Comments on: Why I Hate Guitar Hero, And You

By: gilbert wham

gilbert wham — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:38:47 +0000

I disagree. Half-Life teaches you small-unit tactics, how to lead the target with a machine-gun when taking down flying vehicles and to stay the fuck away from zombies. Especially ones with grenades. That’s all useful shit, right there.

By: Charles Herold

Charles Herold — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:16:39 +0000

Oh sure, it takes *exactly* the same amount of skill and dedication to play guitar well as to beat Guitar Hero. And it’s *easy* to pull together a band. Finding musicians that can play, that will commit to rehearsal, that’s a breeze: it’s just as hard to get a bunch of guys to come over and play Guitar Hero in your living room. And when you’re all playing in a New York club in front of an audience of 5 people, it is totally the same experience as emulating being a star in a band game.

But even though all that’s true, this is still a stupid article, because it’s apples and oranges. Playing guitar in guitar hero is not remotely like playing guitar (I’ve been told that playing drums on expert is pretty much like playing drums though, but I have to take other people’s words for that). It’s like playing a rhythm video game. Is DDR like going out dancing? No, and I go out dancing almost every night and prefer it to DDR. But I’ll still play DDR, because it’s not dancing, it’s playing a video game, and I like playing video games. Playing a music video game bears no more resemblance to doing the real thing than playing Half-Life prepares you for an alien invasion.

Sheesh.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:19:27 +0000

So you’re OK with Rock Band, then?

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:17:13 +0000

I just carry the shit from the car, then drink myself unconscious. Where’s my Roadie Hero game?

By: mcyi9jm2

mcyi9jm2 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:38:22 +0000

Ahh speedball – i used to frikkin LOVE that game!!!! I played it on the Amiga and am now dedicating the rest of my evening to getting and playing it!

By: Tom J

Tom J — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:34:46 +0000

You seriously think that playing Guitar Hero is anything like the real thing? The guitar hero controller has five buttons on it – the equivalent of five notes. A standard six string / twenty-two fret guitar can play 47 distinct notes (and this is not even including chords – just individual notes). Does that sound like the same thing to you? And to suggest that the average person can pick up a guitar, learn to play it and write a song in the space of 40 minutes is just plain idiotic. I appreciate that you were just trying to come up with an witty intro for your (otherwise unrelated) article but come on, you can’t possible believe the crap you’ve written, can you?