Guitar Hero

[Slash27]

Originally posted by soda72
Better than 'make love not warcraft'?

nah   That one is top 5 of all time for me. Some of it hit too close to home though.

[soda72]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
close.....The part about "heroin hero" was funny.  "YOU NEVE CATCH THE RED DRAGON"

and Thad playing GH acousticly.

I'll have to download it from itunes then....

[vorticon]

meh. tells you exactly what buttons to press and when. not to much fun.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
Ok I'm probably going to get dogged for this here but I'm wondering if there's other fans on the board.

I got GH III for my anniversary recently and I have to say i'm hooked.  It's great music and great fun.

Anyone else into the genre?

Me, have been since the Guitar Hero first came out.  I do like Guitar Hero III the best out of the Guitar Hero franchise but Rock Band is where it's at.

There is a PC version called "Frets on Fire" that is open source.  You can hook up a Guitar Hero controller to it with an adaptor or you can use your keyboard, although it does look silly holding a keyboard like a guitar.


ack-ack

[lasersailor184]

I'm impressed with Guitar Hero.  Not with the game, the game's awful.  But how the creators made millions of people think themselves talented, and waste hundreds of hours accomplishing nothing.  And make millions of dollars selling a pretty simple game, and a cheap controller for a lot of money.


With the time AND money spent playing Guitar Hero, anyone could easily learn guitar.  I did.  It doesn't take lessons.  The only requirement is that you can't be lazy.



But then again, putting hours into a video game when the real thing is available is the epitome of laziness.

[Gunslinger]

good point laser,

I was expecting more of that actually.  But then again it's a game.

With that said coulding somone point out that one could easily learn to fly an airplane for real and avoid AH all together.

I play a little guitar.  I havn't picked mine up in years but I think after playing a little of this game I could do better if I practiced and/or took lessons.

If GH makes people think they are talented than AH makes people think they could fly a Mustang in WWII.

[lasersailor184]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
good point laser,

I was expecting more of that actually.  But then again it's a game.

With that said coulding somone point out that one could easily learn to fly an airplane for real and avoid AH all together.

I play a little guitar.  I havn't picked mine up in years but I think after playing a little of this game I could do better if I practiced and/or took lessons.

If GH makes people think they are talented than AH makes people think they could fly a Mustang in WWII.

But getting your license costs thousands.  


Anyway, I had a little bit of a guitar background going into Guitar Hero.  And I sucked at the game because of it.  The few songs I knew and played didn't actually follow the real guitar at all.  I often lost a lot of points where I knew the song changed notes or chords, but the game itself hadn't changed buttons.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
But getting your license costs thousands.  


Anyway, I had a little bit of a guitar background going into Guitar Hero.  And I sucked at the game because of it.  The few songs I knew and played didn't actually follow the real guitar at all.  I often lost a lot of points where I knew the song changed notes or chords, but the game itself hadn't changed buttons.

I noticed that too but it gets more "true" the harder the level you are on.  I read a good article on Tom Morello about his input to the game and how his son's freinds can kick his but on expert level at his own songs.  They, could never keep up with him on a real guitar though.

I can't stand the game on easy anymore it sucks.  I'm trying to beat it on hard though and it's pretty tough to learn.  

I'm not even close to expert level.....having played guitar I don't think I'm any better except that my left hand hurts like a biatch after playing and it might condidtion me to play better.


Not to mention if my 5 year old son starts to like kiss or the who or santana instead of crazy frog........bonus

[REP0MAN]

Some friends of mine who play Christian Music have their own play on Guitar Hero. Check it out....

 LINKY

YouTube quality, sorry.

[texasmom]

I'm sorry ~ I wiki'd this after reading all of what y'all posted. So the 360 plays songs & you play along on the 'controller' which is in the shape of a guitar?

... like karaoke... except w/guitar instead of singing? Sounds fun.

[Raptor]

go to allsp.com or alluc.org or watchtvsitcoms.com and watch the last episode of south park from season 11 titled "Guitar Queer-o"
halarious episode making fun of guitar hero.
"He can play it acoustically on expert level"

Admittedly guitar hero is fun when playing with a big group of people, however I would prefer to play a real instrument in my solitude. Actually I am taking on the guitar during the holiday season and re-learning the saxaphone if I get the chance.

[lasersailor184]

[LEADPIG]

Alright all you guitar hero fanatics, click on my Myspace link and see if you can play my last song entitled "Just a Guitar solo" and you win a prize. You have to use a real guitar though.


http://www.myspace.com/groovegrinder

[GoldenP51]

got this for xmas...i love this game...great to play while drunk with friends:aok

[Xasthur]

Lazer is right... Guitar hero is a bit of a wank... You can get a decent guitar/amp package for not a great deal more than the game, particularly if you're buying all the versions of it.

Then all you need to do is go on the interenet and look up some tabs.

Any monkey can learn a song from tab.