[PC, Steam] Rocksmith 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY $4.48 (70% off) @ Steam

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Rocksmith 2014 Remastered is back by popular demand! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, it's a fantastic way to learn guitar or bass at your own pace, now available in an all-new 2024 edition. Get ready to rock (again)!

In 2023, Rocksmith 2014 Remastered was temporarily removed due to the expiration of our music licensing deals. While we believe Rocksmith+ offers the ultimate destination for learning guitar, bass and piano with its extensive music catalog, we have also heard the Rocksmith 2014 community’s feedback. You asked for Rocksmith 2014 Remastered to return, so we did just that! We have been hard at work to deliver a special version giving you the choice to own your songs and enjoy popular features like Guitarcade and Session Mode.

Introducing Rocksmith 2014 Remastered Learn & Play Edition!

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS EDITION?

While Rocksmith 2014 Remastered Learn & Play retains all the core features you love, we’ve replaced all licensed songs with a collection of tracks and exercises from our popular downloadable content bundles. This includes:

• Bachsmith and Bachsmith II
• Classic Melody Song Pack
• Rocksmith Easy Exercises, Vol. 1 & 2
• Rocksmith Intermediate Exercises, Vol. 1 & 2
• Rocksmith Advanced Exercises, Vol. 1 & 2

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  • +5

    Oh wow they brought it back. Keys for this game were going for crazy prices ($100+) when it got delisted.

    Thousands of custom DLC songs available online.

    • If I didn't already know I really really sucked at guitar I'd be so over this.

      • +8

        Hey everyone sucks when they're starting out. I've been playing since I was a kid and had this mindset about a certain technique (sweep picking) "ahh, I suck at it.." "I'll never be able to do that so I won't even try". About 6 months ago I decided I'd just force myself to practice, everyday, the same boring arpeggios over and over again for half an hour every day, no excuses. Now it's second nature to me.

        Anyway TL;DR
        If you want to learn, you can! And this is a great game/program to help.

        • +1

          I appreciate your reply. However, while I was once a passable piano/xylophone/keyboard player, my repeated attempts to learn guitar were always undermined by my lack of fine motor skills, though I did okay at bass for a while.

      • +2

        This is like the perfect game to not suck at the guitar

      • +2

        I also suck at guitar, so this is like Dark Souls for me.
        Struggle, frustration, and then huge satisfaction when I finally play a song well enough. (profanity) yeah!

    • I just downloaded and installed this but I don't understand how you get more songs. When I try search nothing comes up in the program….

      • It's not in the game itself. Google "Rocksmith custom DLC"

        • I installed something off GitHub. Looks like it is currently downloading 62000 songs!! Going to kill my entire month's download limit!

    • I forgot I had this,I started holidays today - bought some packs etc now!

  • how to connect via a audio intereface? instead of tone cable… (which I have but it's like a wweird non usb connection????

    • Both real tone cables I have have a connector on the end of the cable to turn the round plug into a USB.

      You can get the full cable at JB

      https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/rocksmith-real-tone-guita…

      • Damn so need to spend an additional $39 to make this compatible! Would you say it's worth?

        • PC User? If you don't want to buy the RealTone cable you have three options to get third party interfaces to function properly;

          Direct Connect Mode Basically microphone mode, but with the tone effects included. If your device works for Microphone Mode, it'll work for Direct Connect Mode.
          
          ASIO Device Support - aka, THE fix for Focusrite owners. Video Tutorial - also covers recording gameplay when using RS_ASIO Older Behringer Device owners - use the legacy Behringer ASIO drivers - you can find them as part of this video. Behringer Uphoria users "UMC" - use the proper drivers for your device as they include a native ASIO driver
          
          The Old No Cable Launcher This method is all but redundant now, except in a few cases with non ASIO compliant devices that have multiple input channels. Has some uses in certain multiplayer setups still, but generally speaking is the least favorable option.
          

          Mac User? Read this then please.

          You also have the option of replacing your cache.psarc file with this one, which enables the Direct Connect Mode. Links to another thread about this method.
          
          Or if your interface has too many inputs for that to work well, this method using loopback may be a usable option.
          
      • i have the cable just missing the usb connection part. it should be somewhere

    • +2

      You can connect to audio interface. In fact that is the only way that I would recommend you do it. Almost 0 latency.

      It isn't supported, but pretty easy to do. Just search on Youtube for instructions.

    • If you have an audio interface that supports ASIO, check RS_ASIO on github, and r/Rocksmith if you have issues with it.

  • Curious, have any of you guys used Rocksmith to learn guitar?

