Sunday, March 19, 2006
Guitar Hero
I am going to start this off by saying that I am a total junky for the rhythm games. Years ago when I worked at GameStop we had a demo of Frequency playing on a PS2. I remember walking in front of it a bunch of times and just thinking "wow, I can't believe anyone would want to play something so simple." Then, I made the unfortunate mistake of picking it up and playing it. Needless to say, after beating that game on Expert mode, and many weeks of absurd effort, I finally put it down.
Then they released it's successor amplitude. Aplitude was great too, but remarkably like the first.
Then...there was Guitar Hero. The game is super awesome, and well worth playing. My particular favorite thing about this is that you actually have to use their pseudo-guitar to play it. I love walking into a Best Buy or somewhere where it's playing and watch people look at it in an interested sense...but look really self consciouss picking it up. It's like an air guitar fantasy coming to life. Sort of.
I've had it for a few weeks now, but I haven't had tons of time to play. Last night I caught up with Heidi, Justin, and Jeanette for a little while and we had a glorious time playing it. It just reminds me how much I love these games. Ahhh.
Then they released it's successor amplitude. Aplitude was great too, but remarkably like the first.
Then...there was Guitar Hero. The game is super awesome, and well worth playing. My particular favorite thing about this is that you actually have to use their pseudo-guitar to play it. I love walking into a Best Buy or somewhere where it's playing and watch people look at it in an interested sense...but look really self consciouss picking it up. It's like an air guitar fantasy coming to life. Sort of.
I've had it for a few weeks now, but I haven't had tons of time to play. Last night I caught up with Heidi, Justin, and Jeanette for a little while and we had a glorious time playing it. It just reminds me how much I love these games. Ahhh.
# posted by Chris/Stewy @ Sunday, March 19, 2006 
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Haha, Guitar Hero is awesome. Though I totally agree with you that if you're going to put that much effort into getting good at the game, you should probably put the thing down and go get a REAL guitar. Though it certainly takes a while longer to get that boost of star power with the real thing. :)
I talked to Vince last night and told him about our heroic experience, and he giggled and informed me that he and his girlfriend have field trips specifically to Best Buy to play the display of Guitar Hero. The rock spreadeth!
Have you discovered Space Channel 5? Looooove the Space Channel 5.
I talked to Vince last night and told him about our heroic experience, and he giggled and informed me that he and his girlfriend have field trips specifically to Best Buy to play the display of Guitar Hero. The rock spreadeth!
Have you discovered Space Channel 5? Looooove the Space Channel 5.
You know what we need next? The ULTIMATE Band! It would be yet another in the long line of play along, pattern repetition games. But it should be multiplayer, allowing for a guitarist, bassist, drummer, and dancers. You would need to recruit friends to build the quality of your band, forcing video game geeks to develop moderate social skills. Quality will be judged based on the total band's ability to rock.
Then there could be Battle of the Bands tournaments. Bands could join together and battle each other. This would, of course, require some sort of large format location to accomodate the large number of players.
Someone get on that, would you?
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Then there could be Battle of the Bands tournaments. Bands could join together and battle each other. This would, of course, require some sort of large format location to accomodate the large number of players.
Someone get on that, would you?
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