingers bleed a bit more.
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I picked up my copy at Gamestop and canceled my pre-order here on Amazon.Overall the game seems really well polished and very responsive. The menus actually seem logical and it's pretty quick to locate a song and begin playing.
I've played the game for only about 2 hours and so far am really liking it! Having played Rocksmith and Rocksmith 2014, I was worried that the horizontal layout of the notes would be an issue for me, but after a few minutes of playing it starting feeling really natural. Hopefully it will help me improve by tab reading. The one thing I really liked was the color coding of the strings is used to indicate what fingers to use for each note. So as you progress in difficulty your fingers are already correctly positioned to add the new notes. I always had a problem with Rocksmith and had to essentially re-learn finger placement as more notes were added. I viewed a couple of the basic tutorials and they seemed okay. I though the tuner was much easier to use than Rocksmith (especially Rocksmith 2014) whose tuner seemed really finicky.
The only thing that I'm not quite used to yet is knowing for sure if I'm playing the correct note. Whereas the Rocksmith notes would flash when you nailed them, BandFuse uses a sliding scale that I haven't yet taken the time to fully interpret.
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This is the first game that I've ever bought on release day (I bought RS 2014 3 days after release.) I've been playing BandFuse non-stop....the tour mode is a lot like the original RS; but you play the same songs in different sets so you actually learn the song better instead of just trying to get through it to get to the next level the set list is decent and a good variety from classic rock to pretty new stuff.
it also has challenges to meet or beat a minimum score that take a little bit of work make you play better.
The horizontal music flow is fairly easy once you figure it out I think it does a better job of telling you what fingers to use RS makes you figure it out on your own; but RS does a better job of showing you what is coming up i.e. shifting your hands up the neck to play the solo or interludes.
to compare BandFuse & RS as somebody that really wants to learn guitar:
I think BF beats RS in the technical parts of learning the songs cause it tells you what fingers to use.
RS has the guitarcade which is a powerful learning tool; I thing the technique challenges in RS are great f only they would let you keep track of your score as time goes on. The technique challenges in RS are put together really well I think they are better than BF.
BF songs don't change in difficulty like they do in RS you select your level of difficulty before you start the song. It would be great in the tour mode if the more times you played the song (through your various concerts if they would throw more notes at you so you slowly learn to throw in the notes the lower lessons leave out.
BF has a lot of different scales and it shows you the notes RS has the scale games...
RS has a ton more songs and DLC I haven't seen any DLC for BF yet. I was dissappointed that there is a lot of repeat content between the games and no DLC for BF...but I suppose once a band has signed one agreement to be in a game; its probably easier for them to sign another one....I'm surprised actually that there weren't any non-compete clauses used by the companies to prevent bands from being in both games.
Tuning your guitar seems a little easier in RS.
BF uses different colors for your different fingers to show you technique/fingerings RS uses different colors for the different strings... honestly I have not tried RS again since I've been playing BF constantly (its only been 3-4 days) so I don't know how easily I will be able to switch between RS & BF...
I'm guessing a little bit I think if you already know fundamental guitar you will like RS better because the song selection is so extensive ( you can import your RS1 stuff for $10) If you have absolutely no guitar experience I think BF will be easier (the easy level is too easy for me) I only have limited guitar experience But I am playing the Level II stuff almost perfectly it seems like there is a big jump between LVL II & LVL III (maybe its just me...lol)
In summary: for individual songs BF wins; for the technique lessons/guitarcade and song selection RS wins.
as the reviewer before me put it: Excuse me while I go make my fingers bleed...
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Bandfuse is such a unique new game, nothing can compare to it. There are different levels of the game, so if you have never played an actual guitar you can start off on easy then move up once you get the hang of it. The game basically teaches you how to play the guitar slowly. Quick,easy and fun way to learn how to play an electric guitar. I love this game.
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