Oscar Bernard, Author at The Riff Repeater

Setlist Sunday: Power Gig: Rise of the SixString

December 25, 2016December 30, 2022 Oscar Bernard

Every once in a while you get a genre defining masterpiece. Games like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Final Fantasy VII, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Resident Evil 4 and Super Mario World.…

Setlist Sunday: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

December 17, 2016December 30, 2022 Oscar Bernard

There are many who would say that Guitar Hero had lost its way. Between DJ spinoffs that were REALLY good, pop themed spinoffs that were pretty decent, portable spinoffs of varying quality, and a Van Halen spinoff that was just bad, the Hero brand had lost its lustre.…

Setlist Sunday: Green Day: Rock Band

December 12, 2016December 30, 2022 Oscar Bernard

Guitar Hero had been doing the band-centric games for a while, but in 2009 Rock Band took a different approach when they released The Beatles: Rock Band. While the Guitar Hero titles were mostly just glorified re-skins of recent Guitar Hero games and were a 60-40 split of the titular band with a slew of guest acts that were relevant to the group (or, in the case of Van Halen, Eddie’s 15 year old kid), Rock Band decided to craft a loving tribute to the career of The Beatles with songs exclusively by the group.…

Rocksmith Remastered DLC 10/25/2016 – The Zombie Pack

October 24, 2016December 29, 2022 Oscar Bernard

Happy Halloween Rocksmith fans! This week’s DLC comes to us courtesy of a proper horror icon in @RobZombie featuring three songs from his legendary 1998 album Hellbilly Deluxe! Kicking the pack off is the most well known song in Zombie’s catalogue with his ode to a sweet car – Dragula!…

Song Speculation: Rob (and White) Zombie Super-Charge Their Way in to Rocksmith Remastered!

October 21, 2016December 29, 2022 Oscar Bernard

Greetings Rocksmith fans! It’s time to check out this week’s clue, so let’s dive in, shall we? Very quickly it was discovered that it’s a screen from the 1980 Atari game Carnival, altough it was soon called in to question whether or not it was a gif.…

Setlist Sunday: Guitar Hero: Van Halen

October 9, 2016December 29, 2022 Oscar Bernard

Arguably the most infamous of all the Guitar Hero games, there was definitely a “you get what you pay for” attitude surrounding Guitar Hero: Van Halen. You paid, of course, nothing given that for a long time purchasers of Guitar Hero 5 would be given a full copy of Van Halen for free.…

October’s Newsletter Hints at Upcoming DLC

October 4, 2016December 30, 2022 Oscar Bernard

Hey Rocksmith fans! It’s another month, and that means it’s time for another set of hints towards the upcoming DLC! I know you’re not here to read flavour text, so let’s get in to it! The King of Rock & Roll Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds This one is easy.…

Rocksmith Remastered DLC 10/4/2016 – Anniversary Song Pack

October 2, 2016December 30, 2022 Oscar Bernard

Hello Rocksmith fans! It was announced a long time ago, but it’s finally time for the release of Rocksmith 2014 Remastered! Now, if you’re brand new to the franchise and are purchasing the remastered edition on disc, then you’re getting this week’s DLC for free.…

Song Speculation: Rocksmith 2014 chooses Freewill with Rush Song Pack II!

August 19, 2016December 29, 2022 Oscar Bernard

Greetings Rocksmith fans! It’s that time of week again and @UbiParadise has put up a clue that he’s super excited about. Let’s see what all the fuss is, shall we? Quickly people figured out the maze: And then cipher shift.…

Setlist Sunday: Band Hero DS

August 7, 2016December 30, 2022 Oscar Bernard

The DS Guitar Hero games were popular enough to warrant three entries in the series, so it wasn’t surprising that, deep in to the year of oversaturation that was 2009, they’d make another one. Unlike the previous games, however, this wasn’t an On Tour title.…

Author: Oscar Bernard