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shorty63136
12/09/08

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Dimebag Darrell???? Wow.

And I'm still playing GH3 on Medium (probably because I don't play it often), so...yeah.
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lambert13
12/09/08

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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.
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Kaiser-Machead
12/09/08

@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.
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Kaiser-Machead
12/09/08

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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.
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neost
12/09/08

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nobody can keep a band together anymore.
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ZLevee
12/09/08

@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....
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jm9843
12/09/08

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Rock Band killed the video star.

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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Krrong
12/09/08

@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.
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Kaiser-Machead
12/09/08

@Krrong:
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Jamaces
12/09/08

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it was just a fad... look at the wii...yoyos...pogs...
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Kaiser-Machead
12/09/08

@Jamaces: I think yoyos are still cool.......

.......

:'(
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OMG! Ponies!
12/09/08

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Dean Guitars are pieces of garbage. Utter garbage. They're only good for smashing.
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frigg
12/09/08

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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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tmgold
12/09/08

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Who is proof reading your headlines?
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GadgetPlayPissedSomebodyOff
12/09/08

@tmgold: Uh...no one?
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tmgold
12/09/08

Are you guys hiring? I may not be Bill Shakespeare, but I could write some gadget news and spell "have" correctly.
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Geisrud
12/09/08

@tmgold: I can say with a fair amount of certainty that Gawker isn't hiring at the moment.
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lifetraveler
12/09/08

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um, is that headline correct? "HAVED"?
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strider_mt2k
12/09/08

@lifetraveler:

Why does it always boil down to the haved and the haved-not?

...

Momma may haved

Pappa may haved

-but Ghod bless the child that's got his own

that's got his own...

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