Calibration and the Dark Arts of Music Games
I'd totally forgotten how one of the expert level challenges in music games was calibrating your TV and audio to sync perfectly with the note charts.
There's always a tool inside the game, but it's usually not very accurate. To do it precisely, it has to be done manually. And doing it precisely, where the buffer before and after the note is the same size, and you hear when notes should be played, is how a music game envelops you.
I was struggling until I saw a Reddit post from 2015 about the correct method, which involved multiple passes, playing with the sound muted, etc. Then I had a massive moment of deja vu when I realized I'd already read this post in 2015.
And so it goes.
I also realized, after looking at RB, RB2, and Beatles RB yesterday, that The Beatles: Rock Band represents the absolute pinnacle of an entire genre. It's clearly so lovingly crafted, and with incredible attention to detail.
I remember being good at these games, once.
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