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Hold on, you’re great at this and only 100 views?! Keep up the great reviews and vids!🎉🎉

Reminds me of watching my sim level up the guitar skill

I have the game and the cable, now all that I wait for is the instrument and then I get my own shot at this journey! Glad to see someone with a similar story actually sounded pretty badass there at the end. Great work!

Jak II has that dark, underground, and dystopian vibe that made a huge impact on my life. Not only this game but the franchise as a whole…

I'm a re-beginner 38 years old, 15 days into Rocksmith Remaster (and some free Rocksmith+) and I might say this is the best video ABOUT Rocksmith as a learning tool, period. I hope you kept playing and learning! Happy 2025. PS: Whoa, "Nice Enough" was awesome!

Awesome 🤘🏼

I'm a guitar teacher my opinion Your left hand is pretty good at moving around the 234 strings this is good technique. Picking hand Just remember a clock goes tick tock Tick is downstroke tock is up Just keep eye on 5th chords 1-5 is 7 frets C g D a Etc There is a great trick on tocks where you hit 1-5 on upwards stroke 34 open is a g 5 gd 45 is a D5 da You can play 432;down giving a g chord Those are little flick tricks when changing quick chords A lot of people don't work out the upstroke There is a thing called alternative chords 1;3 5 is a chord of the pattern started with a 3 361 or 5 13 if you add these afterwards it opens the floodgates and make things easier. Also a lot of time it's 4/4 sometimes it's easier to count in 2s instead of 4s this helps with 17,th notes or slow blues feel

60 days not possible. I would say 1 year for the basics, if you play every day. 10 years to master. Besides, it looks like a lesson. The focus should always be on having fun. Try something new and not a program that tells you, no, no, you played it wrong. maybe wrong sounds better

Why were all the women in these games animated like that? Tiny waists and huge boobs

I haven't played jak 3 in years and just played it recently and have to disagree with you on the soundtrack. I admit it didn't stand out to me as much playing it when i was younger but after recently playing it i think the ost was an absolute masterpiece. It fit the game scenario well as it had many war or end of the world post apocalyptic theme scattered throughout the game. It really added to what was going on in the game.

Seeing the ending Kratos received in Valhalla makes me wonder if your take on the topic of hope has changed. Still dislike it, or it shifted into a positive opinion?

what is this comment section? this is why gaming is not taking seriously for dudes like these smh, don't mind them, they are too self-centered to get the point. This video was amazing as someone who is learning game development, you have really great insight of things and take the care and time to analyze it from the different povs with sympathy!

Great vid, glad to watch now that Rocksmith 2014 is available again (sans included songs).

Rocksmith 2014 is back on steam for 3 bucks.. I can't stress how good of a deal that is

For a while, I didnt want to admit it, yeah, Jak & Daxter really isnt that deep, but 8yr old me didn't believe that. Honestly, I feel that Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, & Ty the Tasmanian Tiger are great, beginner friendly games for any kid wanting to get into gaming. I know for sure that these are going to be a few of my kid's first games to play!

Real good

I won’t pay for Rocksmith plus unless they make it better than 2014 with more. Then it would be worth it.

From what i seen, People do enjoy Rocksmith+, but the *big* issue that cause so many to turn away is the subscription model. It really needs to do away with it, or at the *very* least, offer a reasonably price one-time payment (Say like $20) for all features. Untill then, people are just going to continue to turn away from it sadly.

Still no sign of the Rocksmith+ for the Xbox I don’t think I’m gonna be playing rocksmith no more because this is ridiculous. What Ubisoft did like why would they make it exclusive for the PC and now PlayStation and they left Xbox left out I’m losing respect for Ubisoft

I can only agree with others here. Not every game is designed for different difficulty settings. Some games are just what they are and what you see is what you get.. Games like Dark Souls are build around the role play game mechanics to level up and distribute points to your stats to build your character. Farming for items and equipment is also a core mechanism in these games overall. Final Fantasy VIII did a good example where the player decides how much he wants to level up which also increased the difficulty as enemies leveled up too. It further effected the items you can collect to upgrade your party or your GFs. You could also just forgo most grinding and simply enjoy the story. Sorry that Dark Souls is not such a game. And yet the difficulty is determined by your style of play. Saw a video from a guy named Ryu on youtube and he just breezed through Dark Souls. So what would a difficulty slider have changed?

