Having managed to get through about four songs on expert, I watch this in stunned awe:
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South Park couldn't have said it any better: “You have played Guitar Hero enough to reach one million points ! Congratulations! You! Are! F*GS!”
In all fairness: I play way too many video games, so this could just as easily apply to me.
Now it's time for him to move on to Beatmania.
It's odd that he holds his left hand in the proper position to play those parts. He might be a guitarist.
Most of us who can play that well are shockingly bad at Guitar Hero, because of the disconnect between what the visual prompts demand and how our hands react to what we're hearing. I can't even make it through "Iron Man" because I can't make myself resist playing it. (The often advised drinking-before-playing makes it even worse.) The game is practically a test for tone deafness.
Of course, there are skilled players who don't know what's going to happen when their hands move and just follow charts like data entry clerks, but they're usually in symphony orchestras, not skater pants.
I once saw a video game that was racing remote control cars. All I could think is why not just race real remote control cars? I think the same thing about guitar hero. Megan, a guitar is really not that hard to play. Go buy a cheap acoustic and a good book and spend the time you spent playing guitar hero actually playing a guitar and actually learn to do something rather than play some lame game.
Play the real thing.
Huh, I've never actually seen guitar hero before. Not likely my boys will ever have me purchase one. But I don't even own a TV. Seriously, that's what all the fuss is about? That's it?
Twenty-first century whack-a-mole.
Never in my life will I ever understand why anyone would fool around with this when the global explosion of productivity means that excellent beginners' guitars are available at prices that were an impossible dream when I started playing in 1969 at the age of thirteen.
I just cannot fathom the mentality that could be satisfied with it. I really feel sorry for them.
It's a different thing entirely from playing the guitar and this guy is way better at this than any of you are at the guitar.
Strangely enough, my first (and only) exposure to Guitar Hero last Christmas provided some impetus to learn a real instrument. My daughter and I began learning piano one month later, and we continue to make good progress to this day.
wow, guitar hero is really the greatest thing to hit the earth since the vegan diet.
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someone with a computer, right, like the classical players aren't real musicians like rawk gawds DragonForce.
If this is real, the guy's a loser. If not, he's a loser for faking it.
I've played GH once. I'm a lousy guitar player, but like others have commented above, I hear the music, or I know what needs to be played, and there's a total disconnect between what your fingers *ought* to be doing, and what GH expects them to do. That, and GH doesn't know how to keep time.