235: The Guitar Hero Effect

[ldwater]

Unfortunatly I still feel that 90% of people won't even bother with the 'real' instrument part as it takes significantly more effort to learn and play than a fake plastic one.

I would have to disagree with your argument in bold. My sister, with absolutely no experience in any musical instrument save her voice (she's a mezzo soprano), started playing Guitar Hero on easy. Once she got the hang of it, she started moving towards harder difficulties. These days she ...????

Like I said, your sister is in the 10% that would benifit from some of the 'motions' involved and generally people who are interesting in music (as she is a singer and therefore has SOME interest in music) will eventually move onto other musical instruments / methods if interested.

I hope that when RB3 comes out, you'll join the rest of us and see that pretend rocking out is just as intense as the real thing. I should know, I've fronted for a band a few times.

So have I and I doubt it could even come close to all the late nights, wasted money, wasted days off work, long car journeys, crap PA, poor equipment and stages so small its like playing on a postage stamp that real giging involves

I can see the benifits of this sort of thing, but I stil feel like success stories are the minority rather than the majority.

I think the real proof will be how many people take on the 'real guitar' version of the game (and I might even be interested if they had a bass version ) that would use the skills learnt to move onto writing music and real bands.

 

[romxxii]

Spoiler: -snip-

Unfortunatly I still feel that 90% of people won't even bother with the 'real' instrument part as it takes significantly more effort to learn and play than a fake plastic one.

I would have to disagree with your argument in bold. My sister, with absolutely no experience in any musical instrument save her voice (she's a mezzo soprano), started playing Guitar Hero on easy. Once she got the hang of it, she started moving towards harder difficulties. These days she ...????

Like I said, your sister is in the 10% that would benifit from some of the 'motions' involved and generally people who are interesting in music (as she is a singer and therefore has SOME interest in music) will eventually move onto other musical instruments / methods if interested.

Hey, at least we have that 10% really moving on to real music. Better than the whole 100% going to a frickin' Justin Bieber concert, eh?

I hope that when RB3 comes out, you'll join the rest of us and see that pretend rocking out is just as intense as the real thing. I should know, I've fronted for a band a few times.

So have I and I doubt it could even come close to all the late nights, wasted money, wasted days off work, long car journeys, crap PA, poor equipment and stages so small its like playing on a postage stamp that real giging involves

I can see the benifits of this sort of thing, but I stil feel like success stories are the minority rather than the majority.

I think the real proof will be how many people take on the 'real guitar' version of the game (and I might even be interested if they had a bass version ) that would use the skills learnt to move onto writing music and real bands.

Even better then, dontcha think? All the fun of gigging without the hassles. And hey, I happen to like gigging on small stages.

Given that even this "Pro" mode will have scalable difficulty settings, I think it'll be accessible enough for most people to get into it, at least on the easier levels, while giving real pros a level of realism and challenge they'd come to expect from actually playing the damned thing.

 

[RJ 17]

Damnit, I wish the "Required Reading" area would stop digging up ancient articles...well I'm still gonna make my quip, damnit!

"And here I thought the Guitar Hero Effect was the mild hallucination of movement you get from looking anywhere but the screen after having stared at the screen for a couple songs."

 

[launchpadmcqwak]

i listened to evile...before it was on guitar hero (meme reference there)

 

[ch0pstixZ]

Fantastic read! Notice the image Ruth used is reversed? As it shows Hetfield playing lefty.