Rocksmith

[AZRedhawk44]

Anyone have this "game?"

http://rocksmith.ubi.com/rocksmith/en-us/home/index.aspx


Take Guitar Hero.  Get rid of ridiculous fisher price toy controller.  Plug in your Les Paul/Fender/Ibanez.  Get busy actually playing.

Want.

But, worried about the DRM bunk.  I hear that Steam is nasty to computers, and UBISoft has icky DRM tendencies.

Also, my personal computer is currently running Ubuntu.  I'd have to reconfig it back to its old windows license, WinXP 64-bit edition.  Supposedly sys reqs for this game specify vista or Win7 as a minimum.  Not sure if it is just their support folks being persnickity, or a true DirectX 10 requirement. 

[Marnoot]

Steam's DRM is the least intrusive/pesky/annoying I've dealt with, and in the case of many games, non-existent. I'm a big fan of Steam for various reasons unrelated to DRM, but it's certainly never done anything "nasty" to any of my computers it's on (it's on all of them). Only time it can become annoying when gaming is if it's on a computer you travel internationally with frequently, or if your internet connection is intermittent (though there's workarounds for that one). Many games have DRM above and beyond Steam's, but they'll have that DRM no matter what form you buy them in.

[mtnbkr]

I only play 1 game frequently via Steam and haven't had a single problem.

Chris

[BryanP]

I don't currently use it, but I've rarely heard anything negative about Steam. Usually when I've had a friend complain about it and I look at their PC I find they're infected with some nasty malware originating with their browsing habits.  

The video is interesting for a 4 minute commercial. I'd be curious to see what's being written about it independently.

[Monkeyleg]

Here are some comments.

I would think that killing zombies while playing scales would conflict with learning and associating finger positioning, etc with the various notes.

[Fitz]

I may pick this up. I've hit a plateau in my playing, and I've found that the best way around these plateaus is to find new ways to practice.