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Video Games => Video Game Chat => Topic started by: megamush on December 17, 2007, 11:25:41 AM
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I was planning to buy Jam Sessions for DS. Should I buy this?, Is it fun?, How hard is it?, What are the Controls?, What is the song list for this game?
Please try to answer as many of these questions as you can, Thanks in Advance...
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Although I will probably have to defer most of the explaining to Lizard Dude, I feel I should point out that it isn't a rhythm game but more of a musical tool so there isn't really a "difficulty". So just don't expect a rhythm game, basically.
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This should be in my mailbox soon, so I can let you know.
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Thanks, but Is It Fun?
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It's as fun as an instrument. I guess that means, yeah it can be pretty fun, but you have to make all your own fun and even work hard to be good enough to sound good.
The songlist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Sessions#Songs_with_demos) doesn't really matter, since it's basically just the chords with no background music at all. Half of them you can make play automatically but the others don't even do that. I wouldn't take the songlist into account at all, for good or bad, when deciding to buy this.
The controls are hold the d-pad to choose chords and strum the DS screen to make the sound. L toggles between different chord palettes, which you set.
Again, this is just an instrument, not a game. If you're looking for a great DS rhythm game, choose Elite Beat Agents.
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Man, Europe got way more songs...
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So is it pretty much just chord strumming with sequence recording capability?
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Exactly. There are some* options to change how the guitar sounds.
* pretty subtle
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My friend has Jam Sessions, and from what I can tell, there's really no purpose for this software. I mean, if you're going to go through the effort to learn to play a semi-accurate virtual guitar, why not just learn to play a real guitar? It's like having a virtual Transformer toy that you can transform in real time with no game built around it; a real Transformer would be more fun, honestly.
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My friend has Jam Sessions, and from what I can tell, there's really no purpose for this software. I mean, if you're going to go through the effort to learn to play a semi-accurate virtual guitar, why not just learn to play a real guitar? It's like having a virtual Transformer toy that you can transform in real time with no game built around it; a real Transformer would be more fun, honestly.
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See here...Ughh... (http://themushroomkingdom.net/board/index.php?topic=11159.msg492195#msg492195)
I notice this is not the same argument, but it's similar.
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Well, see, I disagree with that view since GH is more game than simulation. Saying GH is a waste of time because it's not real guitar is like saying Need for Speed is a waste because it's not real street racing. It's a game. Jam Sessions, however, is basically a virtual guitar with all the lack of bells and whistles of a real guitar. It seems weird that people will play fake guitar with no game element on a tiny DS with a D-pad and touchscreen when they could be playing the same song on a real guitar with the same amount of effort. And it's more rewarding, too. I'm slowly learning to play acoustic guitar, and while it's not as simple as Jam Sessions, it's more fun. I mean, if I wanted to play guitar on my DS, I'd just wait for GH DS.
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they could be playing the same song on a real guitar with the same amount of effort.
Yeah... the same amount of effort... except for the whole learning 200 chords and gaining the physical dexterity to instantly pull any of them off part.
I mean, if I wanted to play guitar on my DS, I'd just wait for GH DS.
Way to completely contradict the start of the very same post.
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It sounds phenomenally dumb--I mean, if it was a good idea, they probably wouldn't put it on the DS.
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I just bought this game, it SUCKS, I rather jump out of a plane on to a lake full of hungry aligators than play this game. I have a question - I bought this at GameStop, when I bought it it was new, can I still return it for ALL my money back?
Thanks for answering my question...
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No.
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Jam Sessions is not a guitar, you freaks (Glorb). It is a DS-based instrument. I think it would have been a good idea to have other sounds besides guitar included, personally, because having a portable sound generator/sequencer sounds like a great idea to me. It is not a game either. P.S. Guitar Hero is 100% game and 0% simulation.
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I'd use the term "game" loosely here... Heck, the amount of Wii/DS software that can actually be considered a game is pretty scarce.
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Really? Name a few. I can't think of any besides Brain Age/Big Brain Academy and their spinoffs.
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Your estimates are vastly inaccurate. There are a lot of non-games on them but the amount of traditional games is a lot more.
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ShadowBrain just likes to leave veiled "DS sucks" comments in every thread.
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I give it a 7/10, for being the first Guitar simulator (or whatever you want to call it) on the DS. It could have been a lot better though, if they put a bit more time into it. I agree with Chupperson, it's not a game, but an instrument. You can't say, "this game sucks" cause it's not really a game. Don't expect to play it as a game. Expect to play it if you don't feel like learning/playing your guitar.
Edited because.....well, read above. It is fun, and I play it for enjoyment. My bad.
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Or, you know, if you want to use a different instrument (among many). What is the deal with people thinking guitars are the only instruments that exist?
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/me waits for Oboe Hero
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Nose Flute Hero
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Way to completely contradict the start of the very same post.
Yeah, that did sound contradictory. What I meant was, I'd rather play a fun rythm game on my DS than a boring rythm nongame on my DS.
Don't expect to play it for fun, or enjoyment. Expect to play it if you don't feel like learning/playing your guitar.
Okay, but I just don't see the point of a piece of software that simulates something as non-dangerous or non-fantastical as guitar-playing. Unless you have a horrible disability that crippled your ability to learn guitar but left your D-pad and touchscreen-using abilities intact, saying you'd rather learn to play a fake virtual guitar than learn real guitar is...well, lazy. It's like refusing to get a car because you have those electric convertables that toddlers with rich parents own that's easier to drive; sooner or later, you have to go up a notch.
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I play it, though I can play guitar. Why? I dunno, it's fun. If, say, my guitar is somewhere else, or I don't feel like playing an actual guitar for whatever reason, I pull out my DS. Basically it's just a portable guitar that you can play whenever you want, or if you don't know hundreds of chords, it's a good way to experiment.
It's like refusing to get a car because you have those electric convertibles that toddlers with rich parents own that's easier to drive; sooner or later, you have to go up a notch.
The same argument could be made against Nintendogs.
It's not like people who play it refuse to learn guitar. If anything, it's encouraging them to. I'm sure those electric convertible things help the toddlers driving skills.
P.S. I don't know what convertibles your talking about. Guess they don't make them here.
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They're these small, roughly four-feet-long, kid-sized toy cars that have a top speed of roughly 1/2mph. I had one shaped like a monster truck when I was a kid, but I outgrew it when I was about nine (when I couldn't fit inside it anymore).
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Oh right, those things.
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Power Wheels.
Nintendogs makes sense in Japan where a lot of people can't have pet dogs.
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^ In America, though...
Oh, well, things don't have to make sense to make cents...