rock band

[nishi]

i must have it.

the guitar and bass are guitar hero-y. the drums are terrifying - thank god the other people in your band can save you and bring you back into the game.

i haven't tried singing yet.

you know what's shockingly fun to play on rock band? molly hatchet's "flirtin' with disaster".

go figure.

[ReBurn]

Yep. One of these days I'm gonna swallow the cost and buy the thing. I've played it and it's crazy fun.

[nishi]

it's game crack. we played for 8 hours straight the other day.

[nishi]

didn't you say that your new workplace has guitar hero tournaments every friday? i want to set something like that up at school, but haven't quite figured out how to "tournament" it.

[Jessie]

Carroll got it for christmas and he's addicted to drumming.

[VikingJuice]

We played it for New Year's Eve...about 7 hours worth.  Man it's addictive.  And the part I thought I'd be most self-conscious about, the vocals, have become my favorite part because I score so well even without much actual ability.

I ended up singing Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi and Say It Ain't So by Weezer about 5 times each as we tried to unlock new songs.

[Dry then Catch]

i dunno nishi, do you feel that you as a bonafide member of a real rock band that this game is sort of patronizing? 

[Bennyhana]

i dunno nishi, do you feel that you as a bonafide member of a real rock band that this game is sort of patronizing? 

There seems to be two schools of thought on this:  One school says that I, as a person who has been playing guitar for many years, hate guitar hero because it trivializes something I've worked hard for, and I suck at it because it's not a simulation of playing guitar.  The other says that Nishi, as a member of a real rock band, can let go and enjoy the game for what it is: A video game.

I'm a member of the former school.

[Alice]

One school says that I, as a person who has been playing guitar for many years, hate guitar hero because it trivializes something I've worked hard for, and I suck at it because it's not a simulation of playing guitar.

That's like saying HALO trivializes Marines.  Or that Dance Dance Revolution trivializes professional dancers.  Or that the Mario Bros trivializes plumbers.  It's not true... it's just a fun game.

[Bennyhana]

One school says that I, as a person who has been playing guitar for many years, hate guitar hero because it trivializes something I've worked hard for, and I suck at it because it's not a simulation of playing guitar.

That's like saying HALO trivializes Marines.  Or that Dance Dance Revolution trivializes professional dancers.  Or that the Mario Bros trivializes plumbers.  It's not true... it's just a fun game.

Mario Brothers games do trivialize plumbers.  In 22 years of interacting with those guys, I have never ONCE seen them fit pipes or unclog a drain.  They don't even have wrenches or torches or bottles of PVC glue.

Also, I acknowledged the irrationality of my statement already.

[Alice]

Mario Brothers games do trivialize plumbers.  In 22 years of interacting with those guys, I have never ONCE seen them fit pipes or unclog a drain.  They don't even have wrenches or torches or bottles of PVC glue.

Also, I acknowledged the irrationality of my statement already.

Sorry, too much time on TF. 

And I'm also sorry, but your tabs are in another castle.

[meredith]

i played for the first time on friday, after putting off invites for a couple months.  i didn't even try drums, and my guitar and bass are half-assed as usual, but i did well with vocals.  i don't think he expected that it's what i planned to do anyway.  singing has a sharper curve for doing well when you don't already know the song.  knowing the tune is good enough, at least, but it's not as simple as reading off the screen like guitar or drums.

so the songs i knew, i did well on. i did well on some i didn't know, but miserably on others. (there was an iron maiden track and i honestly didn't even know what range the vocals would be in. that may have been the first time i've actually heard them.)