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A guitar game wil might actually like
Topic Started: Wednesday Jun 23 2010, 09:59 AM (283 Views)
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Interesting concept. It could make people want to actually play a real guitar.

From what I can tell though, it's still a "controller". It just has real strings now. That is, when in game mode there's no correlation to what you would do on the fretboard in real life, to what the game gets you to do.

Which is probably why they need that little break thing that mutes the strings for you when you're in "game mode".
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I think the guitar hero controller is more likely to make people want to play guitar.


And for the record, being a guitar player for over 20 years, I don't subscribe to the elitist "guitar hero is killing guitar, man" view. I enjoy both, for different reasons.
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I see it as a multi level argument. I don't agree with dickheads like John Mayer who completely slag it off like an elitist prick. It's a friggen game for shits sake, and everyone is well aware of that. However, considering I don't feel I find enough to time to play my actual guitars, then spending hours sitting down and learning how to play the harder difficulties in GH seems like a major waste of time to me. I should be picking up the real thing and practicing that.

It's like there's a line to be crossed. I love cracking out Guitar Hero for parties, but I'm done spending hours getting better at it.
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But you dont get achies playing a real guitar... :P
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No, I get an actual sense of achievement instead. :razz:
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Just kidding. Im jealous because Im not good enough to play the guitar, so I play the bass instead. :)
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I know, I'm just stirring ya. I should probably be playing bass as well, but I'm a self masochist.
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Saturday Jun 26 2010, 01:37 AM
And for the record, being a guitar player for over 20 years, I don't subscribe to the elitist "guitar hero is killing guitar, man" view. I enjoy both, for different reasons.
I'm of the same opinion. I believe that anything that gives someone the opportunity to feel what it could be like to play a guitar is a good thing, and anything that makes more fans of guitar for guitar's-sake music is a brilliant thing.

But tbh, I don't enjoy guitar hero. I've been doing what you get to do in guitar hero in real life for over 20 years. Put a song on, learn it, practice it, and then jam out to it.
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It's like there's a line to be crossed. I love cracking out Guitar Hero for parties, but I'm done spending hours getting better at it.
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OMG, seems we all agree....

Another point for me is that I view GH very much as a game. A game that involves music I like. Win.

I find, or rather found, that playin GH was great at inspiring me to pick up the guitar again when I was going through a period where I felt a bit uninspired. Play it on GH, got the compulsion to play it on real guitar.

Must admit though, now I'm more interested in playing the other instruments (drums mainly) and I think I only played one song or so on guitar in World Tour.
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blue his house with a blue little window
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Took some meds for my back pain and decided to pick up the guitar and sit in front of the computer.

Here's the result of some medically induced improvisation...


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