Idk I feel like comparing breasts to dick is a very apples and oranges comparison. Media has never treated the two as being in the same as far as what is appropriate for a specific rating. In short dicks aren’t shown because it would’ve caused the game to receive an AO rating and to this day all three console manufacturers have made it a policy to not publish adult only games on their consoles although if you look at the switch E shop it’s kinda hard to tell these days so I’m being real. But yeah that’s not an equality issue. The game wouldn’t have been a release given policies. I’ve been playing video games for many years and I’ve never seen an attached penis in one. The most is sex toys. GTA wouldn’t even pull that trigger. It’s why no matter how much titties are in a game you will never see cooter. 😂

Fun fact in my first play through when I got to the part where you clime the knife puller I got so mad I bit my controller

late 2024 update: ubisoft has removed rocksmith 2014 from shelves completely in an effort to push Rocksmith minus. I had R2014, its how I learned, I lost the console and game and am just now reacquiring the time and funds to dedicate to guitar, and to my dismay I can't even get rocksmith 2014 again. Ubisoft, sincerely, fuck you.

T.C. Carson is the voice actor for kratos. Not terence .c. howard.

Not bad for two months in! Great vid and glad you've kept going. With my only knowledge of Rocksmith being this video, it sort of seems this game would be better suited for someone closer to the intermediate level. Like someone who already has basic chords and barre chords down, and is ready to start taking on some lead ideas/techniques. But on the other hand, it's a good thing if it successfully gets a beginner's foot in the door and keeps him/her interested.

8:34 I think even if it’s chance it’s still a very real aspect of life where you don’t expect shit like that to happen to you or anyone you care about and then out of the blue you get hit with the worst shit imaginable all because of someone’s selfish nature to want nothing but power

No fruit salad? No yummy yummy? F that. In all seriousness, this video was very helpful. I already pay a monthly subscription for iRacing, and thats actually worth it. I’ll get 2014 instead, thanks!

I've reached the point where if I put in 10 hours and don't get at least 8 hours worth of progress I punish the Devs by not buying the game, refund and leave a bad review. Video games are the only product in which users get shamed, humiliated and criticised for not having access to the full potentiality of a product. Doesn't happen anywhere else

Can you play rocksmith with normal gaming guitar or need a regular one

Did you manage to play the demo version of good knight at this exhibition?

An incomplete disappointment makes it sound like its so disappointing that you werent even fully disappointed

I heavily agree on the world's RNG messing up players. There's one minute-thirty race mission that requires you to go from the other side of the market to the Underground's base that took me over an hour to beat. Every time, it was because the speeder hit something, usually on the highway turns, or I slowed down too much to avoid traffic on the highway. Each time I was getting so fucking close to the end, but the time that finally allowed me to win, was one where it shit out a bunch of speeder bikes on the highway for me to weave between, and I still almost lost it because I blew the speeder up on the vehicle that spawns outside the hideout.

Ghost of Sparta is awesome and WAY better than God of Bore (2018).

Ubisoft really is the poster child for companies you have to pirate games from.

Tbh I enjoyed the missile mission

The storyline of Jak & Daxter is pretty linear but the level design allows some variety in how to progress.

I think more effort was put into Jak II. But I think Jak & Daxter was more cohesive.

“Rule of Play” Normal difficulty must be played or selected first before, “Real Play Ranking”is activated. After your 1st death on normal mode, “Hard difficulty” is then used to determine your skill level for, “True Play”. 1st death on hard difficulty counts as true defeat in game. Continued play through deaths must be accrued, and tallied for total skill once game is completed on, “Hard mode”. Deathtracker determines your level of skill. Deathtracker 1 death. (Rank Master) 2-3 Deaths (Rank Expert) 4-6 deaths. Rank Professional) 7-10 deaths. (Rank Skilled) 11-15 deaths. Rank Amateur) 16-25 deaths. Rank Average) 26-35 deaths. Rank Beginner) 36-50 deaths. (Rank Noob) 50-75 deaths. (Rank Terrible) 75-100 deaths. (Rank Trash)

Such a refreshing vid. Nice to see a normal person with similar expectations and challenges to myself. I got my acoustic guitar as at 12 years old lost interest due to the pain and lack of motivation. Picked up a cheap electric during lockdown. Pick it up for 10min a day before work. Dont want to be a rock god jus mental stimulation.