    • So I am a mostly a self taught intermediate player, and I got Rocksmith for xbox, but when I tried it, it just felt like a slow waste of time. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance, but these days if you have developed any technique at all, you can just watch youtube tutorials and they are easy to follow. Maybe someone who had a better crack at Rocksmith can give a contrasting or supportive opinion?

    • I thought I'd learn it via this since I play a lot of games and especially liked guitar hero. I kinda skipped a few steps and just played songs and found it got difficult quickly wanting multiple fingers on multiple strings which turned me off a bit.

      I'm sure if you actually used the games tools which shows chords etc it may help.

      I found Justin Guitar (a Tasmanian!) and learned the basic open chords and exercises through him. Going back to Rocksmith after having learned the basic chords it makes more sense when you see a D or E chord appear and your fingers move to them out of instinct.

  • +2

    So, this is basically Guitar Hero but using a real electric guitar or bass as the controller, and really playing the notes to play the game. It's apparently pretty good at teaching you guitar.

    The original game came with a bunch of popular songs, and there were more available via DLC.

    Ubisoft didn't like that approach as it's too user friendly, so they stopped paying for licences for this game, which is why it now comes with generic songs and there's no DLC available.

    However, I'm informed that there's something called "piracy", which lets you install thousands of DLC songs from the web into this, and learn to play Nirvana or Dethklok or whatever. Apparently, there's every professionally produced track they've ever sold, plus community created stuff.

    You're supposed to use a "Realtone" cable, which is a proprietary guitar to USB interface, but there are workarounds for that, too.

  • Just a heads up this game has AWFUL compatibility with modern operating systems and audio interfaces. If you're serious about actually learning, the real-tone cable they sell for this adds an obscene amount of round-trip latency.

    And even after modding in songs, audio interface compatibility, hardware fixes, etc- You've still gotta compete with Ubisoft's long-winded UI design and control layouts, driver audio-exclusivity, awful note detection; and if your output is even slightly hot or has a crackle, you might even blow your speakers/eardrums out with certain pedal presets! :)

    • +1

      ASIO interface support is via mod (RS_ASIO) and works extremely (!) well with very low latency. My personal experience (which is strongly mirrored by other users) is that there is pretty well no issue with modern OS - I've been playing the game since Win 7 and frankly it's got better with each release of Windows. There are occasional glitches when major windows updates drop. But these break all sorts of programs (e.g. Elden Ring had a conflict with a kernel system for 6-9 months if you followed MS advice on a memory protection setting). Typically sorted in a few days to weeks.

      Note detection is not great, but is still better than most out there. UI is dire, but you get used to it. Comments about blowing kit apply to nearly everything you hook up to PC audio.

      TLDR: There are problems, but not nearly as bad as you claim, and there is little that competes on overall capability.

      Good enough to get you started, great if you are crap like me and have no mates to learn/jam with. I've been using it and the first version for more than a decade.

  • +1

    chainbrain will put a video up on youtube soon. an updated one that answers all the questions everyone asks about interfaces, cables, cdlc, etc.

  • Let's see if AliExpress has the cable for cheap….

  • Do you need to log in to poopisoft to play?

  • Most important info “we’ve replaced all licensed songs”
    And by replaced, they mean removed.

    • Kind of. The licenses for the original 60 or so songs have expired (and so has a lot of the back catalog). It's hard to blame Ubi for this - they negotiated access to the tracks for 10 years and that's over now. Blame shitty licensing structures.

      Where this is a bit grubby is Ubi realised they have a back catalog of tracks they are licensed to sell for anywhere between months and 6-ish more years. By re-releasing RS2014 without any of the tracks in the original package, they can keep selling DLC for as long as their agreements hold. 1200 songs today decreasing by 3-5 per week over the next 6 years.

      Depending on how you look at it: Smart cash grab/Grubby cash grab/Opportunity for those who didn't pick the original and motsa DLC to get at least a part package. Definitely urgent desire from Ubi to extract as much money as they can though.

  • Ok so looks like the custom DLC patcher doesn't work on the latest exe file and throws an error claiming the version is pirated. Hopefully this gets fixed.

    The game feels unnatural for me. I'm used to reading tabs and I can't memorise the colours of the strings. Honestly if it was scrolling horizontal tabs then I'd find it easier. Im trying much harder to learn how to play the game based on the vertical scrolling and colour coded strings.

    That being said I hope that the patch gets fixed as I'm downloading the massive back catalogue and keen to work out if I can learn songs from this game. Otherwise it's back to tabs and YouTube

    Edit: I'm using a cheap Guitar link USB guitar interface. The calibration complains my guitar input is too loud but playing the game seems to work.

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