shadowrelm wrote:
yes, a video game about pretending to play a guitar. my point, you could learn to play a REAL one for the same money and time committment. it really isnt that hard. get a few blisters on your fingers for sure, but its not that hard.
Ahh another person who thinks the game is more serious than it is. Dude, it's just a game. It's fun and relatively easy. instead of 24 frets and 6 strings with however many octaves, it's 5 buttons. I swear the naysayers take the game more seriously than the people who actually play it. Do you honestly think people holding a plastic toy guitar that looks like it was made by playschool think they are a real rockstar?
And its always the same "ill go play my REAL guitar cuz im so cool and "playing" guitar is so uncommon now (not) so people will be impressed!" I tried teaching my wife the intro to Nothing Else Matters. Just the intro, one of the easiest things to play out there, she has had no previous guitar playing experience. It took days before she gave up without really getting it. But hey she picked up GH and played some songs all the way through on medium and had a great time.
Anyway, define "play a real one". I went from fumbling notes on easy to beating all but 1 song on expert in GH2 (the first one i bought) in about a month, though i do feel i was a quick learner with this game. 1 month of playing real guitar, self taught, i could play Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are (lol, my first song) and Today, by Smashing Pumpkins... drop D tuning ftw i suppose. Maybe a few other piece of cake songs. Took weeks just to get my hand to realize it could, in fact, contort in the ways needed to do power chords. I also managed to teach myself to play my A and D chords the wrong way, a habit i've yet to break this many years later.
Hardly anything to write home about.
Not to mention the knowledge of music needed to do anything at all creative on a guitar. Im sorry but strumming your way through some A, C, D, G, E chords, or mashing your single finger across three strings with dropped D and heavy distortion isnt playing guitar in my book, laying down improv'd solos (real solos, not John Frusciante solos) and creating unique riffs and chord progressions is, and that doesnt come in months unless you are just inherently musically inclined. But yeah, non-players are easily impressed by anyone who can make something that makes musical sense come out of a guitar, doesnt make it any more of an achievement.
Point is, real guitar isnt for everyone. If you have no musical talent you will never play guitar as defined by me. Anyone can play guitar hero on
some difficulty level and have a good time. I like watching people play it, and i like seeing people getting into music and even interacting with it. If you are playing guitar hero to impress somebody other than your friend who also plays then.... just dont, lmao. thats sad.
Btw, another neat thing about Guitar Hero for the people who do play guitar is that in the practice mode, it removes the guitar part entirely but the rest of the band still plays, as do the vocals. So you put the controller aside and turn the amp on and do a little guitar karaoke.
edit: holy crap tl;dr. didnt realize i rambled on that long.
Edited, Jan 17th 2008 10:10am by KTurner
