Falru said:
The main issue I have with these games is how they put musicians on such massive pedestals. Making them seem so out-of-reach of the novice/amateur musician wishing to start learning.
Guitar has become some exotic "crazy difficult" thing to do.
Uh, Pop Music has been doing that for the past 60 years. You think the Beatles are on a pedestal because they have a Rock Band game themed after them?
Addendum:
I suppose I should expand on what I said; the guitar has
always been a "crazy difficult" instrument for the novice/amateur/layperson. Especially when you can listen to guitar virtuosos like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, etc. Just look at the Rolling Stone Magazine 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time (<a href=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5937559/the_100_greatest_guitarists_of_all_time/1>link). These are people who found the guitar as an extension of themselves.
Do you know how fucking LONG it would take me to learn, practice, practice, practice, practice, and practice until I could even hold a candle to any of them? I would have to give up everything: work, school, sleeping, eating,
everything and spend all my time playing a guitar for about five years, soak blood into the neck and fretboard until my finger pads have callouses as think as nickels, and play the wrong notes until my ears bleed.
It takes a LOT of work to get good at playing a real guitar.
I don't have that kind of time in my life.
I can 5-star a song on medium after playing through it a few times.
But seriously, that's comparing apples to grapefruit. This argument
WHARRGARBL has been going on ever since the first Guitar Hero became popular. and it's always the "real guitar" players who are disparaging the people who have fun while playing guitar hero. I don't give a fuck that I'm not playing a real guitar, I'm NOT TRYING TO.
You can play the guitar, good for you!
Keep your fucking value judgments to your fucking self and let us enjoy playing a game where we mimic playing an instrument because we're too busy to learn the real thing.
I have never seen any dance choreographers pissing and moaning about how DDR is ruining dancing. Do you thin, maybe it's because they understand that DDR is just a game?
Maybe you should take some time and think about how Guitar Hero and Rock Band are just games, too? Maybe you shouldn't try to tell me how to better spend my time and money? Because I couldn't care less about what you think I should be doing with my resources.