Mikes! wrote:
You're a jerk, and spare me that "this is the Internet" tripe. I don't care if that's been said a million times, and I certainly hope you'd keep a better sense of decorum when dealing with people in real life. Why did you automatically assume that I don't like "Guitar Hero" or "Rock Band" because of ego? Uh, especially considering that I already said that it's not a "downcast glare upon people who aren't good enough because they'd rather play a videogame." Secondly, you didn't advance the conversation very far. I already established that some people didn't want to learn how to play guitar. I was simply ruing this in the same way that you see a cloudy day and wish it was sunny.
Well, it's true that if you put as much time into playing a real guitar as Guitar Hero on Expert, you'd probably get just as good. But on the other hand, they're completely different things, requiring different skills. Guitar Hero has five frets and one string. A real guitar has six strings and twenty frets (ordinarily.) Guitar Hero is really just a test of hand-eye coordination. Real guitar is ear-hand coordination. DDR isn't anything near real dancing, but it's still fun, right? The same is true for Guitar Hero. You can't have a face-off with your friend where you try to hit as many notes as possible with a real guitar (well, you can, but you'd really suck.) Likewise, you can't play any songs that really mean something to you on Guitar Hero. They just aren't the same thing.
And I never got barre chords on real guitar
