Rock Band 3 - 106 button Ztar now or real MIDI electric guitar later?

[Revalos]

OK, so I've been off and on wanting to play the guitar, I took about 3 months of lessons on an acoustic and bought a nice one that I occasionally play around with. I then started hearing these rumors about Rock Band 3 supporting a much more realistic guitar than the 5 button bullshit ones that have been around for a while. I figured, what the hell, quit the lessons and started saving that cash to get the game and equipment there.

However, there are apparently two schools of these "realistic guitars" that will be available, and I'm not buying both. Here are the pros and cons that I can see:

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Fender Mustang Pro Wireless Guitar for Rockband 3
MSRP $150
106 buttons (6 per fret)
Actual strumming strings
Fully functional MIDI output
usable in both pro and standard game modes
looks kind of stupid
Available later this month (11/24)

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Fender Squier
MSRP $280
real electric guitar, real strings
Fully functional MIDI output
requires $40 adapter to play with Rockband
usable in only pro game mode
Availiable in March of 2011

Both should be pretty good quality, but I'm leaning towards the first one because waiting 6 months to play a game seems rather retarded. Any opinions on this?

[Back]

My opinion is that you will never see a real vagina again.

[Revalos]

How much time have you invested in New Vegas again? At least I'd like to gain some real utility out of my gaming time.

[Back]

ROFL. You left it so wide open I just had to.

I don’t have any of the Rock Band games but I do a mean vocal on Creep.

[Mogonis]

So despite having a nice, real guitar, you want to buy a semi-real guitar to play with a video game?

[Revalos]

It is more that lessons were costing me more and giving me less bang for my buck. I can still play my acoustic anytime, but I wanted to try electric anyway and this seemed like a viable alternative cost-wise to just buying a guitar and an amp, and I can still play either of these with an amp outside of the game too.

[Mogonis]

You don't need lessons. You can teach yourself. Tons of free information out there. Start on the basics. Do warmups and exercises every day before you really start digging in.

[Latrinsorm]

Definitely buy the one that's a real guitar. Pushing buttons, even appropriately placed ones, is not a good enough substitution for real fretting, and if anyone knows about fretting it's an emo like me. In the interim, play real guitar on your real acoustic guitar and Rock Band on the faux-guitar you already have, or that comes with it, or not at all.

[Numbers]

FWIW, I'm planning on waiting for the real one. I didn't know it was going to be that expensive, though.

The fake one is getting some pretty crummy reviews.

[grenthor]

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Fender Squier
MSRP $280

Both should be pretty good quality, but I'm leaning towards the first one because waiting 6 months to play a game seems rather retarded. Any opinions on this?

I say go for the real guitar anything else and your going to pick up bad habits an wrong skillz even if you dont mean to. and you arent waiting 6 months to play a game you are waiting 6 months to buy a guitar

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[Revalos]

I say go for the real guitar anything else and your going to pick up bad habits an wrong skillz even if you dont mean to. and you arent waiting 6 months to play a game you are waiting 6 months to buy a guitar

I've read a few reviews and they've mentioned that the Ztar can help with learning key positions, but it definitely won't help with string pressure.

I think I'm going to go with the real guitar next year. I may pick up the Ztar if I can find one secondhand (I bet by early next year there'll be a lot of refurbished ones from kids destroying them) but I'll just save my money for the real thing.