| I figured if this topic was in the guitar club I would be safe from Guitar Hero fans murdering me. I just wanted to know how fellow guitar players feel about Guitar Hero. I really hated guitar hero at first, but I came to accept that it's okay if it's played for fun. But if people spend tons of time on it just to get to expert mode, then I think they should just learn how to play a real guitar. I probably will get murdered for this anyways. . . |
| I think it's pretty fun. Nothing like playing a real guitar, sure, but entertaining still. I suck at it though - I can't break the habits I've developed from playing real guitars enough to play the game properly. As for thinking that people should just learn to play a real guitar, I disagree. There was a pretty good write-up on Penny Arcade, but unfortunately I can't find it. The gist of it was that not everyone has musical talent, and that it takes years of practice and hard work to be an awesome guitar player. On the other hand, even someone with no talent for the real thing (though you do need rhythm) can pick up guitar hero and have fun. Even if they spend ages on the game completing it on expert mode and such, it's still nothing compared to the time and effort it'd take to play the real thing as well. I think Guitar Hero is pretty great in terms of getting people interested in learning to play for real, but it isn't really comparable otherwise. |
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| Good point. One reason why I hated it at first was because of all these kids used to tell me how awesome they were at expert mode, and that I would suck at it because I could play a real guitar. The other reason was this  I've seen these everwhere. Such a waste. . . |
| I only play frets on fire on my pc, but I just gotta say it's pretty stupid to try to get all the songs 100%. |
| This topic is a bit old and I don't play the guitar, but I thought I'd just toss out that it doesn't really take THAT long to master Guitar Hero. Really, an avid player will get to that level of play (expert) in about 2 weeks. I just about scratched expert level myself and then stopped, not wanting to waste anymore time on the game. It kind of motivated me to want to learn to play the guitar at one point, but then just thinking about how much harder a real guitar would be (and how pricey), I decided against it. |
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| On PC I play Hard - Expert and on an Xbox with a guitar Medium - Hard (I just can't bet used to it). Guitar Hero and Rock Band are one of the best games ever. Rock Band is better cuz it's more fun (2 guitars + drums + microphone + booze = effin awesome). |
| Guitar hero is not that bad, but if you play like in a real band, its not good because you get used to one, but it is really fun nonetheless...but rock band is still better |
| "Kirisute Gomen" The Samurai's apology, "I apologize for striking you down." |
| Guitar Hero certainly is fun when played for fun and doesn't result in the person believing they can play a real guitar because they're good at GH. My dislike for the game increased when my band was looking for a new guitarist - this guy said that he could get 95% on expert level on GH, but had never touched a real guitar. He was either having a bad joke, or didn't realise there was a difference between the game and the real thing. |
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| Guitar Hero is pretty fun. I can't play it any more since my guitar controllers are broken and I don't have any games. My favorites must be GH2, GH:Rock the 80's and Guitar Hero 3. But GH:Metallica was damn hard, but not doable on hard for some who only play for fun. Hated it. |
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