I have a confession. A confession that is going to make roughly a third of my readership disappear. But I cannot live a lie.
I bought Guitar Hero III (Bye Carla!).
It is FANTASTIC!
Yes, yes. I know. Where the hell have I been? They’ve made two other Guitar Hero games (plus an expansion). Why haven’t I attained a copy already?
Because I’m an idiot and I hate fun.
But I’m over it now. And I have become a hero. I have rocked out to awesome songs like Welcome to the Jungle and Paint It, Black. I have guitar dueled with Slash and Tom Morello. I have become a rock god, living the fullest life a rocker can. And I look damn fine in leather hotpants.
Okay, so now we’re going to play a game. It’s called “Guess which of those statements is a lie”. Everyone ready? Go.
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Done? Awesome. If you guessed “All of them” you win!
Because playing Guitar Hero isn’t the same as playing a guitar. Let me just repeat that in bold: Because playing Guitar Hero isn’t the same as playing a guitar.
There’s this stimga towards games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero. “It’s not really playing guitar”. Duh. We get that.
Listen, when I play Mario 64, do I really think I’m an italian plumber who eats mushrooms and is able to throw fireballs? No. I may wish I was, but I’m not. And no matter how many times I play Mario 64, that is never going to change.
The very same goes for Guitar Hero. I know it’s not actually playing guitar. Hell, I’ve got a guitar in my closet that is very slowly rotting away because I’m awful at it (PS: someone should make a Guitar Hero-like game for helping idiots like me learn guitar. Harmonix, get on it!). I play Guitar Hero because it’s fun.
Fun.
Isn’t that the whole freaking point?
Okay, so you may not enjoy it. Fine. You’re allowed to pick what you find as fun. And if you want to decide, without even playing, that it sucks? You’re free to that to.
I’ll be rocking out with my band Muppetrock and trying to perfect White Cliffs of Dover.