You may want to know that Ubisoft's Rocksmith(R) 2014 Edition will be de-listed from Steam after October 23rd, 2023 which is one week from this post date. This is a game that makes learning to play the guitar like Guitar Hero/Rockband, which can score you or let you slowly practice a part with scrolling fret indicators.

Now, it's not on sale or anything (hasn't been for a couple years), there might be W11 issues (I'm using Win 10 and Linux computers), and you'll need a real guitar and either a mic or special USB cable to properly play the game. However, after this date you won't be able to purchase this game anymore unless you buy from a key-seller or a retail CD copy.

Of course, Ubisoft is going to replace this 40 CAD game with a subscription service model called Rocksmith+ which is 20 CAD per month and not available on Steam. On the other hand, RS2014 works without the need of a Uplay account and can be played offline (Just press Esc twice at the signin screen).

Now there are 1555 DLCs available but they will eventually be delisted as well at some point in the future but you won't be able to get them without the base game. The only DLC you will "need" is the Cherub Rock DLC because of...

Custom DLC is a community created mod lets you play user-created and converted maps. By default it uses the DLC ID of Cherub Rock which is why you need it, but this is configurable if you really don't want to spend 4 CAD. There are tens of thousands of Custom DLC songs available online so you will be hard pressed to run out of new ones to try.

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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one thing a subscription kinda makes sense for, as opposed to paying for every song a la carte, and they don't even have all the songs of the previous games. What a fucking embarrassment.

I imagine the licensing just doesn't carry forward and it has to be re-negotiated, but if that's the case then they're hilariously slow at it. I check every six months or so and there's still only a handful of bands I recognize.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude rocksmith+ has zero songs from either jimi Hendrix or Chuck berry. Moving closer in time, no green day or sublime. Even closer, no Paramore or fall out boy. I don't know who rocksmith+ is supposed to be for but... It's not people that want to play guitar.

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's really weird. They have like, a ton of songs from a couple of bands I know, Alice Cooper and Bowling for Soup, one whole song from Amon Amarth, two from Ozzy Osborne, and then a ton of obscure artists.

It seems like they went for the cheapest songs to license just to pad the numbers with the least amount of capital investment. But then threw in a few big names just to make it seem like they might have more music you'd know.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ozzy ones aren't even ozzy songs. They're from an album of covers that ozzy did. Total clown show.

Not to mention, a majority of "songs" in their database are only chord charts which are barely useful for someone that actually wants to play a song on their instrument.

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Surprise surprise, a "live service" game is a lazy soulless cash grab.