and even if you don’t enjoy the game, try sticking with guitar the old fashioned way! :P its awesome.

I hope they’ve sorted out the CD key issue, my package from jb hifi didn’t include the cd key. I had to email a receipt and wait until Ubisoft service sent me a cd key 2 days later. Needless to say, I wasn’t a happy camper.

I wasn’t suggesting you buy a $4000 guitar… in fact I was discouraging it if anything if you were going to go Gibson because their modern guitars are awful and horribly overpriced.

To me, $200 is enough money to make it a pretty serious buy and IMO you’re getting very little return on your investment at that price. I don’t see why you’d even bother buying the game unless you were somewhat serious about continuing as a guitarist because this is really a teaching tool, not guitar hero.

If $200 is cheap enough for you to think of it as a throw-away guitar then go right ahead, but if someone is buying this as a “I always wanted to play guitar and finally here’s my chance to start” I’d be looking to spend at least double, if not triple that and you’ll be 100x better off in the long run.

I’m merely trying to offer my opinion as someone who’s played guitar for a decade because I can see a lot of noobs picking up this and getting burnt. But you know, you don’t have to listen to me.

/shrug

Anyone buying the $200 bundle is basically after a glorified controller (like myself). As long as the pickups aren’t broken it’ll work, and it’s a pretty good deal since it’s around the same price as the pretend controllers for Rock Band and Guitar Hero.

Why on earth would I pay $4000 for a guitar that will likely never be plugged into an amp?

Also, could not get my credit cards to work at Gamestop. Same price at Amazon though, and only $16 shipping.

they have enough trouble QC’ing their $4,000 guitars, no way I’m trusting them with a $200 one.

They’re producing a bunch of identical guitars with guaranteed sales (to Ubi) and don’t have to worry about storage or freight or distribution.

They don’t need to be made out of matchsticks to make a profit.

imcloughy11: Has the rocksmith logo right in the picture in that link…
also http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/rocksmith-guitar-bundle-for-guitar-and-bass/103045

I’m not saying that its not that guitar, what I’m getting at is that I can’t even begin to imagine how bad a $200 guitar must be.

tera: I literally ordered a cable from JB HI-FI yesterday.

http://shop.jbhifi.com.au/game/accessories/rocksmith-real-tone-guitar-cable/674453

Thanks for that link Tera, I’ve added it to the bottom of the piece :)

I literally ordered a cable from JB HI-FI yesterday.

http://shop.jbhifi.com.au/game/accessories/rocksmith-real-tone-guitar-cable/674453

We all know guitarists pretty much dislike guitar hero overall/in general… as the things you lean on guitar (like chords, string and not progression, etc) just dont seem to line up with the 5 buttons you’re given. (Yes, I’m aware guitar hero is not a simulator… but it does seem to throw common sense out of the window from time to time… I mean, cmon… Jumping 12 frets and not even having to change buttons, even though you’ve moved up an entire octave…)

These Epiphone Les Paul Jr guitars are going to be largely mass produced; even more so than their other guitar models. You see, their other guitars are mass produced as well, but not to this price point or scale. With each factor in producing their normal guitars, you could probably guess that they’ve spent at least 50% less on each individual part for assembly for these particular guitars, if not less.

In the end, their need to be cheap for actual profit potentially makes the end-quality of the guitar less than acceptable. It may work ok for the game, but as a real guitar, may prove to have less than desirable results.

On the other side, you can get a decent quality guitar of your own, separate from the bundle; The problem then, is getting the cable. So far, nobody has been able to say that you can get the cable anywhere locally.

Because of the lack of Realtone cables being sold in Australia, I’m going to venture to say that this was probably one of the worst organised releases for Australia on record. The game HAS to have it…you have no choice in the matter. What’s the point of selling it here at all, if you can’t buy the necessary hardware here? Not everyone is going to be comfortable purchasing products online, especially with all of the knock-off gear that doesn’t work.

This just goes to show that Ubisoft doesn’t see Australia as important as the rest of the world with game releases…Stop feeding these corporate dickheads until they can prove to us that they give a shit.

diamondd: for $200? I can’t believe that…

Has the rocksmith logo right in the picture in that link…
also http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/rocksmith-guitar-bundle-for-guitar-and-bass/103045

imcloughy11:
http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Les-Paul/Les-Paul-Junior.aspxis the bundled guitar.

for $200? I can’t believe that…

A $200 dollar guitar won’t be particularly gig worthy but trust me when I say that if you can’t play a $200 guitar you can’t play a $2000 guitar – the variation is in quality of the build and features, not in how you bring the music out of the guitar (albeit it is usually smoother to play a more expensive guitar and has a nicer base sound). A $200 guitar still has frets, it still has pick ups, it has strings, it still requires you to pick and pluck those strings and it still requires the same hand movements.

One tip I give any new guitarist, and some more seasoned players of the guitar? Use all your fingers (including the pinky) and you can even use your thumb when required. it’s a bit more effort to start with but the end results is much more control over your playing.

Well! That was all very negative!

Cloughy, I would say it’s a pretty good and cheap way to get into playing the guitar! It would definitely be great for beginners, I would think, introducing you to the concepts of playing the guitar, familiarising yourself with the strings and such. And it can teach you all the chords you should need!

Of course, as Spike says, playing the wrong way can lead to not only physical pain, but just difficulty playing as well. So if you find you’re enjoying yourself, eventually getting face-to-face teacher would be your next step on the road to Rock Godhood!

well its gonna be like all things you try at first, and there will be times when you actually have physical pain. i seriously hope this “teacher” pfff yea right, actually shows proper hand posture because when you play a guitar normally without knowing the posture is all wrong and give you arthritus just like that *snap* for 200 bucks the guitar aint gonna be any good at all but for gaming and not gigging it would probably do; but i think the neck would be super fat and slow and probably have a flat radius which means bending might be harder. goodluck cloughy