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All of those types of games really really bother me. Instead of kids (or grown lonely adults living in moms basement) picking up a guitar and actually doing something creative, they are playing some useless video game further isolating them from the real world.
Pick up a real guitar, take off the wing commander headset thing and go do something outside of your house.
@lambert13: I like to make fun of the games like anyone else, but, if you're playing COD without having any prior experience with a firearm, driving like mad in GT Prologue/5 without actually ever owning or knowing how to drive a real car, then you could say that these people are in the same boat.
Guitar Hero is pretty much like a fast-paced version of Simon set to plastic imitations or damn-near authentic abominations. You can play all the music you like, you can pretend to riff, headbang and thrash, you can even lick your instrument when you've done virtu-jammin', but you're still trying to keep up with color-coded buttons.
I propose Activision develop Conniption Fit hero, where you have to follow the insane random gyrations of a mental patient trying desperately to wriggle out of his strait jacket.
@neost: Seriously. All this bitching about the minivan being too crowded with groupies, the singer wanting to do solo gigs in the attic, the guitarist and his Doritos addiction, the drummer almost choking in his sleep on regurgitated chocolate milk....
It also doesn't hurt that Harmonix is releasing The Beatles game next year. It'll be interesting to see how they try to expand the audience with that one while maintaing the core band gameplay.
This article would be more accurate if it were about Guitar Hero games peaking.
@jm9843: It'll incorporate a version of Frogger... Let's see if we can get John, Paul, George, and Ringo across Abbey Road without getting squashed by a Lorrey.
I don't buy the study. I think the category will evolve, with game instruments becoming more like real instruments, and real instruments becoming more like games.
People have been making music in game-like ways for as long as artifacts exist to document human activity. However stale guitar hero becomes, it's just a matter of another innovation to satisfy people's desire to either make music or pretend like they're making music.
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And I'm still playing GH3 on Medium (probably because I don't play it often), so...yeah.
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Pick up a real guitar, take off the wing commander headset thing and go do something outside of your house.
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I propose Activision develop Conniption Fit hero, where you have to follow the insane random gyrations of a mental patient trying desperately to wriggle out of his strait jacket.
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It also doesn't hurt that Harmonix is releasing The Beatles game next year. It'll be interesting to see how they try to expand the audience with that one while maintaing the core band gameplay.
This article would be more accurate if it were about Guitar Hero games peaking.
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:'(
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People have been making music in game-like ways for as long as artifacts exist to document human activity. However stale guitar hero becomes, it's just a matter of another innovation to satisfy people's desire to either make music or pretend like they're making music.
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Why does it always boil down to the haved and the haved-not?
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Momma may haved
Pappa may haved
-but Ghod bless the child that's got his own
that's got his own...