2:42 AM on 02.23.2008
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A week or two ago, I was driving home from the bank and lamenting the fact that I have no artistic skill beyond my mediocre ability to sculpt with moldy mashed potatoes. "Why!?" I cried, nearly plowing into several pedestrians. "Why can't my useless Guitar Hero skills translate to a useful real-world activity that could, quite possibly, win me some ladies?" Not a day later, I was introduced to Guitar Rising, which Nick Chester and I got to demo on the show floor at this year's GDC. Adopting the conventions of the many guitar-based rhythm games now available, Rising takes it a step further and uses a USB dongle to hitch up the guitar of your choice to your PC, and prompts players to hit frets and strings to play along with some pretty choice music. While it's not necessarily designed to turn you into a guitar god overnight, from our short time with it, it really seemed like a product that could boost dexterity. And these pudgy fingers need all the help they can get. Attaching that competitive element and a score to the act itself can keep people coming back, and might help to develop some of those dormant or otherwise nonexistent skills. I sucked something fierce, but hey -- if a few weeks of Guitar Hero could see me up to expert level, what would a few months of Guitar Rising do?
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LOL. They turned guitar tab into a video game.
wow, Chester is so damn hawt!!!! He's so pretty! Linde, not so much.....more of a sexy man beast type, eh? lol
All jokes aside, this is an interesting concept. My younger brother recieved an electric guitar and amp and all that recently and is trying to teach himself. I'll have to show him this.
I'd do them
both
at the same time!
But Chester just left today... BUT LINDE IS SITTING BEHIND ME O.o
Behind you? That's where he belongs, he's the sexy beast guy, it's Chester who belongs in the front, he's the pretty boy.
This is the most disgusting thing I've ever typed.
DAMTIT! I thought this was going to be Dead Rising 2 mocking Guitar Hero!
Tbh, if you wanna learn guitar, just go do it... if you need this for motivation, do you actually really want to learn to play guitar?
My only complaint is the interface, it resembles Frets on Fire quite a bit.
It be more professional and maybe taken more seriously if it was simplified like the Rock Band tracks. No need for the hearts in the background or the bright orange color.
If it was down to a black track with white lines and some kind of non-distracting winamp visualation in the background, it seem more top notch.
YAY Guitar Tablature the game!
*Sigh* More rock games, I love it when in this industry something gets popular, all these games which are alike pop up. Give me a music game based on say... Jazz for crying out loud, not all of us like rock.
So it's a game that teaches you some guitar skills. This actually sounds cool. Now they just need to make the interface look interesting instead of thrown-together at the last moment.
I need to see more video examples. From that Metalica vid, this is the very same as GH, except instead of a plastic guitar with 5 frets that don't exist, it's 6 that that don't exist, only you're pressing down on a string not a button. This isn't teaching you anything about real guitar....except maybe how one might feel in your hands. It did look like the guy was playing east mode...
If you need a TV and game console to learn how to pick up an instrument and learn to play, maybe you shouldn't be a musician...but a game developer. I can say as a drummer that playing Rock Band's drums on expert is like playing the drums.
I agree with Necros...it does look like you could learn some basic guitar skills from this, and Metallica is a great way to start off. But this game looks like it will be maddeningly simplistic even for those of us that are semi-proficient at playing a real guitar.
it's like playing a real guitar... but with a score? Sweet, I'm in.
It's likely to have multiple difficulty levels, I'd say. Or at least, I'd stick it in there if I was a developer. What does suck is those graphics - I want to learn guitar from something fleshed out, not some treadmill with colored dots on it.
just what I am look'n for
Holy shit.
Potential!
WAAAAAANT!
You think this throws in chords on more advanced levels? It looks like this was basically just playing lead to the sound of the rhythm guitar.
I'm all for it, though. I had (rusty) drumming experience going into Rock Band, which has actually made me better. Might as well give guitar peeps a chance to practice.
yes...looks awesome! Although I wasn't too sure what was going on there...sooo do the numbers on the little cirlces represent the fret you are supposed to be playing on?
OFF TO NEVA NEVA LAAAAAND!?!
the fuxxxx? a friend and i were talking about how cool it would be if the next guitar hero/rock band did this.
am i being monitored? if so, sum 41 on rock band pl0x
This looks like it could really teach me how to play the guitar. That is great.
LOL @ Nick's guitar face.
I'd get it.
I'll preorder it the first chance I get.
Does this mean that Line 6 is going to go in partnership with this title?? The 'dongle' being used is a tone port... honestly just buy one and use your computer as an amp and play along with guitar pro...its the same fuckin thing just without points...instead you actually get to play the song. What a conecpt!! ;)
okay seems good
here my money
look for the other videos, i think it has different difficulty levels, cuz ive seen one where the little circles had the number of the fret to play inside it so you had to hit the right string and fret. I'll try to dig up the video again.
I love to play my guitar IRL... When will this be released to the public? Or do you know?
Also, do you think tuning the guitar differently would throw off which fret to play on? I assume the game knows the fret by the note you're playing and the octave that it is in, but I could be wrong.
I'd love to play a game that could potentially make me not awful at playing the guitar.
I didn't realize until almost the end of the video that there were fret numbers on each string. It makes more sense now.
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