I've been marathoning the GoW series and watching your retrospectives for each one and I'm loving it, and while I agree with the broad strokes, there are a lot of points you bring up that either don't make sense to me/that I don't really see as a big issue or that are just flat out wrong. Starting from the minor stuff to bigger plot points - Kratos isn't really shown as someone who researches or plans a lot, he lives very much in the moment so it'd be extremely odd to have the opening of this game be him in reading glasses walking around in a library going over books to look up his family history...also why would the olympians keep his family history in a book somewhere to begin with? A lot of greek myths are fueled by prophecies, dreams, visions and illusions. This is no different and is pretty par for the course for a greek myth story. Kratos doesn't have the golden fleece here, he gets it in GoW II. In GoW I he's able to parry just with his blades. No other god blames him for his brother's death, they just tell him to move the fuck on. And of course Kratos has misplaced guilt about it, he's a Spartan. It (at least in the game's universe), is the peak of hyper-masculine mad warrior archetype, of course he thinks that as a kid he should've been able to protect his brother. Also, he could only see the silhouettes of Ares and Athena, he clearly didn't know who they were before talking to Athena's statue. Also - nobody cares about Kratos to begin with, why would they try to placate his guilt or make him feel better? They just don't want him interfering with their business - or at best, *help* their business no questions asked. They don't give a shit about what he thinks or how he feels. Also no, if Deimos died there, it doesn't necessarily mean Kratos could take a quick dip into Hades and pick him up - otherwise he would've done this for his family long ago. Despite the repeated trope of him escaping from the underworld, he only ever escapes because his physical body is still there for him. In GoW I, it's Zeus who saves him before he can reach the underworld completely, in GoW II it's Gaia, and in GoW III he doesn't really die (another mistake you made in that retrospective - it's never implied that he dies, he just directly falls into Hades' domain - which could very well be intentional by Hades himself in order to separate Kratos from the overall war and take him out himself). If you die, you likely become a shade like the ones in Elysium, or go to Asphodel or Tartarus if you don't deserve Elysium itself. Also, Deimos is probably that powerful and has those gauntlets because he was taken by Ares (and it's implied he's also the son of Zeus). It was said that whoever the 'marked' human is controlled by will have the power to destroy olympus, which is why they were looking for those humans anyway - not to kill them but to bring them under their control. Ares probably trained him, gave him those gauntlets and tested him to see if he really was the marked human, and once Kratos came into the scene and it became obvious that Deimos was not the one in the prophecy, Ares probably tossed him aside. I doubt he would've even known that the two were brothers. Zeus says "There's only one left" because Kratos is the only remaining "marked" mortal who the prophecy could be referring to. Deimos is dead, and Callisto too (in case that caused any loose ends). It's been said that after Kratos opened Pandora's box, fear took over Zeus and so he clearly was trying to dissuade Kratos from going on this path. Seeing him so steadfast in wanting to defy the gods probably made him that much surer that Kratos needs to die too, hence inciting the scheme Zeus pulls off in the beginning of GoW II. That's clearly what's being referred to in that post credits scene. A lot of your other nitpicks kinda feel like cinemasins level stuff which I don't particularly wanna engage with, but overall I do agree that at least the Greek Mythology era of the GOW games really glosses over a lot of details and does not really care about the 'how' or even the 'why' of a lot of aspects in the story, and mostly just engages in the most superficial of plot points, but I still don't think that it's *THAT* inconsistent and calling every single detail that the game just chooses not to delve into as a plot inconsistency. Sometimes it's just something not really worth Anyway, regardless, love your retrospectives, just thought i'd throw out some of my own thoughts into the ether.

Mission that aggrevates me: Pier Mission I found enjoyable: the one with the board and the bombs given to you by Vin added note: it took me a bit to remember if it was from 2 or 3 but I remembered the hot potato cutscene with Vin and because Vin has his body it's 2

Thanks for the feedback man! This was the type of response I was expecting to receive by using this game

No, you didn’t. Your Zelda theme is out of tune, as are the other songs. Rocksmith teaches you nothing but how to follow the bouncing balls.

Jak 3: Damos Ex Machina

Some valid criticism but I cant help but think you came off as overly nit picky. Some of the points you just have to realize context of the time this game was made, times were different. Most games from this era have a lot of issues if you compare it to todays standards.

You havent learned to play guitar buddy. There is no musicality in your playing at all. Maybe taking a time to play songs by yourself(without rocksmith) would help to tap into the feel of the music. You have no rhythm yet. Rhythm is first thing you need to develop the sense for. But the song in the end had everything a musician need to be. I dont know how you did it.

Youre looking for story in a gow game ? First time huh

The pricing is absolute insane even today with new updates. They had to take 2014 off the market to get some people to buy their subscription service. I played 2014 on my xbox for nearly a decade and recently got a gaming pc. I was devasted to see that instead of being able to spend 40$ and use the custom forge I would have had to buy a key that might not even work for over 120$. Yet even with the price I still bought it instead of going with +. Also arpeggios are easier to read in 2014.

In 2024 and 13 years later since I bought this I'm so much better but not great. Now look at Rocksmith+ what a Sh*t-Show.