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As long as it's made out of the appropriate tone plastics I'm ok with it.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youDon't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Wis. I tried guitar hero at my sister's place once (it's a bit like sight-reading tablature really), and on the harder levels I just thought - why don't people just put the same effort into learning how to play a real instrument?
A classic "cognitive dissonance" moment.
Live reality instead of the virtual version.
good fun
also learn some new songs
good way of getting kids to want to play, develop some timing and some left hand finger mobility
gotta be better than giving them a 6 string acoustic and teaching them F and D chords
Same as I own a car, but I still play driving games, and I play Skyrim even though I go out most days to fight dragons and pick flowers while working my way to the top of the Thieves' Guild.
I'd never get myself some fancy new roadworn controller for it though.
But driving games don't resemble the sort of driving you can realistically (legally, survivably etc) expect to do in real life, do they? I don't think anyone would pay for a driving game called Commute, or School Run.
And you haven't spent money on a purpose built car chassis to sit in your living room, with realistic oil smells and mud on the fenders to play Colin McRae Rally, have you?
...have you?
On the other hand, if you wanted to, you could sit in your living room and play guitar to a backing track, then pat yourself on the back afterwards for how well you did it.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
This is just a video game controller at the end of the day, and people pay a premium for ‘normal’ ones with a custom paint job (Microsoft will make you one in any colour combination you want for example)
I get why it seems gimmicky to a community of people who actually DO want to learn an instrument, but that’s not really who GH is aimed at. But ultimately anything like this which may lead people down the path of exploring learning the guitar should be seen as a good thing IMO.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youA work friends brother plays guitar hero for a living. He has a worldwide audience of subscribers. It's his only income and he has paid off most of his mortgage, so he clearly isn't too badly from it.
He certainly makes more from guitar hero than most of here make from playing a real guitar.
Sorry old folks, that makes playing guitar hero an actual profession for some. Why wouldn't a professional want a suitable tool?
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Anyway... PES was and is better
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youOld school ISS/Pro Evo on the PS2 was the glory days!
Guitar Hero is a middle ground between pretending to play guitar with a tennis racket, and actually playing guitar, in the same way that a driving game is a middle ground between playing with matchbox cars on the carpet and actually entering Formula 1.
Rocksmith is the next step up again. Actually, I'd say Rocksmith is better than playing in a real band, because the rest of the band is always in tune and in time, they let you practice over and over, you get excellent feedback on your playing, and the audience almost always cheers at the end.
Not everyone wants to play an instrument, and not wanting to play an instrument doesn't make them a lesser person.
The words might have been different but everything else was exactly the same.
Fortunately they were saved by all three (!) of their support acts. Ale storm among them
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you