My first experience with Guitar Hero/Rock Band games

[Funk, E]

I'm a guitarist, and have only casually picked up Guitar Hero, and I'm okay at it. I've maybe played five or six songs on medium without too much trouble. It's all about rhythm in your fingers anyway, and that's what playing the guitar is about.

[aaron]

i guess i either suck at guitar hero or i suck at guitar. i just keep trying to play songs i know ("iron man") the way they're supposed to be played on guitar, not the way they're supposed to be played on guitar hero. maybe i should try some of the songs that i don't know that well.

fuck these games. haha

[executioner]

the skill of guitar playing crosses into Guitar Hero.

FALSE.

I beg to differ, kind sir. I have seen several guitarists who are not gamers pick up GH and after 5 minutes they are ready for the medium-hard level. Obviously they are different but there are similarities. People who have never picked up a real guitar are generally much slower at remembering to hold down a button and then flick the lever at the same time to make the sounds.

play guitar myself and have to agree on this point, first time seem rather easy for me got like 90-something%, but other hard core gamers and guitar hero first timers do struggle with it. If you play guitar your fingers are already used to the stretching or positioning required. On the other hand I can also say that on hard difficulty this game is punishing and when trying songs you wonder why on earth there are so many buttons to play when they don't compensate for the notes being heard. I have GH but just play casually with friends never by myself, consider this a party game.

I don't see the negative side of this game making kids invest time in it and not wanting to actually try to learn to play a guitar. See it the other way around, this has to be surely developing more awareness and promoting guitar playing and music playing in general. To master the harder difficulty you have to practice alot, same thing with guitar playing which requires patience and practice. Bought mine cause as a guitar player and gamer this was a must have melding between my two favorite hobbys. What I do consider if they are a little bit expensive, mine was a mint barely used ps2 version.